The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 31, 1922, Page 1

px § Tonight and Taursday, fair ; erate wi easterly. Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 88. FOREST FIRE DOOMS TOWN 100 ARE CUT OFF AT CEDAR FALLS On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Entered as Second Clase Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle Wash. ender the Act of Congress March 8, 1879, Per Year, by Mail, $6 to '$47,000,000 Gain to Yearly, Declares Dr. Brown By Jack Hall “Seattle's greatest single as sett” » We haven't had much canoe since we got mar- eee mearty got Ms goat, He couldn't sleep at night, Bolled down, this is Mayor. [to sneak her summer fcr out of the f "TW he got a jod as watchman, elect E. J. Brown's Judgment on | icebox, the thoughts of many other And now he sleeps all right. the city’s big hydro-electric pro} | wise well-balanced Seattleites will ee ect on the Skagit. turn to that great and 100 per cent HURRAR! With Mayor Caldwell and Chiet| American debauch-—the family pic 3 Rath | Eosineer C. F. Uhden, Brown "pent | nic, One homer that Habe three days studying the new power a knocked is Homer G. Br prong ye mudying the new pows: ao iggy week-end Memorial day 9 ne Nee ROae ole. ears Wednesday morning, as he in-/ ‘he picnic is one of the oldest of spected one of his thorobred mares Ses two years declared that the develop- ment of the Skagit assures the in dustrial development of the Puget Several members of Amundsen's | sound country. polar expedi wil not see their “When the project is fully de wives for seven years. veloped,” he said, “it could make nae 0 sae pepe ecto seat ee Imagine attle home owners, Seaitie eooped une ees dustries and Seattle’s great pub- co re a 004 licly-owned utilities. Brown paused as he lifted the hind hoof of the mare. “The Skagit,” he went on, “is go ing to make Seattle a center of in SPORADIC ONLY “Payday is a disease,” says & dustry by selling cheaper power. It Seattle lecturer. means, in fact, that we will be able Weill, it never got chronic with [15 subsidize business ! us. oe Brown declared himself satisfied with the progress being made on the WiMie Kamm, San Francisco third | Skagit baseman, is sold to the Chicago White| “Day and night shifts are now Sox for $100,000. at work on the two-mile tunnet Yes, yes, we know Milton only re-| that is being driven thru the ceived $25 for writing “Paradise! solid rock; the upper end of the Lost.” but who wants to read poetry! 20-mile supply rail has been electrified; « 3,000-horsepower when they can go to the ball game?/ yas | plant has been built and is fur- Wiille Kamm gets a lotta dough | nishing power for all the work.” for having a strong right arm, but| High praise was given by the Wally Reid gets more for having @ mayor-elect to Mayor Caldwell and pair of beautiful eyebrows. Engineer Uhden. ee. “Praise where praise is due,” he Under the swinging street car strap/ said. “If it had not been for these The old maid stands and stands; two men, work on the Skagit would And stands and stands and stands )have been suspended last year. Then and stands, ‘the enemies of the project would And stands and stands and stands.'hnave been able to psychologize the Se / believing that the plan and it would have been the project was re- people into was a failure. 25 years before a fly we Government scientist says lays 5,000,000,000 eggs an hour. a demand a recount. sumed ae | Brown declared that if the people RED-HOT KISS lof Seattle would visit the Skagit, (Our Big New Summer Novel) | opposition to the project would auto CHAPTER 1 matically die It seemed to Jane and John that| “They would realize the tremerd ous value of this proper which they had known each other always they have acquired,” he ‘One glimpse of the « gantic flood of wa know that it poeseases the potential CHAPTER dune had come again—the lush flowers and lawns, and ever all the eee een en ee nis the musk roses blooming darkly in the eee eee eit the towns on Puget a gr sam ag paee al Syy mye “The Skagit, full-developed, fo vad om hee rue te creme could pay the taxes of the whole the stars shone down pessionately.| %* Sesttle.” he sald. ‘Thru the misty shadows wandered dare and John, lovers, cheek by jowt a they needs of CHAPTER It “And you no longer love me?”! hissed the poy, his face working spasmodically. | “Lave you, you silly boy?” Clank, clank, elank. Her silvery laughter lilted into the night, tinkled as far as the garage, and stopped dear | “Mad Man” Defies Pursuers and Escapes From Hotel | “Fanugh!” shouted the boy, his face | working once mor LINCOLN, Neb, May 31.—Frea He turned away. | Brown, ex-convict and so-called CHAPTER IV |“madman,” who kept two women A tiny bubble rose to the surface | Chained in an old shack in Om of the river as the sun mounted “YS and assaulted them, 1 quietly, even sadly, above Mercer | Played with his many pursuers yes Island. | terday and last night in Lincoln. room on a main thorofare It looked about wearily, winked a} moment and exploded almost. noise. 2° lessly. | below, with J So passed all that was mortal of | the roe dohn. with two # As for Jane, she married, had twing| | Warlier 4 he succeeded tn and died at the ripe old age of 95 of | drawing $300 from the First National infantile paralysis. | bank, where he had it on deposit ee ed Ryan about 10 p. n Ryan, oceupant of threatening him it's rotten nd slipped into the street, The re all #um- earch immediate followt failed cae to locate him, He was still at large at 9 a, m, today. |All Liberty Bonds Are Quoted at Par | NEW YORK, 31.—During | trading today on the New York bond market, all of the Liberty bond issues | touched par. hence; | uched par: mse. | EK, TH’ OFFICE SEZ Before a man's married to the Only girl, the door mat says fterwards it says —a ee Off Your Feet* Mary Snooks has gone Synthetic gin is not CORSET WEEK IN ARI “tine Ferbe Lawe baw (Turn to Page 2, days of three, 80 mrembers of Watson Ges vie family from three counties, hold re union in Christian church, CENTRALIA.—Celebrating — birth | Come to City) “What will the 1922 bathing girl/at the Sullivan stables, the man wholeveryone a ¢ wear?” asks a fashion expert in The) is to be Seattle's mayor for the next lof the house, Or out of humor. } Picnics! Have You Fallen? Grouch Did. He Tells Tale. Read It, Weep. By the Office Crab Now that the dandelions, bad habits. hance to get out. Probably both. alfalfa bean bonnets and birds who want to borrow baseball passes are in bloom jand the festive flapper almost ready In fact, a good many did fal| urer has taken in $173,570. It is suposed to afford Out | Children, of course, love a picnic. Just like sorghfin on their oysters. Among the reasons children love pic nics are: - do not have to pre perv tp noak tr pam Silos 2. They do not have to pay cartare. the 3% They do not have to buy clothes that usually are 4, They do not have to yell at anyone to “keep away from that water before you fall in,” or “didn't I tell you not to go near that?” . 5. do not have to take the blame if the weather turns out rotten. 6. They always get the most of what there is it. 5 The average picnic victim chooses Sunday for his carousel, Thus ma ing the day of rest the day of rest-/ k-} }lessness. To get ready for the affair HOLDS MOBAT BAY WITH GUN! he must stay night cutting up most of Saturde sandwiches and hi thumbs, and attempting to pack a| twogalion feed, a flock of paper) dishes, a leaky coffeepot, an unneces. sary tablecloth and a battalion of/ cups in a one-quart basket. SO AT LAST THE EXPEDITION MOVES Up on Sunday morning he mu arise ahead of famous bird th grabs off the well-known worm. I has had less sleep than a cable or has trolleys and he feels blind man at the ae hap an Passi Show.” But sisted than th the better fivesixths has { nan rly start and in le hours #he is all set to @ having packed and repacked th lunch basket only 17 times, change dresses twic nd ma starts from the family castle When be gets up there won't be ad in the sky, but by the time P the curline the weathe uncertain that th of @ cream puff in a ¢ more The car he takes will be crowde (Turn to Page 2, Column 4) Slayer of Aimee ay is wt at {e ar n- ae 0. ie four false ne J. Due to Face Court EVERETT, May 31 Donald Stevenson, self-confessed slayer of A. A. Almour, Senttle man, was due to be arraigned today on charges of first degree murder, Despite his confexsio riff W. W. West is till working on the case, as he be lieves Stevenson has not revealed everything. Stevenson asserts that he killed Almour in the heat of an argument, but both Weat and Deputy Prosecutor Kaune are inclined to be eve there is a woman in the case. CHEER UP! WORST IS YET TO COME! Cheer up! ‘The worst is yet to come. Dr. George head of the 1 bureau, an nounced Wednesday that the end of the yet in sight and that, getting it may hotter, The Salisbury, loc weather present torrid wave ia not instead of cooler get even temperature was 78—and rising, with every indication that it would reach Tuesday's high level of 88 and possibly 90, If it does, it will be the hottest May day since 1912 and the hottest day of any kind since ‘16 The pall of smoke from nearby at 11 a. m reach forest fires adds to the discom fort from the heat, making the atmosphere feel more humid than it actually is SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1922. COLLECTIONS ON POLL TAX | Bills Will Become! Delinquent in a. Day; Opposition Balks Revenue That poll tax collections this year will be much leas than last year was declared by County Treasurer William Gaines, after checking up results Wednesday. The poll tax bs delinquent Thursday, dune 1. To date thle year 34,715 poll taxes have been paid. The county trees | noena On comp! effect: took after minis’ Collections so far this year, accord ing to Gaines, are rynning one-third behind collections last year, when la total of $700,000 was taken in. Gaines attributes the poor showing |this year to the general sentiment against the poll tax, and also to the fact that many employers are wait- ing until the last day to pay the poll tax for their employes. Thousands of poll tax statements, Gaines myn, have been returned by | the posteffice department, undeliy: | ered. | sleep. My with sition. pall tax delinquents. time he ‘will have another large list of those who have not paid the $5 head tax. ‘The shetift js empowered to seize) personal property to satixfy the tax. (MAN IS SHOT BY ' BANDITS; DYING | j 80 suppl | body. | Fired On Unwarned; Robbed | of $1,100 Cash Shot without warning as he passed an alleyway near the Mel- horn building, at Second ave. and Marion st., and dragged Into the darkened roadway, James Gor- don, 50, of Logansport, Ind., was sensal nade while PATIENT SEES HIS CHICAGO, May 31,-~I had been discharged from the navy as a) hopeless Invalid because of an ab- had undergone ether, Then Dr. Nelson H. ing table at the Illinois Masonic hoapital. Nerve block anesthesia was a tire left side around the region of | the lung seemed to have gone to the doctor remove seven of my riba ag 1 lay in a half-sitting po- Then with his knife the doctor | worked seemed, around the abscess. It was fun to watch my heart throb. I even reached over and Nerve block, the doctor told me, is tke @ local shutdown on & great electrical elrouit. Years ago when there was a break in the Ii to close the whole power plant. Now they merely plug out the affected part and the rest of the mechaniam continues to function. | method of shutting off the nerve In this blocked atea there ts no tioning as usual, Women Meet Today OWN HEART BEATING AS DOCTOR OPERATES BY OTTO THOME ‘on the left lung, three previous occasions I operations with none of which could be | leted because cf the —— fe Lowry | me under his care and soon I was placed on an operat} a] tered to me and soon my en-| | Bend, forest ‘reach mind was clear and I joked, the nurses while I watched | in my heart, #o it) opening all the walla) bss engineers had | ] surgeons have perfected a ly for an affected part of the tion, and any repair can be were without pain or discomfort, the rest of the body is func Otto Thome, who watched sur- geons lay his heart bare. robbed of $1,100 cash by two bandits shortly after midnight rf e or on Big Club House Two taxi drivers, J. A. Holmes, Reynolds hotel, and M. F. Hincky,| | 0 Eighth ave. heard a shot i) By Aileen Claire A number of downtown sites have {ran to the scene, They found Gordon | been offered the organization and| of a unconscious, lying a blood pool, while | , Seattle women representing 17 [11 oe them will ba considered at} jh different organizations will meet RESCUE PARTI RUSH TO AID 0 MENACED WOM Man Killed, One Escapes Death in The village of Cedar Falls, seven miles south to word received Wednesday afternoon. Most of the people of Cedar Falls are womem and Under skies blood red with flame and forest citizens of Snoqualmie caravans and available vehi: seems imminent. While fighting a raging forest fire that is woods at the rate of 20 miles an hour near Sti Cherry Valley, Wednesday, Leo McDonald, 25, a loader employed by the Cherry Valley Lumber Co., at 3, was almost instantly killed when a fire-eaten snag | the tank car he was working on, crushing him, McDonald and two other men was equipped with « hose, to play a stream of water right-of-way. Blinded by dene clouds of smoke that rolled thru the woods, ang suffering from the intense heat, they did not see the snag when it snapped. McDonald's body was extricat- ed with difficulty and is now be- ing taken to Seattle. According to word received Cherry Valley Lumber Co. is fac- | ing destruction, and unless help | is received immediately, the force TWO CENTS IN SEA’ aa # a. tle With Flames; Blaze Hits - Four Counties ,,; By S. B. Groff ~ near Seattle, is almost entirely isolated by a & fire, and rescue parties hastened from North E 100 persons marooned in the doomed town, were fran Satins eutne Se errs is destruction of all logging property in thi ib the smoke. using the tank car, which along the springs Motorists from the insula are reporting vi fires, none of them of portions. Joy declared that there danger at the present time te ing timber, as the rangers too damp ‘to burn in the wooded districts. Each day of d weather adds tremendously to fire hazard, however, . Trails are being cut in the ti oe the entire plant of the few hundred loggers, ¢x- ied by their long fight with beside him lay a revolver and | today’s meeting, altho it is probable| the on-rushing conflagration, will | for emergency use, Joy sald, Marche at 3:30 this / ' hia empty pocketbook eae ene ie defiuite, |that no definite decision will be| be forced to give-up the fight, additional fire patrols are Gordon was rushed to the city hos- | mr sage hed mectlon uta down, jreached as yet. signet formed rapidly. Sept eg oy ki sides I Rig, town “all-women’s” clubhouse in Se With hundreds of thousands of} “May has been exceptionally dry, aie. Gaines Wik hinkndaantis wanes | ee 13 B OONS dollars in timber, logging camps, ma- (Turn to Page 2, Column 2) sip ie a iy sexgooncp rag . ALL homes wiped out by - had glanced © condition is} Thasmuch as no stock nas yet been | chinery and wan eh Ee condition ta id ta, the eemeoiation, 6 perne-| |fire, and millions of feet of standing | — — ’ | | ved by slashing fires Sith reget hn senna tw te rsaeg torte} READY TO GO |imine genet saan ar hours after the whooting and told the |yet, but a constitution and by-laws yAUKEE : : ; : " : Police he had attended & theater duc. {will be presented and preliminary| , MILWAUKEE, May 31.—A steady tle, state forest rangers ewere ’ offi clected. Mrs. Henry Landes, | W"pour of rain fell here today as |rushing to the danger points Wednes- ] | ing the evening. As he was on his “vn ane élect, is expected to| 24 balloons made ready to get away | day, ‘ Mirus Paani os Re eg Dye 2 be chosen as chairman and Miss|'" the national annual race One man has narrowly escaped bs gels to look over some oll property, |Josephine Splelbauer as secrets Wind was from the southwest, in-|/death by fire, it was learned today. | — ¥ he was shot from behind. He did |The rest of the slate probably will | dicating a northeast course into Can. | Sam Werkala, part owner of tne | 2,000 Acres Pine Timber . v7 : . da Green River Lumber company, & £ not see his assailants, Hincky and|be chosen from among women who | "4 ~ ; . i Hajmes saw the men running thru|were active in Mrs, Landes’ cam-| The first three winning pilots will|Eagle Gorge, while fighting a toe Are Burning the alley as they came to Gordon's |paign for the council, |be chosen to represent the United |that destroyed the camp: awn PORTLAND, May 31.—Fire rescue. | One of the principal features of| States in the international balloon /8Nd slashings, was ov os : bY | the countryside near Corbett, a Police were conducting a city-wide the meeting will be an address by |Taces to be held in Switzerland, Au-|"moke. At the risk of their lives two| town 20 miles east of here, on search Wednesday, hoping to find|m. B. Cox, of the Washington State | Mutual Savings bank, who will tell | gust 6 flames the thugs. Inflation of the bags will be com-| PRO TRIN AN the women the whys and wherefores pleted just before the first balloon is At lof profit-sharing bonds, by which the | sent on its journey, at 8:30 p. m. Menge AMERICANS IN |new clubhouse will be financed, ae-| Pilots agreed they would rise more the "RUSSIA KILLED lcording to present plans, | than 5,000 feet, in order to avoid the} fim The constitution and by-laws will | Tain clouds, ana be pr od by a committee headed + a ie — of his men rescued Werkala as the dragged him to safety. nesday to he spreading under a Lamber Co. Columbia river, this morning, _ eral farm houses, a number of and scores of livestock were sumed, Practically every a) man within a radius of 10 miles the town was out fighting the which are sweeping before a east wind over a district as dry tinder from a succession of hot, licked about his body, and the Green River Co. fire, larhes were reported Wed- east wind, and are men- the property of the Page Hundreds of men by Meee acd alone tte constitu: Peace Waits on Russ | are battling the fire, which has | gays, |tion was modeled along line | been raging since Sunday morn- |" ja desta } age - e ports from Central © : Ito thone used by the. Senet club) Problem, Says Borah) ing, when a slashing fire got be- | stated the fir~ south of Bend Robbers Wreck Relief Ad- a ne snatitations of these organi-| WASHINGTON, May 31—Policles| Yond control. swept thru 2.00 acres: te aaa | tr . , fhe constitutions Si o phe: ee See - FP s vis W. G. Weigle, of un ol ministration Train mations have been pronounced ideal| now belng followed by the govern-| ,, Forest Supervisor vith saben. an by May #1 LONDON. Several Ameri. | Ject, leading nd the best features of each ments of Europe will lead to war or to the imposition of conditions on the masses almost as bad as war, Senator authorities on the sub | ranger, the Snoqualmie national forest, re- | ceived a request from H. F. Rabine, | with rangers, loggers and battling the blaze on a wide fi He) Warm weather ecxtinued for several more men, can feltet Administration oftloiale Ua ee ee for, the 20" | sorah declared in the senate tohay, | Ceecribed ths wituation near Eagle with forecasts - talk sla tussia were killed when robbers de- | Seattle 0’ ration. Russia, Borah said, is the key to a| Gorge as “very serious.” From Central Oregon the railed, wrecked and looted an Ameri-| a bry gg Picdoaralgytg réstored Murahe; and there canbe sa Fires were reported bale ea Hixon Logging Co. reported |can relief administration food train] already pledg 10 oh of [Peace and disarmament in Burope day from Whatcom, King, Pierce [two Lidgerwood high line magi in Northern Caucasia, according toa! take at least one hae oo. 4 until the Russian problem is settled,| and Skagit counties. At @ trainioad of logs, an engine Moscow dispatch received ] stock in the sesociation 9s |"There will be no return of prosperity | ¢law a slashing fire got beyond | several cars, and the comet via Copenhagen. many more pledges are expect |in America until Kurope ix back at| control, and is sweeping the | of two logging camps, ‘eral, : ici ialeiathe ed ‘ be obtained at today’s | Wo ho wuld. district, The fire, had setroped were reported to be raging 1m meeting. a a farm house arn, accord: | vicinity. . Refuse to Quash Arrangements wil be mado | 7 Found paegetagitues ong sy acnern “Waste Morse Indictments| Sription'iste at 2 mmber of [os Sence © un Poatiph mightrwgkintgiietinay pions stmt : almos! heir hreatening Valuable ore ul WASHINGTON, May 31.—Chiet| downtown locations to give Cause of Drowning] high wind took a slashing blaze out {the Columbia river, Justice McCoy, of the supreme court; Women not reached by workers Rennie Stewart, %, who was|of the control of loggers, burning] In British Columbia fires | of the District of Columbia, today; ® Chance to buy stock in the | drowned sunday at the Hanford st. | trestles, mill and machinery, day along a three-mile front overruled all motions to quash the in-| association. The promoters of | pier, came to his death “by his con.| The dense pall of smoke that has/ north shore of the Skeena riv itu in the case of Charles W.| the association emphasize the | triputory negligence in going aboard | settled over Seattle for the past few | in various districts between H Morse and others in connection with| fact that this is to be, literally, | the steamer Pleiades,” according to a|days was declared by G. C. Joy, of/and Quesnel, according to rges of graft in dealing with the; am “all-women’s” organization, roner's jury Wednesday. ‘The of.|the Washington Forest Fire Associ-| from Prince Rupert. Hazelton i United States shipping board. and that the shop girl or sten- ficers of the boat wers scored for neg-| ation, to be coming from slashing | off from telegraphie commun tie | United States District Attorney| ographer will be Just as wel- /|ligence in leaving the oked plank| fires at North Bend and Cedar Falls./and with the fire burning on t {Gordon announced he would bring} come as the most prominent |in position where Stewart broke|A blaze raging at Tokul creek, near | sides of the tawn, considerable da ithe cases to trial a# soon as possible, society woman or club leader, ‘thru, Seattle, iy also furnishing some of age there ls feared, . '