The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 28, 1919, Page 1

TURSDAY ocr, a8 Hirst Low Tide am ‘rien Nigh 'T opm Tides in Seattle ‘necond Wigh Tide oa tt RRR WEDNESDAY ocr, 2% Fit Low Tide 11:29 8. rot Pile! ride High Tide aS ft RYOLU! ME 22. NO. 207. || AS IT SEEMS TO ME | DAA " SLEETH INALLY our family man aged to beat the neigh bors up. All fall, no matter how far we turned the alarm @head out at our house, we always to craw! under the morn- ing wire at the end of the proces if some starter would feratch us for traveling under ‘Wraps, and pulling the race, and ell that. But Monday morning we won by half the track. ‘The alarm went off at the same Old time; we arose, fed five-dollar bills, disguised as nut coal, into the yawning and yearning maw of the furnace, put on the percolator, let Out the pup, combed our back hair and sliced the bacon, and then, when we went out to empty the ashes, still all was a dark silence. «No lights in any neighboring » house, no crowing rooster, no bark- ing pup, no snorting Mlivver backing into the alley. Had the rest of the world gone on a strike? Alarmed, we hunted up our Watch and discovered that it was 6am. The alarm was bang at 6:20. We had ‘the alarm clock back Saturday, and Sunday we do not allow the alarm to work; it eserves one day of rest, whether We do or not Never again will we believe time is an arbitrary thing. Man makes time, and it is not time to get up until your neighbors think so. At the same moment this morn- ing the town was sleeping peace fully; it was still night; so far as Seattle was concerned, it was 5:30; — ago, on the same the town was astir, and it cog 6:30, because everybody made it so. ‘Time, indeed, exists only in the Mind of man; and his arbitrary Standards, that cut up chunks of eternity and call them time— hours, minutes and seconds—reg- ulate our lives, but there is no | @uch thing as definite time as 8. apart from the eternal progress of the universe. 4 A lot of us have the idea that at & certain point we leave time and take up eternity, don immortality. We can be sure, or so it seems to M™e, that if we are not immortal now, we never will be, and the particular cross-section of eternity ‘we are now scrutinizing thru the flass of life is as much eternity as any we will ever see. eee IFE is a fot more amus- ing than it was when everybody went to work on a street car. ‘The family flivver has certainly changed the mental Stride of the worker. i ‘Where once we had the deadly round of flabby strap and swaying ear, the same old smells of feet and six sorts of sachet powder and nine varieties of chewing gum, and three of bootlegger’s favorite pre seription, now we have the fresh air of heaven, and, frequently, in- “ teresting incidents. "A casein point: Yesterday we Passed an ¢upturned flivver out Green Lake way, nF about was a group of automobies! among them a robin's egg blue roadster. In the center of an animated group was a gesticulating gentle. man, evidently expressing his opin jon of folks who toppled flivvers over before lunch Nobody was hurt, it seemed, and half a dozen shoulders righted the flivver and set it on its wheels, apparently good as ever Now, that honest toiler shaken out of his rut; he has some- was thing to think about besides the high cosy of living and a stingy boss n event marched out and amused him for half an hour, and his drab life was briefly illumined by the clash of warring worlds, and £0 forth Except when the car ran off the track, or the motor burned out, or a fuse went up in blue smoke, nothing ever occurred to break the deadly routine of the daily r ride, But now there is hardly a sturdy erafteman, no matter how obscure and humble, who can not look for- i" ward to at least one damage suit a } year; and he is a prosaic eltizen, indeed, who will thru a whole Month miss all these wildly @riving Jehus, who turn corners on two wheels, and consider right-of- Way laws mere scraps of paper A flivver is something like the Gog's flea: it keeps us serfs from dwelling too much on our dog- hood, Entered as Becond Class Matter May 4, 1899, at the Postoffics at Beattie, Wash,, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise rhe Seattle Star under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879 ARS JUMP RAILS Late Edition Mail 9.00 CENTS Per $6 Year, b 00 to "SUPPERY TRACK . CAUSES MISHAPS | Slippery rails were held accountable for a dizzy runaway of a Phinney ave. street car and its overturning at N./| 43rd st. and Phinney ave. shortly before 7 o'clock Tuesday | morning. Altho the heavy coach left the rails and came to a grinding, crashing stop on its side, only two passen- | gers were injured and those slightly. A score or more of | |Dassengers we were © shaken up and bruised. -} The injured were E. Biggs, a rail} road man, living at 319 N. Tist st, who incurred a deep cut on his neck, and BE. H, Connelly, 9919 First ave. N. W., whose shins were bruised and cut Heth men were taken to/ 2 elty hompttal According to F. A ac of the runaway were covered with wet leaves and a/ ‘Tenants Who 10 Object Said tO neavy mist. As the car started down | hill, Lowe says he applied the brak | Be Blacklisted te e without effect. Gaining momentum | he every yard, the heavy car jumped | Lowe, motor car, the rails —___—- % | the track, plunged along the ties for TENANTS, NOTICE? | |a short distance, and then upset. | H Officers of Tenants’ Protective | | hurling passengers aguinst each other, | Another street car accident Tues day morning occurred when a Queen | | Anne atreet car became unmanage | ble and ran down the Queen Anne | [counterbalance for a short distance: David Alderson, 1613 Fifth ave, W. | was «lghtiy heart about the knees, | No other passenger was Injured. Motorman C. W. Sevinain anid his |car began slipping shortly after it| | |left the end of the line for the in-| bound trip at Fifth ave. W,, and slid) association urge every tenant | who can spare the time to ap- | pear in the council chambers in the county-city building Wednes- | day afternoon, when the coun cil, sitting as a committee of the whole, will resume consideration |/ | of the anti-rent hog ordinance. \| At the first mecting of the | counell landlords packed tho | | chambers, appearing long before | the hour set for the hearing Altho the meeting Wednesday itiinten As NT is set for 3 o'clock, officers of the | | clear to Second ave. N. before thet Tenants’ Protective association | | could get it under control, Dead| | | uree every tenant who can be | | jeaves, he sald, caused the slipping } | Present to find a seat in the The Inst slip occurred down the | council earlier. | last two blocks of the Queen Anne A TER, grade, The car came to a stop at Existence of an “understanding”! the foot of the among the rent hogs of Seattle to! poy st discipline tenanta who kick at con’| Tho rear trucks pulled away from | jstantly increasing rentals by forcing | the reat of the car when the 16-ton| them into the street thru legal notice counter balance stepped abruptly. The to vacate, was exposed Tuesday by| momentum of the car caused the C. P. Tatro, 724 16th ave. weesk It i# said the car was trav It {# this that induces the tenant! eling 35 miles an {to stay away from all meetings at! tom of the hill wes re jwhich honest opinion may be ex There were about pressed, whether it be to the mayor atoard, mowtly hour when the bot ached. *0 passengers shipyard workers of Seattle or members of the city | geveral were jarred severely, but om jcouncil in open meeting. caped serious injury. Conductor B. “Perhaps that is why there was|,. Briner, 501 Second ave raid such a dearth of tenants at the meet: the car was the first to a trip} ing of the city council last Friday, | over the tracks Tuesday morning. | when It began consideration of Mayor “ He says this accounts for the ac-| | Fitzgerald's ordinance, which seeks! cumuiation of wet leaves on the} to curb the rent hog,” Tatro sald. | track | Tenants Cowed The epidemic of street car accl | “The tenants, to put it plainly, are | dents was started late Monday night. | when Motorman J. O. Ables lost con trol of ear No 1, Kinnear Park line, at Second a The ear sped for several bic t a breakneck speed. It ju the track, but did not overturn Conductor 3. ¢ there were aboard at the th woman was sligh the car before me summoned ‘Thr ported to the 4 conductor, inc the attempted to swit Kinnear Park iron pole tore ing and struck Morse. to the city hospit Winton Christianson, 18, 130 ave. N., was severely shaken up and bruised at 19th ave. and BE. Madisor tand|8t.. when his motorcycle crashed tn-| I have| tO an automobile driven by C. P. of other| Watkins, 427 21st ave. N. Christian fon was taken to the city hospital Nelson, 915 Pine st. a Skin addy e, wan tak hospital nn automoblic by C. BE. Stucker, 4445 Cal e., Tan over him on What: | Nelson was not serious ‘buffaloed’ by the landiords. The! tenants know that If they appeare the councll meeting with protests, they would be serv |@ legal notice to get out apartments, just as I was forced to get out. | “On the first of Sept I bad |the temerity to appear before the federal fair rental commission to | protest against high rents at the | Fulton apartments, 615 22nd ave |where I then lived, After my ap-|« | pearance before the commission, 1! jreceived notice from George c. |Lemcke, agent for the Japanes jer of the Fulton apartments, was no longer desirable as a tenant I did not grieve much until I at tempted to find another apartment |Then it was that I learned that | |was considered a trouble.ma |I had to search the town (i |low for weeks before I « an apartment for my self I was given [that no landlord anted me learned that ants who had put loud |treated as and Roy st ks their tkinson reported | wix nber pagsen, One unidentified injured, but left | vuld be A. Morne art Tuesda when trolley of a treet car. The heavy from its fasten. | He was taken | » the coal and| wid fin nd omy 26th nder scores he nerve to kick] against rent hogs were} I was. Jobn ner & the city | driven Ordinance to be Backed | "But I and scores of other tenants | fornia will be at the council chambers} nom Wednes¢ afternoon to present our injured jarguments for the ordinance favor [Sue ‘council, sitting a4 ronmit-|Lights Needed by /: | Police, Says Mayor of the whole, will meet at 3 p. m. to continue a of the Mayor Fitzgerald frowns on the lintroduced last plan proposed by J. D. Ross, super- Ramsey intendent of lighting, to conserve 1 Estate electric power in Seattle by turning | T. D, Rockwell off cluster lights with the exception | Hotelkeepers’ of the top lamp during the winter ven | months. bes will :iaeneaa, ad In a letter to Ross Tuesday, mayor says “1 think it would net |to eut off any of our str Raid on Gamblers lee thie time, na & wold very Fills Jail Cells )te"'#!!v increase the hazard trom police point of view.” Deputy. sheriffs raided a pooi|" ! fe aA room in the basement of the Mil- WEDDING RING STOLEN waukee hotel, 668 King st., Mon- |day night, and arrested 24 China-| Mrs, BR. C. Stikes, Adrian apart |men, Filipinos and Japanese, who| ments, has a kick coming. were gambling, the officers say. A burglar, who ransacked three | Because the county jail was not|other apartments beside hers without big enough to accommodate more| taking anything, Tuesday morning, prisoners, 40 other men, trapped in| lifted her wedding ring and some silk the room, were release@ Ungerlo nit Vednes- | Hid: | was | | tee con ordinan Friday epresenting sociation, appearing for association, will protest against the which the and| the ap ordi land. pear the » advisable pt Nehting bee counter-balance at| Yet each man kills the thing 44, Canadian he n Smith, girl wife of James M. Smith, caused by “shell ai “She was a sweet girl,” 20 years old. ars old, Helen MeMa pleads insanity " She was only ays each let this be heard; Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word; The coward does it with a kiss, Zhe brave man with a sword. —From the Ballad of Reading Gaol. he veteran, who, told a Star reporter. on trial for her mur-| “L loved her— ts being eared for by the girl's parents, Diamonds Stolen . While Owner Reads Working while J. H tle COAL WALKOUT LOOMING NEAR Jout the Miners’ Executive Commit- | siamonas tee Plans Final Meet | Byers reported the burglary to the | police Tuesday morning. Byers, Seat- business man, was reading a downstairs in his home, at S. a burglar cleaned upstairs rooms, obtaining valued at $1,000 and $35 The burglar overlooked > . 2 SPRINGFIELD, MI., Oct. 28. books of War Savings Stamps. Most (United Press.—-There is no lof the cash stolen belonged to the indication now that the coal housekeeper strike order will be rescinded, according to Acting Presid ‘Police Get Auto, John L. Lewis of the United | Mine Workers today. Liquor and Men Dry squad officers had a fine aw Lewis left for Indianapolis | tomobiie parked in front of the police today to attend a meeting of | station Tuesday, 362 quarts of whis: the executive board of the ky parked in the police vaults, and J . H. Hicks, 34, exsoldier, and W. E miners’ organization, called (© | > arson, landlord, parked in the city consider the strike situation, | 41) on charges of violating the He said the board proba Roe meats wilt make a reply to Presid Monday afternoon, at Rainier ave. Wilson's demand, but he and Atlantic st., the officers becam phasized the statement that the board was not called to with- draw the strike order, ’ 3 of the machine, Investt susple gation resulted in discovery of the lHquor, United Mine Workers of America, 26 district presidents of coal-producing states, and members of the miners’ schedule committee will meet here at headquarters at 10 o'clock tomorrow day that the strike call would be |morning, to draft an answer to rescinded. President Wilson's appeal that the The executive committee of thelstrike be called off, IS, Ind,, Oct. 28. —with the final decision on whether or not coal miners will strike less than 24 hours distant, there seemed little possiblity to- | several Overrules Wilson | WASHINGTON, Oct |tional prohibition enfor providing strict laws for time and constitutional | be | senate, by | rode the v | Similar action was taken | house late yesterday, by to 5 The senate than the necessary Apoplexy ‘isis a vote of 65 to vote was two-thirds, Adam Thrig, 6 da and home, stroke of apoplexy ing a box of apples. afternoon, oO was near by, stantaneous. tuner undertaking parlors, University district, DRY LAW VETO IS OVERRIDEN, Senate, as “Well as House, | in ‘The na ment bill beth war prohibition ame law this afternoon, when the | 20, to of President Wilson. by a vote of 176 over. eight more Kills Adam Ihrig| 10 11th ave. ., Stepped off a street car late Mon started for when he dropped dead from a He was carry N his EB. Hemmingway, 1821 B, 45th examined the body, and declared death had been in. Laurence Thrig, a son, had the body removed to the For. the Weather Forecast. | b STATE RESTS N NS CA “This is a very hard and sad letter to write, but I God knows, it is something that But the way I have been |my wife and mother-in-law is the cause of it all. to write this to you. never wanted to do. “I gave her lots of chances to | not and now it is come to this. “God have mercy on my soul. buried together. insurance, Introduction of the above letter | by Deputy Prosecutor John D. Carmody featured the trial of James M, Smith, Canndian veteran, charged with the murder of his girl wife, Helen, 20, in Superior Judge John |S. Jurey’s court Tuesday morning. | Carmody declared the letter showed | Smith went to the home of the girl's mother, Mrs, Thomas MeMahon, 3634 Hudson st, February 3, with) premeditated murder in his heart. : state rested its case at 10 oak Attorney Jake Kalina, for Smith, moved for a directed verdict, but this wan promptly denied by Judge Jurey. | ™! With the intention of proving |™ that Smith was «uffering from | shell shock when he shot his wife, wounded her mother and then |turned the gun upon himself, the defense called its first witness, John Cairnduff, 603 Marion st., wounded Canadian soldier. ‘The nervous strain caused by Ustening to the booming of the Ger- man 42-centimeter guns was so frightful that stmolute irresponsi- bility followed, he said. “When a man is suffering from shell shock, he doesn't observe any- thing outside his owt little per- sonal area,"’ Cairnduff testified. Expert witnesses and allenists will be called by the defense to testify to Smith's mental condition right after the shooting occurred. Smith will take the stand in his own defense before the close of the trial. Smith is a massive man, over six (CONT'D ON PAGE SIXTEEN) PLOT TO KIDNAP H. FORD'S SON |Was to Be Held for Ransom} | of $200,000 TOLEDO, Ohio, Oct. 28.—An al. |leged plot to kidnap Edsel Ford, son of Henry Ford, millionaire automo- | bile manufacturer of Detroit, and hold him for $200,000 ransom, was frustrated here with the arrest of four men, The alleged conspiracy s exposed by Floyd Gray, who said | he war Jivate detective and posed | as an “invict to gain the confi- dence of the men and join in the} undertaking. Police are investigating Gray's sto! tri to th te th fo inj kh as to co! It | th Es in hi in Rain and Wind Due, Says Forecaster If Weathersmith George N. Salis- |bury makes good, Seattle is in for jrain Tuesday night and Wednes- day, with moderate westerly gales | along with it, j th A 38-mile wind struck Seattle for | a short time late last night. | eu wo | sai Jessie E. Emery, 2512 ‘ | in 14th ave. S., has tried Star Want Ads and knows what she is talk- ing about when she says: I'l need some things for Hal- loween, For children and adult. Insert a want ad in The Star, It always brings results, | | | i | is 80) Try your luck in this ee week’s rhyme contest and win some _ free tickets to the Clemmer. | bh Mack, for you, but not for them two traitors. I n would let any one take my wife from me, so when would not be mine in life, she will be in death. | “Be good to my son and have him learn his prayers brought up a good Catholic. That is my dying ba ya You will be paid all expenses from God bless my darling son.” RAPS TENN Mother and Son beth Bryan, are being by Captain of Detectives T cording to Mrs. Pauline terin-law of Mrs. Nemits, 1736 records do not show that Fay day and Sunday before the der.” Tennant on the case. Harper, ed me day and night when I sick in the hospital far several and she didn’t do it for either, brother, Mr. Nemitz, bea glared |me over their shoulders, and by able to raise that amount,” ¥ said, Tuesday, }could name any number of " j with just as much probability of makes,” ke: murder. | was in no condition to run, and was: | sald Tuesday he had practically ¢ -| pleted his case. nesses and evidence we have now,” | couse, if some should turn up, would gladly use them.” shifted to the county jail, jand White, |WILLIS STIMER IS | find Willi October 21, | police the boy was dressed in over: alls and a gray shirt when he last seen, He attended school in the South t and Wednesday, rain; sae wae southert ¥3 sales, come to me and she God help me. I am Have my wife and n IN EALY CAS Declares, —- William Fay 1 ee rs. Anna Nemitz, jurder on October 20 el West Seattle, “Captain Tennant is not telling thi ‘uth about the evidence. The the safety deposit box the The deposit box contained e “identical currency” Mrs. brought to Seattle from according to Deputy Prosecutor rson, who is working with Cy Mrs. Harper said visited Mrs. Nemitz and her son & e city jail Sunday afternoon und both in good spirits, “They are not worried,” said | ‘even though they are: | is ‘railroaded.’ They are the nd of people. Mrs. Nemitz “I never saw such unelvil p these detectives. When I Captain Tennant’s office with sald uldn't see my relatives in the nae ; took me some time to % em that the law said I cor Fail to Get Bail Crawford E. White, aly and his mother, was at & Tuesday to raise $40,000 toe 8 clients’ release. Ball wags Police Justice Gordon at h, It 1s doubtful whether I shall White still maintains the absolu Nocence of his clients, and says he | nilt. “One of the strong points the says White, “is that an pt in the rear of the Nemitz ho as missing the Sunday night of tl As a matter of fact, the: ere all night,’ Deputy Prosecutor T. H, Patt “We could go to trial with the wit. id Patterson. “We are not ch-— is for any other witnesses, but ® Mrs. Nemitz and Ealy have been No. ‘ allowed to see them except Patters n, Detective Captain C, B, Tenaaa REPORTED MISSING. Seattle police have been asked Stimer, 10, missing is home, at 5523 S24 ave, S, singe | Mrs, Ella Lunn, his mother, The boy has dark ue eyes, and is of medium