The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 22, 1919, Page 1

WEDNESDAY ocr, a First High Tide HO8 am, 104 te First Low Tide todd am. a4 tt Tide 11d Dom, 6 ft VOLUME 22. NO. 208. [TAS Iv SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH OST of the habits and ideals and preferences we have today to make life a burden, and also & pleasure, are acquired. But there are a few old urges and surgings that have come down to us from the garden of Eden, and wn § i it iG | : § p a : a5 i i whiskers, that we the hook, so we day; boys don't have a chance to really have a good time naturally. rer R several reasons these natural, childish pleas- ures are best. We casually strolled thru the “doll town” of a big store the other day and ad mired some of the new American dolls that are more beautiful and substantial than anything German | | the amiable young lady in charge. “A small doll, to be sure, but a very pretty doll.” “What's the price of said doll?” we asked. “This one is $14.50, and that large ong there, with the knitted sport suit in green, is $24.” We will not do our Christmas shopping early this year. Neither early nor age with @olls going at $14 and $24 per each. It wasn’t long ago that we felt rather nifty and sniffy in a $24 “custom made” suit. And not much back of that when a china doll, with a kid body, stuffed with real sawdust, and with stockings painted right on the legs, so they wouldn't get lost if you dressed in the dark to catch an early train; when a perfectly satisfactory doll, that would stand a million dollars’ worth of loving, sold for around $2, And, stepping back thru the por- tals of experience a bit farther, we remember prairie girla who had eminently satisfactory dolls of red corn cobs, clothed in dyed husk | About the time of 10-cent corn, and grasshoppers, and sich, ‘Were they happy? They were. Are they any happier with the sport suit lady at $247 Well, are any of us happier with the sport suit lady? And sere you are. F riendly Couple Denied Divorce | Silvia Panebianco and her husband, | Donato, were contesting divorce ac tion in superior court Tuesday. Non support and abuse were the causes, she said. “When did you see your husband last?" she was asked. “Oh, we've been living together all the time,” she replied. “We came down here together to get the di yorce.” The case wag dismissed and Do-| mato ordered to pay his wife's at torney fees. They live at 6226 Flora) ave. FIND ENGL EER UNCONSCIOUS T. EB. Phipps, former chief en- gineer for the Washington state pub- ec service commission, who was found unconseious in an office bulld- ing in Portland Monday, was report- ed recovering, in dispatches from that city Wednesday, Phipps’ home de at 907 Boylston ave, | minor packing centers, | his machine, Tides in Seattle | } TuyRenay ocr. _ Tint Miah Tide Stam, 108 ft First Low Tide "May Vote on Rent | i‘, EALY'S MOTHER |S QUIZZE! | CITY DETECTIVES SEARCH SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Hog Bill Friday Salvation Army Autos to be Given Away on Tuesday Three automobiles will be given away by the Elks next Tuesday aeon in connection with the Sal vation Army campaign, The big event will take place tight on the public street—at Second ave. and Pike st, Exactly at noon, Be there. MAYOR WILL 60 | TO CONFERENCE 144 Municipal E Executives a Combat Profiteers Utah and Montana,-expeet-to tay plans to combat profiteern In response to an invitation from |ore will be held in the assembly lchambers of the state capitol. It is waid that the gathering of mayors will _be the largest ever held in the United States. “I believe a lot of good will come of the mayors’ convention,” Mayor Fitzgerald sald. “The high cost of living is at the bottom of most of our social unrest, and anything that can be done to remedy a country wide condition should be done.” HOG PRICES ARE TUMBLING TODAY 'Big Decline “Noted in East- ern Cities CHICAGO, Oct, Hog prices dropped from 75 cents to $1 on the Chicago market today, Increased re 2 | ceipts, due to labor trouble tleing up caused the | drop, according to the United States | Bureau of Markets. INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 22,— | Continued drops in the price of hogs on the Indianapolis livestock market were reflected on the retail markets here today. With another average decline of 25 cents per hundred pounds on the hoof today, it was shown that retail prices of pork « | from 11 to 11% cents lower than on July 28, when the price was at its peak KANSAS CITY, Mo., Qct Hogs reached the lowest figure in} more than two years on the market | 2—~ here today. Heavy hogs were quot ed between $12.50 and $13.25 per hun- dredweight. Parson Acting as Mediator Is Knocked Down At 10 o'clock Wednesday morning everything was quiet on 15th ave., between Denny way and F. John st. G. J, Kopt, 110 N. 84th w#t., sat in waiting for a friend At 10:01 o'clock things happened in clusters. B, Berliner, 16, 1516 H. Wir st, rammed Kopf's car with his flivver. While the car owners were argu- ing as to the culpability of each oth er, up stepped Rev. A, F. Cogdon, of | Blaine, Wash Rey. Cogdon said he had seen the accident, and took the floor to give an impartial account. While he was demonstrating, a street car took a side-swipe at Ber. liner’s car and knocked Rev, Cogdon down with sufficient force to frac ture his left arm. He was taken to the City hospital in an ambulance. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Oct. 22.— | Lieut. D. B. Gish, flying ship No. 38, left here for Reno, at 8:42:52 today. Gish left the Presidio for Sacramen: to at 7:34:20, | ordinance to Be Considered by Committee of the Whole Tenants and landlords will flock to the elty ball at 3 p. m, Friday when the council will meet as a committee of the whole te consider Mayor Fitagerald's ordinance designed to curb rent hogs. When the council! met Tursday afternoon, to receive the ordinance, « bare quorum of five members was | Present Counciimen Haas, Lane. | Brickson and Moore failed to appear. The remaining councilmen, Hee |keth, Thomazon, Drake, Carroll and cared elected Hesketh chairman, receded to take up the rent ner couanen Meet Friday personal request of Mayor) rey the council agreed to go | tae the committee of the whole next | Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, for, the purpose of getting speedy ac | tion on the rent ordinance. Every councilman will be prement on that day, Hesketh announced. | The rent ordinance containg an jomergency clause, and {t will thus re. quire seven votes to inure its pas |aage. Mayor Fitagerald believes his ordinance will have the | support. Under the terms of the ordinance, | _ ae committee” will bear burden of work necessary to the the measure. | ‘The “complaint committee” will in-| clude the city Heense Inspector, city engineer, comminstoner of health, au perintendent of buildings and super intendent of public utilities Mast Pass Ordinance It will be the duty of this commit- eo to indorse or reject all com unreasonable rentals by | tenanta Should the committee find against a landlord, it will so report to the city council. The council must then meet to consider a reasonable rental for the landlord, After arriving at a reasonable | rental for the landlord, the council must pass an ordinance decreeing what is a just and reasonable rental Violation of the rental thus set by the council is punishable by a fine not to exewed $100 or 30 days in the elty jail, or both fine and imprison: | ment, Bill Is Unwieldy j “It may appear that the ordinance |ts unwieldy tn that each complaint | must be passed upon by the city council, and a separate ordinance drawn to cover each individual case, but I believe it ix the only legal way,” Chief Assistant Corporation Counsel Thomas J. L. Kennedy, au- thor of the rent orditinnce, suid “The burden of work ts placed on the ‘complaint committee,’ because it | would be unreasonable to ask the eity council, already a busy ret of men, to take over all the work which | this ordinance must bring about.” Believes It Legal The legality of the ordinance is {firmly assured by Kennedy, altho expressions at the city hall Tuesday cant a doubt upon its legality “This ordinance is based upon the polices power conferred by law upon municipalities,” Kennedy said. “It is drawn on the theory that a munici pality shall have supervision over its | health, peace, welfare and economy. j and that is universally recognized by a haat WOLF HOUNDS ATTACK WOMEN | School Children Saved by Seattle Attorney | Following an attack on five school children and two women by two vicious wolf hounds, Deputy Prose eutor C. C, Dalton swore out com. plaint against Antonia Stimson, 3329 Fifth ave, W., Wednesday. He charged her with permitting vicious animals to run at large, Sho in said to be the owner of the hounds. ‘The five children were on thelr |way to school Tuesday noon, when they were attacked and cornered by the two dogs, according to Dalton |The arrival of Reuben D. Hill, at torney, with offices in the New York block, saved the children from se rious injury, Dalton says. Hill drove the dogs away. Previous to the attack on the school children, the two hounds had lattacked and bitten Lilly Johneon, 638 Anderson ave, and torn her clothes. Earlier in the morning they had leaped upon Ethel Clouse, 746 Argand st., Dalton says Both women drove the dogs off only after a struggle. According to neighbors the Stimsnn« maintain a kennel of 20 dogs, May 3, 18 At the Postoffice at Beattie, Waan,, SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1919. T terday may be a bit unwieldy. Cer- tainly it is not as sharp and concise as most of us would have liked to see it. But the blame lies with our legislative handicaps. Our legislature, perhaps, is at fault for curtailing city powers in some im- portant respects.' Certainly it would be better if each rental case would not need a separate council ordinance. But that, apparently, can not be avoided. It would, in fact, be better if a commission outside of the council and board of pub- lic works could be devised. But in order to protect the legality of the measure, that also could not be avoided. The big, worth-while thing to remem- ber, however, is that the ordinance is the best that the corporation counsel could devise. It is not the part of the ci a to worry about its legality. Let “Let they choose. eantime the city has the right to assume that it can func- tion in the interests of the people. Guest Battles With under the Act of Congress March 3, WARNS OF The Seattle Star Entered a Becond Clase Matt NATIONAL DISASTER Wilson Says Evil Will Follow, if the Industry Meet Doesn’t Go On |AN AGREEMENT IS URGED Ww ASHINGTON, , Ot 2 (United Press)—President Wil- son today served on the national justrial until it finds a way of carrying on industry other than “in the spirit and with the very method pt war.” Otherwise national disanter in invited, he warned. Coming out of executive session at \ia5 Pp. m., members of the labor wtoup indicated they would respond to the president's appeal and do their share toward working out an agree ment All members refused, however, to) make a statement of the group de | chaion. When the conference reassembies, At 230 p, Mm, it was expected the Ja- bor group would have a proposition to offer, Written 4 room, in the the president's sick trial Peace Conference,” was read by Secretary Lane famediately after |the conference aasembied, when it Was indicated the Jabor group had de- / cided to withdraw, because of the de- feat, yesterday, of the proposals to (Pecognize collective bargaining, The letter follows: “To the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Industrial Conference: 1 am advised by your chairman that you have come to a situa tion which appears to threaten the life of your conference, and because of that I am presuming to address a word of very sol mn appeal to you as Americans. Bandits in Hotel Bold Hold-Up Frustrated in Lobby of Rehan Hotel Walking boldly into the welllight Woosh! Slosh! It’s Awfully Soaked What is it that is mushy soaked, unstable, having pockets? ed lobby of the Rehan hotel, at Eighth ave, and Union st, two The natural answer would be a bandits held up L. M. Hushet, «|| *Mered gentleman. guest at 225 o'clock Wednesday But C. Mortimer Gresham says morning. | it is otherwine. This is the de. Hushet put up a fight and man. | *eription he gives of the county aged to rout hin assailants before || Fad around the south of Mercer they were able to rob him. beland. Hushet was just returning to the ‘The road was built without hotel to retire when he was ap. || Proper drainage,” says Greshem, proached by the two men. One im. | “and last winter it became water mediately stuck a gun in his ribs, || *eaked, full of pockets, mushy while the other commanded him to and unstable. Tt slid down hill hold up his hands. toward the lake and ruined my The men ran out of the door fol || home. The garden buckled and lowing the short scuffle and disap bulged, fences fell, and in the devastation my ed from the chimne: kx $5,000 damages from King county in superior court house peared down the street Seattle Man Buys Los Angeles Hotel wner of the) Two Bandits Get eile Deas Diamond Fortune Paul Parts, Washington former Annex ho’ out his interests here last spring and left the city, was reported in dis | POF BD, Ore, Oct, 22.—Two patches from Los Angeles today to|masket bandits entered the jewelry purchased th shionable An-| store of M. L. Smith 9:20 o'clock ‘The amount | this morning, held up the propr involved in the transaction was not|at the point of a gun, secured $ announced. Paris was formerly also|in cash and diamonds worth severil terested in the Cornelius hotel,| thousand dollars and escaped in an | Portland, Ore. automobile. gelus hotel, in that city Leak in Mayor’s Office Is Found; Executive Worried an | Tuesday A, M. W. W. MeGuire, superintendent of ‘The radiator in Mayor Fitzgerald’s| the county-city building, entered the office waa leaking. | mayor's office, He was glad to learn The mayor pushed a buzzer. {that the report concerning the mayor's leaking radiator was not ex aggerated, Then he left. Wednesday A. M. A representative of the building department entered the mayor's of fice and verified the report that the mayor's radiator actually was leak- The fifth assistant janitor entered the mayor's office. He decided the radiator was leak ing. Then he left. The fourth assistant janitor en- tered. He gave it as his unshaken opinion that the raditor was leaking. Then he left. haat Tas Nett af Janttdecoctuen ee: Tite he lett 6 ‘agwistan Another representative of the 4 0 porated the "mayors Ottice and esssse™ building department entered the | the statement that the radiator was leaking. Then he left. Tuesday P. M. The second assistant janitor en: tered the mayor's office and said there was no question that the radi- ator was leaking. ‘Then he left. ‘The first assistant janitor entered the mayor's office and gave it out that without question the radiator was leaking. Then he left. The head janitor entered the may: or’s office and proudly announced he was glad his assistants had unearth ed the fact that the radiator was leaking. Then he left, mayor's office to check up on his brother representative, He stated that It went without saying that the mayor's radiator was really leaking. Then he left, Then it was that the mayor timid: ly inquired when it would be possi- ble to sit in the same room with a radiator that was NOT leaking. Then he left. He's still waiting for a reply. The radiator still leaks. The puddie of water under the radiator was steadily widening at noon Wednesday. ba lof any | claiming "It is not for me to assess the blame for the present condition. I do not speak in a spirit of criticism | individual or of any group. Rut, having called this conference, I feel that my temporary indisposition should not bar the way to a frank ex: pression of the seriousness of the po stition in which this country will be placed should you adjourn without having convineed the American peo | ple that you had exhausted your re- |sourcefulness and your patience in an effort to come to some common agreement world are endeavoring to find a way of avoiding industrial warfare, are we to confess that there is no meth- od to be found for carrying on indus- try except in the spirit and with the very method of war? Must suspicion Are‘our industrial leaders and our industrial workers to live togeth er without faith in each other, con: stantly struggling for advantage over each other, doing naught but what is compelled? Invite Disaster “My friends, this would be an in tolerable outlook, a prospect un: worthy of the large things done by this people on the mastering of this continent; indeed, it would be an in vitation to national disaster. From @ possibility my mind turns away, for my confidence is abiding that in this land we have learned | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) |EVEN PRICE OF WATER SOARS; SUIT IS FILED “We have been bunked,” Lee M. and Kathleen Allen, Beverly R. Morrison and his wife, ara, chorused a they were piped with an abundant and never-failing supply of pure spring water, it is alleged. After the Allens moved in they |found there was no water, they say, They ask $8 ) damages. The Benedicts were benedicts for two months, Then she deserted him, he says, So Superior Judge A. W./ Frater granted T, P. Benedict a di- vorce from Htasie Benedict. He lives at 314 Ninth ave. Want Ads May be left at The Star’s sub-station, locat- ed in Bartell’s Drug Store, at 610 Second ave. To insure insertion in regular afternoon edi- tion copy must be in by 11 o'clock ‘a, m. of the Indus: t a time when the nations of the | hatred and force rule us in civil | sold us some lots in Kirkland, | Sus tee Late Edition Mail 9.00 Per Year. b: $5.00 to Tonight Rain; and Moderate — Thureday Westerly Weather Forecast. SEEK MONEY OF MURDER VI Captain of Detectives Charles Tennant of wc a warrant shortly before noon tod ito search a deposit box in the Day and \Safety Deposi vaults at 507 Third ave. |posedly i in an attempt to find the mi $4,500 in currency which was given |Elizabeth Bryan, of Puyallup, less than 4 |hours before her dead body was fe \strangled in the brush Monday morning 1 \the Mt. Baker park district. | ‘The deposit box, it is said, was rented to William — |Ealy, 22-year-old house painter who is held for im |m | i¢ | tion in connection with the murder of Mrs. Bryan, and other, Mrs, Anna Nemitz, 3826 Meridian ave. Mrs. Nemitz was aroused at her home this mo taken to Capt. Tennant’s office in the Public Safety bu | ing. For some time she remained closeted with the | tectives. Returning to his office from the deposit vaults later, C Tennant said: “I won’t say at this time what was fo the deposit box. Things are going good.” Tennant closed the door of his office and a few later admitted Deputy Prosecuting Attorney T. H. json, who had been summoned from the County-City bi "| ing. Telling her to remain. there -until,Cept, Tennant, saying he returned, Tennant hastened outjeager to do auything that the side exit. A few minutes later|ir the bunt for the slayer. jhe appeared in Justice Otis W.| fryan is still suffering inker's court and obtained the| shock and sorrow the warrant to search the deposit box. of his wife caused him. For Detective Jack Landis, who has hours he sat in Capt. been Tennant’s chief operative onjfice, staring vacantly : the case, and who remained behind|room, apparently oblivious of Jin detective headquarters keeping ings on about him. an eye on Mrs, Nemitz, wag ret-| Notwithstanding their 4 |icent about the new developments ment of Saturday, and their |when questioned, but said Mrs.'Bryan informed Capt. Ten! Nemitz's story did not in some re-!would pay the expense of his spects check with that of her son,|funeral and is ready to Baly. |last cent, if necessary, to fina | murderer, | Detectives intimated that rapid Progress was expected, altho they Wanted Her Back maintained close secrec concerning He is said to have | Tennant that when Mrs. jhim she was unhappy, and |to leave him, he consented, |developmemts Wedne: The room where Mrs. ‘preven had {slept Saturday night, after her a jTival In Seattle, was found in the | secret hope that she would £ Plaza hotel, Fourth ave. and Pine | world not so hospitable st, and was thoroly searched. No by dreamed, and would soon him and their children. Now that she is gone, he land after the murderer is fo | will return to Puyallup and |his efforts towards the right bringing and education of him | part of the $4,500 which Mrs. Bryan carried in her black handbag when she left Puyallup, was found. | The bag itself was found, empty, as well as a small black leather grip. | adquarters anh arranged’ abet) “Se aa | Capt. of Detective Tenant's office. | prvnt® ak Bo iges the Tal B | was ted into the office, took notice of jand was lonely. ‘That made fee ) but remained unshaken and clung determinedly to his first | story that he had not seen Mrs. Bryan or known of her arrival in the city jeontented. She grew more so our little boy came, and later | little girl, and confined her |more closely to the house.” Shemeten Mek | An incident related by Peach, a collector for the The woman might have been mur-| company, and John Snyder, an dered in her room and robbed, and} ploye of Kilbourne & Clark, the body carried out and placed in @/ apparatus manufacturers, wag | | waiting automobile, driven to Mount | checked by detectives today, Baker park and abandoned. |__Motoring home from a danee 4 | Registering at the hotel, Mrs. | x N's Lake, late Saturday | Bryan used the name of Mrs. F. W.| Peach and Snyder sald they Galbraith. She was given room 401.| startled when a girl darted suad A Mrs, F. W. Galbraith registered at| across the road, just ahead of the the same hotel last August, at a time ear, screaming: Mrs. Bryan was known to have been| «for God's sake, help me! in the city One of two men, whose auto Hotel employes do not recall hav- loo at th@ sige of the road, seized - | n any one enter the room oc-| girl, and, stifling her screams cupied by the woman Saturday one hand over her mouth, pull night. revolver from his hip pocket | Paid in Advance shouted to Peach, who was gett At 11 a, m. Sunday Mrs. Bryan | Ut of his car: approached the clerk’s desk and|/, “Get back in that machine id a week's room rent in advance. | tt it, or Tl blow out your by \r She handed the clerk a bill and re- | ceived change. That was the last anyone at the hotel remembers see- ing her, Several clues on which detectives spent considerable time ‘Tuesday frayed outsand proved of no conse- | Snyder and Peach drove down the road, where they gat several motorists and others small posse and returned. | found the auto and the two men, | girl had disappeared. Four Miles From Spot quence, One of these was a theory Unable to do anything further, that an accomplice of Ray Hodges, | der and Peach drove on into the ¢ an escaped convict who was The incident oceurred only a distance this side of Hall's Lake, point between three and four from the spot where Mrs, Br; | turea at Puyallup Monday, might have heard of Mrs. Bryan's separ- ation from her husband and of their division of property, followed and | body was found early Monday m murdered her. ing, in the Mount Baker Park | trict, It must have happened, it Husband Returns | said, about the time of the murder, Another story that failed of roboration was that William Zim- merman, conductor on a Mt. Baker | car, had as passengers early Sunday }morning a young man and woman who sat in a seat together “making love,"’ the actions of the man arous- ing the conductor's suspicions, Zim- merman, taken to police headquar ters, emphatically denied the tale | that passengers had reported. George W. Bryan, husband of the murdered woman,’ came to Seattle from Puyallup Tuesday afternoon, bringing his brother and his father, Tho three offered their services to r Is Husband Worth | $25,000 to Wife How much a husband is will be determined when the age suit started in superior o by Catherine Lombardo against Aj B, Terry comes up for hearing, She says Terry ran down killed her husband on the of Yakima, August 22, 1919, isks $25,000 damages.