The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 25, 1919, Page 1

Tides in Seattle On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise a The seattle Star ocT, 3 Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Waxh., under tise Act of Congress March 3, 1 SUNDAY OCT, 86 CENTS Late Edition Per Year. by Mail “fo $9.00 Fleet Low Tide. Piret Low Tide 2:09 a.m, 0) 12:42 @ m.. —~0.2 ft First High Tide, C48 an : Second 1 = Tide 14 Dom. 12h Dom. 62 te Second High Tide Second Migh Tide 10.4 ft, | 5:08 mR m. 1et te SEATTL Ey bdo SATURDAY, OCTOBE R 2i VOLUME 22. NO. 205. » 1919. Weather Forecast. Tyrieht aud Sunday. ty ATHER breezy about the ankles these mornings Starting a coal fire in the kitchen sto when you forgot the ee the night before; slippers and. pajamas and the fine, brusque breeze of the early morn-—certain- py. that’s no fun. if But yesterday, when I emptied @shes, I caught my first motn- glimpse of the Olympics in all ir glory. The first early-morn- yiew this month, A row of jag purple and white, Moating on | crimson lake ocean of cloud, _spiration that I hasten to pass on to the sisters who may not be deft “But why the ink?" “My beet black stocking |: I'm biacking my leg ly countered. | Fair enough; also court plaster in various shades, ranging baby pink to Afric night; rou a pink stocking, and you slap bit of pink court plaster on be- h the hole; simple, efficacious, one need not be a charter of the needlework gulid to ify in the emergency. It ts these little home economies first aids to the hasty dresser make life éndurable; and al- “ways, I trust, such little lifesavers ‘will be properly announced in this column. Let us by all means be helpful. he 8 KNOW now why they demand 49 cents for a pie that In my youth the village baker was glad to sell form dime, Yesterday I purchased a small pumpkin; the editorial hat would | be a large fit for it. And the price was 30 cents—4 cents a pound. FI believe that pumpkins produce at the rate of ten tons to the acre, if left alone until their proper ma . jority. At $30 a ton, that would be $800 n acre, which would be a fair re- p from the usual agricultural nt, I suspect. “Why bother with strawberries, and pears, and loganberries, for a mere $250 an acre profit, when the humble but weighty pumpkin will return four times the coat of the land in six months. I suspect that the farmer ts not getting 4 cents a pound—or apiece Just a Moment, Please— The best buys in— LAND FARMS' CARS HOMES are listed today in the Classified Section. ALSO The winners in this week’s Rhyme Contest are announced. Were you one of the winners? Try this next week: “11 need some things for joween”— ‘Landlords and Lawyers Let) Out Enormous Squeal at Council Hearing Friday | SESSION RATHER LIVELY : | | Nine-ténths of the crowd were! ta the balance were tenants. | Incif@ntally, the tenants had a hard| time of it. Every time one of them | attempted to speak, he was Kreeted | |with shouts of “Bolwhevik!™ “Bit| “Why don’t you buy al More than once Councilman wal liam Hickman Moore was competed | Counctimen Carroll, Thomson, Haas and Bolton failed to appear at roll call, altho Bolton appeared later and sat in at the meeting. Counc! man Lane left the council chamber when Bolton appeared. After the lengthy ordinance had been read by Lenhart 0. Schrader, clerk of the city counctl, Mra, Rosie | Freed, proprietor of an aparement house at 905 Boylston ave., opened | debate by indulging in biting sar. caam, “I am surprised that thie noble city council overlooked one thing in! preparing this obnoxious ordinance,” Mrs. Freed said. “Why you have (CONT'D ON PAGE TWELVE) KITTOE CASE IN HANDS OF JURY, Defense insists F Fatal Shoot- ing Was Accident The case of Harry T. Kittoe, charged with first degree mur- der of Leo Price at Sunnyside dune 22, went to the jury at 11 | o'clock Saturday morning. Dep uty Prosecutor John A. Frater delivered the closing argument, and in an appeal for conviction, declared evidence introduced had shown conclusively’ Kittoe was guilty. Walter Fulton, counsel for Kittoe, preceded Frater, and pleaded for ac- quittal, on the grounds that the shooting was shown to have been an Jaceident. Hugh M. Caldwell, Kit toe’s other attorney, argued for ac- ital Friday afternoon. “Shall the death penalty be in flictea?” ‘This is the question the |jury will answer if they find RMttoe guilty. Present statutes make it) |optional with the jury whether a man shall be imprisoned for life or executed, when found guilty of first {degree murder. | In his own defense, Kittoe took |the stand Friday afternoon, and with- out a tremor told how he had shot | Price, | “It was an accident,” he testified, |“‘my father-had been drinking. He fired two shots while in the bath room, and I went in and disarmed |him. When the shots were fired, | Price &nd Mr. and Mrs. Breitenstein ran outside, As I stepped out the door with the gun I had taken from |my father, they started to come back lin. Price was in advance. “I held up the gun to show them Thad it, and it went off, Price sank | |to the ground. ‘You've shot me, | Harry,’ he said. We then summoned aid.” The state contends that Price said, “You've got me, Harrv” AMERICA WARNS MEXICAN CHIEFS Did | They Strangle Mrs. Bryan? Over’ Present Difficulties WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.— (United Press)—President Wil- son's cabinet will reassemble this afternoén at 4:30; t was learned, following a session lasting two and a half hours this morning. The whole matter of the impend-| ling coal strike {# to be ald “before! | | Mra. Anna Nemitz above) and her son, William Fay Ealy (below), who are charged with the murder of Mre. Elizabeth Bryan. Both were led from their cells In the city jail Sat: |“ urday morning and photographed by | the polles photographer, The ple-| ture of Mrs. Nemitz iw the first taken | since her arrest. Before going tnto| | the camera room, Mrs. Nemitz care: | fully combed her hair. Meanwhile, | jhe smiled and chatted pleaxantiy | with the fall matron and police of-| ficers, She showed no signs of worry. Ealy, photographed a few | minutes before his mother, seemed | less worried than ‘at any time since his arrest WASHINGTON, D, C., Oct. 25.—A resolution directing that all the arm ed forces of the United States be used in an effort to obtain the re. lease of William ©. Jenkins, Ameri- can consular agent, held by Mexi can bandits, was offered today by Myers, Montana, The st department has delivered a note to Mexico, demanding the release of nkins, even if it Is necessary for the Mexican governm ransom, Assistant Seer Philips announced today nt to pay the} wiry of State Dead men tell no. tales, but they s6metimes leave large quantities of | despite unpublished manuscript ' There’s No Doubt Fitzgerald Mayor Fitz ® Monday, October 20 gerald wears a perceptible frown, ‘Tuesday, October 21—Mayor Fitz gerald wears a slightly more per- ceptible frown Wednesday, October ~Mayor | Fitzgerald wears a deeper frown, = | Thursday, October 23 — Mayor! Fitzgerald wears a slightly deeper | frown. Friday, October 24—Mayor Fitz gerald wears a regular he-frown, Saturday, October 25—-Mayor Fitz gerald dictates: the following letter 22 | President Wilson before the cabinet | feassembles, it learned. No) agreement on the policy to be pur) sued could be reached at the morn: | was Ing seanion. Among matters which will be con sidered are } Continuation of production. the strike of bituminous | miners, set for November 1. | The recommendation of the na} tonal Industrial conference, disband ed yesterday, that a amall committee | |be named to draw up an industrial ‘peace program" for submission to a new conference. Fight to Finish? ‘The indicated intention of labor to fight to a finish the steel strike. The demands of the four brotherhoods and other workers for more wages. ‘The burden of working out a pro-| cram of industrial peace in the United States again today rested on the shoulders of President Wilson. The National Industrial Conference had definitely disbanded today, leav ing with the president the recom: mendation that a small committee | be left to work out industrial prob- |lems and submit a program to a| future conference, including repre: sentatives of capital, labor and the public. big | raliroad | Public Group Reports With the National Industrial Con- ference completely disbanded the president was in possession of a re. port, containing suggestions for coping with the situation, forwarded to the White House late yesterday ternoon by the public group. The suggestions are contained in a report written for the group by John D Rockefeller, Jr., Miss Ida M. Tarbell, Ward M. Burgess, John M, Spargo and Bernard M. Baruch, group chair. man As a possible basis for solution of the immediate problem of many strikes threatened and in progress, the report calls attention to the (CONT'D ON PAGH TWELVE) That Mayor Thought It Over! to Charles ©, Myers, general man- ager of the Pacific Telephone & Tele. graph company: “The telephone service seems to be worse than it was the last time I called the matter to your attention. “When phoning from my home (Ballard 808) it is always several min. utes before I can get a connection with central and at the office we have much trouble with parties com- ing in on the line after connection is given.” ‘The mayor hopes to receive a reply Monday, ff|New York Lunch, | former | Seefeld, 1(ONE BABY OUT OF EVERY FIVE IS JAPANESE HOOD RIVER, Ore., Oct. 25.—Spurred | stituted a movement for the passage of a ¢ on by statistics which have just been com- state law preventing Japanese from own- piled, showing that 20 per cent of the jing land in Oregon. infants born in Hood River county this | year have Japanese parents, the recently organized Anti-Asiatic association has in- | Asiatics. The Hounds Must Be Made to Quit The association is rapidly obtaining members, who pledge © themselves not to sell or lease land to | M KENN JEDY'S rent-regulating ordinance evi- dently has TEETH. Loud wails from a number of landlords at the council hearing Friday bear this out. ‘And, as is usual in such cases, they rave and rant and cuss and spit fire in all manners of ways. They are now circulating a “dodger” branding the ordinance as “soviet” propaganda, What right has the city to tell them how to run bs og Pawar they agk. It is the same question railroads asked when the public service commis- rd Pies rogmonad te shed Gicace whose methods einige ite returns to investors. in other states. It is blic cata and who final; public Inw Tand- Today the does not seek to interfere It DOES seek the infernal lease speculations which have been going on. It will not interfere with the land- lord who is guided, more or less, by his conscience. But it does seek to stop, the man without conscience. When the public weal demanded the abolition of the booze business, it went. When public welfare de- manded the licensing of poolrooms, they were licensed. When public welfare demanded that taxicab rates be fixed by law, they were so fixed. When public wel- fare demanded that passenger rates on railroads, street cars and steamboats be fixed and regulated, they were so regulated. And the same must be true of rents. Seattle land- lords must be content with a reasonable profit. The ordinance guarantees that. It takes into considera- tion the investment in the building, the cost of up- keep, the losses of past years, and al! other reason- able considerations. Only those landlords who intend to commit out- rages really have cause for alarm. Decent landlords should welcome some sort of a check on those who have no scruples. We can dismiss offhand the argument of those flabby and self-contented to a tenant’s cry of anguish, ask: build a home yourself?” landlords who, in answer “Why don’t you They might just as well ask why we don’t buy a dairy to get cheaper butter, to get cheaper clothes. or raise sheep in order Those who have the money DO build their own homes or buy them. But there are a great many others who are unable to undertake it. class that needs the most protection. And it is this It is this class against whom the most heinous rental offenses are being committed. It ought to be a matter of pride for the realty association to run down the hounds in the business, rather than to oppose the city’s attempt to do so. Faith of Girl | in 1 Aectnall | Painter Remains Unshaken ‘There one person in Seattle whose faith in the of William Fay Ealy knows no bounds whose implicit confidence in his uprightness remains unshaken, even tho he stands accused of murder. “1 know he is innocent, because he is a man—that's what he is,” she said with emphasis, her eyes snap- ping. She is the accused boy's plain little sweetheart, Miss Dorothy daughter of Mr, and Mrs, Richard W, Seefeld, 7438 Fourth ave N. BE. She is an employe of the in the basement of the New York building, Second ave, and Cherry st. “1 wonder if they will let me see him?” she asked, “Oh, I would do anything in the world to save that boy. 1 have known him, since we were that high—just little kids, “And the reason know Fay didn’t do it, is because he is a good boy, who wouldn't hurt a fly.” dust a “Fine Woman” Some years ago, Miss Seefeld said, when Mrs. Anna Nemitz, the boy's accused mother, was running a bar- ber. shop here, the girl and Mrs. is innocence Seefeld M frequently went to call on Nemitz ‘She's just a fine woman,” the girl said of Mrs. Nemitsz. “To think she would be guilty of such a thing as murder—-why, I never heard of such a thing. About two years ago, young Ealy called her up, Miss Seefeld said, and asked her to attend a party the Ne- mitz family was giving in their home, 3826 Meridian ave. She ac cepted the invitation, “You never saw a finer family she said. “They are just the nicest people in the world. Fay took me for an auto ride in his machine. We drove all around the city. We were as confidential during our acquaint ance as young p @ple usually are, but Fay never spoke an out-of-the- way word to me in his life. He wasn't that kind “Then he joined the army and I met him on the stret one day, and he told me was going away.” The girl's eyes were wistful, “Sinee he came back,” she added, “he hasn't come to see me, But I suppose heshas been too busy work- ing. He's innocent, and I know he is, and I'd stand on my head to help him_out” NEMITZ FLAYS — POLICE ACTION That detectives have been searching Mate Wednesday night for a house painter know: as “Fatty” and whose arrest may throw an e tirely new light on the Elizabeth Bryan mu ider mystery, ‘was disclosed Saturday |Deputy Prosecutor T. H. Patterson. Thee \arrest might even lead to the release:of V ‘liam Fay Ealy and his mother, Mrs. \Nemitz; charged with the crime, 'tirely improbable considering certain ny ‘mation gleaned from reticent officials. “Fatty” Robert Nemitz, stepfather of ,cused woman, is the mysterious “real murderer” named Ealy and husband of the Ealy said Saturday that W. S. Uns ‘painting contractor, 5213 Brooklyn ave., had informed h that “Fatty” had revealed considerable knowledge cone ing Mrs. Bryan and her affairs. “Fatty” is said to have qui his job as an employe of Unsworth very suddenly follo discovery of the woman’s body, and to have disaj } said he has learned “Fatty” bought a ticket to San Fran- jelseo and had informed acquaint ances that he intended to take a ves sel from the California port bound | for Honolulu, for his health. deny Saturday that Nemitz any information on ject. | “There's nothing to it said. “It doesn't amount thing. I don’t say Nemitz |about it, but I won't say he Honting for Him the sub- neworth to any- is lying isn't,” | Nemits said he was to see another | painter named Bond at union head- | quarters Saturday. Bond, he said, knew “Fatty's” real name and might shed further light on his movements. Nemitz said he intended to trace the man if he had gone to San Fran- cisco, or farther if necessary. “We've known about that Hono- lulu bird for, several days,” said | Deputy Prosecutor Patterson. “In | view of what Mr. Nemitz told us about him, it isn't likely we *would jnot attempt to run the clue down. Captain of Detectives Tennant has the search in charge and I don't know how far he has proceeded. He jis hunting for the fellow and will | get him.” | Questioned closely as to whether the state was proceeding on the theory that Mrs. Bryan's $4,500 had |been “sp hree ways,” Patterson replied, ‘ Patterson insisted that the state had “something on” the two prison- ers already charged sufficient to war rant their being brought to trial, but would not divulge the nature of the evidence. Mum Until Trial “So far as the police are con- cerned,” declared Captain of De- tectives Tennant, “nothing will be disclosed in this case until it is dis- closed in court. It is a hard case. We've got something on them, but we aren't going to tell what it is until the trial.” Nemitz stated his contempt for the manner in which the case has been thus far handled in these em- phatic words: “Small town stuff. That's what it is. Tennant and Patterson are act- |ing like a couple of kids—got their heads set on something and don’t | want to find out the real truth. re going to bull their way thru That's the way they figure.” Nemitsz declared he and his wife and the boy, Ealy, had all been lied to by Tennant in an unsuccessful effort to shake their alibi defense, Flays Police Action “First Tennant would take my wife into his office,” said Nemitz. |"He'd get her to make a statement, then tell her she was lying because I had told a different story, Then he'd send her out and send for me. He'd tell me I was lying because my wife had told something different. that} — | He did the same thing with the | But all he was able to get out jeithér of us was the same the story that we all stick to, and later go to Japan| cause it is true—-that the boy wa jhome at 10:30 Sunday night, and Unsworth would neither affirm nor} he had given| mained home that night.” The murder was committed time before 8 a. m. Monday, Mrs. Bryan's body was yet cold, in the brush at the Cascadia ave., in the Mt. Baker district. Butterworth & Sons, who have body of Mrs. Bryan, were Saturday for the return of stomach from the University | Washington, where analysis no trace of poison. Burial in Puyallup As soon as the stomach is ret it will be embalmed and ments completed for the ful Butterworth said Saturday the dered woman's husband, George Bryan, would take the body to allup for burial, Recalling that the Nemitz* were reported to have had a mortgage on their home, 3826 Me jan ave., for several years, Polis Chief Joel F. Warren said Sat he was at a loss to explain why, they had so much money in deposit box as they claim to have | had for a long time, they had not |” 7 paid off the mortgage. “It looks like a clear case to “ea 4 he confessed. 4 Detectives are making an effort to “ae trace the past of Ealy and his mothe er. R. P, Collins, former employe of the prosecutor's office, who said he had known mother and son for eral years, volunteered the ment that he would give some intem esting information. Deputy Prosecutor Patterson was to hold a consultation with Collings Saturday afternoon. Meanwhile, Pat- terson had instructed Collins to keep his lips sealed. Patterson denied he had ever told” anybody the amount of money in the Nemitz’ safety deposit box when searched. “That is something we don't want — anybody to know," he di Call Extra Session in California. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Oct. 25. Gov, William D. Stepheng. today ia sued a call for a spectal session of | the state legislature, to pass the suf> frage amendment. ,The session will convene November 1, \ HASTINGS, Neb,, Oct. 25.—The entire family of Charles Kimmerly, comprising himself, his wife, son, two daughters and an infant ch were instantly killed when an aut mobile in which they weré travel to thelr home at Sturgeon, Colo., struck by a fast Union passenger train at Odessa, Neba!