The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 27, 1916, Page 1

g i SHOOTING 1 AFTER clid ave., Brooklyn, she ‘New York garage president, hd woman who posed as hi ‘suicide in a room in the Ho The mystery that surrc Apman, sister of the dead bodies. WILSON TO PAN HUGHES SOON, | LEADERS SAY BY ROBERT J. J. BENDER Press Staff Correspondent | ASBURY PARK, N. J., Sept 27——"Punitive expeditions” in- to the Centra! West in October "were today being worked out Im detail by President Wilson. of bis pians for of tripe—etl-impor. tant from a political stand- point—inctudes decision as to the nature of the addresses he will make and the number. ‘The leaders want the president ‘to “get Into the game” with Hughes and land on a number of issues the put over the plate. While the leaders agree with the, president that he should not go out wd &@ stumping tour, they are more and more outspoken in urging the} Mnjection of a few more persona!t ties into the so-called “discussion of public questions” which the uergehd has said wished to himself. ‘These leaders wish to see the party and Hughes, !f placed on the griddle by ible, ident Wilson. every reason to believe the pres will throw a lot of “pep” in- bis discussions from now on. VILLISTAS TAKE DURANGO TOWN): EL PASO, ‘Sept 2 27.—Mexican rebels announcing themselves as “legalistas” are in possession Friday, according to reports re- ceived at Juarez today. Two former Villista leaders led 100 men in the attack on the town. and captured it, according to the re 50 men were The Carranza garrison of Durango numbered about 1,500, commanded by Gen. Gomez, who was captured and executed, according to the re. TOO BIG TO PIKE PHILADELPHIA, Sep ‘republican candidate is striving i) im response to this appeal there| DONE IN HOTEL ROOM A CHASE —_ t. 27.—Death wrote Harry Belzar, 315 to death J probably fatally wounded s wife and then committed tel Walton here early today.} yunded the tragedy was par- mt tially cleared shortly before noon, when Mrs. Frances man, and Howard Fancey,’ this partner, arrived here and correctly identified the The slayer went under the alias lot Mrs. J. C. Ladur and gave her | address as 16 West 120th st, New | York “Other Woman” Unidentified The identity of the “other wom an.” now believed to be dying, how ever, remains a mystery. Mrs. Ap- man and Fancey denied that she was Gravier's wife His real wife died two years ago, they said, and detectives are dt- recting their efforts towards learn- ing who the dying woman is. It is believed she comes of a wealthy New York family, and, like Mrs. Belzar, was infatuated with Gravier. Magistrate Persch, with two po Heemen, are waiting at her bedside ip hopes of getting some statement. before her lips are forever sealed. |! Only once did she regain consctous- ness. Then she was informed of her condition and asked to make an ante-mortem statement. Says She's Tired A wan amile fitted across her mouth an instant, she sighed and sald: “Please. please go sway so tired.” Don't bother me,” jand lapsed inte unconsciousness. For two years, according to Mrs. Apman and Pancey, Mra Belzar has followed Gravier She was in fatuated with him and repeatedly he spurned her love. Finally she became desperate and followed him every place he went. Mrs. Hel zar was handsomely gowned and seemed to be always well cupplied with money. Found Rooms Easily She arrived in Philadelphia Mon day. She visited all of the larger hotels, telling clerks she was in search of her husband Gravier and his companion did not register until yesterday at the Walton. Last night, Mrs. Belzar had no trouble in going to their rooms. A matron saw her wafting oo bene hall and asked her what she | are =, a for my husband, gem ‘s other rooms heard nv words. Only the opening of a door. four sharp reports and then a wom-| an’s scream. The bodies of Belzar and Gravier toom, while the ing down the hall N.Y, UNIONS WON'T STRIKE Mra. wife” was craw! i. /ports. NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—Labor| Carranza military authorities at| inions in New York were today @uares isued a denial that Durango standing by contracts they have aapeees captured by rebels, with employers, and there was lit tle response to the call for a gen Funston Blames U. S. eral walkout in sympathy with the| striking employes of the traction} % Fi lines. for Carranza Fight)! "¥isco reports up to 11 a. m. ac jcounted for only one local, connect- WASHINGTOD Sept. 27.—Maj.|ed with the Painters’ union, going Gen. Funston’s official version of |out as an actual step in the sym the fighting between American « athetic movement. Probably 200. Miers and Carranzistas at El Valle {900 union workers remained away Friday blames the American sol-|from work today, but a majority of diers—of whom one was killed and |them would not have reported had another slightly injured—for the|there been no strike call, being trouble. Funston’s report reached |Jewish, and observing the annual the war department today thotiday, of their ears An executive session will fit be jetvike | [strike and grievance committee | will not be made public until the held Wednesday night, at the Scum tie doceens itis oie Labor temple, by the Central | aiiiity that the sympathetic strike Labor council, to consider the | wil) be called fongshoremen's appeal for a | Secretary Madsen of the Long a sympathetic strike of afl union | shoremen’s union is back from sev-| workers in the transportation [eral days’ conferences at Portland| fines. |with strike leaders. He declares! This is the first meeting of ite/that the situation looks consider. ia kind held in many years. ably better now than it has for sev The labor leaders are reticent\eral weeks, and that the strikers | gbout discussing the situation, and| have been ‘materially strengthened j the nature of the report of the’ by recent developments. Sh finis| across a story of mad infatuation of a woman for man who loved another, when Mrs. C. Gravier, | were in the| VOLUME 19, IS FOR WILSON; GIVES REASONS | Says President Is Heading Off Unseen Hands of Wall St. 8-HOUR | | | | | BOOSTS LAW| DETROIT, Sept. 27.—Henry Ford announced his supporting President Wilson in a statement today ‘m for Witeon,” sald Ford, “because he is onto the inter ests—the ‘unseen hands’ that seek to control government— and is heading them off. That he is onto them and ts heading them off, is proven by his refusal to rush into war with Mex ico, sacrificing the lives of thou-| sands of young Americans to save the dollars that Wall Street hax in: | vested In Mexico on a gamble. | But for purely business reason which may appeal more directly te many tt the welfare of the country demands Wilson's reelec tion. The republicans are raising & great roar about the eight-hour law and how {t will bamper bust- | ness, | say—and | say from ex perience, not from guess work that the eight-hour law will help business | We have had the eight-hour day in force in the Ford factory for| three years, and we have made more money each succeeding year, under ft. It has proved its own merit. 1 know Hughes. Teddy | Wall Street are behind him. I'm a jrepublican, but I'm for Wilson I'm a republican for the same ree son I have ears—i was born that and a, But I'm for Wilson use ‘he cat 40 more hance the prosperity and assure peace for this nation than any oth or candidate. “Any one who does not want peace aod who wants to cambie with prosperity, should vote against him. | RABBI KOCH IS AGAINST CHARGE “From the Jewish standpoint, the question of shortening the wording of the Decatogue te negligible. No Jew would con- sider it.” Dr. muel Koch, rabbi of the Temple de Hirsch here, thus summed up his views Wednesday with reference to the proposition that is coming up at the national convention of the Protestant Episcopal church to boil down the ten commandments. ‘The ten commandmente,” con-| tinued the rabbi, are = short| enough. They state concisely car dinal principles civilized world, denominations, which the whole of all creeds and have adopted as |fundamental to the well-being of mankind. So far as Jewish thought is concerned, it is not a de | batable question, for no shortening | of the phraseology of the Deca logue could be conceivably possible yto us.” NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—Vance €, MeCormick, chairman of the democratic national committee, to day announced the appointment of the following Woodrow Wilson campaign committee for the state | jof Washington: Edgar C. Snyder, W. H. Gorham, Judge Richard | Winsor, William A. Toner, Ivan § | Stalicup and George E. Ryan Electrically heated clamps that will crease a man's trousers while he is wearing them have been in nted MISSING Jack DePeyster, wealthy young man from New York City. He left home because his mother couldn't under- stand him Why Didn’t She Understand? READ “NO. 13, WASHINGTON SQUARE” The novel-a-week, which starts Monday. | | SEATTLE, | while the WASH SEP 7, 1916, WEDNESDAY, | - INEZ LUCILE, ELLIS Announcement he imports millions of bunches of ‘tbleash DOCTORS ARE EASY BLACKMAIL VICTIMS clans in Chicago, New York and Philadelphia who were victimized this way JEWS OBSERVE ‘ROSH HASHANA’ Beginning at sunset Wednesday, the Jewish “Rosh Hashana,” o; New Year, will be observed. Among the orthodox Jews, the observance lasts two days. The Reformed denomination observes it but one day The “Rosh Hashana” holiday dit fers from the January 1 celebration re#s would to make an effective|in that it represents a new year appearance. Thetr “make fp" went) i, 4 religious sense only, and is half way toward catching th@/ therefore an occasion for solemn sucker.” ritual In place of gay celebration But in “getting” ~— * |The Jewish theology teaches that the face was blanch: on this holy day, the fate of each lines of worry were drawn individual is recorded by the Al upon the spider woman's brow. | mighty She discarded her finery and | Service will be held this evening dressed in the modest attire of fat § and Thursday morning at a middle-aged married woman. | ot Temple de Hirsch CHICAGO, Ii1., Sept. 27—An amazing echeme to blackmail wealthy physicians has just been brought to light by secret service men in connection with the activities of the nation-wide syndicate said to have extorted wore than $1,000,000 from wealthy men and women. Sympathy toward sufferers was the card played by women of the syndicate to lure physi- cians into their net. The women sacrificed future motherhood to gather in thousands of dollars from victims. Accomplished actresses were these wily women, who would he envied by many a woman on the legitimate stage. In thelr esca- pades with victims at cabarets and resorts they “made up” as any act | Thus she came to the office of a! The orthodox Jews will hold| ‘Tits hiese was in the center one| vietim. She told a story Of hoW|services this evening, Thursday |of the company's three kilus, con she would soon become a mother,|ang Friday at the « baw |tataing the’ datnsion aak fhkmen but would be unable to care for | Bikeur Cholum, 17th and ¥ sler; | worked ciate war 90° test Msgr og the child because of some ailment | Hers! synagogue, 16th and. Fir,| pile ws or some other reason. Her tears/and at 12th ave. and W. bingtes | and pleas caused the victim to give | ¢¢ in. Generally a small payment was made and a receipt signed by | 1, the victim secured Then money was drawn from the victim when the trate “husband” | stamped into his office and de-| clared the physician had deprived! his home of a child and threatened | to air the case | and 14th ave. and Fir st Local Jewish merchants general will keep their establishments | closed ‘Thursday “res former collector c vanern) wesats sey. ty ee ceetaa At Bastin’ Wil wrobebly names of several wealthy phys) @/ 40 named Wednesday afternoon as le rman of the republican state | 1] committee State Senator Dan Landon of Se attle is favored for secretary. Har yer is a regular and Landon a pro gressive The committee me 2p. on | immediately following » noon as. ‘luncheon of the Young Men's Re Hot words led to a quarrel, but “Kept a knife under his pillow} [gee liepe! 2 pha ples and the quarrel to blows, which for. self-protection and others will speak. Senato “She struck me in the mouth,” he . suddenly ended when Robert iia the police “Tl used the knife Poindexter was unable to come Pickerell, 79, stabbed his daugh: |i protect. myself here at this time. ter, Nell Pickerell, and she sank | ‘The girl, suffering in the hospital Mena he “ae ¥. comular Is @ to the floor severely wounded fr 1Was able to tell the police that the) was not involved in the rabid dis flight followed a reprimand, when the lungs at their home, HO. jane told her father to “keep quict Thomas st., Tuesday night. and not get noisy.” She was in great pain atithe efty| Officers have known the girl as hospital Tuesday morning, where at tendants said there was @ smalljin police circles. chance for recovery. Muscles in| She dressed in men’s clothes for the amall of her back were severed, |years, and refused to wear skirts wound in the lung cavity! The police are still investigating is deep and dangerous. |the case, and no charges have yet The stories of the two, told to|been filed. They will take another| the police, differ as to the start of statement from both parties in an| the quarrel effort to find out who struck the| The old man said he was in bed, |first blow, Harry Livingstone, who is notorious | | The seattle Star Star ONE CENT | TO SEATTLE B | Cutter’s Crew With Homes| Here to Get Pay at Astoria FAMILIES CAN’ £4 SHOP) Aporeximately $20,000 is lost to Seattle merchants, it devel- oped today, because Uncle Sam is entwined with considerable red tape. The U. &. coast guard cutter Manning, after cruising four months in the Bering sea, reached here last Thursday for repal it will leave Sunday, probably, for Astoria, its per. manent station Instead of paying off the crew at Seattle, where the fam- lies of most of the men ti the navy order requires them to be paid at Astoria. it is true that many of the men |have their homes at Seattle.” said Capt Brown, in charge of the jCoast guard service here, In a j statement to The Star Wednesday | “but the vessel, on leaving the Ber an accident that brought the and therefore it is tm them off at Seat jonly vessel here. possible to pay tle It would mean jus to get our money here than at | Astoria,” said one of the Wednesday, “Our families, for the |mont part live here |be a good deal handier for us to do our necessary shopping while we are here Besides, we would see our home town get the sof Our trade when possible. Seattic Is our home, and we believe in boosting it whenever we get a chance.” much more to Stefansson Weeps at News That War Rages in in Europe SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 27.— it was not until the crew of the coast guard cutter Bear met the expedition of Viihjal- mur Stefansson off Point Bar- row, recently, that the explorer knew that Europe is aflame with war. Even then, in ordor to convince him, it was neces- sary to wire Nome for the jatest bulletins, and when he read these, Stefansson wept. FIRE THREATENS LUMBER PLANT Fire, starting the dry kitn, threatened 4,500,000 shin- gies at the Seattle Cedar Lum- ber company's mill in Ballard Wednesday morning. They were saved after $1,000 da s had been done, by fire men and equipment, who re- sponded to a general alarm. Two calls for juipment were made, because of the danger of fire threatening the big Ballard lumber manufactur. 0] HARPER, LANDON TO HEAD 6. 0. P. | | | | crimination against them shown in some quarters. He dry” and a leader in the (emper ance movement WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE Water will be shut off on Alki ave. from 600 feet south | of Villa st. to 63rd ave. S. W., and in that portion of Alki point wi of Gist ave. Thursday from 9 a. m. to 5 pom ing sen, was ordered dire to |Astoria. Consequently the men| | were to be paid off there. It was} crew! and it would) is pronounced | NIGHT . KATTLE MA wT THIS STATE IS NOT A “PIKER® [?T 18 BIG AND WOULDN'T LET hs 1 OPEN-HEARTED. ONLY A MISREPRESENTATIVE MCNEIL. EVEN THE ¥ LEGISLATURE IN 1915 PUT IT IN THE “PIKERS PLACH EVIDENTLY CLASS BY BUTCHERING THE MOTHERS. PENSION THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES T E ) PRINT THE NEWS : | HHORGE CONFIRMS IT AW LET'S REMOVE THIS STAIN. READ THE GEORGE CONFIRMS |! LEAD EDITORIAL ON PAGE 4 AND THURSDAY ANN STANDS, be SWEZEA TELLS OF WOMEN FRIENDS | INF ATUATED WOMAN SLAYS MAN AND “WIFE” FORD SAYS HE “Mardi Gras Queen to Wed ‘Banana Kine’”|$20,000 LOST THOSE CAUGHT IN U.S.REDTAPE QFFICE EASTER, NICE, Bert L. Swezea, against his wife’s suit for of charges that she was fr severely grilled Wednesd for Mrs. Swezea, during cro: |picture of himself as a patient husband was badly marred at noon. Swezea'’s memory, wh liant during his direct testimony while ; uncomplimentary to his wif He was unable to remembe Swezea admitted he | chauffeur ordered to watch Dubel double-crossed him Swezea into his office las was entertaining two gay, Attorney Hall asked Swezea who] —— jthe women were that were a cee th Washington Annex, and | office. They were frien/s of mine from| [2 Bartle — eager rip Seen oe N | home in mine. She drove reck- wrap ene They, Were Nice lessly and stalied her machine Were they nite women? Hall) inthe mud near our home. | pice they were.” said Swe! cranked it for her while it 2 ggeate was in gear. She bobbled the shifts ja demijohn of whisky im the room cigarets Women touched anything. He ad- mitted taking them to dinner that night, and later to Tacon | “They were wrecked jecene my wife created,” said om Swezea its “Second Cousin” ation of the visits Swe. been making for several years to 8 woman in her apart Ments on 20th ave. S., Swezea |plained that she was a second jcousin to him | “I did not let my wife know, be lcause she would make a fuss,” he | said | Wezea excused an auto ride in ich he was discovered by George | Kearney, @ garage man, by saying jit was just an accidental trip. Heatedly he declared that Kear- ney had attempted to force him to |pay $100 to keep from squealing. | “It was a harmless trip, and I had |bad trouble with Kearney.” Attorney Hall questioned Swezea | regarding a certain young miiliner lin Seattln whose name, he said, jhe had promised to keep out of the jtrial unless it essary to disclose it, and whom | Swezea had been calling on for sev- eral months. Took Out Milliner Didn't you take this miltiner on an auto trip to Snoqualmie Falis?” Hall asked. “lL can't exactly say she was a milliner,” Swezea retorted, hoily Was she a cousin also?” Swezea's attorney objected | the questioning | “Have you ever taken this wom- jan out to dinner? Took Her to Chicken Dinner | “Yes, several times. I have tak- en her to Jack Babb's Chicken Din- ner Inn.” Swe was forced to admit he had made a misstatement during the earlier days of the trial, when jhe said that his wife had objected jto having « hildren of her own. Hall produced a letter written by Swezea to his wife, in which he ie admitted that it was his desire | to have a child and to help his wife | to in the future to get along. Life Was “Hell” At one time during the grilling, Swezea blurted out that his life during the last 12 years had been a| hell He admitted he had hid his vest, which his wife had torn during a struggle, for the sole purpose of! using it at some future date as di vorce evidence This vest was laid aside at a time when Swezea had just promised Mrs. Swezea to begin all over. Swezea said that he had offered wife the Magnolia Bluff home jand $50 a month if she would ob tain a divorce But she held out for $150, we failed to agree,” he said Clubman Bert Swezea took the stand Tuesday afternoon in defense of the divorce action filed against him by his wife and attempted to show that he was not to blame for all the marital difficulties in the Swe- zea home, In fact, he said that if it had not been for Mrs. Swezea's mother he would probably not have lived with his wife after 1904, “The dear old lady brought us together time after time,” he testified. “On one occasion after we had been to Tate's cafe until it closed, we went to h and Seattle young women with booze. Hall asked Swezea if there wasn't | jand if the women weren't smoking) The defendant denied that the the textray x- was ‘absolutely nec-| EDITION PEEVED BECAUSE THEY THE FEDERAL PRISON AT *RISONS AREN'T SUCH BAD i) jET SOUND IT's AND WEATHERMAN THUSLY FAIR TONIGHT HE SAYS. clubman, whose defense | a divorce consisted in part @ iendly with other men, was by Calvin L. Hall, attorney ss examination and Swezea’s” ich has been strikingly bril- recounting deeds e, took a turn for the worse, r incident after incident. discharged Cal Dubel, the his wife, because he thought when Dubel brought Mrs. t Easter morning while he jing again and I went in the house — angry. That night we quarreled, jand she said things about my ter and pat former wes, that Ju “t dteosen a ‘and she "jumped wae |of bed and scratched my face until }it bled. Her own mother bathed \the blood stains away. Later I had @ picture taken upon my attorney's advice.” Swezea introduced several thou- sand dollars’ worth of bills, part of | which were still unpald, as a proof of his allegations that his wife was nt. “I always made a personal boast that I was at all times able to give my wife more than twice what she needed, but toward the last I got {into a position where she could make or break me. It was almost a break. “We always had trouble over my \Httle gir], who was in school in Tacoma. ! would not bring her — home during the last year and a hAlf of our married life at all, I 4 |made arrangements for her to stay with trie nds.” } |Broadway Hi Girl in Vaudeville Is Playing Here Now | } | | Lillian Romaine | “I've made it my avocation in ile to log Always for good in bad pew ple, aud never for the bad in good folks,” said Lillixn Romaine, who is appearing at the Palace Hip this Bob Robi- | | week with her husband, son. Lillian ig a Seattle girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, C, Ki, Mason, of Fauntleroy duated from the Broadway high school in 1912, and has been on the vaudeville stage since that time in a comedy singing and talking act In their act they have a song, the thought of whieh runs thus: “Nobody ever sings about the bad girls, because are sad; But everybody sings girls, because are glad.” the bad girls | | abou: the good | the good girls Police Officer C. J. Multen took suddenly sick, fainted, and fell to the floor, cutting his head severe }ly, while talking to Officer Mayon in the city jail Wednesday mora- ing.