The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 30, 1922, Page 1

OR WEATHER Tonight and Wednesday moderate easterly twinds FORECAST fair; MM Gyoune: 24. ‘NO. 81. is sanarie is Memorial day, and Seattle is join- ing with the rest of the country, in paying tribute to its hero dead. It is proper that this should be done. No man is so proud that he does not owe a debt of grati- tude to those who have perished that his coun- try might live. Yet, in a sense, there is little that we can do for our hero dead. They have long since passed to a reward beyond the gift of any human agency. And the honor that we do their mem- ories serves to exalt us more than them. But there are living heroes whom we can as- sist. Men, luckier—or unluckier-—than_ their comrades, who survived the perils of the battle- field and returned to take up the Battle of Life. Many of these—more’s the shame!—are in actual want of material assistance. All are in need of sympathy and understanding. All de- serve our grateful love. So, while we do honor to the dead today, do not let us forget the living. PIPPI On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise e Seattle Star | Katered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1890, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, sper, Nee O8'en etre eee Se Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 PAA AAA AAA AAA ‘WOMAN STABS MAN TO DEATH =< sles =a aoa SEATTLE, WASIH., TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1922. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Some of Seattle's Civil War Veterans to whom the city paid timely tribuie today. 1-—E. E. Blossom. 2—A, B. Knowl- ; ton. %—James Blenan. 4—H.W. Davis. 5—C. A. Langdon. 6—G.W. Lincoln. 7—A. B. Cooper. 8—B. W. Steinauer. 9—John Till. 10—H.N. Blakely. 11—A.M. Kent. 12—L.C. Hopkins, All are members of the committee having general charge of Memorial day exercises. HOME BREW Hail, fellow citizens! Remem- | ber the honored dead who fought and died for freedom—but don’t forget the living! | |GHARGE PATRIOT’ FRIEND OF JAPS' Urge Trefethen Be Dropped | Milk Deal Old Oaken » official song of the sociation is “The dora’ From 4th of July Body There is no law prohibiting us cae oer from honoring heroes before they are drink so much water Charging that D. B. Trefethen, chairman of the auxiliary com- mittee of the Independence day celebration, was the attorney for Mitsui & Co., alleged Japanese to get @ little milk see HOT WEATHER DITTY A thing I loathe Is a varnished chatr ; buried. ee | days and the kicking about ble Weather in this town will A few more warm hombre who has been the terr be saying s! doesn’t it Whene’er I rise | profiteers in United States ever rain in urg | My pants stick there. | airplanes, Miller Freeman, . +e | » publisher, demanded THE BULL FIGHT “Hundreds swim at Alki Beach To- | y that Trefethen be re- “Mayor Caldwell and Mayor-elect | day.”—Newspaper | d from the Fouth of July 4. Brown left ' Cleanup day? | commit | Montes on * two ho In a letter to the injer-Noble day inspection Roald Amundsen has appointed H.!post, American Legion, Freeman trip of the Skagit H. Hammer of Seattle an honorary | pointed out that the Japanese firm} project.” — News. member of his Polar basin expedition,| had been permitted to operate air paper. DING’ site io tha way we want.to po tol qiane and’ cheriical pinkie in‘ thel A stenographic the North pole an honorary mem-| United States during the war, and report of their conversation is print py¢ r, living in & tle. declared that they had stolen mil ¥ ed herewith, see | lions from the government on thelr # contracts | SPORTS GARMENTS | College club will give a | | We don't ca far north we go- how feral le Chats | At a meeting of the Legion post, “The of Groen Lake. |Miller read extracts of charges made sports clothes dinner - dance oe by Congressm: Woodruff in sup-} Thursday evening.” — Newspaper. We are not up in haberdashery, Amundsen is taking bon-bons and |port of his resolution to authorize an | | fudge on his trip tnto the Aretic. |investig m of the alleged wartime but our idea of a sport's clothes | wonder if he will carry any Polar | grafts in a pineh-back coat, lilaccolored | Caos? | A telegraphic resolution was socks and a b n derby, + ia ie te voted by the post, insisting that itis “Honeymoon Trail Leads Across} pple investigation be Malcolm Douglas threatens to pro-|¥rozen Waieta of Far North | . especially into the wartime ceed against the Seattle milk com-|Headline in esteemed afternoon con: vities of the Japanese money Dine. What for? Watering its stock? (Turn to Page 4, Column 6) (Turn to Page 4, Column 4) 2 —Photos by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers SOLDIERS OF 3 WARS IN PARADE | Thousands Watch Marchers Honor Past Comrades By Jack Hall Seattle veterans of three wars marched Tuesday to do th fallen comrades. or to The thousands of spectators who massed downtown _thoro- fares to watch the parade paid tribute to the living; but the marchers had thought only for the dead. And, tho those along the sidewalks did not know it, there reely a man in the Im 7 march who v was s not accompanied by his buddies ¢ leryear—a ghostly legion who bones have long since whitened « a dozen battlefield will ever be fr f their b thers-in-arma. y told me I wasn't strong enough to march this year,” one grizzled old civil war veteran told # sympathetic on-looker. “But I thought of my pal John- ny—Johnny, who never came back from Shiloh, Johnny’d ha’ marched if he'd here— never was nuthin’ Johnny wouldn't do. And if he could, I reekon I The crimson poppies of Manders (Turn to Page 4, Column 5) but whore hh in the em mem ory ory SPEED RECORD IS © MADE IN AUTO RACE Youngsters Leading Veterans CONFESSION ists BRED ‘BY JAPANESE- Lettuce Produced by Aliens Here Is Denounced as Health Menace SPOKANE, “May 30.—American health is menaced by lettuce grown by Japs in California and distributed at a loss to the grow- ers, which is made up by the dapanese government, according to evidence laid before the United States government by W. 8. Shearer, of Lewiston, idaho, Shearer, known an the “lettuce king,” has Just reached Spokane. When in Washington Shearer tn- terested George B. Christian, secre- tary to the president, and Henry C. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, in the matter. Medical authorities were also Interested in the reports and ad- mitted that a sudden increase in the prevalence of cancer of the stomach in America had puzzled | physicians, This may be traced to chemically fertilized lettuce, In the cultivation of lettuce for | human consu:nption it ts figured that |where the ume of fertilizer is neces jsary not more than 25 per cent of jthe total fertilizer should be of the | |chemical variety, the remaining per cent being stable or animal fer- tilizer. The reports indicate that in the culture of faulty lettuce, chemical fertilizer is used almost exclusively. Should the investigations now under way by the department of agricul ture confirm the reports made, the California Japanese lettuce industry will, in all probability, ceive disciplinary treatment. As a result of his investigations Shearer came to several conclu- sions, one of which was that the Japanese gardeners of California use nothing but the filthiest refuse as fertilizer in the produc. n of head lettuce—refuse that ms of human dis- re “The the investi |department of agriculture. whole nation should watch ation just started by the and mean all head let in the little j while examine carefully |tuce ‘the little brown spots the head lettuce grown by brown people’ sojourning m the cific,” said Shearer, Recent attempts to colonize J in southern Idaho have failed, Shear er reported, since widespread pub- licity was given the scheme. He charges that the Mormon 0 use the Japs to w beets for the chureh- owned sugar factories, but that the Japs refused to come north from the Los Angeles district un- id also raise lettuce. lettuce growers rose against the intrusion of the brown aliens and the whole plan has apparently been abandoned, 17 ALLEGED I. W. W. HELD ABERDI Wash., May | Seventeen men and two women were held in jail today on charges of syn dicalism, following a raid last night | om a hall here | The men and women to be members of the T are charged with laying further organization of the tion in this section of the state. or 20. are alleged W. W. and plans for Huge Hail Stones Fall in Colorado} GREELEY, Colo, May 30.—Dam- age to crops, estimated at more than | $100,000, was caused by a terrific hail | storm that swept this section late | yesterday The storm covered an ' n of 15 miles wide and 45 mile long, it was estimated, Hail as large as golf bails fell. stone ® Pa | aps | at Half-Way Forced Out SPEEDWAY, Indianapolis, May 30.—Jimmy Murphy led the field in the first 300 miles of the 500-mile sweepstakes here today, speedway officials announced, ‘They said the timing device had failed to function properly and had wrongfully shown Harts and De Paolo leading part of the time, This gave Murphy all the lap prize money up to that stage, see SPEEDWAY, Indianapolis, May 30.—A irio of youngsters fought for first place in the first half of the 500-mile automobile race here today, Lite Pete De Paolo, Harry Hartz and Jimmy Murphy mo- the first three ers almost as famous trailed be hind. Hartz was leading at the half- way mark, with Murphy second and Hearne third, | "The average speed for the dis- tance was 941.23 miles an hour, raising last year’s average of 95.52. The time was Murphy had won $3,200 in lap prin Hartz $850 and De Paolo $50. At 265 miles Harts had a lead of 1 minute and 25 seconds over Mur- | phy. At this stage of the race four cars) jhad been eliminated, They were: ix toox's * ) Pe uagot, stcrovtad ae Fr wiih Car Goes Off i Speedway Mark; De Paolo of Contest as Ungboe’s Deusenberg and Milton's Leach Spectal, D'Alene lost 42 minutes In the pit. Standing at 250 miles (half-way mark): Harts, Murphy, Hearne, Fetter lenth; De Palma, eighth; Wonderlich, jninth; Kiein tenth, Time, 3:39:11. Average speed, 04.23, Average last | year, 93.52. All indications were that past track records would go by the boards, The | average at 275 miles was 94.1 miles jan hour, against last, year’s average of 9118. Harts was still leading, | with Murphy second, Hearne third, | Hatbe fourth and De Paolo fifth. — | Jerry Schafer relieved Fetterman | at the wheel of a Deusenberg, and) Jules Ellingbos relieved Wonderlich in a Deusenberg. man, Mulford, Haibe, De Paclo-—sev-| f Wife Says at Influence Husband D Her to Slay Jealous of his influence her husband, Mrs. Vivian 31, stabbed Edward Brown, to death Monday night at Blakeley. She was in the Jail at Port Orchard while Ray Greenwood, ing attorney, was charges of first degree The killing took place De Paolo went out of the race on the 107th lap, after he and W. D.! Martin, driving for Joe Thomas, had | gone off the track on a back turn. | No one was hurt. Martin had re-| leved Thomas at the wheel of his Deusenberg. ARNEY OLDFIELD | PAC ES THE START | Barney Oldfield, ve race courses, paced the fleld tuto a/ flying start and Eddie Rickenbacker | waved the starting flag as Oldfield | pulled into the pits. | Jimmy Murphy, in a Murphy (Turn to Page 4, ¢ Column 2 | 1 ran of all! 5-TON EVIDENCE _ AGAINST SMALL | BY ROY GIBBONS WAUKE Tl, May 30. ‘Tho five tons of documentary evidence} must be considered by jurors in the trial here of Len Small, Illinols gov- ernor, both prosecution and defense| now are hopeful of bringing the speo-| | tacular court fight to a close early in | June, Small is charged with conspiracy to withhold and divert to his own) at on public) | uses $2,000,000 in int }funds, ‘The alleged conspiracy was | operated, says the prosecution, while Small was Llinois sta treasurer, | Techni points surrounding the disposition of more than $29,000, 000) in state funds are involved. | The mass of evidence consists largely of state documents and bank records, It is calculated to | prove—or to disprove THAT Small, together with Fred KE. Sterling (now lieutenant governor, indicted with Small) and Vernon Curtis, operated the Grant Park bank solely to re ceive deposits of public money, THAT the alleged conspirators pd these state deposits to mckers and others at VETS’ TR IS LAX, Bringing to a head a situation that enormous {has threatened for weeks to reach a crisis, world war veterans who are taking vocational training at. the University of Washington held al mass meeting in Philosophy hall Monday afternoon at which it was charged hat the United States Veter- ans’ bureau ix turning out stu- dents before they are fully quali- fied to compete with others in their profession, ‘That the courses are not given in proper sequence, That the federal supervisors are not available when most needed by tho students to seek advice, That in many instances the student is given no outline of what his course is to be, and is not notified in advance when he is to be dropped, so he ean plan accordingly, That the Veterans’ bureau fails to place trained men ¢ high rates of interest, and, after paying 2 per cent to the state, pocketed the remainder, THAT the Grant Park bank was not a legitimate banking in- stitution, but a blind to cover the alleged operations of Small and those accused with him, But the defense relies on the five! tons of evidence to establish: Ag mall is innocent of ulating state funds for his | | private benefit, | THAT the Grant Park bank | wns a legitimate institution, or- ganized under a now defunct law. HAT Small is the victim of an old system, growing from an | | unconstitutional law, requiring state officials to place public | funds in private institutions, mum interest rate, Lieut. Gov. Sterling will be tried in| ngamon county, where the indict-| its were returned. erling was state treasurer in 1919-20, He succeeded Small, As the case nears its end, both proseeution and defense say they're hopeful of victory. AINING | PROTEST in gainful jobs, as required by law, | where they can secure a maxt- me More than 100 vocational training jstudents were . while many| jothers of the in the university | {were said to be in attendance at NIZATION ‘ORMED dar! 1K. Reed, vocational student} in agcountancy, was electéd chair jman of the informal organization, |which has mapped out a program jand intends to fight for full consid- eration of each individual case, and to see that every man is given} jenough instruction to enable him. to |hold down a job in open competition |with others. Action was originally started by the Seattle chapter, Disabled Ameri can Veterans of the World War, who appointed a committee, headed by Fred W, Woodbridge, to investigate (Turn to Page 4, Column 6) | cers MAN HELD AFTER lumber steamer Russell moored alongside the steamer’ € cha, of which Brown was lenginerr. Mrs. Harde’s hi who is in jail with her, is chief € neer of the Colcha. According to Prosecutor G wood, Harde, Mrs. Harde and B had gone for an automobile ride day night, returning to the about 10 o'clock. Mrs. Harde is said to have been drinking, and was She wished to retire, and her husband to come with her to their stateroom. They quar . reled, and Harde returned Sith é Browh to the Haverside, where they were conversing in the — captain’s cabin. aa Mrs. Harde seized a bread knife, and, raging with anger, entered the little cabin, ieee Was nearest the door, and he rose as she came in, knife in — hand, Without waiting for words, Mrs. Harde is alleged to have plunged the blade into Brown's breast. He fell to the deck and died shortly after, ee Deputy Sheriff Peter Murray as i the woman under arrest, and took oft. Ea her to Port Orchard. She told ‘ and refused further explana that “I was jealous of war tion, : The stabbing occurred in the pres ence of her husband and the cap tain of the Russell Haverside, STILL EXPLODES — Prisoner Is ‘Captured While | Fighting Flames Routed from bed by the explosion of a huge still on the second floor of his home, 1630 First ave W., early Tuesday, Lou Hein, 21, engineer, to gether with his wife, battled the © flames that immediately swept thru the upper floor. Y Neighbors turned in a fire alarm, Hose Co, 24 and Engine Co, 6, in charge of a battalion fire chief am 4 rived on the scene, and after a brief struggle held Hein and his wife un til Patrolmen E. E. Darnell and Re R. Moulton arrived. ‘The fire was extinguished, after it had burned about the edge of a huge hole blown thru the roof by the explosion, Hein was held on an open charge © in city jail, His wife was not am reste Dry squad officers took — charge of the still, ‘The fire loss was. nominal, BANDITS ROB POST OFFICE TRINIDAD, Colo,, May $0.—Three pouches of mail containing $48,000 in Liberty bonds, $8,000 in cash and about 8,000 letters were stolen from {the Santa Fe station here, May 21, Jit was learned today, Postoffice inspectors and detectives — have been working on the case since — that time, and no announcement was made of the theft until today, Tho pouches contained mail from. California and Arizona,