The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 26, 1922, Page 1

AN nr Ree WEATHER Tonight and Tuesday, foir: con- tinued worm moderate northwesterty winds Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 8&1. Minin Today noon, 67 Af === ~ VOLUME 24. NO. 104, a University of Washington Eight Ready for Big Eastern Contest BY HENRY L. FARE POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., |—Six mighty American crews lounged around their quarters this morning, on edge for the greatest test of their careers in the annual intercollegiate rowing championship this afternoon on the Hudson rtver ‘The*morning broke clear, with hot sun pouring down on the roads that were jammed with autos bring ing first of the expected crowd of June 26. 00 The riv and ideal r was running smoothly conditions for the race,| which starts with the freshman event m at 4:30 p. Eastern da time were expected The mighty navy crew, Olympic Howdy, folks! Get sunburned [40d national champlons . was .. yesterday, So did—ouch!—we, picked as a sure winn main gre discussion waged about second place W. L. George says a man cannot| Cornell, Syracuse and Washington love two women at the same time, |Were expected to furnish the grand Our wife frequently tells us the samejbattle for runner-up position, with thing Columbia and Penns: fighting ee for last pia Canoe rent isn't the only expensive | Jim Ten Eyck, veteran Syracuse thing about paddling. Think of the |conch, said he expected to finish sec hairnets rent! ; ond. “That's the best we can do.” h an eight on ™ see said, “because there LACK OF HARMONY the water that can touch Navy ' We find that this mine war in Washington, the big, powerful Winois is likely to create consid- eight, coming cast with the cham i erable ill feeling. pionship of the Pacific coast, was re { ;dnie garded as a real dark horse i H He stepped upon a railroad track, The train he had not heard; They put him all together And they said his judgment erred. COV. SMALL'S “ee | Eastern Washington politician de | WIFE I iS DEAD scribes ator Milen Poindexter as ‘one 0 are’s noblemen.” Ain't 4 Refit |Dies of Overjoy After His | It Is enid that after the first 4,000, isis’ Gee tay an coma allie, d4| Acquittal Li'l Gee Gee's highest ambition either this stateme: to prove or dixpre WE CARRY IT WITH US Newspaper reports the forma: tion of a toothbrush trust. We NKAKEE, Il, J 26.—Mrs. | Len Small, wife of Illinois’ goveronr died today of o as a result of ther husband's acquit kK verjo} wouldn't trust ours to anybody. Mra. Small wae stricken with pay ee 8 latysis when blood vessel burst in We don't see why Amunds ‘her brain Saturday night to spend seven years in the No hope was held out for her re North when he could rent an & covery after the stroke / ment jn tle for the winter Specialists rushed to her bedside | oe declared the nerve strain of the trial, | co 1 with the great joy of her HOT WEATHER POME nd’s victory, caused her death tricken just after a rous hush: jeands of friends of the governor ' family had concluded on the lawn of | the Sm mansion 1g to her husband, she said am going to be tll T “1 believe I 1 Those were her last words. he collapsed in his arms. | The melancholy days are come, The kind and tender devotion}, The deat of the year which Mra. Small exhibited toward | We cannot buy a new straw hat her husband during the long, ordeal) Recause they are so dear. won the admiration of all who saw | a Nadi the couple at the trial at Waukegan. | But, tor 5 ove what Chairman Bhe constantly at his side. Lasker says wet ships, we! ‘The effect of her death on the gov: believe he is beating around the! ernor wax feared by physician Adsiphus Fu The governor remained at her bed ds ey. svie from time she was stricken PASSION’S FOOL | Thank G she lived to see my A Home Brew Super-production | yyndiew said Smal? } ‘The Picture th a Soul | “My enemies have orought this} 1 | other great sorrow upon me,” | Spring! ., Mad! .. . Irrespon: In addition to the governor, those Die! Awful! Wonderful! | a+ the side of the first lady of the (Turn to Page 7, Column 2 Glern to Page 7, Column 1) ing horne-coming celebration by thow- | « API, SULLIVAN SUSPER On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Rntered ae Second Clase Matter May #, 1999, at the Postoffice at The Seattle Star Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3. 1579. Por Your, by Mall, $6 to o9 SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1922. (Pictures from left to sight) DON GRANT, cozmcain—116 pounds feet, 6 inches; 20 years old. rant is holding the tiller ropes in the varsity shell for the first time this anon He has turned out for cox for three years and is credited with a remarkable knowledge of rowing form and technique. MIKE MURPHY, « years old, Murphy is declared by 6 feet, 11 inches; 24 sport to be one of the tain and stroke—156 pounds; followers of th finest strokes ever developed at Washington. Coach Ben Wallis, of Call- fornia, paid tribute to the superior ability and rtsmanship of the Wash ington leader after the defeat of the Bruins, This is Murphy's second year | on the crew. He is a junior. Murphy stroked the frosh two years ago and the varsity shell last season. FRED (“SPUG") 8SPUHN, No. pounds; 6 feet, 1 inch years old. Spuhn is one of the sophomores who was drafted from the victorious | froxh crew of 1921 and never has been in danger of losing his seat in| the varsity shell. Spubn has as nearly perfect form as any member of the varsity crew | VIRGIL (“8PUD") MURPHY, No. 6—~180 pounds; 6 feet, 10 inches; 23 years old. He has been turning out for crew for three years ROBERT (“BuB") INGRAM, No. 185 pounds; 6 feet; 23 years old. Ingram has been a crew man since he entered the university three y ago. He was in the frosh shell and last year in the varsity race aga California. Ingram is said to have the most power of any Wash carsman. His form is not of the but his weight and strength make him one of the valuable men. This is Ingram’s last year in crew. He will also be captain of football next season for Washington LLOYD (“RED”) MASON, No. 4-1 yunds; 6 feet; 21 years old Mason is another sophomore who landed a berth in the varsity shell. Masor fought all season for a place in first shell and the superiority of his —Phote by Price @ Carter Star Biaft Photographers form finally secured him the coveted Job. He was a frosh oarsman last season. Mason is a member of Phi Kappa Pst } ED CUSHMAN, No, $—181 pounds; 6 feet, 11 inches years old. He has turned for crew for four years and has been prevented by injuries from competing WRIGHT PARKINS, No, 2—174 pounds; 6 feet, 2 inches; 24 years old Parkins was in the varsity shell last season until just before the race, when last-minute changes ousted him. He rowed at No. 2 against California this season. Parkinx ix a junior and will be with the crew again next season. | PAT TIDMARSH, bow—162 pounds; 6 feet, 11 inches; 21 years old. Tid- marsh ousted a veteran of two seasons for his place at bow. Tidmarsh ccuplies the seat held by Clarence Magnusson for two years. | COACH ED LEADER was a graduate from the law school of the uni versity in 1914. He was a member of the varsity crew under Coach Coni-} bear three years and rowed in the crew that competed at Poughkeepsie | in 1913, j Since graduation Coach Leader has practiced law in Seattle. He was appointed crew coach at the university in 1918, There was no intercollegi- that season, Leader has since coached four races, three of which} won by Washington and one, in 1921, going to California by five feet were n crews @ modification of that has become nationally known as a leading | has 4 us Conibe Coach Leader eloped in the Washing fam ar stroke 1922, Copyright, CHAPTER ¢ the distance had come the whirring | It was early afternoon. Near by,|#0und of a motor, the forerunner of the smaller hills shimmered in the |® possible custom In the bills, an radiant warmth of late eprihg, the | automobile speaks befe «meen brownness of their foliage and boul-| Long moments of throbbing eche ders merging gradually upward to|then the car appeared, a mile the spruces and pines of the higher | down the stream, twisting along the mountains, which in turn gave way] rocky walls which rose sheer from before the somber blacks and whites | the road, threading the innumerable of the main range, where yet the| bridges which spanned the little snow lingered from the clutch of win-| stream, at last to break forth Into ter, where the streams ran brown | the open country and roar on toward with the down-flow of the continental | Dominion. The drowsy gasoline ten divide, where every cluster of moun-|der rose. A moment more and a |tain foliage sheltered a mound of} jong, sieek, yellow racer had come white, in jealous conflict with the|to a stop beside the gas tank sun. The mountains are tenacious of | chortied with greater reverberation mow and cold and tee long after the | open, then wheezed into silence with seasons have denoted a time of|the cutting off of the ignition. A warmth and summer's eplendor; the| young man rose from his almost fiat iumbine often blooms beside a ten-| position in the low#lung driver's seat arift and crawling over the side, stretched Rut down in the hollow which|himeelf, meanwhile staring upward | shielded the scrambling little town of | toward the glaring white of Mount Dominion, the air was warm and|Taluchen, the highest peak of the azy with the friendliness of May.| continental backbone, frowning in Far off, along the course of the} the coldness of anows that never de tumbling stream, turbulently striving| parted, The villager moved closer o care for far more than its share a7" of the melt-water of the hills, a ja “Yep.” The young man stretched bird called raucously as though in an|again, “Fill up the tank—and better effort to drown the sweeter, softer | give me half a gallon of oil.” notes of a robin nesting In the new-| Then he turned away once more, green of a quaking aspen, At the} to stare again at the great, tumbled hitching post fore the one tiny | stretches of granite, the long spaces store, an old horse nodded and|of green-black pines, showing In the blinked,—-as did the sprawled figure | distance like so many upright fronds | beside the ramshackle motor-filling | of some strange, mossy fern; at the tion, just opened after the snow-| blank spaces, where cold stone and bound months of winter. Then five | shifting shale had made jagged minutes of absolute peace ensued, ex-| marks of bareness in the masses of ept for the buzzing of an inves -levergreen, then on to the last gative bottle-fly before the figure] gnarled bulwarks of foliage, strug shuffled, stretched, and raising his} ing bravely, almost desperately, to head, looked down the road. From! hold on to life where life was impos- Start New Novel Today “THE WHITE DESERT” By Courtney Ryley Cooper - Ai. tyle | j j Brown & Company sible, the dividing line, as sharp as a) village, that plate must be removed knifethrust, between the there fb toxsed to the bottom of the near: | where trees may grow and snows |est stream. His mission, for a time may hide beneath their protecting | at least, would require secrecy. But} boughs and the desolate, barren,|the villager had repeated his ques- rocky, forbidding waste of. “timber | tion | linhe | “Don't belong around here?” Young he was, almost boyish, yet] 72 No, I'm—" then he hesitated. | unterbulancing this Was @ #erioUS-| wont maybe you. did, Sein’ ness of expression that almost ap: - -" proached sombernes# aa he stood |¥oU've got a Colorado license on. | waiting until his machine should be| Houston parried, with a smile, | made ready for the continuance of] ‘Well, this isn’t all of Colorado, | his journey. The eyes were dark and| you know.” | lustrous with something that closely juess that's right. Only it seems | approached sorrow, the lips had alin th’ summer thet {t's most o' tt, | tightness about them which gave evi-|th’ way th’ machines pile through dence of the pressure of suffering, all| goin’ over th’ Pass. Where you forming an expression which seemed | headed for? to come upon him unaware, a hidden he same place.” thing ever waiting for the chance to] “Ov Hazard The villager rise uppermost and assume command. | squint Hazard Pass? Ain't! But in a flash it was gone, and boy- | daft e you?’ ish again, he had turned, laughing, to] “1 hope not. Why? survey the gas tender "Did you speak?” he asked, the | | dark eyes twinkling. ‘The villager| “And you're tacklin’ it for the £ was in front of the machine, staring | tim t this season o’ th’ year?” at the plate of the radiator and 8. Ww not? It's May, isn't soratching his head jit | “I was just sayin’ I never seed} The villager moved closer, as thas kind o" cee balore rry Hous-|though to gain a better sight of ton, huh? Must bea new make, Barry Houston's features. He sur at | veyed him carefully, from the tight-| “Camouflage,” laughed the young| drawn reversed cap with the motor! man again, “That's my name." {goggles resting above the young, | “Oh, is it?” and the villager|Smooth forehead, to the quiet ele-| chuckled with him, “It shore had|sance of the outing clothing and| me guessin’ fer a minute, You've| Well-shod feet, He spat, reflectively got th’ plate right where th’ name|4nd drew the back of a hand across | © @ car is plastered usually, and it | tobacco-stained lips. | plum fooled me, That's your name,| “And you say you live in Colora huh? Live hereabouts—?" | do.” | The owner of the name did not] “I didn’t say" | answer. The thought suddenly had| “Well, It don't make no difference} come to him that once out of the (Continued on Page 6) |made out in his handwriting and the | ™—> THE NEWSPAPER WITH A 15,000 CIRCULATION LEAD OVER ITS NEAREST COMPETITOR <-_—a Charged With Gross Irregularities Handling Department Money By Robert Bastien Bermann Unable to explain irregularities in his accounts which,” ‘is alleged, may run high into the thousands of dollars, C; “Charlie” Sullivan, secretary of police, was indefinitely pended by Chief of Police W. B. Severyns Monday. The suspension came as the result of a state audit Sullivan’s accounts by Examiner Frank L. Mitten, which vealed conditions that brought about an immediate in | gation of the secretary's department. The actual charges against Sul- of unexplainable irregularities im livan are based upon a single connection with his office as see — transaction—a government war- retary of the police department, rant for $595, issued to the city which have been reported to dune 4, 1919, for treatment giv- by the state board of pli en sailors in the city hospital rgt. H. D. Mechener will haw This warrant Sullivan is alleged | charge of the office of to have cashed April 2, 1920, con- | police during the suspension of Cal verting the money to his own use | A. C. Sullivan until last Thursday, when, after Sullivan declined to comment on being ordered by Severyns to | the matter for publication, but Bev. make restitution, he paid the ryns seid that he had “explained” j the he city treasury. Chief Severyns admitted that this was only one of a number of questionable transactions which he believed would be re- vealed, and declared that he ex- $595 a refund issued to him by the | "gone bad.” | pected the total loss to the city Severyns refused to accept this would involve thousands of dol- explanation in view of the fact lars. }that the text of werrant stated ~ Mitten’s audit revealed 12 accounts, | plainly that it, was issued by the” ranging from 60 cents up to $118,/ public health service for the care statements of which had been sub-|of sick seamen mitted to the federal government and | GROSS N EGLIGENCE to individuals by Sullivan, and for! ap LEAST, IT SEEMS which no money had ever been paid|” incidentally, this transaction re rac sity tr <a | vealed what amounts to at least wre ey ENT IN gross negligence in the city treas= 1S HANDWRITING urer's office. Sullivan cashed the There is nothing as yet to connect | warrant in Sullivan with these except that, the that office, obtaining in” transactions— ) exchange a city warrant for §382 im statements were! payment for army supplies which” (Turn to Page 7, Column 5) government maintains it has issued | RUNS ASHORE numerous other simflar cases would AMSTERDAM, be brought to light, and has asked the aid of the federal secret service in investigating the matter. j Sullivan was given a chance to re. sign Monday when he saw Chief June er Schoharie is aground on Torschel- Severyns, but declined, saying, “I'd | ing bank, about 100 kilometers north: be foolish to do anything like that.” | of here, according to “SOS” calls ree Severyns then issued the following | ceived from the vessel today. general order | The Schoharte is a shipping board capt. A.C. Sullivan, secretary | steamer of 5,107 tons, built at Phileas of police, is hereby indefinitely delphia in 1919. She has turbine en- suspended pending investigation | gines WANTED: DECORATED AUTOMOBILES The Fourth of Tule as contioatbeis wants decorated au- tomobiles for its parade. The committee has asked The Star to get decorated automobiles. Will you help? There are going to be prizes offered for the most attractive machines. What these prizes are will be announc ed tomorrow. In the meantime, please be laying your plans to assist in making the veteras’ parade a great success. You will want to use bunting, or flowers, or both, And watch for The Star tomorrow with its list of prizes. transaction by declaring: that he had thought the warrant was ernment for army supplies which he |had bought personally and which i’ 26.—The_ United States shipping board steam. es