The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 16, 1922, Page 1

i ™=——> THE NEWSPAPER WITH A 15,000 CIRCULATION LEAD OVER ITS NEAREST COMPETITOR <—a AAA PGRAND JURY SUMMONS MAYOR | Probers of Legate Death Will Quiz Brown WEATHER } Tonight and moderate winds Temperature Last 04 Hours Maximum, 67, Today noo Saturday. northwe fate; sterly Minimum, 49, 64. Rotered as Second Class Matter May |, Bt the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 18 SEATTLE, WASH, FRIDAY, JU iE 16, 1922. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Per Year, by Mall, $6 to 99 Howdy, folks! Give a thought to the poor flapper who can’t hed eat strawberry shortcake with- out breaking out into hives! Mayor Brown says there Wasn't “Republican convention, as only bottles were taken down to Chehalis and there were 824 delegates ‘The stingy things! Wouldn't any of them split theig bottles? . . Jury investi convention will District hey Tom Revelie have to prosecute himeelt? 728. Republicans are calling Doc Brown ‘that socialistic mayor.” Seems to/ gs that Doc ts acting more like a Remoeret eee NO SPITTING ALLOWED 7 “Hart Loses His Face to Save Cancel last two orders of Climax. Cramet:ete, L. FL w. ‘Wonder who is writing the auto- biography of ol” Bill Hohenzollern? ee carwigs arec on the run,” says ‘0. A. Piper, superintendent of | streets. Yep, but most of ‘em are running into the house, eee “I am the victim of my own dread- ful, impulsive mistake,” says Mada- lynne Obenchain. We know just how Madalynne feels. We planted some §rass seed, too. eee A_ MURDER WOULD HELP “It sounds just like home,” sighed Judge Mitchell Gilliam, after hearing a routine liquor case in Spokane. The least Spokane could x done, it seems, would have pond to provide a few snappy crime novelties for bee’ Seattle Jurist. THE TRU ™m ABOU T CHINA! PONE AER tet NN OED RN RI ‘The above interview was written by Kaye Luke, spect espondent ef Home five days in a chow Give on Jackson at. securing the data upon which the document is based. cee June d'Amour, Star writer, is still seeking Seattle couple who want a free Bet she woulan’t marriage have any trouble finding couples who want a free divorce . Price of logs has gone up a dollar. Buy your toothpicks early! FOR COLYUMISTS ONLY him green ‘round the gills excitement just gives him blues. He can't get» kick outa nuthin’, All life seems quite pallid and flat the t But he can’t get a kick Bat when he comes down in the morning With o bean that is empty aed chill, good snappy idears as nearer as hock beers— y, then's when he gets « good thrill, hile qul-dratted colyam’s as empty the ivory a ° Sam Gompers, ladies the A. F. of L. convention, says he does not want “stamped on labor's brow the sign of ‘The Man With the Hoe.’” We hali with acclaim this fearless move for the abolition of back-lot truck gardens. Wives take notice! see Committee in charge of raising funds for the new $2,500,000 hotel are looking for # good name. In view of the activities of the dry equad, we suggest that the hostelry pee gelled “The By, ater House.” Leander iit is manager of a Se- attle opt company, but Thomas Byron MaeMahon says he is a good mgn—Butt James Russel! Lowell once asked. “What is so rare as a day in June?” We up, altho we have seen sorne ully raw things in June. INTERES TING PR Charles 4. Smith, wh 23 years without anybody calling bim “Chuci mough whisky to go around at the | 800 | LECTURER STIRS IRE- OF KAHIN ‘Better Business Bureau Official Says’ | “Dr.” Miller Teaches Eighth Grade | Physiology at $10 Per | That Dr. Orlando Edgar Miller, se self-styled “president of the Society of Applied Psychology,” and who, according to | his own statements, has taken thousands of dollars from Seat- | tle people in a movie stock-selling scheme, teaches nothing that is not contained in the curriculum of a grammar school, was the charge made Friday by George Kahin, counsel for the Better Business bureau. | Dr. Miller had called up Kahin, charging that certain Seat- tle newspapers were maligning him and asking that the Bet- ter Business bureau investigate his affairs and “vindicate”! | him. { | Kahin’s announcement was the “vindication.” | | “Shortly after Dr. Miller called me up,” Kahin said, “I) | went to hear one of his lectures and I heard him expound to | his audience the manner in which he was being persecuted. | “All the paycl hology which I heard | States which we have found to have| |wag elementary physiology which 1s lany scientific standing. the eighth grade. Inter-| «+, — eer _— ceaete I heara| “UPos being asked from what unt- one Seng pe geared attributed by |Yérsity he had recetved a Ph. D., the doctor to Confucius or Buddha. | Dr. Miller, after some hesitation, an) j,. “That De. an is president of jwwered ‘from Ruskin college, which | bewrbragns: me cen ge Naeger jaee énee been in Tlinots and had | society is unknown in university cir- iin’ 0 pone went ot lhe gee cles and because its obscurity Is such which officials at the University ot that we a igineapeene =: sy nomen Washington had never before heard. | lrecord of It. E meape oggy ad na. | UPOR being asked where he acquired logical association ag Pome his A. B. degree, after even more tional association in jhesitation, he anawered from a cer ' ‘tain United Brethren college, namely | 1 |Fostoria acad-my, some place in jSinee that time been razed to the \ ground by fire other institution of | learning unheard of by the authori. ties at our university ad Dr Miller not been conduct ck selling campaign the bu |New York Suburb Is Swept '*« reau would not have interested tteelf terest, in him. However, tremendous suma | by Flames of money are being taken from Seat ie jtle by men who purport to be trained ARVERNE, N. ¥., dune 16.— | P*Ychologists, which would otherwise 1 gin Ate of be distributed in our own community | With 15,000 persons homeless (oe eee the barons | and 16 blocks of Arverne in n this the bureau has an in smoking ruins, police today were | searching for the cause of the | conflagration which swept 400 buildings in this New York city suburb last night, causing a loss “The spectacle |past maturity jwingle lecture of adults mostly paying $10 to hear a of kind, when teachers in our public schools are, at of $2,000,000. present, p living wage, this leclared by spec seekin gesca tion J to have perished The fire started near the hotel excited my tators to hav nm hemmed in by ff e Injured in Middle West | | of Collecting autiilus with a sound like an ex in a He a ‘TERRIFIC TOLL Will Add Cost 8 Are dead and Scores Are’ | | Onto Poll Tax! insets ta : nado that swept over the Twin Cities SPOKANE, June 16.—More grief |. ng into counties in weatern Wiscon. jfor poll tax dodgers! Sheriff Long | ii) just night | {bas announced that mileage and ae | Jcosts of $%60 will be charged in | seer sae ae gee” LW. W. TRIAL | necessary to satisfy the $5 tax ° . . i This means, he that people | | who willfully dodge the tax, in some leases will have to pay as high as| “re PROGRESSING. SACRAMENTO, June 16.—Taking $15. The mileage cost is 10 cents a o¢ testimor cases of 10 ar mile for the distance a sheriff's! .steg 1, ¥ nesses on trial dept 0 travel from the | roe criminal #ynd or crimina dicalism began here joffice in Spokane to make the seiz-| +544, . ; |ure, and the additio: $3.60 for sale! two dayn were required in the se. costs will be added after the levy is lection jury to hear the case. made. nd : e __ land the « statement of the Attorney General Thompson has/ prosecution was not made until late ruled th sheriffs cannot assess yesterda | leosts except for the filing of pa Portions of the declaration of in-! pers in the legal routine of seizure | ae non, will be used by the de and for mile: 1 4 " jfense in presenting its case, it was gg Notices will be sent out eg sraar|announced by E Smith, counsel heritt Long has decides “DY ltor the accused men paid after receiving notices from! “1 w. w. witnesses, including E. C. | Long last oad and despite , ne Coots and Jack Diamond, aré here to! | heavy cont of peiatiog ae ata oo |testify for the prosecution. ine Darren one eemmempen we | The case is ing heard by Su ogether with the Z-cent postage On| Worior Judge Jamison of Modoc 31,000 notices required thie year,| ounty, Two women are on the jur | Long feels satisfied that it will be a) \ ch ending deputies to the | is |Gov. Small Grants IHOTEL GUESTS) Reprieve to Killer | | WAUKEGAN, IIL, June 16.—Gov. | FLEE FLAMES 2:2, 229" totiy grantea ooday ——— reprieve to Ignatz Polz, who was to LT aiedse Ruastiiy., wtliiek “questa lnove vers hakged Sore tomstiow text Trench Bombs Used |SLU JM DENIZEN rushed to the street early Friday |the court house wh Bmall ia be. | wien a, faming awning filled ‘halk |Ing tried on charges of conspiracy to| OM Irish Banditti LEAVES $35,000 ways of the Sherman hote 1204 |embegzle rtate funds. | ‘T, June 16.—Bomba made} sew " »| BERLIN ’ NEW YORK.—"Old M eopold cegumpenciael | First ave., with smoke, Cries of| Lester Williams pleaded with the |. ¢rench taié: in: Wiknae nek % lan Leopold | ope quickly routed all the sleep-|governor that his client “had been! dislodge |MYSterious figure in New York| |ing people in the hotel. Firemen ex.|railroaded to make room for your|be used in an effort to dislodge) eg nw ated in rags and tinguished the blaze with small loss, |own trial.” Irish bandits who have their dens in the Sperrin mountains, between {$95,000 was found concealed in his| It started when a lighted cigaret fell ton the awning. Pols was convicted of killing Wil- ‘iam Peterson, a policeman, Seattle Will Get Close Look Planet to Turn Corner by the same going to take a close look at Mars—the closest since 1909! But you needn't fear Mare will skid at some celestial corner and knock a tender off the earth. No danger of this, ss University will planet to which we hold title, away awhile bach If you want to spot Mars Sunday evening look in Professor Smail. diah tinge Only traveling to ride a sky-re soul to 3 sparks as they ¢' str habitants of our nearest planetary neighbor. of inventions With them the electrophone things of the ration in museums a thin layer of air on the planet, Tyrone and Londonderry. Metiche meaning Mr, Medache meaning Mrs. Metaaganiche meaning Miss, Kin't’ehe But H. G. of the the Worlds” cuttlefish with round, faces Edmond WILL BE NEAR EARTH Nearest the Earth ar ae | By Jack Hall j ARS is going to take a close look at Seattle Sunday evening. And token Seattle folks are s Prof, L. L. Small, of the on faculty. For Ma y 42,000,000 miles of the before ahe curves ‘That's 6,000,000 miles closer than it was of Washin within o1 come the southwestern portion of the sky, says You will see a star with a red- That's Mare. earth-being ever thought seriously of Mars. Capt. Claude Collins pianned ket thither, But he couldn't get h today. large et famous French medium, Made- Smith, says she projected her There she saw Carriages without horses or wheels “by night for two weeks,” emitting houses with fountains “1 shall continue to try to and decorated with various designs Their language had a pleasant intonation, ac- cording to the mademoiselle. Four words that success. she remembered when she came down to earth P were shall every attention pay meaning four Wells evidently didn't think much physic's description, In his “War of he said that the Martians resembled gray bodies and “sort of and G, A. Mathieu, neer. ® Parisian detailed picture Perrier, ed the most sclentist, of con- thé in- | telegraph “The Martian folk,” he wrote, “are possessed resemblance to m but he had tremendous ears, @ large chest and thin legs, with scarcely in the world, any neck at all is Mars might be forthcoming. In America the greatest exponent of the was in charge of the Electra. theory that Mars is inhabited was the late Prof. Percival Lowell, director of the Harvard ob- Marconi, standing by servatory at Flagstaff, Ariz. as it swung up the harbor, “The Maritan folk," he wrote, “are possessed invention, nearly perfected, of which we have never dreamed, nd kinetoscope are bygone past, preserved with vene as relics of the clumsy con instead of broadcasting. trivances of the simple childhood of the ra But other scientists disagre Some of them think there is nothing but very little water and Fupted. (Copyright, 1922, sive interview with the United Press my own instruments ready so they would receive from anybody, no matter where, who might send. at Mars Sunday Night; Marconi Listens Vainly for Messages AS WELENE shure ce 1BED THEM MAYBE yOu COULD HE. THEIR RADIOOHONES. Radio Wizard Hoping to Hear From Martians By Jack esraele BOARD MARCONI’S PRIVATE YACHT ELECTRA, HUDSON RIVER, June 16.—Mysterious sounds came from out of the ether to the power- ful but delicately tuned receiving sets in Senor William Marconi’s private cabin during his fortnight’s vigil on the Atlantic awaiting messages from Mars. But the visiting planet, closer now than for nine years, failed to communi- cate definitely with the earth, the in- ventor said upon arrival off New York “I lstened practically all the time—day and Marconi sald in an exclu- “T had “Several times I heard mysterious sounds I I do not think T am not certain But I on the roofs; a cradle having for curtains an angel made of tron with outstreched wings.” could not understand nor expiain, She also brought back the latest fashion they were from Mars, In fact, notes from gai ans {f Martians are trying to communicate. The people,” she saig, “were much like the inhabitants of the earth, save that both sexes eae: there (te: €e: arery eae Pee. TREN wore the same clothes—trouse: very ample, messages if any were sent. and long blouses drawn tight ab the waist receive communica- tions from Mars, however slight the chances of unday, when the planet comes closest to us, I shall be ‘on the Job,’ as you say, all day, and to pick up possible messages from the Martians.” Senor Marcon! was accompanied on his voy- age, which had its Inception In the possibility of receiving radio waves from Mars, by Eric Payne the latter a scientific engi They told of how the perfector of the wireless was constantly In his little cabin, which is the most perfectly equipped radio room half convinced that messages from Commodore Lauro the wheel of his yacht told of his latest which enables him to send wireless waves in any given direction, He declared he now is able to send 100 miles “straight ahead” to a receiver and be uninter United Press) shack, today. Doctors Ask Lenin to Depart Russia! June 16.—Premier Niko: | lat Lenin has been ordered by his| 1 |Physictans to leave Russia and ent |@ sanitariurh at Dresden, in Saxon |Secording to reports from Moscow | Pr et pel | pte 39) 5 S| ieaszil =4 ; = _—— TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE ON KILLIN Patrolman Slain, Is His Theo Because of Nature of Fatal Wounds Mayor E. J. Brown was subpoenaed Friday by the K |county grand jury investigating the Legate | The mayor has taken a deep interest in the and has expressed the opinion that the police officer did 1 commit suicide. He has held frequent conferences with | Legate and her attorney, Lady Willie Forbus. ;, Brown was in the midst of an important ith 2 ae | firemen’s pension board when he was served with a sub instanter—requiring him to be in readiness to be calle fore the inquisitorial body at any minute. Stee aoe (SAYS RUM STORY CORRE Stephen A. Hull Woman F cing ee | of my prin: cam: pledges was to make this a better and @ safer city. That is why I am anxious to go to the bottom of the Legate case, find out if Legate was murdered, and if he was, to punish those responsible.” | After testifying before the grand jury Thursday afternoon, Dewey | Anderson, “mystery witness” in the Legate death inquiry, obtained a pri- vate interview with Judge Calvin 8. Hall, who ts directing, with Prose- cutor Malcolm Douglas, the course |Of the investigation. | ygAifter the conference Judge of all her statements drunken orgy alleged to staged by King county the republican state Chehalis last week, Stephen Property manager, of 71 has written to Mrs. Maud | congratulating her on her ex | printed in The Star Wed His letter follows: “I read with Interest Bap! in The Star regarding the o some of the prominent tondieigy in Seattle's recent delegation to state republican convention, and @ from personal knowledge vouch # the truth of your statements, “We had room 280 and the singing and carrying on was graceful.” az Mrs. Sweetman says that she | received several other letters fi persons corroborating her All these letters will be turned to Mayor E. J. Brown for use in o nection with his avowed intention, demanding a federal grand jury in- vestigation of the alleged orgy, ‘SHIP SUBSIDY _ FAVORS BOOZE Drys Lose ‘as Bill Is Re- ported Out WASHINGTON, June 16.—The a@- ministration’s ship subsidy bill, with+ out the ban on liquor aboard ships, demanded by prohibitionists in com gress, was favorably reported to the house today by the merchant marigg: committee, The bill was reported by a striet party vote of nine to four. It is um: derstood the dry amendment was bi, feated by about the same vote. An amendment was adopted re quiring that within three years two- thirds of the crew in the engine — room, on the deck and in the quar termaster department of American — ships must be be American citizens, COP CAPTURES WHISKY AUTO! 3 Men and 48 Booze Sacks Taken in Wild Chase An automobile traveling up Dear- born st. with all curtains drawn, and back springs bent by some heavy. weight on the inside, and with three. men on the front seat, aroused the suspicions of Motorcycle Patrolman | 0. K, Holzschumaker, who started In pursuit shortly before noon, The machine began to speed and was going at a terrific pace when | Holschumaker overtook it at Corwin pl. and Dearborn st. The car contained 48 sacks of whis- ky. ‘The three men, H. B, Holowell, 30, a clerk; George Vergy a laborer, and Tom Pope, 41, a chauffeur, were taken to the city jail and held on an open charge. The police are trying to locate the ‘owner of the machine, far’ whem Pope is said to be chauffeur, Hall said Anderson had denied all knowledge of the affair, say- ing that “there must have been @ misunderstanding.” His testi- mony before the grand jury is kept secret. Anderson remained | | | | | Anderson did not appear Friday. }He is at his home in Puyallup, and remains subject to call by the in- \quisitorial bod: | Emmanuel Weitz, former owner of \the garage in which Legate was shot jto death, wae grilled Thursday after. jnoorf. He is supposed to have of- fered testimony regarding graft con- jditions in the district. | George Samac, hotel proprietor, followed Weitz. Samac was charged by Weitz at the inquest with having |told him of flagrant graft cases. jSamac at the inquest absolutely de- nied this, | Lieut. W. B, Kent, detective de- partment, thef testified, being fol- lowed in turn by William Richard- son, who said he saw Legate at 1:06 ja. m, on the morning of the shoot- ing. Exclude News Men From Hague Parley THE HAGUE, June 16.—Corre- | spondents were prevented by armed guards from entering the Peace pal- Jace today when the preliminary Hague conference met at noon. Despite round robing protests and jthe departure of some newspaper Sethe a protest, the Dutch foreign | ottice retused'abeolutety: to permit correspondents to be in the building | where the meeting was held. The conference today decided that the Russian commission to confer with the soviet delegation shall be composed of representatives of about 16 powers, SATURATED THIEF WANTED TIME, AND TOOK IT WITH HIM “I beg pardon, but have you the time?” asked a sodden looking individual with an alcoholic in- spiration, early Friday, as he stopped Ben Anderson, 414 Main st. Anderson dragged out a $60 wateh, “Itsh half-pash shix,” raid the sodden one. “I hate to do thish, but I musht have correct time,” and the sodden one fled down the street, carrying Anderson's ticker in a wildly waving mitt, Local |] Sherlocks, however, have taken up the trail, | | | | | | | |