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

itt WEATHER Tonight and Saturday, fair erate easterly winds FORECAST mod Howdy, folks! Girl athletes at the university are criticized for wearing running trunks, Knock-kneed coeds are unalterably epposed to the scanty costumes 4 eee Faculty insists that the coeds must be fully garbed when indulging | tm athletic sports, but the girls de. mand the same freedom in the sym] es in the ballroom. oe “THEY WON BY A DIMPLE” If the abbreviated gym suits are adopted, the team with the best dimples in the knees will Girls maintain they have two good reasons for wearing the short trunks, faculty insists they shan't be made motor buses on certain lines, in place of trolley cars, and the public. eee “I'm just crazy about gym.” “Jim who?" . CO-EDUCATION A lot of the . are fond of if the sports very exciting. Too much time ts out while the girls powder noses, eee view of recent news develop | pig cd regents will entab- | Domestic Shooting depart- ys the en- 1940. In ia yet to varieties are in big jocal wholesale mar- Carpentier is now selling gods in Russia. His stock, how- ever, does not include razors or soap. eee CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB - The goot who is meget pice ae a ad pieces of lint The Turkish government decrees that all men 25 years old must mar- ry, but such a law will never be passed in this country, as the con- stitution forbids cruel and unusual | punishment. : The Turks say it ts the duty of every man to marry at least two wives, and so do screen actors. eee = America for 10 conta. . Turkey, however, ia not the first Fon ed to inaugurate compulsory 4 * FREEDOM SHRIEKS Young Turks, defying ~ com- pulsory law, will ery, “Give me liberty or give me death!” Now that Chief Severyns has be n a crusade against male flirts, Borneboay is sure to come forward with the slogan, “Mash the Mash ers!” . William H. Vanderbilt, 21, will in- herit $5,000,000 tomorrow, and his father wasn't a hootiegner. . In the fall a young man’s thoughts From love he Ughtly disengages, And wonders what the heck he’s done With all his summer wages. eee Li'l Gee Geo says Seattle cops are | , Betting so polite, they'll soon be kins. | “tng motorists who disregard the stop signal. Mayor Brown sends in his sixth nominee for the office of superin- tendent of streets. When he sends in his seventh, somebody in. the council is sure to yell “Craps!” * Laura, you may bring in the cof- (lemenceau “Dis The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor WIN CARFARE ‘City Is Victor in Are to Be } cent street car fare. of Everett will be permitted to a nickel. | This comes as the result of a long controyersy between the j city commissioners, headed by | Puget Sound International Railway & Power Co., tone & Webster interests, lof the The 5-cent fare was agreed pany be granted an amended motor buses will be put into nickel rate, The new motor buses are not trackless trolleys, They are sim- ply big automobiles, riding on sembipneumatic tires and pro pelled by « gasoline engine. This means that the use of street car tracks will eventually be aban- doned entirely In Everett. Work ts to begin in the imme. date future on Colby ave., where the tracks will be torn up and the street repaved by the company. ‘NEW YORK OUT TO CRUSH KLAN Congress Asked to Probe Capito! Invitation | | | Representative Rainey, demo- erat, Illinois. The proposed committee would consist of three senators and four house members, who would be au- | thorized to conduct hearings and re- | quire klan officials to testify under oath. eee FRENCH LICK, Ind., Nov. 24. —“Treat the Ku Klux Klan as you would a disorderly house or s bunch of crooks,” Mayor John F. Hylan of New York wired Po lice Commissioner Enright from here today in his second telegram of a war against the invisible empire. “We propose to protect the peo- ple,” Hylan said in an interview with the United Press. “I'm going to see | to it that the kian is regarded as a disorderly house, or like any other | bunch of crooks or strong-arm gang. | We have certain methods to apply to such places, so that if anyone disap- pears or is murdered, we know ex actly where to look “There is no state law aimed dl | rectly at the kian, but there is @ con-| spiracy law, which forbids a conspir- | acy to foment trouble or to plan mur- . NEW YORK, Nov. 24-—-War on the Ku Klux Klan by New | York police until the last klans- man has been driven from the city was ordered today by Mayor | Sohn F. Hylan. | Despite the order, received by Po- | ice Commissioner Enright In a tele- gram from French Lick Springs and | communicated to various branches of | | the force here, public headquarters | | of the Ku Klux Klan were opened at | the Hotel Hermitage. | Rev. Oscar Haywood, evangelist of | Dr. John Roxe Stratton’s Calvary | Baptist church, 1s in charge, and announced defiance of Mayor Hy- |lan’s orders, Haywood declared he would go to jail if necessary, but (Turn to Page 10, Column 6) | |" THEY FLOCK TO TUNE OF MONEY LOS ANGELES, Nov. 24,—Thirty- five solicitors, salesmen and promot- ers of various sorts called on Mrs. Hazel De Vane, Hollywood, the day after it was announced her young son had fallen heir to a fortune, ARGUES ROBBER OUT OF HOLDING HIM.UP Confronted by a 19-year-old ban- dit, who carried @ small revolver, P. A. Doyle, 1618 424 ave. 8 W., argued with the robber unt! the thoroly convinced the lad that he was not a successful, holdup man. Doyle then walked ‘on his way, leaving the fellow somewhat dis- comfited Doyle had been visiting at 1005 Belmont pl., and was just leaving, at 7:50 p. m. Thursday, when the ‘Controversy With Railway Co.; Trackless Trolleys EVERETT, Nov. 24.—Everett has won its fight for 5- Beginning on December 1, a week from today, the residents holdup man appeared. —| S 5c Operated ride anywhere in the city for Charles A. Turner, and the} local branch | to on condition that the com-| franchise, allowing the use of | use simultaneously with the Later the motor buses will replace trofleys on Hewitt ave. the main business street in town, and the tracks will be torn up there. The new fare will be given a 90- day trial and the $1-a-week pass sys- tem, which has been in force for sev- eral weeks already, will also be re- tained as an experiment. According to City Commissioner Turner the pass system has already Proved a success here. “It has Increased traffic tre. mendously, without having any effect on operating expenses,” he sald today. “This means that no hardship has been worked on the company and downtown stores have profited hai the increased business. “I think the 6-cent fare will prove Profitable, too, The company wouldn't have agreed to it if they hadn't thought so. “But even if they aren't able to make it a go, Everett fs still asnured of a nickel fare, because there was a competitor for the franchise—John P. Hartman—and he would be willing to ‘take over the line if the present com- pany failed. He is already operating one line here on a 6-cent basin” Turner sald that the final set- tlement of the fare controversy was largely due to the efforts of a few preliminary tiffs. For the last, two years, ever since it abandoned the five-cent fare, Everett residents have been forced to pay 25 cents for four tokens, or a dime for a cash fare. A few weeks ago the pass system was inaugurated as an experiment. Local officials are highly pleased with the new motor buses, two of which are already here, with two more en route. The machines were especially de signed by the local company and are said to be just a# comfortable in every way as the street cars which they will replace. They have a seat ing capacity of 29—the same as the }oneman trolley cars. They are un usually low-hung, with a step that is low enough to permit anyone to climb aboard wtihout inconvenience. They are electrically lighted and heat is supplied by the exhaust from the gasoline engine, PARSON HANGS ORRIE CROSS FORT MADISON, Iowa, Nov. 24 —Silent to the last, unlike the two other murderers who preceded him | last September, Orrie Cross, convict: | ed slayer, dropped thru the gallows | trap at the state penitentiary here at | 7:81 this morning. He was pronounced dead after he had swung at the end of the rope 18% minutes, The slaying of George Fosdick, Des Moines grocer, was fully avenged, with Sheriff Winfred E. Robb, ex- minister, springing the trap that sent both of Fosdick’s layers to their death. Bugene Weeks, implicated in the murder, was executed September 15. MINE DEATHS TOTAL 8 MEN BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 24.—~ Dead in the Dolomite disaster stood at 85 today. Investigation of the explosion which entombed more than 400 min- ers and injured 75, in addition to the large number killed, was conducted by state and county authorities, Searchers still explored the mine today. Altho two men were reported missing, no word had been heard concerning thern, and conviction was growing that they were not in the mine, Vaccination Order A Is Issued in Denver DENVER, Nov. 24.—Physicians were stationed at all Denver schools today to immunize children who are unable to show @ recent vaccination scar, in the city’s efforts to enforce a compulsory vaccination order, be- cause of the smalipox epidemio in Denver, _SE ATTL E, W. ASH., FR IDAY, W eats ander the Act of Congress Maroh 8, 3878, Per Year, by Mali, 06 te 99 | The Seattle Star Bntered a2 Beoond Clase Matter May 8, 1890, a1 ihe Postofficr a: pleases” U. Ss. OM EDITION 29 0 ER 24, 192 TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE _ Hail Felix, Seattle Freckle King! Says Laws A gainst Dope Increase Addicts’ Ranks Physician, Battling Narcotics, Seeks to Show Prohibition Legislation Futile EpITron’s NOT! are not the views whether they are , interesting. They shew o startling questions which has never heen given that they merit consideration. aspect publicity. ‘The views set forth in the following Interviews to be frank, hasn't yet decided As such, The Star believes By Robert Bastien Bermann “Yes, the sale of dozens of is permitted in Seattle without regulation. harmful, habit-forming drugs Yes, they are un- doubtedly a menace to the life and haelth of the community. | But—for heaven's sake, leave ’ |the world to promote the use of these drugs would be to crusade against them, and hav: sale.” The speaker wag one of the most. prominent physicians in the city— & man who is one of the leaders of the local profession, but whose name cannot be used for professional reasons. e had been approached for information in regard to a cer- |tain habit-forming sleeping powder that is openly sold in most of the drug stores of Seattle, “There's no doubt about the harmful effects of the powder,” he sald. “It’s Just as much o habit-forming drug as morph! or cocaine—altho it does not have the same demoralizing in- fluence on addicts, Eventually, its use leads to death; many people die from it every month. But—if you want to serve hu- manity, keep quiet about it! “An agitation against the drug and laws regulating its sale could have only one effect--the number of ad- dicts would increase at once.” “But, doctor,” his interrogator re- marked, “isn’t that a rather danger- ous doctrine? Carried to its logical conclusion, the same argument would apply to narcotics—opium, morphine, cocaine—wouldn’t It?” “It would,” the physician re- plied decisively. “That's just ox- actly what I’m getting at. It may sound Ike heresy—but I'm convinced that the laws against the sale of narcotics have aoc- tually increased the number of addicts. The White Cross work- ers and other organizations in- terested in the suppression of the dopo traffic are undoubtedly sincere, But, in my opinion, they have simply added to the ovil—I feel that the narcotic situ. ation would not bo half as bad em alone. The surest way in| e laws passed prohibiting their today as it would be if there had never been an agitation or H no laws had ever been passed on the subject, “Here's the way It works out. A pubic agitation against any drug ad- vertines it, Hundreds, thousands, of } (Turn led Page | 10, Column 4) SEEKS SEAT OF DEAD HUSBAND SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 24—Mrs. May Hunt Nolan, widow of the late | Congressman John I, Nolan, will run | for election to the seat in congress left vacant by her husband's death, it was stated on good authority here | today. Mrs, Nolan has made no formal comment and probably will not for several days, her friends say, Several labor leaders have prom. ised her their support. Her husband had been considered labor's apokes- man in congress. E’LL SAY SO, IF HE’S LIKE HIS PA Sheriff Matt Starwich was urging his friends Friday to attend the Au- burn-Kirkland high school football game at Auburn, Saturday, It's the championship game of the county,” he declared proudly, “and my boy i# the best player on the Auburn team,” ROME, Nov, 24,—Baron Sonnino, former premier, died early today, Here's Felix Wonzor, King Of All The Sun-spotted Kids of Seattle. He Was Crowned Thursday At The Colonial Theater When He and Most All The Other Speckled Youngsters In See Wesley Barry In “School Days.” Wesley Was A Bit Peeved When He Saw Felix. He Makes Money Out Of His Freckles. Maybe He Saw A Rival In Felix. Who Knows? Photo by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers He Was Acclaimed Ruler Over All Sun-Spotters By Lyle Downing Hail, Felix Wonzor, duly accredited and acclaimed freckle king of Seat the—if not the universe, With all due ceremony Feltx was elected to the pomp and power of his exalted position, in the face of the stiffest sort of competition at The Star's showing of Wesley Barry in “School Days,” at the Colonial the- |ater Thursday afternoon, Feltx is 12 years old and red-headed |and speckled. In fact, Wesley Barry, |not only known as the premier of [Juventic actors, but also the freckled champion of cinema screen, looked a bit jealous as his shadow-self glanced at the audience. “Well, this guy Barry may Be a better actor than I am, but he’ll never have the edge on me when it comes to freckles. I'll go up against any kind in the United States when it comes to displaying a speckled map,” the pride of the Warren ave. gram- mar school told the audience, The judges—John Danz, man- ager of the Colonial, and two representatives of The Star— were fit candidates for strait- Jackets before a decision was reached, The official count was 78,465, 923 sunspots majority for Felix over his nearest com- petitor, It 1s safe to say that never before in the history of Seattle were so many freckles ever carried into the Colonial theater by sonre 800 of Seattle's younger set. Outside the theater the kids sang “School Days,” while a frantic cameraman was making desperate ef- forts to snap their many movements. Not only the boys but the girls were there in goodly numbers, and loudly applauded the exalted ruler of the freckled kingdom, When Wesley Barry was finshed on the screen the gang yelled till it almost made the theater shake, “ ain't got anything on our Freckles.” Notwithstanding the popularity of the local pride, the motion picture “Freckles” received his share of hon- ors, When he played a trick on the sissy In the country school, or tied some kid's clothes in knots at the old swimming hole, the laughter of the kids was deafening. There were many other incidents in the “classic of boy life” that brought down the house, | which Clemenceau defends is Jargely responsible for the Pres- Town Went To| ent economic OPPOSE ~ FRENCH POLICY Utterances of War Premier Are Not Favored by Government of U.&., Official Declares BY A. L. BRADFORD (Copyright, 1922, by the United Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—The American government re- ards with distinct disfavor the views being expressed here concerning foreign policies of the United States by Georges Clemenceau, the war premier of France. This was the answer given the United States by a highly authoritative source in response to an inquiry as to whether those in direct charge of America’s foreign relations agreed in the main with the sharp attacks by Senator Borah and Hitchcock on the noted Frenchman's statements, It is the view of this government that the French policy and political plight of Europe. It is felt in Washington that the Ger- man reparations question is the root of the trouble in| IRISH EXECUTE rary anda ee ts! FAMOUS AUTHOR. TIGER LAUGHS. Erskine Childers, Britisher, AT HITCHCOCK! _ Slain by Free Staters BY JOHN J. ROWLANDS BY GEORGE MACDONAGH BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 24.—Georges DUBLIN, Nov. 24.—Erskine Clemenceau today branded as “a lot of les” Senator Hitchcock's charges that he is a militarist and that France maintains an army of blacks in German territory. The “Tiger,” in his den on the third floor of the palatial Higginson home here, came back strongly at his senate critica. “Ask me any questions you want,” he invited the interviewer. “What about Hitchcock's charges that you are g militarist?” he was asked. Childers, a Britither, chief lew- tenant to Eamonn De Valera, was executed here at 7 o'clock this morning, it was officially announced by the Free State government. Tremendous excitement was caused in the Irish capital by Childers’ death. Thruout the night there was evidence of rebel activity, but there were no casualties reported. Childers, whose wife was an can girl, is by far the most nent person to be executed in Ire land since 1916, A noted author and former pacifiat, he was known thruout Great Britain. After the Easter rebellion in Ireland in 1916, he interested himself in the — cause of Irish independence, finally * becoming so extreme after establish- ment of the Free State that he was captured by orders of the Cosgrave government and executed. eee COMMONS GETS: IRELAND BILL LONDON, Nov. 24.—A bill to give effect to the Irish treaty, establish- ing the Irish Free State, was formally introduced in the house of commons today by Premier Bonar Law. The new British government wor its first vote of confidence today. when Premier Bonar Law proposed that only government measures should be introduced at this ‘The test vote went in his favor by 289 to 185. The labor members of the new house voted solidly against the new premier. TWO DIE WHEN 6 BARGES SINK Grain Loss “of $300,000 Is Reported; 30 Saved ONEIDA, N. Y¥., Noy. 24.—Twe That brought laughter from the “Tiger.” He shuffled across the floor in carpet slippers. He readjusted the black satin skull cap on his head and laughted, “Senator Hitch- cock! Oh, yes, he's the man that only has a little while longer to serve in the senate. The people of his state had something to say about the gentleman on election day.” The eyes of the aged statesman fairly glistened as he sank down in a chair, “I think that you'll excuse me if I dare Hitehcock—not dare, but cordially invite Hitchcock—to go to Europe, to France and ask the people if I am a militarist. If they say yes, Fl plead guilty to the charges. But not until then. “Lam not a militarist. I suffered the most from not being one from 1871 to 1914. I turned one shortly before the war broke out, when I prolonged the period of military service in my country to three years, “But that wasn't so bad, was it? (Turn to Page 10, Column 5) TIGER SAYS HE WAS JAILED BECAUSE HE WAS TOO PEACEFUL! BOSTON, Nov. 24.—Refuting charges of Senator Hitchcock that he wag a militarist, Georges Clemenceau asked: “Has the senator ever been tn jail for being too peaceful?” And then: “I was In a Napole- onic prison for eight months. I was thrown in because I was not men were drowned and six grain barges were sunk with 127,000 bush- els of wheat aboard for a total loss of $300,000, in a storm early today off Sylvan beach; On) ‘The drowned jare: » John Speck, 5%" Niagara Falls, George Gross, Miami, Fla. Thirty other members of the crew were saved, at to latest re ports. AUTO, TRAIN CRASH; 3 DIE ELMHURST, IIL, Nov. 24.—Three people were killed in an automobile train collision at a grade crossing near here last night. The engine and two cars were upset when the train, a fast mall special on the Northwestern, struck the automo- bile. The engineer and fireman death by leaping from the engine be- fore it overturned, There were no passengers on the train, THINK MOTHER KILLED FAMILY LANCASTER, ©., Nov. 24.—A mother, irrational from {ll-health, killed: herself, her husband and four small children, police believed today, as they probed the’Henderson poison mystery. Additional evidence in the hands of authorities tends to show that the fatal poison was not placed in the food by outsiders, Proseoutor Charles Radcliffe declared, | & militarist.” PROBE OF WAR FRAUDS READY WASHINGTON, Nov, 2%4.—The federal government's latest group of law suits to recover losses resulting from war frauds will be started within 24 hours, it was learned here today. Legal steps to recover a huge sum, estimated at from $50,000,000 to $75,- 000,000, alleged to be due from con- tractors and others involved in the building of war cantonments, will be taken by Roscoe McColloch, one of the special assistants to the attorney general in charge of war fraud cases, The suits will involve construction work at Camp Sherman, Ohio; Camp Grant, Til, and possibly one other camp, The first action probably will be instituted at Columbus, 0. WOULD RAISE TAXES ON GAS SAN FRANCISCO, Nov, 24.—Mo- torists today did not seem to take kindly to the proposal approved unanimously at a conference of gov- ernors of 11 states here yesterday, that the states levy taxes of 2 cents per gallon on gasoline, ‘The money woudl be used for roads and similar purposes, It was pointed out that in Califor. nia alone the tax would mean pay: ment by automobile owners of $114,- 000,000 annually.