The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 21, 1919, Page 1

OUNCIL TA . On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Tides in Seattle CENTS Late Edition Per Year, by Mail $6.00 to $5.00 0, at the Postoffies at Beattie, Wash,, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879 TURSDAY | WRPNESPAY * ocT, 1 ocT, Pirst High Tide | Viest High Tide an a 98 | F:08 a. om, 104 ft | Pirst Low Tide a Second Second Low Tide 22M Tp mm, OF SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1919. Weather Forecast. Rain this afterno Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1 vil Fa tatedicttelas ME men CARMAN MAY FURNISH NEW ANGLE | HAVE YOU SEEN THIS BOY? | _HAVE You Love Triangle — FiguresinC Developments in Murder Mystery Woman found strangled to death near Mount Baker Park iden and tonight; Wednesday © westerly winds What is Seattle going to do November 11th—Armistice Day? We'd better be planning a Big Time—and there’s not much time to spare. For allgime the sons of men will remember November 11 as the day when the guns of his- tory’s most terrible war ceased their murderous,coughing. No- vember 11 is the day we can not forget. It is the day our sons DANA SLEETH ANY a dewdipped, blush- iftg rose has a canker at its heart, in the hyper. bole of our best “human interest” writers. % {M) se @aiscovered, but not a penny more | _ Not that we know what a canker | pas, but we guess it's something | n and squirmy, that les squashes if you step om it We saw a rose, rather a peach, ® canker—aye, two of ‘em— day. | Bhe was a striking girl, well | red; had a nifty toque | fy iH pitt ll i: a smaller coin purse, d the other purse, opened the purse, took out a dime, and n, in returning the nickel, went u the entire process again while car waited, Maybe that happened; maytt But we saw an elderly and ul, a slow and methodical | . Go after 20 cents the s} day. e He had finished three doughnuts 4 cup of coffee and was lined p at the cashier's table, Not counting your overcoat, men Thgve from 12 to 15 pockets in a suit: . ~ This man went thru all of ‘em. From the watch pocket in his trousers he exhumed a nickel; his SDyarch thereafter was in vain un- til he reached the little change Spocket on the left aide of his t; another nickel jumped out of hat pocket. He continued thru the entire list, dumping out every bit of halfforgotten rubbish he appeared; at last, in the bottom of an outside overcoat pocket he did find two pennies, remains from the purchase of a morning paper, _ but he was still § cents short. He leisurely went back thru the entire suite of apartments in hope Jot finding a nickel under a bed, or yin the baby’s bank, or down in the coal bin, but there was nothing— absolutely nothing—in the way of money. Se he dove into an inside coat pocket, dragged out a fat bi}l fold, “ned it up, and, from the very ide of a plethoriec roll, took out a one-dotlar bill. A man like that has no business to have more than one pocket, or more than 50 cents in cash at one time ERE'S an economy hint. If you have been in the habit of leaving your car on First, Second or Third avenues for. half the morning, break the habit, or it Will break you,some fine morning. After a long vacation, the police are once more attaching cordial in- vitations to downtown automobiles; invitations to an informal little af- fair down at the city and county building, where the price per plate iy from $5 up—mostly up. Thirty minutes is the legal time, and the law 1* being enforced: don't do your Christmas shoppips With the judge. The most northerly settlement in| the world is Etah, on the west coast of Greenland. In 4 good hunting season, it has 2 population of a dozen Eskimo tamilies. and daughters must not forget—the Day of Triumph of Right over Might. What is Seattle going to do? Now is the time to decide. Let’s make Armistice Day reflect the mighty debt of gratitude we who live owe to the dead—those who died for US. Fitzgerald Raps Rent Hogs — in Urging Passage of Bill speculators” in rents are a menace to \ WHAT ORDINANCE PROVIDES The ordinance provides that on October 1 of each year land- lords must file with the city comptrolier an application for a leensé;” Késompanted © by x 1" conse fee of $10 and @ tariff of rentals to be charged. Tt provides that the mayor shall appoint, and the counell of five members to hear claims of ten. ants within 24 hours after such claims are filed with the city comptrotler. This committee is comprised of the city license in- the city, Mayor Fitzgerald sent a let-| ter to@he council. outlining the rent situation in Seattle. ‘The letter follows: “There is being Introduced today, for your consideration. an ordinance TENANTS ORGANIZE, OPEN HEADQUARTERS Tenants still feeling the gouge of the unscrupulous landlords should make complaints before the nts’ Protective associa tion, which, at 9 a. m. Tuesday, opened new offices at 432 Globe building, First ave. and Madison st. “We will be glad to hear the plaims of anyone who believes he has a legitimate cause for complaint against the rent-hogs,” said A. L. Patterson, chairman. prepared by the city law department, Heensing landlords, In this connec- tion I desire to call your attention to several outstanding features of the rental situation existing In Seattle. Practice Is “Vicious” “Due primarily to war activities especially stipbuilding, was large influx of new residents to the city in the past two years. The con- sequent increased demand for hous- ing accommodations brought about @n acute shortage of living quarters. Out of this grew the practice of trad. ing in rooming houses, apartments and hotels. Professional landlords, usually speculators, went into the business on a large scale. “Leanes were transferred, often several times in a few months, each purchaser increasing rents. to secure his individual profit. These rent turnovers were and are 2 most vicious practice, which should be “Authenticated complaints @have reached my office giving in detail many cases where such leases have changed hands several times during the past year, andeach transfer, has , been accompanied by an increase fn | | rentals. In some instances this has/| | happened #0 frequently that the first the tenants would know of a new \landiord would be when they re- ) ceived a new notice that the rent had | j been increased. Speculaters “Menace” | “There is no issue with reasonable | nndlords, and no desire to interfere | | with reasonable returns on money | legitimately invested in the construc |tion and maintenance of housing | quarters. “Cgnscienceless speculators, how: | ja ever, are a menace to the city; as! apector, city engi.eer, city health officer, city superintend- ent of bulidings and city super- intendent of public works, or tenan Just one, the committee m report the mat. ter within 24 hours to the city council which, in turp, will pass an ordinance fixing a fair rental to be paid by the tenant. Violations of the ordinance will be regarded as 4 minde- meanor and will be punishable as such such they should be curbed. Within feason our citizens must be protected from grasping profiteers, Pyramid ing of leares is un-American in prin- ciple, and is profiteering of the most vicious type. am convinced that unless the operations of the rent hogs are curbed thru legal means, there will result much actual suffering and distress during the coming win ter, Many tenants, mostly wage earners, are facing another increase of rent on November 1. In many in- inees, I am told, they will be un-) je to meet this last increase and | may be actually turned into the atreets.” JURIST SHOOTS — SELF; WAS ILL Pocatello Judge Commits) Suicide in Portland PORTLAND, Or., Oct. 21.— Sitting down on curb and leaning against a tree, Circuit | Judge J. 4. Guheen, of Poca. | tello, Idaho, 58, shot himself thru the heart with « revolver here this morning, dying in- stantly. Judge Guheen had been receiving treatment at a local hospital for several weeks, and left the institu- tion for his regular morning walk, dressed as usual in a suit and coat pulled on over his flannel night robe. After walking a few blocks from the hospital, he sat down and ended his life. The discharge of the gun set on fire the night garment and the @pthing started to burn the body | after the suicidal act. A passerby extinguished the Namen. Rent Ordinance HAMILTON APARTMENTS—TERRY AVE. AND PINE ST. Owner, L. B. Armstrong Rents 1600A—Terry 1602A——Terry 1602B—Terry 1614A—Terry 1616C—Terry 1616A—Terry 1616B—Terry All tenants were given 20-da: October 31—or pay this increase. from from . rained as follows, to take effect November Int: ’ 50 to to to to to $60.00 55.00 52.60 36,00 45.00 to 20.00 to 46.00 y notice by new owner to vacate John Davis & Co,, Agents, jcomment that their actual value is Why We Need That!| Big Drop in Pork Prices at Chicago! i CHICAGO, Oct. 21.—4United Press.) —Pork chops on the hoot hit the! season's low price mark here today. | At 10 o'clock today the average price | of hogs was $14.10 per 100 pounds, | 25 to 50,cents lower than yesterday's prices, which had dropped 15 to 26) cents from Saturday's close. | The year's highest price wan set| fhe last Saturday in August, when $23.60 was paid, Lower corn prices, heavy receipts and seasonal conditions were main factors in the speedy 4 Van Loan Estate Valued at $9,000 108 ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 21-—~ Charles KE. Van Loan, writer, who died recently in Philadelphia, left an estate of $9,984.50, mostly in Liberty bonds, according to the appraisers’ report on file in court here today. Motion picture rights to 250 short stories are valued at $10 with the problematical. J want what I want when I want it, it real estate, bonds or car; And to get what I want as 1 want it, 1 wae the want ads in The Star, The above rhyme is by Mrs: E. H. Rusk, 2608 E. Roy st. -Enter the Want Ad Rhyme con- test. Read particulars on Classified page. Be stocks, i | LTHO not three years old until Christmas, he looks a year older. telligent. He is sturdy, and very in- He has light hair, large hazel eyes and a brown mole on his right breast. When last seen, he wore a blue romper, brown sweater, gray baseball cap with narrow stripes and moccasins. name, he replies “Billy Pittsburg.” Asked his He was born in Pittsburg and regards it as a part of his name. Mother Hunger * * * Leads to Crime Little Billy Dansey, Credited as “Perfect Baby,” Disap- pears : BY 4. DUCKWORTH HAMMONTON, N, J., Oct, 21.— Derangéd and misplaced mother love is, it is believed, responsible for the mysterious disappearance from his home here of 3-year-old Georgie M. Dansey, Rated Al, a perfect baby, at the United States children’s bureau at Washington, Baby Dansey has all of New Jersey and part of Pennsyl- vania, .from the two governors down, on the lookout for him, whil his heartbroken mother, at first prostrated, is now leading the searchers in the swamps near by. The theory has been advanced that a bhildless married woman or a lonely spinster has kidnaped. the child. Police records show that in 99 kidnaping cases out of 100, where neurotic and rhorbid) mother love has been at thé back of the crime, the child has jbeen a particularly beautiful or attractive child, Georgie Dansey has been called an “ideal baby.” His picture was in the October issué of a woman's maga- zine as a physically perfect regis- tered baby. The child's record of development hag been sent every month to the children's bureau. Little Dansey was last seen play- ing outside his mother’s house here. When his mother went to bring him into his supper he had gone. Hun- dreds of wild stories of gypsies and strange looking men having carried away the child are told here. The cranberry bogs for miles around have been systematically searched. The women here, however, are sure that a halfdemented woman, one who has been deprived of the experience of motherhood, has car: ried off “Billy.” lifted as Mrs, Elizabeth Bryan, 31, of Puyallup, by her husband, George W. Bryan. ated from wife, giving her $4,500 in cash Saturday, missing. William Fay Ealy, 22-year-old Seattle house and asked to explain his actions Sunday afternoon and evening. Admits he is acquainted with Mrs. Bryan. Denies seeing her n° gi Says she phoned him in September and asked to be taken out. Captain of Detectives Tennant interviews Mrs. W. 8. Ui Money fe Mrs. Bryan was in love with Ealy, girl and man to park Inte Sunday night or early Monday. What is regarded as an important clue to the murder of Mrs. beth Bryan, whose body was found in the Mt. Baker Park yesterday morning, came to light Tuesday morning when merman, a conductor on the Mt. Baker Park line, told Motive of robbery established when husband explains he separ. painter, arrested friend of mardered woman, 5213 Brooklyn ave. and is told that Police seek Mount Baker Park conductor who believes he carried * woman, believed to be Mrs. Bryan, and a man. rode to the end of the line carly Monday morning and disappeared in the direction of the murder. ‘ William Fay Ealy, 22-year- old painter, held today in the city jail in connection with the strangling of Mrs. Elizabeth Bryan, of Puyallup, is believed to be the man to whom Mrs. Bryan’ had turned when her own love affair was breaking. | she might learn of his di ' | This was revenled today by Mrs.| Ealy, however, told detectives W. 8. Unsworth, a friend of the | had not heard from Mrs. Bryan murdered woman and wife of a last September, when she paintigg contractor living at 5213 | him and asked him to escort her | Brooklyn ave., by whom Ealy was |@nd he refused, reminding her formerly employed. Mra. Uns- | was @ married woman. She had worth's story furnished an im.| this, he said, on two occasions, jshun the Unsworth home, of the portant link in the evidence being gathered by detectives working for a sdtution of the mystery Ealy's arrest followed swiftly on the heels of the finding of the wom- an's body in the Mt. Baker park district ‘ carly yesterday morning. | Defective Jack Landis took the vic- tim’s fur neckpiece to Tacoma, where, at the Richmond Fur Co.'s chased of Puyallup. She Had $4,500 Hastening to Puyallup, Landis found George W. Bryan, an em- | ploye of a canning company. Bryan by ,a Mrs. Bryan said he and his wife had agreed | to disagree and had divided their property Saturday, Mrs, Bryan leaving with $4,500 in bank notes in her possession. | Leaving his two young children in the care of neighbors, Bryan actompanied the detective to Se- attle, went to the morgue and was shown the body of the slain woman, which he instantly identified as that of his wife. “Oh, the poor girl!’ he exclaimed. Captain of Detectives Charles E. Tennant led Bryan out and assisted him into a waiting automobile. “In- formation he obtained from Bryan led Tennant to order the arrest of Ealy. ' The suspect was found in his home, 3826 Meridian ave,, at 12:40 this morning. Search of his room | disclosed a revolver, a policeman's club, $130 in bills and $2.50 in silver, }Raly said the gun and club were | the property of his father. | Grilled by Sergt. George H, Com- | stock and Policeman B. W. Morris, lin the Densome substation, Faly admitted his acquaintance with Mrs. Bryan. They learned that Mrs. Bryan, when in Seattle, usually stopped at the home of her friend, Mrs, Unsworth. Capt. Tennant called at the Uns- worths this morning and obtained Mrs. Unsworth's statement, She said she had been awffre for some time, since Ealy painted the Bryan house at Puyallup, that Mrs. Bryan was infatutated with the young painter. She had no doubt, she said, that aly knew of the Bryan's estrangement and intended separation and division of property. “Raly used to call on Mrs, Bryan when she was visiting me,” said Mrs, Unsworth, “She was always talking about him, She said her husband didn’t furnish her with enough amusement, and she liked Haly be- cause he did® girl—the poor store, he learned it had been pur- | | he had turned her down. { Furnishes Alibi Detectives are convinced, they | that robbery was the motive crime, No trace has been the missing $4,500 in eurrency. Bryan's trunk was found at the terurban depot and ‘Mentified by |husband. Some of ‘her child lothing, was found in the trunk. Raly declares hp went-to Pantag ‘theatre and set 1 picture Sunday afternoon and evening, riving home at 10:30. Mrs. Bryan, is believed, was murdered between |o’clock and midnight, as the was not quite cold when found | ly after 8 a. m. Monday. Bryan was questioned further |day about the money turned over his wife when they parted in Puy lup, Saturday, He said he had w | her to take only $500 in cash and |low him to put the rest to her ¢ in a bank, Be This, he said, she declined to do, im sisting on having all the money in | |eash at that time. Realizing that further protest on his part would-be: useless, he said, he got the $4,500 | bills, divided into nine stacks, coms | taining $50 vach, each stack held to- |Sether with a rubber band, the whole | making a pile several inches thick. Mrs. Bryan, he said, put the billg. |into a black handbag, and he hi to the canning factory’ and resi work. Shortly before the ti pulled in, he said, he saw his going to the depot. He joined and said good-bye. His last words: her, he asserted, warned her to the money in a safety deposit as soon as she could after the city, age A post-mortem examination 6 Mrs. Bryan's body by Dr. Willis Hi = Corson and Deputy Coroner Howant McDonald proved she had been a smashing blow in the face, wi probably rendered her unconscid and was then strangled to death her own coat collar, SEVERAL HURT | IN STRIKE RIG PITTSBURG, Oct. 21; Press.)—8e' persons were jured in a soon after today, in fighting is not 4 stationed at patched to the fighting