The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 23, 1916, Page 1

‘aes “mysterious death, July 15. , ONE OF THEM \ THERE ARE A LOT OF FUNNY ‘(THINGS IN THIS WORLD, AFTER ALL, WE DO NOT CLAIM THAT MUTT AND JEFF ARE THE ONLY ONE. KUT THEY MAKE TIIOUSANDS LAUGH IN SEATTLE BACH DAY THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES T VOLUME 19. SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1916. ONE CENT By Cynthia Grey How would you like to be a telephone | girl? | How would you like to spend one day in the perpetual buzz of hundreds of chattering voices in front of a board that fairly dazzles with its popping lights? | How would you like to say, “Number, please?” in an angel-sweet voice in response to 2,000 calls a day? | How would «you like to let every one call you anything, and still keep smiling? It’s the Life of Seattle Hello Girls It’s the life of the girl behind the busy switchboard | in Seattle’s telephone office. It’s the life that stretches nerves to the breaking} point, exhausts hearing and dulls bright eyes. It’s the life that more than 800 girls in Seattle are) following! | What’s the inside story of it? Is it hard? | Mrs. Glen Dies, who spent several months in the city} telephone office before her marriage, has given me some of the “dope.” 1 pass it on in hope that it may help the public} and the girls. HE CALLED HER DOWN In relating her experiences on the switchboard, Mrs. Dies said: “I remember one evening when I went in on a line and said, ‘Number, please” 1 could hear someone talking © another person, but I couldn't get any response Again} said, ‘Number, please?’ At last I heard a voice say, ‘I! ant Central.’ ‘This is Central,’ I answered. He said, ‘Don’t so d-—— cross; you've got the biggest snap in the) .? Iowondered at the time, as 1 have many times since how many people actually think that a telephone operator's job is the easiest in the city.” ; For the sake of hundreds of operators I want the public to read this. Just imagine saying, “Number, please?” the live-long day. And all the time you know there is a super-| visor on the line waiting to catch you in a mistake. | Someone is always calling be Pig a de Le is up to blic as much as to the girls to bring this about. | ches DON’TS FOR EVERYBODY | If YOU want your number quicker, and your connection on the wire clearer, read these “don'ts” which Mrs. Dies has down, and heed: | hl TTS PRISONER OUT: | Tabby Believes JUDGE WAITS | cet 3 PERRY, Me. Sept. 23.—A black cat, Dinah by name, in the “Dr.” Allen Strolls Streets! as Jurist Prepares family of John Clark, of Perry, Sentence adopte everything on the prem- SORRY TO MISS HIM ises small enough for her to cud- Of her latest brood of kit- she was allowed to keep While Superior Judge Frater, Deputy Prosecutor Helsell and | several court attaches waited for two hours Saturday morn- Ing for the arrival from the county jail of “Dr.” Percival V. Alien, who was to je been sentenced, it loped later the “doctor” was out enjoying 2 constitutional in the refresh- basket with her own jetty off- spring, a gray kitten of another pussy’s family, and a white rab- bit. The assortment made quite a mediey, Later on she added a puppy to her tribe, and she also cuddies an orphan chicken. ing breezes. to receive sentence for a statutory | PARIS, Sept. 23.—French avia crime involving Miss Anna M Danielson, with whom Allen lived | as ber husband here prior to her/| Altho an investigation is said to tors took part in 56 air battles yes be going on to determine whether te y, bringing down 10 enemy Miss Danielson was murdered, fl , it was officially announced “pr.” Allen was not to be found at today | the county jail. On perhaps no other day of the| “The ‘doctor’ {s out,” said Jailer, war has there been such great| aerial activity Sergt. Baron dropped three shell«| on the military work at Ludwigs-| hafen and three others on the mun! | tion works at Manohelm, causing a Hally. At 11:15, Judge Frater said he couldn't wait longer for Allen to Grop in, and left the courtroom. A few minutes later “Dr.” Aller appeared, looking refreshed and bad fire vigorous. He seemed greatly dis-| On the Somme front French pa appointed at having missed the trols, which reached the southern ge. jedge of the town of Combles in yes-| Helsell] said Allen might return |terday’s fighting, found numerous again next Saturday and receive |German corpses and took 15 prison the penalty, if he could find time. ers SNOHOMISH FARMER SELIG WILL FILM | HAS 8-FOOT VINE BASEBALL SERIES \ CHICAGO, Sept. 23.—Exelusive Andrew Grenier, 2 §$no- (moving picture rights for the homish, Wash., farmer, reading | world's series have been granted of the record length of potato [tothe Selig Polyscope company, laccording to a statement made to-} to The Star which he believes [day by W. N. Selig, president of is the tallest vine in his district. |the company, upon receipt of aj it measures 8 feet, but is 10 |telecram from Garry Herrmann, | hy of the record set by chairman of the ional Baseball vines in Seattle, has sent a vine John Thiel’s vine grown at | Commission, anno ging that Se Kirkland. lig’s was the successful bid. | A consideration approximating ACTION WAS started in the fed- $25,000 wax included in the suc- | eral court Saturday by the Unite: sful bid the Great North Pictures will be taken of every i that a tr@in crew important play in each of the worked longer than the legal| games that will decide the world’s 16-hour limit championship. “Don't flash on the line. Mrs. Glen Dies ator if she does not answer a flash immediately Thou Thou Thou Thou Thou Thou Thou Thou Thou Thou Moses NE For be almost impossible NEW BOILED DOWN? Shall the words of God, which were written on tables of stone when the great prophet Moses was living thousands of years ago—and which have guided man thru all the ages—NOW be made to conform with “modern’ religious people of America today! ition shalt have no other God before me. shalt not make to thyself any graven image. shalt not idly utter ‘the name of Jahveh thy God. shalt remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. TELEPHONE OPERATOR’S JOB IS NO SNAP Former “Hello Girl” Gives Few ‘“Don’ts” That Will Make Things Much Easier It is almost fatal for an oper-| HAS to do it Yet it may | raise her voice at the end of a number she is ‘called Be Boiled Down Like This? How the Ten Commandments Look Boiled Down shalt honor thy father and thy mother. shalt not murder. shalt not commit adultery. shalt not steal. shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. shalt not covet thy neighbor's house. BY KENNETH W. PAYNE YORK, Sept. THIS is exactly what f In St. Louis, next month, church is going to consider a And, from present reports, || is \ ebcount despite the opposition already termed by many as “a sacrilegious proceeding.” But the Episcopalian clergy view this matter of boiling down God's ten commandments in a very different, in fact in a very matter-of-fact, light! Rev. Herbert M. Denslow, rector of note and professor of pastoral theol- ogy at the General Theological seminary, presents these as the generally ac- to REVISE the ten commandments! ery likely that the proposal will carry, ered in many quarters to what is being cepted arguments FOR the “revision.” “The plan is, as used in the Episcopal church service. vote of recommendation, however. years, and not be acted upon permanently three years hence. So there will be a great deal of discussion before any real change in the form of the ten commandments is actually possible. (In this paper Monday a noted minister will tell why he bzlieves the ten commandments ought not to be touched by hand of man.—EDITOR.) Ten Commandments’ Revision No Affair of Public’s, Pastor S “The revision of the Ten Commandments which has been talked of is no affair of the public’ That is the startling assertion of the Rev. Hen-y Anatice, secretary of the general convention of This convention probably wii have the question of revising the Ten Com- mandments presented to it by a commission of the church. ed to comment on the propos : the Episcopal church, Dr. Anstice, “The matter but | have not personally seen any report on the p ject. the present time! not before the public a Now get out your Bible and see how God handed down the ten commandments to 23.—SHALL THE TEN COMMANDMENTS BE he says, “to shorten the form of the ten commandments It should be remembered that the commandments themselves appear in different forms in the scriptures. “Those who advocate this change believe that the ten command- ments will gain in EMPHASIS, if shortened. They say that BREVITY constitutes the chief strength of most precepts. And so many have de- | clared that God’s ten commandments would be more powerful if recited in the form of simple commands with the REASONS eliminated. “A vote at the coming convention to adopt this change will be only a The project then must hold over three until of the the rstand a religious paper has mentioned it, It is not a subject for public discussion at “Don't wait eight or ten seconds when you the operator say ‘Number, please” Give your number at once A second lost puts the operator behind that much on every call in the day | “Don't scold the girl if she doesn’t hear you the fir ltime. Her head-set may be out of order or the chief operator may be giving her instructions at that moment. “Don't hold on to your receiver when you are cut off {If you do, your line tests busy. Hang up Never go in and say, ‘Oh, Central, YOU cut me off... Remember there Jare from 30 to 300 operators in an office. Don't lay the | blame on any one girl “Don't allow children to play with the phone DON’T JOLLY THE PHONE GIRL | “Don't attempt to start a conversation with a telephone jgirl. She is not allowed to converse | “She is permitted to say a few set phrases, as, for in-| stance “‘T am ringing them.’ ‘I will give you the supervisor |‘I cannot hear you; will you please speak louder” ete | “One day a man called in and said, ‘Central, give me | heaven.” He said he didn’t know mation.’ So I said, ‘I will give you infor- rates, names of towns and how to inflect their voices. I guess vou have noticed how an operator rolls her ‘three’s.’ She If she forgets, she is ‘called.’ If she doesn’t “It's no snap to be a telephone girl. Try it!” J WILLIE ZIMMER TO CET TO MEND LIF |Boy Who Killed Mother | Won't Be Hanged, Says | Prosecutor aa, WOMEN TO KEEP HIM NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 23.— Little Willie Zimmer, 12, who shot his mother to death here July 14, will not be tried for murder. Altho he made no pos- itive statement, Chandler C. Luzenberg, district attorney, intimated today that the boy neither would be sent to the Gallows nor imprisoned for ti T plea of thousands o' | ers and club women in | every state in the Union has | had its effect, and Willie will } | ] be given a chance to begin life all over again. Willle killed his mother because she tried to beat him with a broom- jstick. Willie's parents were sep arated. The day of the killing he had been with his father, The fath er thrashed him for some trivial of. jfense, so Wigje went to his moth ers home for tomfort. | But Mrs. Zimmer w in no com- forting mood. He off ed her, and | when she raised a stick to him he fired a bullet into her breast. She |tried to run, but a second bullet jlodged in her abdomen. She con |tinued to run, and when she reach jed an alleyway she fell, crying “Willie has killed me.” Since his arrest Willie has been | indifferent Until today he had jnever expressed sorrow for his deed | “I'm sorry I killed my mother,” jhe said, today, “but she tried to beat me, and that’s why I killed her,” Local club women contend the boy has not had the proper care {n |his early days, which deprived him jof an even break in his battle of Mfe, With proper environments they hope to make a man of the little fellow. Present plans call for a five or six-year course in some In: stitution other than penal | The district attorney today said |such action would be acceptable to him, and prosecution plans prob- ably will be dropped | WILSON TO VISIT OMAHA IN OCTOBER ASBURY PARK, N. J., President Wilson has invitations to speak Neb., Oct, 5, and at Oct. 12. ideas? Protestant Episcopal following convention ” Sept. 23 accepted at Omaha, Indianapolis FALL BEGINS TODAY Did you think September 21 was the first day of autumn? it wasn’t. Not Until 1:10 a. m. today could any one talk about the crisp fall weather and be officially correct. The weather | bureau gives ite word autumn did not b until tod: rHAIN® NEWS RTANDS, be All I could say was, ‘What is the number, please ?"| “In the training school the girls are taught to memorize) LAST EDITION GEORGE ISN'T TAKING ANY CHANCES WITH HIS WEATHER FORECAST TODAY. HE SAYS IT PROB- ABLY WILL BE FAIR TONIGHT AND SUNDAY WHY THE “PROBABLY,” GEORGE? AND TRIES TO DESTROY BODY BY FIRING © ~ OIL-SOAKED DRESS | One of the strangest suicides in local annals was revealed Saturday, when Cor- oner Mason and detectives unraveled the circumstances surrounding the death of |Miss Jennie E. Pendlington, 3822 Interlake ave., whose charred and decomposed skele- |ton was found in a lonely field one mile a of the Seattle Country club late Fri- ay. What was at first thought to be a murder ‘| mystery was cleared up by evidence showing that she planned taking her life and cremating her own body, on July 4, the day she left home. That she took a sleeping potion, after reading favorite passages in her Bible and | pouring oil on her body and clothes, and in ithe vague moments before the sleep, lighted a match and started the fire that almost burned her beyond recognition, was the con- clusion reached by the investigators early Saturday. ; gr eres ati an accident which made it impossible for her to work longer as a stenographer. She lived with her widowed mother, sister, Eveleen, a stenographer, and was able to enjoy their family automobile, but her poor health made her despondent. . On the morning of July 4 she re- eon Maw AS HE TRIES TO GET AWAY They never saw her after thac.| They found a brief note, stating | Oregon Prisoner Leaps Out of Auto and Makes Dash that it would be useless to hunt for her and that they would never see | jher again. | She left her rings on the bureau, | land also left $50 in gold that be-| |longed to her. She took her Bible | The mother and’ sister searched | vainly for her | | They asked the police and park authorities to assist. SHOT CLIMBING FENCE Mother Grief Stricken | ree The mother and sister, grief| SALEM, Ore., Sept Guards stricken, refused to see any ON?) toqay shot and killed Earl G. Love, Saturday. Hie . ‘The daughter's injury, sustained convict, as he attempted to escape, several years ago in a street car, Love was being taken with other accident, affected her spine, neigh-| prisoners in an automobile truck bors said, and made her a nervous |from the Oregon penitentiary to | wreck he : Mrs. S. Jacobs, 1502 38th ave, | Work in the flax fields IN. was the last neighbor who re »Near a bridge over Pudding | river, he jumped from the ma- members seeing Miss Pendlingtou | Jon the day she disappeared chine and ran, The guards were jo tt was about 11a. m.,” she said, |Close behind in another car. They “and I saw her walk away, carry./opened fire. Two bullets crashed ing a sult case, after her mother|‘thru the fugitive'’s body. He died i had gone automobile |* few minutes later. ' os gee aig Leland T. Murphy and P. 'G. Mother Searched Near Scene No one knows yet what became of the suit case. The mother suspected that her} ‘daughter might have gone to the Country club district to end her life erty there, and the girl was fa- miliar with the lay of the land and its loneliness. The mother even went there, i: was learned, and searched for the | bedy | But she never found it It was so completely burned, | Coroner Mason said, that other sur | veyors had worked near it, and not noticed that it was the remains of a human form, lying black against the log Find Remains In Lonely Spot Woodland park was searched, and the mother told neighbors she believed her daughter had drown- ed herself, | A civil engineer, E. A. Duffy, stumbled across the burned skele- ton lying next to a log,” explained | Coroner Mason, “in one of the loneliest spots I have ever seen, | “A fruit Jar, which we believed |econtained the ofl, was found near | ise skeleton, and matches and empty drug bottles, such doctors | (Continued on page 8) Meliss Weeks, of Chester, Mass., |e 70, only recently became the Jowner of the first “store hat” she lever wore, The “creation” was given her by the selectmen of the | town. The Pendlingtons own prop-| Heath were said to be the marks- men who fatally wounted Love. He | was hit while scrambling over a fence. Love was serving from three to 20 years for wronging a girl Authorities declared Love tried |to escape whilo in the county jail jat Vale, Ore. by throwing red pep- per into his keeper's eyes. He also was accused of being a ringleader in a recent plot whereby the whole flax gang of the state j Prison was to get away When that conspiracy was discovered, Love was searched and a dagger jfound in his possession. It was alleged he intended to stab the chauffeur of the prison motor truck just as it reached the crest of a hill and make a break for liberty while the machine ran away down grade. |BILLINGSLEY GETS LIMIT SENTENCE Logan Billingsley was given the maximum penalty allowed law for bootlegging Saturday by Super- jfor Judge Jurey—$250 fine and | three months in jail, | “It has been clearly shown,” said |the judge, “that Billingsle not only had Hquor in his possession, but that he was engaged in a busi- ness that has become a menace to | the life and health of the commun- ity.” Billingsley gave notice of appeal DON’T FAIL TO START THE RANDALL PARRISH NOVEL WHICH BEGINS IN THE STAR MONDAY 4 ¥