The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 21, 1924, Page 1

x § we Temperature Maximum, 34 Today WEATHER Last 24 Hours Minimuns, } ; i | j : { Howdy, folks! Weren't you terribly ‘surprised when you found all the eggs the bunny left for you yesterday? So were we! We hope the der n comm| we can break a and drink all a 3 Signs of Summer: When some £4 r reports seeing a sea.serp. bate ent in the Straits of Juan de Fuca of ; | x La ea ; see vA ne Vamp is of yaw, unfi t k says an advt a4 p we've seen im 4 raw, but we can Hairdressing expert says bobbing will cause baldness. If this is the ease, a lot of girls wi be able @: put a little powder ir heads and go to a masquer ised as pill WHERE'D HE GET THE The Star's marine reporter is, ing to buy a second-band auto him ours, but it's worth $82.50 if it’s worth a cent! eee ‘ourse, the marine a car for $25, but take it unless reporter we'll bet the or y get won't throws m: o seller h in a set of new balloon tires . We we'll up at the hous cents. the kiddie car . ve got a sell him for ell known make SEE hin i “A bigamist,” says Gee Gee, “is a man who took his divorce for granted.” °F et — | A subscriber asked The St Washington bureau how fast stork flies, The answer was 48 miles an hour. How far out of town do you live? Whenever a paragrapher gets hard up for wheezes he always springs fag one about the dinner guest who thought that the artichokes were something to be plaied in one’s but tonhole . YE DIARY (April 29) Up betimes, and (Lord's day.) charch, where I not been « good while, my wife In @ new suit of ash- coloured silke, very noble, which I pray ages Tam able to pay for. And so 0 Ibine where we did find that Little Homer had eaten all the exge we did dye for him, also the chocolate rabbit, but no ill effects. And so to driving in the country, to home, to supper and to bed. " sald the dry goods clerk asa bolt of it fell on him. eee The bigger they are, the harder tliey fall. Yep, and the bigger they are, the harder the public falls for them ae Jack—the police are looking for a rious “Jack the Hugger.” Ethel—Oh, Jack, are you the guilty man? TODAY'S DEFINITION An optimist is a man who al- ways thinks he will be able to pay you, sure, next week. pea a produced he could hay have been a Burbank has Wels, might Luther six-inch prune done worse. It 12-inch turnip! ; @ “Yes, billy goat swallowed a rabbit, And Pat was heard to utter: I'll have no bread today, there's a hare in the butter.” ee international chess York were very Hed up The Star matches but for The clone, int nobody the scores. CANDIDATE FOR THE IVY CLUB The bloke who says see you're driving a fliv Have you seen my Rough?” POISON “Oh, 1 ‘er still, Rolls: The the nel war department has banned appointment of “honorary colo- ® but think of the honorary us” nels” and “Captains” we from the civil war! ar Gosh thousands and “till ha Of course, that item in about a Saturday's reporter J.B ‘Colo: | ill CHIEF PROBING BOOZE CASE | Jensen Faces Suspension in Inquiry on Raid {QUESTION HIS MOTIVE Federal Dry Squad Com- plains of His Presence Suspension of Motorcycle Of ficer Gordon (. Jensen was threatened Monday by Chief of Police Severyns after William M. Whitney, assistant prob'bi tion director, had placed in | hands a confidential report of Jensen's connecton with the booze raid which Whitney staged last week in arresting seven alleged members of the “Olmstead gang” of rum run ners In the Lenora garage. ane Ma * * * HOW BRITISH AND U. S. FLYERS ARE LINING UP IN RACE AROUND GLOBE TODAY: Americans — Three planes at Dutch Harbor, Unalas ka, one at Kanatak; di ered, 3,336 miles time, 48 hours, 10 minutes . an taland 1 miles ing Bagind; dis 3,019 miles; actual 36 minutes Persia; tota 144 mile British © covered 44 horus, ext re, The Newspaper Girl “Raff BLIZZARD HITS \Gale at 20 Below Sweeps things} $0 miles an hour and the bwhich left Nome Severyns refused to give out the; details of Whitney's report, declar ing that {t contained many which needed investigation to prove or disprove, but which might cause the officer's dismissal if found to be true hould be suspended vestigation nished,” He indicated that f he decided to suspend the po’ man, such action would be Monday. The investigation of case will take several days, said Jensen admitted being in arage when the id was sta, but asserted that he “had d motor truck to the garage, ih tending to search it for liquor and arrest the driver. Whitney's’ ver sion of the affair differs widely from it Is Jensen's, claimed. Baby Arrives in Speeding Taxicab OAKLAND, Cal. April 21—Mra Merle Makis, of Lo; Utah, yes erday gave birth to a baby boy in a taxicab en route to the hos pital AERIAL ROUTE Bering Sea Coast Line NOME, April rific bilaeard of sweeping the Bering sea today for distance of 1,000 miles. Wind was howling at a velocity temper ture was 20 degrees below zero. 21—The most te season. was ot The storm, it was belleved her will di any further progress o the American round-the-world flyers, now in Unalas' nti] it subsides: Anxiety was felt here for a part traveling ‘Three women are in the party 6 dog sled y sterday for Coun Un less word is received from them to ny searchers will be sent relief. to giv 3U,S, PLANES AT DUTCH HARBOR YOUNG BANDITS | ai Martin Expects to Start Again Tomorrow | | t SEATTLE, WASH., xclusion Bill Not Be Vetoed CLAIM COOLIDGE WILL NOT ACT Reports Say Measure May Not Be Signed STUDY PUBLIC OPINION Hanihara Says No Threat Was Meant in Note WASHINGTON, April 31 Preal-| Jent Coolidge will not veto the immi.| gration bill, it was reliably reported today in quarters close to. the presi dent. The bill, with its Japanese exclu jon feature, over which relations with Japan have been strained, will become a law either by the presi} dent's signature or hy permitting Jt | lie on the president's desk for the statutory 10 days Without setion,| after which it automatically becomes | law, it was learned The state department and the Jap-| anese embassy here were closely atudying the reaction of the Ameri: | ean pub pinion to the note from Ambassador Hanihara, disavowing implied threat in his original Ave consequences communica tion, and the Huges' reply, confirm: ing this position. j Ambassador Hunthara, in his note to Secretary Hughes, deciared that he had no intention of making an im. plied threat in his previous communt- | cation and assured Hughes that what he intended to say waa that the ex clusion clause “would create, or, at least, tend to create, an unhappy at mosphere of til feeling and mirgiv ing over the relations between our two countries.” | | | HOLD UP MAN DUTCH HARBOR, Unalaska, Apri!) Meet Pedestrian on Bridge Three of the United States army round-the-world itirplanes were here | today, commander, Major Frederick 1. Ma (Turn t to Page 7, Colamn A} The Proof! ECAUSE it proves, is in the saddle, once and for all, that the West building of a barrier against Oriental immigration should prove doubly satisfying to Westerners. Comment of Eastern writers, arriving here in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago newspapers, shows clearly that the “couldn’t put it over.” East In other words, the East still imagined the West thinks of the West as a land of sagebrush and cactus, peopled by hairy persons in chaps and sombreros. This will make them, back East, sit up and take notice that, even if they don’t care enough about America to keep it for the white race, we do. * * lig ago, cities would not, toda the East had had the spirit of the West 50 years large sections of Eastern be festering slums, peopled and Midwestern by hordes of persons with receding brows and the moral and mental habits of the dark ages. This Western country is too fine, too magnificent, to be the home of any but clean, honest, upstanding white folks. To allow it to he used for foul tenements, filthy alley shacks, unhealthful sluma, would be to fling an insult in the face of its Creator. a HIS country * * is for peoplé who are mentally awake to its beauty and grandeur. For those who see in it nothing more than a piece of land, to be exploited for the dollars it will produc future colony for a yellow to be invaded as a race, to be the breeding ground for a low culture—for these the “No Parking” sign is out, That is the West’s answer to Eastern crities who still believe in the fuddled old notion that America {| ought to admit every human animal who wants to || despoil it. The West is in the tide ’im, cowboy! saddle, awaiting the arrival of their of hoof and mouth disease raging in jsections of California. ‘The Inst of 800 marooned tourists | who had spent a week at Knob/ and Escape With $30 County officers were Monday searching for two youths who Sunday night held up and robbed Rudolph Lathi, of Allentown, as he was crossing the bridge at Riverton. The bandits, armed with revolvers, took $30 from Lathi and escaped. | Lathi was returning home from Seattle and alighted from an inter urban train at Riverton. When half} way across the bridge he was met by two men of small stature, who “threw” thelr guns on him and com manded him to give up his money. Lathi complied with the request giving them $30. After stepping aside the men or. dered their vietim to continue across the bridge homeward. Lathi called the King county sheriff's office and Deputies Joe Hill and Harihan wero dispatched to the scene of the hold up. A night search of the vicinity | failed to Jocate the highwaymen, STOP TOURISTS AT BORDER Arizona Replaces Quaran- tine Order on Infection BY J PH GORMAN | (United Press Special Correspondent) | YUMA, Ariz., April 21.—The bars] wore up today at the Yuma crossing | the Colorado river as Arizona replaced its quarantine against the Siding, passed thru the state's tem:| porary fumigating plant at 5 p.m. yesterday and crossed the river, Immediately thereafter chains. wore again raised, the eight na- tional guardsmen sent here by or dor of Governor Hunt turned their} hine gun across the bridge and} torstate communication eastward} (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) MONDAY * Mar APRIL 21, 1 With the Biggest Circulation in Washington The Seattle Sta * es’”’ Revea Her Robberies at “U HOME EDITION) S At TWO C Fire Cop in Liquor Raid! ADMITS Lives Ideal Life Alone at Sea Cap'n Drake, of the Pilgrim, Throws Away His Alarm Clock and Only Has to Look at the Calendar Once a Month Seattle in the “Pilgiim,” other world trip. Don’t know where I’m going, but I'll soon be on my way,” 8 Photos by Frank Jacobs, 8 Sixty-year-old Francis Drake, BY THE MARINE REPORTER left of him, Coupes in front of him, chugger| and’ snorter, | His, not go and biy, Into’ the valley reporter; “Charge 1 the general cried .. of cars rode the Only, of course, the reporter isn't going to charge it. He's going to pay cash for his second-hand car this spring. ‘Twenty-five bucks is the limit. That's all the money. the marine reporter has—and the “has” is used in the theoretical sense, not in the» practical. Saturday the reporter, sobbing frome.the reproaches heaped upon him by his wife and baby, because he 1s careless, inveigled the man-| agement into allowing him to run a) two-column ad on Page 1, The ad net forth the tragedy tradging in the reporter's home on Queen Anne nil, GENEROUS 18 IMMEDIATE A few minutes later there was a tearful) ring on the phone, “This is Lowenthal, of’ Rosie's Used Car em» Chances Numerous in Reporter's Quest of That $25 Automobile | porium, Autos to right of him, gas carts to} emotion. for $ lly. to to to reason why, his but to}... will rv a sub The ager for Bill W ‘arner, RB, Pike st. to say that he hada $ car, a first-c! tho le! M. at Sec say h larny to Page 7, 200 Westlake We'll demonstate it, b’gosh said. a voice, 1 have a car I'll sell you You owe it BUY NOW! Come on out and take it away. Will it. RUN? Say! That car un Ike an oll operator from poena." n M. € Ferguson, les. man- 11 good tires and the motor in ass condition, sald tter, B. Miller, of the Auto Bankers, ond and Battery, called up to ¢ had a 1919 Oakland with a umn 38) Okeh $1, 500,000 for Epidemic War WA out di adopted a joint ing t to. sp the h SHINGTON, April —With- iscussion, the senate toda resolution authoriz- he department of agriculture ond $1,500,000. in suppressing oofand-mouth disease in Call fornia, The measure passed the It now goes to the prox wrote from 409 | to your fam-|ing censed | house | Sunday j used to mariner for more than 40 years, soon will set sail from| a 35-foot schooner rigged boat of his own building, for an- he says. ff Photographer ary BY JIM MARSHALL For I'm the cook and the captain bold, And mate of the Pilgrim, too, The bo'sun tight and the mid- shipmite, And all of the schooner's crew. eee The rounded Francis Drake, of voice of Cap'n singing his private variation the old verse, floated husky with}UP from the cabin of the Pilgrim, lying at a Fremont float. The sing- at the reporter's hail, and the cheerful red face of the old mariner heaved up thru the hatchway like a sunrise across Lake Washington. Pretty soon now the Pilgrim will chug out thru the locks to, the Sound. Then her captain will shut down the engine, hoist the sails and notch her nose home on a bright star to the westward, Cap'n Drake, who has been sailing the waste waters of the world for 20 years, will be out on another cruise, going nowhere and never due back, NO MORE ROMANCE IN THE SOUTH SEAS ‘The captain has been “beating the game" of modern civilization for 9 score of years, trading around ‘in the South seas, bringing home curios for the stay-athomes, He take out trade stuff for the natives, but... “Bless your young heart! They've got G-and-10 stores all over tho islands and the natives listen to Doe Matthews over the radio every morning, You might seil some of the new fox trot (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) rom IN EATTLE. RIFLING HOUSES Returns Some of Stolen Cash to Sorority Girls; Name Withheld | ‘The girl thief at t the University of Washington has confessed her | erimes to sorority girls and has | returned some of the money she | stole from her fellow students, The Star was informed Monday, | her confession, made after her soror ters had taxed her with the she declared that she was trying to sell fiction to the |magazinesand stole in order to ain “local coloc” first hand, | This story, however, has been re- celved with skepticism. The first ry was that girl, not rich enough to wear the frocks and Jewels of some of her classmates, became enyious and stole trinkets to get money to buy expensive finery. Sorority girls, under a pledge would not be re- name of their ore gave The account of the af- that their identity } the }xanization told, Monday a full fair. | vealed, nor | we rhe girl is the gaughter of a li-known Seattle m&n,” they said, ‘and our reason for telling this is hinat we wish her discharged from | the university. We do not feel that |she is a girl with whom we should jassociate, and we want to know jthat our things are ‘safe: in our | rooms.” 4 The thief, the \girls said, stole vanity cases, compacts, handker- chiefs, trinkets, clothes and any- | thing she saw that took her fancy. |Then she appeared at; her classes {and at social affairs wearing or |using the stolen articles. The soror- lity girls held a meetiffg and taxed jthe culprit with her ¢rime. She fs said to have readily admitted the peculations and to haye given the “local color” explanation. College heads, The Star was told, [Bee not been informed of the af- fair, It was hoped to force the girl jto quit without resorting to pub: licity. ‘This hope, the girls told |The Star, apparently was in vain, RISKS LIFE T0 SAVE NECROES | Then Denies Heroic Act to | Evade Notoriety on Fire © | Risking his life in the fireswept kitchen of the home of E. J. Moss, 2135 Northlake ave., Staurday night, ©. W, Johnson, 2131 Northlake ave, | street car motorman, rescued from | death two colored children, Orabelle rying them to his own home. | The children had been put to bed by an older sister, who left the house after building a fire in the cookstove. A pair of baby pajamas, hanging by the stove, caught fire and soon the whole kitchen was in flames. John- son heard the children scream, from. his houseboat, and rushed to the door, forcing it open. A burst of » |flame greeted him, but he plunged in and carried the children out. The flames were extinguished by | ~ the fire department with a loss of about $200, The little girl and boy were living with Mrs. Moss, a relative. Johnson denied Monday that hr had effected the rescue, but later a mitted it, saying that he did not wish publicit Too Much Action; Wife Asks Decree Henry John Rookus always cre- ated a ruckus when he came home drunk, which was all the time, ac cording to the complaint asking a divorce, filed in superior court Mon. | ;day by Gladys Rookus, He would — strike and bruise her and on occa: | sions chased her from their home, | 1671 Harbor ave. in the dead of |night. The couple were married in | New York February 28, 1918, Small Boy Killed in Baseball Game KANSAS April 21,— Wile jam Pennington, 12, died from in- Juries today when struck by a base ball while he was playing, Star 4.” Britton, 5, and Dennis Britton, 3, car- 4 want EAE AO: