The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 18, 1922, Page 9

HERE’S MORE ABOUT RELAND FREED > OF BRITISH RULE atic Scene as Last of Troops Depart BY GEORGE MacDONAGH DUBLI Dec, 18 —British rule in Ireland came (o after 600 WALLY REID STARTS ON PAGE ONE condition of his system because of | his recent experiences. | Reid has been in the hospital here for several days, Saturday night his wife, Dorothy Davenport, and her mother told the story of Wally's bat: | tle agains drugs. Enslaved while being “a fellow” to “fair-weather friend they said, he suddenly came to realize his condition; went to & quiet mountain resort, and there fought out to & dramatic finish his great fight. He then returned to his Los An eles home to make himself ready to | resume his old place in the film/ world, when he was suddenly strick on with his present baffling tllnoms. Physicians today said that during | his ness his pulve has gone as high his Hlinesg his pulse has gone as high At times he had been in a delirium ‘The crisis, they sald, was passed Wednesday, and sinee then he has shown slight improvement dally . “Wally hasn't had any relapses tor five dayé now,” Mra, Alice Dav enport, Wally’s motherindaw, wld the United Proey today | “He's getting ng fine—improv- ing @ little each day. This morning his temperature was only a little above normal, his pulse was strong or and he was tn a cheerful frame| of mind. “We are going to go carefully and don't want him to overdo it. He's far from ‘dying,’ tho. Such end ‘The final spectacio in the bis | drama was enacted on quays of the Liffy, as one another four transports ood fast British troops to occupy Treland satied tn these spe? by a tremendous ition of Irish affection, bit fostered for generations for Tn their ears, aa the troop Swung out into the tideway, the biare of a Free State army “Auld Lang Syne;* the And godspeeds of a great ‘on the quays; the river bank of fluttering handkerchiefs, Ma Irish colleens throwing kisses ; thousand — Lelcestershires, , and Worcestershires fH that last contingent, Their fram Phoenix park, former’ ‘of the vice rega! lodge, was a fmphal procession of farewell. It Bs tho the people of Ireland wnburdennig themee!ves to let boys, who had fought them to know there was no hard thre the suburbs of they were cheered, but | precession reached st, the demonstration terrific. vas State Joined the parade, others to hold back the eager rs that pressed about for a of the Britishers, A | reports are very much exagger ated and refer not to his condi- tion today, but to fears we had | early last weok.”* } Wally is in a@ private sanitartum at Hollywood, but his wife and mother are guarding the place care fully as th®y do not want to have tae Broke thrn the lines and It besieged by Wally's friends and | the hand of a bic, em admirers, Absolute quite, they say, arr trooper. is the thing which will bring him/ wither side were ruins reminis. Dack to health sooner than any b Of the recent rebellion against thir else. Many messages and a great many State, in which these troops flowers have been sent to the Reid @ Only spectators. All about were fs ‘and children, cheering home here. They have come from te “real people” tn movisiund, not Fine ye near O'Connell from the “fatr-weather™ friends who are declared by his wife to be re sponsible for his present plicht Will H. Hays today declared he will not assume control of the narcotic situation in Hollywood but will cooperate with ie and federal horities “in case they call on me.” “I am not the arbiter of Holly. woos morals,” Hays again empha sized. “My mission is not to mete out punishment or to act in a Judicial | capacity, but te work constructively | to remodel the motion picture indus | try untii it is sound to the core and | is serving the public to the utmost of its artistic and educational capac | ity. j “As for Wallace Reid, my cympa-| thies and the sympathies of all good | people are with him.” } Hays’ assertion that he will not) act an supreme censor of morals of) movie stars was in anewer as to! whether he would start active in-| me, Gen. Sir Neville MacReady the last salute. The troops, eager, lauching. crowds at the dock, embarked Gen. MacReady turned to his A simple handshake Of farewell with each, and army headquarters in Ire ‘RO more. TORIA RISES TO EMERGENCY “I will, however, cooperate with the authorities in every way In case! they call me, but it would be pre | sumptious for me to assume control | of an investigation which ts their | business.” Federal narcotic agents declared | today they intend to make a thoro investigation of the Hollywood “dope situation.” Mra, Reid sald she wae never able to learn from whom her husband! bought the dope or in what quanti- ties. When he recovers, investiga. tors will probably question Reid on/ this subject and especially an to! whether a well-known film producer aided him in getting the stuff, it was understood. Will H. Hays, socalled “czar of the movies,” will take no official | action in the “dope” cleanup, he! declared toga. PROBE SOURCE OF NARCOTICS: SAN FRANCISCO, Deo. 1$.—State investigators in Southern California are now engaged in an effort to bring to justice drug importers and! peddlers, one of whom may have| been the man alleged to have sup-' Plied Wallace Reid, film idol, with) narcotics, Louis Zeh, head of the California State pharmacy board,| told the United Press today. } He emphasized, however, that his force was in no way concerned with an investigation of Reid's case more than any other case, saying efforts were being directed towards catch- ing the men who have been import-| ing drugs into Southern California. Two operatives now are in the South and had hoped to arrest two importers, but Zeh expressed the STOR SCORES Of existing vice In| will “frighten into cover” all nar- D, Ohio, Dec. 18.— started today for amal- Of the Brotherhood of Lo- i" and the Brother. Locomotive Firemen and two of the biggest trans- unions. combined memberships, ac to present plans, will be @s the Brotherhood of Loco- Enginemen. convention of both unions its sessions here today to Methods by which the insur- assets of the organizations mtccensfully merged. C ; { # reports on personal investi- cotic dealers and will preve ph of below the line dance halls |capture at this time, - er stirring resume of the Herb! ‘The drugs, he said, seem to be i booze case were made Sun-'coming from Mexico into Arizona| tht by Rev. George McClure and across the line into Southern | ie congregation in the Columbia California, Part of these imports! tional church. Probably reach the Hollywood movie | Brown's charges that Unt- | colony. girls were more tmmodestly at a recent dance than are ills was Gharectartaed oy Grand Jury Hears cre jaz an insult to the’ Murder Testimony | ai girls could not be employea|. The federal grand jury, which was he Liberty und Drestnlend ancoa|*° convene Monday, was to consider thout being subjected to and aogog oogrr Andrew eal] 3 jan, with having kille ted “with immorality was) io'.ctine Brown, Nov, 3, on’ the the points made by Rev. Mc-| “These. girls are constantly so- ing men to dance or buy drinks. erat etic down | her home, with @ shotgun. feason advanced by the min-|_ The Jury is expected to return a for the alleged large number of BUMPEr of Indictments against al- who are allowed to jump leged violators of the federal liquor | is that such money goes and narcotic acta. i city, while thelr fines, if con- ¢¢ TAT) KNOT EXPERT | would go to the state school were cored by McClure| EAGER TO TIE} Cal, Dee. 18, Peace George ¥. Herzog telleves in advertising for marriage business just the same as | for anything else. He haa inserted of citizenship. jin local newspapers this advertise. | ment: | : Against Noisy “Are you about to get married? if) The #0, seo me. Knots tied that even law Goliath, the strong man, could not et residents against |tear asunder, George ¥. Herzog. of crowing roopters and] jnetice of the pence. At your service € or night" Lummi Indian reservation, near Bel- | 'lingham. Ballew is alleged to have! shot Mrs, Brown thru the window of, lapses from the highest Publisher Sued iM Rugene lisher of a string of moving V. Brewster, pud- picture magazines, the beauty prize in the contest which his publications con- ducted to Corliss Palmer, titian-haired beauty. Now the beauty is the charming point in a love triangle. Mrs. Brew- ster has sued for a separa- tion. PRESIDENT MAY CHANCE TREATY Harding Would Replace Versailles Pact? LONDON, Dee, 18.—President Harding will secon propews two international agreements, which will replace much of the treaty of Versailles, the Dally Sheteh stated. One of the agreements will be for all the allies; the other will Include former enemies as well, the Sketch declared, Elihu Root, the paper sald, ts St present working out a rep- arations agreement, ‘The Washington correspondent of the Sketch, upon whose dispatches the statements are based, cabled he had interviewed representatives of every principal Amertean banking awarded} THE SEATT ‘‘Emperor Jones’’ Is Hit \EIGHT HURT IN | of Dramatic Season Here By A. J. Shannon “The Emp Je O'Neill's admirable chanics of subconscious fear and ter ." Hugene udy of the me ror, opened at the Metropolitan Bun: day night Whii imagin originality theat rical vigor that we associate with the name of Kugene O'Neill, yet, to this reviewer at least, it was « par tial disappointment Perhaps this was due to the gaudy notices the play received in the East from critics who hail O'Neill as th new Shakespeare, Certainly O'Neill te the important dramatiat that America has so far produced, but in “The Emperor Jones,” tt seemed to us, he was attempting to not properly and mont hand a aituation adapted to stage une The play t# a study tn primitive fear, Jones, a “smart” negro, on capes from prison in the United States, takes refuge on arfisiand in the West Indies, and makes himeelt emperor of the savage his superior intelligence and sophistt cation He fouta the native superstitions and laughs at the Voodoo rites of hin barbarous subjects, but when he ts ldriven from his throne and forced to |flee by night thru the miasmic jun gle, he fallen a vietim to the same prim terrors that enslave the minds of the native blacks. Six of the eight scenes that make FACTORY BLAZE IMPERILS CITY Tacoma Fire Creeps Close to Gas Tanks TACOMA, 18-—Fire of un- known origin destroyed the plant of the Continental Pipe Co. bere Sunday night, The lows Is estimuted at $76,- 900, which tf» said to be pertly cov- ered by insurance. The plant and yards are « total lon. The plant was owned by Joseph Leng and Harold Monroe of Seattle, and was leased by the Washington Wood Products Co, manufacturers of finished fir intertor building mate- tala A general alarm was sent out, to which all fire departments tn the city responded, but the fire had gained such headway that nothing could be done except attempt to keep the flames from spreading. Dee. house, as well as others “tn high Pinces with precine, authoritative knowledge,” and learned that there fa to be a draatio sealing down of reparations, with the United States taking over German export, import vestigation of the dope situation in|and inter taxes, under « first the movie colony. | mortenee. “I cannot act as @ policeman A Name New Justice of Supreme Court! WASHINGTON, Deo. 18.—-A ma-) Jority of the senate judiciary com- mittee today voted to report favor. ably the nomination of Pierce But- ler, Minnesota, to be aanoc' Jus tiee of the United States supreme court. Four members of the committee were not present. Play Given for Staff Jean Helen Kidwiler, diminutive actress, who ap- peared Sunday afternoon in ‘The Christmas Conspiracy,” a play presented by children of Metropolitan Building Co. employes. “Jack and Jill,” “Boy Blue,” “Bo- Peep,” Little Miss Muffett,” and even “Simple Simon” were brought to life out of the “Mother Goose” book, Sunday afternoon, in the base- ment of the Cobb building, The miracle took place when the children of the employes of the Met- ropolitan Building Co. presented “The Christmas Conspiracy,” at the annual holiday party given by the company for its employes and friends, who numbered 400 Other features of the program were a piano solo by Mrs. Marjorie Flenkinsop, a Santa Claus story, by Mrs, Margaret Nordin, assisted by children of the employes, and an ad- dress, “The Year Service Chub,” by J. F, Douglas, manager of the ny Metropolitan Building Co. Mr. 64 Douglas presented the “ten. year service button” to Lee M and W. W. Be with a cheek for $100. . A. Stuart, president of the company, made a short address, Following the program wag the distribution of gifts from a giant Christmas tree, by Santa Claus him: elf, Gifts of money and jam were made to Lie wives of employes, rkley & Had the gasoline tanks, many of which stood nearby, caneht fire, tt te Ukely that the whole Industrial dis- trict In that section would have gone up tn Games, HERE’S MORE ABOUT GALE STARTS ON PAGE ONE Aus traffic In Tacoma wan prac. tically stopped Monday as all ma- chines shaded on the steep hills. Street car service Ix being delayed, but is serving all customers, an the Sitney service is unable to function. Motor buses running between Ta- coma and Olympia have been dis- continued by order of the state de partment of public works. The Puy. allup-Tacoma bun service has also been abandoned. | The continued cold anap tn Tr-| coma reduced hydroelectric power output to onehalf its normal amount last week, according to Richard T. Sullivan, president of the Tacoma Ratlway & Power Co, | Normal output of the Electron, Snoqualmie and White River plants amounts to 87,000 kilowatts, but dur. ing the past four days only 43,000 could be obtained, he sald. By utiliz ing power from Everett and George. town the amount was Increased to 69,500 kilowatts, NEGRO STABS | 2 IN FIGHT, Police detectives were searching | Monday for an unidentified negro who probably fatally stabbed two employes of @ local newspaper dur- | ing « fight near Sixth ave. and Btew- | art st. Sunday night. | The two victims of the negro‘s razor, Edward Holzer, 29, and Roland Berbower, 45, were in the city hos pital suffering from several wounds about the stomach, condition is critical, | According to the polices, the two men, together with Will and Teddy | Johns and G. F. Lockwood, had been | drinking heavily in @ room at the! Ritz hotel, ‘They later went to the| | Houlevard cafe and, when they left | |there, went down Stewart st. Hol ‘ger and Rerbower were half a block {behind the other three when the: met a negro. The police have been | unable to find out the cause of the fight The two men were found lying on | the sidewalk & moment later and | taken to the hospital. | Phone Rate Fight Is On in Olympia | OLYMPIA, Dec. i#.—Opening the fight of the combined law offices of | Spokane, Seattle and Tacoma to pre vent the granting of @ new phone rate tariff to the Pacific Telegraph | ‘Telephone Co., the state board of | public works hearing on valuation of the company's property opened here | | today, | The proposed phone rate increase [would affect only the three cities named. Today's hearing will include foth- dng but the valuation question, the play contains all of the} cke thru; | fine some trace of the ratnn LE STAR SLED SMASHES! up the play depict the strugmles of the educated and cocksure negro} : 5 I | againat the primal fears of hix race—|TWO May Die and Six More} thot tae Injured Seriously — These scenes—the filght thru the| th | jungie-are cast in the form of a} Fight persons were Injured in sustained monologue by the t | tm consting accidents | flouted so vaingloriously on hin soar: |ave, was struck by‘a sled piloted pe let throne, | A difficult thing to put upon the stage, and if It suceeeds—and the au | | dience ts the best judge of that—it in| Might, recetving « fractured skull due tn great part to the superb act-| He wan by Lester Waters, 626 Melrose ©. | wh taken to Minor hospital, the prejudices aguinst his people,| sunday night when hin aled atruck | should be chosen to enact the ex-|a phone pole near his home The jceedingly difficult role of The m-' poy tw at the city hospttal, beror Jones. | Riding on « bobsled behind an The O'Netl! play te one of the! auto, Mr, and Mra. I. Lee, 126 10th outstanding features of the present/ave. N. and Mr. and Mrs, John | |theatrical season. It tm difficult tolyy Marlow, 627 Federal ave, were | imagine any real lover of the the-| struck by an auto driven by Sheriff ater missing it. Dramatiate of the! agate gtarwich A | wi when the tow rope uncompromising Integrity of O'Neill came loose, leaving them directly | m © rare. His play may arouse dis : in front of Starwich’s car. Thay | an to ite merits; it will Never | vere tray at eet titania fail to Interest and stimulate the | ) ined Gut net sertouaiy” ta-| w auditor, By all means, ese “rhe | ‘ured William Dawson, 61, received a« Emperor Jones.” - - - broken leg when a@ sled crashed into him at 10th ave. N. and B. Republi. | in cont of veasels in 1914 and succeed: | Novernber Exports ean at, at the scene the accident | ing years and their cost today, and . jin which Rebeoca was injured. He/|to order the refund of income tax Establish Record | «iso was takea to the city hospital. | }mased on much chungen WASHINGTON, Dec, 18.—Eaports| Chester Wells, 16, of 907 1. Ter “After the shipping board has for the month of November estab. | "80° #t., Was slightly injured in a| done this for the wbty nere, ft ts Muhed « record for 1922, the depart | CMtIng accid year his home Bat ment of commerce announced today, | UAy night, and wae treated at the| man, the commissioner of internal The value of exports totaled $a83,.| “ty hospital, after which he was re|revenue, to determine the tncome, 000,000, or $12,000,000 greater than | '**ed and rent home. war } | October, which was the best previous| Since the first snowfall in Beatie | month for the present year, Novem.|1% persons, mostly children, have ber’s exports were $99,000,000 in ex-| been injured in consting accidents cons of November, 1921 | Two of thene caruijtion were fatal. | Experts for the 11 months ending | | November totaled $3.49: |, com | pared with §4.188,283,983 for the cor Veteran Mariner depreciation in value of their venels. | ing of Charles Gilpin, himaeif a ne | unconscious. Yor example: During the war | KPO. tf a tribute to the hidden Kugene Emme, 11, of 221 Firat | neriod, government - built vensels | Kentue of hin race that Gilpin, despite |ave, W., received a skull fracture! vere gold on a basis of $186 a ton. | for themacives in « single voyage. haps $35 4 ton of the subsidy bill, the owners, many of whom are not American citizens, | | of money by means of the refunding | | syetem which shipping board absolute power to go| | back to 1914 and wipe out difference then iS SWEEPS STORES, Says Ship Subsidy Bill Is Vicious Legislation WASHINGTON, Deo, 18, — The asker ship #ubsidy bill ts not only he most vicious piece of legimiatio at has t presented to congress & generation,” but it “open 16 door of the treasury” to shipping teremts ‘Thia warning comes from A. D | stricken “em: . | r deputy | oke emperor Visions of his ® vening. Of | Summer, of Iowa, former depu crimes and then of bis deeper sub Bunday and Sunday evening commiasioner of internal revenue | conscious fears appear to his dinor-| the Injured persons, a a ne of A a'r foremost authoities | dered mind, and gradually the so- a boy were possibly fatally on ineome x matters phistioated, cunning emperor ts r| and both were reported to be “The bach the United duce o gibbe ‘righ tened » opene p ne ahig |duced to a gibbering, frie ned, fm oriileal condition Monday. States treasury ix opened by the ship half-naked creature, fleeing from | subsidy bill, While the subsidy bill) those same superstitions that he had| Peter Rebecea, 61, of 128 flat f 1 pay from $20,000,00 00 & year in direct subsidies at the same | to 0 nipping companien. at 10th N. and 1. Repubtican, Munday | time it would enable #hip owners to | recetve hundreds of millions of dol | rs in tax refunds based upon the vernels often paid | t this price the “These vessels are now worth per Under the provisions 11] be able to recover great arnounts | has proven such & enaes to this country, “Hore ts how the refunding system 1id work under the subsidy bill “The bill gives the United States left to the discretion of one profits and excess profit taxes UNDAY BLAZE. Residents of Bell & summer} reeponding period last year, or a not | Called by Death | revert on Lake Washington, were | decreas of Meattle marine men were mourning |%t2"tle4 et 8 o'clock Monday more | the death Monday of Chief Engineer ms be aging — gts grocery i Paul Barnes, of ye! store &, the Sumnene ¢ Mi py > Panta iii, phe gg vs Volunteer firemen rushed avaliable | died at Jenoa bay, Vancouver taland, | Sought by Planes |’ <r WASHINGTON, Dee. 14.—Concen Chief Barnes was well known along tration of all mail airplanes tn the | the waterfront, He was 60 years old Western division of the air mail serv. | 924 4 veteran of Pacific trade routes. foo at Balt Lake Clty and Rock a Springs was ordered today by Post Alaskan Business master General Work to search for Man Dies in Ss th Henry G. Boonstra, mai\ pilot, who The service has been completely | Fairbanks suspended tn this division under in: | kan comieneretel nadie tates as struction from Washington, while all one time been general Manager of pilots and planes, numbering 26, are|the Northern Commercial company, scouting the country in an effort to| which operated in San Francisco ing filer, and Seattic and al) the Northweat A Any articles before Christmas. never disappointed. Our Any article here shown may be had SPECIAL $29.75 “COMFORT” ROCKER GATELEG Simitar to Cut = * High back, with side wings. Large, roomy, spring a seat. Roll arms. | firefighting apparatus to Everett's grocery store, which was rapidly be | connectic war ponnible j the Croc fect away, and set fire to the roof. Prompt action resulted fn all the mo tor equipment and personal effects has been lost since Inet Friday, when) News of the death of William H.| being removed from the combined he was overtaken by a heavy snow-| Fairbanks in Sian Francisco was re|ahos shop and dwelling before it storm. ceived here by friends Sunday, Mr. | burned down. W. Sloan, whore house adjoining es caped damage from the fire owing to the absence of Gift of Furniture lmproves the Home Fa ‘and provides lasting comfort, usefulness and Y enjoyment. purchased Saturday night will positively be delivered @ down) Credit Serv- REDUCED ! to water ttle ald destroyed, but owing is being frozen, Flames from the building reached s shoe repair shop, « few Roth buildings were completely de. royed, with an approximate loss of 400. They were owned by Dr. T wind. before 6 o'clock delivery service has The liberal Gottstein . on easy ice applies Regular $35.00 caving tem oe on 4 arti- Genuine Leather cept ranges). wees as gifts. 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Get the Iiberal allowance he will make for your old range. ‘Trade your old stove, 1514-16 Second Ave. Near Pike Four Large Floors of Homefurnishings Free Roaster A fine aluminum roaster given FREE with every Buck's Range sold between now and Christmas, M.A.GOTTSTEIN' FURNITURE CO SEATTLE’S POPULAR HOME FURN c HERS LADIES’ DESKS Priced from $1.45 to $29.50 LAMPS for each year affected between 1914 and 1 “The biggest companies that would be affected by this rebating of tn come taxes would be the Standard ON Co. the Gui¢ Of Co, which Mellon concern; the United Fruit Co, the United States Bteel corporation the Bethlehem Steet Co, and the Gug POLICE SEEK BANK BANDIT BREMERTON, Dee. 18.—Follow ng the arrest of Willtam Holmes, who i# being held for investigation vigorous search for the bandit who attempted to hold up the Charleston State benk Saturday ts being re doubled today The robber, fafling in hin attempt to rob the bank when frightened away by a burglar alarm, escaped by forcing a Charleston atage driver to take him to @ shack out in the country, where the driver wae forced to exchange hate and coats with the thug end was tied. The apparel left by the bandit has been identified as belonging to Charles Stevens, Jr, 1497 Warren ave., Bremerton. Bergdoll’s Brother Is Seeking Freedom KANSAS CITY, Kan., Dec, 18. Freedom for Edwin Bergdoll, draft dodger and brother of the notorious Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, was ex pected w be considered in federal court here today. The final hearing on Bergdoll's plea for habeas corpus probably will come before Judge John Pollock, on the ground that former President | Wilson imvued a proclamation that 18 months wae sufficient imprisonment for draft evaders as @ rewult of the armistice. Hergdoll has eerved nearly two years of a four-year sentence in the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Murder Suspects Must Face Trial MOUNT HOLLY, N. J., Dec. 18— A motion to dismiss the murder charges against Mrs. Doris Brunen and her brother, Harry C. Mohr, was denied today by Supreme Court Justice Kalisch. 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