The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 4, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER Temperature Last 34 Hours Maximum, 87. Minimum, 64, Today noon, 84, Batered as Second Class Matter May VOLUME 24, NO, 111. the Postoftice at _™-——> THE NEWSPAPER WITH A 15,000 PaR WITH A 15,000 CIRCULATION LEAD OVER ITS NEAREST COMPETITOR <—@ GIRL LIGHTS CRACKER, DYING! On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to 99 SEATTLE, W ASIL, TUESDAY, JULY, 4, 1922, CHILD 0 OLE LARSON ATH VICTIM ‘Set on Fire When| of Dress kicking it—yes, yes—potato salad— right—no, I sha'n't bether Bobby Meeth— Tried to hold a giant cracker former president of the de- funct Scandinavian-American a eee bank of Tacoma, was burned So Itve that you won't ask to have| probably fatally, Tuesday #8 beegt out 4 tee papers. morning. ‘The child, who ts known to Intl mates of the family as “Peegy.” was playing by herself in front of her residence at 1614 Seevnth ave. W., at the time of the accident. She lit s tiny firecracker and threw ft inte the air and it land- ‘Today's candidate for the Polson Ivy Club is the boob.who throws a ere, ema maky coumtasaine ‘re trying to make entertaining face and the front of her body In the ivy. About the funniest thing we know e ing at pre gobs because they wear/all over, but the flames seared her low. neck blouses, back so badly that physicians at the « Swedinh hospital fear that she can QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS not live 24 hours. (Can any of our terary readers| An unidentified motorist, driving a give us the name of the author of the | machine with a Wenatchee license, following little piece of poetry? None | was the first per of our anthologies lists its creator, | scene. He leaped to the ground and and we are continually receiving re | wrapped the child in an automobile quests for the poet's name.) robe, extinguishing the flames. "Thirty days hath Beptember, | Then he April, June and November anyone an opportunity to thank him All the rest have thirty-one Witnesses said that he injured him- Excepting February alone self when he jumped out of the ma Which has twenty-eight in fine Ti Leap-year gives it twenty- nine.” away to get hospttal treatment. Friends and relatives of the child heard Peggy's screams, but thought she was simply playing: 31 FIRES HERE IN TEN HOURS Heavy Loss “Due to Fourth cee The difference between the army and navy is that In the army you eat liver and onions and in the navy you eat onions and Ii . . Hello—Hetlo!—Oh, it’s you again!— “yes, the napkins are in—how many?— | Good gracious, my dear, I've got to get out this column—If I wanted a| counting napkins I’ go to work at ry teria—yes, yes—'LL GET ; : NAS!—«’bye! she Celebration Steamship lines no longer adver- 5 igs | thse the luxury and speed of thelr! with an average of one blaze ; ee ee ee *} every 12 minutes, from midnight HELLO. rere? hows 7uB nove on, Seattle's Fourth of July fire Foiny of Olean arapret| loss bids fair to mount to monu ~ eave and re mental figures before nightfall Boonville (N | Fifty-one fire alarms, most of them resulting from firecrackers skyrockets and the like, were turned in between midnight and ¥.) Hera . Be that as It may, Doom Bros. are undertakers in New Carlisle, © tah soe. tad oer dine (hay a! started coming faster, as the Yes, yes, help yourselt to a clgaret) crescendo of patriotic noise rose | —Fiftcen more minutes to get to the! higher and higher. ; Galbraith dock—Have to write col) Wiig most of the fires were ex umn every day?—Sure, it’s hard On| singuished in short order by the city me—but think of the~ readers) pic ratus, the total logs at noon was There's your mateh—GET OUT, AND COME BACK IN OCTOBER—where : — high in the four figures and was jsteadily increasing The rest of the city was out a-pic nicking—but the firemen celebra the “holiday” with double work, the tune of loud imprecations against small boys and the lack of a law forbidding pyrotechnic displays The fact that many residences and in some cases whole blocks were v nt for the day added to the fire peril Fires that otherwise might eas- fly have been extinguished by the householders themselves— when a roof, for instance, was ig- nited by sparks from a Roman candle—spread so before they »| were discovered that it was nec- imme a piece of that mince ple ptesceny sao tg.» pte “That ain't mince —shoo!—that’s) ang in some insances homes were ; custard ae 1: Say domes The home of 8. Whittier, 7th st., owned by A. Burt, was dam ged to the extent of $454 by n fire started when an. early-rising sent a flaming rocket Annual auto race is on at the Ta- coma speedway today. The bird who goes 300 miles without getting killed | I wins. . . Now that the strawberry days are o'er, It is time to start fasting for} the watermelon season. | oe o- A guy I loathe Is Billy Brent, Who calls a gent- ) Leman @ gent. | . IN FL ASON \ Fillo, hello, hello!—Yes, all ready! | eget —Will be at the dock in ‘seven min- utes—yes, the steamer Bainbridge— UMHHEM™M: Yes, the basket is but my heart and stomach ht—righto—no, I'm not wear- | ing white pants—have you got the; - little jug?—fine!—be right down— the roof. Most of the roof {jres, however, were extinguished after only a few dollars’ loas had been caused ' pss | A blaze at 15 Third ave, just | as the Independence day parade was Celebrated Patent smbling, drew huge crowds, but extinguished ¥ quickly Medicine Man Dead | PASADENA, Cal., July 4.—Lowell| WIMBLEDON, July 4.—Suzanne Chamberlain, formerly of Des Moines |Lengien. French tennis star, de and one of the country’s best known ed Miss Elizabeth Ryan, United ufacturers, died here today here last night. patent medicine moe their match suddenly at his hom States, in 6-1 and 86, | Tiny Ladyfinger Falls Into Plait; is the man with @ wilted collar laugh-| This saved her from being burned! attracted to the! drove away without giving | chine, and believed that he hurried | onto IDEAL WEATHER FOR FOURTH; NO RAIN IN SIGHT AND COOLER The weather man had a heart Tuesday He not only promised that no rain would interfere with the Fourth of July festivities, but he aixo let up on the temperature The mercury wouldn't rise over 75 during the day assured holiday picknickers, may |] not go above 70. This was quite a rellef after Monday, when the thermometer at the top of the Hoge building soared to 86 and down on the street the temperature was around the 100 mark OH, LOOK AT he and | yes—all —_—_ long with Home Brew—yes, yes—at| Hor dress igniting from a aed ama ve ee, Te ay y-finger” firecracker,| ora 0 Olive Larson, 6-year-old) An crcful mess to daughter of O, S. Larson, Vet 4 e Jim Egan an Finds It Happen in This, City of O of Ours aia By James V W. Egan iw that today is July Fourth. Ever since the year 1776, this | date has been one of joyous | and jazesome celebration for pa- | trietic citizens, small boys, large | boys, fireworks manufacturers, the beaos who sell lukewarm bot- | tles of tee cold pop, and orators | | of the day. Particularly orators | of the day. Seattle awakened this morning—| that is, if the rest of & lluckier than I was and able t at all thru last night's bombardment all set to enjoy the biggest Fourth of the Applause Now let's co on FIRST DISH ON |MENU IS PARADE city’s existence. F dish on today’s menu was the monster parade at 10 o'clock There or thereabouts, July Fourth without a parade would be ag a goat devoid of aroma. Impossible. The merry ors from the Lewis and I marchers included sat! ort La vetera chap and domestic warfare in out uniform, fraternal bagpipers and regular soldiers from i of and hren § wns musi clans The heavy footwork began at Second and Virginia street. The paraders picked ’em up and laid "em down Second avenue to You ler way, ambled up to Third and hoofed to Pine, then on Pine to Fifth and by the reviewing stand at Westlake avenue and Olive street. It is believed most of the | marchers needed new shoes after this unmodified Marathon. | At Woodland park this afternoon riotic program was carded for fit of several hundre persons chafing to be init t mysteries of citizensh | young 1 Into There will be a band concert and a “com munity sing" leader also will try to compete against the customary Fourth of July noises. It has been announced that after a brief prayer Mayor Brown will speak, Doubtiess a prayer that he be brief. | The orator of the day—we had to |have one—is Chief Justice Emmett Parker of the state supreme bench and I suppose I’m in contempt of jcourt right now for this wise crack He will deliver the charge of citizen {ship free of cha His eager young {auditors will have explained to them | (Turn to Page 4, Column 2) Parade Way, east on Yesler east Pine to Fifth, north on F and Stewart, disbanding Fifth and 1 to 7 p. m.—-“Sightseeing” quarters hourly p. m.—Amerteanization jon of Miss Liberty and court University 10 a to Yer on 7 p.m erty and court, address by Mayor, || test, bagpipe contest, fraternal 8 from Indians by U TIS JULY 4! Means Much Will! PROGRAM FOR FOURTH of 10,000 marchers Way autos for ceremony at Woodland Park. Stadium ceremony. fire department lagder-climbing con- team alry, sham battle (storming of Montfaucon); PARADE LARGEST IN CITY ANNALS Soldiers, _ Sailors, | Girls, Civilians Are Features of Big Spectacle By E. P. Chalcraft Thousands of uniformed march- ers, hundreds of pretty girls in scores of gorgeous floats, soldiers, | sailors, civilians, patriotic and fraternal organtaations—all com- bined to put over the biggest Fourth of July parade Seattle has ever seen. Starting shortly after the appoint ed time—-10 o’clock—the firet column | of marchers rounded the turn at Pine st. and started down Second ave. In the vanguard wore Mayor Brown, Chief of Police W. B. Severyns, the police band, Then a float with Miss } | her nix maidens. Followed the 80th pent. Sf vu. & infantry, with, ont eee ed-out: behind them humanity. Both aides of Becond ave, from Pine to Yeuler way, were banked from lcurb to buildings with cheering spec: | uphill | jtators. Bide streets on the wide were mansed with autos, whose | “, iw lecoupante honked thelr heros in a|_* eetheart.” bedlam of approbation and enthust asm. MARINES CHEERED | TO THE ECHO An inspiring spectacle it was | when the large detachment of marines, marching 24 abreast and filling the street from curb to curb, came down the avenue, | | CHARGE GOB KILLED TEACHER! Packet of 250 Letters May Help Solve Tragic Myste CASE OF LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT Then Came Disillusionment for Girl, With Discovery of Man’s Former Marriage, Followed by Death SAILOR BOY IN JAIL; MURDER? By Alexander Herman FREEPORT, N. Y., July 4.—A tale of love at first sight, disillusionment, and tragedy, is revealed in a packet of 250 letters which, attorneys say, were writ- ten by Edythe E. Lavoy, a pretty 22-year-old school | teacher. She is dead—with a bullet thru her right temple. William Creasy of Covington, Ky., her former lover, in in jail. He) was with her at the time of the shooting. He says it w=: Liberty, queen of the Fourth, and} Creasy was a gob in the navy when he met Miss Lavoy. | }love it | Ha. i] | The assembled thousands let loons | A spontaneous cheer roar of welcome as the sailors from | closed to spectators, the disclosures. h was wd I hope you sleep well tonight oe b rneen dg Mice Ag og know I shall. I feel we both need Battle e zona, then the Pennsylvania. Catifor. |", ¢* What? I sure missed you " : ee eee ae cenvemace all wero | When I came home tonight. The BY GEORGE MacDONAGH made to know that Sesttle’s welcome | °O™ seemed so empty without you.| (Passed by the Military Censor) le @ thing to stir the heart |, Bidding you a kind good-night, | DUBLIN, July 4.—<2:30 p, m) | Veterans of all the ware were rep-|nabPY dreams, and with all MY! _vonenn de Valera was w . . love Your j a was wound- ee ee eee et EDY (xx). | ¢d by free state shell fire today, betray onan eee any | MCORMINg to report from the | Edythe E. Lavoy, William Creasy and an excerpt from @ HIS MOTHER io) gale ---aay had 1921, | last rebel stronghold, near the | love letter to “Billy” from “Edy,” figuring in the investiga« As one of the columns passed Un! * knew when sour birthday) Hammam hotel, which was in | tion of of the girl’s tragic death. versity st.. a young world war vet So glad I know now. Am 1) flames this afternoon, | ont v: ages «ype ss oh | right in saying it was your 2ith| Twenty insurgents marched | hig uniform, rushed over to gree cre co | lines |member it (that is, if we are stil | @ witte Gig. Tay seeenens “Mother! he cried, and kissed [ine game old are to the free state commander, A | her heartil Billie, T was at a loss as to what| fierce attack was launched ASSAULT ON BERLI ® od-bye!” And back he ran to send you, But I sent you a box| against those who sill held out, to join his comrades. lof cigars last night oa hi 4 | At Yesler way the parade turned| gust think, 1 leave for home armen a pees. ee BY CARL D. GROAT Harden was one of the bitterest up to Third and back over that! home, sweet home—a day after to-| *s#inst the burning hotel, from BERLIN, July 4.—Armed roy- foes of the monarchists in Germany. thorofare, finally disbanding near| morrow. Ob fe, you can imag-| Which a feeble rebel fire still alists were reported today about [in his newspaper “Die Zukunft” he the starting point 1!" how happy your - ist!!! came at intervals, to march on Berlin, where ma has recently launched bitter attacks ’ Yes, dear boy, I'm having a love An official statement from Gen. | ovosg po workers demon- | against the attempts of monarchists ly time, But you are always first|O’Duffy, commanding government strat in favor of the republic. to return to pow y |Two Women Attack te foremost in my thoughts. |troops, announced that the extremist The monarchist. murder ring | Die Zukunft was suppressed in | Alleged Murderer | Yours Ull the moon burns out of| revolt has been broken and that free| struck another blow at liberalism | 1917, after the editor had charged ™ | BERLIN, July 4—Two women |! ME (xx), | state troops will clear the few re-| in Germany yesterday when |the kaiser with responsibility for the onmeneaghs nf coin ARR FE y is 4 Kissed by Me, |maining insurgent positions before} Maximillian Harden, famous edi- |WOrld war, Up until that time he victims © ed eee nightfall tor and bitter enemy of the na- oe bitterly arraigned imperialists, butcher, on trial for a . nA of re) HAPPINESS IS Remaining rebel outposts along the! tionalists, was stabbed and beat- | Consistent assaults on the kaiser and volting murders, attacked the ac | INTERRUPTED east side of Sackville at. gave way be- en by two assailants. }against submarine warfare made cused man in court today. SRN ee soni ; ui fore a free state assault, Iaunched| Two men attacked the liberal edi.| Harden well known in America, Court room attendants were force : ut then came a break. The girl) arter a jull in the fighting today. A|tor as he neared his home. Articles eulogizing President Wil to intervene strenuously to anve' foes Pie oe taees had been! crushing attack against the last} Covered with blood, Harden reached |S" and his peace proposals were Greminins's Ute. THe wena. sorvens Tet eos we fl that his wife) stronghold is under way |his villa and fell unconscious. Latest | Printed broadcast in America. Hare ed that the butcher had attacked had d d him, She returned her)” parley this morning with insurgent {reports indicated he will recover. | 40'S real name is Witskowskl. He them and flew at him with hat aaa 9 rash = east to explain-| ieaders resulted in refusal of the ex-| The attack was made in the Grune. | °°™es from Semitic parents, He was land fingernails | ime "one peg ras spel , ~ bes tremists to consider surrender and | wald near the spot where Dr Waiter | 22 actor-before he took up Jqusiaans | Details of the alleged crime of Nn avoy's friends) covernment troops went into action, |Rathenau, foreign minister, was as-|'*™ + Grossman, who first assaulted and cere ap Peg - iy Aidt i ard A thunderous barrage raked the janeainated a week ago. Se ee en a ' en vic chop: | him © ee e . s bie agen herman on HE ome At tee etna eaneen rebel “rabbit warrens,” where a de-| The Berlin police have evidence | $200, 000 in Mail ing re thee reduenad har letters. yar | termined little band still held out. | that the same nationalist, anti-semit: | L selling their flesh in his butcher | tom Ae ee yor oe | Then Free te troops charged with |lc “murderbund” that ssinated oot Discovered shop, according to the police, were | Ber used any dashes. ‘bayonets backed by armored cars.|Rathenau was responsible, | NEW YORK, July 4.—A gunny- told at the trial. The contre i) shi 3 |The dust and smoke of battle filled| One of the assailants was captured. | sack containing $200,000 in bonds, so horrible May 9, were moving south on Second ave. to Third, north on Third to Pine, ifth 4 reviewing stand at Fifth Virgini sailors leave hospitality head at Presen. Presentation of Miss Lib- train Grill, rescue of emigrant $12,000 fireworks display. Open house all day for sailors at Y. M C. A,, Fourth and Madison; Seame M. C. A, 1602 Western ave; Knights of Columbus, 1401 |] Harvard ave; Veterans of Foreign Wars, 1616% Third ave; Trans portation Club, Railway Exchange bldg. Open house for officers, || Rainier, Arctic, Engineers, College, University and Golf clubs. be m. welcome on boa Visitors will and 1 to 4:30 p. rd ships of fleet 10 to 11:30 a. m which became a | | suicide. But the police charge he killed her. | Her ro el was Creasy’s shipmate. Creasy was 24—well, form. Miss Lavoy was 18—attrac:| See oe pti ing. { After a courtship they became engaged. She left her) home at Tupper Lake, N. Y.« and came to Freeport to teach | ool. He went back to Kentucky. They wrote to each other regularly. Dashes meant Here are excerpts from some of the letters, which Creasy offers in evidence to clear himself: thanks for your kindness and thoughtfulness in sending me th beautiful primrose. I just simpiy But more still IU sai | ‘REPORT VALERA SHOT IN FLIGHT Irish Rebels Fleeing Dublin ha! Billie, you are a darling boy tol always be springing surprises on| me. Words cannot express my ap-! prectation sackville with the rattle of arms, | Papers found on his person showed y iy.|Punctuated by an occasional explo-| he was a member sion as tho hand grenades were be. loot of several Eastern mail robbers ies, was found buried at Silver lake, &| Long Island, by detectives today. ion.| Information as to the whereabouts ~}of the stolen bonds was furnished |by Edward Brice, who was arrested last night and charged with implica: tion in the $2,000,000 postal robbery. here last fall. Darling Boy so will write lieve me, Feeling better to you @ long letter darling boy, I am not my 0 ing used. self a all—haven't been for some y jority of defenc a time. And judging by your letters A majority of the defenders are be |Heved to have escaped and only a} I guess you are not yourself, either. , Alies Billie dear, guess that's all we're on| "#Mdful to be holding out earth for—trouble, I have never BE ge Bela A tn age ‘ea Wink Apa aller from shell-shattered buildings to flee to the open country. That was good advice you gave} Ireland's civil war, which has me about falling in love, No, Billie,| raged unabated since last Wednes. don't worry about me falling in love.! gay, threatened today to develop into I am not built that way.| guerilla warfare Sometimes I wish I could. But I] 4 terrific bombardment raked rebel have given up hope, I thought I) positions during the night, ‘The sky was once, you know, Billie, but IT! was bright with repeated flashes of woke up and found it was only #| heavy guns. Then a great red glare dream | spread over the city from numerous | Billie, dear, as for that gun, I do} fires in the hotel held by the last |Tacoma rac not want it and you know it, dar-| stubborn band, Jed, it was said, by |such an array of racing stars iy! ‘The nations entering ling boy, However, being that you| De Valera to go at the signal of the chee! 1) Cecil's plan would sign pacts agree. want it so badly, I sure will send it] BELFAST, July |flag, Every man who sits behind a ling to protect each other from ag: to you tonight, as I have it all/tween free state troops and rebels|racing wheel today ts one who has |gfession, according to the \e_Proposal. packed up and you have real need! was renewed today in the city of|made an enviable name for himself for it Drogheda, County Louth, north of|in the racing world and who is a Good-bye, darling boy. Tl write Dublin, according to word reaching (Turn to Page 4, Column 3) here, of the “Associa tion of National Minded Soldiers recationary and royalist organiaat SPEED RACES | AT TACOMA, TACOMA, July 4.—Speed records of the ‘Tacoma speedway racetravk | uroue Disarmament were expected to do the tumblingact/D J an Jig Outlined \this afternoon as the 11 satellites of | the racing world drive their cars at| PARIS, July 4.—Lord Robert Ceell, ja death-defying speed around the oval | Great Britain, today outlined to the ltrack in an effort to capture first {disarmament commission of the Ihonows in the 250-mile speed event [league of nations a plan for naval, N ‘ore in the history of the }military and aerial! disarmament of ourse has there been | nations Guess er be 4-—-Fighting — be: field, wury. into Lord — Leather coins were used. tn nore dangerous contender in any racing|ern Europe in the seventeenth cam Ps