The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 18, 1923, Page 9

FRIDAY 18, 1f MAY TH SEATTLE BONAR LAWIS SINCLAIR ASKS P.-7', A. Elects State Officers Today SERIOUSLY ILL HARDING'S Al) Delegates Argue Over Amount of D aren ' Successor to British Premier | Wants Army Officer to Pro- | ansoolation Is Discussed tect Him From Police | hte Wied AL ~ ed A PASADENA, May 18.—C }on the president of the L BE STAR PAGE. A CHARGE NEGRO) Test Hundreds of ARGE NEGRO|Tew Hundreds of | OMT FLOODED. 1 ues nel here t aint filed b Prosecuting Attorne State Parent-Teachers held Friday at the « Washington branoh of Mothe nd association, me Street Cars, Autos Unable to Run in Beaumont, Tex. 16 ¥ shot ogre, th May 18.~Se 1 showing improve Premier Bonar Law, of Great today was forced to refuse eheon invitation from Premier re, Bonar Law h ng from a throat afte Lord Beaverbrook was in coafer ¢ with the British premier today rstood they dis ble successor to Bonar able to ng Up Red States | appoint an officer of the United . | ‘ } | May 18—A reat 6a. m, t is still fall " BEAUMONT, Texas, Mrs. W. A. Bryan ee Mra, H. I, Copeland of Walla \for third vice president; Mrs Kinney of Seattle, recording tary, Mrs. ‘{. W, Widholm. Only | Arrested t States army to protect him tn another} atte an pt to a Pedro, Upton socialist, today ing telegra: deen aa the tion, strikers at Sinclair, author| sam went the follow | to the White House: | f Presi nt Warren G, Harding, | ; White House ‘ : “Washington, D. C “At cabled suggestion of Int tonal Arbiter Hilfe, Bertin, I app to you for assistance in preserving © form of government # harbor I ask you officer of the United| army with me to the harbor | licate rights of citizens to read | the constitution of the United States | on private property, with permission | of owner. automo. ere and the curb- ounes. the Beaumont used no serious ording Patterson nw to members of the atto: tt first de the the police killing stor and anclal secretary Ko of Tacoma six officern we year’s convent The Friday convention was taken up almost en Urely by the discussion of the ing of the dues of the Parent-Teact ers’ angociation from 15 to. |a year | It was reported by the magazine |committes that more finances are | necessary for the #uccesatul publica tion of the magazine, An amend | ment to the constitution, raising the lannual dues opposed by the Jc@hstitution committee, The dis cunsion started gates from all jover the state o to tak jon the isue an de any that }the Pot, A jeven a alight raise in Others held that the because of failing to make the slight raise, cannot afford to lone its 1 jazine, Still others suggested the dues remain at 15 cents that a ne charr the publication, =The wan lost and reconsidered, defeated PROMINENT SPEAKERS IN AFTERNOON Kener assed a pos Law Beaverbrook, publisher Daily Express, of hurriedly to Part LONDON, May 18. — Bonar Law, of Britain, his friends to be crit ly tL Sir Thomas Horder, a famqus British heart specialist, has hurried ly left for Paris, where Bonar Law ts under a physician's care, ine to the Daily Express. A serious view of the situatien is taken by others, who see in the trip of Lord Beaverbrook to Paris an ominous sign | on the after Later he admitted histortar alectan’ | & noon shoot hanged in » of the came damage ast night ning seesion of the | rain | | FREDERICK & NELSON Premier 26 cent ts feared by diet | to vind | | [DOWNSTAIRS STORE accord Local chief of police has practt.! cally reseinded constitution and de-| clared martial law In presence of | many witnesses, including two attor. | va ordered us to ‘drop that constitution stuff. | I understand that you really be-| Meve In the constitutian, I await! your immediate action. Please wire | decision at my ex nave. | “UPTON SINCLAIR.” } Sine lair announced that he would | address a public meeting under the} fied at 10 o'clock this morning and| spices of the American Civic] turned over to relatives. The others | Yasue Liberty union here tomorrow | were mostly a mass of burned flash | ™!sht and bones and identification was im-| possible. All of the bodies ‘recovered were taken from the narrow stair-| way of the school house, where the men, women and children were! trapped in their frantic effort to escape, according to Welch. | | oe The stairway strained and then | ee Duckled under the heavy load of so | ‘ine college a man should spend many persons and precipitated many |* year at manual labor, becoming into the raging inferno, causing addi. Spe b Lor er a problems of/ Here are three of the P.-T. A. delegates who are taking ogg r irk tional deaths of those fighting like| life. He will then know why he! 4 A 2 hag ) Rey bell ye, | Mins Rose Glass, girly mad to escape thru the entrance to|!* going to college and will keep active part tn the convention in attle this week. Above, | roonevelt high school Mrs. B. A, McKenzie, Tacoma, state chairman of pre-school | Following the afternoon | circles, and Mrs. J. H. Derby, president of the Tacoma circle, | the delegates to the convention preg bay jhis feet on the ground while he is This editorial, atitier directea| as they were snapped on the convention building steps, Uni-|*mtertained at the campus Syly Scores of children were trampled, | there.” some of them killed outright, in the | theater by the ptipils the 11 grad “ laughter.at many customs and prac-| versity of Washington campus. Below, Mra, F. T. Rust,| ‘eater by the pupiis who pre tleés at the” university, , the jam and rush. Others were! darned, their young ‘bodies. so criticising | Everett, chairman of the delegates from Snohomish county, | sented "A May Festival.” Among cums chasing and pointing to the those taking part were Beth Hum scorched by the flames that their b while entertunte badd ve ‘i -n | SNO ed while enterin & dutlding, disastrous effects at Northwestern Pp 9 0 an the May Queen; Glen Van Dyke parents, searching frantically among t oh 1s, 7 pote Pries Darter, #t, Photographe he heaps of charred remains, could | university Photo by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers | 1" une ms), Query: Guan Nal Doxe Freshmen and upper clasamen Attractive N ew Styles in Ratine Dresses $9.50 HE two smart models sketched are from a for Wide assortment of attractive styles in Ratine Dresses, notable among new arrivals in tub frocks in the Downstairs Store. Plain shades, woven stripes, checks and cross-bar effects are fashioned into the smartest of Dresses for Summer wear. Trimming details in a variety of lace and crochet effects forming collars and cuffs, also on pocke' fringed ribbon, and sashes. tively low-priced, at $9.50. he Ma by nume} of can not afford to pay al dues members HERE’S MORE ABOUT FIRE HORROR |, STARTS ON PAGE 1 sociation that be made amendme and w again at noon HERE'S MORE ABOUT MAX MILLER STARTS ON PAGE 1 | nurs afternoon ine of thé convention featured by addresses by the Rey. W. H. Bilas president of the White Cross; Dr. F O. Holland, president of State col lege of Washington; Adams, principal of Lincoln high school, and os ; Sizes 16 to 40. Attrac- Karl adviser, | —DOWNSTAIRS STORE neasion er Two Models in Back-lace Corsets Just thirty-five (35) back-lace Corsets of the well- REDUCED TO known “Mille make. Made of plain white coutil, with reinforced or plain hip and elastic inset at back. Medium and low bust, long skirt. Sizes 25 to 34 in both models. Reduced price, $1.50. not identify them. ‘The whole countryside turned out when the glare told of the disaster. Help was rushed from Camden, a few miles distant. but there was nothing to he done except ald those who suffered injuries when they leaped from the windows. Homes near by were turned into hospitals! and morgues. | Doctors from Camden attended to those least seriously injured, while the more serious cases were hur. tied to Camden hospitals. Within two hours after the fire broke out, the schoolhouse was nothing but a smoking mass of red-hot cinders. Relatives and friends of many of those who attended the entertain. ment flocked to the scene of the disaster, seeking their loved ones. Many were driven almost out of thelr minds with grief and anxiety. Few families in the surrounding countryside escaped unscathed as ether immediate ‘or near relatives) were among’ the dead or injured. “It was the most heart-rending; sight I ever saw," Sergt. Silton told] the United Press. “When I got} there the schoolhouse was one mass) of flames. “People were screaming and groan- ing. Those who had got out were! trying to get back in to release those Penned in the hallways. “We tried to get them out, but the fire spread so fast that it Was no use, The building burned like tinder, People who jumped out of the windows nearly ail had borken bones. Some of them forgot all about their own injuries when they remembered children or other loved ones left behind in the hall. “You couldn't get at the facts about it for a long time, the sur- vivors were so excited and grief- stricken. Families, got separated in the rush. This was a country school house, where they used kerosene lamps for lighting, One of them got loose or the hook pulled out from the ceiling. It fell right in the midst of the crowd there and exploded. “A lot of people were burned then, and everybody started screaming and running for the doors and windows. They all got Jammed on the stairway and in the hall leading to the street, and they didn’t have a chance after they got in there. “Nobody could help them and the worse they fought and struggled the tighter they got jammed in. From the look of some of the bodies we took out they were trampled to death before the fire got them. “We could not get into the build- ing to get the bodies out for a long time, the fire was so hot. There was nothing left of the building at all. I never waw anything so terrible in my life.” The charred bodies of the victims Were laid in rowg on’ the ground as fast as they were taken out. “Hundreds of people came hunting their folks,” said Silton. “The scenes were terrible. It was pitiful to see half-crazed people hunting for a ring or some token that would identity the bodies. “Everybody. knew everybody else at that entertainment, you see, and it) was quite an affair for a small country place. “The folks who were in that hall were small farmers and landholders, mostly quiet folks, who were proud of the work their children did at school, and who went to see them perform at the entertainment. A few folks from Camden weft over. About seven or elght Camden peo- ple were burned to death, but the most of th victims were country were involved in. a fracas Tuesday evening which did not result serious- ly, but which may be the subject of an investigation. Miller bears the scars of service | in the world war after joining the Ravy when a high school junior. | He was wou jed in the leg when the subchaser 318 was Lown up off the coast of Cu He served two years and returned to his home In reat Falls, Mont., whero he went to work in a sawmill and finished his high school work He attribntes his different view of | FOOTBALL STAR a gators Kidnaped Him | CHICAG: 18. Charles "Chuck" Palmer, he received in the war and the| Le work he did in the sawmill tefore| entering college. “There are abdht 200° men on the campus who think the same wity, T do,” Miller said,” “The only | today. reason they have not stoken l@ be-| Edith Palmer, a sister, cause it isn't being done. But col- petition thru ‘attorneys. legs is a good thing. The gradu-| ate may get off to a slower start | than his competitor, but in the long | run he will catch up to him if be has anything in him. The training 1s not so much what a man is taught as the confidence it given! tice him, If I ever havea son 1 will send hit to college, him to work first.” cused by having declared he Mount was” tx held without thority and denied legal advice, Mra. Violet Michaet promising i. McKinley noon, aT HELD IN PROBE BAGS May 18.—Charges that | football | college activities to the experiences | *@F, beld for questioning inthe ighton Mount mystery, was kid- naped from home by authorities, who detained film, were made in | habeas corpus action for his sera filed the She also alleges that Palmer, ac- Bachman of} “knew where au. | Palmer was released by Chief Jus. after to’ return to court for} 1 Dut I will put| the hearing on the writ this after. | | HERE’S MORE ABOUT MILLER EDITORIAL STARTS ON PAGE 1 seriously. oo. Because I believe Christopher Morley’s “Where the Blue Begins” is the best book I have read all year, se 6 And I'm a fool. credit course. I read books not for a contemporary literature I read books without even being in a contemporary literature Tho Tf have a Disabled Veterans’ pin, an American Legion pin, and can sing “America”—for the life of me I can't, see the logic of the past war. os In {dling along a cement walk I have. often tried to avold stepping on the crose-iines. « se Because now—particularly right now during this Northwestern Uni- versity tragedy—those underclassmen and froah last night who thought they were showing class spirit by—(they know what by}—are absolutely out of place-at the University of Washington, and not loyal, after all. eae Because I believe it's possible for a man to like both musicat come- dies and Shakespeare. * +8 8 Because herewith 1 wish to apologize to those coeds I haye Kissed, ‘They are— Aevter « Especially do I apologize to C. B. A. They call you a “Miss” and on the diploma your three names are all written regally. They call you stately—you're only stiff... . But I know you're not stately. And I know you're not stiff. And I've kissed you without loving you... nor youme... But we pretended we loved each other without letting thé other know wo knew better. We pretended to be in love that we might kiss... curiosity, you see, not love. We wanted the excuse to see what a kiss was like... ha, ha, ha, C.wB. A. But now that we know, let's remain friends anyway—which, after this today, we will not. =, uel e Because down in my heart I know Washington's football team 18 soon going to beat California, If not this year, the year after. And that a larger turnout for practice would be ALMOST am bene ficial toward this conquering as a larger turnout for so-called yell- rallies. 3 Cxet (¢ In certain classes I've caught myself looking at my watch more than at the instructor. Apparently one of us was “a little off’—either I, the instructor or the watch, . Despite our ridicule of a Phi Beta Kappa pin, I'd like to have one. I don't know why, but I'd just like to—and so would everybody. oe 8 people like I described. Bandits Rob Bank; Steal $4,000 Cash PORTLAND, Ore, May 18.—-Ac- cording to information received vy Jocal authorities, bandits entered the Farmers’ State bank, of Wilsonville, 25 miles east of here, and made away with $4,000 in cash and $16,- 000 in bonds. ‘ It In believed the bandits entered the bank thru the front door by means of a pass key. The vault and safe were opened by using an acety- lene torch. When bank officials av. rived to open the institution, the door was locked, as usual, and there were no signs of-torcible entry, * Because I must have a freak tongue, or a freak stomach. Or my tasting organs must be wrong. For despite the hankering love of my fellow-beings for whisky, whisky from the same bottle to mo tastes specifically awful. T can drink castor oll with less effort. And, between you and me, I believe if castor ofl was eailed whisky, my tillaw-boings would love castor oil, That much is in a name. : ¢o0 * Because In numerating my friends I'm surprised at the number of them who have not been to college, toe 6 Because every once in a while T we a different word for desortbing a girl than the adjectives * 1 mean baby.” , oe ' At yell-railies, I'm a poor yeller, ity my own fault, But at each yell, before me rises the image of a horde of Chippewayan braves on the eve of battle yelping for stimulant around a campfire, 2nd not unti) this image Jedves can T open my mouth and yell again. It'a rfy fault, oe And alxo I'm @ “Little off" becvuse I’m quitting for today whon I could go on, and on, But I'm quitting, | | ! | | { <i 4 Driver Avoids Child and Five Are Killed BETHANY, Mo., May 18-—Speed- ing along the road at 40 miles an hour in an automobile carrying ne passengers, Thomas Carson, the driver, saw a baby step suddenly Into the path of the car. Swerving the car to avoid hitting the child, Carson passed {t in safety, but was unable to right the machine again | and it skidded into the ditch, killing five of the passengers. BILLINGS, Mont., May 18.—Rob- ert S. Rodgers, of Salt Lake City, aged 86 years, was married here to Mrs, Elizabeth Field, aged 82 years, Bread and Spread—come ahead—to Breakfast, Dinnetr—and Supper | Nobody will need a second call | |when the hot breakfast cakes, | |the dinner bread and the flu supper biscuits are spread wit always fresh ‘The Healthful Spread for Bread | It’s pure and rich and 80 deli- cious in flavor—once you, try it, you'll alweys buy it. Nucoa comes to you absolutely guaranteed. Try it, and if you don’t agree that it makes the best bread better, return it to our dealer and get your money ack. ‘f 's Nucoa Kitchen N. B. Peer Nus ras you bee tasted—with the true sea tang or natural fresh water flavor, use melted Nucoa as a sauce, eT n p | for Sister Says Death Investi- | | | iff; Robert Dates, Jack In the Green and Betty Brown, Dorothy Dudley Elizabeth Anderson and Margaret Anderson, pages. Many fairies and brownies completed the scene. MANY STAY FOR PICTURE ATTRACTION Thursday night the delegates met Dutch treat at the campus armory. Tho the convention is to officially close Friday afternoon entertainment for the delegates will not cease at that time. May of the visitors will remain with friends in Seattle over the week-end. It is ex pected that a number will attend the P.T. A. motion picture committee meeting in Frederick & Nelson's auditorium at 1:30 a. m. Saturday Local and state motion picture or- ganizations plan at that time to co- operate with the committee in the laying of plans for the promotion of | “better films," a er KILLS HIMSELF BEFORE SPOUSE Immigration Agent Ends His | Life Because of Scolding Before the eyes of” his horrified wife, Herman R. Kemnitz, 45, of | 4514 Snoqualmie st. veteran guard fn the United States immigration | service, shot himself thru the head| with @ .45 calibre Colt’s automatic) pistol in his home at 346 a. m./ Friday. Kemnitz was taken to the city hospital, where he died at! 8:30 a. m, Immediately after the shooting | Police from Columbia City precinct | arrived at the scene and found Kemnitz lying on the floor with the pistol beside him. He was bleeding from a wound in his head. His) wife, Mrs, Nellie A. Kemnitz, was | in a state of collapse, She told the| officers that her husband had been | drinking heavily for a month and| that when he came home intoxt- cated Thursday she scolded him. He went away and returned early Friday morning and, without a word, secured his pistol and fired | a shot thru hig herd, No words were exchangéd between | Kemnitz and his: wife before tho| shooting, sho declared, Kemnitz had been in tho service} of the immigration department for several years, according to the po- lice and has a brother-in-law, L. A. Emmons, working in the police de- partment, of BOMB EXPLODES IN CONSULATE ! MEXICO CITY, May 18.—A pow: | erful bomb was exploded in the base ment of the building occupied by the American consulate here early today, No one was injured, and no damage was done to the consul’s of. fice, No arrests have been made, There is no direct evidence that the bomb was intended for the American consulate, police said. However, if the bombers had the Americans in mind, {t was for the purpose of embarrassing the Obre- gon government in negotiating for American recognition, officers stated. 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