The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 20, 1919, Page 1

IRL MURDERED! Richly Clothed Victim Thrown Into Shrubbe Tides in Seattle MONDAY ‘OCT, 20 Viet High Tide First TURSDAY OCT ow Tite | Second High Tide beep om. 12 ft | Second Low Tide lieat pm, Lak O 7 Kotered as Becond Class Matter May 3, 109, at the ZATTLE, WASH., AS IT. SEEMS TO ME DANA " SLEETH VEN married men some- times retain that air of Jauntiness that is sup- posed to set the festive bachelor apart. We noticed an exceedingly chip Per young person the other after “foon. He swung along in a bik fan belted coat; a cream, broad: brimmed felt hat was tilted rakish Ty: shining dark leather low shoes; #triped and clocked sox; a slender whip of a bamboo cane, and a Diack and white check suit that Would let him in at the back door of any First ave. lifesaving sta ton. A trim and brisk young man, go ing somewhere, full of ginger, and absolutely without responsibility. He, turned into an Lage 4 house, and as he did so in his other hand he was art concealed Were; a sensing that he was wast- ‘Ris sweetness on the desert air. For my patt, gilded chains never appealed; frankly clank them, and in time their music will sound as sweet as the scent of the lilies-of the-valley—or was it orange blo» soms?—that made incense on your wedding day. OR some years we have ‘been entertaining the Gim-me family. ‘ Uncle Sam set the pace with his Liberty bond campaigns; then they took us im for savings stamps; then they needed $100,000,000, two or three weeks before the war ended, for charitable ‘institutions, One after another the stamp days rained upon us, and no sooner did we lay aside four-bits for a haircut than some deserving cause wrenched it from us. We have another with us this week, and we're sorry. Sorry that they kept one of the most. worthy campaigns until we were nigh destitute, with a hard winter ahead. But always there is a dollar left, and the Roosevelt memorial ap peals as being decidedly the most important cause that has recently asked our dollars. Our great men die unmourned; misunderstood; it will be 50 years before Roosevelt takes his place in our history, tho already we are dimly perceiving what manner’ of man has left us. If Americanism be worth any thing to us; if national ideals mean anything, certainly we will give what we can, and give gladly, to memorate the memory of the one, leader among us who first preached Americanism, and who on bis death bed, grimly, fought ex haustion until he finished his fa- mous keynote addreas. Not one of us today but would glory in the fact that he gave to keep alive the memory of Abe Lin- coin; gave when Lincoln was mere ly a martyred president, and as yet small in the minds of men. Seattle's share of the national fund is $40,000; something like a thin dime pet person, to build for future generations an altar to Americanism, and its first prophet It makes no difference to Teddy it merely is a small measure of your love of country, and the rest of it E NOTED a new touch in millinery Saturday; per- haps some chic young person may profit; at least, it's different On a felt and fur toque we saw a sixinch spread of polished aba lone #hell Fish, feathers and hides have been common on hats, but to date we had not met up with sea shells The mussel hat, the clam turban andthe lobster boudoir cap occur 10 us a8 possible extensions of this new fashion note. A frieze of oyster shell applique on a boiled crab crown, topped with a plume of crawfish tail, with @ brim of terrapin shell should *¢ satisfying "Ordinance SoonReady wfor Action Mayor to Convene Council, Sometime Tomorrow; Hour Not Set /PROBABLY AT 2 O’CLOCK | At the request of Mayor Fitzger- ald, the city counctl will meet in ixpecial session Tuesday to consider | an ordinance designed to curb. the |rapactous rent hog in Seattle, The |time has not been fixed, but will probably be at 2 p. m. | | The mayor will appear before the | council im person and urge tm-) mediate passage of the ordinance |which on Monday was being given | its final touches by Chief sAssiatant | Corporation Counsel Thomas J. L.| | Kennedy. | ‘The Kennedy ordinance, which wil contain an emergency clause, wilt be in the hands of the mayor jand city council Tuesday morning | |A full attendance at the council | imeeting ix assured. It goes with- | lout saying that the lobby will be! packed with helplers tenants who have been writhing in the tentacles of the rent octopus for many | monthis. | | If the ordinance is passed at the }counct! meeting Tuesday, it will be- | come effective at once, | WILSONRESTING SATISFACTORILY |Physicians’ Bulletin Says the Poident Is Comfortable WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—(United Press.)-—"The president's digestive | disturbance has subsided almost com pletely,” said a statement iasued by | |his physicians at 11:20 a. m. today. | | “After a fairly good night, he is comfortable this morning,” the bul lletin continued. | The statement was signed by Doe tors Grayson, Ruffin and Stitt VIENNA PLEADS | FOR U. S. HELP Famine May Cause Death of Thousands This Winter | VIENNA, Oct. 18.—(Delayed.)—The Stadtrat today passed a resolution jasking the American congress to aid the -city in its “desperate plight.” The shortage of food and fuel may }cause the death of thousands this | winter \Urges Probing of Trade Commission WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Investi |eation of charges that employes of \the federal trade commission are en-| | gaged im “socialistic propaganda” ts | jealled for In a resolution introduced! Indiana, today MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1919. the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The seattle Sta | patoftios at Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, CENTS Late Edition Per Year. b: $5.00 to Weather Forecast : Tonight and Tuesda gentle Mail 9.00 ‘ai westerly winds. (AMERICA FIRST, MYSTERIOUS KIDNAPING MAY BE VALUABLE CLUE: Foully murdered, the body of a comely young woman of about 25 years, was fo! lying underneath shrubbery at the end of Cascadia ave., on the Roger Brown estate 0 Jones’ point, not far from Mt. Baker park, on the shores of Lake Washington, shortly after o’clock this morning. The body was still warm. Up to a late hour this afternoon the bo lay in the public morgue in the County-City building unidentified. At 10:20 Sunday night a woman giving the name of Mrs. L. Cutler, Wilhard hotel, phoned thi ‘Gniox that she had just seen a man leap out of an automobile on Sixth ave., between University REV. CROWTHER Rev. Dr. J. E. Crowther, of the First Methodist church, championing the Japanese from the pulpit Sunday night, said some rather mean things about The Star. But we cannot get angry about it. sorry for the doctor. We feel sorry for any one who is so gullible as to believe that Japan has kept the “gentlemen's agree- ment” with the United States. And Dr. Crowther— poor man—believes it, despite the immigration figures, which show that since the “gentlemen's agreement,” Jap immigration has trebled instead of diminished. We feel sorry for any individual who, in order to maké a case for the Japanese, must resort to the absurd. fietion..of a California» syndicate of some kind ee up anti-Jap feeling in the Northwest in order to regain Nipponese trade. Poor Dr. Crow- ther—honest old soul—believes that, tho at this very moment the agitation in California against Japanese is greater than it ever was—and the people of Cali- fornia are even now circulating initiative petitions and calling for a direct vote of the citizens on the Jap question. “It is better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so.” We suggest this text to the Rev. Dr. Crowther. If he will medi- tate on it, he will not become quite so pitiful the next time he attempts to argue on the Japanese question. Ministers frequently betray their lack of under- standing and information when they deal with world- ly questions; but ignorance in the pulpit is as dan- gerous as ignorance in the press, and less excusable, for the press is not inspired, nor does it claim to be. When the reverend doctor asserts that the Japa- nese are an aid to this country, that they are friendly to us, that they have never spied on our fortifica- tions, that picture-bride marriages are above re- proach, and that The Star should be boycotted to make it quit telling the truth to protect American ism, then the doctor is blind, and his words are as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals. Blind leaders of the blind, tumbling into the ditch —that about expre: it. But no matter w pseudo religious boycotts may be urged by the bigoted, or countenanced by the selfish interests who would ruin Seattle if they could hay Mae profit, The Star will continue to tell the truth, No, Dr. Crowther, a Japanese boy- cott will not deter The Star. It will con- tinue in the future, as in the past, to stand for America first! For we feel |Wenatchee Crop Strength Rapidly Worth $20,000,000 NEW YORK, Oct 20 (United Seattle returning Press.) E. M. House, confined! from a tour aw guests of the Wenat to his bed since arriving here from chee Commercial Club reporte jon Europe, up today gaining Wenatche valley is liter strength rapidly, according | ‘Ten ports from his home It is expect | estimated, Col. House Gains business men Col was day that th with thousan) carloads, it will bring a return of $20,000,000 this fall to re|ally burdened apples. is ed hé will be able to leave for Washington within ten days. nion sts., and grapple with a et on Sixth ave. ‘at a fast speed sou jconnected with the murder. Some articles of the murdered young pa clothing | bear the trade mark of Seattle stores, others were pur-| chased from Tacoma firms. There was no laundry mark | on either of two handkerchiefs found in the pocket of her/ coat, by which her me, Seong Set otherwise be ascertained. All other The st., a few blocks at 8:46 o'clock. clerk, phone the police. Detectives James Byrne apd J. D.| Landia, accompanied by G. J. Fulle cold caused had been strangled. On the chin was what appeared to be the hole left by a bullet. The collar of the girl's coat had been twisted about her neck and stuffed into her mouth Wounded on Lip Deputy Coroner George McDonald removed the budy to the morgue, where a further examination dis closed that the wound on the chin was merely a cut thru the lower lip that might have been inflicted with a heavy ring or brass knuckles! Discoloration of the left eye and left eide of the face and chin con- yinced Captain of Detectives Charles nant, who at that time took per vonal charge of the case, the girl had been dealt a smashing blow which probably knocked her uncon jous, and then strangled Tennant said he believed the girl had been killed and then carried to the place where her body was found and left. There was no Indi eatic ale had taken wn estate, Hotel the sho A superficial them to believe the woman shot in the jaw, then a place on the Not Investigation into kidnaping last night there wag no woman by the name of Cut living at the Wilhard hotel. Inquiry at establishments on Sixth ave. between Union and Unt versity ats, that remained open un til after 10:30 last night, failed to uncover any corroboration of the kidnaping story. Police, however, say the woman who made the re port might have purposely given @ wrong address to avoid being called in for further questioning. They also said a kidnaping, such as the deseribed, might have taken ithout attracting much atten on, the kidnaper was said to/ have held the girl in such a man jner that she could not scream. The shoes of the murdered reported ed that girl Have You Ever Known the Good, True Comradeship of a Collie Dog? Then Perhaps You Know Why This Old Man Is Heartsick and Lonely | Leo, the faithful Scotch collie | that frisked about the feet of | Theo Potjer, of Kennydale, as he | went to work, or gazed up at him with meek, adoring eyes, is | dead. Some one who had never | felt the soft nuzzling of a dog's | wet, playful nose, or who had never been greeted as he came home from work by a rollicking, barking pet, joy-mad at the ap- proach of his master, poisoned the tawny-haired collie. Potier lives at Kennydale, { across Lake Washington. Five or six years ago he bought Leo from the city dog pound, Leo gnarled old man, the sleek, long: nosed collie and ‘Tom, the eat would romp together the luwn of the tiny cottage; or, if it was cold, stare at the shadows marching across the hot coals on the little hearth, Leo, the aristo erat of Highland hills, and ‘Tom, the cat, supped out of the same dish and slept on the same plece of gunnysack In the warm spot behind the kitchen stove Now the dog is dead and Potier and Tom, the cat, are dis consolate, Something has gone out of the house, the spirit of comradeship, of a love that is as real and enduring as that of any 4 was just a rolling, yipping, pow der-puft of a puppy, a fat and awkward little tike, when Potier saved him from the electric strait-jacket and took him home to Kennydale. Potier was a lonely old man He worked all day as a firemi in a creosote works, and as tolled Leo was not far off, waiting for the moment when his god should quit work and play with him on the way to the little home they shared with Tom, the cat. In the evening, in the quiet, purple dusk of a Lake Washing- ton evening, the three— the human. Leo is dead and Potler, unable to bear the home that is haunted by the spirit of the frisking, barking dog, has rented the house. je was the only friend I had,” said Potier, who is old and slightly lame, “It is so lone- some now for me and Tom, Tf cannot live in my home any longer. I rented it Monday. Now I shall live at the works and board arqund, 1 could not go bat to our home without Leo, It would not be right.” Those who have ever loved 4 dog-—-and who has not?—will un- derstand, Policeman | were taken by Detective Landis to arrived on the scene|the Baxter Shoe a few minutes after 9 a. m. fiven/ trademark showed at that hour the body was not yet) chased. Landis was examination | shoes of that style had been sold| ; MAYOR ASKS i} | | land reached her just in time to grab | tion were missing. 7; by Dan Farri, an for the eierhrove estate, who lives 'Farri appeared at at a rig oe Mt. Baker pharmacy, 3603 tant ‘from where he found the tne" body, He had Miss Catherine Madden, a drug! where the, were pur that no Co., they told since last January 1 | Dr. C. C. Tiffin, county cor and Dr. Willis H. Corson were cased to the morgue shortly before noon to Perform an autopsy on the body of the murdered girl. SAVES WOMAN | FROM SUICIDE Fatal Leap ts Prevented by Bridge Tender | nae | Despondent over a quarrel, early | her husband, when he accused her of stealing $5 from him, Mra, L. L. Vanshee, 45, @ Belgian, living at 306 W. Front st., | Attempted suicide by trying to jump Off a bridge on First ave. 8. Capt. Thronson, bridge tender, saw | the woman climbing over the railing Monday morning, with she was leaving the | reby came to his aid womin was her hand as bridge, Pas and the struggling drawn back to safety. Police Sergts, A. F. Brewer and J L. Jackson were called to the scene of the near-tragedy. The woman told them she had «ix children, and had | had. considerable trouble with her husband “He accused me of taking $5 from | his pockets,” she told the officers, | “which I didn’t, I felt so blue that T} decided to kill myself by jumping off | the bridge.” Members of the juvenile depart ment, took charge of the children Runaway Motor Car Hits Woman Miss Laura Btarnette, 2822 Boyls. ton ave., is suffering Monday in the Monor hospital from shock and an injured ankle sustained when she was struck by a runaway automobile downtown. Hospital authorities de- lars: & her injuries: are not serious. 1 want what I want when 1 want it, In The Star hunt it; They know what I want, they have what T want, They get what I want, when I want it. William Allen, 211 West 58th st., is the author of the above rhyme. Poets, Get Busy! Win the cash prize. See the show at the Clemmer. want ads I will | the couneil ! ie z I i F iE size N ii it shoes, ‘DRUG SQUAD Wants Council to Approve Special Detail Seattle is to have a special squad of six plain clothes policemen whose sole duty will be to curb the sale of narcotics, if a recommendation by Mayor Fitzgerald is-favorably _re- ceived by the city council. In @ communication to the council Monday, the mayor formally asked “to appropriate funds for the creation of a special detail of six’ policemen, to be appointed by | |Chiet J. F. Warren, to arrest and prosecute illicit dealers in drugs.” “It is apparent,” Mayor Fitager-. ald said, “that the sale of opium and \other narcotic drugs in Seattle dur- ing the last year has increased to an alarming extent. I think the crea- tion of a ‘drug squad’ will help to solve the problem.” STEAL MORPHINE Prowlers broke into the offices of Dr. N. Yow, 115 Yesler way, early Monday morning, and stole one ounce of morphine, one ounce of co- caine and a gold watch and revolver, it was reported to tye police today. The thief used a pass key SHIPYARD MAN HURT Gus Ryan, 19, a reamer at the Skinner & Eddy shipyard, fell down a ship hatchway early Monday morning and sustained a badly bruised chest, He was taken to a local hospital. | woman whom he overpowered and threw into his machine, d i ” police are working on the theory that the Kidneying may | ight; seentuecaiess eve FOOD SEIZURE IS LEGALIZE States Can Take Held Too Long in Sto WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. 2 supreme court today held tn ef fect that states can seize and foods held in cold storage leny than the period provided by laws. The decision settles the ¢o tionality of the Smith cold act of Ohio, whidh limits sto six months. It was the first of the packing interests against new laws passed in several at | Umiting cold gtorage to help the cost of living. The case was brought by Columbus Packing company the state, after the supreme coul the state upheld the law, The Ui States supreme court refused to the case. Grocers Accusing . 5 “Big Five” Pack CHICAGO, Oct. 20.—The packers faced another attack this one from American whe grocers. The grocers. charge | packers ate wresting their b from them, Their charges will be heard representative of the interstate of merce commission, since the cers’ association charged 317 roads are helping the packets by eriminating in their favor in handling of shipments. The testimony will be taken here Wi day. ‘ Slight, Very Sli on WASHINGTON, Oct. 20,—(United Press.)—-There is a very slight chance that President Wilson will raise the war-time “dry” ban before constitu- tlonal prohibition becomes effective in January, it was learned from relia- ble sources today. Upon ratification of the German treaty the president may proclaim peace, even tho the United States still is at war technically, with Aus tria, according to this information. Declaration of peace would make pos- aible the lifting of the ban. Those favoring a “wet spell” pro- fessed to believe the president would not be bound by a technical state of t Chance for ibition to Be war with Austria, or any other nicalities, in declaring peace German treaty is accepted by ate. However, it was learned, Austrian state of war has b the war could be officially ended. Wilson is expected to ai department of justice for hit on the subject before he clare