The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 16, 1922, Page 1

Maximum, 76. io WEATHER Tonight and Wednesday. moderate southwest- erly winds Temperature Last M4 Hours Today noon, 65. fair; Minimum, 53. CUT EVERETT PHONE RATE On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Bntered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1 at the Postoffice at THE STAR IS ELECTED SEATTLE’S MOST POPULAR NEWSPAPER BY 15,000 PLURALITY March %, 1879, Per Year, ttle, Wash, wnder the Act of Congress by Mail, #6 to $9 VOLUME 24. NO. 69. SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1922. — Two CENTS IN SEATTLE Because he might die of heart failure girl with: his automobile, against Fred A. Almy. this action, but— Serre chee HAND-TWITCH ["eleri Subow FRIENDS 10 F inds Western Men Broader Than Eastern TAR (HEAP HIS DEFENSE : See SEEK MEDAL Fam amous Woman Writer Is Stud ying Seattle Brean Nr Siphon Wt ice Howdy, folks! Now you can change safely from “heavies” to f° “lighties.” . | ‘ Tomorrow ia Straw Hat day. But| Sport Shirt day will not be observed | this year. - | eee } Mimbos who wear brown derbies | ; will follow their usual custorn and wear tan-colored hay pees, ee WARM WEATHER NOTE As you will have Iittle use for g it now, you can sefely return your neighbor's snow shovel, ° Anyone who would refer to that | advance in telephone rates In Ever ett as a Bell hop is no gentleman of | Screenland. A girl I hate Je Carrie Hatt. She always saya, | “Cam you feature that?” T. J. De Pue. eee Li'l Gee Gee, th’ Office Vamp, says sirl-can_live on love if she stays | ! cee ROAMING | : Mayor Caldwell addressed the | Municipal league today on “Two Years in the Mayor's Chair.” } Suggested subjects for other | talks: “A Rolling Mayor Gath- ers no Moss,” “Prancing Past the Philippines,” “Two Months in Joyes from the mi ies, You can’t keep & g00d woman down. cee -eggy Joyce Refuses to Reveal the} rety of Her Fatal Charm Se Head. | ine. We don’t blame her. We know exactly how she feels WHAT A RELIEF! It's a good thing this short skirt craze has passed. ‘The girls would soon have been wearing ‘em so short you could see their elbows. . | } | Alt-day long the ! Girlies 90 | j Down the Avenue, | Row on row jof muscular control if tried for killing a young Prosecuting Attorney Mal- colm Douglas has dismissed manslaughter charges The Star has no idea that anything but the highest numanitarian motives guided Maj. Douglas in taking THERE IS SUCH A THING AS TOO MUCH HU- MANITARIANISM — MISGUIDED HUMANITARIAN- OF SHOOTING Trigger Jerked by Nerves, Declares’ Man Charged as' Wife Attacker By E. P. Chalcraft Shell shack, with resulting lack of muscular control, will form the basis for the defense of John George Allonge, 29, insur ance adjuster and overseas war veteran, charged with assault in the first degree for wounding Mrs. Blanche Baker and Patrol. man Frank W. Speir op March 27 with two bullets which were intended for his wife, Mrs. Winl fred Allonge. Allonge went*on trial Tuesday morning before Superior Judge | Mitchell Gilliam Little difficulty was experienced In connecting the jury, which ax finally chosen consists of 10 woman and two men Allonge’s defense, Attorney John F. ment to the jury, as outlined by Dore in his state. wit) be that Al longe, who was a lieutenant In the! 2rd aivis at medical corpa of the was severely shelirhocked front. As a result the he suffered loss Dore wid When on the morning of March 27 he saw two patrolmen, who had been summoned during ® quarrel with his wife, Allonge drew an automatic pistol with the idea of throwing ii away, so It would not be on bis person if he were arrested, Dore seid. But due to the lack of m ar con trot his fingers inadvertantly twitehed, firing two cartridges from the pistol. Deputy Prosecuting Atto-ney John T. Carmody outlined the state's case jbriefly to the jury Alionge was wood hotel, First ave. arrested at the At and Pine st, (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) \WHISKY AUTO IS CAPTURED LONG BEACH, Cal, May 16 | Liquor valued at $28,000, a limousine two trucks and # launch were con Bome have straight legs fine i by police he earl th Some have bow \f ¥ poli arly this Ase ne” morning in a sensational raid at the ¢ swimming season will soon be and what you like, swim in sport - According to statistics pre | pared by the Travelers’ Tnsur- | ance company, 15 people were in- | jured last year getting in and | out of bed. Some of the boys keep out of danger by never going to bed. | Wife's Love Worth Six Cents Is ‘ Might be an overcharge, ‘ | Winner of Sacramento's whisker test has a beard 17 feet tong. pu can say this of wh rs of such length: The man. out ' OFFICE th || bird early atches . but who likes worms? ¥ _ cs A guy I hate Is Homer Brew Because he makes Me thirsty, too D. Cooper. | Los Angeles # man ta named ole aired «iris. But ou'll be sorry | ome day when you have a big (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) j | Three men were tak entrance to the flood control channel, near the western limits of the city » Into custody nd t Je their € wo mm wape by jump: Ing into the ocean Watchman of Bank | Wounded by Bandits ST. LOUIS, May 16.—Henry Ahr-} «, watehm the Bremen bank was wounded and rot by two ban dits of $2,000 while riding on a street aarti uh Don’t Miss Them! The advertising umns of The Star days are extremely teresting. They tell of real opportunities to save on merchandise you want. They also give you complete and au- thentic information con- cerning the latest styles, etc, col- these in- The best offerings of Seattle's best stores ap- pear in The Star. Don’t miss them. /PROSECUTOR’S HEART I (EDITORIAL) believed, he Said, that the accused man Suppose, for instance, that a man had committed a Would Maj. Douglas be justified in heinous murder. dismissing the charges against him on he might die—on the gallows— * 8 6 On November 29, 1921, Almy drove his automobile, in open defiance of the law, past a street car that was unloading passengers at 29th ave. and Fourteen-year-old Louise Yackel was alighting from the car, and she was struck and killed by Almy's machine. if tried? Nearly five months passed without any action against this dangerous practice. It i ment to say that it will enco And then— Maj. Douglas was assured “by competent persons” that Almy had been suffering from heart trouble for years and that the ordeal of a trial would probably result in his death, Whereupon Maj. Douglas obligingly dismisses the case, the ground that is willing to endanger the li innocent men, women and ch se This is all very pleasant—for Almy. But how about the hundreds of Seattle citizens whose lives are menaced daily by automaniacs who insist on driving past loading and unloading street cars? Maj. Douglas’ action will webs 8 not serve to curb E. Madison st. ness of his offense? driving an automobile in the Six weeks ago an X-ray warn- ed Wyeth and bis wife that the || FOR HEROINE dainty things they had made | Richardson, Oi for one idition to their sey id ete ie gugueneea || Woman Saves Boy; and that the more boyish the Famous more appropriate From Drowning’ They heeded the warning and ; 7 when the stork called yesterday, Woman they were not disappointed. Physicians believe this ts the first record of succeasfully an || tictpeting the stork thru the |} Xray. | if Mre. tn the Lake the CHICAGO WAR of friends. A wcore of | thrilling wor it recognition fc ever A keep her already ex! the aid of Two Occupants of | | Murder Car Tell! yor Names of Others #02 "moms in Terror Reign st, both 19. | - | CHICAGO, May 16—Four men | One of the | in Canal When} | Canoe Upsets By Hal pre tee medal for her bravery Fremont afternoon it will not be the fault }the bank were certain Tuesday that] | AKE EXPOSED gan’ 3° | The crowd had to hold her to into the waterway, in which the two were paddlin jed in midstream, clothed inte the chill war | shift his ponition, and the tipay craft | Writer, Who Is In-Seattle Stadying The 1. HM. King, of 3631 ve, doesn't get @ a drowning boy from fashingten canal near bridge Monday people who watched her k from safe places on} young woman demrved 1 Results or unusual valor it ts! Of Her from plunging back tho she was hausted, to swim to & second boy, who Sex’s lads, ” of 119 Nickerson at., Platts, 66 W. Dravus . overturn spilling them fully ’. j terapted to | Sweeping boys aad a Victory At went bottom up. ! have been identified as the bomb | Im another moment Platts had/ The Polls. ers and slayers responsible for (Coder by the neck and we hoking | fi: the reign of terror in Chicago, him and pulling him under, and Charles Fitemorris, chief of Coder was struggling to get himeclt £ | See emia ced today. wag free. He kicked himaelf loose. Sha sap } : : A man and a woman in a row. | Two occupants of the murder boat were within lew feet of car from which volleys of shots the boys. The crowd yelled to asad | were fired and dynamite hurled | have confessed, the chief stated. | The men, he sald, admitted the murder of Policemen Thomas Clark and Terrence Lyons, a week ago and | Involved twe | automo! | the man to | the rescue. on the rickety Meanwhile . ers led | bathing sults directly to the confessions, detectives | tt") jena. | Mrs. King | Three of the four men are under | mrances Kiddy larrest. Rifle squads were closing in on the fourth Fitzmorria # in their swim plunge of ed that a bartender | Pe in aw 1 as a rendezvous for | Grasping th confessed to drivi the | Ir 1 riving uation ata slipped her ¢ om iran to the bi ion to anohter |i) the « at a saloon us terrorists car ‘This man today was rushed from one out! when tained from n ce st 1 plot to poison his food, ob- | A restaurant acroas the ene snssnnd Totenes , “LINDA LEE, Inc.” ee) wae uneerree. ast (Turn to Page 7, | —they are so much broader ’ nc. Winter appeared before the. eile The confessions rding to Fitz: | oa ‘ f the Kast.” BY LOUIS 30: 5 as he has before a number of other morris, involve “Big Tim” Murphy, | | mutnded than theae/4F the ae wi Mab : sata’ Sines Shia) similar organizations, in an_ effort Con” Shea and “Freddy” Mader | Anna Steese Richardson, noted pyright, }to win popular support for his tele- labor leaders, in the plot to bomb woman writer, was seated in an arm chronometer. He has failed signally | buildings that were erected peng the| chair in her room at the Washing BEC (Turn to Page 7, Column 6) oN saw Mountain Landis, Why,” sald I, “do you think they DA DRUCE York society matron, in the fifth year of ber ma: * BOOZE PLANE fe ‘The three, however, thru. their at . * Bhe and, 4 ierhe thee, however thea, thelr ot] | are bxgader min mits ae Blot saan’ cos nde aoqabeis Shomacd we nese 4 Telpatiegs setuor direatly ge talliecdl - | “lecause,” she replied, “they | Mrrainiseuin tlirtation and heavy kings tien ht NEN! Bt 60 ‘| TAKES PLUNGE ~ Ie or ner directly or Indirectly, : hh to appreciate (CHARD DAUBENEY, Lucindae old sweetheart, returned just as Bellamy wa In the re f terroi | Dispatch Says Hos-| sre wise enous plunging nto his latest affair, thie tine with » kine ae a "ski deb Ghasins ‘wits: aout dakebe Tokyo dpe y | the intelligence of women—to | y hs AMBLIE REVERS. An open break between Lucinda and Heliamy had been| CROTON-ON-HUDSON, N. Y., May PPrioMe nares bea | tilities Resumed | accept them in office.” | averted by the apparent incerity of bis penitence, In hia heart he felt staine|16.—An airplane laden with liquor nurde | pyty oduced Mra. | 88d #elf-reproach Montreal ‘creas It wan believed that the confessions| TOKYO, May 16.—Hostilities be molpepant intr p sepiolhg Goon ween Sen atone ee Rrcaasvivep a on a farm were obtained by offering to waive! tween Chinese factions i a-rad for her to study the Western| Why must he be such a fool as) this, and it could be taken two ways,| ‘The pilot escaped with minor im the 1» penalty if the men would | control of the government have been nere to stud je | Weate * 4 ot a flattered thto neither dake " rdinge z . * tarn state's evidence, involving the| recumed, according 4o.reyorte veanh-| women tn polition, “and: in, Mette | ever to let inpele Bo ates ye ge neither comforting, It was actually | juries and fled in an automobile, an iden v « th : / aastihhariht. Wists <inesdarce benen: eee ection was to be|a relief to hear Lucinda add: “You!One hundred and fifty quarts of bigherups ing here from Peking ; |found nowh not within the | seemed to be fairly preoccupied your. ch were found in the ruing, see Foreign Minister Uchida, following | recently elected to the city council. | Vine oe his own home? f, at the table.” sah ht Murphy’s Wife Is | receipt of th reports, Eas & for-| SI SF eg | Bending to kiss his wife, he put| “Oh, bored to tears, assure you,|Let me see...” She riffled the ° |mal announcement of Japan's neu-| FULL 0 K, |that thought behind him. He! Amelie’s a pretty litte thing, amt-|leaves, “Oh, yes: I'm having Fanny’ Held for Speeding trallty in the renewed factional fight { have seen them to date only @| couldn't afford to dwell upon It. Al-|able enough, but nobody to talk to—|Lontaine to lunch at the Ritz, with CHICAGO, May 16.—These are|'9s in China few minut she said, “I arrived! ready he was tou far committed in|no conversation whatever.” Nelly Guest and Jean Sedley, What troublesome days for the Murphy | Just yetarday.” But I oan oe Atay this new affair to withdraw without Lucinda limited comment to a|® pity. The pons in Prevent fami Wit Tim’ hind the are filled with ideas “ deK9 | losing face, But he would find some | midly guizzical look. your coming, too, if you like.” We ¢ e on "oo STRAW HAT SEASON that will prove a benefit en ne way soon to make an end of it| “Doing anything special today?" A dark suspicion knitted Bellamy’s — ph in wife as arrest energy. I shall return to New York | (thank God! they all had an end! Lyoinda shook her head slowly, |¢yebrows, “Some actress? Sounds 7) charge of speeding while, police OPENS WEDNESDAY | jatier an eight weeks’ tour of the some time), and this would be the| watching him with a half-smile lam- ah i say, she was g 42 miles an “Straw Hat day,” originally |; Middle States and the Coast, and | jast and after thia, never again!” }pent with lazy intelligence. He felt} “Fanny Lontaine?* itd hour toda scheduled for Saturday, has been || write about this Western wave of | Ho really meant it this time, he/| vaguely uneasy, as one who should |l@ughed, “Nothing of the sort, Fans wo men and Mra. Fred Mader,|| advanced to Wednesday on ac: || politics and the place that woman | yowed he did lof a sudden find himself hard by the |"Y Was at school with me—Frances wife of Big Tim's associate, also|| count of the unusually warm || is takin | Rest we dear? Don't need to!brink of some abysmal indiscretion. ‘ AG jailed, were in the automobile. Poll weather, It Was announced today Mrs, Richardson ts known nation-|ask that, tho, only have to look at Thought we might meet some.| “Old man Worth?" Bellamy put in believed the part was collecting || by the retailers’ mmmittee of |\ally as the editor of the “good -it!| you. Never looked sw sr in your| where for luncheon, if you're lunch. | With symptoms of approval. “Ter funds for defense of the labor leaders.|| the Chamber of Commerce venship bureau" of the Woman's |life than last night, Linda. 1 was |ing out.” ror of the Wheat Pit,’ they called Mayor Caldwell will start the]|Home Companion, She has been | quite Jealous of old Daubeney, mon-| “I'd love to,” Lucinda put out an |him—died not long ago tn the odor CINCINNATI, O.—Tying up two!l pan rolling by appearing in a]|with the magazine 18 years as a opolizing you . . i arm deliciously rounded beneath |of iniquity, leaving eighty millions watchmen, six cracknmes blow twol] atraw kelly on the steps of the || special writer. In 1920 she cor “You needn't have been, Bel, and|skin of a texture fairer and finer |or 80. Your little Siam ought “purglar-p safes i M. & Hel] county-city building at 2 p, m,|jceived the idea of. furthering the|{ don't think you were in a good|than any other Bellamy had ever |to, be fairly welbf Pogue Co, department sl» | $25,000 casa getting Wednesday 4 hold of his towards shore, helped the wom- |} an out and swimmer to go with him back to anal “It is a pretty good » let the strugglers get bot, but he pulled s likes It then asked for a As Far half a dozen youths tn stood panic-stricken on and a girl friend, Miss As She’s reached the canal clad ming togs, for the first They had im last season seriousness of the sit. Mra. King ¢ at from her should sk and dived headlong Gone. neanon. By Wanda von Kettler “I like your men of the West for condition to judge.” Bel winced, be-|seen and took a morocco-bound en: cause he had laid himself open to gagement book from her escritoire. > education of women politically thru pi (Turn to Page 7, Column 4f TOO TENDER! In other words, in order to save Almy, an admitted law-breaker, from the “ordeal” of a trial, Maj. Douglas Did Maj. Douglas stop to consider, before decision, that the fact Almy has such a that a trial might kill him merely adds to the serious- For a man with that kind of heart has no business — —Photo by Price Star staff is hardly too strong a state- urage the evil. ves and limbs of countless ildren, his berg Sos first — measuring device ordering drastic cut in vise by evs c Speaking before the Commercial club last night, Neal Winter, president of the company, announced that he ed to put Into effect an rate" much lower than the figure thruout the city and co This rate, he said, will county and suburban rot 150 telechrones on a i In the city limits, 150. | chrones will be allowed eight-party line, 250 on party line, 400 on a line and 800 on a direct line. In spite of this announced tion, City Attorney R. J. Faussett d clared today that he would conti his fight against the telechronom with unrelenting vigor, “In the first place,” he ex plained, “any reduction that cuts the rates below their present Bs ures can be only temporary. telechronometer, leased at fib orbitant rate of $3 a year for each subscriber, must ager 3 Increase telephone costs mat ally, Therefore, if the company cuts its income, its profits must — fall below the figure allowed by state law; so, ag soon as the tele chronometers are safely installed, the company would simply £0 down to Olympia and have the rates hoisted skyward again. “In addition to this, regardless: of rates, I am opposed to the tel echronometer on principle, A phone company is supposed to sell service plus commodity, and the speech-measuring device cuts out the service.” The Riverside Commercial club re fused to take any action on the tele- — chronometer in advance of the publio s hearing to be held by the board of ~ public works June 6. “1 don't know, rm eure. I believe (Continued on Page 6) | >