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

Re a A | Bell, telephone service thruout | GOMPERS IS NOW URGED TO DECLARE! U.S. GENERAL STRIKE! fair; mode: Temperature Maximum 75, Today Tonight and Saturday, generally winds rate westerly Last M Hours Minimum, 54, noon, 63. VOLUME 24. NO. 188, “me Can’t Detect NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 4.— Auguste Jeansoune'’s ancient bones de not creak as imuch as his Mivver does, He's 111 years okt and he won the prise for the oldest person driving the oldest fivver in an automobile parade in Opelousas village. He drove it himself, all the way from his farm in St. Landry par- tsb and the flivver looked older | than he did. Sitting beside him was his eld- est child, Mra. Jean Baptiste Fruge, a youngster of 92. They came to town to me the sights, and wound up by con- demning flappers, prohibition, short skirts, cigurets bobbed hair and votes for women. Jeansonne qualifies as an ex: pert. He has been married five times and is the father of 30 chil- @ren-—-16 of them living — and of more children ams be can re member. “These Mappers, thal @o you think of them, Pere Auguste?” “Thees flappers, what do you skirted girls eddied around the | ancient machine. The centenarian Greetings: Who wants to buy ae adap go Gua 2% . Jim Egan says ine ought to have laws to protect airplane traffic. | And somebody suggests that they re peal the law of gravity. | oe jectrical Week is coming. Shock- { Shocking} eee | = vorv n1 aa IVORY IDA, THE OFFICE | INTELLECT, ASKS: tt | Isn't it about time for the post office department to be putting some new flavors on the back of | | their stamps? | = * There wea a young flapper named | Smeltzer, Whose favorite drink was a scltser. | She morried, one day, A big, strapping jay, Now, when her head aches, he} beltzer. ee As a tribute to Alexander Graham | the | United States was stopped for one Minute today Persons trying to get numbers| @uring this time had to wait five instead of tour m! os. . 80 THIS IS NORMALCY! Under the new republican tar- iff « suit of clothes will cost $5 more than it docs now. If they succeed in lowering the cost of grandfather and greatgrandfather | fee myself. Watches Women 100 Years Any Change “They look Ike a bunch of In- @ians to me,” said he In French. The 92-year-old daughter added: {"In my time we girls needed not jsuch a performance to win our husbands.” “They do it to get a man, of course,” said Pere Auguste. “Women haven't changed. I° been watching them 100 years. His daughter said she didn't think short skirts, short hair, claret and votes were necessary for women to catch husbands. “Me, 1 don't need show a yard of leg to get a husband! she said In apite of bis 111 years Pere Auguste hadn't heard about pro- iyition. “So that ts what the lawmakers do now,” he said, with disgust. “T am against « law like that Tf drink nothing but my Cajun cof- But to say another man cannot have the wine and beer If he wants i, that is im- beciler % Pere Auguste remembers hear. ing bis futher tell of Andrew Jnekson's victory over the British not far from their plantation in 1815, when he was 4 years old. He lives there still, driving his fitvver about the place as he di- rects the farm work. BOY 1S KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE Allen McDonald, 13, Is Vic- tim of Accident Allen McDonald, 15, 9046 10th ave. 8. W., was instantly killed shortly be } | | fore noon Friday when struck and/ }hurled 50 feet by an auto driven by Freeman A. Hobart, of Tacoma. on | the Everett highway, near Richmond Highlands. The lad, In company with Mert! | Haines, 16, $608 12th ave. 8. W., and | Dwight Bennett, 9722 60th ave. S.. was hanging posters for the Oriental | Fiesta to be held at White Center August 16 to 20. He crossed the road harp curve to carry a paste pot | day by Deputy United States Mar | jie. The warrant ona to Haines, when the auto appeared. | Allen became confused and ran for safety. According to Bennett, Ho- bart's car was traveling at about 40 miles an hour, and swerved directly into the boy, tossing his body in mid air. Allen was dead when picked up. Coroner W. H. Corson said the case would be referred to the prose cuting attorney An inqw will be peters at 10 ©. m. HUNDREDS DIE IN CHINA GALE LONDON, Aug. 4.—Hundreds of Chinese were killed tn a vi ty phoon which devastated the province of Swatow, causing great destruction of property and life, according to a ntral News dispatch received to. from Hongkong. Many steamers have been thrown upon the beach, the dispatch said Relief ships are sufferers da (BELL FUNERAL ON MOUNTAID BADDECK, N. Aug. 4 living any further a lot of us are going to be broke. oe Down in Loe Angeles the girls are beginning to take out a hunting per Mit with their marriage licenses. | We notice in The Star that they @re running o contest to find a bride for the Pri Wales. Don't do 1 Would sound te e of girls called Mra. Wales! ODE TO FLAPPERS Blessings on thee, Bare-kneed miss with brain a-whirl, With thy rotied down shadow hose, | Where the deuce are all thy clothes? And thy red mouth such a sight, Smeared with lipstick day and night. With thy powder and thy paint, blouse that almost ain't To our hearts, miss, you give pains Hasn't mother any brains? ‘The official Galfiatad with the food Tationing in Bohemia bears the title of “Lebenswitt stellungs kornmission lad must | “ee If this conl strike isn't settied | fon there's going to be an awful fad for old-fashioned about next November. “ee nightgowns One thing we never Have seen yet— The belies at Alt Ringing—wet. urn to Page 7, Column 5) se Think how it tle girl, | cased in a rugged pine box, the ot lot Alexander Graham Bell, inventor | of the telephone, will be vered into a tomb blasted m the summit of | Beran Breagh mountain, on Breton lisland, at twilight tonight The casket, which was construct 4 by the inventor's etaff, 1s to be |carried from his home on the shoul ders of workmen and placed in his favorite carriage to be driven up the winding mountain trail » the tomb. At the funeral, which will be tended by his family and ¢ Longtellow's “Psalm of Li psrager~sechorag lg er perarer s will be readé Northcliffe Sinks, Britain Is Alarmed | LONDON, Aug. 4- over the condition of Viscount North ifte, felt today Grave concern famous Englieh publisher, was when it was announced | weaker. | Justify Maedins 8 | Slaying of Man | CHEHALIS, Aug. 4.—-Deputy Fire Warden James Van Bibber killed Cart Hemrick, near Riffe, in self-defense, liowing an argument over a forest This was the decision of a cor. oner’s jury here yesterday, The slain man leaves a widow with eight chil- dren, rushing aid to the/ | channels,” | | | | | Legate investigation—-was hounding Mrs. Hartford to pun- | feet," that his heart was growing steadily |over themselves if |they had a dictaphone rigged up in On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star ™—> THE NEWSPAPER WI!TH A 15,000 CIRCULATION LEAD OVER ITS NEAREST COMPETITOR <—# Wash, under the Act of Congress March 8, Ratered as Beoond Class Matter May 9, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, SE ATTLE, , WASH., FRIDA Y, AUGUST 4, 1922, SAYS U.S. OFFICIALS CORRUPT Mayor E. J. Brown Hurls Charges at Federal Prohibition and Narcotic Agents Charging that the federal prohibition and narcotic offices in Seattle are riddled with corruption, Mayor E. J. Brown) denounced the arrest of Mrs. Nellie Hartford, star witness) in the Legate case, as an attempt on the part of the repub-| lican machine to discredit his administration on account of his controversy with G, O. P. leaders over the alleged orgy at) the recent state convention at Chehalis. “It isn't Nellie Hartford they're after,” he declared, “it’s old Doc Brown,” He also intimated strongly that the city detective depart- ment—which has been under fire for trying to thwart the! | | ish her for testifying before the grand Jury on the matter. | His principal charges, how- ever, were levelled against the federal officials of the city. “We'll never meet with any great success in our efforts to stop the legal traffle in liquor 6 ARE ARRESTED Dep AS NIGHT RDERS Grand Jury _In Indicts Probing Near-Lynehings MEDFORD, Ore. Aue. &— Prominent citizens of Jackson eda | arrested yesterday by Sheriff Terrill, following their indictment by the/ county grand jury, were to be ary Faigned today before Circuit Judge kins in the court house at Jack-| sonville, near here. The grand jury returned seven | true bills yesterday, following com: | pletion of it» consideration. of on} |dence submitted tn connection with | three alleged nearlynching episodes | by night riders in the hille near) Medford. J. ¥. Hale, Hank Johnson and Arthur Burr, negro, were the three men alleging mishandling at} the hands of masked gangs of men. | Three true bills were returned In the Hale case, one in the Johnson case and three in the Burr case. The men arrested were freed on and dope until there has been « radical change in the of beth the prohibition and the naretocie offices in the federal building,” he asserted. “They're alt just blocking the game.” The mayor made it clear that he held no briet for Mra. Hartford. “She'll have to stand on her own be sald. “But.” he added, shoutd be known.” Mra. Hartford was arrested Thurs. | a. “the real facts shal E. £. Gaskill, on a warrant charging illegal posession of narcot- was based on an Incident which took place June 18, when Mra. Hartford went to Monroe reformatory to visit her brother, Vol ney Burt, a prisener there. While at! the reformatory, Mrs. Hartford was searched, and, it is alleged, a quan- tity of narcotics found on her per. | non. “I don’t know anything about the truth of these charges,” Brown com mented, “but I do know about the | circumstances leading up to them. ball of 82,000 each. They are Dr. “In the firet place, Mra, Hartford |Jourett P. Bray, chiropractor, and was never out of the custody of Mrs.|former clergyman; Howard A. Mill, Harris, a» policewoman, from the| prominent orchardist; Bert Moses, time I had her released from jail. I| janitor at the Jackson county court never gave Mra. Hartford any | house and former jailer at the Jack her expenses thru/son county jail; J, Alexander Norris, | the same room with her while she ng the dope cure, and they | occupied the same room in a hotel afterward. “In view of these facts, I don’t see how Mrs. Hartford got hold of any narcotics—and I am inclined to be that the ‘quantity dope 4 on her person was ” pill given her by Dr, W. T. who attended her while she was taking the cure “Mrs. Hartford, 1 know, thinks that the police department is partly to blame for her trouble. After she had been searched at the reformatory in June she told me that she couldn't do anything for me in the Legate case unle city detectives let her alone. ne also told me that when she was searched at the reformatory the firet question asked her was whether believed Legate had been | janitor at the Jacksonville public | “Mrs. Harris even went to Colum: |echool; Thomas BE. Goodie, Jackson: | be rium with her and slept tn/| ville garage owner, and Josne F. Hitt-| { son, Medford automobile dealer. Sixteen unnamed defendants were | also included in each of the seven | jtrue bills and John Doe warrants were lemneg for thelr arrests. Reed Leet Lous by 6,897 Ballots AS CITY, Aug. 4.—Comple om all but 219 precincts gave Senator J. A. Reed a lead jof 6,897 over Breckenridge Long in the democratie senatorial primary W. Y. Morgan, candidate for the republican nomination for governor | jin Kansas, was leading W. R. Stubbs! by 11,500, with returns missing from | 400 precincts. | Oklahoma returns continued to |swell the majority of J. C. Walton | for the democratic gubernatorial | nomination, Manuel Herrick, devil congressman,” she really murdered.” Mayor Brown said that he knew tn been detente nee that Mrs. Hartford was about to be arrested “{ was informed thru underground | formed thru undergrotnd 'Blue-Law Candidate wan to be made against her as part|Defeated in Voting ‘dare: | apparently had} said, | n to of the campa Aincredit me NASHVILLE, Tenn. Aug. 4.—Sen Brown said that this was only | ator Kenneth McKellar won by 40,-| one of a number of cases which | 909 over Gua T. Fitzhugh, of Mem lead him believe that the fed- | phis, and Noah Cooper, “blue law’ | eral officials operate more as a candidat in the democratic senator. political machine than as a law- jial primary, according to returns forcement organization. |from the state primary today, Rep ave in my files,” he de | pogentative Joseph Byrns was renom. clared, “the record of a federal inated without oppositior 0 was arrested . < employe, wh vic Austin Peay, Glarkaville, had aboard the Keystone State with bed | quantity of narcotics in his possession. The case was turned over to the federal officialse—yet no effort has ever been made to prosecute him. “On the other hand, they'll fall all they see the slightest opportunity of getting any | lend today of 12,000 over Benton Mc Millan for the gubernatorial nomina tion, Sutherland Winner in W. Virginia Vote} CHARLESTON, W. Va., Aug. 4 thing igen ‘ Nea | Senator Howard Sutherland was re a page oy, * ge J bone es ni | nominated by the republicans, final A azeltine, o' he federa o ‘ety t vi u ition office, te nest the city couldn't | | returns of the West Virginia primary showed today. get hold of some of the automobiles | "owed y seized In booze raids, I found that| Fire Destroys 7 the hope of getting me P; 13° ' “Of course {t didn't do them any Fair Buildings! good—but it shows the lengths to! COLUMBUS, 0., Aug. 4—A group which they'll go to punish me for! of seven buildings on the Ohio state calling attention to the drunkenness | tair grounds, valued at $800,000, wag (Turn to Page 7, Column Q completely destroyed by fire today, % jwants a book. lows. Netter | latieg, charge. CINCIRNATI, O., Aug. $—When | possessing tntoxtcating lMquor. home advise your immediate appearance or her hus- a warrant will be sworn to for you. dry raiders appeared at the here of Mrs. Pearl Bell, band waan’t home. “All right.” announced William J. | |Fritach, deputy marshal, “we'll take| you and your son (who is 4 years old) jalong as hostages.” Which they did, leaving this note for the husband “To Clarence Bell: We are holding your wife at Loveland, ©., until you appear before the mayor of said vil lage of Loveland to face a charge of By James W. Egan Saunter into the commodious book boudolr donated the Seattle reading public by Mr. Andrew Carnegie and you probably will observe a number of patient, re signed souls wearing the expres sions of Christian martyrs in good standing. These are the li- brary attendants, The reasons for the patient, resigned stuff are things like this: Lady enters the brary. The lady She doesn't remem. ber the name of the volume “1 think it is called ‘Feeling Better,’ or something like that.” “Don't believe we have any book by that title,” tendant, wearily “Oh, you must! Let me see! by a French author, I think.” Deep thought by the attendant fol About to give up when the lody abruptly yodels I know. It ain't ‘Feeling either. The name is ‘Less That wasn't so far off, Miserable.’ wanted Victor Hugo's “Les * of course. (It isn’t pro Less Miserat by the way.) Or there is the sporty-looking gentleman who demands the “Red Boat” by that Hindoo feller —what's his name? More deep thought by the at tendant. Can he remember the ame of the author? Well, he just heard it mentioned by a friend, but it sounded like a cig- aret—oh, yes, Omar Kai Ham! “Now we got stammers the perspiring patron. “It's not the ‘Red Boat'—It’s the ‘Ruby Yacht!” So he waddies away satisfied, with the Tentmaker’s vinous verses beneath his clavicle, You marvel at the composure of the ave: worker after spending an afternoon in the, reading factory they don’t sometimes give vent to| plercing shricks and tear out their | supp hair in great handfuls. Especially when they get earfuls on this order |tion, 1s practloally free from all labor | Cleveland every other minute: “Did Swine burne ‘Poems of Chicago'?” “Please give me ‘Fifth Ave- nue’,”" write the i, SN oa, RAE LRT ate utters the library at-| It's | uty’s Scheme Fails Mrs. Pétirl Bell and her 4-year-old son, who were taken a8) nends largely on the ph hostages to insure her husband's appearance on a dry law vio- But the scheme didn’t work very WAAR RAR AAR AAA An Mtn 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $6 to 99 iene TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE TATATIMN Pa EIT Two Seized as Hostages eFIGHT TO FINISH IS — LABOR AIM Rail Brotherhoods Intervene in Strike ' With Wire to Harding; Huge Conflict Is Predicted INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 4.—National guardsmen were held in readiness today for instant movement into Southern In+ diana, where the state has started digging coal under the protection of martial law. *. * s Py WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—Believing that the very life unionism is at stake in the fight between the railroad ex= ~ jecutives and the striking shop craftsmen, organized or is preparing to meet the situation with its full strength, : was made known today. ey “The menace of a huge industrial conflict—the ae in the history of the country—is in the air,” an American — Federation of Labor official stated. This official is known as a conservative and al opposed to use such weapons as the sympathetic stril now being urged on President Samuel Gompers by the h of unions in all parts of the country. Both conservatives and radicals alike made no secteh their determination to sup- port the shop craftsmen in a ‘GIRL, 15 HUF 5 fight to the finish. Labor’s next move ‘Victim of Motorcycle and Motor Car Smashup Freda Rogers, 17, of 3321 19th of President Harding. Hard- ing and his cabinet met to- day to decide whether the administration shall stand aside and permit the execu- tives and the strikers to fight it out, or to take fur- We “WILLIAM J. FRITSCH, “Deputy Marshal.” | well. When Mra, Beli appenred be-| ther steps for peace. ave. S., was in a eritical com@- fore the mayor of Loveland, he} tion at the city hospital Fridayy ordered her immediate release and a result of a collision between hha: charge was sworn to by Bell, F s ri It’s Perfectly Avful, but Jim Okehs It and So Does the Librarian | fav mee oO; tho astonishing | urging Ubrary | Ford bid for the big nitrate project.| PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 4.— N You wonder | dustry suf! both The report ceptance by the board, including the jators speaking for at least 66 per, | row concerning the payment of controversial 100-year leabe provis-jcent have accepted John UL. Lewis’! war commercial debts, it was jon. (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) ficlally stated today, Street ") |much longer tn the face of defective | | Plays by some popular author like| yy » statement to the United Press Shakespeare?” | poston (No, it wasn't ethics, The seeker | Attempting to break the bleck= was desirous of brushing up on/|! such a condition that operation) ade of the “dry navy,” a motor etiquette.”) |will endanger the lives of trainmen.| boat running rum from a fleet of “I'd like ‘By-Patla’ by ‘Allan at the other 30 per cent will be| smugglers, whose ships stand 20 } Quatermatn’.” jout of service within another 30/ (And Allan always was one of my | “What books have you by Mr. Sin-|Toad unions depends upon the result} = Three men and a large quane | jof the shopmen’s strike and pointed! ¢ity of Scotch whisky were (That tsn’t no bad. Henry Sien./OUt that the Brotherhoods also! seized, |kewiex, the Pélish pen-pusher, has a | WOUld be in the path of the “railroad she wanted to know if the trans- lations were written with sce- is roaming around wi | Mistakes are not always made by se who lack PUTS O. K. ON WASHINGTON, Aug. 4-—Develop:| 41) arms in the a under military | refused the demand of France that ment by Henry Ford of the great| rule are being collected by troops to- | $10,000,000, representing pre-war jhydro-electric power lying dormant gay, One man surrendered 11 guns, commercial debts be paid by August jat Muscle Shoals, Ala., will aid in) mwo ttle girls gave up their air{15, Germany's refusal, based on the |slving the nation permanent secur- | pines, ground of inability to pay, will be ity against the: paralysing effect of | forwarded to Paris in a note this afte i: ail and mine strikes, such as those nad ra ge eas we wt | PREDICT. COAL, | “Stn os ma ea |the senate agric ultural committee | | was framed ot a mectens at Geka asserted in a report to the senate SHEA WIRES WASHINGTON CLEVELAND, Aug. 4.-—Open in- tervention by the Big Four Brother. hoods to save the country from a transportation crisis came today when Timothy Shea, vice president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, sent a lengthy message to President Hard- ing Altho Shea deciined to divulge the contents of the message, it s under. | ¢ of her son. Then a kidnaping and | itech was arrested and put under | p00 bail, a motorcycle on which she was riding, and an automobile, at Ninth sve. and Pine st. Thursday night. Mrs. B. C. Johnson, 528 10th ave. N., driver of the auto, claimed she did not see motorcycle in time to avoid accident. Miss Rogers was riding on the motoreyele behind Clyde Emery, 1120 Terry ave. Because of Miss Rogers’ serious condition police are holding Emery, awaiting the outcome, stood that it not only contained a - peace plan, but virtually notified the || Miss Rogers sustained a frag jpresident that the brotherhoods} {¥fed skull and both legs were | broken. (The borrower wanted “Main id be unable to operate trains | | wou today, Shea declared Thirty per cent of the locomotives are out of service now, Within 30 days 40 per cent will be “Have you the discovery and ex-| of America “A book on etics, please.” SHIP IN FIGHT SEABRIGHT, N. J., Aug. 4.-+ miles off Fire island, was over- hauled and captured after a gun battle early today. days. brite flation herede’ Shea charged that the life of rail. n moniker, anyway.) oper roller ine borrower askea ylus—how do you Umpire to Recover From Poisoned Pie TROOPS HUNT NEW YORK, Aug. 4.—Charles Mos FOR WEAPONS National league umpire, was il {this afternoon from the effects of STAUNTON, Ind, Aug. 4.—An| “arsenic ple,” which is held respons outpost on a railrond about a quarter |sible for the death of six persons and lof a mile west of Staunton, in the [Serious illness of 100. | martial law zone, was fired on by two] Altho ill and dizzy all night from |men last night. the effects of the poison, the umpire for “Aes! pronoun When shown several volumes ario requirements in mind. If the spirit of old Aeschylus in common ith other literary spooks this will make him froth at the : , . Troops returned the fire. No one | insisted upon working behind the mouth and thp over beaucoup | na plate at the gam@ between the | tables. |Giants and Cubs at the Polo ‘The telephone line from headquar. | ters to strip mine No. 2, of the Row. Doctors said that he would land Power collieries, being put in|b@ able to work off the effects of condition for operation by the state, |he Poison and that his strong com | was cut twice. Signal corps men |Sttution had saved him, made the repairs. a ae at Firing was continuous trom mi@-|Germany Refuses to | night to 2 o'clock. Headquarters re- | Pay French Demand ported the sentries were nervous and were firing s BERLIN, Aug. 4.—Germany today | Grounds. the advantages of (Turn to Page 7, Column hell SHOALS PLAN “at shadows and cows. |Germans in Alsace May Be Driven Out ‘o electrified railway and no in-|nation-wide coal strike will be nee | served by water power can|tled Monday, it was predicted here | suspension on account of fuel |today | because hydro-electric power, | Operators and miners of the cen-| PARIS, Aug. 4.—Germans tn Al nh in its production and distribu- |tral competitive fields are to meet in| sace and Lorraine will be driven | from their homes and their property A majority of the central competi. | confiscated unless Germany gives Oper: | France a favorable reply by tomer ables, the report said urges unqualified “ac | tive fields will be represented.