The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 24, 1919, Page 1

nm! eh OTHER ACCUSED OF Al ING EALY . . TRANGLE GIR On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Tides in Seattle FRIDAY ocT. a4 First High Tide e239 am, tha ft First Lew Tide 12:02 Bom, 58 fe igh Tide n S10 p.m, 106 tt DANA SLEETH OME may consider banks and bankers ‘parasites, “moneyed vultures claw: ing atthe vitals of the poor,” and generally in- Ing im unnice table manners, for my part, I've always won how a bank does as much yt does for the average depositor t getting anything for it. Was called to mind yester- » When I paid a light bill of 86 its IN person, instead of sending k. fs) _ Before I started to pay the bill I ht I needed exercise. When finished getting rid of that 85 ts, I knew I had been mis- fow enter the city and county at the Fourth avenue en- ce; you look up at the direct- beard and discover that the u department is room 200 say, I'm strong for A check, a two-cent stamp three minutes’ time would saved 45 minutes, and I 4 have had a funny story or th here this beautiful even- “tng, instead of this wail. ose | DR genial Cynthia Grey {s) has conveyed to me her thanks for my brave de- fense of the basic eco- a nomic sense of woman, nt portrayed in my little anecdote the $25 waist pattern. - My native honest impuise bids ™e remark that I wrote that Not to incite the feminine contin- gent to rictous living, but to Strengthen their wise and noble ambition to continue saving pa's fash by persisting in their old-time stern disdain of these frivols and fancies of fashion I am two and a half suits and a ‘winter hat behind at home, and if kind words will replace $20 bills, 1 will, continue to emit ap- Plause and ask no deft white hand to even wind up my motor or put on a new record. I'll do the whole thing all by myself. ar a OOKS like a brisk winter iL | is ahead of the gentle A men who custodian the a) city’s morals. 7 I note the season Opened well last Sunday, with Brother Crowther rallying him- t0 the defense of our little yellow brother, Hasmira Togo, et al., and, with Brother Matthews tackling the gamboling gambler in his lair and stomping on the gum boot fla- vored “Turkish” cigaret. I note t the modern © pul- piteers have developed their ser- pentine wisdom, and nowadays he ig a lowly reverend, indeed, who cannot whang the big bass drum and toot-te-toot on the little ear- piercing fife of publicity, right nlong with the rest of the boys. The Salvation Army, years ago, Aiscovered that the way to insure a #teady supply of sinners to work ‘on was to go out on the highways, and trot along the byways, and poke into the hedges, with a bag of doughnuts in the one hand and a drum stick in the other, and a Jarge, robust, drum quivering. in the middle. f The old idea that a good sermon | needed advertising less than a good " political speech was all wrong. ‘The best sermon on earth ts value- Jess unless it is listened to by ly. And the better the ser- mon, the more advertising it should be given, so that larger crowds may get the benefit of it. , I surmise that all this it ig mot likely to be re- SATURDAY ocT, 3% First 12:09 a. m G First High Tide 7:08 wom, 12 ft Second Low Tide 124L Rom, OP ft Second High Tide S37 pom, 104 tt 1 1 | Will Meet Shortly to Discuss| Defense Organization in America | |RESULTS FROM “SPLIT” Gompers’ telegram was an answer to one authorized by the Illinois Federation suggesting a convention of the American Federation of Labor to perfect an offensive and! defensive alliance of the union of | fictals of the country and Canada to! fight labor's battles. The Peoria telegram was sent Gompers after (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ROCKEFELLER IS INDUSTRY HEAD Elected Chairman Public Group at Round Table eller began work on this as- signment late yesterday, when the) public group of the origina! national industrial conference named him chairman of a committee to decide how it shall carry out President Wilson's request that the work of the conference be continued. Rockefeller left the meeting and| walked to hig hotel, carrying a big sheaf of papers, To Frame Report Conferring with other members of | |the committee today, he will frame | @ report to be presented to the pub-| lie group at an executive session |this afternoon. Other members of |the committee are John Spargo, so-| jelalist; Miss Ida Tarbell, woman | writer, noted chiefly for her history ot Rockefelier’s father and of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) COAL WALKOUT | UP TO WILSON President Will Consider the Threatened Strike WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—(By United Press)—Settlement of the soft coal miners’ strike threat- ened for November 1, will be put up to President Wilson, Secre- tary of Labor Wilson made known at noon today. Secretary Wilson appealed to thé | miners and operators, who are in conference here, to remain in session until 4 p, m. In the meantime he will lay their differences before the president. This appeal came after | rejection of his fourth proposal of- fered in hope of averting the strike. tors to strengthen their determina- tion along publicity lines. Some day preachers will have press agents, instead of assistant pastors; then everybody will go to church, You watch and seo! ) | his The SeattleStar [2 ed as Hecond Clase Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffics at Beattie, Wash., under the Act of Congress March 3, 18 SATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1919. Weather Forecast CENTS Late Edition Year. by Mail bao ie to 4.00 This afternoon, tonight and Saturday, fi * continued cold; gentle northeasterly Hubby Called Her “Vamp” She Asks for Divorce in Seattle Court Mrs. Reta Clowry —Photo by James & Merrihew. Because he is said to have called| ceremony took place May 19, 1918.| case, according to her mother, Mra, her a “vamp" and declined to intro- Some weeks ago, she declares, Cap- Gertrude A. DeLue, proprietress of duce her to his brother army officers| tain Clowry told her his leve had the Good Bats restaurant, Pine at. on the assumption that they would) grown cold, and their ways parted.|and Boylston ave. lone their hearts to her, Mra, Reta! Clowry, wife of Captain Clowry, has filed suit for divorce) in superior court here. Their marriage vows were endured for little more than a year, accord-| He went to Fort Sam Houston, Tex., | with papers in the divorce case. | Mrs. Clowry is in Tacoma, filling | an engagement as pianist in the| Olympus hotel | “My daughter is a beautiful and Philip | where he has been served this week | accomplished girl,” said Mrs. DeLue, “I understand Captain Clowry ac cured Hier of being a ‘vamp’ or some thing of that sort, but such a charge is, of course, outlandish. Captain ing to Mrs, Clowry’s complaint. The| She did not care to discuss the | Clowry was merely jealous.” Say Customers Tried to Steal You can’t satisfy your sweet tooth) at the expense of Seattle restau rants. Most of them have plenty of | sugar, but for the use of customers only to consume, as it were, on the premises. | “The reason we removed the sugar bowls and served three cubes in stead, in because every one was emptying the sugar bowls into their pockets,” said the manager of a} big Second ave, restaurant. “We have plenty of sugar—but we cannot supply it in wholesale quantt- ties. The sugar bowls will go back when the general public has sugar, and not before. It is a matter of safety first with us. MERCURY SINKS, BEEVEEDEES IN POOR STANDING Seattle emerged from the hay Fri day morning, to greet the coldest day of the year thus far, Seattle cast aside its beeveedecs and dug up the heavier woollen gar. ments and put on its overcoat. ‘There was good reason, too. The weather man cast an eye over records Friday morning and found that George W. Mercury had descended to 40 degrees during the night—only 8 degrees removed from the freezing point. And the weather for Saturday and Sunday is going to be about the same, according to Official Weather. smith George N. Salisbury. Not only that, but one of those chilly northeasterly breezes will keep step with the bashful thermometer, The total weight of all persons in the world is estimated at 106,000,000 tons GALLANT SWAINS BRAVE DEATH TO |) SAVE GIRL’S HAT PROSSER, Wash, Oct 24 Pretty Miss Irma Towne went auto riding with Harry Sterns and Donald McKay The wind whipped her new fall hat away. Abandoning clutches and steering wheel, both swains grabbed wildly for the hat. Passersby lifted the car off the trio, RENT HOG BILL COMES UP AT 3 Mayor Fitzgerald Will Ask Council to Pass It At 3 o'clock Friday afternoon | Mayor Fitzgerata’s ordinance, des! signed to put the screws on the rent! hog in Seattle, was scheduled to be considered by the city council sit ting ay a committee of the whole. Mayor Fitzgerald is prepared to sponsor the ordinance and will be) backed up by representatives of the| Tenants’ Protective association. | Landlords also will be given an op-| portunity to be heard. Mayor Fitsgerald expressed the conviction that his ordinance will be passed by the city council, either at the Friday session or at the regular meeting of the council next Monday [afternoor 2 Tailor Sued for Breaking Pact Thirty-two tailoring firms started suit in superior court Thursday against A. Stack, tailor, for violating | | feloniously and with a premeditated an agreement whereby the demands of the Tailors’ union were to be re. fused, Journeymen Tailors’ Union No, 71 have been on strike for more than & month. Stack and the 32 firma are said t ohave made an agreement to refuse the strikers’ de mands, Stack is accused of forming an other company and granting the de. mands, Each of the 32 plaintiffs ask $100 damages, HISTORY OF 91ST MEN SAN MATEO, Cal, Oct, 24.—A campaign was launched here today by members of the 91st division pub- Meation committee for contributions from members of the division for funds with which to print a history of the Sst. Mr. O. B. Snyder, 4537 35th ave. S., submits the following poem: “IT want what T want when I want it; And I'll get what I want, it is true, The Star Want Ad is the secret, my lad, That keeps business running for you."’ Watch for announce- ment of the Prize Win- ner in Saturday’s Class- ified Section, POLICE INFORMED EALY | | | bars of his cell door, tively while Shannon read the war-| | gone thru. $$ a REGISTERED IN HO Formal charges of first degree murder were filed by the tate today against Wil iam Fay Ealy and his mother, Mrs. f itz, 3826 Meridian ave., alleging that Mrs. Elizabeth Bryan, of F allup, was strangled to death last Monday by Ealy aided abetted by Mrs. Nemitz. ; Other of today’s developments, which tended more to deepen the mystery than © wise, were these: Deputy Prosecutor T. H. man is under suspicion in the Superior Judge Frater, at corpus proceedings, brought i son by Attorney Crawford W by Deputy Prosecutor Carmod Patterson intimates another case, 9:30 a. m., dismissed habeas n behalf of Mrs. Nemitz and /hite, following announcement ly that a justice court warrant, charging murder, had been formally filed. Robert Nemitz, husband'of the accused woman and step-| father of the accused boy, begins search for unknown man said to have known Mrs, Bryan received $4,500 in Puyallup last Saturday and who is said to have taken passage on a vessel for Honolulu Tuesday night. Ealy reported to have been a room at the Central hotel, 1 in which he stayed Saturday, night, identified as the man who got 514 Westlake ave., Saturday, Sunday afternoon and Sunday Captain of Detectives Charles E. Tennant admits the state's plete informa’ iP be Sed » Prevents Mra. het son from gaining their m on habeas corpus proceed. It given the state authority to hold them under arrest. Before they can be tried, however, a detailed in- formation must be filed in the su- bertor court outlining definite de-| tailed allegations on which the charges are based and tlie names of witnesses the state expects to call. Capt. Tennant, who had been working on the case until long after midnight Thursday night, was up early Friday and got down to his office at 9 a.m. Deputy Prose cutor Patterson arrived at the county-city building at $:45 and to .ed himself in a private office with a stenographer, He emerged at 9:15 with a care-| fully drawn warrant charging both prisoners with murder tn the first! degree. Hurrying to Pollce Judge! John B: Gordon's court, Patterson | filed the warrant just in time to prevent release of Maly and Mrs. Nemitz, who had brought hatieas | corpus proceedings in Superior Judge A. W. Frater’s court. The warrant was immediately taken from police court to the city Jail, where Ealy and hia mother are confined in separate cella. Reads Charge Constable. James Shannon first took the warrant to Ealy's cell and commanded the prisoner to stand up. Ealy arose from his bunk and brac- ing himself with both hands on the listened atten- “William F. Ealy and Anna Ne- mitz, first degree murder, He, the said William F. Baly, in the county of King, state of Washington, on the 20th day of October, 1919, did then and there wilfully, unlawfully and the death of one Elizabeth Bryan, a human being, choke, strangle and suffocate the said Elizabeth Bryan with a certain cloth then and there held in the hand of him, the said William F. aly, and by him, the said William F, Kaly, forced into the mouth and throat of her, the said Elizabeth Bryan, in such manner as to cause the death of the said Elizabeth Bryan, from which choking, strang- ling and suffocating as aforesaid, she, the said Elizabeth Bryan, then and there died, and she, the said Anna Nemitz, did then and there wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously encourage, aid and abet the said William ¥, Ealy in such acts as aforesaid.” , Mrs. Nemitz Sets Jaw As the constable finished reading Ealy’s lip quivered. Without a word he turned and stepped’ to his bunk. Constable Shannon then took the warrant to Mrs. Nemitz’s cell, where the same formalities were Mrs, Nemitz set her jaw and showed no sign of weakening. It was noted that the warrant did not state the exact place where the alleged crime is supposed to have been committed. Deputy Prosecutor Patterson said the state had two theories on this phase of the case. One theory is that Mrs, Bryan met ber death in an automobile. The other theory is that she was strangled in the Nemits home, ac- cording to Patterson, While the warrant was being read to the two prisoners, Nemitz and Attorney White went to Capt. Tennant's office, where they were design, to effect ase still “has a few stray ends,” but asserts a com- next week in the superior removed to the county jail. met by Patterson, who called Ne- mitz into consultation. Attorney Vhite obtained permission, for th first time, to visit Ealy and mother. He was rejoined by Ne- mitz later and wert into the jail. Makes No Complaint After an hour and a half White returned and reported that Ealy had no complaint to make of the treatment accorded him since his arrest last Tuesday, except that he had been denied the privilege of smoking. He is said to have had but one clgaret during his confinement, that having been given him by a jail trusty unaware that an order had been issued by Capt. Tennant that Ealy was not to be allowed te smoke until the case was cleared up. “Our cards are on the tabi sald Attorney White. “There was nothing to conceal, The boy and his mother are not guilty and have told the truth, The boy was at home on Sunday night, just as he has said.” The state, however, ts said to have gained information that con- tradicts Ealy’s story in this spect. Took Hotel Room? Axel Carsons, manager of the Central hotel, formerly the Ameri- can hotel, 1514 Westlake ave., across |the street fro: the Plaza hotel where Mrs. Htyan registered as “Mrs, W. F. Galbraith,” is said to have identified Ealy as the man who took a room at the Central Saturday night, Carsons said this man paid for two nights’ lodging with a $20 bill. He said he saw the man wandering } re- jatternoon, Once, Carsons said, he jtook the man up in the elevator, Jand another time saw him walking jup the stairs, The room the man rented was on the fifth floor. Says He Was Home Nemitz said Me was positive his step-son returned home, probably fromsg theatre, at 10:30 p. m. Sun- day. “Whis is the :ame story told by the accused boy and by mother. When the habeas corpus proceed- Nemitz and Ealy were called for hearing in Judge Frater’s court, Deputy Prosecutor John M. Car- mody stepped to the rail and an- nounced that murder charges had been filed in police court. An infor- mation would be filed in. superior court later, it was explained “These habeas corups proceedings are dismissed,” said Frater. “Then I presume I may see my two clients, the defendants,” said At- torney White. After $1,500 Now “There jg no objection,” the court replied. It was learned definitely Friday that search of the safe deposit box rented some years ago to Ealy and his mother at the Day and Night Safe Deposit and Storage Co. 307 Third ave., had disclosed $3,000 in- stead of $2,500 as was first reported, A warrant which permitted Capt. Tennant and Deputy Prosecutor Pat- terson to search the Nemitz home Thursday named $1,500 as the ob- Ject of their search. Whether they found it or not they declined to say Friday. Effort was not. spared, however. Nemitz said Friday they. had left no rug unturned and had even examined the backs of pictures hanging on the wall. It was also reported that the |suspiciously about the halls Sunday | his | | | | | LEAGUE URGES ANTE-JAP the rapidly in cumulation of various States may be licensed to hotels, apartment houses, market stalls, various forms ¢ nesses and no stock in any tion shall be held by other American citizens, 12,000 in Seattle “There are now more than Japanese in Seattle,” the letter the council states, “and truders have about cream of Seattle's industries, . |. “The annual birth rate of ese is five times greater than the white population. More tl per cent of Seattle's in population comes from J: does not take an expert ticlan to figure that Seattle will | a Japanese city by 1940 if this crease is maintained. : money found in the deposit box in bills of small denomination, Bryan's $4,500, theft of which is Heved the motive behind the der, was all in bills, none of was more than $20, Says Tennant Laughed - “The money in the box was savings,” Nemitz reiterated “The boy sold his automobile he joined the army for $800, since he got out of the service earned $1,000. That may have in the box for all I know.” Nemitz said he had been infor by W. 8. nsworth, painting tractor, living at 5213 Brooklyn that he, Unsworth, had told man some days before the that Mrs, Bryan was going to from her husband and receive as a settlement. “This man has since disapp said Nemitz. “I understand he fellow painters he was going Honolulu Tuesday night. I am: t ing to check up more closely on and his movements. I told this Capt. Tennant and he just at me.” When Ealy was arrested, Nemitz went at once to the of Crawford White, the atto said Friday, and asked him to do, saying she expected the lice would search her deposit and might take all the money, “I told her not to go near box,” said White, “and asked if she had anything to fear the lice, She sald she had not, she had feared anything, she have had plenty of time to get money out of the box and hide ft Ealy was taken to Capt. 8 office late Thursday night grilled for more than three Mrs, Nemitz was then sul a similar ordeal. Her stat were recorded in lengthy ai notes by a police stenographer, remained in Tennant's office’ unt after midnight. Go to Bremerton Detective Jack Landis went — Bremerton, where he spent hours Thursday. On his mad¢é out a long report to Cap nant, which, it was said q an account of the visit of Mrs. Nemitz to B day, and a complete their movements there, oa Landis was able to ch