The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 24, 1922, Page 1

Tontoht and V ‘Temperature Maximum, 58, ————— VOLUME 24. NO. 207, Howdy, folks! A kittenish girl generally grows up to be @ 4 catty woman. : . 5 = Would you call Rodolph Valen-| tino’s hair “the glory that was grease and the grandeur that was/ bay rum"? | see Mayor Brown spoke at the Or} pheum last night and five violinists} fainted with envy when they saw Doc's hair. SOFTER, BOYS: That deep silence that greeted Dee Brown as he stepped upen the stage was the city council cheering our mayor. oe. Dee wasn't. nearly as funny as) when he wns making campaign eches and promising Seattle 2) Jf Scent cartare. “Wife Attacked Him With Dirk, Man Says.”——Headline. We take it ‘abe was trying to do him dirk. 7 eee The frost is on the pumpkin, The leaves are | The air is full of footballs And the football's full of air. eee ils 3§ i it if the common people.” Just the same he ts trying to get a seat in the cabinet. eee ‘The bonding companies must be Bleep. Not one of them advertises to bond a coal wagon driver, eee Hank Ford ts going to broadcast his political views. Say it with a will receive the . Students of the bee schoo! and of Movie correspondence schools poth stand a good chance of being stung. eee degree of A. Bee. oe One of the cows out at Hollywood fe called “America”—because it has gone dry. eee The steeplejack has tots of fun, He gets the air, he gets the sun. | And when he's perched upon a steeple, He can look down on other people. But tho upratsed above the mob, The stecplejack is not a snob. eee ‘Today's definition: A football piay- |* er is a guy who will kil! himself if he can get somebody to watch him | dott. ‘ eee % THE WAGES OF TOTL é A boy was digging . ‘The digging those pot: answered, “Nothing if I do hell if 1 don’t.—Hepresentat! Johnson, Washington. ee Milk prices have dropped in Seat-| fle. Farmers must be liquidating | their assets, ~ Tom Revelle bars Mayor Brown | from the federal grand jury room. Why doesn’t Doc emulate Malcolm Douglas and sue out a writ of preju- dice? a eee A little touch of grapo makes the Whole world spin. ° Ra o* A fortune waits for the man who / Will Invent a non-skid Up rouge. eee Lufendort to his wedding. Reedn't fee] badly. the Gist Division have received an Invitation. eee School ts over. Pupils will please WEATHER moderate south pale, Today noon, 58, The ex-katser has fated to invite} Ludey | No members of | Wednesday, rain; aterly Last 24 Hours Minimum, 42. <=> Women Hi Col. Geo. “Harvey, Our Ebullient Ambassador in England, Tries Out His Voice LONDON, Oct. 24-—"Have women souls?” If they have souls there ts no evidence of it In the Bible, ao cording to the interpretation of Ambassador George Harvey, who addressed the Authors’ club here last night. Colonel Harvey, on the premise that women have no souls, de duced that the 10 commandments apply only to men. “The fact Is, of course,” he said, “that women are not bound by, but freed, at least by infer. ence, of any obligation to serve the requirements of our funda- mental religious law.” He sald there was no recogni tion In the decalogue of the pos session of souls by women. ‘The colonel suggested that the Authors’ club assume the respon- sibility of writing a list of 10 commandments for women. “The 10 commendmenta were written exclusively for men,” the ambassador declared, Harvey de clared the rib theory of the crea- tion was a mere legend. In bearing out his statement that the 10 commandments did not apply to feminity, Harvey neighbors’ husbands, The blame for the onesided application was placed on Mosea, Re apply to women, he said. “Thou” in the commandment applies ¢x- clustvely to the head of the household, according to his tn- terpretation. ‘The speech of the asbassador was in his best vein as « light esnayist. cee SAYS MEN ARE CKED ONES! NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—All men are natural born polysa- mists. That's why the com- mandments forbid them to covet each other's wives, Captain Reba Crawford of the Salvation Army declared today. Taking issue with Ambassa- dor Harvey, who seems to think women are ignored in the Dec alogue because they have no souls, Captain Crawford pointed out that the contrary ts true —women are not forbidden to sin because they are naturally inclined to be good. Men are the wicked ones. Captain Crawford said that Ambassador Harvey had drawn his theory that women have no souls entirely from the Old Testament. When the books of the Old Testament were writ- ten, she said, practically all men were polygamists and that accounts for the scant mention made of women. iL W. W. FUSS IS OVER NOW PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 24—The uthorities announced today their belief that the “I. W. W. invasion” of Portland had been successfully and definitely checked. No further trouble is expected here from an influx of I. W. W., po- lice announced, Leen than 80 men were eld In Jail today for action by the municipal court on the blanket charge of vagrancy. Those admitting I. W. W, membership will be deported, It was announced, and the others will be freed. A “Want Ad” in The Star Classified Columns Brings a Ready Buyer to Your Door 90 straight home and not stop to throw rocks at the electric 4 | The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor At the Postoffics at Beattie, Wash, SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1922. ave No Souls! ‘RUSH TO AID OF|S- 'REVENUE CUTTER Mojave, With Officials Aboard, Out of Fuel BAN FRANCISCO, Oct. %4.—The v. S. & Sunnadin, from the Peart Harbor, T. H., naval base, was hur. rying to the aid of the revenue cut- ter Mojave today, according to radio advices here. The Mojave, with Assistant Secre- tary of Commerce Huston and other government officials aboard, was re- Ported last night as short of fuel at She was en route from Manila to San Franciseo via Guam and Hom olutu. ‘The Sunnadin was prepared to either refuel the Mojave or to tow her into port, as occasion might de- mand. The Mojave was in no dan ger, altho sho bad passed thru a severe storm, depleting her fuel supply. ‘This waa the second time that the Mojave, carrying Ansistant Secretary Huston and party, has been reported in distress, The first instance was in the Orient when she encountered a typhoon, and was many hours overdue in reaching port. VIZ YOUTH ON BOMBING PLOT BORDEAUX, Oct. 24.—Emile Gouques, described as an unbalanced youth, was quizzed by police today in an effort to determine whether he nent the bomb to the American em- bassy in Paris a year ago, which ap- parently was designed to take the life of Myron T. Herrick, ambasna- dor. ‘The bomb wrecked one room of the embassy and injured Herrick’s valet. Herrick was not present at the time. Police announced that Souques con- feused to sending hand grenades thru the maiia recently to the consults of Great Britain, Spain and Switzerland here. The youth assigned no reason for his action, Arms Limitation to Be Parleyed Again WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.-—-Presi- dent Harding hopes that the confer. lenee of Latin-American nations Washington in December will be “an opening step toward land disarma- ment in Kurope,” it was said at the White Houm today. This conference, it was atated, is an extension of the American drive against heavy armaments and in ex- pected to set an example that will result in further disarmament on land abroad, ! | | Seattle Writer’s Life Spectacular Seen About B. H. Hurst, Seattle Author, Who Proves That Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction. He Has Written Some Of The Most Stirring Adventure Stories Of The Age, But The Wildest Of Them Are Dimmed To Insignificance By His Own Career. At Sea At 13, He Has Met Adventure In Every Form. Now He's The Biggest Adventure Of All. He’s A Bridegroom. B. H. Hurst, Rising Novelist of This) City, Has Traveled Seven Seas and All There Is By Robert Bastien Bermann Cadet on a naval training bark at 18; bucko mate of a con- vict ship at 17; a struggling poet and psychic student in In- dia at 21; sincethen a sailor on all of the seven seas, miner, gambler and adventurer in the Far North, “flush” one day and “broke” the next—and now, at the age of 46, recognized as one of the coming novelists of the day. Such, in thumbnail form, is the history of S. B. H. Hurst, | one of Seattle’s most notable contributors to the world of let- ters. -For several years a prolific writer of magazine stories, Hurst recently gained national prominence thru his novel, per’s, his publishers. But nothing that Hurst has ever written, or is likely to write, can compare with his own history, And, at that, Hurst has written some of the most wildly adventurous romances of the century. But no pen is capable of setting down as much real drama in a book as Hurst has crammed into his life, He's not s loquacious man— as far as his personal history fs concerned, at least. He will talk at length on philosophy; on abstruse mathematical theories; on weird psychological phenom- ena. But about his own adven- tures he ts strangely reticent. Nevertheless, after months of aequaintanceship with the man, one is able to build up a sort of story which, while admitted- ly superficial, may give reader some idea of his remark able career, Turst was born in Worseley parish, in the village of Hurst, Lancashire, England, January 16, 1876, He was brought up a few miles away, in the fishing village of Lytham, Of his early life he seems to remember little—a pleas: antly irresponsible existence, with practically no discipline; a father who spent most of his time yacht- ing and wanted his son to study |for the navy; a mother who wanted him to take the cloth; a sister with whom he associated only when—on very rare occasions—he — con: descended to share her studies under a governess; and, best of all, numerous absences from home, when he would go out for a week or two aboard a fishing boat. LOVED SEA; WANTED TO BE A POET Of hia early desires and ambitions, Hurst can remember only two—an overpowering love of the sea and a yearning to become a great post. Just how he acquired his literary am- bition he doesn't know~because, he says, he could barely read at this period, , At the age of 13 he went aboard & point 850 miles west of Honolul. | «Cogmer Ali,” and a second book is now in the hands of Har- the training ship Conway, where boys were prepared for elther the navy or the merchant service. The training was designed to make a food seaman, but it could hardly | have been described as @ liberal edu- leation. There were just three sub- | Jecte—mathematics, seamanship and the Holy Bible, Despite his poetical Jeantngs, young Hurst proved an excellent mathematician, and he was also an apt Biblical student, finishing at the top of the ship in both branches, with what was known as an “extra” certificate. Wire splicing, however, was too heavy for bis hands, on ac: count of his extreme youth, and he was compelled to be satisfied with finishing second in seamanship. ‘The days on the training ship were colorful, no doubt, but memories of them have been crowded out of his mind by the more adventurous times that were to come. ‘When he was 15 he shipped on the Star line, and cruised to Calcutta, After a brief stay in India, he ship- ped as acting bosun, or third mate, on the Gileruix, One of the members of the crew was John Masefield, the poet, who had just graduated from the Conway and who was making his first voyage, By the time he was 17, Hurst was second mate and navigating officer of the steamer Shah Jahan, which had been chartered by the British government to carry convicts to the Andaman islands, The voyages he made on this vessel, a real “hell ship,” made a lasting impression on his mind; possibly it was here that he acquired the somber touch which characterizes #0 many of his works of fiction, RECALLS GHASTLY EXPERIENCE “The most ghastly experience that I ever had in my career as a sailor,” Hurst once memarked, “was when wo took aboard 120 Dacoits at Ran- goon, They had all been sentenced for life. A fool of a civil commis- sioner allowed the wives and mothers of the convicts to come down and see them off, It was a wholesale burial (Turn to Page 8, Column 4) ickdiiiathet iii isi haa tiete limibiiocunsnceiai Ont der the Act of Congress March 8, 1679, sailing vessel Copley, of the White | The Seattle Star Entered a0 Geoond Class Matter May &, 1801 Yer Year, by Mali, $5 to $9 VLADIVOSTOK “PATROLLED ~ BY MARINES American, British Troops on Guard as Russo-Japan BY JOHN GRAUDENZ MOSCOW, Oct. 24.—Amertcan and British marines patrolied Vindivostok today to protect sub- jects of the United States and Great Britain in a three-cornered conflict among Russian “reds,” Russian “whites” and Japanese. The Russian soviet army ts a4 vancing toward Viadivostok on the heels of the Japanese troops who are evacuating. Tehitcherin, foreign minister of Russia, hag dispatched a note to Ja pan, protesting against the delay in the admission of troops of the Far Fast republic into the Viadivostok istrict. ‘The whole district fe endangered by explosions directed by Japanese officials, Tehitcherin alleged. The note concludes by stating that Rus- sia will not only hold Japan responsl- ble for the conditions, but also the “allied governments who have not protested against the acts of vio lence.” ‘GASSMAN STEPS FROM LIMELIGHT Leaves City Hall; “Record Fine,” Says Mayor Cari 5, Gassman, for the past sev- eral months @ bone of between the city council and Mayor Brown, faded from the limelight at the city ball Saturday with the an- nouncement.from the mayor's office that “Gassman has served the pur- pose for which he was placed in the department of streets and sewers in & most satisfactory manner, and is now thru.” Tho mayor refused to state whether or not he will again ask the council to reconsider the last of tts frequent rejections of Gassman's name as superintendent of streets and sewers. At Monday's meeting of the coun- cil that body refused the mayor's request that Gassman's rejection be reconsidered, and rejected Brown's appointment of William B, Bell. Shortly after Brown took the of- fice of mayor, he appointed Gass- man to the disputed superintenden- cy. Upon the council's rejection of |his appointee, Brown installed Gass- |man as his “special representative” in the department of streets and sewers, and declared that he would pay him out of his own pocket. “I shall lay the record of Gass- man's work in the department be |fore the city counell, so that they may judge for themselves whether he has been as efficient as I have claimed,” Brown said Tuesday, Driver of Car That Killed Is on Trial James Cameron, who, on May 20, struck and killed Charles W. La Riche while driving an automobile jalong 35th ave, S. W., was placed on trial Tuesday before Superior Judge A. W. Frater on a charge of man- | slaughter. The jury, as soon as tt was em- paneled, was taken to the scene of the accident. The taking of testi- mony was scheduled to begin in the afternoon, LEGION DEFIED BY PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, Oct, 24.—Prest- |dent Harding today defied the de- mand of the American Legion for the removal of his personal physician | Brig. Gen. Charles EB. Sawyer, as |head of the federal hospitalization board. It was officially announced at the | Vhite House that Sawyer would not be removed. The president was said to be satin. fied with Sawyer's work affecting construction of hospitals for war vet- erans and saw no reason for his re- moval, '\Man’s Body Found Floating Near Pier With the finding of the body of jan unidentified man floating off Pler D Tuesday noon, Coroner W. H, Cor: son and police were confronted with another violent death mystery, The man had apparently drowned two or three weeks ago. He was dressed in overalls, a dark coat and a blue sult, He was about 80 or 40 years old, 5 feet 9 inches tall, | weighed about 160 pounds, and was dark hatred, Police believe he was | probably a dock worker, MISS NA BUCHANAN, demo- eratio candidate for county school superintendent, spoke at Queen Anne Congregational church Mon- day, night, \ Row Grows Hot| TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Kiss Clinic to Enliven Dead Love BY LINCOLN QUARBERG CHICAGO, Oct. 24.—Establish- ment of kiss clinics for mar- rlageable girls, to solve Amer- fon's divorce problem was urged y by Irene Bordon!, Parisian fe beauty. Miss Bordon! declared mar. riage in this country has become 4 farce thru failure of young wives to kiss properly. “They kiss with thelr lps— not with their soul,” she de clared. “A woman's whole heart should be put into every kiss she gives her husband.” And the petite Irene, whose kissing has won the plaudits of conunents, puckered her own luscious lips in @ most seductive manner. “A kissable woman will keep any normal man anchored at home,” she declared, and all who ved think they thru their “You toda wt can hold husbands stomacha,” she continued. can starve a man’s body, but let his soul go hungry for love and the marriage knot will soon be untied, Scientific love is more practicable than domestic scl- ence.” In order to teach girls the value of a kisn before they are married, Miss Bordoni suggested the operation of scientific kiss clinies in conjunction with all di- vorce courts. However, the entire responsi- bility does not fall von the wom- an, the stage beauty contended. “A real lover steals the first kiss,” she said. “The modern Romeo is not a porch climber, but a kiss burglar.” WITNESS TELLS MURDER DETAILS Woman Saw Pastor and Sweetheart Slain BY GERALD P. OVERTON NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct. 24.—Mrs, Jane Gibson, 50, widow, has told authorities she was an eye- witness to the murder of Rev. Ed- ward W. Hal! and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, an attache of the prosecutor's office maid today, According to the informant, Mrs. Gibson said she stumbled onto the gruesome murder scene on the night of September 14 when she was on the Phillips farm trying to locate some property that had been stolen from her home. Her story ts ag follows: “Previous to the night of Septem- |ber 14, when the murder was com- | mitted, I had been missing @ lot of | property which burglars stole from |my premises, “T had an idea that this property was being stored on the Phillips farm, so on the night of the mur- der, about 9 o'clock, I hitched up my mule and drove over in back of the farm. “1 went around and‘then came in back of the crab apple tree. There I saw two men and two women, They were having a vio- lent discussion. “Then one of the men pulled a pistol and fired at a man and woman, The woman—Mrs. Mills —let out a horrible shriek and called the man who had shot her by his first mame. tes why did you do “The man who was shot, and I ientified him as Rev. Hall, did not utter a word as he fell, “IT drove away quick.” ‘The witness, whose identity fa being kept secret, eaid the throat of Mrs. Mills was evidently cut after she had fled from the fiend, eee Hold Young Man in Murder Case PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 24.— A man giving the name of Paul Wilson, Jr, 24, of Highland park, a suburb of New Brunswick, N. J., is being held here today for ques- tioning in connection with the Hall- Mills murder investigation. ‘Young Wilson was detained last night while loltering around the Broad st, station and is held on suspicion that he may know some- thing about the mysterious murder. LION HUNTERS CHASE BIG YELLOW DOG FOR WEEK THRU WOODS MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Oct. 24, --The Berrien county “lion” chased for more than a week by African lion hunters, bloodhounds and a dozen posses, was found to- day. The “Hon” was a dog—a big, yellow mastiff, named Dash, “That's the beast; the joke ts on us,” Edward Gable, one of the nine persons who saw the animal, declared, ¥ Schools have been closed since tive dog was first seen. The dog was owned by Adolph Whitmier, who lived in a lonely hut in dense woods near where thé tracks of the “lion” were seen, | SHOOTS SELF TO DEATH IN PIONEER SQ! ‘Man Is Suicide in | Spectacular Way; Big Throng Sees Tragedy In full view of a large crowd at Pioneer square, Paul W. Schrape, 38, a seaman, shot him- self thru the head at 10:45 Tues- day morning and died while be ing taken to the city hospital. Schrape was the fifth suicide in Be tle in three days. : While seated on a bench near the | Totem pole, Schrape pulled out a re | volver and arose and took several steps, Then he put the muazle of |the weapon to his head and before | the horrified eyes of scores of women jand children pulled the trigger. turned and staggered, and then ‘ in a heap near the seat. 4% A crowd quickly collected and ft — was with difficulty that police maf. aged to reach the dying man. Am ambulance arrived and took him to — the hospital, but he was dead it arrived. Schrape was recently from the steamer West Broxton, which he was a mate. He had in the state hospital for the at Sedro Woolley, but was released. He is supposed to been despondent over {ill Coroner W. H. Corson, in gating the case, found Schrape’s pockets. The body is the morgue. BONAR LAW PAY.U,.S.-BB Policy Toward America 1 Definitely Fixed BY ED L. KEEN (Copyright, 1922, by United Press) LONDON, Oct. 24.— Bonar and Lord Curzon, who will be been Sa! in. the new ready have decided definitely Great Britain's policy toward jea under the conservative a ment. It has two salient points: ” 1, Payment of Engiand’s debt the United States, 2. Promotion of close, af friendship between the two English speaking nations. ‘This policy was formulated tm series of conferences between new premier and Curzon. 2 Steps are being taken to carry B the new British policy tmm ‘ The meeting of the debt commission in Washington will be delayed more than a fo |despite the change in ministers | attendant confusion, It is unlikely that Sir Robert Ey Horn, chancellor of the exchequer in — the Lloyd George cabinet, will repre- sent Britain at this conference, am had originally been planned. There 1s a strong possibility thas Reginald McKenna—former member of the Asquith cabinet, who, while _ maintaining he is still a liberal, ie speaking today at an tmportant com- servative meeting—will go to Washe ington with some British treasury — officials while Ambassador Geddeg@ acts as plenipotentiary. Incidentally, Geddes will remaina® ambassador to the United States, Bonar Law and Curzon regard Geddes as a Canadian and also as a financler, and think he ts the man for the place. The principal prone |American relations are financial, i is pointed out, and his personality _ makes Geddes an ideal ambassador ~ to promote what the new govern: ment hopes will be the most cordial friendship between two nations in world history. Under the new policy, Britain will not attempt to persuade the United States to enter any European active ity, but an intimation thru Geddes will be most welcome any time Presi. — dent Harding decides to step into — | at % oe 1 ' ; . ag a JEWEL BANDIT | ELUDES POSSE RAWLINS, Wryo., Oct. M4— | Search for Ralph Palmer, escaped — Ca¥fornia jewel bandit, continued today on the Wyoming plains, fole lowing two days of fruitless efforts — on the part of officers to locate him, Palmer escaped from a west-boun@ Union Pacific train between Rawling and Rock Springs earty Sunday. He © was being taken to San Francisco — from New York city in custody of a guard, J, W. Cramer, to serve an {unexpired term following his escape from San Quentin prison a year ago. Cramer and Palmer were occupy> ing a drawing room on the train, — Early Sunday as the train ap: proached Rawlins, Cramer ai to find Palmer gone and a kerchief saturated with chloroform on the floor, Palmer had slipped — off the leg irons and handcuffs and had taken $800 from under Cramer’a pillow, 4