The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 15, 1923, Page 1

FRENCH ADVANCING Troops Invading Germany on 20-Mile F ront! PAA AAA WEATHER Rain tonight and Twesday; erate southerly winds FORECAST VOLUME ome Brew, Howdy, folks! Now that the Clara Skarin trial is finished, it looks like « dull winter ahead. ees The question of the day: Who ts! Clara Skarin now? | . As was exclusively predicted by | this colyum and 345,567 Seattle citi | zens, Clara was easily acquitted eee Odds of 10 to 1 are offered th Ciara recetves 300 proposals of mar- | riage Within the next week * EXPENSIVE LING 7 Women’s Legislative council is backing a bill to forbid the sale of ¢igarets in Washington. Bootleggers are preparing to handle cigarets as a sideline. this ts “You, sir, | You can Famous saying» @ package of r ol tell by the revenue stamp eee Parent-Teacher association wants ances permitted in school buildings. The Three R's will be changed to ‘“Wrigsle, Writhe and Wrestle.” | cities In the United States, but it ian’t the auto driver's fault. eee Fifteen men in @ mighty cold flat— Yo-ho-ho, and @ bucket of coal! —Brick Stilwell. “Olympia,” says a piece of adver tising literature, “is the home of the | oyster, the geeduck and the clam.” And, we might add, of the legis lator. KID AMBITIONS (NO. 345) HOMER GIN BREW | “My ambition has always been to be an undertaker,” Homer Brew declared. “I have always loved the solemn hush of the embalming room, the dignified si- lence of the last services, the saintly whieness of the morgue. Anything that was at all ight | or funny disgusted me. Hence, when I went to work on anews- paper, they immediately made | me « colyumist . : Chicago artist says stylee are causing the American woman to lose her shape. Not «tall, Styles don't change | shapes. They ve 'y show them. . | Missourt senator has introduced a lof the county fait mod The paper with a 15, 5,000 « daily circulation lead over ‘its nearest competitor Batered as Seco id Class Matter May 4, 1809, WOMAN ALIVE Says She Doesn't Want to Get Well ‘and Will Try It Again BY JOHN W. NELSON “Life has dealt me 57 ties ! mt want to want to get well.” nt Mrs. Gladys Will var From her bed sspital ward jams Nelson Ware Monday bemoan jed an unkind fate which first took | away her first husband by death, then led her into @ bigamous mar riage with Kari G. Nelson, self-styled song writer and poet of Hartstine island, and finally to a cot in the jcounty Jail, where ahe faces @ charge of bigamy. Two desperate efforts to commit suicide were made by Mra. Ware a | Snoqualmie Saturday night and Sur day morning when, despondent cause of the “fina” which has pur sued her, she determined to end her troubles, ‘The first muicide attempt, Aatur- day night, was made with poison. qualmie hospital, where Dr. J. EB. Burke used a pump to remove the contents of her stomach. Sunday, still confined at the hospital, ahe pre insect She wes taken to the Sno-| APPLE Among the first Monday morning was at Second and James to recei Wan presented him with the fruit when he And he straightway ate it duty. The Secret’s Out, fered for Best Apple Pies Cooked by Seattle Women ’ By Wanda von Kettler | Apple Week is here. Hence the announcement | Star's Apple Pis contest Last week « hint about that con. test was dropped. It said “Details will be made known early in the ot The tended to brew herself a cup of cof-| fee in the hospital kitchen. This time she drank lead sulphide. Again the pump was resorted to. “TU kil myself yet.” she told the physicians when she revived. “Life is not worth living.” Deputy Sheriffs Joe Hin and Charles Kearney were called to Sno- quaimie Sunday and brought Mrs. Ware to Seattle for her own protec tion. There are no night nurses at the Snoqualmie hospital and no means to defeat her intention of kill- ing herself. However, a bright ray appeared in the sky Monday for Mrs. Ware. Deputy Prosecutor Eugene Meacham announced that he is considering dismissing the charges against her. The wom- an's bondsmen, Mayor Claude Northern, of Snoqualmie, and Councilman W. C. Thorpe ap- peared in Seattle to ask leniency for the woman, who, they claim, is a vietim of unfortunate cir. cumstances, The charge of bigamy against Mra. | Ware was brought by Neilson, the song writer. In 1920 Mra. Ware an- swered Nelson's ad in a Seattle paper for a housekeeper, and Nelson talked with her, promined her a home, and married her, she told Meacham | Later, she alleges, when she arrived at the logging camp Nelson makes hin home, he sought to forces her into ® life of shame, according to her} | story. She left him after two weeks of} abuse, she says, and drifted away, aeeking work. During this time Mrs. ‘Ware was caring for her 12-year-old spirit thet Seattle is manifesting in hs endeavor to help consume surplus apples for growers in the eastern part of the state, have decided to discover the best maker of apple ples in the ety, All ladies who pride themselves on baking “pastry that melts in your mouth” need this week just vo fill their crusts with apples and to take their chances with the rest in being awarded one of the seven cash prizes—$15, $5, and five $1 bills Suspecting that Seattle has pie bakers of merit by the hundred, and then some, a contest headquarters sufficiently large has been obtained. Hughson's Ford corner, at Third and | Stewart, has been named such | V. Webster Van Winkie, representa j tive of the Ford company, has been |named ple custodian. It t# to him. between the hours of 1 p.m. Wednes- | day and 2:30 p. m. Thursday that the pies must be delivered Bach ple | will be given a number, by which the judges will know it when the time |comes for making decisions. No | names of persons submitting the pas. tries will be used, except In the pie registry book. In this way, nasty politics cannot be said to enter Into the decisions Thursday evening the Judges, will | cities noted culinary experts, will eat |The decisions resulting from their | findings will be announced from the stage of the Coliseum theater at 8:30 D. m., Friday, in conjunction with the | |showing of “Fury,” the feature film jstaring Richard Bathelemess and who Traffic Cop J be appointed from among the! ~ SEATTL WEEK AND APPLE PIE! ve an “Apple Week” apple A. Czech, stationed von Kettler of The Star first appeared on da Carter, Btar Staff Photographere Folks; Cash Is Of- TT mitting them. Cynthia Grey bas already been requested to locate poor families who might appreciate prize |food. The latter will be sent out to | the families Friday morning. Should the indies of the city met appear in great numbers on the | downtown streets during the next few | days, dear populace, be not alarmed. | We take this opportunity te Inform | you that @ considerable portion of | Seattle's feminine population will be | |considerably busy in their kitchens| during the early part of the week. | ‘The apple-pie queen In to be named Friday night! In the meantime all assist in celebrating Apple ‘The ladies will not be alone. Stores are featuring exhibits; cafes apple foods ron the traffic cops began the fruit consumption early Monday morning. Some of us went out and fed them applies, When the one in the accompanying pleture was re lquented to pone, he looked bored to death, most uphappy. ‘You got to look soulful.” yelled I, “or 1 won't play.” Frightened, he beamed up. Girls, ain't he grand? INGLE WAGE PLAN URGED A letter declaring that the sliding scale of wages ts lowering the effict ency of the force of linemen tn the employ of the city light department |and asking for an amendment creat ing a single standard seale for jour neymen was written to the olty coun. ell Monday by Light Superintendent J.D. Ross. The present scale, Ross explained. provider a wage of $6.27 a day for the first 90 days Journeyman line man works for thé department, an increase to $6.62 for the mecond 90. day period, and a raise to the final wage of $6.87 at the end of the first six months. Under this system, are paid less at the Seattle will week expert work ors start than biN providing for a commission of |%0M. James, the offspring of her first | Horothy Gish, being shown this week. | Are less valuable men who have been experts to decide what alcoholic con- tent makes a beverage intoxicating. | Stand in line, boys. Don't shove. | eee | 7 LIL 6 GEE, TH’ OFFICE AMP, § Th’ wisest woman in th’ world } is th’ woman who can manage | her husband without lecting him | know she is doing it. setae Mead It’s always the jast car on the! train that gets smashed. Wonder) why the railroad companies don’t leave the last car off? cee | The old-fashioned wife Was timid and shy | Why, she couldn't hit The floor with a pie But her modern sistor Ja right there at fighting; Bhe triggers her “gat” And Hubby goes kiting. eee Here's hoping that some Olympia} lator doesn't forget to introduce | a bill making it a felony to cut a| pie into more than four pieces see HURRAH FOR ART! HIC! Rey, Chaunory Hawkins advo- cates the establishment of art galleries for the entertainment of loggers who come to Seattle. Well, a quart of moonshine couldn't make a man any diz- sier than locking at = Cubist portrait. ® A thing of beauty is # Joy forev but a lot of the boys would rather have @ stein of beer. . When they banished the saloon, they took away the working man’s art gallery Bnd of the inal Au out! Ware at! him Sep- She met Fred and married 1922 | marriage. Snoqualmie, tember Nelson, vindiettive at her departure from his home, learned of the mar- raige, and swore to a charge of big- amy. Neighbors of the woman at Snoqualmie say she is to be pitied, not prosecuted. A. D. Milroy, business man of Snoqual- mie, has taken the hoy, and he said Monday that the chap is » ly little fellow, well raised. “She certainly must be a good woman to raise her son so well,” Milroy said. Deputy Prosecutor Meacham Mon |day aid he believed the bigamy charge will be dropped NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 15.—Mra Chester Perrine was born on Christ- mas, his brithday on New Year's. Are YOU Placing Your WANT ADS in THE STAR’S “GREATER WANT AD COLUMNS” while her husband celebrates | | One or two requests have been | made. First, “Please,” say those who are planning the contest “don't bring the piles down to the Ford corner on fancy _ plates. ‘The plates won't count « penny | when the judges are deciding. | Faet is, they desire paper or tin | plates, whieh won't | won't need to be returned And second Please don't |to neo the ples again after once AFIREMEN AT TACOMA HURT expect sub: \Chief Carlson “and Three | Others Are Injured TACOMA, Jan. 15.—Iire Chiet ©. BE. Carison ‘and three other firemen were injured this morning in battling flames that consumed three frame business structures on the southeast conrer of Pacific and 14th st None of the injured is seriously hurt suffered from a nail wound in his foot, Lieut. Bradb sealp wound. Hone n a wrenched back, and Lieut | la ated hand. Police and firemen were busy at |9 o'clock, searching the ruins for possible fire victims, rumors having | it that two men, at least, were caught | when the north wall of the orner building collapsed, . The Salve Army hotel, a brick structur }etanding, but ite tn ‘The burned structures housed sev eral soft drink bars, employment agencies, restaurants, barber shops jand retall stores, Lodging b oe | roomers occupied the upper floor |The damage ig estimated at $60,000. ave. Carlson Johnson was Kettler @ fon | for was gutted, | with us longer. This t# producing dis tion and we are having trou ble keeping our best men, who r ily leave us because lin premium all along the Tam asking tt standard wa Pacific coast our SAN plant to be FRANCISCO.-Fire deatroys of California Salt Co, said | largest salt works in the world, near Alvarado, Damage esti mated at more than $300,000. A Reason When there 4g news to be told on afternoon newspaper time, Seattle has learned to look to The Star for it For instance, the verdict in the Clara Skarin case. | It came in late Saturday aft The Star was on the street a few minutes after with complete, accurate and in ting account of what the verdict was and how it was recelve in the room. Anoth paper, knowing it could beat The Star tn handling news, came out about the same time with a “dum my” edition, published in ad. vance and held for release, merely “flashing” the fact that the verdict was acquittal, This is the old discredited system that sometimes was used in days gone by on prizefight extras The difference ernoon. tere court in the two || methods is one reason why || The Star has cireulation |] iead of MORE THAN 16,000 over that other paper | Present on clauses Mares 4, LIVELY HEARING ‘ON DANCE HALLS Objections Are Offered to, Landes Bill Objections to minor detalis of the proposed Landes dance hall erdinance, presented by repre sentatives of fraternal organta tions, featured the public hear ing on thy rdinance held by the council Hicense committer Mon- day morning. Before the meeting Councilwoman Mrs. Henry Landes, author of the bill Jared that she would stand Pat on the principal clauses, aimed at the Liberty and Dreamland dance halls, but wan ready to amend de. would not detract from effectiveness, if a suffi- of the public felt anges. state chairman of mmittes of the Brotherhood of American Yeomen. told committes that his and other fraternal bodies resent the or dinance clause compelling those re. sponsible for every public dance to hire a matron to look after the wel fare of feminine dancers. Hewitt and Crawford E. White, state presi. dent of the Fraternal Order of Bagies, objected also to the clause making the admittance price to all dances the same for men and wom en patrons “We feel that our organiza then is high enough, nation- ally and leeally, to be permitted to hold dances without hiring an outsider to see that we observe moral regulations,” Hewitt said. At this juncture, « woman rising in the crowd that packed the coun ell chamber, a mild sensa- tion by asking Hewitt whom he rep: resented, and, when he replied that he spoke for a number of fraternal bodies, shouting: “On New Year's eve, the Loy al Order of Moose gave an all night dance in this eclty that was broken up at 3 o’clock in the morning by rowdyism. [ think the fraternal organization dances need as much regulation as any other kind!" A letter from Superior Judge J. T. Ronald in which he expressed thoro approval of the proposed regulatory measure, Was read at the hearing by Chairman Robert Hesketh. Several *, who attempted to expound the virtues or demerits of the ordinance as a whole, were cut short by Hesketh, who declared the public hearing had been called for the single purpose of hearing per sons who had specific objections to of the bill tatin the cient the w the that bill's proportio need of ¢ L, Hewitt legislative as JAP URGING | ‘RACE MIXING! Taking issue with an,article advocating the free tntermar riage and social intereourse of black and white races, published in the form of « letter from one Mahendra Pratap, Raja, Tokyo, Japan, in a Seattle weekly news: paper, Councilman Philip ‘Tin. all said that has mailed couples of the con taining the article to every m ber of congres A that he tends to mail hundreds of other copies to members of the legislat ures of states bordering on Washington. ‘The article says, ‘Embrace blacks and whites and give rise to better generations,’ ” Tin. dail said. “T consider this to be the most pernicous sort of propa ganda, and that from Tokyo, it has a that goes outside of the specified black and white races," Monday he insue m ye comng purpo FOLKSTONE Jan. 15 Funds usually expended for a mayor- al banquet will be used this year to aid the unemployed, The Seattle Star 1st), Per by Mall, $6 to 8 cine M(t} * New Conflicts Start in Europe; Turmoil NQT 10 Py and Strife Increase cy jpqy Lithuanians and Fr Warships Rush to Threatening; Near East Flares United Press Summary ,_ New conflicts of arms, aftermaths of the world war, broke out in Europe Lithuanians and French in the «tre of Me karian troops were re ing on the Kaman. today fought and Hu ported t lan ben * troops hold. Memel, warships are raci cue. The at upon the Rubr handicap the ailles in defending the Prussian border city, drove the French troops back from trenches outside the city are making attempt to while ail ic to the res. * + LONDON, % den. * 15.—French are advancing the Ruhr along » 20-mile front, doubling their seizures, it was indicated in dispatches from Essen te day. Dispatches from Bochum ead a French division was in have been . - BY CARI D. GROAT BERLIN, Jon. 15.—Bochum, where Hugo Stinnes’ steel fac- tories are located, was occupied by French troops this afternoon, The invaders thus tightened their grip on the heart of the Ruhr industrial region. When the biue-clad poilus arrived at Bochum, all work in the elty im mediately stopped, says the Lokal Anzeiger. Thix was done according to prearranged plans. Bochum was seething with cxctte-| ment, communists in the streets we distributing leaflets advocating war with France and demanding the, resignation of Chancellor Cuno. | Occupation of Bochum, even more than seizure of Easen, gives the m a grip on one of the main| os of German industry, nce today increased her forces | nt Essen, and extended the new line} of occupation to include Hartigan, and Gelsenkirchen. Last night troops | pushed northward to Kupperdreh| land Miederwenigern: | | . | Berlin Prohibits Supplying Coal LONDON, Jan. 16—The German | coal commissioner in Berlin has pro- hibited Rubr operators from supply- ing the French with coal or coke, even tf paid for, and dramatic retalia- | tion by France ts expected, according | |to dispatehes received here today | | | PARIS, requisiti |nhe Jan, 15.—France will | n such quantities of coal as} rmany, in conse. | rman resolution to decided today ‘The premier conferred with Min- ister Do Lasteyrie regarding collec tion of a 40 per cent tax on Ruhr{ coal production, They also had un der discussion a project to create new currency in the Ruhr to replace the mark, which tumbled today to unprecedented low levels, FRENCH FIGHT | MEMELBATTLE| | Jan. 15, — French | nian troops battled in the heart of Memel for posses. | sion of the city today, H ‘The Lithuanians, entering the city, drove back ® handful of French troops who had entrenched themselves before the gates, British and French warships were reported turday en route to nforce the French mel ig a neutral the le e of nations. It Prussian border and is par- | tioular desi by Lithuania | who: irregular troops are taking jaflvantage of the Ruhr situation to| attack troops. under on the Peivobnan Catches Alleged Burglar | Alleged to have burglarized @ pri i te home at 111 Fourth ave, N, Sun. | night, while the occupants were haent, H. ‘Ty Baldwin, 22, was cap: |tured by Patrolman A.'G. Luntsford, who saw Baldwin's flashlight in the aark ned home. Baldwin was held | sn open charge in city jail Mon ‘on day, zone | * rench Fighting as Rescue; Hungary The Rumanian minister in Paris disclosed that war clouds again are lowering over the Balk in a report that bands of Hungarian troops have already entered his coun- try. In the Ruhr, French troops moved forward to occupy | additional territory, enter | ing Boc . the “capital” of the great dustrial interests of | Hugo Stinnes. The French are | mivancing on a 20-mile front. War in the Near East may be added ‘o the turmoil, if the Lausanne conference fails. qd * Greece is reported moving troops to Thrace. * * % EUROPEAN BULLETINS BERLIN, Jan. 15—A boycott movement was launched today against the French and Bel- sians, the agitation becoming countrywide. The Association of Grain Dealers and the Ham- with FrancoBelgian firms. ‘The boycott request urged against buying goods or Franco-Belgian exchange or handling wares ly- ing in Franco-Belgian harbors, BERLIN, Jan. 15.—German industrial magnates moved to- day to thwart French seizures in the Ruhr, August Thyssen, Ruhr coal magnate, is negotiat- ing with British industrialists in an attempt to sell stock in his mines with a view of counteract- ing the French occupation. The Krupps, whose great works are at Essen, are trans- ferring shares in their business into England Russia, eee PARIS, Jan. 15.—Hungarian troops, bands of which have made incursions into Rumanian territory, are concentrating on the frontier, Premier Poincare was notified by the Rumanian minister today. Paincare asked | the interallied commission at Bu- dapest to investigate the report, eee PARIS, Jan, 15.—telgian and tension of their occupation of the Ruhr to include Bochum, moving | forward to a Tine thru Hattinen, | thausen | announcement _Two ‘CENTS IN SEATTLE STATE — Girl Acquitted 6} Murder Will Be Tried Stealing Gold This was virtually assured & Monday from | Ewing D. Colvin, acting attorney, “Personally,” Colvin haven't even considered any larceny charge against the probability is that we no further action. And this the state is willing to do. Also, there is no (Turn to Page 7, C North District Money ti Cut by Board Residents of the south missioners’ district, oh cludes the south half of county and Vashon not be deprived of funds tain their roads in 1923,, ‘The Star is able to make |thoritative statement it was learned that | Frank Paul will move at | ternoon’s meeting of the b equal division of the left Commissioner Tom D over member of the board, man William A, Gaines, of th of commissioners, will vote division, he announced, Added assurance that the | appropriated by the old ¢ ers when sitting at the b |ings last October will be ably in both ends of the e lobtained when Prosecuting ‘Malcolm Douglas, thru in Bo- | arters of the Stin- | industries, according to a Central News dispatch from Ber- lin, Former Premier of France Dies at 81 PARIS, Jan. 15.—Alexandre Ribot. wartime premier of France during | the stormy ys from March to Sep- ber 1917, died h Sunday, | aged 81 Ribot married Miss Mary of Chicago, A. BE. Ribot. Burch, He leaves one son, Dr, | Tacoma Watchman | Is Killed by Auto| TACOMA, Jan, 16.—“The trains’ never get me, but the flivvers I am ta will.” rs of F Behling, Northern railway watchman, soon to brate 30 years’ with the Y, came true Sunday even ing, He was instantly killed at 19th and Pacific when run down by an auto driven by Floyd Jackson, 8561 | South K st. The driver was released | pending investigation by the county attorney's office Bodies of Airplane | Victims Are Lost WEST, Fla, Jan, 15.—The bodies of E. F, Atkins, Jr, of New York city, his two and Miss Grace MacDonald, who were drowned | when the seaplane Columbus, whieh | sank off here Saturday, will never be recovered, it was believed. a service KEY sons jecutor Howard A, Hanson, an opinion that the money divided by majority vote of the “The old board of ers gave Mr. Dobson his road and bridge Rome: north be paid $28,000 for road district imp and $11,000 for work last year, leaving me about 000 to repair roads and and build new roads in” south end of the county Vashon island. “New work outlined by board calls for an expenditt $52,000. ‘This work must be d of my $31,000. ‘ “Commissioner Dobson was $550,000 for road work. Total d@ of the two districts will cut this § down to $455,000, “I will ask Wi hile Paul undoubtediy get this meney for road workin J South district, taxpayers of county will be saved a cool | million dollars by the t The original road and fund estimates before the ty budget hoard were mately $1,100,000. By cutting ¢ Paul's allotment, the board the taxpayers the money would, ‘by long custom, gone to the South district, at tal of 8500,000, Both Paul and Dobson r sald their road and bridge work: be seriously handicapped by small allowance under the rangement,