The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 7, 1922, Page 1

- §m—> THE NEWSPAPER WITH A 15,000 CIRCULATION LEAD OVER ITS NEAREST COMPETITOR <—@ Tonight, fair moderate Temperature Maximum, 88, Saturday winds. Teday noon, 62. APRA PAA PRPRA DADA, cooler ; northwest Last M Hours Minimum, 55 On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Watered as Second Class Matter Mey 8, 1 citizen wants to know can obtain a copy of the speech Doc | Brown delivered at the | stadium July 4. “He looked nice, but I couldn't hear him,” complains the w.c. “If I) could read the speech, I could put In | the gestures as I went along.” ! eee And another Right-Thinker wants to know if it is correct to call the} Me story of Henry Ford his et Diography.” Pe age oe lise’ ace ook os Si, i Pere sae Seay os Werden’ hat about the 5 barena | afternoon, pha so queer as some of | | lies ‘pat. shent:tha Gar In clothest| eee ‘Mr. Salisbury saya this t# the’ Guess he | conven. oe @ Pegs. Home Brew's free tleket to the ¢ity council goes to the bimbo who cracked: “Married men have better | halves, but bachelors have better | quarter: . ‘The Fourth of July comes but once | ® year—thank God! o- | LI'L GEE GER, TH OFFICE | / VAMP, SEA: 1} | Sleepin’ porches with a sunny | | exposure are popular—especially | if she didn't have her hair bobbed, If she didn't dawb with paint, If ahe had her dresses made to reach To where the dresses ain’t— If she didn't have that baby voice, And spoke just as she should, Don’t you think she’¢ be as popular? | We hardly think she would! | eee | Hold ‘er, Newt, she’s heading for | the barn! ae te Large deposits of kaolin, used for | Whitening purposes, have just been @iscovered in this state. The police department is now as sured of a sufficient-eupply of white wash to cover the Legate case. ee } “A mine In Brazil has given gold and silver almost continuously since Headline. } 4 "Want Ads” Pay! { oe } Mae ——" BvD 1] | Hello, All Bhipa and Stational | | Hello, All Ships end stations! | | This ia the B-V-D radiophone | broadcasting station! Wave | | length, gas meters. Today's mar- | ket report foltows Butter is stronger. Yeast is rising. ! Eggs are rotten, So is the market The Seatth ing to manu port commission is go- eture tor public jonsumption. Now all we need for nice cool gin rickey is boot. lenger. / see a a A physician says we should eat littie during the summer months, If the price of gasoline makes an- other jump will i | ne THE RADIOSARY The hours I spend on thee, dear set, Are but a total loss, I know, I “listen in but nary song I get— | w My radio! My radio! world gets better. We saw a movie yesterday that didn’t contain rither a boudoir struggle or a rescue b ack cowboys on horse » Geattle man advocates a tax on| ell, there's always a noise Man Is Accused of | Beating Boy of 13) Accused of having beaten and se | j wal [Don't tell me SWEET GIRL! WHAT AFAN A WOMAN DO BE! Jim. Puts It Over on His “Friend Squawk,” Making! Him Sick In this outburst Egan intro duces to Star readers his well- known character, Matthew Michael = MeGuff, customarily called “Squawk.” MeGuff has stories and as the leading fig- ure of Egan's baseball novel, “The Evergreen Wildeats."— Editor. By James W. Egan Gleefully Squawk McGuff follow ed me into the ballpark. Thureday He was about to see his firet brawl in Seattle this season and the old ruffian was tickled aa 4 fireman's daughter with a new pair of hose. Squawk has been mixed up in baseball since infielders had to carry mustache cups. He is one of the old guard. A regular, redhot, tase ing fan. Louder than Lennie Aus! Un's newest suit, and rougher than A aa peel jad to West Seattice. Loves Jump out of bis end all that stuff. You know the kind. SISTER!” SQUAWK BREATHES “Sweet Sister™ he breathed eo- statically as we stepped into the} lower grandstand. Then he paused, and sniffed. I saw he was putting! the glimmers on the scores of art fanetten scattered thru the crowd. “How come all these members of j the housewives’ union here?” ebirp- ed Mr. MeGuft. \ 1 explained that every day was ladies’ day in Seattle thru the cotr tesy of Jim Holdt, Saturdays and Sundays excepted, and that feminine Seattle was wont to turn out in goodly array i “Woment’ snorted Squawk. “Women don't know no more about baseball than I do about droppin’ stitches in = pink silk swewer or some other thingum- which of the sort, And that’s nothin" “Oh, is that so?” I grinned. don’t know the sex in Seattle, thing.” “Applesauce!” yodied Mr A woman at a onions in teed tea. All outa pla remember my cousin Ma: Daiet Pretty as the Pickford’s own | But at of agate sockin’ shindigs as dumb as @ bell hop at 2 g. m. in the mornin’ “Took my cousin to a game once. | Just once. I ain't been right since She didn’t know whether Babe Ruth was a shortstop or a guy sellin’ hot dogs. Some bird got up and hit a} “You! old MeGutt. | baligame is es one these Mai flock of fouls and she wanted to ktiow how many of those he war allowed to knock before they called him out. Honeydovel Women! a ba out women at the same,” I was arguing “you'll find “SHUT UPT’ EK BARKS “Shut up! barked McGuff. “Le'ts go and sit in the sun, where I'll have room for my lungs when the boys get goin’. Well, well! Theré’s Tealey R mond and Russ Hall parked out in a box, Thought them cookies had been dead the last 60 years!” We draped ourselves back of the Seattle players’ bench, in a spot hot enough to fry waffies, and old Squawk set himself for a large after noon. He grumbled because the fan lettes were fairly thick around us, |but otherwise seemed happy. “Oughta gone in the bleachers,” he | |warbled. “No dames there, Every time I think of my cousin Mary—oh, what a wow she was!” The first stanza. A Seattle man on second in the last half. A man and wife picked seats near us Friend wife had a fan, but evidently wasn’t one, So hubby was doing his {stuff in great shape | “Yes, ‘s a Seattle man out thei He's on. necond base | somebody makes a hit he may score ja run for us. No, Low Angeles ain't batting now! Didn't I tell/ you—-that's Brick Eldred! He——"| An the lady waved her fan dub ously Squawk McGuff glanced at} me verely injured Geraid Allyn, 43, R. C.|,,"T01d, you #0,” he murmmured Mandell, 29, wax being held in the! “Women can’t get this game, Why, city jail on an open charge Friday. {™yY cousin | Mar « said to have detained and| FEMININE CRIES | beaten the lad when the iatter and| BREAK LOOS | tome of his playmates were about to| No. excitement broke until Seat-| leave a playground near the Allyn'!tle was hitting in the final half of home at 4240 Raymond #t, Thurs-{the third, Then Seattle counted) day. (furn to Page 7, Column 5) | | records of the weather bureau—continues, Bystrom declared, | | pointed « | will keep on exacting their daily toll | will check forest fires ragin Per Year, by Mall, $6 to 99 OMEN AID STRIKERS MOB! Homes of Former Friends Attacked by Rioters! The Seattle Star the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under tha Act of Congress March §, 1879, FRIDAY, JU L Y! i, ‘1922, SEATTLE, WASH., Two CENTS IN IN SEATTLE 2 ESCAPE DEATH IN | INFERNO! ‘Forest Fire Situation Desperate Thru- out Northwest With No Relief in Sight From Weather PORTLAND, July 7.—Penned im all night by a wall of flame burning fiercely about their home near South- ern Pacific tunnel 32 on the Portland-Tillamook line, | Forest Ranger H. C. Hoover, his wife and baby were - brought to safety this morning when a Southern Pa- cific train ran the gauntlet of the flames and reached the isolated home. With no hope held out by the Seattle weather bureau for) any relief in the form of rain, the forest fire situation thru- out the Northwest was described as desperate Friday by 0.) Bystrom, secretary of the Washington Forest Fire associa-| tion. So long as the present dry speill—the most prolonged in the! fire-fighters can hope to do nothing more than hold their own against the flames which are raging in more than 100 sections of the state. And the weather bureau reports that there is absolutely no trace of rain in sight. | | nie | Two known dead and j dozen missing; hundreds of thou. | sands of dollars worth of homes | | j and lumber mille destroyed and more than $1,000,000 worth of timber property—this is the toll which has already been exacted by flerce forest and brush fires which are raging in an almost un- | broken chain from British Colum- bia to Oregon. So serious has the situation become So far there is one redeeming feature about situation. ‘The winds are mgr me shifting to westerly -~ have rarely been really disastrous forest fires except in an “the KNOWN DEAD wind is likely to shift to an) easterly direction—and then, according to foresters, only | the grace of God can save mil-| property. | Flames Raging in B.C. and) As it explained he | . weather bureau e change of wing} OFegon; Many Missing such as Was experienced Thursday hold under present circumstances, as the center of depression is too far! away to have any effect on the local situation. able to the firefighters, Rystrom ut, logging companies thru | out the state must continue to pay out thousands dollars a day for wind. But at any time the lions of dollars’ worth | night, means rain, but thie does not Even tho existing winds are favor. combating the flames, and the fires of thousands of dollars’ worth of | that leading operators have come to| of Mount Constance, which, he asserts, is the only side of the| Property in spite of the fact that/ the practically unanimous concluxion | mountain that has ever been conquered. |they are only dreaking even. jthat they must cease thelr logging | . | activities for the present and turn all) That Robert Schellin, of Seattle, |epeaks with a forked tongue.’ thelr forces toward firefighting Jand A. V. Smith, of Bremerton,! “Lake Constance ts 6,810 feet above | FIRE EATING | The dead are Jack Clifford. 16, and | “pulied a Doc Cook” when they ea level and from there on the Ernest Layland, who died at Mer-|nounced that they had sealed Mt.|mountain is split in two by a deep ters day night from burns suffered when jth» Olympics, was the charge made|been sca I am sending you a} PORTLAND, J —Rain alone in four rthwent The thelr homes were destroyed. Ten | py | homes were burned down in Merville |«Johnny the Trapper,” & letter |when a change of wind brought the | just received by The Star from Brin: | fire into the soldier settlement at/non, Wash | John Clements, bett sections of the Pacific lumbermen here agreed today John Clements (“Johnny the Trapper”) on the west peak west “But the peak at the east, ie six or seven hundred feet higher, “I have spent months on the sides |marched at the head of the column | I blazed the trail/as it moved thru the streets. Boy s “Pulled a Doc. Cook”?| | L LI N QO I iS So Sass John the Trapper | | / | known an picture of myself on the peak at the |der which | ers, was arrested as one of the lead- join the strikers. }men and women alike, weather bureau checkmated thie| that place. Several other Merville}; «{ am sure, however,” Clements |has never been scaled hope by holding out little promiae | residents are missing, and it will prob-| says, “that the = got as high as for a break the tong ary spell ably be several days before com: | Lake Constance. ‘or ‘he that drinks |of Mt. Constance. Oregon fires, which 0 far have! plete list of casualties can be pre jot the waters of Lake Constance | in 1891 when a boy.” done approximately $2,000,000 dam-|pared., gt age to mills, timber and raiiroad| Brush fires which threatened to} property within the last three days, | destroy Nanaimo, B. C., are reported | where a fire on a 20-mile front, | practically cut off the city’s water flanked by smaller conflagrations, is|supply and the water shortage | fi (orthwest, Eee eas han << heget, Oe ina eet | BY FRANK A, CLARVOE chological,” Netson said. “Nearly lroad, lumber and government Lumber company's $175,000| PORTLAND, July reless.|every one of these fires has spread forces have been fighting thix blaze |sawmill has been burned to the |Mess” Was the word written flaming-|from campfires or from slashings for three days without success, The | ground ily o the skies of the Pacific |jearelessly left burning when loggers flames are wpreading despite the em-| ‘The moat setious forest fire in| Northwest today in the smoke of a/went away for thelr Independence ployment of every known means of| Washington at present is near |2Undred forest fires |day holiday. checking them ttonvile, where a blaze along a{. “Just plain carelessnéns, by some-| “With planes on the wing camp-| In Southwestern Washington, the quarter-mile front is out of con: |DOdy,"" Was the general agreement of |ers and loggers see them and tho| Coweeman valley is a veritable in leading lumbermen That and one|danger of fire ig at once apparent. | nd threatening the largest tract | T lof the driest seasons in years, ferno, with the flames spreading on|of virgin Douglas fir left on the| i both sides of that river and steadily |coast. The flames are traveling |!# no relief in sight working toward the Kala river|noutheast, up Lynch creek, toward| Campers who fail to put out their} d greater tracts of green timber.|the headwaters of Berg creek, west {campfires and loggers who allowed Tho woods in this section are un-\of Rainier National park slashing fires to get away from them usually dry jinto dry undergrowth were generally | | blamed. | Practically every fire in this nec: tion is a ground fire, burning in |Muny Line Is Put | H. B. Van Duser, of the Inman: tinder-like mass and undergrowth, | Poulsen Lumber company, dec! lared | eating out the bases of gr | on Warrant Basis | the fires were for the most t and dropping them across 1: Sw that'e ‘. jin logged-off lands and that the) tracks and highwa 1 ufficient funds may be | green timber loss would be small. Automobiles report intense discom. |!" the city treasury September 1 to | te attributed the situation to fires | fort when traversing roads in the|P&y the semi-annual interest charges. | which spread trom slashings under | Coweeman and Tillamook regions,|*?® Municipal railway “was placed /abnormal winds rains in the Oregon fire zone are|°"* Warrant basis Friday | “It's generally a bad season,” C being delayed repeatedly because of, Monday ts the regular semitnonth:|o, geott, head of the Timbermen's | threatened trestles. Scores of aquat: |'¥ Payday and the employes of the |patrol association, told the United ters’ cabins and amall logging camps | treet ear system will have to cash | press, “Fires lit during the normal } have been burned jtheir warrants at city banks, |siashing fire period spread because | | ‘The traction purchi contract jot the lack of the usual rain late in| | Provides that $375,000 for interest | june and early in July, It's nobody's | GAG RULE IS jcharges must be wet aside by August |tayit, particularly, The siuation is] 1 to meet the installment due on the /phaq but by no means hopeless.” | THROWN OUT first of September | The lack of air patrols, such as those furnished by the United States | WASHINGTO {government during the last fire sea the tariff July 7—Gag ie | defeated in the Admiral Plans to twee son, was blamed by several limb sen. ny by a 45 to 36 vote. |men. 1. A. Nelson, secretary of the | Republicans failed by a wide mar- | Scale Mt. Rainier | Weat Coast Lunivermen’s’ aspdle gin to secure the necessary two-| TACOMA. July Rear Admiral |tion, declared that radio connections | thirds vote to pass cloture over solid |r, H. Jackson, necompanied by Lieut. | with ranger headquarters by plan democratic opposition. |; Commander Ww J, Farwell, was to! constantly ntroling th: ountry ald. xoale the summit of Mt, Rainier to-led materially in checking fires be SHREVEPORT, La.—-Death takes |day. Hans Fuhrer, former Matter-|fore they spread | Nathaniel 8, Allen, #2, credited with |horn guide, is in charge of the| “The effect of the airplane in pa | being oldest Odd Fellow in world. party. trol work ia not so practital as psy | ana, | month, | Wireless, We ought to have planes for patrol, as the best timber in the country to be worth the use of a few gallons of gasoline “But just plain’ carelessness 1s what is burning up dollars in the Philip Tindall’s Mother Succumbs pws of the death of his mother, Helen Rand, in Boone, Mary was received Friday by Coun cilman Philip Tindal, Mrs. Rand was one of the early workers for woman suffrage and was an intimate friend of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady ton and Susan B. Anthony 72 ‘years of ag Tindall ¢visited his mother when she was sertously Tindall, publisher of Mr last i The Is the only other surviving in Beattie Lioyd yulative ‘ss in Bea ry “Auto Trai in Race; 3 Killed RICHMOND, Gal, July 7.—Aut ist Ed Beeler tried to beat the train fo n grade cressihg last night. Miss Ruby Beeler, Miss Margie Adams and an unidentified girl were killed and Deelec Injured internally, is} |in the Pacific Northwest and it ought | | Johnson, | Pre_cent support to our 100 per cent | claim that a fire which broke out in| day |@ string of box cars in repair shops | Mrs jafter the police. jot John Gabel, jtrat Nine Saved When IOLENCE Towel Says Women Believe Future of Children at Stake in Rail Walkout; Troops Held Ready. BY CHARLES R. LYNCH CHICAGO, July 7.—Women took the lead today in the © fight of railroad shopmen against strikebreakers. Wives and sisters of strikers directed a mob of 1,000 stormed thru streets of Burnside, Ill., in a demonstration homes of workers. They attempted to burn one home of 2 worker. Women were on picket duty in all shop centers. These women believe the future of their children is at | stake, Bert M. Jewell, union president, told the United Press” when asked for an explanation of the part taken by the and sisters of strikers in the rioting and picketing. res,‘ GERMANY NEAR. FINANCE CRASI San Bernardino, | Cal., wife of a striker, say- Berlin Nervous as - Rumors Fiy—- BY CARL D. GROAT BERLIN, July 7% Wirth intends to ask the alles Permission to suspend fui monthly cash payments of tions debts, it was learned in gov. ernment circies COnRT, . “Our children’s future is at stake. We will win.” ‘This ts typleal of scores of tele- stams received from auxiliaries of shop workers, Jewell stated. ¢ “Tie women are the bones, blood and spirit of our strike,” he said. “Tt have nothing but highest for them as they have given 190 walkout.” OFFICIALS CLAIM FIRE INCENDIARY Jewell said that everything posst- ble would be done by the union of. ficals to prevent outbreaks of vio. lence. Baltimore & Ohio railroad officials | BERLIN, July 7.—Germany is about to declare herself bankrupt, it was authoritatively announced to | “Complete collapee of the mark ian here was incendiary. The fire was | brovght the republic to the verge extinguished before doing serious/financial ruin. The mark damage. | slumped to 2,180 toa pound. Trust: State troops were held under arms | worthy sources confirmed the report ready to quell strike riots which|that Germany must refuse to pay have flared up tn railroad shop cen- lthe reparations installment due * ters thruout Illinota {July 16. Tn Decatur, UL, a mob of more The Wirth government will ask Pe than 200 gathered at the station | moratorium, it was announced. at 2 a. m. and threatened vio- Marke reached new lows on lence and bodily harm to 15 | exchanges today, according to newly-employed men who came | vices reaching Berlin, and in from Chicago. financiers declared voluntary bank The men were forced to leaye |Tuptcy the only solution. town. Unprecedented nervousness pre Demonstrations and violence were | ‘Biled in Berlin today. The city was without newspapers. jAs the result of lack of authentie |information, baseless rumors spread | rapidly. t One report was that General Von | Hindenburg and Prince Bitel Fried: |rich had been murdered. eee LONDON, July 7.—German marks were quoted at 2,400 to the pound |today, a new low record ‘COAL SUPPLY IS DWINDLING reported in other Litinols shop cen- The Burnside riot started with a smonstration and parade. Alexan- Giret, 15, whose father and brothers are said to have been atrik- ers. More than a score of women Hun- dreds of stones were hurled at the homes of the men who refused to Curses and cries were shouted by ‘Sea icabl* | ATTACK HOME or INSPECTOR The rioters first attacked the home of Theodore Haas, safety device in- spector.. Every window in the house Harding Forms Plan to the mob. promising that hee nus} Guard Against Shortage SHINGTON, July 7.—Only 58 day's supply of coal is available for public utilities, a canvass on June 15 of coal stocks of electrical and arti: ficlal gas public utilities showed, F, snatch to the tinder, A man struck a/R. Wadleigh, chief of the newly or match to the tiner. The fire, how-| ganized coal committee of the depart- ever, did not spread to the building. | ment of commerce announced today. Haas fled thru a back door 5 Ab Ati band would join them if they would only spare her home. 41 w Jeers answered her. A woman ran from the strikers’ ranks with a bundle of brooms under her arm and stacked them against COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 7.—Fear ing that the nation-wide coal mine strike can not be settled soon, Presi- dent Harding is formulating a plan | for protecting the public against the menace of a fuel shortage now de- veloping, it was learned from sourees close to the executive as he left here today for Washington. A virtual revival of the polices of conserving fuel put into effect by the fuel administration during the war is being considered. Under the plan | prierity rights to obtain coal would be given to those users of fuel upon | whom the life of the people depend, First would come the government, the railroads and the public utilities, then the essential industries, the pri- | vate users of fuel and finally the non-essential industries. ‘The presidential party left Colum: toga sth oc in: hy uateue@alla Cae | first leg of the journey back to | Washington, The rioters moved on to the home old-time Tlinois Cen. mechanic. Again stones were hurled, Mrs. Julia Gabel appeared on the front porch, revolver tn hand, “You used to be my friends but T will kill th xt one that throws a stone! she shouted. For 20 minutes she held the mob (Turn hor Page % & Laan 4) Canoe Overturns EVERETT, july 7.—~ After the canoe in which they had been riding overturned In Lake Stevens Friday, nine members of a plenic party from Seattle were rescued from the water by W. T. Knowles, a lumberman. The party had just left the shore | jot the lake when the canoe capsized | because of the overload, Only three members could swim and they were desperately fighting to keep the others above the water when} Knowles picked them up in a duck boat, One woman member had gone under three or four times already when rescued, | THE WHITTIER HEIGHTS tm- | provement club will hold its first’an- nual picnic at Rolling beach (former- }ly the old brickyard), at the end af 14th ave. N, and W, 120th at, Sunday, w.