The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 10, 1922, Page 1

~ tendent of utilities, ts hereby elected m——> THE NEWSPAPER WITH A 15,000 CIRCULATION LEAD OVER ITS NEAREST COMPETITOR <—@ Ne eens BURGLARS RANSACK TWO SEATTLE RESIDENCES © Eg WEATHER Tonight and Tuesday moderate westerly winds Temperature Last 24 Hours | M fatr; Maximum, 72. nium, 54 Today noon, 59 $$$ — | oO eEPaaEaEaEaEaEPmaPEePEE—EeEeEeEeEeErrSO On the Issue of Americanism VOLUME 24. NO. 116. eg» THIEVES RAID WEALTHY HOMES: There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Batered a2 Hecond Clase Matter May 8, 1999, at (he Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March &, 1679, Per Tei Mati, #6 to #9 20 TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE LAST night on Seattle streets 5,000 young men cried out in vain for romance and matrimony! Our informant is “S. L. B.,” a serious- minded, sensible youth who has lived in three cities and finds this one, he says, the “hardest of the three to get acquainted in.” He poured out his heart in a letter. Not that there aren’t plenty of girls of the right sort here. As “S. L. B.” meanders in and out the parks and under the ornamental lights YOUR PERIL? Your Past May Soon Be Brought EB. D. O'Brien, assistant. to the Fond Fathers’ club. His con- D'YOU KNOW Dark Secrets of | the stream drifts by—lovely creatures, spark- ling-eyed and laughmg or shy and serious, who strangely stir him. “Every fellow,” “S. L. B.” confides discon- solately, “sees his particular dream girl now and then but he doesn’t know her jazz hall or she doesn’t know his Sunday school.” So close to romance that he could reach out and almost touch it. But he doesn’t dare. “A fellow,” he observes, “can’t track a girl and stay a gentleman.” And so he goes “gropingly along” with thou- GERMANY IS HOPING FOR Morons How to Spot Em Their Views on Art And on Literature And Kindred Topics By the Office Crab Walter Jackson, of Boise, Ida ho, sends « clipping in which William Allen White, generally London Newspaper | for Assistance in “AMERICAN AID | Appeals to U. 8. sands of other young men that would be “bet- ter off with a good wife” but that “just can’t get over the fool fence!” Our hearts go out to you, “S. L. B.!” If we were city hall statesmen your problem would be the first we'd tackle. We'd find a way for you to meet your desired sweetheart—or—or we'd bust a suspender! Any city that keeps a young man away from his “best girl” is not only cruel but is paving its way to perdition. ae 4. B.’s” suggestion might bring some relief: PROTECT U. 8. MAIL TRAINS iTroops Mobilized for Service in! Railway Strike; Showdown Due Bathing Beauty Contest $50 in Cash Prizes Up Other Inducements, Too 18 of Fairest Wanted By June d’Amour RE off, fotks, on the big bath- ing beauty con- tent. Lotta things to do today, so I've got to make thie ) But GUARDS WILL = House Breakers hem! “Set aside one day a month in which married women would be required to wear a badge and the single girls allowed to go 50-50 with the boys in getting acquainted a la Paris—bri forth the sidewalk cafes.” = City fathers! Mrs. Landes and Mrs. Mir- acle! To the rescue! _ Let no young man, let no young woman per- + needlessly for lack of love in the Seaport of uccess! Forward with romance and matrimony! Flee With Loot on Capitol Hill Society Women Surprise Burglars @ Work in Fashionable Homes; Jew= Ho Light | i | fribation is this gem from his) By James W. Egan “Father, I've got a radio tooth—| Vm all steamed up, I am. | Certainly I'm sore at my old friend George, and his doggane cafeteria, and 11 persons I don’t suppose EN ever see again. | Of ali the things that happened to peeve me, one stands out | I'm particularly mad in regard to the glass of ice water } Here's the lowdown on the whole! grievous business: / At the supper hour an evening or) two ago—or dinner hour, just as you prefer, old dears—~I ambled’ into the cafeteria on Fourth ave. piloted by | George Maybe I erred to begin with. A guy who treks into one of these help |yourself hunger hangars posutbly de serves little mercy or consideration {t's got a sensitive spot.” Phil Sinnott, famous correspond. | ent, was admitted to the Fond Fa- thers’ fraternity when “sonny” said “Daddy, when it, rains, does that mean that the angels are spitting?” ee ” Pe ean, BVD Hello, All Ships and Stations! | Hello, AM Ships and Stations! | This is B-V-D radiophone broad- casting station, T-come-I1 Sev- enth ave, owned and operated by Home Brew. Wave length, 306 gartlic whiffs. Hello, Capt. Tennant! Thra our special correspondent in Cali- trigued and amused by the cho rus of low growls emiited by the boob-bumping persons wir long years have made comfort- able livings by fosteri the myth that “free people are capable of self governmen . To forestall any argument, we will admit, publicly, that wé con sider ourselves totally incapable of governing anybody. Bat to our muttons: Mr. Jack son, Kt seems, wants to know LONDON, July 10. — Repara- tions reeelved from Germany thus far have failed to pay for the actual war damage In France and Belgium, Lloyd George said in the house of commons today. RY CARL D, GROAT iN, July 10.—The mark, the of German finanes, tum. bled to new low levels today as the Wirth government placed the future of the repibiie tn the hands of the PERL haromet lof July 24 to 29 to offer the 18 prettiest bathing girls | that’s fair enough. It's going to be a nappy contest— Til tell the world. Here's the lay out Fifty dollars tn cash prizes; 18 of the finest mad: that you ever saw 4 18 pleasant and remunerative jobs for the week that's what I have in Seattle, toworder bathing suits | | WASHINGTON, July 10—A | number of deputy United States marshals will be appointed to protect mail trains in the Middie West and Southwest divisions, Attorney General Daugherty an- | nounced today. | Daugherty decided to take this | step after « conference with President Harding, who sanc- | toned the move. . BY CHARLES R. LYNCH elry Is Taken in Flight~- Invading Seattle’s most exclusive residential district, organized ring of professional burglars ransacked the pa atial homes of William Pigott, vice president of the Paci Coast Steel Co., 1116 22d ave. N., and of Joseph M. civil engineer, 902 22d ave. N., Saturday afternoon ;caped with hundreds of dollars’ worth of jewelry, in ad to a small amount of currency. That the loot did not run into immensely higher was due only to the timely return of Mrs. Pigott and % y and es ailion and asked relief from its debts. Germany facing financial, indus trial and al collapme, looks to gland and America to bring press }ure upon France so that the Intter shall not press reparations claims too far. From the French, unless Lon. don and Washington intervene, the | Germans expect no merey what 9 “moron majority” is, cee I have, with some diligence and not a little searching out of the minds of our fellow men and women, compiled a list of beliefs, poexension of which, in my opinion, entitles the holder to membership in the “moron majority.” are | ‘The girls are wanted to exhibit the | ! [bathing suite manufactured by the! ] Saxony Knitting company and the Pacific Knitting company of Seattle, | and the Olympia Knitting. company of Olympia, at the merchant's con vention at the Bell st. dock, begin ning July 24 The bathing girls’ display will last | only during the luncheon hour, CHICAGO, July 10.—The show down in the railroad shopmen’s | strike came today ' The ultimatum of the roads that the strikers return to work or lose seniority and pension rights, expirea. e placed on the “open basis by many roads. 4 | To meet the crisis, union lqaders | "ordered out all strikert for picket | Clapp, wie set gt srt marauders away. Both eep their most valuable jewelry in safe d i ts course, but there were thou- st ae sands of dollars’ worth of other costly property left be- hind. Altho the robberies were reported to the police Sunday, | fornia we are able to inform you | | py, | that Clara Skarin is hiding in | Bureka, Cal., where she is work | | 9 ing as doughnut maker in the window of the Elite exfe, Hello, Harold MeCormick! | wi ed pionship of that brilliant piece of legistation, the poll tax, you have | i 1] the fountain of aqua pura arom We pt fo. grabbed off « glass of ice water. | in vagrant amours with ladies of late you! {} that beaker of cold fiuid| light moral equipment | The next number on our spe- would be incomplete as | ee | cial program will be a joint rect | [ham and eggs minus the eggs. I) That the diy ‘Mbeentne ‘Poet {tation by houseboat residents | jiove to save and cherish that Ice | publishes some very clever stories jon Lake Union, entitled “We | | w and Gtalk f slowly ond rap:| That wrestling matches areon thé | May Not Be Sanitary, But We're | | turously at the end of the old repast. | level Pure.” | I found a piace to park my tray} ‘That Connie Talmadge Is a great x ————-—% | at one of those long tables which | actress ee ® {wilt accommodate ight persons; That, when a stable burns, some Mite. Suzanne Lenglen defeated comfortably, and ten persons un-|body always rushes in and gets the Mrs, Molla Mallory, nee Bjurstedt,| comfortably. Only two or throe/horses out. and that, immediately for the world’s championship, Satur-|others were cating there, and it/ thereafter all the horses rush back day, What's the matter with those | looked a6 if I'd have plenty of /and get burned to death. other foreign players, the ifor.| room, I love lots of room when I| That Harold Bell Wright | nians? eat | author e 2° I seemed to be sitting pretty | see HoT WEATHER sTurr | enough 1 arranged my provender| That there are wild drinking “Twenty Join Army in Seattle."-—Head- |), the order of sumption, bent| parties on Capitol hilt ery Mom's chances for service in Alaske,/ a0 ear toward George's two-ple | night, and that the Sarge? orchestra and dixcovered the giris| (turn to Page 7, Column $) A were playing “Smiling Thru,” and 7 He's got a car lthen spread out my copy of The And we've got none; Star that I might mus urd F aregareaicngror gene apse agent These oats all want ae ee de hat mastecis titsrary || WORLD’S OLDEST MAN ; ¥ To ride—Dategone! labors of such artists as Homer yd Brew, Bob Bermann and this clover SSES AWAY AT 133 estimates STEVE 4 who went STATISTICAL that of the 2 Be picnicking Sunday, exactly 912,581) forgot the mayonnaise iw 7° “ev what you wish, the present | sh forest fire situation is not without its bright spot | Fo 5 eb de sid | cm CALL, FOR MR. SKYXZYIL | we Seattle's new hotel is going to have a device for paging guests I it hy radio, Bet the guests will | tr sins, and did other nau like tt—they won't have to ‘ip | ‘The roast beef grew cold a the antenn#e |tce cream melted and ran ove: ms é me ake before George Araxged him bd away. George ain't a bad guy, “| was listening to Dr, M ‘ A 4 | !\iut when one is plungea deep in Matthews Preach yesterday on | i ’ lthe work of the master: . the radio,” posteards EB. K. LL. 8 | | Just as L got back to my paper “But 1 had him eheated. He | | f | i ” Jagair ! heard a sudden commotion couldn't pass the hat, . * i | It wasn't duo to the orchestra, ee either, Glaneiag up, beheld an| The Old Guard can see the h andwrit- | Two ladies and two ehildren (¥en to Page 7, Column 1) where th {movie scandal | terns on at I used to live in Low Angeles. “gelf-service restaura yebrow pencils and my power it has been weakened. I contract the pernicious habit of standing purieh Ww As soon as I was checked off I bird named Exan RGE INTERFFRES ITH THE CALORIES But ort ted a calory or E pike!” than George me over to talk of the nt to school together, and threw rocks at the red lan the ends of freight enjoyment was to be Searcely wad 1 di mer's “Howdy, He We ree and my lived. rear (urn to Page 7, Column 3) These beliefs, nx jotted down, cee That the average citizen is capable of glancing over an elec: tion ballot containing 100 names and of straightway picking the } Lene uae ne por yes n line to eat, and I can't seem to} 59 feast nsive persons to hold o te overcome it | authert y o | cate his new song to you. It is IN TH ONG That - } ONG, | at the | es meet, lands, 1 Hear) Sr oNG LA “fair and impartial” and gives “ane . } el y ui ores both sides of any given question. sev. Hart! We wish to || Well, I toted my tray like the rest | ’ Pi yp ona sg ‘con- | |of the folks, picking a dish here and That all casual laborers are | gratulate you on your splendid | |* bowl there, and wondering what| Tadieal and 1p gy verre and that, | indolent the lady ut the end of the line would| Upon arrival in Seattle from In- fnistration. By your chem, | ae ene. | hor In the hucolle sections, they immediately get drunk on moon- shine and spend their substance ¥ CREMK, Ky., July 10 Johnny Shell, said to be the oldest man in the world, in dead, Records he had preserved purported to show he was 133 # old, having been born in ein 1788. For 100 years ved on the same farm in Leslie county. He wax “too old to fight” in the Mexican war At his funeral will be two sons, one 83 older than the other. 6 William, 90, and Albert, 7. The latter Is the son of Shell's second wife, who was 45 when she was married. By his first wife, who died 12 |] years ago at the age of 122, Shell had four sons and a daughter, His children survive him. Up to the {ned complete pos his facuities Physicians said they believed Shell was correct in the estimate of his age. | British pound of | dropped to 12.88 for a dollar It required 2,425 marks to buy & jorling when contl- ntal exchanges opened after the nd fal ambassadors, Secretary rmany’s unoffl and with the rep at Pa this retary Schroeder nfe commission acher were to « aftern regarding Germany's re quest for a moratorium postponing payment of 6.000,000,000 paper marks, due next day of |London Paper Asks Help From America LONDON, July 10.—Plea to the United States to call a conference to save the civilization of Europe was, made the Daily Ex Pp The yer foresees the collapse of Germany and bases tts appeal to America on belief that rmany’s peril equally imperils all Irope ne Express said that State Hughes inaugurated Amer new diplomacy” at the Wash ngton disarmament conference and greatly 4 ‘The paper urges the United States the again nd save Europe - to try new diplomacy” French Money Is at New Low Level PARIS, July 10 for the year today Francs hit a new 27 con times lower than Saturday's close. GRAND JURY DUE TO FILE REPORT Ferry, Legate and Bank In- quiries Concluded After tnore than eight weeks’ work, the eounty grand jury was expected to make public its findings Monday: The jurors went into session May 8 to investigate eh . of fraud brought against the county commis sionerg and Capt. John L, Anderson lessee of the county ferry system, in connection with the operation of the ferries. The generally unsatisfactory work jof the coroner's Jury that held an in quest into the death of Patrolman {Chi Leg whose dead body was found locked in the Main Street garage, led Presiding Superior Judge “4 O jother employment | Secretary | | when they | test | | | | | } | | Simms and his S-year.old son, Hor. | | } | | | participation need not interfere with and ali the girls will be paid for their time and have luncheon each day It's ow pleasang prospect, as a ma of fact, that there's no rea need for a contest—there’s sure to be plenty of applicants for the jobs a way—but it w cided to offer the added | ements to make sure that the 18 models selected are abso he prettiest in Seattie—which, m s in thé world Therefore, each of the 18 girls will be permitted to keep the suit that is expecially knitted for her, prettiest will receive $25 the second choice, $15. he third, $10, three special prize-winners wi ve the principal parts in the daily bathing style shows, and all of them, of ill be in the movies and hav puree, Ww her nice experiences. test is open now, have to do is call in person on the city editor of The Siar, any time before 3 p,m. week days, and he will make an appointment for you to call at the Grady studio, official pho- tographers for the contest, to have a picture taken free of charge. You'll have to supply your own bathing suit for the picture, of course. The methods of Judging the con will be announced Jater that's all for the present Now come on, you bathing beau ties! Father, Son Die, 3 Hurt in Crash PETALUMA, Cal, July 10.—A, V. #0 ace, were killed and Mrs, Simms and two other children injured when thelr auto plunged over a 100-foot grade at Geyserville Sunday. Calvin 8, Hall and Prosecuting At torney Malcolm Douglas to lay this matter before the grand jury, Next the jury took up the eireum- stances surrounding the fallure a year ago of the Scandinavian Ameri can bank of Seattle, whose sudden collapse swept away the life savings of hundreds, largely working people. Between times the jury made its routine inspections of the county jail stockade and poor farm. Its findings on all these matters, and any en or secret indictments of individuals, Will be included in the report looked for Monday. v ona ena i duty in most shop centers. TROOPS IN FIVE H STATES CALLED | Troops in five states were mobil: | ized, ready for instant service, to pre- | vent outbreaks between pickets and strikebreakers Federal marshals were on duty at two points ater, Mo. Ti—-and federal officials were pre- | pared to order United States govern: | those two districts ment troops inte in case marshals were unable to con. | | trol the situation. | | Railroads, feeling the pinch of} equipment shortage due to lack of re- | pairs since the strike began, made} their greatest effort today to operate | \xhops with strikebreakers, thousands lof imported workers, protected by armed guards, began work in shops | of the country. jais were confident | |that if they were able to get shops under operation today by inducing |some of the men who walked out to return, and thru use of strikebreak- | era, they would be able to win the |nattle. Raliroad off | realfzing the strong | “p loxs of seniority and | pension rights placed on the men to eturn to thelr jobs, belleved if they | leould hold their ranks intact today | the strike would be carried thru suc- | cessfully. Determination of federal officials States railroad | tion that “full! \to back up the United [labor board's decta force” of the government would be | | utilized to protect strikebreakers was | |aeon in instructions issued to deputy | |morshals, United States Judge Carpentier lgave Marshal Levy “blanket” in |structions to enforee the injunction | jto prevent pic ng at the Aurora | shops. POWER TO HIRE | ARMY OF DEPUTIES Judge Carpentier's gave Levy power to hire thow of deputies if necessary, and in ¢ they are unable to enforce the writ, federal troops will be called. Shops of the Burlington road at | Aurora were opened today with a lforce of about 200 strike breakers | without any reports of violence, About 1,500 strikers saw them enter the shofis. A call from Bloomington for state troops said that “civil gov- at” has collapsed in that ifccructions nds city. Sheriff dacoh Morrison, of Bloomington, sald that men re- fused to serve as deputies to pro- (furn to Page 7, Column 5) the matter was kept secret un- til Monday to aid detectives in their investigation. Both burglaries were committed while the homes were temporarily unoccupied. The Pigott home was entered thru & basement window, which had in- and Aurora, | advertently been left unlocked The burglars went thru the house from top to bottom, open- ing trunks and drawers and leaving everything in confusion, While they. were in the midst of their work, however, Mrs. Pigott returned, driving her automobile into the garage in the rear of the home. The thieves heard her and es- caped thru the front door as she came in at the back, A careful inventory showed that the only loot comprised a pearl pin, @ watch fob, several unset stones, a jade ring, a watch and a revolver Mrs. Pigott said that the monetary! tory, the American Federation loss wan not very wrest, tut thet] yabietivemea te eemea ane the watch had been a keepsake} convention this morning in the which she valued highly, r bi lars entered > . home. by “breaking, a downstairel, The question of beating, Senate ag A ad . ) Miles Poindexter is the one big topia ‘They went thru the Clapp home tn the same thoro manner as in the other robbery ‘They were surprised, however, by the return of Mrs. Clapp, and fed out the window thru which they had entered, Mrs, Clapp said that the loss was less than $200, comprising @ scarfpin, cuff links and other items of Jewelry and a small amount of money. In the belief that a gang of expert crooks planning wholesale operations in the homes of the wealthy, the de- tective department was bending every effort Monday towand catching the burglars, but no definite clews have been reported to date. Jilted ly Alderman, Girl Takes Poisen convention to omer and Mayor BJ. CHICAGO, July 10.—-Blossom Tay- lor, 22, was dying today as the re- sult of poison, taken after what she said was a tearful parting from an alderman, who planned to leave for Europe. REDDING, Cal, July .—The/ tion, in the keynote speech, ‘ body of a woman clothed in a blue} “The misrepresentation of Ta: striped kimono was faund last bor, not only in the senate but hight on the banks of the river! im congress and the state legit eight miles below here. | betterment of labor” by William 8, Political Support Is Big Question as Convention Starts Session a By Seaburn Brows BREMERTON, July 10.—With prospects in the offing of one of the warmest political figh s in ts by no means frigid political Bremerton Navy Yard hotel here. of conversation everywhere. All of the 150 or so delegates who have ar rived so far are agreed th want to defeat him—but they are @i- vided into three distinct and rather hostile camps on the methods to be employed i One faction—the “extreme left"=@ wants to throw the support of the federation to the farmerdabor party candidate, ignoring both republican and democratic primaries. Another wants to ignore the farmer-labor man and back C. C. Dill, who seems as ” sured of the democratic nomination, And a third would invade the repubk Mean primaries, There are sure to be a number of heated debates on this issue, Meantime, however, the conven= tion is as placid as an Epworth league rally. H. J, Dunning, president of the trades and labor council, called the McCall, of Bremerton, extended the city's official greeting to the dele. gates. Poindexter was vigorously com demned as “a U, 8. senator who has consistently fought measures for the Short. state president of the federas (Turn to Page 7, Column @ ey.