The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 15, 1924, Page 1

‘‘Salome”’ as Viewed by Home Brew—In Monday’s Star eattle Police Censor Mary Garden’s Dance! | tap ene aata ata RA The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington ES SS WEATHER } i Cowie tonigAt, with Temperature Last 24 Hours | Maximum, Minimum, 3 Today noon, 49. SS Entered ae Second Cla 18. <= Matter May 1 C 009, tt at the Poste attle under the Act of Congress Mar SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1924. _ Alki Celebrates Op Howdy, folks! Paid your In- come tax yet? Yip, so've wet The greater part of the ges to pay for the I hardly seemed re to pay Mr. Do Teapot Dome off the YER DIARY on 14) detimes, and tragsting with my femme tax binnk, and so to the F “5 1 walted on more than $100 exem he waen't ‘and was worth bat the claim would report oly that I cannot! And so to work. At last It has been discovered who erated the income tax blank. It the same gink who wrote the/ fongg rules. 784 ee internal revenue officials) rely--idea of man- | "EE expecially after reading how 4 ‘Dtople give to charity. 4 { dcem't seem to make any dif.) c¢ how many autos are sold In Pimattie: There ix never any more) toom in the street cars. | , one | ‘Criminal prosecution in the ofl} Ges Will be begun by Pomerene and Bikerts April 1. They picked out a | | | WL GEE GEE, TH OFFICE iis He scene a0 | r thing we got gabe te Motor bus service to the South Alki district was th- ie beebibition and the in| |augurated Friday afternoon following a. celebration in | | which the new bus was chri | 5202 Beach drive. Mrs. Briggs is shown in the top pict with the two flower girls who aided in the ceremony, Garden, grand opera star, only eats 1,000 calories a ealory is. heat unit. Per. ide cinaoe Maty ean) 2° 5060 Beach drive. —Photo by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers | | ground. warm performance of | , on her arrival in Dee Brown. Prob-| itude for the prosperity to the United States. eee KINDA WILD GAL | | folic this akornee, ‘Seattle to Get Title to Skinner & Eddy Site Monday; Papers Are Signed Today the head of John the Baptist a silver dat, Evidently the Reneration was prett wild in those days, too, Los & people of Seattte|the shape of mortgages. Lifting of ae © ste control of the|the last mortgage, of $1,500,000, There ung fellou |port, Skinner & Edd ead @ young fellow named) rr me the property of the city Mon-|the trarisfer possible, Mel cer that reatty cova go; |4ay. The United States filed satis-| | The transfer was Det he went nincty-three | taction of a mortgage of $1,600,000.) with a deal Aad they piled the debris the title, Saturday. Col.| ington by Col Wh @ shovel, a rate and a hoe Lampin:, chairman of the) vember and ra port commission, signed the neces |Jast Tuesday. T papers. A check for $160,000 in| ed. for four $150,000 payments; the iret payment on, the site, wasjelection vote approved. payment: in See ea evor of the shipping | full by means of a bond tesua: BODY; SHOT! ‘ttle will control absolutely its rt,” Colonel Lamping said. The body of Joe Koster, residing one mi en ear c aliapin sing the Gee ot “Metistofele,” Li Gee ‘Was heard to murmur. “Gosh, cooly Pell leader that guy would| 4 | for in accordance worked out in Wash- Lamping last No- Fai the seaxon o} Porting editors at the baseball GB ate making statements about young rookies that they = fo deny in another month. f the year when | “TY Priv interests never can domi. | n the future, and the port, des-| ined to be one of the world’s great est, will be run for the benefit of all | inal ti 11 come | Final title to the site will cot e ment of $450,000 will be made. With- | Lake was? fi y n 9 $600,000 worth of 6 eT {neighbors early Saturd rr bonds; authorised Bt tele oe y's’ suicide, according’ to tion, will be floated. Pro- se will be used ‘to 1 payment and to re-| The body bore a bul ott for today’ $100,000|had not been definit ven from working funds.|how long the body | | when found Dr. Davis edtaon cole- | tified the sheri . regular | fices here he joined | t jon will | ties from each tigation wan under Way @t noon’ Davis re which the eity gets for | fused to comment. on tho affair ‘ Neighbors living in the vicinity throw little Ugbt on the death. March rancher ° from Sammamish und its soon kb is morning. that he ordered « baie t wound, but ft rmined n tying ta property next v0 nd. when there will be the port commis the site, too. Mi how The site, ~ £0" & pleasant week-end: | $669,000, cost the government. ¥4 " —~ 4:55) |600,000—52,000,000 of which was inj could | meager reports reaching Seattle. | ening of Bus Line The lower picture shows the crowd that jammed into the| new motor bus Friday afternoon when it made its first| Snoqualmie pass at the pres-| iatened by Mrs. Cyrus A. Brigga,\run to the South Aki district. Regular schedules were be-| ent time is shown in this pic-| ure| ing carried out Saturday. Clark Jackson (right), superin- Ida| tendent of public utilities, and R. E, Furse, assistant to\est Jim Fenton, of. the} Dorothy Paget, 5063 Beach drive (left), and June Ander-| the street railway superintendent, are shown in thé fore- —Piieto by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers: st b Yer ¥ WORLD. FLYERS ARE COMING |Air Cruisers Will Start for | Seattle Monday Morning THRILLING FEAT IS AIM Will Jump Off From Here | on Round-Globe Flight | Los ANGEL March 15.—With three of the big alr cruisers in readl- | Ress and the fourth still incomplete, | the around-the-world flight planes of the United States army air service \field Monday morning, despite the handicap. | ‘The fourth plane, which still has were mado, will Join its companion | | | | site No. 2 will| Saturday, cleared the title and made| win) “start for Seattle from Clover | fied by a 4-1 vote | several hours’ work to be done on it! e original deal call-,at the Douglas factory, where they | lair pioneers later in the week at! | Seattle, according to Maj. Frederick | Martin, flight commander. | piloting, the three planes which \“take off’ Monday will be Major Martin, Lieut. Leigh Wade and Lieut. Lowell H. Smith. "Phe fourth | wilt start when completed with Lieut. \frik Nelson, flight engineering offi | cer, in the pilot’s seat | ‘The start of the fi near daybreak as possible, according present plans. The three big cruisers will, be loaded with thelr last lbit of equipment tomorrow | everything wili-be made-ready for the world round: expedition to get under way without delay More than 50,000 apectators to line Clover field tomorroy for the big alr circus occasioned b: | the around-the-world flight Last mia fo men urred jast night en military “ball w for them Army officers, representatives of for eign nations « jin citizens of Southern ¢ cht will be as are 6x, peel cerem % given d civic lenders in honoring Major Martin and his wa mer and th: rvice | | joined | Wong Low lifornia | Lew Long, 30, a laborer, were placed Satur of the} points to. accidental doath. “~~ (Turn | INCOME TAX DAY FINDS CONGRESS STILL INACTIVE DAY is “Income Tux Day.” To ‘avoid penalties, tax re turns with at least one-quarter of the tax due must be In the mails before night. No action was taken by gress on Président Coolidge’s re- quest for immediate reduction of 25 per cent in the taxes now due. So if you've made out your re- turns In anticipation of this ac- tion, or if you waited for last-min- ute action before making your re- turn, you are out of luck Republican leaders sald such ac- tion fs impossible, Democrats ac used Coolidge of withholding his plea until he Knew it was too late, The tax Dill, | passed by the house and awaiting action by the senate, provides per cent de. crease in 1923 taxes. If that Dill im not passed “by June, congres- sional leaders expect to adopt a separate resolution to authorize the reduction, it is noted In’ dis: patches from Washington. As soon as such action imtaken taxpayers will be entitled to de- duct, from’ their next quarterly payment one-fourth of the entire income for the calendar year 1923, But not till then. DRUGS SEIZED in “lent theory of death, he said. Two Orientals ‘Arrested Raid ‘by U. S. Agents Yenshee quipment and valued opium at over Agents Irving after barred ies King st Several phevious attempts the place had resulted If 45, © cannery man and doors at under arrest narcoticyy , wmn+~ possessor: ~ smoking $4,000 were seized Friday by Federal Nar. Brown and W battering down 710 |the trigger to to raid failure. and ar, by ™ TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. “There: isn't. any more road; that’s all. there is,” says Supt. Harvey, of the state highway department, to Jim | Fenton, who piloted a Buick Star scout car to within a few ture. The-point is the farth-| feet of the snowplow on. the Snoqualmie Pass road Friday. Depth. of the frozen snow over the road may be judged from the picture. —Ster Staff Photograph | The.end of the trail up Eldridge-Buick Co. could get, Friday. —Star Staff Photograph | Accident Theory Supported | wae Thin Veils | SHOOTING! sess" Start Row deena __\Severyns Sends Patrolmen to Watch /Criminologist. —_Interviews | “Sal, ” Perf, aied: Followi Highlands Residents bas Nene er ‘Phone ee e Police Chief Severyns Saturday | Western cities have been unanimous detailed two policemen to attend/in allowing the dance to be pre- Mary . Ganten’s _ presentation _of |sented. “Salome” at the “I don't believe the Seattle po- Arena Saturday }licemen will find’ anything wrong afternoon, and . with it.” bia to : | Patrotmen Jack. Veitch and A. DB. Sburey. nets Hardy are the men detailed by | ples stati \Severyns to become censors of the wanted his men opera. given seats, in “It is not my intention to fhrow the front row. cold water on the presentation of Severyns' — ac- |grand- opera in Seattle,” explained tion followed a \the chief, “but many complaints number of tele- have cOme into’ my office since phone com. the public announcement was made plaints received that Mary Garden's entire costume Saturday — from in the dance would consist of five veils. It is my understanding, from opera patrons Casper W. ke, Seattle. banker, | and from perso these persons who make the: com- |plaints, that even some of these Cla s was found late Thured. by her} with religious announce | veils are discarded during the dance. While. all the physical evidence 0 far obtained in tho mysterious | shooting. of beautiful Mrs. Virginia | Clarke Thursday at the fashionable | Highlands residentjal district. point | jto an adcidental death, Criminolo- | |gist “Luke S. May made a second| |trip to'the death scene Saturday to trace down rumors and reports, believed unfounded, that all has not yet been revealed in the case, The woman was found, shot thru the heart, in the unoccupied house of Edward R. Agnew, Jr. May expected to interview resl-| ‘dents of the district on his second | trip to Tho Highlands, and to make! a second survey of the. death chamber, in the rear bedroom of jthe summer home of Edward R. Ag |new, Jr, where the young wife of MARY GARDEN father-in-law, Charles W. Clarke, | scruples, shocked at the May’s developments Saturday | ment made earlier in the day that) tae. the circumstances I can do morning, strongly supported tho’ac-| Miss Garten=would“wear only five| ites, than to see that the ordl- |veits Saturday in her “Dance of’ the | hilad At Hrdonty “are "ob! | Photographs of the almost obliter-| Seven Veils,” one of the high spots hae . ated finger prints on the, trigger of | in (the opera of “Salome.” |the 45. Colts automatic cannot be} ytary Garten, Informed of the| taken until the gun has been takes) cnief's action, said she would dance, | >. pieces, The marks will besen-| larged several thousand times so that | Policemen or no policemen, and that | a study may be made of the pores ag{8he wouldn't change her program there are insufficient finger prints on|® Dit, even If all the policemen. in establish anything, | Seattle were going to be in the “What orders will you give po- licemen?” the chiet was asked. “They will be instructed to stop the show if, in thelr judgment, a performance is being staged that is offensive to public morais,” the |chief answered. “What experience have these men had as censors of grand opera?” I have given it in other cities} “\Whether or not they are ac- she declared. “There! quainted with the fine points of has been no objection to it any-|grand opera is immaterial to me, where In the West. Boston andjand immaterial to the case at Shicago bayo barred it but the (Turn to Page 4, Column house. Nl give the dance in the same May fears I cannot make a positive state Ment on the ¢ until T have com. pleted my. investigation,” said ay. “The fidence thus | way on the coast,’ Unies to Page 4 Column 3)