The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 10, 1922, Page 1

Tetras ro5¢ { GPQee EA ae emote Maximum, 54. it: VOLUME 24. NO. 64, Home Brew Howdy, folks! Abstinence makes the heart grow stronger. vee But there's many a man who comes home late at night and tries to make a noise like the wind blowing up the stairs. cee Slogan for the home gardener: “Weed ‘em and weep.” eee |. _ QUIT YER KNOCKIN’ | Seattle has two seasons—the | rainy season and August. os : = Any city will go to the dogs there are too many social hounds. oe x i] * sd WE GIVE UP “Mere man must save the na- tion from at the flap per’s hand."—Rev. Alice Phillips Aldrich, famous social worker. It's no use, Alice; heaven knows, we've tried! oe We'd onve the gtrie, The Casino de Parts burned to the ground yesterday. Now we will never be able to point out to our grandchildren where we won the war. see Peggy Joyce says she ie coming back to the United States and go into the movies. Might team her up with “Fatty” Arbuckle eee NO ANIMAL TRAINERS The Seattle police department doesn’t want the King County ‘Humane society to be given charge of stray animals, We can't see that the police have anything to kick about— they can't even take care of the blind pigs! oe The deautiful Beatrice Baer, Where | am concerned is all there; Her face ts divine— | But | must draw the line At that bird's neat she makes of her hair. eee The Indians are all right. The/ trouble is that the season ix too long. | If it had lasted only last week the Indi would have won the pennant. | eee From a bulletin issued by a Chi- ago church: “The Woman's club, Wednesday, 2) dramatic reading by Mrs. ; 4D. m, Dr. Ames, ‘Fa ee } { T Seattle policeman pleads gullty to burglary. This is the first im- | | stance ever recorded of a police man being abroad at night. | cee | Jack Dempsey 1s coming home. Says there is nothing in Europe for him. That's what he sald in 1917. | see 4 ‘There's one consolation for the children of political prisoners whom Kate O’hare took to Washington. tf they don’t see Uncle Warren they | won't miss much. | eee Little drops of evantde, Little grains of zinc, Bince the days of prohibition Ia the kind of stuff we drink, “Tax Collector Missing.” —Headline. Not missing much, tho. eee Say, did’ya notice that Johnny Walker was campaign manager in for Beveridge the Indiana | primary campal ° . Senator Poindexter raised a cam- paign fund of $77,500 when he ran for president. With the ability to extract money like that out of peo- ple, Miles ought to be @ poll tax col-| lector, | TLIKEMS AND IHATEMS From R. P. $ 1 hate the au- To laws; how sof You can’t go fast Nor yet go slow. From F. J, B. A man I like Is Mr. Baer; He let hte daugh- | Ter bob her hair ore Dante probably got hiy idea of hell from sleeping in an upper Pullman berth, « * WEATHER Tonight ond Thursday, showers; moderate southerly winds, Today noon, 51, | mother, told th | Hudnut, | movie star. lon Last 24 Hours Minimum, 40 THE STAR IS ELECTED SEATTLE’ “LEGATE’S DEAD; LET HIM ALON SAYS DETECTIVE CAPTAIN TENNANT at the Postof SEATTL E, WASH,, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1922. FY” “Why don’t you guys forget about Legate? He’s dead. Let him alone.” That one sentence sums up the attitude that has been assumed by Captain of Detectives Charles Tennant on the murder of Patrolman Charles O. Leg- ate. He has said it a dozen times to reporters who have asked him about de- | velopments in the mystery. (EDITORIAL) They Know Too Much! Patrolman Charles O. Legate was murdered March 17. Today, nearly two months after the commission of the crime, his murderer is still walking the streets, a free man. Chief of Police W. H. Searing and Captain of Detectives Charles Tennant have promised to investigate. But no one has been arrested. Coroner W. H. Corson has promised an inquest. But no inquest has been held. Never in the history of the Northwest has a murder been so politely ignored. There can only be one answer—and that answer is contained in an interview with Captain Tennant, printed in The Star today. The police already know too much about the murder. POLICE SEEKING KIDNAPED BOY Mother Suspects Father af Abduction May 10. PORTLAND, | lthe Northwest today sought the ab ductor of Billy Laird, age, kidnaped from 2% years of is home yester day, and last seen tn an automobile with a young man 25 yearn of age, | speeding thru Vancouver, Wash. Mrs. Barbara Laird, the boy's police she suspects her husband, who lives at Tekoa, Wash., near the Idaho border, In a recent divorce agreement chey signed articles whereby the father was to have a small daughter, while the mother took the son, she toll police. Police here have wired Tekoa ter information, but had not receive word of the movements of Laird o an early hour today. FISHERMAN IS DROWNED George E. Graham, proprietor of Sharmont Cottage, a fishing resort on Lake Sammamish, was drowned when his boat capsized at 10 a. m Wednesday. Graham was fishing and was pulling up bis anchor when the boat overturned. The body was! recovered half an hour later, Dr George ¥. Davis, of Kirkland, tried| to revive Graham fruitlessly, Gra- ham was 41 and married Rodolph Valentino Reported Engaged BAN FRANCISCO, May 10.—San Franciseo friends of Miss Winifred of New York, today’ said ved word of her en Rodolph Valentino, had rec to they gagement the stage ax Natach+ She is art director for Mme. Nazimo va, Her father is a New York per | fumer, Pol'es over | Miss Hudnut is known! Rambova. | MOTHER AND 3 | GIRLS GASSED Notes Indicate T That Mother | Planned Deaths ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 10 Mrs, Edith Miller Busby, wife of the vice president of the Kettistone Lu. bricating company, of Philadelphia, | and her three children were found dead at the Ventnor home, near here, today from {illuminating gas poison. ing Notes found by the police Indicate Mra, Busby planned her death sad that of her three daughters. had been separated from her band The three daughters, all found dead in bed with their mother, were Constance, 11; Edwina, 9 and } Mary, 6. 3 CHILDREN, — MOTHER BURN | ie PUEBLO, May 10.—Mrs, 8. Elliott and her three children, |June, 8; Arley, 6, and Jessie, 1, died in a hospital at Rocky Ford |ay the result of burns received when a five-galion can of oil while Elliott was in a stove in their one-rooin home near Brush Springs yesterday, cording to word received here | day prs Colo., ac to. { ‘Daughter Neutral on Stillman Suit] NEW YORK, Muy 10.—Anne Still- |man, daughter of James A. Stillman, whose divorce suit against his wife, JAnne U. Stillman, {s up again at Poughkeepsie, arrived here today aboard the White Star liner Olymple. She declared herself neutral in the |dispute between her father and her | mother. “I'm here on vacation,” Misa Still man, who ts att ing school on the continent, sald, “and I'm ecing to spend half my time with my father ad half with my mother." exploded | kindling a fire} The following is a composite interview! patrolman was found slain on March 17: “No, there’s nothing new on the Legate case. there was I wouldn’t tell you; you know that.” “Why don’t you let it rest in peace? What’s the! use of digging up a lot of bunk about Legate? That’s jall it amounts to—just bunk?” “You know as much about the Legate case as I do, so why | ask me?” Yo, I haven't heard any scandal about Legate’s death. hasn't reached my ears.” “Aw, forget that stuff. awhile.” “Legate murdered? I don’t know. Write me all you know about the case, in the theory that he was a suicide, and then write all you know containing the} |murder theory. Figure it out yourself. You'll admit you'll have a heck of a time making a murder out of it, or a sui- ‘cide either. Dope it out to suit yourself.” WORKING, BUT NOT LOOKING FOR ANYONE “Of course I'm working on.the case. I’m not looking for | anybody in connection with Legate’s death, however.” “What the Sam Hill—of course, Weitz don’t know any- thing about the death of Legate. That dope story is pee If salty But I never read the papers. They're all full o punk, “I wish to ——- you (reporters) would forget about Legate “Let the grand jury probe, I don’t give a whoop.” “No, I haven't located Weitz. If Miss Forbus knows where he’s at why don’t she tell me?” “Yes; we located Weitz in Hitchcock, Okla. He wired for transportation. inquest.” WHAT'S THE USE? HE DO "T KNOW ; I haven't wired any transportation to Weitz. What's the use of him coming now, and having to wait a couple of weeks for the grand jury? I don't know when the inquest (Legate’s) is coming off. about it.” | “There's lots of time for Weitz to get here, and there’s no} | particular hurry about getting him here.” et Legate rest in peace.” “Forget ST acat “No, W. ~ has not been in to see me about Legate. If he knows as much as you say he does, why don’t he come | in to see me? I'll be glad to talk to him. That story about him and the dope being mixed up in the Legate case is all | ‘rot. He never told me anything about it at the time.” |. “Legate’s dead. Let him alone.” CHANG TSO LIN |ANOTHER PEGGY FIRED BY CHIEF SUICIDE IN PARIS Manchurian War Lord Is Diplomat Tries to End Life Ordered Ousted Over Unrequited Love { BY RAY G. MARSHALL, BY JOHN DE GANDT | PEKING China, May 10,—Chang PARIS, May 10.—Another victim Tso Lin, defeated war lor! of Man- | f the unrequited love of Peggy Hop churia, was dismissed as an official) kins Joyce, in the belief of the} Man. | French police, of the « roment ani ae " churian governor today hy President | dition in a hospital at Nice tHeu Shin Chang. All of Chang’s| Teut. Rivas Muntt, an attache of titles were abolished |the Chilean tegation at Paris, at | [tempted suicide by swallo | In @ necond order, the three Man. | *e™Pted suicide by swallowing an Fae ne Cree hay overdose of veronal last night Sprint, SOTEANEE WAM yee! a Clutched fn his locked hands when controlied and which hal enjoyed | he wan found was a newspaper clip. special privileges, were reduced to| sting containing Pemgy Jones state equality with the other Chinese | ment of her love for Billy Erraguriz, Errazuriz, another Chilean youth | ‘The governors of the three prov-| committed sulcide at Paris ten days inces pledged their allegiance to the | ago because Peggy jilted him, accord central government, withdrawing {t|{ng to her story. An Amerlean army |trom Chang Tso Lin, nad fave am | officer was réported to have killed jsurance that Chang world not be| himself on account of Peggy soveral Feat to establish separate | years ago. ernment in Manchurta. Paris ia greatly excited over the at fun Leth Chen was appointed gov-| tempted suicide of Muntt ernor of Feng Tien, which was the| ‘The general belief ts that he, too, office held by Chang and thru which | wished to die because of the unre [Chang became dictator of Man. | quited love for the beautiful “siren of | eburk the century,” as they now cai! Pegey. provinces. Wu Pet Fu, conaneror of Chans’a| - army, has requested \nat the prest- 4 Ty dent establish a national army to} OMBS I ROVE SOILED LINEN NEw YORK maintain order within China, instead of relying upon foreign powers, “Bombs! Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., drove frantically to | PORTLAND. ~ Motion of Dan/the police station Two suspicious | Casey, sentenced to hang for murder | packages had been thrown Into his of J. 1. Phillips, for modification of | automobile. “Soiled linen,” said the sentence, deuied by supreme court. | cops. Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 4, with Tennant on the Legate case—being a compendium of the remarks that he has made} on the matter on various occasions since the! Quit picking on Legate. Lay off It's a mystery to me. | He's willing to come back for the! No one has told me any thing | Hes tn a critical con-) (ED SEATTLE’S MOST POPULAR NEWSPAPER BY 15,000 PLURALITY | 20 HELD FOR MURDER IN CHICAGO RIOTING! On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Bntered as Second Class Matter May Por Year, by Mati, ww PHONE FIGHT! Everett Citizens Will | Lay Case Before State Board By Hal Armstrong EVERETT, May 10—The peo- ple of Everett are going to the mat with the state board of pub lic works. At @ public hearing in this city on [June 6 the board is going to listen to what the people have to say about jtelechronometers, | The board granted | ACTION! If that’s what you like In a the Puget story, you'll be thrilled by || Sound Telephone company permis the novel of me fe in jwton a month ago to install telechro Hollywood, jnOmeters on all telephones here; now [the people are going to demand that “ye. 99 | the board not only reacind its action | ‘Linda Inc. | but Instruct the company to take the telechronometers out. A red-hot fight is promised by city Attorney KR. J. Faussett, who has been delegated by the city council to see that the peo ple’s rights in the matter are defended. By Louls Joseph Vance, which will be printed In The Star beginning next Monday. ALSO “The Color of Her Soul” By S. B. H, Hurst of Seattle, Author of “Coomer Ali,” || which will be printed In The Star beginning next Friday. ‘OFFICIAL FOR PHONE METER | pein |W. N. Winter, President of | | Everett Co. Speaks It Faussett will be aided by Ansiat- ant City Attorney J. W. Dootson jand, in all probability, outside legal talent. “Telephone bills for the first 20 days of April.” said Dootson today, ; | |that formerly cost the subscribers $2 @ month. “My nextdoor neighbor fs 9 eement contractor, He formeriy For the 20-day period he has re celved a bill for more than $7. This included one long-distance call, Deducting the amount of this call, he must pay $6.90 for lo cal calls ‘metered’ thru the tele chronometer. “We have another case, ex- tremely ageravated. A woman who had a flat rate of $2 a month before the telechronometer was attached to her phone, now has a bill for something over $16 for 20 days’ ‘metered’ conversation. “Those are reasons why the people of Everett don’t like telechronome- ‘William Neal Winter, penaidenit ot | tore. the Puget Sound Telephone Co. of| _ It will be contended at the hearing, | Everett, is a believer in the tele | JUN® 6, that the telephone company chronomotor. He said so ‘Tuesday |)a* Nothing to sell except time, | with: tears ten See cole | which it does not create. Its tele- | ne phone instruments ft merely rents to | “My only aim tn installing the|tts «ubseribers, and for “central”| | device which measures telephone con service !t makes an additional | Yeraations is to serve the people,” he charge, yet, since Its telechronome- raid. “It would be too bad if this| ters have heen installed, it is selling were misunderstood.” tine as well Winter came to The Star office,| Another contention of the people accompanied by F. W. Strang, of| 1m that the telephone is not merely a Strang & Prosser, advertising agents, business utility, but a social institu: jand Maj. Tabcock. inventor of the/ tion. The women are expected to up- | telechronometer, He wanted to ex-| hold this contention. Social conver plain how the telechronometer came | aations, for which most women have to be attacked, and why, in his opin.| telephones tn their homes, are out of ion, it should not be attacked. the question now because of the tele- “The Star's representative in Ev. | chronometers. | erett, * he admitted, “has obtained in The company ts expected to Intro terviews from a number of persons| duce at the hearing a schedule of| ! jin that city criticising the meter.| proposed lower rates, This will be| But,” he continued, “the Interviews | Opposed by the city attorney, on the ground that the telechronometer {s | were conducted over the telephone with a very few persons, and we|8n instrument useless to the subserib- kndw atl about it; ‘beeause er, Inasmuch as rates can be fixed ‘listened In’ on every conversation | Without It, and a burden upon him | that was held.” because he must pay an additional $3 Outlining the purpose of his com. | @ year for having it put on his phone. pany, Winter went on: intend Senter ior the telechronometer to reduce our New Offer Made we 2 erhead expenses, so that bills to faratenry patrons will be materially | for Muscle Shoals Jeut, while men who conduct their | 4 business on the telephone will be| WASHINGTON, May 10.—A new) made to pay for that service, offer for Muscle Shoals, providing | “We will put 10 persons on a resi-| for semi-governmental operation of| dence phone line, and the telechro.| the project, was laid before the sen. nometer will so cut down the use of |ate agricultural committee today by) the phones that each patron will get} ex-Congressman J. T. Lloyd, Mis- a reasonable use of the telephone. | sourt, lagged J. H. Levering, “The extra charge for the installa-| Los Angeles, Cal, tion of the meter will be absorbed] ‘The offer, based upon the Norris in the saving on overhead for our|bill for government operation of} | company | Muscle Shoals, provides for joint} | “It is necessary that something of| operation of the project by the | my personal record in Everett be un-| government and a private corpora- | derstood before one attempts to anal: | tion. | yze the telechronometer situation, “A short time ago I organized a} bank in Everett to handle our own | money, It was successful. It has| taken business from the bankers. | They are now quietly fighting me.| WASHINGTON, May 10, — The “Consequently the word has gone |senate labor committee today decided ‘forth cleverly from big financiers to |to permit General Semenoff, Cossack employes in various plants to raise |chief, whose forces in Siberia are & fight over the telechronometer, It|charged with many brutalities, in- will balk me, it is thought, leluding some attacks on Americon “There 1s another influence which | soldiers, to testify before it in his I fighting me. It is that of the /own defense. large telephone companies, of which my own company is independent, | who are against any device which | they do not themselves control, “But,” he continued — fervently, with convincing sincerity If not con- vincing argument, “I am for the peo: Senate Committee to Hear Semenoff Harding Refuses to See Children Again WASHINGTON, May 10.--For the fifth time, President farding de- ple. I believe T should fight their | clined today to see the children battles, Every individual should do|crusaders when they caded at the that, regardless of the pressure of | White House to ask amnesty for the reat, selfish Interests, ‘The Star has |112 political prisoners, ways done that. I hope The Star! White House officials met them will this telechronometer fight | and informed them that the president ae I see it.” would not see them today, neo HOME| ne TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE APPEAL BOMBS |*avernge between $3 and $4 0n lines leaders, were arrested and WRECK HOUSE | Two Policestiaa The bombings and the Were attributed by police to | ment of extremists against the. ards of former Juige K. | Landis, who acted as arbitrator |the dispute between butiding | employes and contractors, Twenty men, including of the Glaziers’ union, were today in connéction with the tigation of the murder of the # policemen, John Rafferty, an intimate frten of “Big Tim” Murphy, labor ‘was among the suspects taken | questioning. ? On orders of Police Chief is morris, Fred Mader, head of the building trades counctl, Big Murphy and Cornelius \ to headquarter for ‘ Fitzmorris declared tiit“the Ger of the two officers was rect result of tactics of , Shea and other and ex-convicts who have going about posing as leaders.” “These men noe more honest labor than did the who killed during the riots.” Patrolman Thomas J. Clark riddied with bullets and tan killed when he interrupted in their attempt to blow up | Sharp & Partridge glass plant, terrorists were in the act of a bomb at the plant from @ shacked automobile. The slayers, a few minutes had huried dynamite into the & Hippach garage. Terrence Lyons, acting police tenant, In charge of a detachment ¢ officers, took up the hunt. Lyons’ car drew up beside @ sume |picious looking automobile, The eutenant yelled “Halt!* The answer was a shower of volver shots. Lyons was killed Joseph Moeller, motorcycle polices man, shot in the leg. $300,000 FIRE IN VICTORIA VICTORIA, B. C., May 10.—Catehe ing fire from an overheated flue, the Arcade block, situated almost exactly in the center of the city, was burned at midnight. The loss will exceed $300,000. The — | blaze was most spectacular, Tears th jing thru the center of the bul s | the fire was very difficult to a and the ground floor and 40 offices above were like a furnace before the firemen reached the scens, The building was on a site swept by million-dollar in, nearly 20 years ago. ITALY SAVES GENOA PARLEY GENOA, May 10.—Foreign Minis. ter Schanzer, of Italy, today stepped in and saved the Genoa conference: | from breakdown, He prevented Rus | sia from delivering an unsatisfactory reply to the allied memorandum, | The Russian note was ready for de jlivery. Schanzer had been apprised that certain portions of the document would be unacceptable to the allies, He persuaded Tchitcherin to retain jthe note and to consider certain: | changes before it was formally pre sented, \Ferry Employes Go Before Grand Jury Additional witnesses, most of them employes or former employes. of county boats, were waiting Wednesday at the courthouse to be called before the special county grand jury, The first witness called Wednes- day was R. G. Campbell, purser on the ferry Lincoln. In waiting were M. B. Harbin, former purser; W, W. Read, Bellevue citizen; Rob ert M, Gibson, purser on steamer Dawn, and W. L, Carlson, Indications were that the grand jury would be in session for the rest of this week, at least,