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STRtCTEMFORGEMENT;PAESiPENrS:PLEA
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MORE LOCAL
LESS FEDERAL
V C
Too Many Laws Hamper Jus
tice, Says President in
Day
Divorce and Prohibition Law
Laxity Is Cited
Arctic Explorers Will
Carry Red Ribbon
For Eskimo Flappers
IU1
d"r Memorial
WASHINGTON. Mav 30.
(A. P.) diloctric fans, bolts of
red ribbon and necklaces tor V
feminine adornment will be
three of the "essential" items
in the cargoes of the ships
Bowdoln and reary this sum
mer when they take the Mue-
Millan expedition into the nrc-
tic ceglons.
The red ribbon and necklaces
have been listed among tho
l closely restricted necessary sup-
plies, tho National Geographic
society, one of the sponsors of
AddreSS lthe expedition explained today,
ife Wj
ioc(ai
NATION
AND
HONOR
A
because they will say "looK
4 pleasant" to the Eskimo women
4 when tho photographers pose
them.
WASHINGTON, May CO. (Fly As
sociated Press.) Appealing for more
vigilant enforcement of law on the
part of states and locui governments
and for a "universal observance of
the constitution" by the American
public. President Coolldare in a me
morial day address today at Arlington?
cemetery declared " thut "what we
need is not more federal government
but better local government."
"We are not a lawless people.' said
the president, "but we are too fre
quently -a careless ono. The multl
. pliclty of laws, the vat-led possibility
of appeals, the disposition of techni
cality in proceed ure, the delays and
consequent expense of litigation
which inevitably Inure to the advan
tage of wealth and specialized ability
all these have been recounted as
reproaches to us. . ....... ,
"It is strange that such, laxities
should persist in a time like the pres
ent, which is marked by a determined
upward movement in behalf of scinl
welfare. But they; do exist. They
demonstrate a need for better,
prompter, less irksome and expensive
administration 'of the laws; for urn
CHARGE BRIBERY
TO EX-GOVERNOR
OF WASHINGTON
. F. Hart Released On $3000
Bonds Alleged Bribe Was
Sought in Settlement of De
funct Bank's Affairs Early
Trial Is Expected.
TACOMA," May . 30.rFo'rmer Oov-
formity of proceedure:) for more, uo. ernor Louis Hart of Washington
curate delimitation of state and fed- state is at liberty today under $3000
eral authority" ... - bail. Hart Was arrestedin Olympia
Coolldge made only passing yesterday eevning charged with solic-
rference to nrOhlbltion and did not Hng a bribe from Guy E. Kelly and
apply his observations directly to any
particular situation. Declaring that
"when the local' government unit
evades its responsibility, it Is started
in the vicious way to dlnregardvof law
and laxity of living," he continued.
"The police force which Is admlnis
' tered on the assumption that the vio
lation of some UnCs may be Ignored
has started toward demoralization.
The community which approves such
Forbes P. Haskell, Jr., out of the trust
fund created from the assets of the de
funct Scandinavian-American bank of
Tacoma.
He was arrested, two hours after
Prosecuting 'Attorney Selden had
sworn out a warrant before Judge fV.
O. Chapman in superior court here.
The offense charged against Hart
is a felony and is punishable by a max
imum fine of $500 or ten years in the
No mini-
.iIu(...,.i ia i,iT, !intrrMa state penitentiary or both,
There is no use difcuis- n,u 18 "reaw ocu H V1"" ,
i ne wurmni was imueu , m mc
concessions.
ing the fact that as a nation our atti
tude toward the prevention and pun
Ishment of crime needs more serious
attention. The conclusion is inescap
able that luxity of administration re
acts upon .public opinion, causing
cynicism and loss of confidence in
both law and Its enforcement and
thereforb in its observance. The fail
ure of local government has a de
moralizing effect In every direction.
"There are vital issues, In which
tho nation greatly needs a revival of
Interest and concern. It Is senseless
to boast of our liberty when we find
that to so. shocking an extent it is
hands of Sheriff Thomas Desmond,
who notified Sheriff Charles Jackson
of Thurston" county that he held the
warrant for Hart's arrest and request
ed him to locate the ex-governor Immediately.
The former chief executive was ar
rested by the Thurston sheriff and with
his attorney. Hartce Clclland. posted
a surety bond of $3000 to gain his re
lease on ball.
The defpndnnt will he arraigned be
fore Judge Govnor Team early next
week .according to Prosecutor Seldon
yYio is ready to proceed with tho trial
i;v' in . j oi me case iiiimeuiuLtriy.
IT. TJrPJJw....n,J w V ,h ' ' The Information accuses -Iart of
-"violating his official duty; that he
did unlawfully, feloniously and direct-
lyask from Ouy K. Kelly arid Forbes
1 rlaskeil, jr., mat me ypay nun
It Is time to -take warning that neith
er the liberties wepriae nor the sys
tem under which we claim them are
safe while such conditions exist.
"We shall not correct admitted and
grave defects if we hesitate to recog
nize them. We must be frank with
ourselves. We ought to be our own
harshest critics. Wo can ufford to
be, for in spite of everything we still
. have a balance of prosperity, of gen
eral welfare, of secure freedom, and
oi ilk"'"" h. . ifilort hv the Pierce rountv court
. A- R. Veterans Head Annual
Memorial Day Parade At
torney Neff Delivers Ad
dress Official Washington
Pays Tribute at Arlington
National Cemetery.
Un
certain sum of money from the assets
of the Scandinavian-American- bank
of Tacoma."
I '
I TACOMA, May 30. (By Associated
) Press.) Early trial of former Gover
nor Louis F. Hart, arrested yesterday
evening In Olympia on an information
assurance ui it"i',p , U1 ,..,, ,,.,, i.he
system of liberty. " makes the lar- -
gest promise to the freedom and de
velopment or tno inaivinuai.
Preservation is worth all the effort
and oil the sacrifice that it may cost.
"It can not bo denied that that
present tendency Is not in harmony
(Continued on Page fli
superior court here early next week
i,a and given an opportunity to enter a
ort 'plea, Mr. Selden said.
v e are reauy 10 prucecu i n ii
Immediately with the case," contin
ued the prosecutor, "and will attempt
to get it before tho court as soon- as
possible." ;
RICH GIRL'S ROMANCE WITH WORKER
IN FATHERS MUNITION PLANT FADES
NEW YORK, May 30. (A. P.)
The romance of Mrs. Alicia Dupont
Olendennlng. 22, heiress to the Dtf"-
nolnt millions, and Harold Sanford
Blue (ihd Gray Lines Thinning, but
Scenes Like These Are Still Familiar
With flags flying throughout the
city Memorial Day was celebrated
under a' ctoudy sky and mild tem
perature by Mcdford this forenoon
with tho usual patriotic street pa
rade and exercises at tho Bear Creek
bridge, immediately followed by tho
exorcises proper of tho duy In the
city park.
The G. A, R. and W. It. O. enjoyed
luncheon together at the armory and
then went to the cemetery at 3:00
p. m 'where .further exercises were
conducted and the graves of
dead ' soldiers were decorated.
The program in the city park was
called to order by W. Lyman, of the
local G. A. IX., post . In tho presence
of ai large assemblage congregated
around the -leg-draped - band stand.
opening with the -audience singing
"America," led by the D; O. K. Iv.
band.
After the Invocation by Rev. D. J-
Howe and singing by the American
Legion post- quarter, R,. E.. McElhoso,
commandes-of th'e iocal legion post
read' Lincoln's . Gettysburg address,
and the dedication of flower-bedeck.
ed vacant chairs in memory of the
soldier and W. - R. C. dead took
place.
' The speaker of the day was Por
ter 4. Neff, whose eloquent address
was filled with patriotic sentiment
for the soldier dead of all wars and
for the living. From tho heroic
deeds of 'the past was drawn lessons
by the speaker, to be followed today
and in the ftHure for the welfare of
tho United States and Its people.
Following this address the 'D. O.
K. K. band played the "Star Spangled
Banner," and Rev! Mr. King deliver
ed the benediction.
. The parade this 'forenoon moved
over the lino of -march from the city
park to the Bear creek . bridge and
back, with H. S. Dcuel, world war
veteran, as marshal.
At -the . Bear - creek bridge, while
the procession halted a sextette of
girls sang the hymn, "Nearer My
God to Thee,1, followed by the fir
ing of a salute by a snuad of Com
pany A. local National Guard unit.
In memory of. the soldiers and sail
ors who lost their lives In "wars.
Flowers were Btrewn by three, small
girls upon the waters of Bear creek.
More flowers were then strewn on
tho water by the members of the
Women's Relief Corps as they slowly
passed by the railing 'Of tho bridge.
The blowing of taps' by several
memeers of the American Legion
drum eorps concluded the ceremony
at the bridge,
As always In the Memorial day
parade of recent years, the mere
handful of local G. A. R. veterans left
shared honors with their closely nil led
organization, the . Women's Relief
corns along: the line of march, through
tlio fag decorated street. The parade
waB witnessed by many citizens scat'
tered along the route, and as the old
soldiers of the civil war, the middle.
aged veterans of the Spanish-American
war and the husky young veterans of
the late world war marched along
with their allied auxiliaries and fra
ternal and civil bodies, with flags
flying and floral decorations to dirge
nitiBic by the D. O. K. K. band, the
many spectators tingled with emotion
and there were tears In many an eye
Two new features of todny's M
mor'al day parade, in comparison
with such parades of prev.ous yean
here, were the first appearance of the
American Legion post drum corps In
their natty sky blue uniforms, and of
the women's auxiliary of the Spanish
American Waf Veterans" post.
The G. A. R. post had 19 old vet
erans marching, and seven other
members of the post riding In cars,
as they were too feeble to march.
The order of parade was as follows:
Marshal and D. O. K. K. band. May
or and City Council, O. A. R.. Woman's
Relief Corps. Daughters of Veterans,
Spanish War eVterans. Auxiliary of
Spanish War Veterans, Auxiliary or
Salva
tion Army. Red Cross. Boy Scouts.
Girl Reserves, Civic Organizations.
Fraternal Orders, General Public, and
Co. A., National Guard
T7r- : . Ml 1
Thief Steals Radium;
Expect Him to . Be
At Hospital Shortly
EARLY NEWS
4
NEW YORK, Slny 30. (A. i
P.) Hospitals woru on the j
lookout today for tho men
seeking treatment for burns
because of the theft of JL'0.000 1
wifrth of radium In a holdup, j
John tlilliano, a city e!niIoye,
was carrying the radium in b
1
Months of Waiting Justified,
Says Nansen Relief Plans
Held Premature MacMii
lan to Search for Amundsen
On His Trip.
AVIATOR
DIES
lead box wrapped in brown
paper out of the homo of Dr. !
Isaac Levin, when he was '
felled by a blow on the head.
VI is assailant grabbed the pack-
age and made off with two 4
companions In a waiting taxi.
Tho pollco expressed confl- 4
donee that the radium would
prove the undoing of the thieves f
because ot$ its powerful rays.
which, have fatally burned many
scientists experimenting with it
NEW VOHK. May 30. (A. P:)
Months of waiting are Justified before
considering an expedition for the re
lief of the Amundsen-Ellsworth polar
fliers, in the opinion of Dr. Krltjof
Nansen, noted Arctic explorer. Flurlln
( dispatches show that Dr. Nansen Is
.umong those who belle vo talk of a
jrellof expedition is pru mature now,
only a little more than a week after
I Amundsen's departure from Spitsber
gen. I Commander MacMIIlan, however,
reiterates that if no word la heard
from Amundsen and his five compan
ions within three weeks when Mac
Mlllan's all-American expedition leaves
for the Arctic 'he will devote himself
to a search for the missing explorers.
Last night Commander MarMllIan ex-
' ' pressed the opinion that Amundsen
NaVal FlyGr und his comrades would not be able to
go on foot and by folding boat from
Hpart Pailc Hlirinn Plinht the pole to Cape Columbia as planned,
ncdiirdiib uuimu rnyiii n tn0 event their plHnes coum nol
.used for. the return.
.At this season, the
ALOFT, MOVIE
IS
STAR
AV
Richard Barthelmess Alive By
Pluck of
Heart Fa
Tragedy.
There arc only a few of tlicm left veterans ot itiie Blue and
tlic Cray. But scenes like this are being enacted all over the coun
try today. Above is seen a veteran, the last of his little company,
visiting the grave of his pal. . Above, at right, is n familiar picture,
the youngster whose prize possession ;s a "sojer suit like grand
pa's," and grandpa himself, full of tales about the war. And below
vc have grandpa, in this case blind, playing his familiar role of
story-teller mid historian to the younger generation.
OE PAOLO WINS
AUTO CLASSIC
BEFORE T 45.000
Greatest Throng That Ever
Bejield a Sporting Event in
'America, Cheers Victor at
Annual Indianapolis Race
Benny Hill Second; i;
SPEEDWAY, ' INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.
May SO. (A. P.) Peter DePaolo,
E
RENCH
HAGGLE
QUOTE
HISTORY
WAR
Records Show America Paid
Too Much in 1775 Bel-
"WASHINGTON, May 3p!'ByW.
sociated Press.) The n)uck of Lieu
tenant Teneyck Dew Veeder, navai
aviator. In bringing his plane and
Passenger safely to earth yesterday
after he had been selzod with u heart
attack which rendered him uncon
scious as tho machine came to rest,
is regard od as heroic by his flying
companions here.
Lleutonant Voedcr collapsed in his
seat as the plane, carrying Richard
Barthelmess, niovio actor, halted at
the end of the flight from Norfolk to
Anacustla, near her. He died soon
afterward.
Barthclmoss, , a bit shaken, upon
realization of the tragedy . which
might have taken his own life and
which produced a grearbr sensation
than i ny movie thriller of hl career,
declai 3d Veeder hud
American ex
plorer declared, the Polar sea Is q
Tvwwlntr rtiti uj nf lvntaiv .with ft l',rh
ftiiiiHrwr 'nt iff nil mi nnnno-h tn fttt t n
ribbon tj puch : a boat as .carried, by
Amundsen in his plane.
He recalled that Peary, when leliv
In gon thtf voyago' which culminated
In his. discovery of the pole, remarked
that if he did not return by the end of
May, lie would never come back.
MOSCOW, May 30. (By Associat
ed Press.) Another appeal was to
day sent by the commissariat of posts
and telegraphs to Russian l trading
posts, fishing stations, naval depots
and wireless stations in the Arctic to
maintain a vigilant outlook for ' the
Amundsen north pole expedition, or
for word of Us whereabouts. - r r
In the belief that Amundsen carried
wireless ' equipment all of Russia s
northern rudlo stations sent inquiries
asking what .wave lenwth and kllo-
'glvcn Ihe fluent . watt power he used. . When Informed -
exhlb tlon of pfuck and courugo , lithe expedition wus without radio, the
have ever seen.". ' stations indicated little hope of locat-
H was convinced, he said, that tho .ing him,
pilot was stricken before he landed. 1 Tho appeal sent by the commis-
Vieder knew that, he "had a pas- Jsnriat'of posts and telegraphs at the
sender ueninu mm anu mm no una 10 request or ine jvssociaiea
bring the plane in," the actor said.-
Lieutenant Johnstone, who accom
panied Veeder In another plane, de
clared his companion "Just came In
on his nerve, that's all.' . ,
As the ulrplane neared . Anacostlu Murman
Barthelmess said, Veeder . nosed kestan
toward the ground. It came
Press and
tho Rosta News Agency was so wide
spread that responses announcing
alertness wero .-received from . such
distant stations as Vladivostok; Petro-
povlosk, , Kamchatka, points on tho
coast and even from Tur-
Security Pact With
many Near Approval.
giUm Latest POWer tO Act .perfect landing but the engine con-
I llniirwl riinnlnir Thn nolnp iinnlra tn
Qgf Veeder and when there was no reply,
he touched him.
The pilot's head had fallen back
' ,y , and Barthelmess roallzed that he was
111. Ho summoned aid but the flier
died while naval hospital physicians
j were trying to revive him. Death was
ascribed to a heart attack but the
aviator's heart continued to beat after
he had stopped breathing, doctors
(said.
. I Lieutenant Veeder wan a mm of
Commodore K. E. Veeder, retired and
WASHINGTON, May 30. (A. P.)
youthful racing star and nephew Of The war debt discussion has been turn-
tho famous Ralph DePalma, won the ed back to 1776. when America bor
500 mile automobile race at the rowed from France to provide one of
motor sjeedway today before a crowd the two latest. developments,
estimated at 145.000, the greatest) Senator Borah, chaii man of the sen
. . i. i ...it n onri. ntn frtfo It'ri rflntlnn'n nnmniltlpn In a
B . ..... .. . . . . m wiib n Miinlni iivlnlnr nf lh nlmMi'via.
leiier nas necmreo ino treasury ui- - -
flcial records nrove that America not tlon squadron of the navy scouting
ing event In America,'
BePaolo won in a hnlr-ralsing fin
ish with Benny Hill, relief pilot for omy nn nm naggio over mo amount
Dave Lewis, breaking all records for of- France's loan, but In paying the
the event. DePaolo won $37,800 as debt Included $2B0.0H0 too much. .
first prize and cash prises for cap-1 The other development Is that Bel-
turlng the most laps, and prizes ? ' ' , '
offered Jy nccewory firms.
fleet, assigned to
now at Norfolk.
battleship Texas,
AnniiiT pi m nc
MU14UI I ULLIi UL '
RHUBARB THEFT
KANHAS CITT, Mo., May 29.
Max noe, former postal employe,
was acquitted today .on a charge of
Hteallnfc nine' alalka of rhubarb from
the United Btatca mulls. The Jury
wa out neventoon mlnutoH. The
vnlue of the rhubarb wa estlmuted
at 25 cunls.
With ten laps to go DePaolo was
lending: Lewis car by about two
miles- at 475 miles, with Hhaefer
third and Hnrtx fourth. The lime
is llkely to be the next power to fund
Its loans from the united Slates. Sen
ator lmrah, in a letter to the Ijondon
Observer, made public here, answered
a letter by the author, of a biography of
IJcaumarchals oucstlonlnK the sena
was 4:41:34:80. an avornKe of 101.21 tor's statement thnt America ha over-
mil ra per hour. It ,wns the fastest
45 miles ever driven on the course,
PROBING INTERIOR OF ATOM TO SOLVE
LIGHT SECRETS FROM DISTANT PLANETS
When the World war Troke out,
Olendennlnfr left Dartmouth college t,,(tion Drum Corps. D. A. K,
to .work in tne uupont munition iac-
I lories at Wilmington, Del., where he
, met Alicia Dupont, stepdaughter of
i..,ionnln,. mn of a rural nostman, Alfred I. K. Dupont. In 1920. after
Who was a Rhodes scnolar, wnen iney neing urauuuieu irum iuNi. .
married, has ended. Olendennlnfr went to England as a WASHINGTON; May 30 (Bv the
The granting of a writ of habeas Rhodes scholar in Oxford and on ship- Associated Press.) The nat!on's Me-
corpus nt Bridgeport. Conn., yester- hoard he again met Miss Dupont who n,orial day tribute to the men antf
dav giving Mrs. Olendennlng custody was going abroad to study music. women who died In its service cent-
of her two yer old son. was the firt Two years Inter. .lune.;!H. 1 !22. with cred today in WasllinKm, with Presl-
lntlninlh'n lo other than ' Intimate Ihe npprovul nf bnlh families they .
trlends of a martial disagreement. jwcre married at St. Paul's, London. (Continued on Pa BU)
paid her loan from France, which was
tieirnl Inled thrntish Itnniimarchnls.
Tho daring DePaolo wits back In Th0 ,Gnntor clle lh8 records to show
the lead at 450 miles with Benny tnat the inn was entered with this
Hill, driving for Lewis, thundering notation: "Overpaid by tho United
along Jn secon place a lan behind, 'state 1 ,42lt.787 liveres." "
Shacfcr was third and Hartz fourth. Admitting that there was a delay In
The time was 4:20:20:87, an aver- final settlement, Mr. Borah declared
age of 101.32 miles nn hour. De- this was due to the failure or Inability
Paolo raptured the lead when Lewis of tleaumnrchais to render san account known physicist, told an audience here
stopped at the pits on the 430th on which congress could act. . . , last night.
mile for gas and oil and Hill ro- Rcnjamin Frnnklln, In 1779 and With the aid of a discovery made
Ueved him. 1 1782. he asserted, wrote repeatedly to In electronic research some ten years
DePaolo's time was 4:06:33:47, an Paris In an effort to get nn account- ago, Dr. Mllllkan explained, he and
average ,of 101.13 miles an hour. He ing. and added that nowhere was there an associate. I. 8. Bowen. have been
finished with a lead of about half any evidence that this country has able to predict within the past year
LOS AXOELES, Col., May 30. I "By . finding whether theae riidia
Probing the Infinitesimal Interior of I '" exist In the light that comes to
. ,. ... ,,, iiis Crom the stars we now can gain
an atom In Pasadena may solve tlie i,r,.,i- h, Partition, ox.
secrots of huge stars shining billions
nf miles away, Dr. Robert A. Millikan,
Noble prize winner and internationally
a lap, a mile nnd
Hill. . Ph'il Shaefer
a quarter over sought trt dispute the amount or re
finished third. , pudiote the debt
- Statesman Improve
LONDON. May 30. (Ry Associated
Press.) There was gradual Improve.
Lieut today in the condition of former
Vice President Thomas R. Mjirshnll
vhn is confined In his hotel room
here with a cold and nervous exhaustion.
precisely the type of light waves
which would he eml'ted by u'.oma
which had been stripped of their whole
Wheat Drops...- - outor group of so-called valenence
( WINNIPF.O, Man., Mny 30 Wheat electrons. ....
plunged nine cents a bushel on the "We -have then found experiment
Winnipeg grain exchange todayally' he added"'" spec'al sources of
going to 1.82 for the May de- nKht set up tn the Norman llrldge
livery, which Tuesday mounted to laboratory in PanadcJia, precisely all
2. the fourth tlm since the World these types gf radiations, hundreds in
war nnd the fuuith time this year, number.
luting In these stars and compare them
with Conditions existing In our artiti
clal sources. We can tell within cer
tainty) for example, whether the
atoms which give rise to a certain
type? of radiation Hhat Is. 8 given set
of spectral lines) have had one or two
or three or five or six or seven of
their outer electrons 'tripped off from
them by extreme temperature condi
tions." '
All of these laboratory researches
Into the mysterious birth of light rays
from atoms, Tff. Mllllkan went on to
say, Btrlke at the very heart of what
Is nerhaps the most fundamental
problem of tho phvslcnl world, namely
the nature of radiation Itself, atl how
It that energy enn be protected
thro'":h snace from an atom In the
iHUn lo another atom in our earth.