The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 6, 1920, Page 1

Al 3 | WiLL Slain Man Warns “Other Woman” in Trial H Tides in Seattle TURSDAY JAN. 6 | Second High Tide " v WEDNESDAY JAN, 7 First High Tide - t First Low Tide 1204 pom, €1 ft On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise 4 ae Becond Clase Matter May 2, 1 SEATTLE, WASH., TU LL right, then. One, two, three. Hi Diddle Dum! Why Be So Glum? Laugh Chuck, chuck, chuckle! LAUGH! New York is doing it this week—enjoying ‘Laugh and Live Longer” week. For this is how Health Commissioner Copeland of that city has it doped out: Sulk and worry, and ment even out of near-beer. So, let us laugh. Let us have a “Laugh and Live Longer” week in Seattle, too. The Star offers $25 to anyone who submits the best plan for celebrating such a week in a AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH ID we take this coun try from the Indians to give it to the Japs?” Thus asks a Star subscriber. No, we didn’t; and also we won't. My. private hunch is that this atry need fear no invading foe, ther he comes by force or by Il penetration. If this nation remains a nation free men, who have the idea of and square dealing as their we need not bother about outside foe. Will we be swallowed by any horde that has lower de; the greater is never d by the lesser. will the redeyed ranters us seriously if we are and sound at heart. ly nations and peoples and die because they become dev ; because they lose that littie spark that makes some men Hittle higher than the brutes perish. And #0, all laws, and all eco ¢ forces, all treaties, and ar- and navies, and barricades ly postpone the day of reckon- if a nation be at heart un eee of the most serious signs of internal un- soundness seems to me to be the prevalent will ingness to take what 4 haven't earned. few days ago I saw a whole- on salted peanuts— cents a pound, in 10-pound lots. day I bought a pound of peanuts, and I paid 60 cents that pound. | A few years ago, a profit of 10 or ‘cents on the pound would have jen considered about right by the day he wants 125 per cent, at least. ch means that, in business, | lot of fellows have dropped al of service, all notion of w g a fair profit, all consideratior. of their service may’ be worth are going on the hog-it-all sys “When that becomes our national ness ideal, we will be right where the average Jap is immediate dollar will be god, and, without ba world trade with a coup Hon armed men, we wil Finally we will lose, HE same toss of t ideals applies as w those who work It is considered wrong to back boss up in the corner and jimmy a $2a-day raise out of him, if you have the workers organized #0 the boas is helpless. It is not what you can produce it ‘= not what your labor is worth merely what you ean force, by Sw of strength, out of his pocket J see no material difference be- Diween that sort of a holdup and the nightly marauding robbers 0 stick you up on a dark corner Bnd take your watch and your wal ket. not your Getting something without giv Sng a fair value for it, and getting it by force, ix robber No matter whether it be done by # union, by an open shop const acy, by a kaiser Or by a vendor of . ND the curse of such a system is that, started, overybody forced in self-protection 4 to get down in the mud and grab. When a government starts to taking xeess profit taxes, busi Néas starts to increase the margin of profits to insure its normal div dends. The workers begin to grab for enough to break even; and Phen for all they ¢ t All fun- amental ideas of just reward, of fais of square dealing, of re We sibility, are thrown overboard the jostling, shrieking crew of 4 rudderless Good Ship Earth ‘i ime, and bite, and scratch, and serenm all over the place, and the feat man ix he who can survive th the mont loot. | [hats about w SR t we have come "Victim of{> AutoWreck Still Alive | Katherine Kittinger Sustains | Broken Back When Motor Car Overturns WAS OVERSEAS WORKER Her back broken, Miss Kather- ine Kittinger, 29, widely known overseas as Red Cross worker, lies in Providence hospital Tues- near death, following an t | | } i pinned beneath an overturned motor car. | | Mixe Kittinger was riding In a car} driven by Andrew C. Denny, a bach: elor of the younger set, living at 1032 Fourth ave. N. With them was feta Colling, a close friend of Miss | Kittinger, and also prominent in so) elety, of 324 Harvard ave. N | were to meet another ma chine containing a party driven by| Lyman H. Black, son of C. | Black, president of the Seattle Hard yware company, at N. 58th st and} Woodland ave. | Collides With Truck | |. As the Denny car drove past tht) jother machine, Black did not see| them, and Denny, leaning out, mo- tioned to Black to follow. ‘They | were going to the country to gather} ferns and other greenery. | When Denny faced the front jagain, a truck was being backed out. of an alley by Fred Poitras Denny's car crashed into the rear end of the truck Miss Kittinger and | were pinned underneath the car, Miss Collins” collarbone was frac tured and her body bruised in many | places. She was taken home. Found Unconscious Miss Kittinger was taken uncon scious from underneath the wreck- lage. She was hurried to Providence | hospital, where the extent of her in juries was not fully determined until Tuesday morning, when Dra. J. Tate Mason and ©. W. Sharples, after an operation, announced she had sw tained a broken back She is 29 and on popular young women only in the society leader, but t ry w her for her’ philanthropies and her Red € work. Served in France several months she Miss Collins | of the most Seattle, not in which she is a who kn one was sta whe disabled sol For | tioned at Brest, France ured and instructed in vocational traint is the daughter of Mrs B. Kittinger, of 1147 Federal and Mr. Kittinger, of New York « Miss Collins, too, wa | Red Crows work George as in overseas PERSHING COMMITTEEF, NOTICE! Members of all the committees for the of shing meeting in the Fitzgerald, at 10:30 o'clock Wed nesday morning. welcome } Gen | | Per are 13,000 ELKS LOST SALT LAKE CITY, Utah Thirteen thousand elk t in Yelle park this winter to the cold and lack of iccording to figures compiled the local lodge of Elks Jan. 6 have been sever | to, the Whether we world over, today will continue to keep on clawing each other's Jout until we of time is debatable But without a func action, without a real, old-fash y will probably our plight | the perish on the wea ved conversior er improve Only, just now, |how to let go of this blame bear | of a situation, Most of are | scared to let go, lest our later atate {be worse than our former | |° And yet, let go we must | | It might be a good time to dig up |the Golden Rule if we |could measure ourselves for some- thing better than these rags and ]tags and tatters of distrust and envy, and malice, and greed, that now garb us, problem is us and see | tainly and Live Longer, Grin and Grow Stronger .. The Seattle Star at the Postoftice at Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 4, » Weather Forecast: Late Edition Per Year, b; Mai! $6.00 to $9.00 night and Wednesday, fair: contine 4 cold; mederate northeasterly winda, e good, wholesome, clean, enjoyable way. If a feasible plan is presented, there are enough willing people in Seattle to put it thru. In any event, we can all help some by sending along the humorous experiences and in- cidents and stories about Seattle or its residents. For the best local story of this kind, The Star will give $10. The Star also offers $10 for the best limerick based on some Address your funny yarn or limerick to “The Laugh Editor,” and send them in by Saturday night. local event or person. erseas Red Cross Worker Is Critically Inj When Motor Car Overturns and Pins Mise Katherine Kittinger, oversea: Red Cro: Monday afternoon, worker and prominent Seattle society girl, whose back wa) declared broken Tuesday following an auto accident in which she and Miss Elma Collins were injured) | | | | “If your testimony favors your husband when you take the stand in ~ court, I’m going to get you.” 5 This threat, reported to have been made to Mrs. Jennie Roselius ~ by Mrs. Edna Carleton, resulted in Superior Judge Mitchell Gilliam, presiding at the trial of Charles E. Roselius, charged with the mur- ider of Sergeant Guy L. Carleton, calling a secret session in chambers ~ |Tuesday. All the living principals in the Carleton-Roselius affair were present. GET YOU” The alleged threat was carried to Attorney Walter S. Fulton by a Mrs. Roselius. She told him she feared. Mrs. Carleton had a gun in 7 her pocket: of the trial. Mrs. Carleton has been present at all the court sessions Fulton immediately notified Judge Gilliam of the situ- ation. At the conclusion of properly.” FLAMES TRAP SEATTLE MAN Attorney McMicken Rescued} From Death in Lodge Maurice McMicken Jr., Seattle at torney, who was brought to Seattle! from Dungeness Monday in a dan-| gerous condition from burns received | when trapped in a burning hunting | lodge near Port Angeles, was report ed out of danger by physicians at! the Seattle General hospital Tues. day MecMicken was on a fishing and hunting trip on the Dungeness flats! with several Seattle companions. | When the lodge caught fire, Me Micken attempted to retrieve valu ables in the upper story of the building. Driven back from the stair- | way by flaming walls which were | beginning to totter, McMicken dis. | | covered that the door of the building | had become warped by the Intense | | heat | | Bride-to-Be Clinging Tenaciously to Life than 24 hom she is engaged to marry on February 2, was believed to be rushing westward Tuesd Uncenscious more stubbornly Mis prospective hours almost Machek, 1 bride, of 6008 McKinley 5 whose skull doubly Monday's Green wreck, was the center at the city hospital et tain death year-old resisting +s in the Sophi y Schroeder playmate, her frac ents way have been en- Lake | gaged some time, Miss Machek was completing her wedding trousseau th rocident nee her was tured in treet car of Tue Pau 7463 50 other from “« evening before the Sev other severely Injured per: Behnke, a boilermaker, of | sons in dangerous condition nd Park ave., one of the They includ jetims, died at 908 MH. T2nd at, a paralyst sustained internal attention dn we Wood) Tuesday wreck Bert Bergeeth ninter, 40, who injuries and crushed chest W. M. Buffum, 6%, 712 N, 70th st | bruised about the head and possible str fracture of the skull hes /apeapoightorpr's Tuenday| ow, ¢, Foreman 6502 B, Gr morning to tell the extent of serious | Lake way, probable internal injuries, Mre. Alfred R | two ribs broken,:+hand and knee cut 78rd st, who was! joseph Pfister, 36, 7550 ¢ ent an ankle] place, possible injuries to base of lbrain, bruised and cut about head hasn't a and neck in putting up a Irene fight,” was the oft repeated diag. | left sid nosis of of Mins Or Machek during the day ‘They never a, compound skull fracture.” | Her father and other close | st relatives we at the constantly watehing sign of =returning due cord the | the 4m reepir to his Behnke’a neck was ele pole to injurte pinal crushed by rie into which t car ¢ a light unable en injuries sustained by Smith, 633 N hurt internal! sprain ‘she besides but cer desperate | Hinton, 18, 964 N. 76th st crushed » Hart, 18, 4713 Whitman back badly wrenched. Emma C. Bubler, 19, 529 N jaw broken, shoulder girl's bedside | wrenched for the first| M. Scott, 68, 1517 Sixth ave consciousness, | broken, writ sprained, possible in which doctors sald likely would never | ternal injuries return Others of the 51 vietima are ex The girl's fiance, Perey Schroeder, | pected to recover, it was announced a druggist at Grand Haven, Mich, Tuesday 58th survive badly pther QUAKE VICTIMS MAY TOTAL 300 Relief Is Being Rushed to Stricken Mexicans MEXICO CITY, Jan, 6—Unoffi clal estimates today placed the |total dead Saturday night's earthquake 200 in the state of | Vera Cruz, which apparently |the greatest f of the quake, Relief being rust into the stricken area, whieh ters around Jalapa. Discovery of} sdditional bedies in this town will bring the total dead here to 100, lt was estimated in at trains were |Fire Motormen Is Advice of Dr. Read “1 am not a bit surprised that such a wreck as occurred at N |S9th st. and Woodland Park ave | Monday morning Happened where jit did,” Dr, H. M. Read, city health commissioner, said Tuesday | ‘ft have r tedly — warr | Superintendent of Public Utilit Murphine that some day the cit hospital would be filled with men jand women Injured in a street car wreck resulting from speeding down hills. “There is only one way to put a stop to street car speeders and that is to fire them without quib- bling.” j | district of Washi For nearly a minute, while the flames leaped about him, he battled desperately in an attempt to open the door. When his companions finally rescued him, MeMicken was danger ously burned. At first physicians | were of the opinion that he would his eyesight, but later declared t he was out of danger, He was >urht attle Monday | MeMicken is a junior member of the law firm of Chadwick, McMicken, Ramsey and Rupp, of which his father is a senior partner. PROTEST PRICE OF MILK HERE Letters to ‘U. S. Attorney Charge Profiteering lose Protesting against charged for milk and ¢ the average man can hardly to buy milk for his children at the present time, letters poured into District Attorney R. C. Saunders’ office Tuesday, urging him to bring governmental pressure to bear on profiteers. » milk situation is under the rest scrutiny,” stated Saunders, of the federal govern: ment will be used to the fullest extent to curb the restrictive activi tles of associations which are seek ing to limit the supply of fresh milk to the public.” Letters received at the district at torney's office indicate that there is universal dissatisfaction with the milk situation thruout the Western ston, WOMAN DINER LOSES $50 BILL FROM PURSE While Mrs, R. T. Drager, 2917 Ninth ave, W., dined in a downtown cafe Monday night, someone stole a $50 bill from her purse, She deserjbed a waiter and told police she sjspected him, the secret session, Judge why ~ Guy 1. Carleton, police sergeant shot thru the heart by her husband, Charies E. Roselius, former motorcycle patrolman, the night of November 2, when Roselius caught him riding with her, “hypnotized her” and exer- cised an uncanny influence over her, Mrs. Roselius testified on the witness stand Tuesday, Roselius elaims self-defense. “Carleton made a reach for his |gun when he and my husband con-| fronted each other,” Mrs. Roselius testified, “and then my husband shot him.” “Why did you not quit with Carleton?” Fulton asked, “I was scared of my life of him.” she. replied. “He said he'd kill me if I spurned him and threat- ened to kill Charley if he ‘inter- fered. I knew I was doing wrong.” Couldn't Resist Him “What = influe: did Carleton have over you? ‘I just couldn't resist mands, I'd promise would never go out with the ser- geant again, Then Carleton would call and I couldn't say ‘no’ He possessed some uncanny influence over me What for you? He said he loved me so much wouldn't give me up and if Charley interfered he would shoot him. He said he'd shoot ‘the nut off Roselius’ if he stood between us. I plugged my phone to get rid of him and then he'd come in his auto.” “Did Carleton love you?" Brown queried on cross-examination, “Yes, Iam sure he did.” going ce his de- did he say of his he Always Gentlemanly “Was his attitude toward s gentlemanly? Absolutely,” she replied quickly Mrs, Roselius called after yarious character witn had testified as to Roselius’ good stand. ing about town. Among t wit nesses was T, J, L. Kennedy, assist- ant corporation counsel you Matthews Does Not Appear Dr. M. A. Matthews, who married the Roseliuses in 1911, y sub: poenaed, but did not appear, The courtroom was quiet as Mrs, Roselius forced her way from the back of the jammed courtroom, fo! lowing the secret session in the judge's cham! Mrs, Carleton, sit- ting in the second row, ed for, ward slightly, but showed no visible signs of agitation, except for just a trace of scorn that curled her lip ever so little lt was her husband who intro- duced her to Carleton, she said, 1 introduction occurred at the West Seattle police station He always made it a point talk with ome and treat me very courteously,” she said, referring to Carleton. Their next meeting was after he had called her up on the telephone. She refised his prot- fered attentions, and told her hus- band, who warned her away from the sergeant, she said. “Was your home happy before Carleton intruded?” Fulton asked, Gil- Charley 1} love | Sends 100,000 Men Ag Reds in Siberia WASHINGTON, Jan. 6—Jep- anese forces in Siberia, it was learned authoritatively here to day, are moving to a position — aS | east of Lake Baikal in first attempt to crush the eastward sweep of sheviki armies. In addition, west of Irkutsk, | Japanese forces in’ Siberia jnumber nearly 100,000, altho this @ |ceeds the number permitted the agreement by which Japan jother allies intervened in Siberia, | was learned. ive Japanese troops, according to i |Agreement, were not to exceed the — jtotal of the other allies. Great Britain and #rance have removed ail their troops and the United States has only 9,000 men in Siberta, it was. said, It is understood Japan” has virtually determined to send material reinforcements. Important negotiations are |conducted by Japanese Ambassador Sidehara with the state department, and a decision is expected momentar- ily. A definite step to check the red | menace is expected to result, TOKIO, Jan. 6—The Japanese military activity in Siberia is no part jof a plan by the Japanche govern: ment to annex §i territory, General Narimoto, commanding the, j forces in Siberia, dec! here today. iared ins susan “Japan wishes only to guarantee peace. She has neither a desire for territorial annexation, nor the ac quisition of any other Privileges in Siberia,” said General Narimoto, RELEASE MRS, NEMITZ ON BAIL Mrs. Anna Ealy Nemitz, charged with aiding in the murder of Mra Elizabeth Bryan, of Puyallup, Octo= ber 20, who has been confined in the | county jail for two months, was ad- mitted to $20,000 bail on order of Sux | perior Judge A. W. Frater Tuesday, |Her son, William Fay Ealy, also charged with the murder, is still hetd, in Heu of bail of the same amount, By a special decision of the state supreme court Monday, Judge | Frater was allowed to fix bail of those accused of first degree murder, Lacie Dry Kiln Damaged by Fire Fire started by an overheated steam pipe destroyed a part of a lumber dry kiln at thé Stetson & Post Lumber company's plant at 3300 Whatcomb ave. at 345 a. m, ‘Tuesday, Officials of the lumber com, “Very. happy:’ she answered, and her voice lowered — slightly, (CONT'D ON PAGE FIFTEEN) declare the damages will not hs ei