The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 17, 1922, Page 1

erate n Maximum, 70. ‘Today i ve OLUME 24. NO. 97, WEATHER Tonight and Sunday, fair; winds, ‘Temperature Last 24 Hours mod- Awesterly Minimum, 49. noon, 63. ‘ ee On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Botered as Second Clase Mat’ | Republicans «ay only three deie- gates Were drunk at the Chehalis convention. The trouble ts they can’t agree on which three were drunk. ee ‘The bathing season will be formally opened tomorrow. Every Saturday night is bathing season with us. they don't have an Investiga- of the republican convention. What's the use of crying over spilt | aleokut? mH eee “Mars will only be 42,350,900 miles from the earth Sunday night."’--The Star. Call me a taxi, boy! eee Marcon! is trying to establish com- munication with Mars, Bet the first thing he hears will be: “What's the Matter with Babe Ryth?” eee HURRAH! At last President Harding has got America back to normalcy. Ambassador George Harvey is again wearing long pants. . Horatiue was the name of the first traffic officer. Remember him? He was the gink who held up traffic at | the bridge. And then there was) Joshua, who held up his hand and the sun and moon stood still. ° o- * have been reduced Dealer—Coa | $1.25 Parepiring Citizen- . That's nice. ; ° The man whose hat jumps up and down when be eats just naturally) seeras to get more out of life than anybody else, says Rube the Restau rateur. A PROMINENT CLUBMAN } i | a LI'L GEE GEE, aus OFFICE VAMP, SEZ | Mf there is rooney that | | makes me mad, it is for a So | to come slong with a / cart and try to throw me a tl cs Li'l Gee Gee must be older than we thought to spring that one. owe | oucm Bluest tue ta the summer sky, Lacily float the white clouds by. Nature's triumpha—what do I care? | I'm watching them from Doc Thomp-| ow led son's chair! > cee | ar | Toda candidate for the Poison | —_ Ivy club is the gink who drives up to his sweetie’s home and honks his horn for 20 minutes, rather than get | out and ring the doorbell, oe William Jennings Bryan says he was not descended from an ape, Any self-respecting ape will be glad to} confirm Bill's statement. | Home Brew advocates a bill to] abolish cafet on the ground that | if a man waits on himself he ought | to tip himself, and if most men tipped themselves what they think | they're worth they'd all go broke. | ee 1 love to dine with Jimmy Peck, He always beats me to the check, But to eat with his purse in I hate He Waves pant, Joshua Rance. his other Could you call the republican con- | Yeition at Chehalis an alcoholiday? |committee, and they sent word | happens | field found the inside of the store a They controlled the | being hampered | |raging furnace. (Michigan Senator’ Goes to Aid of) Poindexter and Bremerton. senate naval committee, New- berry promptly responded to the call. As 2m result, $500,000 was ruining that proposition as for as this year is concerned and transferred to Bremerton. But Newberry"s bitterest political enemy, “Pat™ Kelley, of Michigan, ts chairman of the house sub-commit tee on naval appropriations, and he it was who had written the naval bill as it passed the house and went up to the senate for approval Now, scarcely any one likes to have his work mauled over and mutilated by an enemy and “Pat” Kelley is no exception to the rule. So when he heard what Newberry and Poindexter bad done he prompt. | ly got in touch with Martin Madden. chairman of the house appropriation to Poindexter and Newberry that the original bil! must be pasned by thi senate without the dot of an “I” or the cross of a “t" or there would be no continuing resolution to support the navy {f the bill fatled to become a law before June 20! In other words the navy would have to go out of business on that date, if the bill was not nansed The outcome is awaited with in terest regardless of personal consid | erations. Newberry was once secretary of the navy and doubtless thought he [could get away with it, but he reck oned without Pat Kelly, who, it! is himeelf a candidate for U. S. senator from this same state of Michigan and running on an anti Newberry platform * STORE BLASTED BY FIREWORKS, |Two Boys ‘Held by Police for Investigation Accused of throwing a lighted cigaret into a fireworks di play in ® grocery store at 2 Madison st., causing a fiere that practically wrecked the place, Friday night, two boys, Ralph Mills, 19, and Clarence Kchlow, 18, were held in city jail on open charges Saturday. Responding to a fire alarm, firemen under Battalion Chief A, C. Butter blaze with difficulty, by the exploding cannon bombs and skyrockets, The owner of t Butterfield of what had and police immediately began search for the boys. They were ar rested at 21st ave. and B, Madison st. | shortly before midright. They im plicated # third lad in the case, has not been arrested, crackers, The fire damage will amount to! about $300 SIGNS WILL be posted at the street ends bordering on Lake Wash | ington, between Madison park and! Madrona k, warning bathers of) the dangerous “step-off,” it was de cided Friday by city officials, store then told} ovcurred, | a| He) Naming Baby Bridle the Parents. Percival Is a Giant. Hercules a Midget. Give Kids a Chance. By Margaret Rohe My brother's tough and sa feet tall, And yet hie name is Clarence; Mehitable was wished on me, Oh, how we Blame our parents! | Some of the folke so handy at | making laws probibiting food, drink, religion, free speech and inconse. quential things like that ought to go in for something really important They should evolve # nice but firm little law absolutely forbidding the naming of infants at birth by mis- guided parents. Of course, some amateur parents en further i and name the off g before birth, but this seldom | amounts to much, as revisions are 80 often necessary Any naming of infants should be Jcompuisively postponed until said infant has reached the years of dix cretion when it is able to put its| j own finger on a nice name that sults {ite personality I | after course, thia tn legislative pro Then take | prize-winning beauty }¢ n. Her name fand we know this ia | the press agent «wears to it | If you don’t believe it, you look up her father, Leon Cheek the Dawson (Ga) directory and you find him, write him about it Fodd and foolish parents never jseam to stop and consider that the dimyfled ronebud of a daughter, fturn to P ne 12, Colu mn 4) WE ‘AND BABY | SAVED IN FIRE! : Job. of but of baby named ndfather. Yes, was wealthy, worthy once knew a his dings the case of that at the Winter is Lota Cheek new true because can in if aden Father Rescues His, Family in Early Blaze | Herlocally rescuing his baby boy jthis morning when Brown was and his wite from thelr burning|routed from his hiding place, 50 hom, Carl J. Widmer, 8460 47th! miies north of Medicine Bow ave, B. W., early Saturday, barely| ‘The prisoner refused to talk, ac Jescapea injury himself. The Wid-| cording to information reaching 4’ hdme was totally destroyed. —_| nere. Widmee had just lighted the off] Phe capture was effected by Sher more. in kitchen and was pre-|i¢t Saunders of Rawlins, Sheriff paring brmkfast for himself at \F i of Cheyenne and Ww. J a. m. ,whgn he found the stove in| Meciennett, Union Pacifie special] ifiames, §t had overturned accident: | agent. ally | The smell room was {mmediately wrapped i a sheet of flames, Wid. Spanish War Vets {mer jeape§ to the bedroom, and| votaita Na aite. ait cull, ‘oartied | Going to Yakima them to mfety. They were unable| Thirty-five delegates of Fortson- to «ave a@y household goods, as the|'Thygesen camp, No. 2, United Span fire spreagl thru the house within a | ish War Veterans, will at i the few minul®®. | state encampment in Yakima, July The houge, valued at $500, and the | 20 Right will go to the national contents vpiued at $1,000 were con-| encampment at Low Angeles, in @u- I gumed, InsMrance amounted to $1,050. | gust. if ¢ The Seattle Star May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1679 Per Year, by Mall, $6 to 69 SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1922. MANIAC SHOT! POSSE! Nebraska Madman in Net of Law Long Hunt dune li greatest «manhunt came to an end at Medicine Bow, Brown was shot after a desperate battle. He was armed with three Winchester rifles and two revolvers. All these weapons were emptied in the battle before the fugitive threw jup his hands in token of surren der posse OF 25 | CIRCLES FUGITIVE A pouse of 26 armed men. left Medicine Bow at 10 o'clock last Pony upon receipt of a phone mes- sage from John Burnett, @ rancher, |that he had just fed Brown. Brown formerly worked for Burnett under the name of Ernest Bush, which is believed to be his real name. The pom overtook the fugitive at 4:45 thia morning. Brown's car, Nash super six, which he had stolen from a garage et eyenne ad become stuck fn an Irrigation diteh A sanguinary battle followed. | Sheriff Saun deployed hin mon in such & manner that Brown was surrounded, The madman fought bravely, emp- |tying his entire arsenal, but failed to hit any of the posse. He is be- | ieved to have been shot by a bul- let from Sheriff Saunders’ gun. The prisoner refused to talk except to ask for a giass of water, He was taken in an automobile to Medicine| How and there placed on @ train for| Rawlins, State Sheriff Hyera and Warden {Fenton of Nebraska penitentiary | MANIAC CHAINED TWO WOMEN Hrown, on May women, Miss Katherine 20, and Mra, Jean kins, his shack on the outskirts and Held them prisoner for hours. 1 W. EB. Boyd, who the ven. He drove smobile after dig MeMaman, in Henson He also chat tried to rescu jaway in Boyd's au lging a grave and telling Boyd he j> would return, kill Boyd and bury him in the grave. Boyd succeeded | in freeing himself and notifying | | police. Then the great manhunt started | Brown, in making his way to | Wyoming, is known to have stolen jat least eight automobiles, disarmed | tive officers who tried to arrest him, jand shot his way to freedom on three other occasions. | ae iff Saunders was at the head posse which had been tracking | Brown for several days. State Sher 8 | it¢ Gus Hyers of Nebraska, who tele. | phoned the inforn capture to Omaha police, was in the vicinity of Medicine Bow, but was {not with the posse when Brown was captured, it Is understood, The capture was effected at 4:45 After Defying! Brown was positively identified by| chained two | ation of Brown's | Who's This M rs. Sweetman?) She’. s Woman ‘ond a F iahtes ) %. 4a? War Fah Var Mrs. Maude Sweetman —-Photo by James & Merribew BY ROBERT BASTIEN BERMANN ee lag trouble-maker” or latter-day Joan of Arc —which Both terms have been applied to Mrs. Maude Sweetman —and numerous others, equally complimentary or other- wise, according to the views of the speaker. But on one point everyone who knows her—or knows of her-—is agreed: , She is one of the most interesting figures in Seattle's po-| |litical life. More than that—she is a power in politics; friend and foe alike admit that she is “dynamite” when she starts after anyone. In one way, Mrs. Sweetman’s career is pretty generally iknown. Everybody—to use the term in a political sense— knows about her feud with Bill Whitney, assistant federal prohibition director, and her resultant tiffs with various members of the “regular” republican organization. Every- one knows her views Bay, as & result of her published letters Everyone knows the Impor- | tant phase of the question. For, in tant part which she played tn teresting ag she is simply as a po | the recent election of Dr. E. d. | litical figure, Mrs, Sweetman is far Brown as mayor. And, to bring more interesting from a purely hu- the matt down to date, every man viewpoint one knows about the rumpus she has stirred up within the last few days with her letter in ‘The Star, cha sing prominent repub- to the A psychoannlyst, If given an op | portunity to study Mrs, Sweetman, would probably say that she had an | tion at Chehatls with st nt career, strange as drunken orgy. . has been just one con- | Yes, these facts are generally | tinuous seeking for atonement |known—but that’s all. Hardly any A tew ago, as every one one knows the woman inside—the| knows from her remarkable “books reasons for her spectacular career.|on the subject, Mrs, Sweetman was And that is really the most impor (urn to Page 1, Columm » on Marriage, Yea Bo! By June d’Amour omen HEY'RE off at last! 'S Ese, The flood of letters which I anticipated ’ when I announced The Star-Herb Schoenfeld -, matrimonial sweepstakes last Monday has begun to pour in, At first I was sort of afraid that there wouldn’t be enough entrants to make our wedding party a success; I thought maybe that, unbeknownst to me, June weddings had gone out of style. But my fears were groundless. It was just that the matrimonial candidates re- quired some time to get together and write their essays on “Why We Want to Get married.”” that they've had the need they're coming a vengeance { ner to me. self. | Writes a Kirkland bridegroom-to- Now Read ‘em time they to the front with over your and the prospects are that the | be: “It is a recognized fact that some model bungalow on the fifth | time in his life a fellow will meet floor of the Standard Furniture | the ‘only girl.’ A year ago T did not Co., where the weddings are to [appreciate the meaning of that term be held, will be filled to capnelty but now that 1 have met her 1 with bridal lrealize how great ‘those . two. little the day set for the wholesale | words are. | muptia “The only obstacle in my way is And of all the reasons that were | that T was unfortunate enough to ever given for marrying! y|fall for # girl who lives 25 miles one of the essays looks like a wine} (Turn to Page 12, Column 6) ‘ on most of the important issues of the} They Have the Dope TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. DEAD IN CRASH! One Is Thrown Thru Windshield 2 WOMEN as Auto Plunges Off High way ASTORIA, Ore., June 17—Two women were instantly killed and ® man was fatally injured when the automobile in which were riding plunged off the high- way south of here today. Misa Billie West, a ludy barber, of Astoria, and Mrs. A. Backstrom, of Seattle, were both thrown thru the windshield and cut to death by giass. Sam Tuoma, of Astoria, died in the hospital here shortly after the acc! dent. Alex Coutts, of Astoria, was seriously injured, L. G. Stinson, the chauffeur, who said the machine turned turtle after striking some timber where the road was being repaired, was jailed. Ho edmitted taking some drinks THOMAS HUNT, LAWYER, DEAD Ex-Newspaper | Man Passes Away at Home Thomas F. Hunt, 64, Seattle law- yer, was found dead in his bed at an early hour Saturday morning at his home, 600 W. Howe st. The exact cause of his death was not known, | care for some time, fice is investigating, with the belief that he died of heart failure. Mr, Hunt was born in Boston, Jan. 29, 1868, He was political editor of the Boston Globe and had also served in that capacity on the Boston Post. In 1909 he came to Seattle with his family, He was for several years a member of the Post-Intelligencer edi |torial staff, and later practiced law here with offices in the L. C. Smith building. He is survived by | Katherine M 17, and Hector, The body was taken to the Collins Bros.’ undertaking parlors and serv. joes will be held at 9 a, m. Tuesday at the St! Anne chureh, Second ave, W. and Lee st Valentino Faces New Bigamy Probe}! his wife, Mrs. Hunt, two sons, Neil, LOS ANGELES, June 17. -- New} troubles loomed today for Rodolph Valentino, champion lover of the screen, and for Frank Mayo and Bert Claudius, also screen stars. Deputy District Attorney McClel- | land announced that his office will lay evidence regarding the marriage [of the three men before the county grand jury and ask indictments} charaing Digamy I. W. W. Witnesses Gain Trial Delay SACRAMENTO, June 17.—Trial of | 10 I. W. W. witnesses, charged with criminal syndicalism, was continued until Monday by Superior Judge Jamison yesterday. The care was! put over with the understanding that | it could be completed by Thursday. The prosecution will finish present: ing its case Monday, it was an. nounoss. Pre. aleist Defends Demos in Treasury WASHINGTON, June 17.—Prest dent Harding will not acceed to the petition of more than 100 republican | mombers of congress that about 150 alleged democrats be ousted from the | treasury department, it was authort tatively learned today, ‘The president shares the view of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon | that most of the treasury employes | listed on the republican congressional “black list’ as democrats are persons of long experience in the important work of administering government finances, and that there has been no evidence of democratic activities on their part, tho he had been under a doctor’s| ‘The coroner's of. | 22nd. pares ee her and take answering her suits has fil Plaint against ber with papers with five other fellows, it. “After that she kept bothering until 1 consented to call om het, and I drove out to her houseboa At 3312 Eastlake a with other fellows on the night of “They waited outside while I jin and saw her. I stayed minutes, | “The next day she insisted en |going out to her house for fu ‘That was the last time I eo en her with one exception—when I [into her at the Arcade building jShe tried to blackmail me.” | On May 27, five days after he |her, Mrs, Reed filed suit for damages against Tarbox, jthat he had represented himself |single, a wealthy, prominent | {ness man, and desirous of Jeongenial companion and that {haa betrayed her, after promising to take her East with him and pt ing his violent love for her, SAYS SHE'S WOMAN SOUGHT ON WARRANT Tarbox says he knows definite of Mrs. Reed's with Dr, Miller, but that he is: she is the same Mrs, Reed now. ing sought on a warrant eh her with giving a fraudulent $50 to Mrs, Florence V. 0 singing at one of the “doctor's” fi jonable lettures. He declares she peatedly urged him to attend Miller's meetings, 3 As evidence of his Innocence | the matter, Tarbox exhibits a hee letter written to him ‘by Mra, on May 23, after he had seen (Turn to Page 12, Column 7%) 9 Mexican Bandits . Are Shot by CALEXICO, Cal, June 17 cisco Gareia, noted Mexican and eight of his “army” were last night when they attempted rob a Mexican Southern Pacific carrying $450,000 to Los Angeles use in paying the Obregon e ment's debts. ‘The bandits attaghe the train south of Mazatlan, but™ beaten off by guards. NO, NOT OVER THERE! BUT LOOK OVER HERE! | ~ BEG PARDON! : No! No! No! Not there! Over there! Mars, which will be nearer the earth Sunday night than at] any time since 1909, can be wens dy the southeastern part of the not in. the southwestern, It a reddish tinge and is a of the first magnitude. Th Star erroneously qu Prof. L., L, Smail of the versity of Washington as p Mars fn the southwestern of the heavens,