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* The Newspap 5,000 EMPLOYES TO SUE CITY r Vetoed Pay to Court! Plan to Carry Fight fo WEATHER Ton t and F erly ‘Temperature Maxi air riday, genera south west- winds. Last 64 Hours Minimum, 44. noon, 53. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise he Seattle Star 9 Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $5 to 69 Entered as Second Class Matt VOLUME 24. SATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1922. (Copyright, 1922, by The Seattle Star Howdy, fotks! broadcasting ations, ever hear a woman with a juicy bit of gossip? “Women’s skirts Stone tor of the Sh “have reached th tude.” Mebbe so, James, but # lot of girls still « t e slogan, “Pike's Peak or Bue Dr. J n lost his speech at the demoer onvention at Olympia Wesdne That's what he ests aving his prize bull in Beattie. see *SFACT! Contrary te popular belief, the state demorratic convention at | Olympia yesterday was not held in a telephone booth. wie © Councilman William Hickman Moore and Steve Chadwick, Seattle's two democrats, both made speeches. Somebody has to point with pride and view with alarm, and the other democrat ffi th’ #tate had tonsilitis. At the conclusion of the conven tion, all of the democrats rode home in Chadwick's Ford. eee “Audio frequencies at the micro phone are transformed to radio fre quencies from the antenna.”—Radio | expert in The Star. ' How strange these simple truths Were not discovered before! eee ard always had a feel direct primary was 4 ow they know it a The O14 G ing that th bad thing, and IN DARKEST HOLLYWOOD California officials ‘now sepa- rate movie couples on their honeymoon even before they have taken out a marriage li cense. oe. Next Monday afternoon the Seattle city council will pull off another idiotic stunt. Just what the stunt will be we don't know, But it will pon | meet on that aft Speaking of extinct species, what has become of the old family ham- mock? se. Ty Cobb is slipping. The old crip ple on e hits in one game last week HERE'S HOPING! Mayor-elect Brown came back to town on a freight train. Hope he doesn't have to leave that way at the expira of his term! The hornet is a cynic, A pessimistic thing His style of converration Is ne'er without its sting Wonder what a ch Nate thinks when he of bis own gum? Town chickens ar on the farm. ground too mu ng gum ma son © just like those ou let them they get tough run if b TH’ OFFICE , SEZ: | No woman can help thinking that she would have been a suc | cess as an actress. « 7 mt, of tongue or pen rem | n its ad . do not smear front pa HOPE FOR TAXPAYERS | ation for Seat- | | coa@ Ten-Inch R ule for High School Graduation Frocks Causing B BY WANDA I visors. “Oh, what a mess,’ itter Anguish VON KETTLER EN inches from the ground,” say the super- say the girls. For the high school misses of Seattle have had one terrible, vicious, heathenism regulation wished upon them! Ten inches from the ground is the rule for gradu- ation dresses. “and to think,” say the girls, on wearing t year jown nok like hat we've 15 and 16 Inches a! hen to have a come the sap: $ awful—we'l are anger PARENTS SHARE PERTURBATION And the parents a bit worrted. Many of dresses are comp! wait on the hangers their graduation platform debut, Some of the dresses were made a month ago. The 10-inch law, ia is said, has been announced ‘ince that time. And the moth- ‘rs say, many of them, they vannot alter the length of their laughters’ dresses without ruining the appearance. “Besides,” those mothers in. sist, “our daughters look better with a 14 or 15-inch drop to the ground—tmuch more girlish and just as sensible, What is more, they've been wearing them short all year. How were we supposed to know that an extra yard of georgette crepe would be necessary to sysinfy the graduation requiremeats”’ Some mothers even are weep- ing. Nice little mothers, they are, who have planned so on their daughters’ graduation. ted and now “We took such pains with the they “and now the girls tell us they can't wear them—that they won't be allowed on the platform with 10 it skirts shorter than hea from the ground. Some of these they cannot affo the dresses a Some say t mothers ay > rep cady made would not wa to, if they 4. The prefer the present lengths AT ONE RAY OF APPEARS In the meantime— The girls chatter. They see themacives on the platform in dresses lengthened with an “extra” piece at the bot tom. Their supervisory and prin cipals are perturbed, The prob- lem is serious. Yet it may not in the end prove #0 miserably #0, alto- gether. Said George TL. principal of Ballard high school, this morning, when anked about the messy state of affairs: “Well, well Maybe something could be done tn SOME cases, We'll take that up for investigation. Maybe some of the girls could bring their dremes and have them okehed beforehand. I'm not certain—but maybe.” even Devilbies, STINNES SWAYS | RICH KINGDOMS ——— { The following is the second of an intensely Interesting series of articles just coming out of Germany on power to which Hugo Stinnes, industrial magnate, has risen, BY MILTON BRONNER European Manager for ‘Scripps Newspaper Service amazing position of BERLIN, May 25.—When the German empire was formed, the Hohenzollerns could put into the common pot the King- dom of Prussia over which To this w they ruled. added the Kingdoms of Bavaria and Wurtemburg, the Duchy of} Baden and dozens of little principalities all ruled over by kings, dukes and princes. came German emperor. Hugo Stinnes, ¢ |startea before the war with and the kingdom of iron Then the Hohenzollern king b two kingdoms—the kingdom ermany’s undisputed business emperor, of And to this he has since added various duchies and principalities in commodities over which no others but himself is ruler. i He grasped early in his business career what the nations only fully learned after the great war started. all modern life, all its necessities, all its conveniences, all its comforts are a pyramid of which the base is coal. Place iron on top of LEGATE CASE PROBE UNDER | WAY TODAY Sensation Awaited as Coroner Starts Investigation of| Officer’s Death By S. B. Groff With sensational testimony Promised for the afternoon ses sion, the coroner's inquest Into the murder of Patrotm Chas, 0, Legate was started shortly be- fore noon Thursday The testimony of Patrolman Tom Walsh and Capt, BK. 1. Hedges was heard betore the in- quest adjourned for lunch, | Walsh textified that Emmanuel A. Wiets, former owner of the Main st. | garage, 1242 Main st, had told him) that he sew Legate talking to a man and seme women in a hig powered auto at 1:05 a. m., March} 17, the morning of the murder, LEGATE WAS JANGLING KEYS Legate was jangting his keys and) appeared in good spirits, according | to Wiets’s statement to Waleh.| Wiets overheard him remark, Walsh (4, that he had an appotntment tn | the garage at 145, or about the time the shooting occurred, } Walsh said that March 16 he met Legate ifth ave. and Main ast. and they went to the Montrose hotet | to arrest Clara Scott, a nhegress. EB! They didn’t find her and went to 608 }12th ave. 8. and crawled thru a win- dow searching for her. When they | failed to find her there they went| back to 12th ave. and Jackson st.| and at midnight went to the New | Way restaurant for a bite to eat. They had several casual convers,/| tions, he testified, with various char- acters on the beat. | Atl a.m. Legate and Walsh “rang | and Legate said he was going to lthe Hotel Vrooman to the washroom. He told Walsh he would meet him afterward and they would go get Clara Scott. j Walsh failed to find Legate within a half hour aad searched in soon for him until 2 a. m, when be rang in for himself and Legate. ‘Then he got uneasy and for Sergt. A. W. Pielow, whom | they had met earlier in the even- | ing. While he was talking to headquarters Pielow appeared be hind him and they started search- ing for Legate again, They went to May Curtis’ place (Turn to Page 9, Column 5) WHY GAS PRICE WAS INCREASED Inside Story of Why Jump | Was Ordered WICHITA FALLS, Tex., May 25. | and »e have g 4 poe Here's the inside story of what's back the coal and you at once have almost all the needful. ioe the jontp' in gaaollae WHOne Bo GETS CONTROL {the field. He formed the German) cording to veteran ofl producers: | BiG COAL Mine | Luxemburg Mining and Smelting! Various refining companies “got vebin began with coal, He} corporation with a capital of only} stuck" with a lot of erude oll which | secured control of many of the/one million marks, He took OveF! they bought at high prices before the best coal mines in the rich Rubr.|the weak combination just me-| morket broke Like his grandfather he continued/ tioned. In leas than a year the) ior instanee, Pennaylvania crude] he building of tugs and barges concern increased its capital! oi1 now sells for $3.25 a barrel at the | ; ee ee oe and in 1910 to 60) vets, ‘The war high peak was $6.10) ee ie gy seg . po ian: hata | @ barrel. Prices of oll produced in| Rhenish natinn Cte cocks bituiee ahiP in |other fields have, in a rough way, | Hoate ‘wi 5 terest * , ie ger 7 foul mn’ | dropped correspondingly, for Penn-| . t Easen regulates the produc-| Moselle valleys and thus assured ¢ avin ie ersda is the oil industry "| rape Bh lyf ag ng Rhineland| up a Dortmund company and rock-| A lot of this oll, bought at $6.10 a} and Westphalia. And it is done|eted its capital to 100 million marks,|P@rrel, is still in stor It has de-| openly, The coal barons don’t } 1VES HIMSELF preciated inv nue $5.8 a basal, al ne he law » accompli. To cover such losses, most 0 it was showing himself the | jay sums in their inventories. By Robert B. Bermann A woman—or to be more specific, a young and pretty girl reporter—came near gumming up the whole show at the demo- crati state convention in Olympia Wednesday, King county delegates back from the Bourbon gathering were laugh ing over it Phursday—but it came near being a man-sized disaster. It happened like this Dr. F Brown, Se elect and temporary chairman of the convention, had only five copies of his “keynote speech” typed for him. Four of these he left in Seat tle before leaving for Olympia, for the use of the newspapers. as he arrived at the con tle’s mayor fortified bh # 800 There is co age Alay joe gard r industrial | “Now, by Jacking up the price ofg As soon as he arrived at tie nate tle residents in the thought that | 68! Busi’ bs cniehiie wa ind finance. | gasoline, they are trying to recoup | ven ped ot pe Meog Sauean when they arrive in heaven they |th® War was in & pos toll upon actual posses |tg some extent jue at Sere 7 ) é Y |next strategic move which deter 1 ° . |who begged him to lend her his won't be taxed for keeping the wa a a American When gasoline began advancing In golden streets in ri ted big invasion of the iron and steel! trusty Vast 1 tn Mochi. -ahats ; tv expecting |coPY 80 that she culd put it on en streets ir. | v ast mills in Bochum, Doi srice, oll producers began expecting | A “4 |trade. He loaded his heavy 608! mung Mulheim and Emden, coal) eo? 4 vs go ‘ an pr a fer |the wire for her paper. ye ' wit none and with coal 7 ‘ > ee ose me “gy? yet | 7 is nothin no! 7 MOTHER GOOSP RE-VULCANIZED | pn — a ¥ for| mine, iron mines, coke ovens, 40.-! crude oll, Veterans in the industry | Phe Bey a 1 Ls here is a an “ here nis = to oe *F) 000 buy workmer all told a very n ni 4 z « oes rward ot bi ¥Y|}now are less hopeful of getting an s fuaren 3 : Stinnes—he goes forward not by|coe, "sy Wormmet all & | aye wane | request with the warning that And pun ail four tires | crushing of wrecking opponents. He) i, concern controlled five mil-| stocks of atest | SN must be sure to returg the 4 Hiss coneteuotor, He takes sicklso0 tons of oval and o1.600,000. tonal eet ene EE oe cats 1 (atest | qocument—as he had no other And when he saw bis » wrecked,} businesses and cures them of what) — ‘ . om ; 4 : 4 eported by bureau of mi ) totaled! copy, and, far from knowing With all his might » ain | ails them. He takes well busin coke per annum, to say nothing | §54,221, gallons. This was enough) the speech by heart, hadn't even jand makes them bigger. He like ammonia, benzol” and coal tar! tg supply the country for 61 days, at) heen able to rend it o to make two mills pr ‘ re| Products. It made not only pig iron, | recent rate of consumption. | the reporter promised, but “Here, w ome of the| only one did before. ‘That gives|°ast iron and steel but finished). stocks of guyoliie om Apel 2 were! he must have forgotten about strongest coffee you | more work to Germans and enriches| Products like freight cars, In other) 5§ per cent Jarger than on April 1,! it afterward—because 10:30, the “Here's some of brand that! both Germany and Stinnes Mie. Jt made ‘machiaes |isi9 | opening hour, rolled around, and Dempsey drank befe 1! Back in the nineties «a weak| It seemed Stinnes was at the} put the American people are usin no sign of either her or the out Carpentier ast ace corporation in Lu zenith of his eareer, But he had) 93 per cent more gasoline than thre Possibly for the first 2 f i p Ye but I'm going to a whist! burg another in Bochum. not yet been really tested. The war) years ago. Dr. Brown found part many, were united in one organiza-|came and with it the bitter after-|° On that basis, ofl refiners argue, chless—literally so. ‘Ah, then! Here's the nd Ma-|tion which was just weak, It; math of crushing defeat for Ger) stocks are lower now in proportion was only one thing to do. caulay drank before he wrote ‘Ho-| lost money for its stockholder many. Albert Ballin, creator of|to what's needed, than they were|The bund was ordered to play some ratio at the Bridge!” | Then in 1901 Stinnes came intol (Turn to Page 10, Column 2) four years ago. more music while a searching party 4 ; Mayor-Elect Brown Speechless at Last; Convention Gossip Charlie Koman, » rr of prominent democrats went out to look for the girl—and the speech. Eventualy they found her—but not }until tte | And that's why the convention was 45 minutes late in opening. Returning delegates from the con. vention were jubilant Thursday ¢ at the hering. If Washington re ¢ rain to be | polit a lot of disappointed | vention meant 10 per cent of wha' Optimism was the one big feature of the convention—bigger, even, than the attacks on the Newberry vote and jon the Hart administration—which weren't exactly mild, at that. ery speaker—and there were a lot of ‘em—either said or inti- mated that he was just as sure of victory this fall as he was of de- feat two years ago. Next to former Congressman C, C. Dill, candidate for the democ nomination for United States sena- tor, whose speech provided the thrill of the convention, the most popular orator was George P. Fishburne, of ‘Tacoma, He won lots of applause with this: “They said we wanted a change. Wel we got it, But they short-ch He was also cheered when he said that the republican de Sam was like a pawnbroker as far as his European policy went—afraid to either lead or follow, Steve Chadwick, jr,. of Seattle, got (Turn to Page 10, Column 5) z } by Price & Carter, 8! | the exeelient esprit de corps displayed |“ | doesn’t go democratic this fall, there! ns in the state—that is, if the |™ spellbinders who addressed the con-|° t | tated. | Photographers By Aileen Claire For the last five days he's been a man—a man in the finest, truest sense of the word. He has battled against unsurmountable obstacles and remained undaunt- ed in spite of experiences which would have unnerved men thrice his age. He has kept a stiff up- per lip thru the most heart- rending trial that anyo re gardiess of age, has ever faced. But today— He was just a 9-year-old boy again, sobbing his heart out for ymate who he'll never * is Charlie Roman, whose 12- year-old brother, Edgar, died Tues- day from injuries suffered when he was struck by a freight train the Georgetown railroad yards F day Charlie was there at the time of the disaster He saw his brother caught be- th the cruel wheels of a freight r; saw his legs practically ampu mel Most children—many adults —~ would have screamed in horror and fainted—but not Charlie. His baby hands clutched his brother's inanimate form and thrust it in the little wagon in which they had been gathering wood. Then, without stopping to wait for adult aid, he started pulling the wagon to the hos- pital. His heroic efforts were all in vain, however. Edgar died four days later. But even then Charlie didn't give up; he still had work to do. dd he kept up his courage until after the coroner's inquest Wednesday. It was, incidentally, due to Charlie's eloquence that the jury returned a verdict blaming the Oregon-Washington Railway & Navigation Co. for negligence—and — recommending financial assistance for the parents, Mr, and Mrs, James Roman, of West Seattle. But when the ordeal of the in-] Sobbing his heart out, i 4 er With a 15,000 Circulation Lead Over Its Nearest Seattle C om petitor F Caldwell “Stan Pat,” Decla Street Cars Must Pay Own Bills the city for nearly amount of their pay checks up when Mayor Caldwell the May appropriations ordinances. Caldwell vetoed all payroll ances when the city council to segregate certain expenses curred by various departeents charge them up against the cipal railway fund, Suit to compel City C Harry W. Carroll to issue their checks will be instituted by the Cf Service league, composed of city workers. Carroll announced would waive the ark Dossible for the city ¢ will become effective within Caldwell charged that the had “jockeyed” him into vetoing appropriation ordinance, and clared that if the departments a free work for the street car were excluded, he would sign emergency ordinance paying off i, the other departments. shes x a oS Tax-supported departments do work for the municipal free of charge are the city troller, purchasing, civil service, and city treasury departments. G well contends these depart should be reimbursed by the car system for work performed the railway lines. “If the council will call a session and pass an ordinance propriating money to pay all bills and salaries other than relatively small number'that are (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) RAMSAY DRAWN IN FERRY PROBE. | | according to his accusers, has been {of the Grand Jury Inspects His Property at Kirkland County Commissioner Claude: C. Ramsay was drawn definite. ly into the grand jury investi gation of the ferry scandal Thursday, Altho he was ao cused in the charges filed with) the prosecuting attorney by Bellevue residents weeks agt the grand jury had shown ne direct intention of looking inte his connection with what has been denounced as the “ferry steal”—until Thursday. members of the ean ae bedy took the ferry Leschi journeyed to Medina, Altho no official announcement was made of their plans, it was freely intimated that they were going to inspect Commissioner Ram- say's property at Medina—whieh, enormously enhanced in value as @ result of the ferry juggle. Capt. John L. Anderson, manager ferry system and chief bene- ficiary under the deal that is being investigated, greeted the grand Jurors when they arrived at Lesehi park, He didn’t seem at all worried, and greeted the visitors affably, Commissioner Ramsay wasn't there, The grand jury was expected to spend practically all day on the other side of the lake. No announcement of the result of their investigation t= expected for several days. QIGHT STARTS PEACE PARLEY NEW YORK, May 25.--First sea sion of the People's Tribunal of the Arbitration Society of America — opened with a fight. Principals re. fused to pose for cameras, continent quest was over, Charlie went back the dozen years that he had aged in the emergency. And today he was just a little doy again......

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