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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-03
Murder Gun" in Stars
Mystery Is Identified
Luke May, Trailing Slayer Tells
How Bullet Betrayed Him

Finishing. he turned back 20 tho
man assigned 20 cover him while
no runs down Tho Stars murder
mystery. This was arranged TO
resemble n real murder and May
was put TO work on II 10 demon.
straio 70 star readers how easy
Il is for tho scientific detective
Of today 10 run down criminals
''woll turned up evidence that's
really worth something while
was out this morning." May said
My men are experimenting with
II now down in the laboratory
Get down to cases. Mr.. May"
VIC told him. I'VE have promised
our readers to give them tho inside
OF oil your clues aa you work
them out. Let's have in detail
Just what you've done"
HOW MAY TOLD
BULLETS APART
We'll" said May. you will re.
call that on tho floor Of tho muir.
der room we found shell ana
Colt gun and that later when We
searched the office We found a
Turn TO Page 3. Column u
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-03
HOLD GOVERNOR
ON 1871 COUNTS
McCray of Indiana Released
on Bail of $4,000

INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. Gov.
Warren T. McCray was formally ar.
rested today on the Indictment re.
turned last week by the Marion
county grand jury.
McCray was released immediatelv
on 5000 bond.
The capias was served on him In
the office OF James w. Noel, attor.
ney for the governor.
McCray was indicted on 1e,
counts, charging forgery. embezzle.
ment and grand larceny
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-03

Here is Of Detective Lake Mays evidence in The
Star mystery murder in pictures. 40 the right is the
murder bullet May dug ont Of the ,coodcork rhere ii
Undecided itself. Notice hop the grooves marked by the
rflng in the pistol barrel (he long ones not the Of
short ones slant TO the right This Identifies the bullet
being from Sauage gun In the bullet the left, Chich
fired into test block from Homer Brecs gun picked
the floor the body these grooves slant TO the
left This Identifies the bullet being from Colt, and
preclmdes the possibility that Breics the murder gun
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-03


on your "heavics.. The Yukon
has frozen UP for tho winter.
Tho mysterious man who 'mur
dercd'' Star reporter has not yet
been found.
We wish somebody would discover
this fellow. We want 10 present
him with tho croix dc guerro.
Luke May. criminologist on the
case. says tho gun that Killed
Brown belonged 10 US.
Huh. we wouldn't kill that re-
porter. He owes US 10 centsl
Personally. we suspect that the
slayer is LII Gee Gee. Tho muir.
dered man was once heard TO remark
that she had green eyes and tho tenn.
per OF an alley cat.
T0DAY'S DEFINITION
Football Classic: ANY game
between two football teams on
Thanksgiving.
The football season Is now over.
and the caretakcrs are busy picking
up loose ears and detached teeth
from the gridirons
Scene: University stadium
Time. The year 500,
First Archaeological: Il would say
that these ara the ruins OF some 81.
gantic arena OF prehistoric days"
Second Archaeologist: mot 80.
no, SCI BY the number OF teeth
found huried here. this was undoubt.
edly an ancient burial mound"
After one game at the stadium.
tho caretaker picked up what he
thought was a rock. II was really
an Oregon player. who had been
stamped on by so many cieats no
looked like Baby Dtuaplo golf ball.
A major operation Is what happens
when one football players ear comes
into close juxtaposition with another
players teeth.
THERE'S A TWIST TO THIS
Cheer leaders who have sur
vivcd the season can now make
good money In vaudeville rs con-
tortionists.
After a cheer leader has gone thru
two months OF football season. Il In
possible for him to set undressed in
q Pullman upper without dLslocatlng
q single joint.
Walter Camp will be soon selecting
HIS annual AlI-Amcrican team. Lit.
tie interest attaches to this. however.
as only Yale players are eligible.
University president says football
Is useless sport. He's wrong. How
else could We build our stadiums7
Now that football Is a thing Of the
past, the doctors haven't thing TO
look forward TO except hockey.
MIR. CYNTHIA GREY
Dear Mr.. Grey: What would mako
suitable gift for n 3-year-old child
who cries all the time for toys.--
Fond Mother.
Anss-A double-bareled shotgun.
Christmas IN coming. and mother
can't decide whether TO get father a
red plush necktie or an embroidered
dolly for his smokingroom desk.
Economical young fellows who
don't believe in spending more money
than is necessary are now picking
fights with their sweetieg.
And in few more weeks Il will be
time for the 5.year.old cynlcs TO ex.
claim: Jaw. gwan. there aln't no
Santa ClausF'
Who remembers the old.tlme coun.
try dance when the boys used 10
gather around afterwards for the
fight?
a school for new congressman, 20
be opened in Washington, viii teach
them how 10 draw their pay.
Next school 70 be opened in U. g.
A. viii be for porpoises that can't
swim.
n
LII GEE CHE Ttt, oI-t-t,,r. 4
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-03
LII GEE GEE, TIL OFFICE I
yAsiP, SEE:
With tn men all adopting
knlckerbockers these days, IL Is
only a matter Of time before
wen 500 them wearing rompers.

New York state official says there
are 500 fake dentists in New York
city. Possibly the reason they're
not arrested is that they have a pull.
The city elections VIII soon be
here. Now is the time for all good
men to come TO the raid Of their
party.
w DIARY
December %
lords day) Lay long I'm he'd. ,..d-
mE Lumu0r," by Mistress Fannie
hurst, the quserest tayie ever I read.
And night Kiad that Z uas In The cam
Try, 80 that the rumble OF street esrs
s"uld not disturb me. And 80 10 Lr.ok.
last ~ O'Clock In the afternoon mat
iirst dih make fire u beashwood nnd
ald Try to cook eggs baked in cream.
Dpt i"rhl " was patty dish. and not
worth calling. Thence 10 walking 10
Ninslow, brisk. cold wind bIoygIne .,t
81 The south. and did see BiiI JIsdicv
IN the Morn" beating arross the l., =
nndsr a reefed mainsail. And 20 4, bed
sEam ct o'clock. aud 10 reading
"LummoL"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-03
Let Us Have Peace

TODAY the United States senate
1 once more begins it's grind. For
you, for your young son, for this
country and for the world, this con-
gress may be epoch-making. World
peace or world war may spring from
it's sessions.
For peace or war-life or death, it
may be, for some of your own flesh
and blood-largely depends upon
whether the senate decides to CO.
operate with the other nations to
prevent war, or adopts the cold
blooded do-nothing attitude of its
small band of isolationists.
Opinion is overwhelming, both
here and abroad, that another world
war is virtually certain within the
next five or ten years.
The question is: Shall we stand
still, like helpless ninnies, and let it
engulf us? Or shall we at least do
what we can to stave it off?
The Star indorses at this time no
particular peace plan. But it does
indorse PEACE and will make every
effort that it conscientiously can to
prevent repetition of the horror of
world war.
And for the moment the key to
the situation seems to be the late
President Harding's proposal of last
February, that we join the world
court. A resolution to this effect is
now in the hands of the senate for
eign relations committee, headed by
Senator Lodge, foe of the court. This
committee will kill the resolution if
it possibly can.
Joining the world court does not
mean an absolute guarantee against
war. No peace plan can. But it
does not entangle us with any Euro
pean or other foreign power. And
it is a short step in the right direc-
ton.
Almost every church in the coun-
try has gone on record as favoring
some such effort So have innumer- !.
able chambers of commerce, veter-
ans associations, labor unions, wom-
ems and civic clubs and similar or
CARNATIONS.
Ours is a government for and of
the people. Are all these voices to
count for nothing?
Isolationists in the senate, we re-
peat, will kill the world court plan if
they can Senator Lodges commit
tee will kill it if it can! Whether
they do so or not is largely up to
YOU!
Write to the senators from this
state-Dill and Jones-at Washing
ton, D. C. Tell them you've had
enough of war and are expecting
them to head off another in the pres
ent session of congress!
Write to President Coolidge. Tell
him the same thing!
Do it nowl Don't put it off, lest a
soldiers grave come to hear name
dear to you and the memory of a
smile that's gone forever come back
to reproach you for your delay!
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-03
Home Brew

Howdy, folks. Time 10 put
on your "heayics." The Yukon
has frozen up for tho winter.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-03

A. s..
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-29
MEN OF FINE CLAY

Naval authorities who are inquiring
into the wreck of seven destroyers of
the Eleventh Squadron off Honda, Cal.
with the view of fixing the blame, if
any. are experiencing a remarkable diff
tlculty. 1t is remarkable, however, in
a sense altogether different from that
implied by the word difficulty" Of
ficers of the ill-fated ships are not try
ing to throw obstacles in the way of the
investigators or, if they are doing so in
any sense whatever, then the word cob
stacle" must be disassociated from its
ordinary connotation.
Ordinarily an attempt to fix personal
responsibility for disaster is met not
only with respective disclaimers, but
also with accusations, by those whose
action OF conduct is the subject of in
CURRY. Many people are not content
to give only testimony designed to show
that they themselves were blameless. in
their anxiety to prove that they could
not have been at fault they undertake
to prove that others were to blame.
But the officers of Squadron II evil
NN'iy diC HOl HIGH OF tndt type. lney
lean in the opposite direction. Instead
OF trying to shift responsibility, those
in executive positions-tllree of them,
at least-have each undertaken to
shoulder the blame, if there be any Justly
assignable.
Two of them, Lieut. Commander DON
aid /. Hunter and Lieut. Lawrence F.
Blodgett, testified that it was they who
made the decision which sent the ships
upon the rocks. The former was in
command of the Delphy, which led the
squadron, and the latter was that ships
navigation officer. Together, they said,
they had plotted the course which they
thought would lead to safety.
What was the chief of the squadron
doing at that time The testimony of
the others might have saved him from
any positive blame. But he refused to
accept any such opportunity. If there
was any blame at all, he testified, it
rested upon him, and him alone; for not
only was he the chief of the squadron,
and therefore categorically responsible
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-29
Poets Corner
KATYDID R0UNDELAY.

The revelipg host is far and Gear
Under the harvest moon."
1t sings a song We love to hear
Along with the cricket's tune.
A fiddler he, each long legged wife,
His legs are his fiddle green.
He plays away through the shining
night,
The host of him unseen.
The revels held in sweet lush grass,
Each dressed in his greer. coat wings
One elf begins which the others pass !;
And this is the song he sings,
'ka-ty-did," "Ka-ty-did" another sings,
And begins on the first's note Two.
They hop and rustic their filmy wings,
And fiddle the while thing through.
A scramble begins in the orchestra
As the song is begun anew.
Another sings "ka," another "ty"
And another breaks in with odd"
Till it's "Katydid," she did II She
Didn't"
She Didn't, "She Did," did,"
Did"
MRS. SABINA L. HOOD.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-29

Show him into the private office at
once"
The bewildered guard returned to
his post.
with disgruntled civility.
Never mind" He waved No. 1
aside. II know the way"
He passed on, a privileged char
acter, exchanging a word or two witt
different employees in the outer office
and nodding Familiarity to others; for
rolling stone adventurer though he
was, CRATER and swindler as he was
suspected of being. Juarez Charlie
was welcome here to come and 60 as
he pleased.
He and Loring Ranger had been
boys together.
More than once the successful man.
ufacturer had urged his old associate
10 take position with him. offering
Charlie his choice either inside the
factory or on the road; for it was
Rangers firm belief that the vaga-
bond. if he would only devote himself
to it, would make an Incompatible
salesman.
But Charlie always evaded these
efforts at rehabilitation.
His especial gifts were various !;
perhaps the less said about them the
better. He employed them when he
felt like it and when opportunity of
fered: loafed when he felt like it /;
Travelled constantly about the country
sometimes first-class, sometimes in
boosted that he had more compre-
Ennxr-1oloa sc CO.,
than any other man within its borders
and regarded life on the whole witt
cynical. good-humored philosophy
which no exigency could daunt or mis-
fortune Overwhelm.
There was an unwOnted tug of sym
pathy at Charles wrinkled heart. and
on sudden impulse he stepped ove-
and laid his hand on Rangers should
er.
Tough luck. Lorry," he said huski-
ly. But don't give way like this, old
boy. Brace up: it isn't--it isn't As
if your little girl were gone for good"
The friendly touch, the sincerity of
feeling in his tone brought an unex
pected response. A tremor ran
through the manufacturers bent
frame then. with groan. he dropped
his head in his hands.
Its no use, Charlie" His voic,
came brokenly. "No use to try and
deceive myself. She is gone for good.
He turned away to hide his work
ing face, then twisted around and be
gan to talk rapidly. Here at last was
some one to whom he could lay bare
all that was in his mind.
look at the facts. Charlie. Look
Mt the facts. It's n month yesterday
since Hope went away-was taken
away, | mean-and in all that tins
not word from her-not word OF
her. Only this horrible silence-like
a thick black curtain meeting Inc
everywhere l turn.
(Continued i'm Cur Next Issue.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-29
Is OUR DEBT PAID?

The Mexicans then moved forward;
Forward into the fight,
Expecting, with their great array;
10 end the fight by night.
But all, the Texans did not fly;
Not one inch did they yield,
Five hundred men lay dead;
Red was the bloody field.
Surrounded was the Alamo;
"A week or more had passed,
Ten thousand men against these few.
The Texans still held fast.
Not even then did they give up;
But fought on as before.
Many now within were dead;
No help for them in store.
Travis then drew line;
Upon the fortress floor,
"Who1l cross the line" he cried.
Let us die, like they died of yore!"
The enemy is at our door;
Trying to scale our walls,
Choose now TO live or die:
For soon the fortress falls"
Every Texan then crossed the line;
Brave were these hearts and true,
Has ever man been drawer since?
Twas death for them they knew.
One by one now they died;
They could hold back no more,
\ hundred foemen then came forth
Broke down the massive door.
The Texans fought like lions;
Bravery they did not lack.
Ten times the MeXicans charged;
Ten times were driven back.
Desperately they still fought on;
Before the overwhelming foe,
How long it was before they fell,
No man will ever know.
Next day the clouds were black;
The sun was fiery red,
Piled upon the funeral pyre
There lay our hero dead.
No more TO hear the cannon roar,
To hear the battle cry.
No more to hear the charger neigh:
To see their flag on high. =.
No more to hear their comrades shout.
To fill the foe with dread;
Blessed be these martyr men,
Our own, our hero dead.
Slowly the time rolls on;
A hundred years have passed,
Battles fought. nations changed:
Not yet their deed surpassed.
Is death alone their one reward?
Forgotten now in word and song,
WIS folly then their noble work?
Or have we done them wrong?
No monument TO bear their name:
Unmarked the hero's grave.
In sleep they rest. forgotten now;
The bravest Of the brave.
A. DEAN.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-29

"A railroad official says it would be
possible to reduce Pullman fares if some
one could invent way to make all
Derths lower berths because nobody
wants tc sleep in an upper. There would
be no objection to an upper berth if
travellers were trained from childhood in
the use of Pompier ladders and life
belts.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-29
ONE SATURDAY.
L never had a happier time.
And | am forty-three.

L never had happier time.
And / am forty-three
Ihan one midsummer afternoon
When 1t was May with me:
Iife's fragrant May,
ana Saturday,
ANA you came out with me to nlay.
ana up and down the garden walks,
Among the Towering beans
We proudly walked and tossed our heads
And played that we were queens.
Thrice prudent sovereigns. we made
Inc dladems we wore,
And fashioned for our royal hands
The sccptres which they bore:
But good Queen Bess
Had surely less
Ihan we. of proud self-consciousness
"hile wreaths Of honeysuckle hung
Around Your rosy neck
ana tufts of marigod looped up
My gown, Bingham check"
Our chosen land was parted out.
=, Like Israers. by lot;
MY kingdom, from the garden wall
Reached to the strawberry plot:
The Onion-bed
The beet-tops red.
The corn which waved above my head
Inc gooseberry bushes. hung with fruit
- The wandering melon vine,
The carrots and the cabbages.
All, all of them, were mine
Beneath the cherry-tree was placed
Your throne, a broken chair:
Your realm narrower than mine.
But it was twice as fair:
Tall bollyhocks,
And purple phlox.
And time-observing four-o-clocks
Blue lavender, and candytuft,
And pink and white sweet peas,
Your loyal subjects. waved their heads
In every passing breeze.
Oh! gay and prosperous was reign
Till we were called to tea -
But years. since then, have come and gone,
And / am forty-three.
Yet, journeying
On rapid wing,
Time has not brought and cannot bring,
For you or me, a happier day
Than then. among the beans.
We proudly walked and tossed our heads,
And fanced we were queens.
Annie Douglas Robinson
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-29

more interests than they can personally
take care Of.
1t is characteristic of Americans to
devote the earlier years of their lives
to the accumulation of wealth and to
develop comparatively frivolous tastes
when they have become opulent. In 9TH
or words. they so to extremes in both
work and play. The average American
of great wealth-if he is "self-made
man." at least-has a hard time learning
how to play when he realizes that it is
no longer necessary for him to devote
his energies exclusively to work. And
now and then the process of making
the change from work to play is almost
comical.
The hotel for birds, i New York in
stitution, seems TO eXcmplify this ten
dencv on the part of the extremely
wealthy. 1t is magnificent and elab-
oratelv furnished building. if it is to be
Judged by the published description, and
houses. apparently, every kind of bird
with the possible exception OF that dis
covered by the late Theodore Roosevelt
in the region OF the River of Doubt.
Patrons of the hotel are those who
are unable to care for their feathered
pets in their own homes. Not that their
homes wouldn't accommodate birds. too;
the difficulty arises from the fact that
these wealthy people spend so little time
at home. But they must have their hob
bies just the same. Steam yachts at
ford them a lot OF pleasure; they can
find some. diversion also in outdoor
sports, in social functions. in theater-
going, in travelling, in collecting works
Of art, and so on. Yet there are times
when they simply must seek self-ex-
preston in simpler ways. Therefore
hey get birds-for somebody else to
AXE care of whenever pets would inter-
ere with other interests.
If the social notes of the bird hotel
we're published, says the writer of the
eature story referred to, they would
cad about like this:
"Mrs. ]. L. Flagler's four canaries
lave just left the hotel to go to the
country for the summer.
"Mrs. Benjamine Duveen's strawber-
" finches and canaries will remain at
he hotel through the summer while the
an'ily is in Europe.
"The Elbridge T. Gerry canary has
eft to spend some time at home. Mrs.
Charles r. Flint's canary has also re-
urned home. and so has the macaw of
Mrs. Roswell Miller (Margaret Carne-
yie.) The macaw is highly accom-
olished; it can say, Mammals boy
Pretty boy Goodbye and Come here"
Like other hotels. this one has
beauty parlor." Moreover-and this
nay or may not be regarded as a con-
of the analogy-one of the
Gather ed guests got drunk once and be-
anne violent, pulling out its pretty feath'
rs and thus necessitating an operation.
Poor people frequently worry be.
ause they arc unable to have any in
erests beyond the daily task of earn
ng living. But when a person be-
ONES extremely wealthy he is likely to
ave so many interests that he is unable
o enjoy any of them-unless, perchance,
e is an exception to the general rule
n that he learned how to balance work
With play while accommodating his riches.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-29

LOT It's handling. but, he declared, he ha
issued the order changing its course.
determined was he to have responsible
y fiXed solely upon himself that he ir
sisted rpon having the recorder rea
oacF ever his testimony so that he COIL
confirm 1T sentence by sentence.
ierhaps it would not be difficult to ex
pam this conflict in the testimony
assuming that the chief of the squadron
did issue the order, one might easil,
understand why the commander and tn
navigation officer of the Dclphy shoulc
carefully consider it before putting i
INTO effect; when their own calculations
confirmed those of the chief, they acted
and not before.
The sheer fact that all the calcula
tons made on the ships led the various
oificers to the same conclusion would
seem to be the best of presumptive evi.
dence that none of those officers was
ct fault 1t supports the theory that
!ne disaster was due to causes beyond
human control; that any well-trained
intelligent and conscientious navigator
would have acted, under the same cir
cumstances, as these officers did.
AS 1t turned out, the calculations
made at sea were wrong from the stand
point OF actual effect. But they may
nave been perfectly in accordance with
all the rules which govern under normal
conditions. Suppose the situation had
Deen reversed. the calculations made at
sea being right, in effect, and those made
or. on shore being wrong. by the same test.
men suppose that the officers on the
snips, comparing their own calculations
with those sent from shore by wireless.
had acted upon the latter, despite their
convection that the former were right. In
that case, no doubt, the officers would
have been blamed for failing to exercise
their own judgment.
AS some of the witnesses at the
hearing pointed out, the wreck occurred
under a strange combination of circun-
stances. The Japanese earthquake and
tidal wave and the eclipse of the sun
night have perverted the clements.
Moreover. there was some doubt as to
The accuracy, under such possible in
luences, of the type of compass EN-
oloyed.
Yet each of the three officers men,
ioned insisted that it there was anv
blame for the disaster he should bear
t. None of them offered any sort of
'alibi'' No attempt was made to
escape responsibility. Is it possible that
nen of this type could have been negli-
'ent. or reniss to any degree, in sucl,
crisis as that which called for their
deliberate decision?
The laynian is likely to conclude that
ne officers of Destroyer Squadron II
I'D the best they could, that their best
would measure up to the highest stand
rds OF scamanship, and that those stand
rds were set at naught by preverse
orces OF Nature.