The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 11, 1922, Page 1

| DEFIES BRITON : BE: | Tonight and & wt Temperature Mavicouim, 65, 24. NO. 144, folks! Wonder if they’tt ‘Salisbury foe making Seattle the fella who lives back of Saat have to borrow our hose for oe few wives have returned from | yecation. We saw several men ‘overshoes today. ore [NTIONAL BALLARD Foliman will be fully and escorted to the con- where an elaborate en- has been prepared ber."—The Ballard Tribune. ; eee x Homer: If that copper at the ‘of your colyum dcesn’t hurry WEATHER moderate southerly Today noon, 60, AREY SRI) Bod Railroads turday, showers; india Last M4 Hours Minimum, 51, RARARRAAAARAANA ARR RAR On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Sta Batered as Seoond Clase Matter May %, 1899, at the Postoffics at Beattie, Wash, wnder the Aot of Congress Maroh &, 1818. Per Your, by Mall, $6 to 68 SEATTL Ey WASH., McCormick Married to Walska Millionaire Weds Opera Star in Paris BY WEBB MILLER PARIS, Aug. 11.— Harold F. MeCormick, American million aire, was married today to Gan- fil that bottle I'm going to ‘him removed for inefficiency. sincerely, om Dee Brown. Doe: Give him time, give him aUICE in the Middle West of alcohol m the cadaver vats in medical charged « stiff price oo oy ethe remains “Of Gliek c are the quick and the dead, ad Dill wos not quick. . : os youd naturally iT _abaealin Rags the legislature he opposed the poll tax, { . ‘ Mayor Caldwell Is on his Alaska. Ret he brings back ‘Arctic Bar for the Woodland Park than over the foot of Wash- St. yesterday “"—The Star. Brown says he has ee “mystery ma 4 murder case without a mystery je like a Second Lieutenant a wrist watch. It's all eee Little drops of water, Little drops of juice— Oh, the root beer merchant Makes money like the deuce. see That New Orieans man who ate 5 “ot crawfish can now! Chea dinner made by a June bride. ee American Legion posts of Kin will hold a joint pfenic at Sunday Top sergeants are cordially inotted! Je, come on tm. ~H. B. Man. ‘The old-fashioned girl who used to} say she “had nothing to wear,” now wears it. . ‘There is no dog in dog biscult, #0 | why expect chic in chicken pie? —— Lh GEE GEEK, TH’ OFFICE VAMP, SEZ gpd dog has his day, but the dog with « sore tail has his weak-end. ———>_——" oe. )Under Mayor Brown's administra tion, almost every political warhorwe MW getting some appointment, if only | intment o. Well, vrohinition is observed as Well as the law against Upping. ' ARDENT COUNT, x . TONDON, Aug. 11.—Apparently bileving that authorities have no As to mix in his love affairr, Count 46 Luzatrago, reputed Spanish no: bleman, defied Scotiand Yard today ANG retused to leave England The count was politely requested to St out of the country by Scotland | Yard after scandal which linked his | name with those of many wealthy GG titled society women. It was re Derled the daughter of a duke was ineluded in the count’s heart affairs Altho no political of criminal charges have been placed against de Luzarrago, authorities pointed out | 10 him that his presence in England Wan objectionable following disclos ure that he had written many fer vent love letters to Lady Diana Manners, society favorite, who orned him and reported the matter to the authorities, Hoot Mon! | Bagpipes| GLASGOW, Aug. 11. -- Patriotic have been requested to boyentt bagpipes made in Germany. A large shipment recently arrived Perhaps st worm will turn. | e from Germany | | ma Walska, Polish opera star, {| Dudley Field Malone and his wife | were the witnemses to the ceremony, | which took place in the city hall of jthe 16th arrondisement. ‘The Malones then motored out of | Parts with the bride and bridegroom. The destination of the honeymoon party was unknown. ‘The Malones alighted from MeCor- mick's motor car on the outskirts of Paris and Ganna and McCormick rolled toward the provinces on their wedding trip. A wedding luncheon was given at the Ritz before the wy motored | | away. Both McCormick and Genna Wal ska have been recently divorced. | McCormick was divorced by his wife, | Raith Rockefeller McCormick, tn Chi- | cago on the grounds of desertion. He did not @ntest the action. Ganna Walska recently obtained a divorce in Paris from Alexander Smith Cochrane, who, hin) murriag@ to the diva, was nas STdiey’ Field, Malone, ho. was Field Pinan k's best man, obtained the Givore® for Walska. MeCormick sailed for Parts tmme- diately after he was released pe ob ee « where an opera on him by Dr. Victor Di Lespinasse, who has made tation in Ahe medical rene | cues| Saye train headed for Switzerland, where, ft is reported, she ts scon to become the bride of Capt. Max Oser, former owner of & livery stable in } Zurich. Mathilde's new “mother” aided the | girl in picking out her clothes for the itrip to Switzerland. Since his arrival in Parts, McCor- | mick hax steadfastly refused to be in- terviewed concerning the love affairs | Sof himself or his daughter. Ganna | Wolska has consistently denied her- | self to reporters. ‘The two were seen frequently tak- | ling Motor trips on the boulevards of Parix. MeCormick and Ganna Walska| | eiewe met in Paris, when he engaged | jher to sing with the Chicago Grand *|Opera company, last season, MeCor- | mick, until recently, wag the finan: | | cial backer of the opera project | McCormick t the fourth husband | lof the singer. She first married a! | Russian army officer, then Dr. Jacob | Frankel, and last year became the! wife of Alexander Smith Cochrane. | | She divorced the first three. | She was ‘recently quoted from Paris as saying she prefers American husbands. 'Mrs. McCormick Silent on Wedding CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—Mra, Harold IF. McCormick, guarded and secluded | jin her Gold Coast home here, was in- | | formed of the marriage of her former | husband to Ganna Walska, in Paris, | by a servant who carried a note from | newspaper men. | ‘The daughter of the world’s richest | man, who has lived in seculsion since | | her return from a self-imposed exile lof eight years in Switzerland, refused to appear before the reporters per senally She did not send back an answer | } In fact, the marriage today in Paris lof Harold ¥, McCormick and bent | | Walska did not surprise Mrs. McCor | mick of Chicago society ‘The reported engagement has been | jn leadingg topic of discussion for months—even before the divorce was obtained by Mrs. McCormick. 87,000 VOTERS ARE REGISTERED More Than 100 Day Making Selves Eligible More than 87, 000 Seattie voters |have already been registered for the | leounty election, ft was annouriced | | Friday by EB. R. Coffin, chief regis: | |tration clerk. The registration books will close | August 22, / More than 100 persons a day are | |making themselves eligible to vot lin the primaries. ‘The offices in the | \County-City building are open frorm | % to 5 o'clock dally, withthe excep: | tion of Saturdays, when the books clone at noon Persons who have registered since | Japuary 1, or who registered for the | |last mayoralty campaign, do not have to re-register this year or next year. The county primary elections are on September 12, with the finals staged for November 1. | | FOREST FIRES Catia GO OUT UNDER HEAVY RAINS! More Wetness Due; 62 of an Inch Has Fallen in} Two Days By noon Friday .62 of an inch FRIDAY, see moor 11, 1922. Two | CENTS S IN SEATTLE OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST HAVE ELECTED THE STAR THEIR FAVORITE SEATTLE NEWSPAPER — BY 15,000 PLURALITY Ee HOME] Til Demoralized! of molsture had fallen in Seattle since Wednesday night, when the TSday dry spell came to an end. And the weather man de- clared that rain clouds still hovered above. “Rain,” he prophesied, “Friday night and Saturday, with modest southerly winds.” Similarty, rain has fallen and threatens to fall in alt parts of the Northwest. Yet it cannot be expect ed to alter to any great extent the | Year's crop conditions. ‘The damage there has been done. season's rainfall. Forest rangers, however, are receiving much aid from the rain, Forest fires are fast being squelched. According to Snoqual- mie forest service officials all fires in King county are now practically out, except those at Nagrom, near Lester, Eighty men are now fighting the flames at that place, and are expecting, with the cooperation of the rainfall, to have all fires sup- pressed within three days. IS WORTH PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 11- Steady rainfall, continuing since yes terday afternoon, has heen worth several millions of dollars to timber owners and farmers in the North west, according to reports received by the district weather office today. | Forest fires have been smothered, | [pasture lands have been refreshed, farms have been placed in shape for | fall plowing. late crops have been im proved, and all the other troubles of & 0-day drought have been eided Sinee yesterday a total of 68 of an | inch of rain has fallen in Portland, | }and similar amounts have been re- | | ported from other points in Western }Oregon and Western Washington, where dry weather hag continued. Additional showers were forecas' for tonight and tomorrow Reports received by the weather office indicated that the rain of the last 24 hours has been confined to Western Oregon and Western Wash ington. Salem reports 75 of an Inch lof rain and Tacoma .76 of an Inch Eastern Oregon did not receive any rain, and only a trace was reported from Eastern Washington ‘The storm area, which had been [off the British Columbia coast, had Moved inland today and was centered it in the Rocky mountains, Another | storm area was reported in Arizona Since the beginning of the present senson-—September 1921—thers hi age rain: The rain is to the county other outdoor and the harvest been a deficier of 75 trouble caused om theeaver by the cus and vacationints fairs, © shows, would rm harvested grain unless it Is oa. not h 4 Boys Bum to) Death in Barn CAMPBELL, Minn., Aug, 1L— Four boys were burned to death in a« fire which destroyed the barn on the farm of Ralph Stev- ons near here. They were John, Ralph and Albert Stevens, 3 to 9 years old, and Edgar Wray, 7. _/actiniaamnanticmtn nme FIRE ALARM FAILED TO PREVENT HOOTCH RAID, IS FINED $100 Jacob Kalina, judge, fined Emery boilermaker, $100 in police court Thursday afternoon for turning in a false fire alarm in an effort to frustrate # raid on a soft drink Joint at 1220 Jackson st., Juiy 23. Emery, according to the police, slipped out of the door while It was being locked. He phoned for the fire department at Gilen drug: store, 1126 Jackson st., and while the officers and the patrons in the soft drink parlor were in con. fusion, intended to quietly remove the contraband. His efforts failed. He was identified and arreated when he came to the police sta tion to bail out his partner, George Bakie, 90, who was rged with violating the liquor acting . police Emery, a ordinance Only the latest | crops and fruits can benefit from this | MANY MILLIONS! The weather office | Lreported that the present rain Surprises All by Vitality, By Charles MMcCann TANDON, Aug, 11.—Fighting for life with the will that car: ried him from penniless child heed to the peak of Hritish journatiom, Viscount Northeliffe today amazed physicians by once more winning a respite when death seemed only a matter of neconds. % bulletin ixsued by als physicians stated that the condi- tion of the famous publisher was | Unchanged. Altho Northetiffe's condition was hopeless, doctors and specialists were doing their utmost to prolong his life Workmen during the night cut a and erecte cliffe's bed near the roof to give him more a Messages of cheer from all parts of the world reached the viseount, who too weak to know them. In his detirium, which grows more frequent, “the Chief,” as they call him in Fleet st., fought with those about him and got up to send orders to bis papers. He refused to give In. A tele phone, connected near his bed- | enabled him send in- tions to his ed But the messages never reached Fleet A secretary took them down in an adjoining room, For a month strange poison, mysterious of origin, has been seep. ing thru Northeliffe’s system. The beat ing American who have attended | Northcliffe now believe his trouble may have hed its origin in a cancer of the throat. They point to the fact that the viscount was frequently jin alternate high spirits and deep de. | pression, even when apparently en | Joying good health. MAYOR DENIES VICE CHARGES |Answers Rev. Bauer’s Slap on City made by the Rev, Bauer, pastor of the Take Congregational church, that view is open and rampant in Seattle were hotly denied Friday by Mayor Brown. “High officials of the Pacific fleet have declared that Seattle is cleaner than any other const city,” the mayor declared, “If Rev, Mr, Bauer will bring his information to me T shall be happy to make « sweeping in- vestigation of his charges.” Speaking before the Optimist club | Thursday, the Mev. Bauer said that jone man walking from three blocks from the Lumber Exchange building had been accosted 12 times, “T would like to see this man,” the mayor stated. “I have never heard of open solicitation of this sort in (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) Charges Philip E. Green hole in the roof of his bed chamber | 4 a temporary shelter roof. | It is planned today to hotet North.) English specialists and a lead. | By Robert B, Bermann Did Lord Northcliffe, greatest of living publishers, contract the mysterious malady from which he is now suffering when he vis- ited the Northwest last year? This was the question which arose | Friday, when the vis yeicians were quoted in London dispatches as dis counting the original stories that Northcliffe was poisoned on &® recent trip to Germany, In their statements, the doctors pointed out that the publisher suf. féred from temperamental fits of de | preasion and exhilaration, long be fore he made the trip to Germany, ‘This recalled the fact that he was suffering from one of these fits of depression when he was at Vancouver, B. C., a year ago- and, as far as can be learned, it was his first. At the time, Northeliffe’s depres. | sion was laid to the bitter controver- | | | | result of his quarrel with Lord Cur | zon, |'the fliness which hag «ince brought him to death's door. It happens that I was sent to Van- visit-—and he certainly was suffering from some sort of disorder when I saw him, T recall the incident as clearly an if it had occurred yester- day He wase seated at a desk, dile- tating to & woman stenographer, when I managed to reach his bedroom in dhe Vancouver hotel He was in his shirt sleeves, a. “patent belt” protruding above his trousers, and his entire ap- pearance was disheveled. There were dark circles under his eyes, his hair was disordered, and his skin sagged in patches on his face, He welctimed | courteously—but certainly distrait “Beer!” he fairly barked, when I asked for an expression of his oponion on the Japanese question, “Not a word, not » word!" He declined with equal fores to |diseuss the disarmament Conference, then about to convene; the Irish ts. sue, or any matter of world Importance “But, my lord,” T finally told him, “my paper has sent me up here to Interview you—and I've simply got to }do it. Isn't there ANYTHING you'll | talk about “Well,” he replied, perfectly seriously, “I think T might talk about the relative merits of base- ball and cricket.” “If that’s the best you can do, responded, nono too graciously, afraid So he called tn hin secretary and, for 15 minutes or so, dictated a solemn diatribe on the two games— giving cricket much the better of the argument Later on, at a formal luncheon, he made a careful speech on the dis. armament conference — which wus given prominence more because of the importance of the speaker than me his kindly manner and was other ua I'm 400 Swelter When three trains, said carrying about 400 passengers, which | were stopped at Needles last night | when their crews, in compliance with | & decision of the railroad brother. boods, refused to move them thru dis- tricts where armed guards were sta- tioned, hurried back to Barstow. tent spots in the desert, showed a temperature of 100 yesterday. day’ on the part of the sun. Barstow, to which point the trains were said to be returning, waa only a degree or two cooler. | | jsy In which he was then engaged | per cent of normal in coal-consuming with the British foreign office, as the | communities. but ft ts now believed that It/ing points be resumed immediately, | may have been the first symptom of |jt would be impossible to move coal | couver to interview him during his {newly appointed fuel administrators, \Condition Calls for Drastic IRES | Northcliffe F ights Death| PASSENGERS. New Theorya as to Malady MAROONED IN HOT DESERT Trainmen Refuse! to Go to Work in Sirtie ° Zone Weat today pared in the great deserts which lie south and east of the Sierras in Southern Cali- fornia. ‘There, as near as could be learned, freight trains, including the California limited, Eastbound, all on the Santa Fe, were tled up or turning back. Early today it was reported that | to have been) Needies, famed as one of the hot- To- reports indicated no relenting Meager information described f trees on the right of » hardly ® growing thing in , broke the of the sun. No breeze was stirring. ‘The Pullman cary offered the only refure and they, according ‘to the. 's custom in cross- Railroad officials were reported conddering plans to bring the pas- sengers back to Los Angeles or other- wire give them relief. In case it proved impossible to continue the Arain movements FUEL FAMINE GRIPS NATION Action (Copyright, 1922, by the United Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—A perilous fuet shortage grips the nation, according to a survey by the United Press. When the government's “coal cen- sun,” now being taken, is completed | it will show a condition calling for drastic rationing, whatever the out- come of the mine and rali strikes, =| The reports to the United Press| revealed supplies approximately 20! Should fuel shipments | |from mine to the principal distribut- fant enough to catch up with the de mand. Three questions were submitted to | governors and public service commis sions of the states. These concerned 1. Supply of fuel on hand (Turn to Page 7, Column 6) oes COAL STRIKE NEARING END Resumption of Production Predicted Next Week BY HARRY G. G, BAKER CLEVELAND, Aug. 11.—Deft- nite steps to end the nation-wide coal strike and immediately re- sume production at 75 per cent of the country's bituminous mines were taken hero today, Members of a newly created sub. committee met to draft a wage scale | for submission to the conference of miners and operators of the central competitive coal fields President John L. Lewis, of the United Mine Workers, declared coal | will start pouring back into the na tion’s empty bins within a week if the pay schedule is adopted. ‘The new scale, it was tndicated, will be based on the 1920 wage scale and continuation of the check-off sys. tem Termination of the sirike on the basis of such an agreement would be heralded as a victory by both sides. of the character of his remarks, But that interview on base ball and cricket was the only |tee of seven ratiroad executives late | I | the Big Four brotherhoods’ stri spreading to the Union Pacific Traffic to the industrial cen The walkout of firemen and Nashville railroad at Evansvil! tangle. Reports at noon from railroad. strikers at 3 p. m. today. A complete tieup on the Louls ville & Nashville was indicated. Only two trains had operated up to noon. Union officinis were expected to arrive to receive a complete report of alleged activities of striking coal miners outside of Evansville. Both union and non-union mines in Kentucky were virtually closed to- day by the walkouts of firemen and engineers on lines handling coal to the north thru Evansville. “Big Four” Brotherhood leaders in Chicago received telegrams from Cleveland headquarters giving per- mission for a walk-out on the Illi. nols Central the Rock Island the Chicago & Northwestern, “if em- ployment on these lines is os + & 23 BOMBS ROCK SAN BERNARDINO, Cal, Aug. 11.--Twenty-three bombs were ex ploded this morning in the yards of the Santa Fe railway here. No one was injured except Deputy United States Marshal A. G. Alverson, who |was rushing a supposed dud to a! chemist when it exploded. The only | | of the Southern California Edison | company, when struck by a fragment | of a bomb. : * &® & * NEW YORK, Aug, 11—A commit. today met to draft a reply to Presi- dent Harding's latest plan for settle- ment of the rail strike. The committees, headed by Robert 8. Lovett, will submit its draft to 148 | members of the American Association of Railway Executives in session here, after which tt will be dispatch. MORE TROUBLE WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Exten- sion of the paralyzing effect of the railway shopmen's strike seemed probable as heads of the 16 labor or- ganizations, including the powerful “Big Four" brotherhoods, met here to decide upon a program of 4 action in the menacing con- troversy. The conference opened shortly be. * LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11.—Until the situation of the walkout of ral road brotherhood men on the Santa Fo system is cleared up, no thru trains will leave Los Angeles on that ine, I. L. Hibbard, general manager, | announced today Reports today showed trains tied MORE S&S. F. MEN SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11.—-Addt- tional employes of the Santa Fe rail. road were reported to have followed the lead of railway brotherhood members in Southern California and to have struck today, * * ® * *% MEN STRIKE IN VANSVILLE, Ind, Aug. 11.—~ Declaring their lives were endanger- ed, engineers and firemen on the St. Louis and Henderson divisions of the | Louisville & Nashville railroad early * * ST. LOUIS, Aug. 11.—The Missourt CLEVELAND, O., Aug, 11.—Mem- personal statement that he gave out in British Columbia—at a time when the whole world was waiting for his views on interna tional polities’ bers of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Firemen and Enginemen at Earl ington and Henderson, Ky., and (Turn to Page BY CHARLES R. ES R. LYNCH CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—Denoralization of rail traffic in the West and Middle West continued today with the spread of Transcontinental train service over the Santa Fe was © practically at a standstill, with the strike reported to be walkout was spreading to the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Illinois Central men were scheduled to join the: * * KATY CUTS SERVICE TRAFFIC CRIPPLED BY STRIKE Sympathetic Movement by Big Four ~ Spreads Thru West; Service at Standstill at | Many Points ke, and the Southern Pacific, tevs of Northern Illinois and ~ Indiana was badly crippled by the strike of brotherhood men ~ on the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern at Joliet, Il. engineers on the Louisville & : le, Ind., added to the fic Evansville indicated that the ~ able on account of the shop strike. Similar telegrams were sent to At- lanta and Antigo, Wis. H. K. Daugherty, assistant chief of the Brotherhood of tive Engineers, scouted the that an immediate walkout scheduled on the Illinois Central. Officials of the Elgin, Jotiet Eastern at Joilet, expressed confi- dence that brotherhood men on there would return to work within few days. They refused, heperern give reasons for their statement. Li YARDS ‘The point from which the — were hurled was a myste: yards were completely pride after the first bombs exploded. The Santa Fe shops here are the \largest the railroad maintains on the ;coast and have been the scene of most of the disturbances tn southern |property damage was to power lines | California attendant on the railroad shopmen's. strike. More than 4,000 men are regularly employed in the shops. * * *® & ROADS PREPARE REPLY ed by special wire to Harding. There was no indication of the stand the executives would take on Harding's suggestion that the ques- tion of seniority rights of the 400,000 striking shop men be submitted to the United States railroad labor board for settlement. Acceptance or rejec- tion of Harding's proposal hinges on this. SEEN fore 11 o'clock, with a few of the rail leaders absent, because of late trains. From the conference is expected to come the warning that the brother. hood members and others will be forced to quit work if equipment is allowed to deteriorate much more and armed railroad guards continue to shoot workers, as has been charged by the men, * * * SANTA FE TRAINS STOP up at San Bernardino, Barstow and Needles, Cal., and Seligman, Ariz., as a@ result of this action by the brotherhoods. The announcement, according to railroad officials, came suddenly and no definite plans to meet the situ: ation could be made pending copfer- ences today, * QUIT Reports received here sald that the yard force at Fresno failed to report for work this morning and that “groups” of employes at Bakersfield had joined the strike, * * INDIANA today refused to take out their runs, Railroad labor men said the action of the firemen and engineers was not concerted, but the result of individual decisions, * * s 8 #& * * * & coal supply was announced as the Pacific railroad today announced dis: | cause, The shopmen’s strike was not continuance of 60 trains, effective|a factor in the decision to cut off Sunday. the trains, according to officials of An acute situation tn the road’s!the road, * + & * &* & * * & REFUSE TO MOVE TRAINS Howell, Ind, refused to take out trains because of defective equip. ment, they notified the brotherhood headquarters here today. 7%, Column 3)