The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 18, 1923, Page 1

—————] WEATHER € Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximu Minimum, 47 noon, 54 Kotered an Second jane Matior May 3 1899, at the Postotfice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of ( ongréss March 9, 1879, 76 KILLED IN FIRE HORROR! pace nents PPPOE APPA PPA AAPL PPP APP PAPA PAPA AR Per Year, Ly Mail, $1.50 The Seattle Star SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1924 #tome Brew | PASS PLAN IS eo | | Howdy, folks! Can you eat | strawberries, or do they make | You break out, too? | T se five Broadway high school t boys who threw rotten eggs at the They abilities ir efforts were misdire should have exercised their in the theater 5 MANORBROWN Eastern girl announces her divorce Declares He Will by sending cards to her f s, But} ois 5 she doean't wend back the wed Sign Ordinance If the Council Will Pass It THE FORMAL TOUCH This Is to Announce ‘That I Have Divorced Harry, the Big Brute. BY JOHN W. NELSON Forgot to Put the The weekly dollar pass plan for Top Back on the Seattle street railways came ¢ nearer Friday when Mayor Edwin J. Brown declared that he will ap prove the ordinance if it ty passed |by the city council. Toothpaste Tube. | 1 BEAT BESSIE: SHE DIVORCED be-| % committee of t City council ts thinking of forbid: | council on recommendation of C ding roosters to crow morning, |cllmen Oliver T. Erickson Huh, we don’t believe the city/ Philip Tindall, council has any more influence with| Councilmen Erickson and John BE. roosters than we have. |Carrott have al ly voted favor. palit! lably on a pass plan, as bas Coun. If they want to prohibit undue} cilwoman Kathryn Miracle. Coun-| noises in the early morning, let em} cilmen A. Lou Cohen and Robert stop the birds who snore |B. Hesketh have spoken favorably lof the plan. Councilwoman Hertha} Landes is on record as believing x ne) the pass system a good pian, but the effice, bat | declares she believes the council t pass any legislation gov oti lerning street railway operation not * And | approved by the utilities committee lend te inspect oot 1 4 | of the council Pparebase for $50, sight unseen, and “cuncilmen ts find tt a mile up ono hiliside snd the| Councilmen C. B, Fitsxer hill so steep only an Alpine climber) HE. 1. Blaine have apposed t could get to MH, but indeed it ie not se} omn the same theory that bad, becagse I can use it for m moantain| yondes did no! "3 ow goat farm, or sell It, perchance, to the | andes did not vote me SG: Hove Fererament for w posiotfice site. And se ever, when the council bill js intro- home and to bed. duced, unless there is a reversal on} meee the part of some of the cor nen, | If you don't believe Chaucer dic-|_ majority favors it, and insures! tated his stuff to @ stenographer,! ity adoption, as Mayor Brown has Just look at the spelling, |declared he will approve = the} ud “a | measure, Lit GAGS Wa HEAL believer in| opti paay plan will Hot be: brought ME Advocates of the pass plan Look Out! Heve this insures the success of the |‘ rm Wild! council bill which will be tntrodw oe by the utilit preparedness. "She always keeps an extra hair net in the roll of one before the council until the 8 19 cent car fare ordinanea has became | stocking. effective, which will be June gun, | eee | Alaska by the water route, it is an-} nounced. Ha, ha! Playing for the| Re |Break Into Stamm Bros.; Get $700 Merchandise Also Safe robbers who have suceess- It is hard to see why Capt. Mike! Powers should be compelled to retire | from the police force just because he | fs over 60 years of age. A lot of| men older than that fre playing on|fulty robbed a dozen safex in 8 the Seattle ball team. |tle during the last six weeks, are <i ue believed to be the men who Friday morning broke into Stamm Bros. clothing establishment, 1218 Second THE EXPATRIATE Capt. Powers has been in charge of the Ballard precinct for six years, Perhaps that is why they want to retire him, They think he has forgotten how to speak English. ae6 ce Powers contends he fan't any older} than Mayor Brown. Mebbe, but! one’s feet give out before one’s vocal chords. taking therchandisé valued at about $700. According to officials of the com pany, the safe was dragged from the office into a back room, where a sledge hammr was used to knock off the combination. The receipts from the previous day's sales, almost $500, were inside. Detectives were Investigating the case Friday. Former Seattle Man see Luther Burbank has done some wonderful things, but has he ever tried to cross a street with a woman? ee LOVE SONG Dies in Los Angeles She has went, LOS ANGELES, May 18.—Arthur Her has gone, Letts, millionaire department store Her have left us all alone. " owner, died at 3 o'clock this morn- She can never come to we, - ing in his palatial Hollywood home Us can never go to she, Jafter a long illness. Double pneu ip aE carne wa | monia caused Tatts’ death. | Letts came to this city from Se. Cleopatra had no “pyorrhea) atte in 1876 after fire had wiped smile,” says a toothpaste ad. And, /oyt his business. He was active in no doubt, the complyxion advertisers | civic and social betterment here and will ae that her's was no erysip-| wits noted for his philanthropy. elas phiz. oe German Mark Hits aay | County Game Warden A, C. Beach} says that chemicals placed in Green . ; lake are killing the fish. | New Low Quotation 4 Gosh, we hope none of those| LONDON, May 18—~The German E whales diet |mark reached a new low mark of 7 o¢ | 220,000 to the pound sterling, or 50,. “ Come, gentle Spr Ethereal! 000 to the dollar, on the London ex- Mildness, come! And hurry! \change today. ave. and escaped, after robbing the | safe, of between $400 and $500 and| U.of W. Daily EditorGive Campus Circles a Shock Little ‘Off’ He Admits Stirs Campus With Editorial About College Life By Lester M. Hunt ersity senior and or of the Unive of Wa Daily, startled collegiate cir-| Thursday by the publica an editorial under the heading, “Why Those Who Say I Am a ‘lit-| tle Off Are Right ‘The editorial deals in « satirical manner with | ma and cen _and ashion dire thoian to many phases of higher education, 's completing a four-year | course at the university, and after the Dempsey-Gibbons fight will} leave for Australia to join the ed{-| torial staff of the Melbourne, Australia, Herald Miller sat in the bare room with | bi thi hom: Thursdi t table quar ters in Sigma a Epatic fraternity house late in the winter| to move into tne mlab house at't end of 2ist ave, N, E. The houno| is remote from ctmpus paths and is situated in a clearing at the edge} of a grove of trees. “College life is artificial,” he declared. “There can be no argument there. Sindenis move in an artificial world and fre- quently get so far off the wae Aiea SL unless Mayor Brown reverse¥ his| ground that they are useless to AS THE CORRESPONDENTS | announced stand of “hands off.” | the commercial world for two HAVE IT eee — | years after graduation. 7 Geant, that day lost whose descend- R | *Many don’t know why they came | |to college except that it was con. Sees not ee ten new world wars SAF ROBBE |sidered the thing to do. And after:| | ward they wonder what it | about | “They are completely out of toveh with the world. Thin t not the fart of the college, however. It! jeannot be helped except by the student or his parents. Before wn- (Turn to Page 9, Column 2%) +) ‘MURDER CHARGE "AGAINST BOOS! |Mercer Island Rancher Is, Formally Accused Adolph B. Boos, Mercer island rancher, choked and beat Jacob| Smith to death May 12, after shoot ing him in tho head with an auto-| matic shotgun, according to a first-| degree murder charge filed against] Boos by Prosecuting Attorney Mal-| colm Douglay Friday. The filing of the after a week of intensive investiga. Hon by Colvin and Deputy Sheriffs | | William A, Sears and Ed Hughes, |which was directed by Sheriff Matt| Starwic | Boos has been held in the county} Jail pending the outcome of the in- | vestigation. He surrendered him |self to the police last Saturday, tell-| ing a story of an alleged attack upon him by Smith and of the ac-| cldental shooting of Smith during} a terrific struggle over the gun. ‘The alleged murder occurred at Boos’ home on Mercer island, about ‘The for. | noon, according to Colvin |mal charge of murder wag filed |before Judge C. C. Dalton and] states that Boos killed Smith “by shooting him with an automatic shotgun and then by choking and} ‘beatingshim until he was dead.” — | « BANDITS CHINA REVOLT ~ OF SOLDIERS! Urge Unpaid Troops to JOIN Victims | Uprising Against | Government * BY RAY G. RSHALL PEKIN, May 18.—(6:10 p,m.) |Chinese bandits are reported to have | tanued a call to dismissed and un-|) paid troops to Join them in @ revo: lution against the government woll-authenticated dispatches from Lincheng today. 2 If the government does not meet the kidndpery’ demands, the latter must wage warfare on the largest possible scale, bandit’ proclama- | |; tion ig said to state Depredations of the band who still hold a dozen foreigners captive |b HoT Parents, Pupils, in| trapped 400 proud parents, friends and children in a school- house here last night, were in improvised morgues today, building. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE, Relatives Burn in Schoolhouse of Tragedy Die in Panic as They Rush for Door When Kerosene Lamp Explodes at Entertainment BY H. D, NILES CLEVELAND, S. C., May 18. vent blackened bodies, the total of the dis < crushed and trous fire which as off. als continued searching the ruins of the little frame: The tragedy was caused by the explosion of a kerosene lamp. m officials in ch of the unced that they did not more bodies would be| schoolhouse when the audience, mad with fright, sought to escape the at of the flames. any may cost the government of Ct found in the etill glowing embers.| Farmers and their families, who abolition of extra territoriality. Every home in the little village has|came to town to be entertained for | it ts retlably reported that the |been pressed into service, either as|an evening by their, children diplomatic corps hex drawn up &\a morgue as as a hospital to care|churned and milled at the closed memorandum declaring the Chinese |for those trampled in the panic|door like stampeded cattle, and situation as stands at present|which followed the cry of “fire, those who fell or were knocked | docs not warrant any step by the|who were bruised in leaping to safe powers towanl abolishing their extra | ty | floor. | territorial priv! Until the country |nancial, e¢snomic, polit itary affairs to. better |than ig dixplayed* by the outrag of the wreck and robbery of the | iShanghaj oxpress, foreign powers 'T |must assist China, the |corps: believes. djusts its fi. and mil-| advanetme | diplomatic |Join in one funeral cortege, and the jone plot in Clev al dents were fn jas called “Topsy Turvy" 4 kept = mirth up to the time the exploding jover in the crush of humanity wens trampled under foot, . Then the flames, roaring thru the building, reached the frenzied clus ter about the entrance and those who had gone down were consumed | jin the blaze, im FIND RELATIVES BURIED IN WRECK Rescue workers who were att ed by the light found their frien and loved ones buried in the black- ened mass. ae Frenzied relatives hesitated often in thelr Jabors of recovering hodles in an effort to identity own, Little’ groups gathered each body as it was from windows on the second A funeral of the fire victims will no held at 6 p. m. today at Cleve and. One big funeral will mark he burial of all of them. Unable fo identify thelr loved ones, the be-| re parents and relatives will charred. bodies will be laid-to rest in id. cemetery, a grim point to hie play which amateur actors re- The fire nm performing. The play It had the audience in @ roar. of a the debris, but. there was little lamp turned into the comedy And This Is the Way Max Because what I learn in class ts: ing the class, Because I hate college editorial, writers who try to give advice on how to suceeed in the world. There should be respect for thoxe professors who have nerve enough to repeat the samo joke to each section. Because 1 like “The Dial,” the “Atlantic Monthl; the Cosmopolitan—all at the same tim nd. I have aes deserved & ee 8 I in a to college. I don't hate philoso (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) Describes College Life charge come| Why Those Who Say I Am a “Little Off’ Are Right t half as much as I learn wateh- yea, and also epted “Ba” on examination papers when I knew 1 only Jefore I'll send my gon to college I'l make him work a Year, work sawmill or at longshoring—then he'll know why I'm sending him y as much as 1 hate those who take philosophy Flames Kill Baby Chicks and Laying Hens An overheated burner started a} fire whortly after. midnight’ Friday morning, Which swept a poultry ranch owned by Jus Kanjas, 2149} W. Orchard st, completely destroy- |ing three large hen-houses and burn: jing to death 1,420 chickens, The joss is estimated at close to $4,000. [ithe entire nelghbrohood was| called up to fight the flames, which | greatly hampered by lack of water. Several garden howe were found to be the only means of fighting the fire. | The fire department found great} difficulty in finding the fire, owing | to the rough country roads, The chickens were pure-bred White Leg- horns, 1,214 of which were baby |chicks, § weeks old. The remainder [were jaying hens. « ‘The fire was discovered by Kanjas -after it had gained considerable |houdway. “A strong southerly wind | threatened to carry the flames to |seyeral homes near by, and it was |with the greatest difficulty that |they were controlled. LOOK AT THIS ONE Here is a home that is. yery complete and is being offered to you at a sacrifice pric COWEN PARK SNAP! Make us an offer on this new 5- modern bungalow, clore achoola and car line; level 465x102; living fom. across front of the house; guest clos- : massive fireplace with built-in bookcases; light, airy dining room: best grade of hardwood floors: built-in kiteh.) on with nook; 2 large bedrooms with bath between! full cem: basement with good furnac and laundry trays. Original price was $6,500, Owner com- % Turn to the, Want Ad columns NOW and See who will show you this property, TEMPUS TODD P ride Goeth Before - CARAMEL SEE ME IN MY NEW CARL rats BETTING SHE 15 GOING TO NEEDME LIKE A BASS SINGER NEEDS ~ ROCKED IN THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP) THAT WORTH LESS WILLIE BUNION. ies RECKON YOU-ALL 1S SEEING “) Story by Octavus Roy Cohen a weston tay Illustrations kee lor tragedy. [Per cent of the total population of {Cleveland township, of & small, unincorporated village. threatened to wipe out the district.|Of horror by the agony of the in- The efforts of the fire fichters were | Jured. remained to establish the names of the victims. i The bodies, lifted carefully carried tenderly by loved ones, taken to nearby homes. Then, toll of the disaster mounted, o | houses were commandeered until vi tually every residence had become 4 morgue or a hospital. ae The injured number -more than score, according to Sheriff E. Weich, of Camden, who made a lminary survey today. The figures compiled by We showed more than 60 persons still missing, but officials that a number of these undoub escaped the inferno and have not reported. Highteen bodies had been id (Turn to Page 9, Column 1) Land of the Funny} See America First! You'll Have to Laugh Your Head Off Har-har for Oaks, the Super-Clown Our Bolshevistic Constitution! BY JACK HALL ERSONALLY, I shall spend the summer in America. Europe, it is true, has its allurements—light wines and heavy beers; heavy wines and light beers; time-softened cathedrals and lichtened castles squatting on silent brooks; the opera at Frankfort and the old | Cheshire Cheese in smoke-palied London; gay cafes in Vienna and quaint estaminets along the rive gauche .. . 5 But Europe, after all, basks not in the light-hearted Joie de vive so typical of America 4 America! Ah! There's a country for you! f One of the inestimable privileges of Ife here is furnished by the continuous performances of large troupes of highly-paid comiques, viewing whose antics Grimaldi himself must turn over in his narrow house, and a pale blush surge thru the whitewash on the check of Mons, Marceline, f Our clowns have, as they say, these ignorant foreigners backed off the boards and yelling for help. Once more, gentles, is Americam supremacy—er—supreme! : ‘ ce ; (ONGRESSMEN, city councilmen, chlefs of police, federal ute senators, we call these droll fellows whose very life seems to be ~ spent in imaging and performing quaint conceits to evoke quiet — chuckles, deep-stomached laughs and, ever and anon, hearty, soul- stirring guffaws. * Such a one, fellows of the bourgeoisie, is Mons. Oakes, the prefect of police, le chef des gendarmes at that so-spirited Los Angeles. All day Tuesday Mons. Oakes spent in meditation, And Tuesday nigh full born, there sprang an idea so wonderful, so full of humorous bilities, so unique in conception, that our clown lost no time in putting ~ it into execution, He went out and arrested Upton Sinclair for reading parts of the American constitution, Then he charged Mr, Sinclair with criminal syndicalism and unlawful assemblage. Then he sat down and ponde fresh grotesqueries, And today, with bated breath, we await the grams which shall announce that Mr. Sinclair has been charged mutiny on the high seas, violation of the pure food and drug act parking at an angle with the curb. eo The list of victims represents 16 Practically all white population about Cleveland went to the school last night for entertainment, and the last census of the township showed 490 inhabitants. Cleveland itself is the VICTIMS BATTERED IN RUSH TO DOOR Homes of the peaceful rural com- munity were converted into houses Some suffered broken backs in their daring leaps from the build- ing, while others, including women and children, were battered and bro- ken by the crush at the door of the INCLATR, of course, sould have known better than to spread, word of mouth, such a radical document as the constitutio Hosides, it has been obsolete for lo! these many moons, It was.put ot of business by city councilmen, high priests of the Anti-Saloon league sachems of the 100 per cent American religion, medicine men of mei verity and other right-thinkers-—and quite propertly, too. Why, dear, deur! ‘The constitution, you know, actually gi the right of free assemblage to talk over his grievances, and all sor of terribly bolshovistic things. : : It's a good thing we have an oversupply of the best minds in thi country, who can see at a glance the dangers of this radical old a ment. ¢ % And that so chic Mons, Oakert Is his not among tho best minds? Of a verity, yes, Ts he not a subtle clown? Is not his cabotinage of a quality superb, ne plus ultra’ ‘ ee * Ch ee ‘OU TELL THE COCK-EYED world it is, mes enfants. Burope for us this summer? What! With all these froo going on at homo? : i Not for us, Brothers, not for ust