The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 5, 1922, Page 7

| ‘Wish I Had Done It Before,” She Moans; Prays for Death to Come BY H. BK. CAYLOR “to ag CITY, Mo, June 5. L, Beal, who killed Frank ‘Warren Anderson, “perfect lover,” ‘and then attempted suicide, hovered “warepenfing between life and death today and prayed to die. Simultancously police seeking iden. ‘tty of women who mysteriously viewed Anderson's bedy at the un- " im parlor and another who ‘ over the telephone when told of the tragedy, also probed a from Dayton, Ohio, that Miss as well as Anderson, was mar. ‘ied And Miss Beal the mother of a fouryearold child. Murder charges aguinst Miss Beal ‘Will be held up until physicians de. termine whether she will live, the county prosecutor's office an. A picture of a child, mounted tn Foses of metal and labeled with the inscription “Louis J. Beal, age two was found in Miss Beal's today. j i } a ehild dead man,” was the woman's laconic answer to ques- Uoning ax te the identity of the i i f red. not married,” she said. a little affair. jis ley : zg it e 348 ho ulated “Thuvia, “and slew her “love ‘was reported as in a highly nervous state today. She tossed on her cot, pain racked by the self- inflicted wound in her tung, and “I wish I had done it be FPETE as 3 . B 3 fore.” ‘The “screaming woman” for whom Police sought called up the Midwest hotel, where the tragedy occurred, end asked for “Mr. or Mrs. Ander- an outlet of violent emotion was told of the killing, she @ broken voice where the She was told and later the undertaking establish. refusing to reveal her identity. H. Bylar, at the establishment, she appeared to swoon as she ‘Viewed the body. “Who did this’ Eylar said. “‘Oh, what fiends some are,’ she cried, and rushed from the “I failed to get anything out of her. She baffled questioning.” Siz other women visited the under- taking shop. One or two sobbed, others were unmoved and apparently were Anderson's business associates, attaches of the parlor said. Andefson, veteran of “fifty loves,” will be buried here, according to a wire from Frank M. Anderson, Col. | lingwood, N. J., father of the slain man. ‘The elder Anderson declared that the mother of the war aviator and department store official collapsed at the news of his death and could not stand the “double shock” of death and a funeral too, While the police delved into the Mystery of Marie Beal's past they also sought to learn more of the al- leged dual life of young Anderson. Word from Collingwood, N. J., de clared he was known there as a “quiet man, showing fits of senti- mentalism toward women sometimes but in all not a philanderer. Marie Beal claimed he confesned | “being a derelict and couldn't help it.” INDICTED IN FRAUD PROBE th i : Eo iis” she asked me,” WASHINGTON, June 5.—The war | discover 275 bottles of whisky aboard |now under control. fraud prosecution was well under way today. A warrant was expected to be served today on 1. J. Phillips, chair. man of the republican state commit-| tee of Georgia. It ts sald to result | from war contracts of Phillips for disposal of a large quantity of asi plus lumber. | In his speech In the house recent: | ly urging action on the war fraud | cases, Representative Woodruff, | Michigan, charged that the firm of | Phillips & Stevens still owed the} government $1,850,000 under the con- | tracts for disposing of the lumber. Rotary Clubs in | Los Angeles Meet LOS ANGELES, June 5.—Rotary’s| orange and purple draped Los An geles today as men in bright yellow] hat Lands directed thousands from the earth's four corners to the Phil harmonic auditorium, of the 13th annual convention of the International Association of Rotary ¢lubs, which opens here tomorrow. Special traing bringing the dele gates from all parts of the conntry rolled steadily into Los Angeles yes terday and continued arriving today unceasingly. H 4-Room House and Acre My new Unit Houses are being completely finished and painted on the outside. A dandy little home, and terms easier than rent Houses now building on my new 4th Addition Little City Farms These are the best home buys in Seattle H. C, PETERS 726 Third Ave, headquarters | ~ ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED SEATT BRITISH TAKE ULSTER TOWN Republican Insurgents Are Put to Flight REFAST, June troops are retreating 6.—Irish republl can insurgent from Ulster today Thirty republicans are reported to have been killed tp the battle for Pettigo, on the Donegal-Fermanagh border, taken by British troops late yesterday A British staff officer who entered | | | This is Marilyn Miller, the dancer, and (inset) Jack Pick- ford, the movie star and brother of that particularly bright light in the cinema firmamen wed soon, the public has just b Big Radio t, Mary Pickford, who are to een informed, Dis play Is On at Dreamland With Dreamland transformed into a great radio hall, the Seat- tle Radio show opened its doors at 1 p.m. Monday. Radio appliances and instruments of all types are on display. the small radiophone but“an inch or 80 in width and depth, exhibits range to the giant long distance wireless receiving set, brought to the show from the Puget Sound navy yard. | Other attractions are the radio-con trofied car and the radio organ. ‘The exhibit is under the auspices of the Seattle Radio association, which, From | jduring the week, will be in charge *, supervising, also, the | lof all displs |mpeed conte for |and amateur senders. Exhibits, however, will not be all the attractions, Dancing will be featured afternoons and even- ings, when music will be provid ed by Seattle broadcasting sta- tions, At 7 p.m. Monday night Mayor E. J. Brown will speak. Proceeds from the show, which it all professional for the erection of a powerful Seat tle broadcasting station. EVERYBODY NOW HITS POLL TAX Republicans and Democrats Both for Repeal JAPAN CABINET NEAR DOWNFALL Crisis Arises in Nipponese Affairs Possibility that republican and democratic candidates may go into the coming campaign with identical pledges for the repeal of the poll tax was being discumed by G. O, P. lead ers Monday, following the adoption of such 4 plank by King county re publicans in session Saturday ‘The democrats have already gone on record against the head levy, having included a vigorous plank on | Hara, was responsible for the pres-| the subject at their state convention in Olympia last month Incidentally, a lot of folks are get-| ting quite a kick out of the wording of the King county G. O. P. plank-~ which, of course, is subject to con-! siderable modification at the state| gathering at Chehalis Saturday. It} reads: “The poll tax, having served its F BY CLARENCE DUBOSE TOKYO, June 5.—Japan today was facing another politiea) crisis, with the fall of the ministry in prospect The tangled state of Japangse poll jtles, growing out of the numerous attacky on the cabinet of Premier Takahashi, hastily formed after the assassination of former Premier ent situation. Takahashi today held conferences | with numerous leaders, while the press was almost unaminous in pre- dicting resignation of’ the govern ment. FOREST FIRES ARE MASTERED purpose, IN’ PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT OF ay SOLDIERS’ BONUS, we recommend| Despite the fact that the much its repeal.” |wished-for rain has not yet made ite (Capitals are our own) jappearance, it was reporte Monday > q gang lat the offices of the Washington For. SAN FRANCISCO.—Heartng two jest Fire association that the forest bottles clanking together from the/fires which last week threatened ship’s vibrations, customs officers|/most of Western Washington are liner Sonoma. BUMPERLESS BUMPER TO LET ’EM ALL GETA CRACK AT NEW MAYOR Meet Hugo Kelley—the bumper- ess bumper! He is the new secretary to the new mayor! ‘One of the chief duties of mayor's secretary ia to act as a bumper between Hizzoner and visitors. “Dr. Brown wants to see every one that comes to his office per sonally,” Kelley declared. “But the mayor's office will be run strictly on business lines.” Kelley, the non-absorbent shock absorbent, is an old personal and political friend of Brown and has wide acquaintance in the city a Only one new jfire has sprung up since the village lof Cedar F Was wiped out. This lis near Ashford, on the Milwaukee branch line, It threatens no imme. ‘diate danger. . |Minnesota Town | Threatened by Fire DULUTH, Minn., June 56.—Forest fires were reported today on a wide }front between and. Moras and Duluth. The village of Cramer was threatened. Eleven scatte fires were fought by a force of 1,500 men. The fires, according to W. T. Cox, state forester, were started by fishermen, SAN FRANCISCO, June At the request of the widow, John L. Reed, private secretary to the late John R. Hanify, has been appointed lexecutor of Hanify's $70,000 estate. | Feiners. scheduled for one week, will be used) the border town furnished Intest de-; twils of the affair, He said he gave LE BOY IS THROWN INTO BONFIRE Burned After Tussle With Older Playmate Suffering from severe barns which he received when a pla mate pushed him into # bonfire, Tyear-old Richard Pronsser, 718 Taylor ave., was in a serious con dition Monday at Columbus sani- tarium. Richard was playing near his hore | Saturday, at Taylor ave. and Roy st., | when he became engaged in a child ish altercation with another boy about three years his senior and con. siderably larger. | | the insurwents 16, minutes to evacu- ate, Some retreated, but about 100) remained | When the time limit expired, the British entered the town in the face of machine gun fire, whereupon | artillery on the hill to the north| was called into action, A British battery fired one 18-pounder over the town, which caught fleeing republi cans, killing several Only four additional shelle were j fired, these bursting in the rear of Pettigo, causing a panic in the ranks of retiring republicans, Casualty liste are an yet incomplete. British troops today consolidated their positions and prepared for fur ther action against the invading Sinn Helfast's week end victims numbered 22, of which three were killed and 19 seriously wounded. J. W. Flanagan, local magistrate of Newry, County Down, was shot and fatally wounded as he was leay ing the cathedral after the mas mobile towards free state territory Flanagan had been a marked man for some time, having sentenced many Sinn Felners for carrying arms. A communique iawued today sald seven republicans were known to |have been killed in the occupation |by British troops of the Fermanagh border near Lough Erne, and that « Lewis gun was captured. British ar tillery fired a few rounds against a rebel machine gun firing from a wood behind Pettigo. The whole PettigoRelleck sector, previously occupled by extremists, jis now held by British troops. Mose } Constitution of Ireland Alter DUBLIN, June 5—The Irish con. stitution, following the drafted Collins-De Valera agreement, has been altered to satiafy British de jmands, it was learned today, follow. ing conferences of the Irish treaty signators Saturday and Sunday. HERE’S MORE ABOUT 9-CENT FARE STARTS ON PAGE ONE believe the ordinance should be Intro duced.” Councilman Fitzgerald's proposed ordinance. was practically identical with the one which he introduced for subminion to popular with only the initiative features dropped. fare, with a 2-cent transfer, effec tive Auguat 1. It was believed at the city hall jthat Dr. Brown's ord’nance, if it joes thru, would go into effect September 1. li three of the new members of counct!—Mrs. Henry Landes, Kathryn Miracle and E Blaine—were believed to be in favor of Pr. Brown's program, but the stand of some of the old members problematical Councilman Fitzgerald, of course, has consistently urged a 5-cent fare, but other members have voted down the proposal just as consist ently There was a feeling, how er, that thelr attitude might ee if Dr. Brown's promised “harmony administration” material izes. | Dr. Brown's statement seemed to wet at rest the rumors that the city would put a S-cent fare into effect without regard to whether the sy« tem would pay or not and let the bondhnolders do the worrying in case of a doficlt. } the Mra = HERE’S MORE ABOUT CITY PUPILS STARTS ON PAGE ONE }to take it Then they were instruct- ed in the scoring and supervined the children’s work rom each school 150 testa will be picked at random and the scoring checked by Miss Goodhue. If these are found to be |done correctly, it will be assumed that the entire number from |school were accurately scored. There is @ test for analogies; a set of arithmetic problems; a series of questions designed to show the scope of the child’s sen- tence vocabulary; a test compris ing the substitution of symbols for numerals; a test for verbal in- genuity; a similar one for arithm , and a» list of syne nyms. | Graphs, based on the results of the intelligence tests, will be made for the pupil« of each grade school, and {classification next fall will be based to a large extent on these results. All entering grade school students will be given the general intelligence jtest before they are placed. bout: SABO TROPOLITAN ONE WEEK, BEGINNING SUNDAY, JUNI 11 OLIVER mone (Morosco Holdi that IRISH - HEBREW MIRTH QUAKE A Comedy of Meat, Brickbatw Eatnb! Now in I Three assailants excaped in an auto- | voto, | It would have provided .a 5-cent| ‘The youngsters tussied with each other and, whether by design or ae cldentally, the bigger boy gradu pushed Richard over toward the Lal on @ vacant lot nearby No one witnessed the quarrel, #0 the police were unable to determine just how It happened, but suddenty | |the neighborhood was aroused by Richard's screams. He was in the center of a pile of blazing brush, groveling on hands and knees and desperately trying to crawl out. Neighbors rushed to his assistance and res cued him, but not until his knees and elbows had been badly neared. The police are withholding the identity of the other boy, pending the outcome of Ric ard’s injuries, HERE’S MORE ABOUT VALENTINO STARTS ON PAGE ONE ecinervcichencsipstinigaiisiniesataaiaiantaaaell | permit remarriage of either husband jor wife within a year. It was therefore with amazement | that the news was received of the unexpected marriage at Mexicali, Mexico, on May 13. CLAIM DECISION 18 UNSATISFACTORY The state in presenting the case | at the hearing, which opened June 1, confined its efforta to showing that Valentino had been married to Miss Hudnut within three months | after his divorce and that they came together into California after the! |wedding. No very successful at | tempt was made to prove that they |had lived together as man and wife, | jand Mme. Nazimova, probably the| jonly person who could gtve definite! textimony on this quostion, waa per-| jmitted to leave the state without testifying. | Jusice Hanby’s decision, therefore it is claimed, does not definitely establiah the validity or non-validity of such marriages. . NAZIMOVA NOT) FLEEING TRIAL CHICAGO, June 5.—Alla Nazimova denied today that she was a fugitive from California, where she was/ wanted as a state witness in the hearing of Rodolph Valentino, charged with bigamy. The actress, en route to New | York, suid she had not tried to evade | service of a subpoena in Los Angeles, “I delayed my trip two weeks in order to give the authorities a chance {to serve me,” she said. “Then I left.” Nagimova accompanied Valentino to Mexicall, where he married Wini |fred Hudnut. TO TRY WOMAN FOR STABBING Manslaughter or Second De- | gree Murder, Charge | BREMERTON, June 5.—Mrs. | Vivian Louette Harder, who stabbed {Samuel Brown to death last Monday night aboard the steamer Ruesell Haverside, moored at Port Blakeley, will tried on charges of either! second degree murder or manslaugh ter | This waa the announcernent made today by Prosecuting Attorney Ray | Greenwood, who said he had not yet {decided on the charge, but that he would probably file an information today or tomorrow. Mrs, Harder, who has been in the| county jail at Port Orchard ever! since the killing, will probably b arraigned next Monday, but she wil not come up for trial until the Sep- tember term of court Her husband, Alexander Harder, chief engineer of the steamer Colcha, and the dead man's direct superior officer, was taken to jail with his | wife at the time of the killing, but has since been released. Gregnwood explained that Harder had never been suspected of cimplicity in the slaying, but that he had been so reome by his wife's predicament that officers had feared he might harm himself. Mrs. Harder has confessed to kiNl- ing Brown, declaring that she did it jin @ fit of rage when she thought Brown was “framing a party” for her husbend without including her Jin it. She had been drinking heavily just before the stabbing. Announce Results | on Bridge Bids | ‘The J. A. McEachern company has been unofficially declared low bidder on the contract construction of the jsubetructure of the W. Spokane st bridge. The firm offered to do the work for $264,000. The city engi- neer’s estima of cost was $335,000. A contract will probably be let this week. Charles Dickens insisted on hav- ing his bed placed north and south. WHO FOUND PURSE AT THREE TREE POINT It was just a small black purse, but it contained the only picture of a dead mother, The money was only a matter of $2 or $3, but represented every cent Mrs. it Vivian Le Master had, Some one found the pocketbook near Three Tree point Synday. Mrs. Le Master, the owner, may be located at Main 4765, or by call- ing at 1107 Columbia st, FARMER-LABOR | throw Voile Curtains At 95c Pair ERY attractive Curtains for the bungalow or bed- room at an extremely low price, These crisp, frilly Cur- tains are of sheer white voile, 21% yards long, finished with 2-inch ruffles. Low-priced at 95¢ pair. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Suggesting the Exceptional Values | the Downstairs Store Is Offering in Stamped Articles for Embroidering 44-Inch Table Cover, stamped for patch-work and hemstitched for finishing with crochet, $1.25; 84-inch size, 75c. Three-piece Buffet Set, 59¢c. Buffet Scarf in 17x45- inch size to match, 59c. Napkins to match, 23¢ each; the dozen, $2.50. Five-piece Stamped Card Table Set, of unbleached muslin, cover and 4 napkins, 59c; with pieces for patchwork, 79¢. 3 13-piece Luncheon Set, stamped on Indian Head, 5 9c. 34-inch Centerpiece or 17x45-inch Scarf in choice of butterfly, basket or floral patterns, 50c. Towels of striped huck, stamped for patch-work, 39c, —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Wm. Rogers’ Silver- plated Tableware AT EXCEPTIONALLY-LOW PRICES UMMER cottages may be outfitted with Table- ware at little cost from this offering—and it pre- sents a splendid opportun- ity to save on silver-plated ware for every-day use. The Chatham pat- tern, in French-gray finish, plated on nick- el-silver (will wear white all the way through), priced low as follows: Orange Spoons, 25c each. Soup Spoons, 30¢ each. Salad Forks, 30c each. After-dinner Coffee Spoons, Se each. Berry Spoons, 85c each. Teaspoons, ic each. Dessert Spoons, 250 each. Tablespoons, 30c each. Table Knives, 300 each. Table Forks, 300 each. Dessert Forks, 25¢ each. } Butter Knives, 25¢ each. Gravy Ladies, 65¢ each. | Sugar Shells, 35c each. Cold Meat Forks, 75¢ each. 26-Piece Set of this Silver-plated Ware (in Case) ...---eeeeeee sess ieee es BT.95 —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE | FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE—PINE STREET—SIXTH AVENUE Such Good-looking White Canvas Oxfords $4.00 HE white-shoe vogue / has begun in earnest and a very pleasing Sum- mer fashion it is. The sketch shows a gracefully modeled White Canvas Oxford _ with perforated white kid trimming, Neolin sole and me dium-military heel. Sizes 814 to 8; widths A to D. The pair, $4.00. May also be had with | black trimmings at $4.00 pair. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE June Offerings in Table Linens Towels White Goods PATTERN TABLE CLOTHS, of good quality bleached cotton damask, several patterns to choose from; size 70x72, $1.68." TABLE CLOTHS, bleached and mercerized with can borders, an assortment of pat — terns, size 54x54, low-priced at 85¢. BATH TOWELS, medium-weight Turkish weave, size 18x33, af 15¢ each. NOVELTY TURKISH TOWEIS, Jacquard weave, in Pink, Bilge, — Gold and Lavender, low-priced : at 38¢. oUt COTTON TWILL 16%-inch width, 12¢ yard. LINNO CLOTH, 44-inch width, @ bleached linen-finish cotton for use in luncheon sets, nurses’ uniforms, middies, skirts, ett. at a very low price, 29¢ yard. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE 1,000 Troops to WASHINGTON, June | United States will FACES SPLIT? ederation of La ‘ge Ba Seog the rail-|American contingent home bor, the State Grange and e ee June 30, road men's organizations desert t r farmer-labor party this year and their lot unreservedly with one of the two senior parties? ‘This question was being discussed in political « sult of th held here Sunday night. to effect a working compromise w the other farmer and labor organ-/| izations of the state were voted down on the convention floor and a resolu: | tion adopted providing for a commit: | tee to visit these organizations mere- | ly “to lay before them the impor: tance and advantage to the workers of using the farmerlabor party as| the instrument thru which to €x-| press themselves politically.” The platform adopted was largely nephritis contracted farmer-labor convention | use of which he was an expert. Proposals — = a ; 4 Remain on Rhine 5. — The retain approxi- | mately 1,000 troops on the Rhine after July 1, despite previous orders, which would have brought the entire by CHICAGO.—Funeral services held for Dr. T, E. Costain, who died from thru handling ircles Monday as & re-/large quantities of anesthetics in the | struck Mrs, Tilleson had not been ap- FREDERIC é& NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET Woman Struck by Auto Badly Hurt © Mrs, Clara Tilleson, 36, was recov-_ ering at her home Monday from & possible fracture of the right arm. which she sustained early i ens morning, when getting off a 110 Greenwood ave. An fi. which was headed for Seattle strucis her as she alighted. ‘ She was struck and thrown violent- ly to the ground ‘The driver of the automobile which prehended Monday. mn heenarie et = the same os the one used in 1920, | with the addition of a plank attack- ing present narcotic and liquor laws. | The following were elected to form | state committee: James Dun- a ne , can, ttle, and Claude Moran, Van. couver, at large; A. K. Brundage, Bremerton, First district; W. J. Fort | son, Everett, Second; Mrs. Jessie | Bullock Kastner ‘Tacoma, | iT Third; Evhu Bow ‘ourth; | and Dan Teeters, Spokan Fifth. BABY CLINIC ON TUESDAY With more than 2,000 babies from Yonkers all over the Northwest, including * ven Alaska, the baby clinic will Axminster Rugs open at the Bon Marche Tuesday ‘ae ts morning under the auspices of the | Size Price City Federation of Women's Clubs. 6x9 --. $25.00 Mrs, H. C. Maltby, president-elect of 7-6x9-0 31 the Federation, will preside, Each baby, it is promised, will be presented during the clinic week with one scoring card and one certificate. That certificate will entitle him to one free photograph to be taken of himseif at James & Merrihews'. During the four days of the clinic “Foods for Children,” “Diet of Chil- | “Correct Clothing,” “Recrea- and numerous other phases pertaining to childhood life will be featured. As a part of the entertain- ment children from the different 40.00 45.00 8-3x10-6.... 9x12 Price --.- $26.00 +s. 32.00 | Size 6x9 7-6x9-0 Carpet-size Axminster Rugs at Very Low Prices HE three best grades of Axminster Rugs, made by the largest manufacturers of floor coverings in America. Purchased at the recent New York auction and quoted to our patrons at the following very attractive prices: Kirman Axminster Rugs (Third Floor) Carlton Axminster Rugs Size Price 6x9 5... $20.50 7-6x9-0 .... 25.50 8-8x10-6.... 33.00 9x12 .... 37.00 Size Price 8-3x10-6 .... .$41.50 9x12 .... 47.00 academies in Seattle will dance,