The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 7, 1919, Page 1

‘Tides in Seattle SATURDAY STORRS OFFERS TO WED GIRL An American Paper That Fights for Americanism Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Meattle, Wash, The Seattle Sta under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879, Rann LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE $5.00 to $9.00 Per Year, by Matt, 2 99 VOLUM NO, 92. @ MARRIAGE IS _ DENIED WHEN _ JUDGE RULES (Special to The Star) OKANOGAN, June 7.—With Ruth Garrison on the witness stand this morning, recalled as a witness for the defense, Dudley M. Storrs, on trial for seduc- _ tion, formally offered to marry wife’s as ffer made by his attorney, P. ( ‘as a complete surprise to A. R. Hilen, prosecutor, and Prosecuting Attorney W. E. Gresh- am, and threw the court room into a fever of excite- ment. From her thajr on the witness stand, Ruth sat with bowed head and trembling hands. Storrs also sat with downcast eyes and, if anything, his pale face J cap whiter. e state rested its case at 10 o'clock Saturday morn- with the testimony of Deputy Prosecuting Attorney _ John D. Carmody, of King county, and Captain of Detect- ‘ives Charles Tennant, of Seattle, both of whom told in de- tail of Storrs’ admissions to them of his relations with Ruth Garrison. In his offer of marriage on behalf eM ecution. “They Love Each Other” “This girl, Ruth Garrison—this Dudley Storrs, love each ." said Attorney Smith. “They will marry regardless of how long he must wait, or she must wait, even if it is five years or more. We are not insisting that this marriage take place today if the court finds any impediment in its path. This man loves this girl; this girl loves this man. “This offer is an absolute bar to further consideration of this case.” “As @ part of this offer I want to ask Ruth Garrison if she will accept an offer of marriage from Dudley Storrs.” Attorney Hilen, Ruth's personal attorney, objected strenuously to | Ruth's answering this question and in this view Judge John 8, Jurey conourred é “This court has no power, right or jurisdiction to consider the mo: tion of counsel for the defense, and if this court had the power, right or jurisdiction, the court could not permit this offer of marriage to be considered at this time, or at any time, so far as the performance of the ceremony by it is concerned. The mofion by counsel for the de fense that this girl and the defend ant be allowed to enter into con tract of marriage is denied.” E. B. Glatz, father of Mrs. Grace Storrs, who was poisoned by Ruth Garrison, took the witness stand late Friday afternoon to identify letters written by the defendant to his spouse, and from wife to husband. Prosecuting Attorney W. E Gresham offered to introduce the letters in evidence after identifi cation by Glatz, precipitating a bit ter duel of words between P. D (CONT'D ON PAGE FOUR) '300 SEATTLEITES GO TO PORTLAND Between 250 and 300 Seattleites |were scheduled to leave Saturday jevening and smith | Portland to attend the 16th annual |convention of the Pacific Coast Ad |vertising Men's association, which will open Sunday at noon and end Wednesday night / “In the presence of the jurors, Dud- now offers to marry this |. and do it now, and I respectful- req that this presiding judge this trial perform the ceremony “here and now.” Hilen was on his feet in an instant and burst into a bitter speech of de- nunciation against Storrs and his at- ey. he for the good of Ruth Garri-/| son, and for the good of her family, that the state objects to any cere: mony now, or at any time in the fu ture, between Ruth Garrison and Dudley M. Storrs.” Hiden Objects “We object on the legal ground) that she is not mentally competent As proof I call the court's attention | to the verdict in the murder trial] at Seattle, Wash. on May %, when this girl was adjudged mentally ir responsible and ordered taken to j ‘the state ward for criminals at the} ’ i Walla Walla penitentiary.” | Over Smith's bitter objection, | | | | Hilen read to the jury the formal verdict rendered at Seattle, Wash., by the jury which found Ruth Garrison not guilty of the murder of Mrs. Grace E. Storrs, on the ground that she was mentally irre-) sponsible, a condition which exists) to this day. “This offer of the counsel for the defense is only a mere by play for the benefit of the jury. It is more than that—it is ridiculous Prosecuting Attorney Gresham} followed Hilen in a still more bit- ter speech. He said “The defense waits until all the state’s evidence 1s before the jury and sees that the penitentiary gates are swinging wide to receive Storrs. They come forward now at the 11th hour to seek an avenue of escape. “This unfortunate girl, who sits here on the witness stand, may| want to marry this defendant, but she shall not.” Leaps to Feet At this juncture Attorney leaped to his feet and shouted “Mr. Gresham, you should spare the cowering girl.” ~ Hilen interrupted to retort: Delegations from Spokane, Taco: “You placed her in this position! ma Vancouver, Victoria and smaller nd you shall bear the consequences! Northwkest cities are en route to of her harrowed feelings!” | Portiand or preparing to leave. It 1s Attorney Smith cited numerous! believed the total attedance will be court decisions to uphold his con-|1,500, Mayor Ole Hanson, of Seattle, tention that an offer of marringe| wil} address the inspirational meet to a girl under 21 yeags of ag@|ing to be held Sunday afternoon in from a man ackused of having #e the Portland municipal auditorium. duced her, is a bar to further pros | Sunday morning for | slayer as D. Smith,| | | | | | that a settlement impends | work or suffer automatic discharges. SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1919. oe Weather Forecast: fn tg nw win iat wea 4 mnt ‘FIND STOLEN CACHE IN CITY HALL 4 Proposal Advanced in Court wee This picture of the British premier, David Lioyd George, was snap- | ped as he was hurrying from the. peace conference, waving his stick to the driver of President Wilson's car that he might ha¥e another word with the president, STRIKE BROKEN, SAYS OFFICIAL Mayor Gray States Winni- peg Walkout About Over BY JAMES T. KOLBERT | Jnited Press Staff Correspondent) | WINNIPEG, Man, June 7.— Mayor Gray today claimed the general strike here is disin- tegrating. He pointel to the re turn of 60 per cent of the city’s CITY WORKERS ORDERED OUT Vancouver, ‘B.C. Further) Tied Up by New Move VANCOUVER, B. C., June —A. W. MeFarlane, business agent of the Civic Outside Em- ployes union, announced late last night thet all outside workers will be called out at 11 a m. today. This affects all depart- ments of the city, except the city hall. No further details were firemen to work and the appli- given. Lights will not be af- cations of other municipal em- fected, it is stated. 3 as proof of hi tat City Engineer Fellows, upon be sry 2 male | ing informed of the decision of the outside staff to walk out at 11 a. “The situation has changed from @ battle of manoeuvre to stationary warfare,” Gray said t determine results now.” At the city hall it was the telegraphers’ union will be the | *" first to break en masse from tho |” striking body. Twenty operators re- | “" turned to work for the Canadian Pa | cific Railroad Telegraph company today, | bu amina will claimed | ©° Gray and other governmental au-| thorities asserted labor was held to- gether by promises of the leaders | | be | | th th | of Postponement of the city’s ulti matum to policemen will expire to night. Mayor Gray said the officers will be notified they must renain 4 jar “We have ceased giving ground,” he said, “The strikers must take some backward steps now.”* gee ot m., | strike men on strike expressed regret at the action, t stated things were in fair shape present, as far as the scavenging d street cleaning departments were neerned, If the strike continues y length of time he intends is ing an appeal to all householders 4 places of business to burn their rbage as far as possible. | Operating under strike conditions b me th order of the day yester. with condifons unchanged from y, when the full force of the rently went into effect, No efforts to break the strike are ing jo, so far as can be learned, one affected getting along ag best ey can In some cases, officials firms are taking the places of but no strikebreakers ‘¢ being put to work Outside of the business directly af ted by the strike and the absen street cars, the situation continues irly normal in the city. Should the police decide to walk | out, he said, 300 special constables Ke Tala ates will patrol the city LONDON, June 7.—'We are not Milk and bread depots were run-| going to sign unless the treaty is ning smoothly today. Most amuse-|made half decent,” Dr, Bernard ment places reopened without inter: | Dé ference last night. Pluck is all right, but good Jel | ps frequently leaves it at the post, the rnburg was quoted as saying, in Jan interview published here today According to the dispateh, Dern- rg declared that Germany cannot y and that the allies cannot make pay. | | | } | | |] ence with other judges, refuser a g |} t@ call grand jury to invests |] ate. 1,000 Workers Who Walked City detective squad ferreting out evidence In hope of locating Out Ordered to Return to Shipyards charge stolen whisky planted in their deeks by thieves. Judge Tallman, after confer | Strike of more than 1,000 ship- yard workers in local shipyards will be ended an the result of ac- tion taken by the Bollermakers’, Iron Shipbuilders’ and Helpers’ union, No. 104, at a mans meet ing Friday night, in the Arena. _ | DRASTIC TERMS TO BE REVISED Riggers, plate bangers, burners, — jer e ut i il evscenac’ eriers pave wen ov" |Treaty in Present Form Will ‘Thursday, May 29. Ames, Seattle Not Be Signed North Pacific and Duthie's are the} sad | BY LOWELL MELLETT United PARIS, June 7—The ment which Senator Lodge re- ports having seen in New York is mot the one that will co down in history as the treaty of peace of Paris is the yards where the biggest walkouts “altho forme mon are ‘out ‘Todd and Erickson zpape. The union, at ite merting ¥ night, notified the men who have waiketl out if they did not return to work by Monday, Local 104 would see that other union men filled their | places, There are 18,000 memlers) in the Bolle makers’ union | preg of ere close to Presi- The Geteat of the strikers came | t Wil to the senator's by @. beestution charges that the full text of | about a introduced | the German treaty is in the |asking that the union indorse their action, Those in favor of backing} bands of certain American up thé strike asserted that the time| Private interests for action had arrived, and that the| In other words» the treaty in men on strike should be vigorously |!/t* present form will not be pre- eupportéé. jnented to the Germans for signa- ture. It is bound to undergo con Defeat Request adores revision | Opposition to supporting the — All+thru the winter months the was volced by a majority = the | president is said to have battled |speakers, who maid that mich dr atic | with Premier Lioyd George and steps were not In order at present. | premier Clemenceau in an effort | By an overwhelming vote, the res jolution asking that the walkouts be | indorsed was defeated to draw up terms to which it w |poxsible for Germany to subscribe Following this action, the union|°r “hich could be enforced by the allies. The fight reached its | Passed resolutions ordering the men| A \0 March back to work Saturday morning, but| ne It is now possible to state tha an the yards operate only four hours the conditions o proposed | Saturday, the men will be given un » conduions originally “ prapceed j>y the British and French undaer- til Monday to return. | went sIrwtic modification in that | on strike because |“ *"! le ee ee month, but even after remodelling, |of dismatiafaction with the Macy the treaty was so severe that the | scale, This is the scale that is being British nd even some ¢ «the used in paying all shipyard workers | 1") ; Saas rags na ‘ - here, altho tt has been rejected by | French delegates now agree It is the Metal Trades council impossible to carry them out They walked out in five of the | Impossible Terms yards without the consent of the! ane president, accorfing to his union, and afterward the union re-| associates, finally agreed to the fused to sanction their action, The treaty 4 ent fo | Metal ‘Trades council also refused to|(reaty in ite present form in the oe Mey toy mi belief that the effort to put it into support the strike po jexecution would soon reveal it Altho the steps taken by the boll-| 71. impossible of retaliation, even ermaxers ‘Friday night means that | 4 ‘ the majority of the strikers will re.{i@ the Germans accepted it. Shift. pe Sener sey Se te. oi 94 ing of the political situation in | turn to work, or have others put in | their places, it does not completely the strike problem in the yards. Great Britain has now given him an unexpected ally in Lioyd George | ineers are owt tn several of the Nevertheless, the entire Ameri- | yards and the action taken last |°@" delegation ts not in sympathy Inight will not affect them. ‘Their {With Wilson in withholding the full | walkout was occasioned by disagree-|t¢Xt of the treaty, inasmuch as ment over awards of the Macy scale. | photographic copies are on sale The decision to return to work |i ‘three languages in ‘many, was influenced by the fact that the |SWitzerland, Holland and nda lnavv yarda were being forced to cut down | "#¥!4 | their personnel in all crafts as the| Attacks such as that made by |result of slowing up of work the sporadic strikes, | The. Ames yard officials an-| nounced Friday that if the strike |feason why the treaty should not | continued they would be forced to re-|be given out and that such at- | lease 500 men, It was even rum da | tac ‘ks are embarrassing that continuance of the strike would| It is pointed out that while the result in a general shut-down of |big four might have had numerous | plants here reasons for withholding the Mt has now been so widely published |heyend thelr control that it fs use- jless te keep it from the American public Senator Lodge are not regarded as surprising by some of the Ameri- can delegates, who say there is no thru Asks More Troops on Mexican Border WASHINGTON, June 1.—Addi- tional troop protection along the Mexican border was today asked of the war department by Gov. W. P. | Hobby of Texas. | ‘The governor urged that the first Jand second regiments of the ‘Texas state guard, organized during the | war, be mustered into federal serv- lice immediately and stationed at strategical points along the border, Hobby, in a telegram to Secre- tary Baker, copies of which were sent to Congressmen Gardner, Bee and Hudspeth, stated that the ac- jtion was n seary to Assure ade- |quate protection of life and prop- erty in Texas from any raids of the Mexican sections | The | Automobile Section | On Pages 16 to 20, | Is Full of | Interesting News. Turn to Page 16 Preay Staff Correspondent) | text, | OZE REFUSE TO CALL GRA JURY PROE A steel case containing 36 quart bottles | |whisky, part of the confiscated booze stolen from’ perior Judge Clay Allen’s chambers Thursday nig |was discovered early Saturday by Frank T. Gordon |Special investigator for the prosecuting attorney’ office, cached in a light shaft on the fifth floor o jcounty-city building. j Charges that the booze thieves deliberat planned to throw suspicion on deputy pros jattorneys were made with the announcement ¢ |Theo. H.. Patterson and W. A. Frater, deput ecutors, each found: two quart. bottles of contr the 936 quarts disappea jhidden in his desk after Altho petitioned by Prosecuting Attorney |Brown to call a grand jury at once to inquire into 1 ;frowing booze theft scandal at the county-city build | Presiding Judge Boyd J. Tallman, after a conference jthe other King county superior judges Saturday mo announced no grand jury will be summoned. | ‘Other developments in the unrav- | : |eling of the mysterious “soeceal WOMEN T0 FIX. PRICE OF FOC jance of the whisky are expected as soon as a large squad of city de- |Homekeepers Meet day to Plan Campaign: —_—— bs | tectives has been placed at the dis- posal of Prosecutor Brown. To date | Brown said Saturday, he has not ev idence sufficient to involve a single suspect. ; In announcing that no grand jury | will be called, in spite of the prose- cuting attorney's motion, Judge Tall- | man declared the judges, while not considering the disappearance of (he | Whisky lightly, do not believe this is the proper time, and held the situa. tion not serious enough to justify such action, | Has Sufficient Power | “The prosecuting attorney has sut- | ficient power,” Judge Tallman said from the bench. “There is nothing jextraordinary about this situation. | There was no grand jury at the time | of the Everett riot, and the prose- | | cuting attorney did not call for one| in the criminal anarchy cases, | _ “This is not the proper time, for | July and August are the vacation | months, and the judges of all the to boycott foods that exceed price limits, will be by the meeting of the Homekeepers' club Monday in This announcement was Saturday by Elinor M. ton, president of the cl By: called the meeting. —— “Ww will not attempt anythi |unfair,” she said. “We will have committee of women vho buy food to investigate the prices. Ee The; Superior courts have observed this| report the price they baliews law for 25 years, A grand jury con-| other women should pay and venes annually, and this case can be |taken up late in the fall, when it meets. Passion and prejudice will | be cooled by that time, and the jury 1 (CONT'D ON PAGE FOUR) |prices go higher the boycott will invoked “Later we will welcome the deak ers and commission men to tell | their story, but not just now. We don't want them Monday at all. All | women who keep house are eligible [to belong to the club and we intend | to fight the profiteers hard all the way down the line.” \Peniais Searching for Bank Robbers SAN DIEGO, Cal., June 7.-—Po- lice and sheriff deputies are comb- ing San Diego county today for two young men attired in linen dusters and auto goggles, who rob- | bed the East San Diego Commer cial & Savings bank late yesterday | PLAN CONCERTS three other bank empldyes against| TWO Big 40-Piece Bands | the wall, the robbers calmly ran-} |sacked vault and cash drawers.) Proposed for Summer jreeting eight customers as they | salidicoia entered, they relieved them also Plans ar Jof their intended bank deposits, © on: foot foe an eae larged program of public band concerts to be played by two big. 40-plece, well-trained bands, in the parks each Sunday afternoan and two or three evenings a ¥ They escaped in an automobile. Reduced Army Bill Reported to House) Committees representing the. WASHINGTON, June 7.—(United Legg 7 of Commerce, Elks, 100 Per Cent hte ang Press.)—The army appropriation | club, war camp coms bill, carrying $810,000,000, was re-|™unity service and the Musicians’ | ported to the house by the military | Won appeared before the park committee today. | board Friday afternoon and presents This is a reduction in war depart: | 4 the plan, 3 ment estimates of $307,000,000, | The park board already had | The bill, as reported, is $300,000,- | Planned to hold alternating Sunday |000 less than that passed by the | Concerts at Woodland park and Alki | house last session, | beach, Lack of funds is the chief frvaa wd to a more elaborate plan, the Fi es members said. WOMAN FATALLY BURNED | It was finally proposed by the rep: |_ STOCKTON, Cal, June 7.—Mrs./resentatives of the civic organisa Josephine Crux wag fatally burned | tions that sufficient funds might be today when she attempted to fill the | raised by subscription to carry out | gasoline tank of a lighted stove. | the better-music project, . The flames enveloped Her entire| Park board members deferred ao- body. Mrs. E. nojas was terribly tion until Monday, when @ burned in aiding the burning woman, decision will be made,