The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 29, 1922, Page 1

IST DEGREE MURDER CHARG anion 1To Be Fi Hilit VOLUME 24. NO. 80. a Tonight and Twesday, fair; gentle easterly winds. ‘Temperature Last M4 Hours Maximum, 80. Minimum, 60. Today noon, 77. SS <> BRITISH RUSH een | led Against Seattle Man’s. Co On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as @eoond Class Matter May B 1990, at the Postoffice at Beattie WARSHIPS T0 UL _ LONDON, May 29.-—Strong action to repress rebellion and terrorism in Ireland was taken today by at Britain. Following a cabinet meeting, it was announced in commons that British destroyers had been ordered to Ulster and that the British evacuation of ireland is to cease immediately... Following official | announcement of the drastic policy toward Irish outrages decided upon by the government, the conference nd British signatories of the peace treaty was postponed until next Tuesday SEATTLE, WASH., MO. (Copyright, 1992, by The Seattle Stary SEVEN DROWN ~IN CRASH OF ~ Q STEAMERS! | Welsh Prince Sinks. | After Collision, With Iowan in Columbia River ASTORIA, Ore, May 2%9.—~- Seven sailors were killed and | three firemen injured shortly before midnight last night when the steamers Welsh Prince and | Jowan crashed head on in the Columbia river off Altoona, Wash. Attempts were being made today | to remove the bodies of the seven! sailors, The men, asleep in the freighter’s forecastle, were crushed like flies when the Iowan, emerging | upriver in the dark, plowed into the British vensel’s side and sent her to| the river's bottom. The Welsh Prince this morning rested on the river mud, just north of the channel, her deck showing abeve the water, and her crew otill aboard her, VESSEL IN 30 ME The injured men, J. Morgan, 1. cee | walsh and P. K, Helm were rushed \e you|}t® Astoria on the tug Onconta, ee eters Pir ace a cae steamed to the scene of the = the binbos in swimming at Alki | aagident . ee stouien after a redio| wage to Fort Stevens reported | beach tomorrow. _argeonaelly The Welsh Prince sank $@ minutes | after the collision. | Misinterpretation of sign: | the crash. Ren | The Welsh Prince was loaded with _ TODAY'S DEEP ONE eq _| !mber for the Orient, her destination | Winifred should have waited | peing Kobe and Yokohama. She wa until February 14, 1923, for her | i, charge of Pilot Captain Edward Valentino. Is whose experience on the extends over mor than A. R. Pierson, river pilot the Iowan in charge. In some man , neither Sullivan nor Pierson ng able to say how, their sign rossed,” and the Iowan » Welsh Prince, } of flappers in swimming iy. That's what makes the ‘waves wild. eee ‘There was a heavy @ee at Alki. eee ‘too ted that Jack Dempsey vel his soldier eee BULLY For HUGM at any near or @istant date."—Mayor Caldwell. ee “Parisian Models Wear Stockings Made of Rose.”—Fashion note. | My Robosier: | ° Walter ™ suggests cr fish with m to make t fous to bite * i 8 caused | wee Nivan, “Peggy Joyce is « nice little girl,” gays Jack Dempsey, Which matches Well Peggy's description of Jack, “He is only a great big boy Pa the ammonia. river years, ass eee became Could you call Flappers in swimming At Alké beach “Frozen Dainties’? .-* | twins. Trouble (ST FIR | FOG SHIP'S COUR | | The injured men for the most part : (Turn to Last Page, Column 2) De Valera ha ever come singly ‘TYEARS IN PEN FOR BOTTOMLEY | Anti-American “Convicted of Huge Theft | May 29.—Horatio Bot tomley, M. P., former editor of John |Bull, anti-American weekly, today was found guilty of appropriating to | his own use 105,000 pounds from | funds subseribed for war bonds and to seven years’ im ae CONTEMPT OF COURT | “Bigamy isn't such a serious | crime,” remarks Judge Boyd J. Taliman. Which makes one wo’ der why his hopor hasn't crime } committed the lesser of mairimony. Art Anderson, millionaire cartoon. | fat, draws sketch of a headless horse. man. You ink in a head and win a! Prize. Our idea of a headless horse man is any member of the city coun eit on horseback LONDON, o- But at that, the council taxes every thing but ite juds- pica cyt ndlcnd prisonment TCTION, 19% | The famous independent member Phere are women foir in every clime ‘of parliament must begin his prison Who have beaten men from time to| sentence at once. He gave notice he time ; | would appeal and asked that bail be But there is one in Seattle town fixed pending a bearing, but his ap. Who will run for mayor and beat} plication was refused Doc Brown As the proprietor of “John Bull,” Bottomley vented his hatred of all |things American and constantly at tacked Americans in London as well as deriding the United States govern {ment’s attitude during the war, During the war Bottomley, A. B.D. . Our idea of a gentleman is a man Who treats every girl like she wants to be treated. see If he aore that he } fs no genitlomea oe @ oe mong anized Victory bond club whereby small sub- seribers were to take ¢ neces with their inte it on government bonds in the hope of winning a rich prize. On September 18, 1919, and subse. | quent dates, it is charged Bottomley | converted nearly half a miliion dol- | lara of this money which was placed jin his hands by a trusting public, | lincluding, it happened, hundreds of | vs. Among other things, | countless other sehemes, or “tacoma raises $1,000,000 te build a new hotel,”—Newspaper. Thank heavens! hee tte Rodolph Valentino is in trouble be- | @iMie he miscalculated. He thought fis marriage license expired sooner @an it really did - gh AND A COUPLE ©: THY. OF in “Home three weeks before bh ¥ ROADSTERS EN | war wide WE it racing stable in Belgium with the | ney Bottomley, who Is 62 years of age, the wide of | has deen a to Last Page, Column 4) and larceny caves for years, | pituitary, lot m Glands Mary Possesses One. How It Changed Her. Up-to-the-Minute You Should Have One. By Margaret Rohe Mary had a little gland, An endecrine you know, And at the base of Mary's brain This gland was sure to grow. gland pituitary, a change you've made in Mary, Caused her actions all to vary . Now that Mary isn’t merry. «ee Have you a Iittle pitaicentrie tn Little What j your home? Or maybe it's an. in- tantilotd. Anyway, don’t tel me you are so tehind the times that you are still full of inhibitions, complexes, urges nd all the other psychoanalysis hat-you-may-callems. Oh, my dear, saly lethargic of yo ys amongst all us alert, up- to-the-minute egoists internal secre. the fullest things we're of. Repr desires, inferiority com: plexe 1 what not have all t chucked out into the cold world to make room for a clubby lit tle bunch of glands of internal se cretions or endocrines, We call them ail by their regular names, thyroid, adrenal, ronad—Jjust hke that I call it, ome of our very best little doctors responsible for this inside cult. Driven tions are ychoses too. pineal, thymus, some ne very neweat from Writing prescriptions to writ ing books by the high cost of living and the disgustingly healthy of their erstwhile t patien they are volumes that be turning out put us on an intimate footing with our internal secretions and internal glands, Wise doctor nothing #0 fancy as a authors, they know intrigues the popular close-up of its insides. leged the publisher started |Our innards are an open book to us| residence of Com after we shut the doctor's book, The perusal of a few chapters guarantees us a more thoro knowledge of the de- litigant in divorce, libel |partment of interior than even Seere-|the trip here writing his (Turn w Last Page, Column 4) (ITY SCHOOLS FACING CRISIS _ IN FINANCES! ‘$120,000 Must Be | Chopped Out of! Budget, Auditor Reveals By E. P. Chalcraft With a preliminary budget ew timate of $4,815,870 for the year 1922-23, the Seattle school board in its history, according to members of the beard and citi- zens who have been keeping tab on school exependitures, The total possible income from all sources for the coming school year ix $1,700,000, it is shown in a report made to the board by Auditor Lou Staude, In other words, between $115,- 000 and $120,000 must be lopped off the preliminary school budg- et by next October, when the final budget is to be adopted. The preliminary budget estimate | Were compiled by Staude from esti- | mates made by the heads of depart. | ments, who were asked to keep their | figures au low as possible, | Last year’s budget was $4,640,882, or $174,988 under the present pre liminary estimate. 4 SOURCE | OF REVENUE ¢ four sources of revenue | for the general school or mainten ce fund. From the state, according to Andi. | tor Strande, Seattle school district | No. 1 will recetve during the next year $1,400,000; from the county $700,000. A 10 per cent tax levy c & valuation of $240,000,000 will bri in $2,400,000; while miscellaneous | income, from lunch rooms, glass and book fines, and so on, will add an other $200,000, thu» bringing the to tal possible revenue to $4,700,000. In addition to the general or main tenance fund, which is taken care of in the general two other funds must be provided for | Bond interest payments of $471,000 | must be met during 1922-4 while bond redemption payments during} the same period will total $257,000. | MUST MEET BIG PAYMENT During 1923-1924 bond redemption payments of $702,000 must met Auditor Staude has recommended to | the board that in order to equalize levy for this purpose, the | bond redemption payments for the) two years be lumped and one-half the | total, or approximately $480,000, be | set aside each year | To this $480,000 for 1922-1923 must | added the interest payment of $471,800, or a total of approximately | $950,000 to be raised by tax levy in| ddition to the 10 mills for general} school purposes This, according to Auditor Staude’s estimate, would be practically four | mills, or a total of 14 mills, Last year the school levy was 13. budget But In any event the preliminary | budget must be chopped from $115,-{ 000 to $120,000 until it comes within the maximum income of $4,700,000. | President’s Party | Now at Annapolis | ANNAPOLIS, Md, May 29 President Harding and his party landed from the Mayflower shortly after noon today. So well had the| secret of the president's visit been | ‘Kept that not one of the thousands of visitors here for the army-navy baseball game was at the landing |when President Harding stepped | ashore, | | The Harding party went to the | dant Wilson for lunch, Later they will witness the | baseball game. Harding spent most of his tine on Lincoln sree to be delivered tomorrow, ‘CITY TO HONOR | m. | DAY, MAY 29, 1922 peg a FLYERS AND t Lieut. Odd Dahl (left) and |Sorer Syvertsen, engineer and | SOLDIER DEAD Parade to Be Feature of Tuesday’s Events Seattle will lay aside its work Tuesday to do honor to those men, living and dead, who h | offered their lives for their evan. | try on the field of battle, Mem al Day is a legal holiday but It is not in a holiday spirit that Seattle will observe the occasion. Banks, public offices and most sto will but the workers so} iberated will spend the day in solemn jam, rather than in merry king | PARADE TO | BE BIG EVENT > The principal event on the formal program for the day will be a great parade, in which the veterans of the | civil war, the Spanish-American war} and the world war, representing three, and even four generations, will participate. | There will also be special services in all the cemeteries, where honor will be paid the memory of those who not perish Tho city's Memorial Day obsery- (Turn to Last Page, Column 3) FOUR HELD AS JEWEL BANDITS Identification as Star Pay-| roll Bandits Fails Efforts were being made Monday by detectives to identify four men held in the city Jail as the robbers who bound and gagged Mr, and Mrs. D. Keith, in the Talcott apartments, | recently, Keith was robbed of $1,400 in diamonds James Madonna, 24, driver; J, D sino, 26, barber; O, M. Webb, salesman, and Leonard Vordell, 2 botlermaker, are the men held. They y arrested by Detectives J. Wace r and Tom Hayden, ly Sunday, at Third ave, and Spring} st, on suspicion of being the bandits | who robbed The Seattle Star of $4,400 April 29 Frank Webster, office manager, and Miss Wilma Mayer, cashier of The Star, failed to identify any of} |the quartet as members of the ban: | dit trio. A revolver found on the men was | said by police to have been borrowed by Madonna and loaned to his com pxnions, ~ The Seattle Star ‘Wash., ender the Act of Congress March §, 19 Por Year, by Mail, $5 to 69 RADIO MAN ON POLAR TRIP Lieut. Oskar Umdakt radio expert aboard the Maud. (right), Amundsen’s aviators. Below: —Photo by Price & Carter Star Staff Photographers Amundsen to Fly | Over World's Top on Historic Trip By Robert Bastien Bermann Peary was the first man to reach the top of the world. But Captain Roald Amundsen, the famous Norwegian ex plorer whose latest polar expedition leaves Seattle this week, plans to go his American rival one better. He will not only reach the top of the world, in all probability, but he will go over the top—thousands of feet over it. Amundsen, you see, will bé the first Arctic explorer in history to car airplanes will permit him to go at least a mile farther north than Peary could possibly have done—because, ob- viously, a plane soaring over the North Pole must be con- siderably farther north than the pole itself. To Oskar Umdahl, Keutenant | just as hard—and just as uncon. in the Norwegian navy, and Odd | cernediy—in a frozen and uncharted Dahl, lieutenant in the Norwegi- | sea as if his ship were safely tied an wrmy, will fall the honor of | up at the Lander st, dock—as it is piloting the planes on these | at present. epochal flights. Both are keen- G Olonkin, the chief engineer, ly conscious of the remarkable | outranks Syvertsen as far as the opportunity they have been giv- [engines are concerned. But the en, and it ts certain that no |radio set is Syvertsen’s own prop-| “ship” was ever more carefully | erty, unqualifiedly, piloted than will be the big all- hed bb ttle -o. Seenians metal plane and the littl, Curtis pride in it. Not because it’s the Oriole, which ndsen's ship, first apparatus of its kind to go the Maud, will carry. on such a trip or because it's Incidentally, Amundsen's aerial} of the most powerful sets plans introduce a brand-new type of er installed on any ship—but Arctic explorer, In the past such ex ist because it's a beautiful peditions as his have been confined piece of wireless machinery with to hard-bitten navigators and almost) whieh he can tinker to his anatical Dahl and heart's content, Umdah} could be classified as neither} ‘The set is not equipped to send | hard-bitten nor fanat x radio telephone messages, but it can, | Rather the » kind of men) Of course, r ive them, and Syvert found in aviation camps in} sen believes he will be able to listen France during the war, life-loving yet |i without difficulty on radio con- death.defying youths, ‘with an over-|Certs broadcasted from stations in wheiming desire for adventure. They| the United States, are Viking types, with the same blue| The principal use of the radio, light of enthusiasm in their eyes that | however, will of course be to send! sent their ancestors on no less daring | the daily results of scientific inves: | | tigation of the Norwegian govern: ment for use in weather forecasting and similar purpe scientists, et quests a thousand years ago, Another new type to be found aboard the Maud, due to the re markable modernity of the ex- pedition, is Soren Syvertsen, gineer and radio expert. Amund son is the first polar explorer to carry a radio set with him—and Soren Syvertsen, the man who will lay a barrage of dots and dashes from the polar basin, is just as much of on innovation on such a trip as is his ap. | At a meeting of the full committee paratus, today it was clearly indicated that} He is neither a selentist—in the | democratic members of the commit sense of seeking hidden data—nor a|tee would vote for the McCumber navigator; his sole interest lies in| Plan of paying the bonus with long: his big internal combustion engines|time certificates having a loan Senate Will Report on Soldier Bonus | WASHINGTON, May — The McCumber soldie bonus bill prob ably will be reported to the senate by the finance committee this week, airplanes into the frozen North. And these} | and in his powerful wireless set, A|value in preference to the Smoot 20- big man, both physically and men.’ year insurance plan with no loan pro. tally, one can imag! him werking vision, without bail in the county here in connection with the ing of A. A. Almour, t salesman, will know his ff within a month after Prosecuting Attorney Stiger was preparing first murder charges against today“and expects to bring oner to trial at the June : 90: 4 dxy—and ih superis ately afterward. Al Stevenson has ma tained his innocence from moment he was arrested day, Sheriff W. W. West de clares he has built up an a complete case of circ ta evidence against him. The link in the chain that has no yet been forged as a he would like it, West, is the motive. And on he has a very definite theory, — It wasn't robbery, of that mi West is certain, He believes trouble arose over either dope—and expects to be prove one or the other before trial begins. : West today established the that Stevenson and Almour seen together in the Liberty caf in East Stanwood on the mom ing of March 7—the day of mour’s disappearance — at o'clock, Stevenson says he on down to Seattle with Almour after that, but has been unable to produce a witness who saw the two together on the way, A coroner's jury impaneled day by Coroner N. B. death from wounds inflicted by blunt instrument in the hands of “@ person unknown.” SOLDIER SHOT, FOUR ARE HELD Police Are Dissatisfied With Story of Accident fe 7 Dissatisfied with the story of t ‘accidental” shooting of Ernest: Touchatt, 30, discharged Camp soldier, police Monday were three women and a man, members the party at which Touchatt was wounded. Touchatt was shot in the head at Arion Court. 1918 Minor ave, early Sunday, Mrs. Bertha Darragh, 27, who alleged to have held the pistol, her brother, Fred Kurr, 21, Miss . ine Sloan, 21, of Mydes Cotirt, and ‘ Miss Eva Harvey, 22, of 1824 18th © ave., are those held, es The story of the shooting, told By Mrs. Darragh, is that John F, Messer, a friend of Touchatt's, invited the” soldier to celebrate his discharge Sat urday, and invited guests, S Touchatt showed his army "pistol, and snapped it three times to that it wasn’t loaded. He gave it 4 Mrs. Darragh, and she pretended “shoot him,” at his own request, | ‘Vouchatt fell to the floor when. bullet glaneed from his skull lodged in the ceiling. His coi was critical Monday, the city pital reported, Negro Is Lynched by Georgian } JESSUP, Ga. May 29.—William Bird, negro, charged with the # der of B, W, Moody and the y ing of two other white men, was lynched by a mob at Brent near here, late yesterday, to reports today, Bird's body was bullets and later burned, — ETS ig i, -