The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 5, 1922, Page 1

% to clean ivory. WEATHER Tonight and Tuesday. fair; moderate westerly winds. ‘Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, Minimum, 51. Today noon, 58, => ‘She D * * Stage Man Falls VOLUME 24. NO. 86. (Copyright, 1922, by The Seattle Star) ‘We hope he finds it more comfort- able than a dentist's chair. see At last Caldwell has done some- thing that pleases the city council —he has quit, . . Amundsen is making a dash fer the North Pole. Now we will make a dash for the Captain Amundsen sailed for the North Pole Sunday. Guess he wants to cool off. eee He'll be gone seven years, but he an't escape his poll tax that way. eee Dear Homer: Have you noticed tha Rew Dellding of the Seattic National Rank at Second and Columbia? Some- | said that “Architecture is The feller that designed building must have intended to freeze into ‘one and marble the old hymn, “Hark, from the tomb a doleful sound grates harshly on the ear.” | her his bride. Sincerely, iS Se | 1 cee | “She danced her way right tnto| CANDIDATES FOR THE POISON | the hearts of her audience.” | IVY CLUB | That's what the dramatic critics said of her whon Helen Johnson ap-| | peared at the Moore theater a couple lof months ago with Pat Rooney in| j“Rings of Smoke.” ‘Thp bimbo who takes two hours to tell you how he con- structed his receiving set for 35 cents. After listening thru it, you wonder why it cost that much, | Dramatic critics are overprone to| use the superlative—but for once, at| jleast, they were right. As far ax| Hoot Gibson, movie cowboy, was con cerned, at any rate. | Hoot was in Seattle at the same time, appearing in person at the| Columbia theater. Between reels be | If Mra Leed# was misled, was Mrs. Stillman misguided? oe. If Doe Brown succeeds In reducing street car fares to five cents we will school was anced Her Way Into Hoot’s Heart Hoct Gibson, movie cowboy, and his bride, Helen Johnson, whom he saw perform at the Moore theater in Seattle and followed to San Francisco in a successful effort to make | ward to shake 4800 City Pupils | Are Above Normal By E. P. Chalcraft | With 24,000 intelligence test score sheets pouring into school headquar Monday, the first step toward). | reclannification The scores ¥ On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, JUNE Mntered as Second Class Matter May %, 1899, at the Postoffice at Geattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 2, 1879, 5, 1922. Per Your, by Mall, $5 to $9 The Newspaper With a 15,000 Circulation Lead Over Its Neares The Seattle Star for Stage Girl’s Art | | fleal defect has beon attended to, the! pupil is able to carry on hix normal | The general inte leattic schools waa worked out by} rch bureau of the Univer It consists of seven lems, with igence used in| grade | mity of Liline sets of questions And 5 mnplisty not be worked over ac je to smoke a nickel cigar ever: or figures prepared ush of ate ate posier ee 7 | dropped in at the Moore, just in time | 2°F Meures prepared until the rush of) 241) directions and worked out ex ning after dinner. | ity gn aie Sohnaen other work incidental to the @p-| crises preceding each set | ‘There shiony | PD of vacation t ever. The principal of each grade school statistics to he danced into at| are no Subscriber asks Cynthia Grey how how many heart. Why doesn’t he try shampoo? jthat performance, but one thing is} pe ae TE j certain, she waltzed straight into the} A DRY SOUND? |palpitating bosom of the movie| SOUND? oat | We have just made a radio set | “°\0" sane oe ye mgs by But all |e was so smitten with her that | the music that we can get lea | WOT she left with the rest of her jact for San Francisco he found sound like an Adam it} ing up and down. apple leap | handy to hit a Southern trail, too Once in the California metropolis | jhe easily arranged an introduction |and dispatches from the South today | class.” . If you want to know what grand. ad smoked look in any First ave. told of the marriage of the couple. | . te : who have gutter. Sik } “When I saw her in Seattle,” Hoot | “4 in quoted as saying, * jed right It’s easy to reduce your weight, Without a hunger strike; ‘there that I wanted her to dance in| my kitehen for the rest of our lives. | “But,” says Mixs Nellie Good- hue, head of the child stady lab- oratory, “from the results else where we know that out of every 100 pupils 20 will be shown above normal, 20 will fall below norm: while 60 will register normal in- telligence—and lucky is the boy or girl who falls into the latter This would mean, then, that of the 24,000 children from the Third to the Eighth grades, i test, 14,400 will be rated as of av- erage normal 4,800 will rate above and an equal number below. and one teacher were given the test themselven, just as the children were | (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) 1 ALARMS RUSSIA taken this intelligence | Dictator Is Worse After) Stroke; Envoys Return | - - | while | } | | | | | | } | | mentality, } Just put a tapeworm on the job, | and I didn’t quit till I had her| ‘phe filinois neral intelligence|. BR BLIN, June Premier And then cat all yous like | jassooed and hog.tied.” Gast ts etias to dune ntelligence | renin, who suffered a severe stroke Hiean soldiers in rted today in dis the training camps . ot be wise hee n who lets ~ during the world war, but worked er gel: - Moscow to be “some. ae eee | over and revamped to fit the require | ee viet envoys Litvinoff and Radek +2. @ | sd gh ey at ‘ how the| here negoti extension of the “A BAT! j | y general intellicones and men, treaty of Rapallo, have been urgent | tendent F mhatns | mediately to Moscow. They declared inde léttia happens that's chia We & ed | thelr belief that Lenine was serious- nen we . ‘ iy Hen ghee «tide oe y ill, are thorety .¢ . 8. Cunning \Both Sides Planning for | to high or too low, This tent will) | ham, funeral director and embiamer— | “ show that fact, and will assist in bet | eo rie are ere j Hearing ter classification of pupiis. |SM. Al I TRIAL Home Brew is a drip from the old — i Pw ne ig a | bock. EVERETT, June Roth sides cag 2 he vga vate od pene | tion of the o- were making final plans today for the hearing to be held here, begin ning at 10 tomorrow morning, by the The United States mint is going to taxpaye coin 100,000 Hayes half dollars. — Who i ayes? Didn't you/|state board of public works to decide } ever hear of him? He's the man who; Whether the Puget Sound Telephone filled Samuel Tilden’s term as|company be permitted to continue president. the use of the telechronometer. mester alread. oo | Phone company officials are elated | “Please say that my relationship over the fact that bills for the second | with Jack Dempsey was both noble month's trial of metered phone serv: | children, a substantial financial saving to the | “Suppose o each school classify high enough to warrant placing them one se- That represents a gain of one-half year, or, at the cost of $77 per year per but will mean| NEARING EN WAUK lil, June 6.—The k will conclude evi ainst Gov, Len Small, prose |cutors said today | | According to C. C. counsel for Small, charged with con xpiracy to embezzle state funds, it| | will take the defense three weeks to | present witnesses | The testimony this week, the| ly 20 children in Le Forge, cbiet | , a saving of and sweet. dack ice were considerably lower, in many | Dempsey was instances, than under the old sys-| Tho results of the general intel-| state's attorneys claimed, will link never anything tom | gence test are not considered final,| Small up more closely with alleged | but a dear friend. 44 Opponents of the telechronometer, | but are taken as one of a number| transactions with Edward and Verne dack Dompsey however, pointed out that this was tors in determining the proper| Curtis, Grant Park bankers. has a white soul.” due entirely to a radical reduction of | ring of the school child. | Leslie Small, newspaper publisher | Peggy doye rates, and declared that, if the tele-| Often a boy or a girl of 9 willland non of the governor, has been quoted in the W ington Times, jchronometer is allowed to stay the|*core an intelligen quotient, or| called by the state as a witness. | ae aR 3 [phone company will soon boost rates|I. Q, as it is called, equal to the - | Seattle man tries to shoot himself |again. |average child of 12 or 13. | ICES | thru head, but fails. Sure, st'e alt) ——— nie j 4 “Tis does rot always mean that GAS PR. nt, but it's a dern bad habit, . it Is best to place « @ pupil teas |Big Steel Merger | edie, ok we ahaea™ as UNDER PROBE “Osteopaths Get Rough Treat- * yodhue, “But often such Bb es Pg | scat? Mgaitiinn, ‘ion, apie i tate} Subject to Probe | nee can be made to advan | WASHINGTON, June 5.—Tho sen- play. | WASHINGTON, June 6.—The fed-| similarly, just because a child falls| te today cleared the way for an in-| mat ed jeral trade commission today struck | pelow the averuge for bis age in tho| vestigation of the high price of gaso: | ow that the hot weather is here|at the big Bethlehem-Lackawanna | intelligence test does rot necessarily | line by conferring additional powers we won't have to move the coal out | steel merger lmean that he is graded too high.|on the senate manufacturers’ com. | of the bathtub every Saturday night.| Charging that the merger, when! He may be carrying too advanced | mittee. —Ballard High School Talisman, | consummated, will violate anti-trust | work, It is true, Dut perhaps hix| An amendment was adopted to the | €:0 9 |laws and “contain dangerous | health, his eyedaht or hit hearng| McKellar investigating resolution re- | POEMS OF PASSION |tendency unduly to hinder competi-|ig the cause. We put euch pupils|cently passed giving the committee | “Whore little petty lamby are 0000%" |tion,” the commission issued alin the observation class to deter-| power to subpoena witnesses and pay “Aw, get over on your own side of|formal complaint against the two|mine tho exact causes of his diffi-!for having a record of the hearings $he cancel” ~, vompanies, , ws! culty, Many Umes when a phys ade, | who nature jnatu {announced her JUDGE FREES VALENTINO IN BIGAMY CASE! Court Rules Law Unconstitutional) and Orders Ac- tor Released. LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 5. —Hedoilph Valentine walked from Justice Hanby's court room today free from the taint of big- amy charge. dustice Hanby In his decision in discharging the case against Valentino declared that no proof of cohabitation in this state has been shown and that it would be impossible to secure a convie- tion in the superior court. ‘The court further announced the opinion that “section 281 of the penal code, uuder which the action was brought, is unconstitutional and should be amended.” | This decision is believed to sus. tain hundreds of marriages which the district attorney's office here has questioned because they were made ! 5-CENT FARE IN 00 DAY [EE 2 = =| t Seattle Competitor DLP eee SON SLAYS MOTHER! j Portland Man Is Held After Shocking Deed! TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE THRONGS SEE CITY'S MAYOR INAUGURATED Brown Takes Oath of Executive in Ceremony at the Promise Made by| City Hall. Dr. Brown Just Before Oath as Mayor Is Taken By Robert B. Bermann Seattle will have a 5-cent street car fare by September. Dr, E. J. Brown made this def- Inite promise just before he was sworn in as mayor Monday. Hoe said be was certain that the new city council would work with him, and that his program could be put into effect within 90 days, Dr. E. J. Brown was inaugu- rated mayor of Seattle at 12 o'clock noon Monday, With the city hall park black with throngs anxious to hear and see the city’s new chief execu- tive, Dr. Brown was inducted Into office after a brief but sol mn ceremony. As the oath of office was adminis tered to him, the police band burst into a stirring march. A large stand had been erected at the south entrance of the county-city building. As Dr. Brown stepped on His hope lies in a modification of |the platform, his teeth flashing in the city’s present contract with the car line bondholders. This he believes under ciroumstances similar to the GIRL ADMINERS SHAKE HIS HAND The oliveskinned, dark-eyed pie ture hero surrounded by wornen admirers, # hand, smiled as he | received the general felicitations, — | The decision, however, does not | necessarily validate Valentino’s mar- | riage to Mas Hudnut, it w Nor can he, until the present stat-| in this state until elapsed from the time his interlocutory decree from Jean Acker, of the witneny at the hearing Deputy District Attorney Costello, | represented the state at the| hearing, was uncertain as to what ac-| tion would be taken, declaring “fur-| ter steps could be taken, but I am| doubtful if they will be.” VALENTINO IS SILENT ON PLANS me year he obtained of divorce | principal Valentino would make no state. | ment as to his ans, tho he had previously announced that he and Miss Hudnut would wait sary time and th accordan The « the neces. | be re-married in with existing laws. which has developed un usual int st on a not only unt | of the princip because for Is involved, but also | of the character as a test) numerous marriages of similar in California, still leaves the question somewhat in doubt | Miss Hudnut early last month an. | akement to Valen. | - | nieh ent flim, March had been granted an interloctuory decree | of divorce from his first wife, which, | according to the state laws does not | (Turn to Page 7, Column 5) “Clean Up,” Hays’ Order to Movies! NEW YORK, June 5.—An ulti matum from Czar Wil! H. Hays to the movies to “clean up and tino, star of “The § equally popular r Valentino only last | | | stay clean” was posted today in studios of New York and Los |} Angeles Hays in a letter to the Motion Picture Producers and Distribu tors of America, representing 7 per cent of the industry in this country, said in part: “We can make the greatest Im. mediate progress in establishing and maintaining the highest pos sible moral and artistic standard of motion picture production it || those charged with production make sure they do strive for this very thing. “Pictures being made now will come out soon and will be proof || either of our ability to correct the || evils ourselves or of our tnability to run our own business.” The following motion organizations are backing Hays in move: Fox, picture among those his “morality” || | Educational Film Ex changes, Universal, Metro, Vita-. graph, Goldwyn, Select Pictures and the Famous Players: Lasky corporation. can be accomplished without any le- entino-Winifred Hudnut wedding. ! ral action. COURT DECISIONS ARE RELIED ON “Supreme court decisions that the maid. we cen get new ones. “These decisions should be enough to convince the made and tried to block it a Geent fare and still pay off our entire just indebtedness. “But the final solution must be equitable—equitable to from whom we bought the line, as/ speech ea, well as to the taxpayers themse! “I am against any preventable gal action. A lawsuit is a luxury, but this is a matter which I feel we c: settle just as business men would ¢ cide one of their problems.” Dr, Brown expressed himself as op- posed to submitting the S-cent fare to “The people have elected the coun and if the council doesn't know what they want, it's the public's own fault,” he declared, c. B 1, president of th had planned to intro 5-cent ordinance at the first session of the body, Monday after noon, but this pregosal was discoun tenanced by the mayor-elect. DOESN'T WANT TO BE HASTY “I don't want fo be too hasty,” said Dr. Brown. “I can't digest an ordi n new the matter should be brought up as yet. You must mber that there are three new members of the coun cil, who would feel unprepared to ote at this time, “Within a few weeks, however, (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) 7 REPORT BRITISH SEIZE U. S, SHIP. Steamer With Ammunition Taken, Says Dispatch CORK, June 5.—The Moore & Mc Cormick line steamer Seattle was seized by a British sloop in Tra bay and a quantity of ammunition captured, . Moore & McCormick line officials | at New York state they have no ves sel called the Seattle. They hi United ates shipping board er, the Seattle Spirit, built at Ses Wash, The officials have received no re. port of any seizure, They deny the Seattle Spirit carried munitions, and say it was loaded with flour and food stuffs, yea attle, Train Hits Truck; 2 Killed, 9 Hurt CHICAGO, fune 56.—T were killed and nine were injured today when the Rochester specig!, crack train of the Chicago & Northwestern, hit a truck at Blodgett, Ill, near here ‘Those in the truck were laborers, riding to work Karl Lee and Frank hock, both of Wighlund Park, ware killed, ' the people} bondholders that |All else,” pointed | their contract is {mposaible—I said it |operation of all the peorsh during the jout by representatives of the state.|was impossible at the time it was (next two ye } and I feel jour differenc: utes sre amended, rejoin his bride| sure that they will agree to a com-|for the advancement of our city.” has | promise which will permit us to have | | and several | nance of this importance in an hour, | | and for this reason I don’t think that | the smile of good fellowship teward the crowd, a ringing cheer went up from the assembied congregation. The doctor was forced to bow again of his admirers, Brown made a vehement plea for YOURE | general tax fund cannot be touched | great co-operation between different who pressed for: | to pay off the bonds are specific,” he | factions in the city, and pledged} If they aren't lucid enough | himself to work for a clean and sane municipal government. “What I should like to have, above he said, “is the hearty co- We must lay aside and work side by side 8. Brown promised that his ad- ministration would be one of law and justice—for the lowest and the highest. At the conclusion of Dr. Brown's the police band broke into Windy Willie,” a march song. Few recognized it, however. Dr. Brown was layor Caldwell “I have no hard feelings towards those with whom I have differed during my administration,” the out going mayor said, “and I have only ¢ very best wishes for Dr. Brown. introduced by He ha a difficult job before him, and I hope that he will be able to accomplish much for the city CALDWELL GIVES VIEWS OF CARS Files His Final Report to the City Council Mayor Galdwell filed his second annual report with the ctly council Monday, making a general survey of the city's business. Caldwell ared that there are just two ways in which street car fares can be lowered. First ce a rewriting of the purchase contract and squeeze sever al millions, or 50 per cent of the “wa ter” in the purchase price. Second—Reduce wages and service. The outgoing mayor also declared himself as favoring the re-establish. ment of jitneys. The commission form of govern ment was advocated by Caldwell, who declared that the present gov ernmenta) system is too unwieldy to handle Seattle's $40,000,000 utility business. ARMY PROBES BECK DEATH OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. June 5 Army board of inqury today be- gan a further invest tion into the slaying of Lieut. Col. Paul Ward Reck, idol of the air service, by Judge Jean P, Day of this city, Closed sessions were held by the board, {Damm Temporary Chief of Police Inspector Hans Damm was ap- pointed by Mayor Caldwell, Monday, as chief of police until the appoint: | ment of Chi Saturda W. B. Severyns will take office soon, it is believed. Capt. C, G. Rannick, of West Seat tle precinct, refused the office of po: lice inspector to succeed Damm, is rumored that Capt, Joe Mason will be offered the job by Brown, It} wounded by Walter N, Ward, mil- ‘ADMITS gselzed by towards the him in @ where he was Police took him into custody, than to mutter repeatedly: ‘ “I killed her—killed her—did it put her out of her misery." — Neighbors said the aged an had been ailing f Her husband died early An attack of influenza hard upon this grief and she parently had been unhappy some time. Walter Wier ts unmarried and lived with his mother, not much, “He's been sort of a home : neighbors agreed. “We've : |there was something queer |him.”* ; | Deputy Coroner Leo Goetsch i |death was probably due to @ F fracture. * * Wier siugged himself with the jhammer following the alleged \der of his mother, but did little in \jury, He begged neighbors for a re | volver with which to kill himself, and |repeated the request to the police upon their arrival. . No murder charge has as yet been lodged against Wier. An examina. tion will be made into his alleged |“subnormal mentality. f ‘THREE DIE IN POWDER BLAST | SAN LEANDRO, Cal. June 5-= Three men were killed and several injured in the explosion of three: storehouses at the Trojan Powder works here this morning. ‘The cause | of the explosion is not known, é | Harry Meyers and Jimmy Toon, | ltwo office employes of the works, — jwere killed outright, Antonio Des costa died shortly after his removal the infirmary. Howard Browne | n, plant superintendent, Was 3 y burned in the explosion, but his injuries are probably not fatal to | seve OMAHA BANDIT — STILL MISSING | OMAHA, Neb., June 5.—The see ond week of search for Fred Brown, ex-convict, who repeatedly foiled the state sheriffs’ forces in the sensation- man hunt, following his chaining and assaulting two women in & 8 J cluded “manacle dungvon” in Omas ha, May 27, was begun today, with | Police expressing scant hope, | Brown was seen in Omaha last on Saturday evening. He eluded pur: suit and was thought to have caught a freight headed toward Gibson, Neb, No clews have turned up today, ‘WARD MURDER ~ PROBE STARTS WHITE PLAINS, N. ¥., June 5, —The case of Walter 8, Ward, con fossed slayer of Clarence Peters, ex+ |saiior, whose body was found near | Kensico reservoir, May 16, went to | the Westchester grand jury today, eee PHILADELPHIA, June 5.—All | efforts to establish that John Cienzo, |held here, is the mysterious ‘Jack+ ‘son" in the Ward case, have failed, | Lieut. Belshaw, head of the murder | squad, said today. Cienzo was locked jup on suspicion of being the man lonaire, at thy time he Killed ence Peters, alleged blackmailen