The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 24, 1912, Page 1

Id the wife leave the husband when both are in peril of death?” wreck fe It’s fierce to be a chorus See Page 4 in The today. So HT TD HELL UT OF THAT tures in today’s paper of interest to every Star reader. + 2 VOL. 14, NO. 46, THE ORDER Testifies That Oificer Lowe Director Ismay In One of the First Boats— Lowe Swore Tried to Get Him and Compelled Him to Get Out —Sensation Hearing at (By United Prose WASHINGTON White Star emp iemay to “Get to hell out of that” when the excited + of the line a ts on the sta |grking liner ay defo: the committee by Ha “ . Tita senate Washington seaweed Wire) Ap ye told J. Bruce 1 24.—How | anaging direct ached the life: | 1 side of the was told to avestigat: | i Lowe, the ban officer of the Titanic’s crew, ordered Ismay off 3 WASHINGTON, April 24.—Open. charging that attempt had mad@ to shape the course of inquiry of the United States sub-commiitee into the wreck the liner Titan be tolerated, a caustic statement today, be to be aimed at J. Bruce te and declaring such “interference” Chairman Smith would no Photographs of Some Su See what Seattle women have to say about Titanic problem, on page 8 today. Rostrom, hero of Titanic rescue, on page 3, and many And don’t miss reading story of Astor's romance on first page. The Seattle S ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN«SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 74, 1912, OFFICER FORCED I ONE CEN “Get the blank out of here,” said officer to Is- may, when he tried to en- ar HOME EDITION ON THAINS AND NHWS STANDS Se SMAY TO “GET OUT” | rvivors and the Titanic’s Lifeboats LA REE Cm MAN ALLS DITOR IN SPOKANE Probably Demented Over Ti- tanic Wreck, Man Murders City Editor of the Spokane Chronicle— Gives No Ex~ planation. SPOKANE, April 24.—Believed to be insane as a result of brooding over the Titanic disaster, Richard Aleck, a Russian, 37 yeare of age, entered the editorial rooms of the Spokane Chronicle today and shot and instantly killed E. H. Rothrock, the city editor Aleck, wit gun and a word, raised hig Rothrock, who was pproaching e door as Aleck en- |tered, It is believed that Aleck, who proached the editorial room quiet- ly and. with gun concealed, had not singled ont Rothrock in particular, but Intended to shoot the first pers |son he encountered Aleck was arrested and taken to the police station, where he told @ rambling story, constantly referring to the Titanic disaster Aft the shooting leck was overpowered by members of the ‘ Chronicle staff. He made ne state- aid : . |ment as to his motives for the kill- hot managing director of the jing, though he mumbled something Star line, when the probe into isaster was resum Senator Smith ox and crew implicate pt to block a sta ne and in (Copyright, 1912, by International News Service.) instead ihe Titanic. Before Smith's arrival, Senator of Ohio declined to await the Linda} com her meet and gider, even, than the Astors Ismay me to bridge home of LOWE'S STORY Harold Lowe, fifth officer of the Titanic, gave bis age as 29 years, and stated that he had followed the sea since he was 14 years of ag Lowe said that he had never cross¢ the Atlantic before I never took a drink in my life, be directed was -a divo: The distress. the ealed White line declared that 1 to en-| ¢ proceed, but outside the pted to re secur tele nig glish society at ecame the jean can be port arouses — ng of th © crossexa ® Me lookout 01 T Gmony that t Bis reques: Passes befor fom South of yeste Pret deseri« andergone AO. that he 4 ee the Which several other Ported seein Wouldn't Go to Rescue. told the comr barter tn me of which he i " the boat Me aid, hens to.retu tanic proc life whose Again Today Fortune pot a excited away! Ismay Gets Nervous. At this juncture Lowe paused in his na ive nd glanced at Iw may appeared visibly nervy ous Shall 1 say witness asked Write tt plece of suggested Chairman Smith Lowe took a piece of paper and wrote: “You get to hell out of that Resuming, Le was excited w sworn when ALL WORKED, BUT! HILLSBOROUGH, Ci April 24 Millionaire members of the volun-| fire departme enjoyed club lwiche nd cold bottles valets fight an | Finally San to the reseue was On York for Europe viewed the pyramids ve he ents mother waited at home, living in anticipation the social which would be hers when her daughter returned and took was entitled a the wife of John Jacob Astor THE DEATH OF ASTOR the wreck of the Titanic, the death of Astor, the rescue who quarter triumphs the the place what I said? to-which she Maybe hear her by you will < soon, Every day you didn’t listen and tomorrow or timony on a paper, ‘Then came of his bri And now Society knows |40-odd, more b when she went ears AKO. j “Hut the years have taught her tolerance. She does not r Madeline in the sense of a rival, the usurper of her rightful plac or as the victim of a vicious practice raha le coming to Madeline Force, Astor to offer her friendship and et is a wholesome ending of the romance. atalcaots the grave of Astor will stand, with clasped hands, the two women who were nearest to him In iife, ee (eee Pererrerrrrrry »**:CHURCH NOW OWNS REFUSED A “DARE” PICTURE FILMS their greatest ‘oppor- " “oh ‘ 2. JORLE: “il 2. tunities, * VENICH, Cal, April, 24.— LOS ANGELES, April 24.—Mo * Refusing to accept a “dare tion picture films as adjuncts to Over 40,000 *e * * tru Johnson, 18, dived #} nati vere demonstrat copies daily, cs Pe pause tite the © cal education were demonstra ) % from a S#foot height Uvnlete #ped at Christ's church, where the * * led anager of As soon as the ship reac hed her dock at New York, thes® who wore only their might clothes, The Carpathia’s passengers divided their wearing apparel with the | fluence of liquor when taken to the Titanic from | | office,” said John Dewitt, a reporter " velled way binted! BODIES F N VERGE F | poorly dressed man, I heard no laration that he had seen at | periods of utter collapse to byster! a (AR Pay aspnve gel gr neat ytd | SECRET SECT; » het | London to comfort Mrs, Astor No. 2, Mrs. Astor No. 1 yesterday sent | fast. She will not, however, break much wreckage and the iceberg the managing director of the White may be broken in a few days. How When these Dr. Hazzard today weighs bat 112 liner Bremen, which arrived to- By the ght. of ert Dr. Hazzard spoke at Theosoph-|of th, cost wl iv Jeupy the spotlight. of eriticism of | seit epsational. It i essentially a “smart set” romance, and Of the SORRANES ERDOCEED “TS, smart wet Her dress, which was prac f al he day plans to visit Bremerton | P Dyke! ¥ ene Seat Se entne ot 8 | Mrs. Ism eels keenly the criti When, in 1891, Jobn ‘ob Astor, head of the house which has! gan in the minutes of Judge Dykeman’s served for the members of the com.| The distracted wife has sent cable | For the Willi | Wilson joined the Rosigrucian so- EEUE te Ger coarse teseeeve or: |fedgo hits (Oo, hastily. Me the high niche which destiny had for her in American social life. MISSING OLYMPI Inition of Rosicrucian: | ting with a regal graciousness the few who satisfied her exacting stand Se Che tas ta day on the big White Star liner |'".™* his wife is fil in I and he union declared that the strike was} mortal, she was suing for divorce. Like any other wife, she would take at the Hoff home, left in the best of |John Jacob Astor, who went down rt immediately papers were and to this day the contents have than expected, and that she|0Ut of the harbor vealed The high moguls who Jeclared the young officer, hotly, |weakne Mrs. Astor was serious able the Olympic t and she went to London to live. By the terms of the divor bed at 8 o'clock Sunday nig iy his father. r cruit more men. in that neighborhood had selected from any ill effects of her experi He w York eredentials were approved by I went out and found the passen AN FRANCISCO, April 24.—De baseball difficulties. He re- | ane ived” there if Mra. Astor disapproves. Lowe. The vessel was then tip-| : y SHIP SMASHES The second marriage of Astor was a bigger sensation, even, than tic trouble, Royal M. Armstrong, | ce of Frank Keilback, 39, who has | umpire the vicinity from we had struck an iceberx Latest Photo of J. Bruce Ismay | ambitious. They were on the fringe. lterlocutory decree of divorce from|Keilback came here with several load Iifeboat No. 5 and lowered it | ederick Fleet, into the pier as she left New York | teony—who, probably, “didn't know her own mind”—to a world-weary| 00 or 1907 he sent his wife and|ter Eaton, 2606 Warren av., a rela-|% Showers tonight or Thurs: % tive help. of marine |“* P |tion among the 1,200 passengers By the terms of the divorce, Astor was forbidden to remarry In the | eee ne et anne iamored {to find any clue. dings. |the beet. | wae on the starboard was hurt. |from city to city, searching for a man of God who, for a handsome fee, | ghont ship asked me if | knew what I) tie members of the Panama Pa-| jage scruples did not stand in the way of bis earning the big| guage liner will take the southern route,| wood, Astor's Newport estate. The elderly groom and his bride were) according to Councilman Ward Lower Lower away! | January 25 of this year Astor and Madeline sailed from iua Whee, War that reason, "20 nd other insects that like to spoil Habn insisted on casting a ballot ness. ‘The bill provides a fine of ‘lin the race, and officials refused to eo 01 b sanita Astor No. 1 ie returning, |e OF shrub that is insanitary (Copyright, 1912, by International iiews Service.) about the Titanic wreck, Accord- Titanic's lifeboats on deck of Carpathia. Men in photo are ali Titanic survivors. women of the Titanic. sta alleged at-| x = — | eo to Ismay | conversation.” Fitth Officer Lowe VICTIMS COLLAPSE) | | | | | b] At noon tomorrow Dr. Hunger, as distinguished from Burtield Hazzard will have least 100 bodies of victims of ca! efforts to cail her husband to her ng. “When the smell of food feels | & message of condolence to Mrs. Aster No. 2, which was gratefully ac-|the fast then, but will prolong it, DIVORCED which cau he horror, was | os > Wan maved fre ever, I think I can go w..out food | pnp shat the eee, Who Was saved from the two women & few days hence, the event will mark the She shows the effects of . ei d th: hi a “ ileal hall this afternoon, and she ” tay. He tated that ae the <& ithe entire United States, lq a nerv romances do not always epd well, or even decently 4 the Gomernenn Steere: tight fitting when she be wreck, and that asheknew this /cism: directed against her busband, | ruled sew York society for three tnd whose sovereignty | ' ac asian cone Se: mere artic nee the cor} his ship proceeded |, he t jhis wife, Mrs. Margaret- Wilson, = Kes hat he been judged unfairly’ Willing, the reignis le of Philadelphia, thetr friends said it was ' PROMINENT 300 STOKERS |= te mates oe ee ‘oo couple have two children. Wilson ] neh | mittee. It required the services of |*!ter cable to America begging her| Ava was clever and be 10 policemen to eject. them, and band to come to her « asking Two children were born—Vincent,now 20, and Mariel, now 10. clety, and since that-time she has refused to. speak to him. der. |is the daughter of a prominent New |Her sway was absolute. Her frown)was socal death; her smile Th _— ‘a a | “One of ecret sect or societ tor of the White Star line, appeared | climbers courted h The snobs Wofshiped ber. She held to her| Disappearance of Mra. H. J. John-| SOUTHAMPTON, Eng, April 24. | pp teat ttc gan al ll poo y about the beginni Jard of social fitness Olympic, declaring they would not . oe ee ee ie THE DIVORCE 0. C. Hoff on April 13 for 8 to have originated two or three cen> wished to return home immediately protecting facilities were aug newspapers and was seized upon greedily by the scandal-mongers. Mrs. 9 doctor, is puzzling th NEW YORK, April 24.—Mrs. aneous, and not planned in ad-| the stand in court and retail her marital woes. spirits, instructing that all her mail| Vance. j | ee : jwith the Titanic, is under the con-/ yrs at White Plains, N.Y, The event furnished lean pickings for the! Hetivery.” Later she wrote explair partially filled from other Again in Distress here today as a result of a second not been 1 moved to a home on 20th av The Star r DIVORCED WIFE GETS $10,000,000 ard the peace and quietude of this ly i the day after her arrival on 100,000 hen asked if he dran y y | ha re a | J officers held the morning by G. W. Gunther, 1116 jday and Monday. it was thought given the custody of Muffel, while Vine stayed with Beware of Summer fore the disaster, and was town hou! - a district where the people work by, ences in the wreck and now her |e \ he tight island, and, if she could not rule gers wearing lite belts and prepar MYSTERY DEEPENS claring that a summer resort af. ck of a home run ping at an angie of from 12 to 15 | the divorce. He was 47 years old. Madeline Force was 19. Strictly former chief deputy county clerk of not been seen since April 9 when |their daylight siestas. The police When the enga it Was announced, a great cry of protest went|/ Nene Vv. Armstrong here today. |hundred doilars in his pockets, and| ek & kK RRR KKEKKKAREK way. First Officer Murdock was whose | SWS harbor for england, the big Cynard ang cynical divorcee old enough to be her father, shocked society and|t)'s. two little sons to a beach near|tive fears that he met with foul|# day, light westerly winds. Tem- % Titar sailed Ordered Ismay Away. | aboard today. The bridge rail was! sate of New York. Dozens of clergymen, of all denominations, refw ar enoihar oad natitied Wiel to causal sis which he | Side. When we got on the Carpa-| Tie wMauretan.a carried 24 | would tle the knot Room Only for witnesses |Nad said to Mr. lemay. I replied) ine exposition are among the pat|foe that Col, Astor offered Ismay was over-anxious and | in ig six hours onger than the|hurried aboard the palatial private yacht Noma for the honeymoon. | a) ‘seattle will have no room this to complete the honeymaon. They traveled to Exypt,| goupt, he has an ordinance drawn ” . as 2 |AN “INSPIRED” VOTE fruit trees, rose bushes and celery which he said was “inspire It $100 or 30 days in jail for any on |accept the ballot. Lewis became reason of insect habitation, ewing garments for the women survivors on board the Carpathia. Scores of women were rescued |ing to officers he was under the in- | boats were lowered and hidden. ae ume = - - saint | “I was just preparing to leave the Sc SAW 100. |MRS. ISMAY cunding OS ars ad ° = Rothrock standing in front of @ BELONGED TO | PT NEW YORK, April 24—Dec- | LONDON, April 24.--Passing from appetite, may return at any time leted the 30-4 7 Today's dispatches state that Mrs. Astor No. 1 is hurrying from 7 my ~ gorted: ‘et | the Titanic disaster, as well as | side. Mrs. J. Brace Ismay. © good, it is indicative that the fast | | knowledged. if possible, for 15 days more. made hore bey the captain ot the |wreck cd the liner’ ts 9 | for @ good number of days yet.” DI t igen yatete m j Wreek of the liner Titanic te end of a romance which is as wholesome as the romance it ivorce granted on the ground was fast in her pallor and drawn ble ship Mackay-Bennett was | will make another address on Fri-| This is the 1 sl 4 a ous wreck here today MARRIAGE WITH AVA WILLING ly efindlicrnggn ye Lowy asda hangs loosely now vesse! was engaged to care for and declares that he will show | even the hause of Vanderbilt has pot to question, married Ava aggre Peto Pigg angug » Fadbwtitngg Bs ag to New York without stopping. |i harahls edie, Droste hs _ WOMAN Is STRIKE ON lalleged that two years ago Mrs, utitul finally a detail of police was sta- nds in the United Stat mt to Mrs. Astor filled with grace. nity, authority and infinite tact Webster gives the following def J. Bruce Ismay, managing direc-| York family open ses the sacred circle of which she was the queen early at the committee room. He} | course unflinchingly, casting out those whom she deemed unfit, admit-| 44 4 prominent resident of Bain-|~~Three hundred stokers struck to. reggae published’ tn Gar. requested that his testimony’ be| | taken immediately, explaining that . peed with th I until th 17th century, and which was said | Then, in 1909, a whisper went abread—a hint that crept into the here she said she was going to & it turies previously.” ated. The Marine Firemen’s . us | Astor, for all her wealth and power, was not happy. Like any common woman, who had na guest sai Pr | Madeline Force Astor, widow of Col | Vacant Lot League The divorce granted on Novembert 9, 1909, by Supreme Just gent to ‘General stokeholds of the Olympic jstant care of physicians and nurses | scandal-mongers. It three- minut formal and harried that she had been detained| Ships and tugs towed the vesse vacant lot league is again in |collapse into a state of nervous That was the last heard of her enough stokers were Astor was worth $ He gave his divorced wife § community were informed this Lowe continued that he went tolthe Carpathia, but she rallied Sun she was | ; lat 8 o'elo harbor while they 19th av, N., that the “kid” officials that she had entirely recovered | Mrs. Astor no stranger in London. She has now he nee ened by voices on deck . R Aff condition is causing grave alarm. east a factor there. No ambitious Amer ing to get into the lifeboats said THE SECOND MARRIAGE finity is responsible for his domes-| Mystery enters into the disappear- | or a three-ba and the yell of the degrees. Officer Boxball said that ye ‘ speaking, she was not “in” society, though her people were rich and/ cu. pernaraino, was granted an in-|he arrived in Seattle from Colorado. |are trying to handie the problem. know what Is needed. 1 helped ; and began | NEW YORK April 24.—Sntashing up from the whole civilized world, The mating of a girl yet in her) 4 -mstrong testified that in the sum-|@ lot of valuable jewelry. Mrs. Wal-}% |= WEATHER FORECAST {n charge of everything and gave ac- | } company refused liner Mauretania created consterna- | church alik Los Angeles for a vacation, where |play, Detectives have been unable |# perature at noon .47 *” , was the sensa-| “I ordered Mr. lemay away from |twigteg by the impact but no one |to perform the ceremony, Astor and the girl and the girl's mother went and get his children He dg-|thia, the steward of the rescue io sty and seven rafts. | ‘An unknown carpenter-preacher was found: in a Connecticut vil that | had used pretty strong lan-| -eicers on the Mauretania. The ‘The marriage took place in the “white and gold" parlor at Bee en-| Potlatch Bugs trifle saying constantly, | which ie six hoe | THE LONG HONEYMOON New| #uimmer for any other except Pot sailed the Nile, and, so far as the world knows, 4) aimed to swat the caterpillar CHEMAWA, Or, A 1.—Lewis patches, and put them out of busi contained no names of candidates who does not disinfect any bu quite peeved and refused to vote. the significant news that Mrs. what it means. Mrs. Astor No. 1 ts a beautiful woman of | usa ‘antiful now, in the maturity of her womanhood, than : ‘to the altar with the head of the house of Astor, 22 | i opportunities for or woman s them Your opportunity may be at hand now! Read and use St want which have been the means of ‘put ting many Seattle people in touch with its the who y beginning of the igation thére han been a med. @ attempt by certain persons influence the course of this com said that fem til he had bee he went away to oat No, 3. man gr and to stop ite procedure, | acpiriaal Me have heard that misrepresenta te have been made. | do not to subpoena witnesses whose J story is based on bias and udice.” ads, | teer house § while watching ther morning, fire Mateo firemen came id put out the Gre Women Mob Committee. “y SHINGTON, April 24.—A long M fashionably dressed women waiting two hours today for| mere ning of the committee room| the investigation into the Ti Sisaster is being held. =e DE ERT ~~ = Sapa SOME ROUGH HOUSE paid SAN FRANCISCO, April 24.—Be F wan finally opened the|cause they sat on their steps for| eer and his assistants were | three hours singing “Silver Threads | stely overwhelmed, the wo-| Among the Gold,” Jesse Silver and Ng possession of every seat| Archie ke were @rrested for dis foom, including those re-| turbing the peace. b ype Lady Bug-Is Mr for the circus? Bill, Bug—Nope strating that even the turn, Worm training Uncle—How Just demon do you like to ridé}# ocean, She turned a complete | crucifixion was pictorially enacted worm will this way, Joe? o | somersault in the air, cleaving Joe—I had a lots bettér ride in| # the water in pretty style, The church has purchased its own the park on @ real donkey, I ee al i i id machine for Sunday use,