The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 5, 1919, Page 1

SATURDAY JULY 5 First Low Tide First High mide ‘p.m, 79 tt Low Tide 0 Pp. second High Tide pom, 111 cid VOLUME 99 NO. 112. BY RING W. Tides in Seattle First Low Tide 0S a. ue tt First High Tide P. sa tt Second Low Tide pom, 61 ft An American Paper That Fights for Americanism Rntered as Second Class Matter May 9, 18 — LARDNER Famous “You Know Me, Al,” Writer. TOLEDO, Ohio, July 4.—Well, Gents, here is Ring at the ringside, and the war is all over, and it didn’t last long; but Mr. Willard thought it lasted a week. I don’t know what he is going to do tonight, as he can’t read on account of his eyes being shut, and he couldn’t see a show if he went to it, Maybe he can have a good time thinking about that 100,000 berries, which is more comfort than for music. I can get. But, at that, I and he don’t care don’t know if I would of took what the big fellow got for any such pin money as that. SLAYS GIRL AND PLEADS FOR ARREST Harry S. New ew Rushes Botly in Auto to Police Station in Los Angeles : HE SOBS A CONFESSION | } LOS ANGELES, July 5.—(United | Press.)—Bringing with him the body of Miss Frieda Lester, of Los An-| , whom, he said, he had mur- at a lonely spot in Topango anyon, near Burbank, when she re- his proffer of marriage, Harry New drove to the central station early today and asked that he be ar- rested. 1 “I've killed her,” he nervously but quietly told the police, who met New in his little sedan as it stopped in front of police headquarters. New told the police that he is the gon of United States Senator Harry 8. New of Indiana by a divorced wife, now Mrs. Lulu Burgess, of of Glendale, Cal. He lived with his mother and his sister, Edna Clancy New, at Glendale. He said his mother was divorced from Senator New 15 years ago, and now is visit- ing in Indianapolis and staying at the Hotel Linden in that city. Detectives peered into the rear compartment of the natty closed car and there, beneath a robe, lay the body of Miss Leser. A big bullet hole thru the right temple had caused her deat th. “This is the gun,” New half sobbed, _ ag the police carried the body from the car. He handed over a .38 Colt automatic. Inside the police station New told detectives that he and Miss Leser had left last night for a ride thru To pango canyon. At a spot where the road was darkest he stopped the car and soon asked Miss Leser to become | his wife. She refused. ' An argument followed, New said,{ and in a fit of temper he told the police he shot the girl whom he sought to make his wife. She died in stantly. Realizing that he had killed his sweetheart, New said he moved the body from the seat beside him where she had died, placed it in the back of the car, carefully covered it with a robe, and drove with all speed down | the miles of dark road, thru flitting shadows from the moonlight, to Los Angeles, where he gave himself up to the police. Hp reached the police station just befofe daylight. Miss Leser was a beautiful bru-| nette, with luxurious dark brown hair. She was aged 20. New declared to police and news- paper men that he had planned. to marry Miss Leser tonight and had made all arrangements for a wed- ding trip to Fresno, Cal. | Last night, he said, Miss Leser con- | fidentially told him that she could not marry him now on account of her condition, and that she was go- ing to undergo an operation. New declared the operation would have been a reflection on the honor of the girl he loved and that he} could not tolerate it. Rather, he said, he would see her dead, and he shot her. For several years, and his mother, now Mrs. Burger, and sister have ing at Glendale, Cal., that since his mother separated from Senator New, 15 years ago, he and his sister had supported their mother. New said, he Lulu M. been liv- and added not discuss that matter,’’ Senator Harry 8. New, of Indiana, declared today when asked what he knew of the man arrested in Los Angeles for murder, giving the name of Harry 8. New and claiming to be | the senator's son. | LONDON, July 5.—An Exchange | " Telegraph dispatch from Cork today reported that a Sinn Fein meeting | and procession planned for last night | in commemoration of the Fourth of July was prohibited by the British military authorities, fight championship WHEN the battle day. The Star beat squarely. “fake” extra. bulletins stating, “Dempsey won” won.” When the ne The Star extra, by rounds. FIRST! HE STAR EXTRA, containing not only the fact that Dempsey won the was first on the streets in Seattle yester- One of its competitors resorted to a It got out what is known as a “dummy” extra, made-up-in advanc’ and that the wire that Dempsey won, that paper quickly got its “dummy” extra out, but it did not even state what rdubd the fight ended, nor the fact that Willard’s seconds threw up the sponge. not only gave the main fact, but the fight Suppose you gents wan make it all the stronger, I on him to win the fight, | 87 years old to lick a man 2: | of felt all the time that J put up a fight. awkward when he tried it , but telling also ended, and HOW, its rivals fairly and plates having been e of the fight with respectively, that “Willard ws was flashed over on the other hand, PHONE STRIKE MAY BE SETTLED SUNDAY Predictions. that the Coast wide strike of telephone oper- ators and electrical workers will come to an end by Monday morning, a6 a result of the conference now on in Washing- ton, D. ©. between J. P. joonan, president of the Inter. natioval Brotherhood of Elec trical Workers, and Charles P. Koons, assistant postmaster gen- eral, were made Saturday by R. W. Fuller, chairman of the triking Seattle electrical men. aller declared he believed the conference would result in a complete victory for the strikers. “I am fully confident this strike will end like the recent walkout of telephone workers in the Eastern states, when Postmaster Burleson instructed his assistant, Charles P. Koons, to give in to the demands of the strikers. Take No Chances “We will_not go back on a chance of arbitrating while»we are on the job, but we will return .within a moment's notice after our demands have been fully accepted. Should Noonan and Koons come to a com: promise settlement, the question of returning to work would have to be decided by a referendum vote. ‘The situation looks brightest this morning than at any time since the beginning of the strike last Sunday. The walk-out now dwin- dies down to a matter between the unions and the government and it looks like Postmaster Burleson is again attempting to get out from under."* The action of Postmaster Burle- son consenting to a conference of his assistant and the international head of the strikers removes the scene of the settlement from San Francisco to Washington, D. C. Special committees of striking electrical workers are investigating reports that a number of employes of the commercial and engineering departments of the phone company are working on the exchanges as “hello girls.” 4 Men on Boards “The men in are not organized and w blame them for working,” declared Fuller, “but when it comes to taking the places of striking operators, it is time to look them up.” The company has employed no strike-breaking electrical workers, these departments | can not! All repair work that is now going on is being handled by company offi- cials who formerly had experience | as line men, Reports reached union headquar- ters Saturday that the company has |imported a number of experienced telephone operators from Spokane to bolster up the force of telephone girls now working. The girls in Spo- kane are not out on strike. Miss Mabel Leslie, international organizer of telephone operators, is due to arrive in Seattle Saturday | night from Tacoma, Miss Leslie has | staged a 100 per cent strike of tele- | phone operators in Portland, it was announced at the union headquar- ters. Spokane is the only large city in the state where the girls are unor- ganized and still on the job. Seattle, Tacoma, Bellingham and Walla Wal la are all experiencing the inconveni ence of a telephone walkout. Continue Hearings The Chamber of Commerce strike investigating committee resumed its hearings Saturday.” Strike’. leaders were scheduled to appear before the committee Saturday forenoon. William Reister, chairman of the chamber committee, said Saturday the committee would be thru with its investigation by nightfall. A state ment of conditions in this city, as the committee sees it, may be in the | hands of the negotiating conference in San Francisco next Monday. Union leaders are reporting suc cess in organizing outside communi ties, They assert if the strike lasts one more week the state of Wash- ington will be out 100 per cent. C, O, Myers, manager for Seattle of the Pacific Telephone and Tele- graph Company, thru his secretary, said Saturday that he had nothing to say regarding the strike situation here. “Mr. Myers doesn’t want to say anything, and believes there is noth- ing for him to say,” the secretary announced. Myers could not be reached “personally Germany Ready to Begin Reparation ZURICH, July 5.—(United Press.) ‘The German government has noti- | fied Premier Clemenceau it is read to execute the repa of the peace treaty, and 1s sending a commission of experts to Versailles for the details, a Berlin dispatch re ported today. | I come to pick Jess to win the fight. was just a kind of practical joke on my part, and, to jon provisions | at the Postortice At Seattle, Was n., SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1919. t me to kind of explain how ] Well, Gents, it went and bet a little money so pretty near everybody thought I was really in earnest. As a matter of fact, I knew all the while that Jack would knock him for a goal. You can’t expect a man 4 years old. Besides, I kind ess wasn’t in any shape to He didn’t train right, and he ought to of practiced falling down, as he certainly looked the first time. ‘Fire Captain Dies When) Fireworks Bomb Frac- | tures His Skull ‘TOT IS TERRIBLY BURNED One killed, four seriously in- jured, and dozeas of minor hurts and burns, and a score of fires were reported Saturity as a re- sult of Friday's Fourth of July fireworks here. ‘The casualties are: } KILLED | dames E. Maloney, 39, 2612 | Edmonds st., captain in the city | fire department, struck on the head by an unexploded fireworks bomb near the Seattle Times building, and instantly killed, INJURED L, W. Lamont, 314 Columbia st., left leg shattered by explod- ing bomb fired from the roof of the Times building. Florian Kjos, 5, 608 Eighth ave., horribly burned when a fire- cracker set fire to her clothing. She will recover. Gerald W. Sears, 12, 706 Sno- qualmie st., two fingers and a thumb broken and burned by a firecracker, William Mountain, 10, 123 Blewett st., shot in the leg by a toy pistol. Captain Maloney was killed while | watching the fireworks exhibition at| | Fourth ave, and Stewart st. at 11:30| Friday night. A bomb fired from | the top of the Seattle Times building struck him on the head, shattering his skull. Mrs. Maloney, who was in an auto with her husband when the bomb hit him, was slightly in- jured by flying fragments. She re- covered the bomb and took it to the police station, The fuse had not been lighted. Capt. Maloney joined the fire de partment in 1905. He is survived by} | Mrs. Maloney, and Miss Eloise Hol- comb, 19, step-daughter. He Will Recover 314 Columbia st, was standing several hundred feet away from the Times building when a big bomb fired from the building | failed to explode until it struck the pavement within a few feet of him. His left leg was seriously injured, j and he was taken to the city hos- pital. He will recover. Florian Kjos, five-ye (CONT’?D ON PAG rold daugh- EB TEN) Dempsey to Get $7,000 Week Now CINCINNATI, O., July 5:—Ciniein- nati will be the first city to entertain Jack Dempsey, fistiana’s new king. A local amusement park contracted with Dempsey to open a week's en: gagement here today, paying him $7,000 for the week. Jack will give two performances daily, sparring three rounds with Bill Tate at each performance, and delivering a mono- log giving his version of how he Meked Willard | “T lost my little puppy dog” This is the first line in next week’s Want Ad Rhyme Contest. ‘ Add .three more lines that will rhyme with the above line, and participate in the cash prize and see the Clemmer show. Particulars on the classi- fied page. The Seattle Star under the Act of Congress Maren 8, 1879, The experts around here tell me the big fellow went to the mat seven di round, down just once and stayed the war. say the bell ruined him, as for two more of those awful rounds. fferent times in the first but personally it seemed to me like he went down for the duration of He was still down yet when the gong rang, and a lot of people said the bell saved him. I would it made him go out there Well, they was such a noise going on when the gong rung that they couldn't nobody hear it, and whoever was keeping time had to tell Referee Pecord The general public, including Mr. Dempsey, that the round was over. thought the big fellow had been counted out, and one fat Gentle- Seattle Fire This is Captain James E. Maloney, of the Seattle fire department, ree: Killed by Fireworks Captain was instantly killed when an unexploded fireworks bomb, discharged fro the roof of the Seattle Times building, struck him on the head, crushing | Capt. ee was seated with his wife in an automobile to his skull. view the fireworks. 'NO SIGN YET OF | MOONEY STRIKE Walkout Monday Not oe lide Refuse to Go Back pected by Unions There were no indications, Satur day morning that the Mooney strike call was being heeded by the union | men of the city, Shipyards, which only operate for four hours on Sat urdays, remained closed, giving the workers a three days’ vacation. City offices and many shops closed | because of the state holiday. | Shipyard workers will return to work Monday morning, and not un-| til then will it be definitely known | whether any of the unions will| strike. As none of them has signi- | fied its intention of staying out since | the Central Labor council Wednes: | day night refused to indorse the | strike, it is not likely that there will | be any organized effort to call aj} strike in the shipyards. The action of the Boilermakers’ union in instructing its members to return as usual on Monday morning is thought to be definite enough to bring nearly all shipyard workers to work Monday morning. Nothing definite has been ma¢ public by the International Worker: Defense league as to whether the strike will be called on Labor day for Mooney, as originally ptanned. | Drips and Drops Are Due Sunday Drips and drops are in the air for Sunday, opines our official weather- smith, ‘The moisture will be accom panied by one of those “gentle west erly breezes,” too, in the judgment of the weatherwright. Saturday night may be dtippy, to boot, in the opinion of Forecaster Salisbury. BRITISH WIN FROM YANKS | HENLEY-ON:THAMES, July | (United Pres.)—The American ‘army | first crew was defeated by the Le-| ander oarsmen today in the four-| oared race in competition for the] Leander cup, The Americans lost| by a length and a half. The Ameri-| can crew was composed of Lieut BE. H. Cooke, bow; Capt. Billings Wilson, Capt. C. D, Wiman and Maj. Paul Withington, stroke, | ‘Bab URGES FEDERAL CAR OPERATION to Work OTTAWA, ont, ‘Trades ‘Jul tawa council today urged |the federal government or the On- R34 IN TROUBLE LATE E Per Year, Weather Forecast: or. RING LARDNER'S STORY OF THE FIGH r’ take no punishment.‘ kiss, he climbed down thru thinking the afternoon’s Manager Jack Kearns had back to finish the job. At McManus my bet for 10 that side. Now, (Continued on Page navy immediately responded rush to the assistance of the The R-34 appears to hav Progress expected, and with The first cry of distress from the R34 was picked up by the navy stations. It said that flying across Nova Scotia the air dreadnaught had encountered strong head winds and that the petrol was running short. Five minutes later another message was received addressed to the navy and signed by Lieutenant Commander Lansdowne, an Amer- ican on the dirigible. This message asked whether a destroyer could pro- ceed, if required, to the southern end of the Bay of Fundy to take the R34 in tow. The following message was sent from the navy department to the R34 at 2:19 p. m.: “Fatilla left for Cross island, Maine, 12:30 p. m., to assist you. Two destroyers leaving Boston. Will communicate with you.” The commandant of the First naval district sent to the navy de- partment the following message at 12:40 p. m.; “U S. 8, Fatilla left Cross island for Machias, Maine, 12:30 p, m. to assistance of the R34, U. S. 8. Stevens and Bancroft will leave Bos- ton navy yard about 3 p. m. to as- sistance of R-34. Submarine chaser 407 ordered from Bar Harbor, Maine, to assist R-34." A third message from the R-34 re- ceived at the navy shortly after 2 Pp. m. showed her to be about 220 miles northeast of Cross island Maine, and asked if destroyers were tario railways board to operate the| on the w The message read: street cars, as the strikers con-| “Position 45 degrees minutes tinued to defy the government|"orth, 64 degrees west. Course order to resume work. The car- men have been given of allied trades, The conciliation board was suspended today by a govern- ment order. Twenty-three points remain in abeyance, There settling th H. A. Ro the Manite tigate the cause and effects of the Winnipeg strike. Reports from Toronto today said that 1,000 strikers in the metal trades, seeing hope of settle- ment, had left cities in the United States Toronto were prospects today of Vickers strike. Senator n was by no for y Found Dead _ on Garbage Dump in Eastern Town RICHMOND, Ind,, July 5.— Grand jury investigation of the two-day-old babe found on the city dump was assured today on the filing of the coroner's re- port. Coroner Bond severely ar- raigned Dr. , W. Kreuger, who admitted he threw the infant down a 60-foot embankment on tothe dump, Dr. Krueger had character- ized the baby as a “monstros- ity” and said he disposed of it.in this manner dt the request of the parents, The report said the child died 12 hours after it was found on the dump, and ,that death was due to criminal neglect of the attending physician. the support southwest true, Running out of fuel after flight from Britain. Please tell me if your destroyers are coming.” (The position given would locate the R-34 over the north shore of Minas bay, an arm of the Bay of Funday, about 20 miles east of Parrsboro, where the Handley-Paige airplane was forced to land today.) Early this afternoon a dispatch from Parrsboro reported the R-34 passing over that town with ev- ery appearance of everything going well with her. Benson Orders Aid Admiral Benson, acting secreta: of the navy, in the absence of Se retary Daniels and Assistant Secre Roosevelt, ry to the last reported | position of the R34. The yacht was | at Cross island, Maine, 40 miles from the Maine border, and the destroy ers were attached to the First naval | district, headquarters at Boston, Navy department officials here in | sending the three vessels did so as a measure of precaution, as a single craft might not be able to handle the huge airship, especially if strong winds prevailed. ‘There was no post: | tive assurance that the R-34 would need help, as its messages merely asked if a destroyer could be sent “it required.” If the gasoline supply should run out before the R-34 reaches Roose- feld field, and the crew of; the air- ship attempt a landing, it was fedred the dirigible would be wrecked, as there is no field in the | United States equipped to handle the airship und anchor it other than Roosevelt field, where the navy is in charge of operations, and where a big crowd today awaited the British } Repiatamelbaig neve a arrival, Should the R-34 become helpless in TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE by Mail, man jumped és into the ring and kissed Jack on the Cheek, so you can’t say that the new champion didn’t Well, as soon as Dempsey had recovered from the just a word about the big fellow, Gents: | When a bird gets knocked for a goal seven times in U. 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WARSHIPS ARE RUSHED T HELP DIRIG WASHINGTON, July 5.—(United Press.) —En jing head winds over Nova Scotia and with the petrol jrapidly becoming exhausted, |R-84 today wirelessed the navy department for help. |steam yacht in government service, and two unexpected gales that she has been unable to was believed in peril of becoming practically a derelict. air, at the mercy of the wind. ; | pressed, however, that had the dirig- , | Morning, ordered the steam | yacht and the destroyers to proceed | »| immediately DITION $5.00 to $9.00 —a | Tonight and Sunday, probably showers; moderate southerly wing the ropes and started home, amusement was over, and to chase him and bring him this stage, I offered George cents, but he was deaf on One, Second Section.) the huge British dirij by ordering the Fatilla, a airship. e been so severely the gasoline dan the air, it was believed that even three navy craft ordered to scene would have great di! hauling it to some sheltered where it could be deflated. One plan suggested was that | stroyers tow her to a point on coast nearest to Roosevelt field, # she could make a dash for the ing grounds with the small qu of gasoline remaining in her tanks, BOSTON, July 5.—(United —A wireless message picked up Bj the naval radio station here before noon today convinced officials that the British dit R34, en route from Scotland to Island, may be forced to descend the vicinity of the Bay of Fun The message, addressed to |navy department at Washiny | said: | “Could destroyer proceed to | southern end of Bay of Fundy jtake his majesty’s airship R34 tow? (Signed) “LANSDOWNE.” Lieut. Commander Zachary Lans: downe is the American naval officer assigned to the dirigible as an Ob server. The message, which was re! here from the naval radio at Otter Cliffs, Me., gave no details, but naval officers were inclined to believe the. airship's flight may be temporarily interrupted. The belief was ex+ | ible been in real peril, a more urgent call would have been sent out, The Bay of Fundy extends from the eastern boundary of Maine, | northeastward between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. It is about 100 miles long and 0 miles wide. Hope Airship Can Land by Tomorrow MINEOLA, L. I, July 5.—Lieut, | Col, Lucas, commandant at Roose- | velt field, announced shortly after 1 p. m. today that he had just received a message from Maj. Scote, com- | manding the R-34, stating the dirig- |ible would arrive here tomorrow Lucas called attention to the fact that the R34’ ge, inquiring | about the availability of a destroyer, in case assistance were needed, was signed by the American observer, Lient. Com, Lansdowne, instead of pott. Hegsaid he accepted this as |indicating the R34 was in no serk Jous danger ‘Start Search for Lost Balloon Pilot TOLEDO, O., July 5.—A United | States balloon is scouting over Lake Erie for Sergt. Marquette, balloon pilot, believed drowned when a cap tive balloon in which he was operat+ ing over Bayview arena, scene of the — Willard-Dempsey battle, broke its cable and floated over the lake, The balloon fell two miles out, Fred Deleven, New York movii picture operator, was rescued by on of a hundred launches that to pursue the balloon. Deleven. unable to account for Marq’ disappearance, The balloon just ut to make @ landing, had come to Within 20 feet of the ground, when a cable broke, Ten seconds later it was flo rapidly over the arena, 1,000 feet pot