The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 9, 1922, Page 1

Two Literary Mil) Tonight and Wednesday, fair; Reavy frost in morning; Moderate westerly winds. Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 5¢. Minimum, 37. Today noon, 47. Treats for Star Readers—Coming Soon. “LINDA LEE, INC.,” by Louis Joseph Vance, author of “The Brass Bowl” and other sensa- tionally popular novels, to be published in The Star in twenty-four installments, beginning next Monday. “THE COLOR OF HER SOUL,” by S$. B. H. Hurst, of Seattle, author of “Coomer Ali,” one of the season’s best sellers, to be published in four installments , beginning Friday. Entered as Becond Clase Matt May 8, 1999, at the Postoffice at Beattie Wash, under the Act of Congress March VOLUME 24. NO. 63. 4, 1879, Per Year, by Mall, #6 to #8 OLICEMAN ADMITS BURGLARY F. L. Trombley Pleads Guilty to Theft Charge Seattle’s Favorite Newspaper by 15,000 Plurality The Seattle Star SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1922. WITNESSES | Investigators for} County Hearing Testimony From| Many Persons ciggreene j Apparently continuing fits in. | vestigation of the ding county | ferry lense, the special grand | jury which convened in Depart. | ment No. 11 of superior court | Monday called Joe Mpler, engl- neer on the ferry Aquilo, Tues day. Epler was before the jury until noon. Two other witnemes, O. R. Lin genfelter and F. 1. Gilbert, were waiting outside the grand jury room door, After County Auditor D. BE. Fer. fus0n was seen to cary what ap- were records from his of- fies Into the jury room Mi an Some Seattle men are 90 olétash. | *7NCO, Thomas Daugherty, of Balle: Matar. | vue, was called as the first wit cont Ont or ee ness. Daugherty fs chairman of the committee of citizens that Iaid be- |fore Prosecuting Attorney Dougias There are two good reason why f girls should not Foun knickers— | ¢¥idence in support Pee ——— 5 “re generally fat. (of fraud on the part ° county ee ares a commissioners in leasing the fer- ‘There are no flappers tn the eptrit | res to Capt. John L. Anderson, Atvorneys ‘The reason they call ‘em pop bot- ‘ lea, comments a fan, is because of * sound they make as they hit the umpire's dome. . oe When you have something to say to a mule, don’t say it behind his Dack—say it by radio. eee CHARGE OF THE BROADCAST BRIGADE 1G. (The next war will be conducted Verbally via radio.—Ne' E ‘ i E i i Half a wave, onward. Words flashed thru No Man's Air, 3 | id, says Conan Doyle. Well, isn't} Deputy — Prosecuting f that “An " |Wrneodore H. Patterson and KE. 1.| & cee Jones were presenting evitence to) ———% | the grand jury Tuesday. TF Seerett ta going to get come | | salve di es FIVE IN FAMILY | trackiess trolleys. That's nothing | —Seattle has seatless trolleys. cee } | WEAK, WEAK 4 We suggest that the following BURN T | weeks be celebrated this spring: Keturn That Umbrella week. pat 28 Hard Boiled Egg week. Clean Out the Attic week. Noiseless Soup week. . Father, Four Children, Are) Victims A Washington dispatch says Henry | Ford has a secret process for making | fertilizer Now we know what be- comes of the old filvvers. ee Jack Dempsey says he'e tired of | MARENGO, Ill, May 9.—August | | Bork, Jr 35, and four of his chil |dren were burned to death at their home here at midnight from a fire which started In an incubator, Europe. We're sorry. e ars Mrs. Bork, two other sons and « MORE ILIKEMS baby girl were rescued by Bork be | |fore he plunged back into the flam« } filled house in an effort to save the jother four. His charred remains Just now I like His nibs, ye Ed; He isn't here He's sick in bed. | were found lying across one of t? And H. E. C. sends us this tender| beds where the bodies of the chil. tribute | dren lay A guy I like | nae Is H. E. ©. FOUR DEADIN | The reason why? Because he's me. white A. 8 ends in a tery! WIND STORMS Tbatear’ pe | DALLAS, Texas, May 9.—Four ‘| Ia Mabel Maxey: | persons were killed, many injured She always says and thousands of dollars property {damage done by storms and floods which swept western Okinhorma and northeast Texas. Hundreds of fam: ilies were driven from their homes in Jow lands Ralph McClendon was drowned at “Let's take a taxi.” ee « PAY-AS-YOU-TALK New Everett telephone meter a begins to register as soon as the 4 receiver is taken off the hook. Must be tough on the pocket- | Cleburne, Texas, when ficod waters 3 book of the person who gets ® | swept thru that town | telephone girl who says “Main | ‘Three were killed by high wind | threorrree two the-r-er-r-ree | storms in Oklahoms 1 thr-r-e-rrree,” | The second flood in two weeks | ove |threatened Fort Worth, with lower | } Ford's ambition was to make a toy |sections of the city already inun top, but he found it would run so | dated. he called it a car. | — ae ees 2 ' mon scnoor werantee |Genoa Won't Affect I feel Teutonic. | Wha va American Attitude eee WASHINGTON, May 9.—America What's become of the old-fashioned | will not influenced in its dealings | mother who dosed the family on sax| with Russia by the action of the! safras tea ev spring? | Genoa conference, nor by any Euro fe. Ri | pean government, it was declared of the country has been | emphatically at the White House to | under the daylight mving | day time. But w inue, as usual,| Regardless of the success or fail-| to operate ° daylight wast-|ure of the Genoa conference, thin ing system. | government will not deviate from the | | principle originally laid down as the basis for resumption of relations| | with Russia THE ANSWER 18S NO | “If your twomonthold baby | had been kidnaped five months | ‘ago would you be able to recog | be 1t?"-—-New York San, |Bathing Suit Parson ih nistortann over to Pasioitotine!| Fails to Appear that Columbus was an Armenian.| LAWTON, Okla, May 9.—Rev.| We don't km how the Turks hap-| Thomas J. Irwin, “bathing suit par. pened to overlook him son,” over whom a bitter feud has waged jn the First Presbyterian a ACCUSED OF USING cave man | church here, failed to appear today, | 4 methods to win an ment with) when # judicial commission of the Mrs. 1 Lakey, 30, Aouday night,| Kl Reno Presbytry met to try him j A. Quillano, 68, was held im elty Jail|on charges of “conduct unbecoming | f Tuend Patrolman Fiank Ber-|a minister trand arrested Qu #16 Pop-| He accepted service and waived all f lar pl ations, S ~ | total $ She Says Flappers| PHONE RELIEF Are Real Calamity!) IS DEMANDED at the Clapper’s hand. The modern girl is bent on smiling ctyiltzation {nto the bottom! ‘Petitions Calling for Recall of) and it's up to m to stave off the calamity. This note of warning w sounded here today by Rev. Alice Phillips Telechronometer Are Circulated Aldrich, pastor of Bethany Congregational church, and noted social By Hal Armstrong worker. “The flapper has turned this world of ours topsy turvy.” aald Misv EVERETT, May §.—Petitions demanding immediate removal j Aldrich. “T deplorable moral yaditions that must concern every thinking person can be laid to the 20th century edition of the fairest | | of telechronometers from the | telephones of this city were get- ' Mere man must save the nation from destruction pit “The edition must be deleted—censored. And the man must wield the blue pencil, When girls go too far—and surely that time iw not far distant—man will revolt and demand @ return to genuine normalcy. “Nowadays, it's the girl ‘copa’ the man, She sets out to get him—and Hn most cases succeeds—before he knows he's caught.” The men, she predicted, will soon tire of the flapper type and force sirls back into the mould of their mothers. | | | work of the Great Author. ting hundreds of signers here to- day. Meanwhile attorneys representing | ® Portland telephone company were | © dickering on & scheme to tn-| li telechronometers tn the Oregon [city before they are placed in Be City Plans Fight on Pound Question attle, Tacoma and Spokane } delegate part of ite police power to determine legaltty |@ private corporation, Another ob- Angered by the pater bse = | jection to the legallty of the measure} Increase In telephone rates since aya,meceare teraing the advent of the telechronome ls that the employes of the society the duties of the municipal Gog | would not be under civil service reg | ter here @ month ago, citizens pound to the King County Hu- | ulations as provided in the ety char ieee Sanne 4. Vee 7 mane eeclety, was announced | ter, ns ul ‘orney, to call upon Hance 4 Tuewday by Mayor Caldwell, aft} | Initiative Measure No. So) sume Beperviter sf public er a conference with corporation jover to the King County Olyinpla, for relief counsel Waker F. Meier, |scclety the duties of tmpounding| forthwith. In an opinion rendered at the re-jstray cate and dogs, but does not Faunsett has drawn a petition to quest of Police Chiet W. H. Storing. | obligate the society to tmpound/ Cleland requesting an order in-| Meler pointed out that there is grave | horses, cows, jetructing the Puget Sound Tele doubt as to the validity of the dog) Altho al the facilities for tm. | phone company to take the telechr « here at [from the police department by the | once because of the excessive cost KE. Bradford and| new ordinance, the department must |to the subscribers il, when they were | care for all stray animals except cats | Faussett contends that the tele by y's legal department, and dogs, must remove carcasses of | phone is a public necessity in modern ruled that legislation of this kind is dead animals, must capture vicious | life that differs from any other util. bad,” Meier pointed out. He declared and mad dogs and take other precau:| ty, such a gaa, electricity and water, that Chief Searing could refuse to) tiom dangerous animals. | i that the telephone company has turn over the dog pound to the hu-| Mayor Jdwell and Corporation | nothing to sell except time, which it mane society until the legality of| Counsel Meier were undecided as to| does nbt create and which all other the ordinance was determined in/the procedure to be adopted to deter. | utility companies furnish, in addition court. mine the validity of the measure,| to the product they sell | Mayor Caldwell aald there was a but declared that it would undoubt | ‘The telechronometer, his petition | decided doubt whether the city could | edly be taken Into court shortly | seta forth, places a limit on free) a “ —<| speech by putting an unjust charge Some More Reasons | sisi: for Newberry Vote the Puget Sound Telephone Co.,” nays the petition, “each subsecrib- er on a four-party line is entitled to the use of a telephone only BY W. H. PORTERFIELD WASHINGTON, May 9 merged in a ponderous document in known as five minutes a day without extra 156-0, senate committee hearings,” in| pound measure, which was passed! pounding animals are taken away | fometers off the phy by the people last Tuesday. “Both James charge, the four parties 20 minute out of hours. “We declare it is unjust and unfatr to require us to pay for an expert | ment of the Puget Sound Telephone Jator’s secretary and manager Sub-| But the senator didn’t get far at | Chicago. vol, | That was in the summer of 1920. Mr. Poindexter went back to the nen ate thoroly purged of all hin ancient progressive” tenets and ideas, as in the senate library, ‘0. | Faussett sald he was reliably tn | formed that the cost of a telechro- | nometer is 90 cents. the official list of contributors to the presidential primary campaign of| amply shown by his senatorial rec “Yet,” he said, “the holding Senator Miles F. Poindexter of Wash: | °° | company leases these devices to ington. | Then eame the great fight on the) the telephone company for $3 a | senting of Newberry and the test | vote at the concly fate for the! yoouiry of correspondents was always with evasive reply, but with the genera year each, which the subscriber | must pay, in addition to the cost | Poindexter by various! of telephone service, | n}| “The telechronometer was Invented | by Garrison Babcock, a Seattle engi inference that “the senator can be | nee | | depended upon to do the right thing. “He and rome others, including | A few hours before the final (Turn to Page 7. Column 4) | ing vote came a long-distance tele- | oR si rn Ne Svs EMBASSY ACTS | ‘ "esghtn Bache, Ly 4 Reet, *, this in Senator Poindexter, { anker, $26,800; William H. Todd, | said the Washington senator. | $20,000; Thaddeus Lane, Spokane “This {a Julius Bache,” came back | ON KIDNAPIN | banker, for himself and friends, Senator Poindexter, it will be re membered, ion. was a cand republican presidential nomination at Chicago In 192 The report committ was of the Investigating ot which Senator Kenyon miirman, discloses the follow. contributors to campaign his : WASHINGTON, May #.—Alexan. | > the voice from the other end of the + potter, F. anaes aoe stl der Robertson, British war vet capitalist, for himself and friends, a no alleges» ‘erapt was | $5,000: J. F. Duthie, Seattle, There is some dispute as to the hae te ion tg ay “railroad | $1,500; J. E, Chilberg, et al,, of | *xact language of the balance of the | )/\0" 1 Canip lint nti rallroa Seattle, $2,500; former Senator | conversation, except that i is his love for a senator's daughter— | Jonathan Bourne, of Washing: |mitted that Mr. Bache reminded its cinerwon of Parma to. | ton, D. C., $10,000; C. E. Jones, | Poindexter of his interest in the! a.) pinced his case before British New York banker, $5,000; Gu Wowterry Sem. Jofriclals here in a threehour con: Standifer, wooden ship contrac The senator says Bache 41d not) rernce at the embassy or of Vancouver, Wash,, $250; Frank Waterhouse, Seattle, $1,000; T. 8. Ripley, Seattle, $500; W. E. Boeing, Seattle, $1,000, | ask him to vote for Newberry But the fact remains that the one-time progressive leader and All his movements were eurround Jed by unusual secrecy aad mystery. Robertson escaped fron reporters candidate for presidential nom- and photographers by e wild dash Mr. Todd is president of the Todd! ination did vote for the Michigan |from the embassy garage in a Shipyards and Shipbuilding Co, of! dollar mark when his name was | speedy duster, belonging to one of | Tacoma | called, the embassy attaches. | These contributions, {t will be seen,| Banker Bache Is a very rich man 500, all of which was spent, | and as New York bankers go, a higt according to H. M. Rice, the sen-|ly reputable gentleman. | Armed Mob Hunts School Principal | WAIBRIDGE, Ohio, May 9—A ou ut un A&P |r of armed men in two automo. |biles today attacked a house here searching for Otto P. Tracy, school ° id principal, accused of a statutory of. in (Z re Z ist fense against several pupils. Tracy | \was slightly wounded by one shot and cut by glass but escaped the ‘That he will recommend to the city) well declared that the rallway should] mop, jcouncil that immediate ntepn be tak:| be forced to pay for the work that is — —— en to make the municipal railway| mow done by the legal, purchasing ts own expense was an- and accounting departments of the| Jack Dempsey Is aday by Mayor Hugh M.| city free of charge. he mayor said that the supreme| On Way to London! Pointing out that the recent su-|court decision held that all the costs! PARIS, May 9—Jack Dempsey | preme court decision in the 14 tax-|of running the railway should be tak-|left Paris today, proceeding to Lon-| pa ‘ sult enjoins the city from us| en out of the ‘enues of the lines,jdon. The champion was accom: | ing genera) fund money for the oper-|and should not be placed directly or| panied by Fanny Ward, actress and | ation of the street car system, Cald-| indirectly on the general taxes, her husband iy. aie + Phir | sessions of the National Congress of TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE The engagement of the Prince of Wales to Lady Mary Cambridge, his iret cousin, ia expected to follow shortly after the return of the prince from Japan. KAGOSHIMA, Japan, May %—The Prince of Wales safls today, home- ward bound. He bas been in Japan four weeks, returning the state visit to England made last year by Hirohito, crown prince regent. Hirohite did not come to Kagoshima with his departing guest, but called the Prince of Wales on the long distance telephone from the imperial pal- ace at Tokyo. j Was “Working as Criminal He was charged with burglary of the Diamond Rubber Co."s room, on the fourth floor of the building, at 113 King st. Early in the morning of March 22 the policeman entered the store room by means of a pass key and [stole eight tires and eight inner tubes. The loot was recovered in |the home of Trombiey’s friend, Roy Foote. LOSE LICENSES) PARIS CASINO Police Court Pushes War on|Large District Is Menaced Speeders by Big Fire ‘Twglve motorists, one of them a] PARIS, May 9—The Casino de woman, lost their white driver's li-| Paris, one of Paris’ largest theaters, censes and drew fines in police court! where American artists, including Tuesday, on charges of speeding.| oy whit ele hie Ninety-three cases in all were on the), — 4 y he ew gnome mag. ee court sheet. | burned to the ground today Mra. FE. J. Garett was tho first Se| Tho flames were spreading thru attle woman was fined $ © lose her Meense. She | the lower Montmarte theatrical dis. speeders ses were: J J. Herata, fined other trict this afternoon. The Perroquet, a who lost their lice u ot dance resort, wa ames, Wall, fined $21 dance resort, was in flames, $25: J. R. Hall, HB. R, Lab.| and the Apollo theater, next door, erbeaux, fined $14; Roy, fined | was threatened, $19; A. J. Lennan, fined $25; G. A.) ‘The district thru whieh the flames Richards, fined $20; Frank E. Werts,| swept was thickly populated, Many fined $15; Oliver Iverson, fined $10 , fined $20; Thorpen Nelson, of the most famous theaters of Paris c, Yett are crowded into the lower Mont- fined $18. | marte region A bench warrant was issued for N.| Several big department stores near Aoki, who failed to appear in court] the Casino were theratened, on a charge of speeding at 38 miles} The Casino de Paris was the amuse. an hour, The sentences were given! ment resort best known to Americans by Police Judge John B. Gordon, in Paris, with the exception of the Follies Bergere, MOTHERS IN | peraton treat purée gf parts spore BIG SESSIO) TACOMA, May 9.—First regular | jammed in the narrow streets near the ene in an effort to save su rounding buildings. A company was rehearsing tn the ,.| Apollo theater and was forced to leave in costume. Pearl White, who narrowly escaped Injury when a weight fell near her on the Casino stage, a fortnight ago, is without a Job as a result of the de- Mothers and Parent-Teacher as tions opened here today with 260 del egates from all parts of the United} # in attendance sday's sessions were. to be given over to reports of presidents of the mate org nisations. struction of the theater. ‘The convention was formally|.. Hope Was held out ‘this afternoon that the Apollo could be saved The Perroquet cabaret, which was destroyed, was one of the favorite dancing places of Peggy Hopkins Joyce. opened last night with a banquet at) the Tacoma hotel, Covers werg laid | for 326, including many member® of the local organizations. | Mrs, Victor Malstrom, of Tacoma, | newly elected state P.-T. A. prestdent, | and Mrs. Milton P, Higgins, of Wor- | cester, Mass, national president, were the principal speakers, Accuséd Editor Is Out on $10,000 Bail DURANGO, Colo,, May 9.-—Rod §. Day Ww TO RAISE MONEY to feed the mn of striking miners in nd, rival newspaper man, here, @ bazaar will be held | after a bitter newspaper controversy Thursday to Saturday at the Pa-| was at liberty today on $10,000 bath vilion, ‘Third ave, and University| Day was released late yesterday st, The bazaar ts under the aus|from jail, where he hay been con- pices of » comnilttee headed by Mrs. L. W. Wilson, fined since the shooting three weeks ago, editor, who shot and killed Will} ° 5 Wood Will Remain ae ’ 5 Philippines’ Chief MANILA, P. 1, May 9.—Maj, Gen, Leonard 8. Wood will remain as gow ernor of the Philippine islands untif the end of 1922, he declared in statement here today. He had been asked to indicate whether he would remain as govers | nor of the islands or return to the | United States to take up work witht | the University of Pennsylvanta. | “It would be impossible for me te jcomplete the work which I have Started, in time to permit me to | leave before the first of the year,* | Gen. Wood declared. |Harding Adamant ; _ on Bonus Measure | WASHINGTOD May 9. Preate jdent Harding hi not changed his position regarding a soldier bonus bill, it was said at the White House today. | This was taken as an Indication. jthat the president will not approve |the new bonus measure which was submitted to him last week by repube lican leaders of the senate, |Millionaire Buried in San Francisco | SAN FRANCISCO, May 9.—J. Ry Hanify, millionaire —lumberman, rowned with BE. A. Christensen and Petter Anderson in San Francisca Saturday night, was buried to» j Mass was celebrated at St. Mary's cathedral, Members of the Olympic club and many prominent |business men attended the funeral |Wang Shih Chen Is * ° New China Premier TOKYO, May 9.—Wang Shih Chen has been appointed premier of the new Chinese government being set up as a result of the victory of Wu Pei Fu over the forces of Chang Tso Lin, according to advices reaching here, He succeeds Liang Shin T, former premier of the Peking government, 'Ex-Senator Gronna “| Is Laid at Rest LAKOTA, N. D., May %—Asle J. ‘Gronna, former North Dakota sena. tor, was buried today. He died Thurs leas of cancen, ‘ PATROLMAN'S Officer While He