The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 22, 1920, Page 1

AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH then, rex @re not 1 brothers tions, fa Ko. Take any newspaper in a great American “Personal” ritua . te under ot isements Bring back a fam you how your # are get mg along O And ther part of Ancient have not changed | Ch ustoms fand years, and y . at home, For the Ct vi have th teller wh from 1 tr . inhabi at so much per form--how the dear departed are | Making {t in the sweet subsequent Given only the death day of the Geceased, and the cagp in hand, this hel! tet yawns a ¢ ¢ times, fixes a trance! the misty veil of the Announces in the dep doing, what n Whether they are > 1 All over the land we playing | tag with the oulja board, and get- | ting message om ‘ond, or back, or som . at you, ages before we deve trance mediun or aw | Writing, or the oulja board, the | heathen Chinee had a aystem of divination which serves for every household, and serves today as of ficiently and generally as it did thousands of years ago. In a plate of fine sand ts set a three-foot rod of wood, ornamented | with a carved chicken head. De siring to know about the weather, | the crops, the fortune of the fam- | fly, the divination dish is set in the middie of the table, | dcan- dies smoking incense sticks are placed beside it; two men of the | family lift the rod and tilt the chicken head in the sand! the in cense smoke begins to rise straight up; the spirit of thelr ancestor f comes, the head of the chicken writes In the sand, and the symbol- fe figures it leaves indicate the fu- ture. And the majority of China's 409,000,009 ‘Tithabittarite believe tn this ceremony, and the messages, almost ag devoutly aa thousands among us are coming to believe In the ouija board, Wty, they prot ably believe in their hell talkers as thoroly as Sir Lodge or Sir Doyle believe in the familiar spir- its they have brought back from loafing about the pearly gates and | put to work. j Solomon was exactly right when he said there was nothing new : under the sun; tho we would have had more respect for his intelli- | gence had he discovered that be fore he married a thousand wives; “ most widowers discover that ea ‘ cred truth a couple of months aft- e er thelr second. wedding eee AYBE it was because in my childhood we had a chromo of a blonde angel lady playing on a big gilt harp, but for some reason I have always been strong for the harp. I remember that I used to walk blocks to hear a beggar harpist go | into actic > most of the | time he Hing around, tun. 1 ing up an ng, still, once 4 in a while, } 1 turn loose on ‘ an Irish m and make that ¥ battered hulk fa harp sing a broken-hea | hing that wait harpist to that's all or or some | Prague, | ment, SPOKANE, Jan, —Marie, Ted and Pay McDonald, charged here with the murder of W. H. MeNutt, ne realty broker, were all nd not guilty today by « jury which had deliberated for 15 hours. M Nutt was slain In a room in the verin rtment# on the night une 23 last, during ation over a realty McDonalds. Several Mercury Sinks to 29 at 5 a. m. Today Park yourself on the warm aide of the old wootens, advises the weath er man today. He took a peek at the an @ deal thermometer at & o'clock this morn g and found that the mercury had awled down to 29 degrees above » At 8 o'clock the thermometer aving at 35 degrees, son Thursday, the temper. | ature waa one ree lower Weather Observer George N. Salis bury pre @ continuance of the for Thursday night and ortherly breezes On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Watered amgiecond Class Matter May 3, 1 was found buried on Waah,, horribly later hin body his ranch at Scotia, mutila The defense claimed that Will Me Donald, missing brother of the trio trial, killed MeNutt when he found the latter attacking his sister Marte. You have re quired foremar the box We have,” ched a verdict? of H.C jurors tn Keedy fled lake Judge as worn into 9, at the P The verdict In the ease of Marie, Jewell McDonald, eldest of the trio. was read first, For a time she mat an if stunned. Then a smile coy ered her face and she broke into tears Ted MoDonald leaned over “and put his arm around her Both Ted and Fay showed algns of emot v streamed down Marie's face unh When the c in the ease of Fay was read, she mmiled slowly, | CHICAGO. famed nely in Katharine Hetms, Jan. 22—-Mother love the heart of nd as a resu two days of age foday her was h Mra. Helms, ¢ nd when he to become a mgther unborn baby for adoption. The baby, immediately ing its debut, was given in me again ] her hus rned she was about advertised her werted by after mak to the 104 ARE KILLED AND INJURED BY AUTOS IN 22 DAYS PETITIONS FOR (Japan Bride FRAUDS PROBE | Mother Love Wins Back Infant Given Away Just After Birth But ¢ Mrs. Charles Mra. Helms became anxious her baby, Sho feared the child might not be given good and pleaded cor for was ay Hollinger The Daby his returned t my arms, m going him ne sald. “He firwt away from home and mother is long enough ta keep apent faye but ¢ ffioe at Hoattia Wash, under the Act SATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, JANUARY TheSeattleStar |2: of Cone ue » March 4, 22 1920, ‘TWO SISTERS ACQUITTED IN MURDER CASE! ae | The three McDonalds were imme diately rearrested. Marie is char with trying to pass a forged che at the Whitehouse store here. Fay is charged with endorsing a forged cheek 1 in charged with stealing the MeNutt automobile, which the McDonalds took to Callfornia with them, following MeNutt's death, Temporary bonds were set at $2,000 each. The state was to try to increase this amount later in the day Trifler Must Pay $5,000 Heart Balm Five tho TH trifling with and dollars ts the price of Seattle, must pay for the affections of Mins Blatr, Margaret Purcell, of Klamath Falla, Ore After promising to marry her, Mins Purcell says, he broke thelr en sagement by the admianion that he already had a wife. | A jury in superior court Wednes Left to right: day awarded her $5,000. Marie, Ted and Fay McDonald, acquitted of the murder of W. H. MeNutt, Spokane real estate man, June 23,1919. They were rearrested on other charges. hs CENTS Late Edition Year, by Mail 00 to $9.00 and Friday, fairs lerate northeasterly gales Weather Fore WHITE PUSHED) Revolts on | NEARING CLOSE Endeavor to Save Everett Youth From Hanging SPOKANE, Jan. 22.— Arthur athor of a petition to Gov- ernor Hart asking him to Intervene In the case of the two boys sen teneed to hanging and ite imprison respectively, for the murder of Lee Linton, taxt driver, was push- ing the petitions hard here today “T will make a personal appeal and canvass in behalf of the boys,” Prague said. “I will take the case up with the different Y. M. C. A.'s and other interested associations, and will make a strong fight to help the | boys.” In @ telegram to Governor Hart, Prague said “I appeal for young White's sen- tence be commuted to a prison term and Young Morton's to some house of correction. Give the boys a chance.” ‘The petitions carried an appeal to give White a hearing on his sanity and to send Morton to some correc- tive institution. Quien Released in Cavell Guilt Case PARIS, Jan. ‘The court re viewing the case of the alleged de | tist, Quien, who was sentenced to death, has decided he was not guilty of betraying Edith Cavell, but that he to hearing eh emy still is subject rges of intelligence and swindling. on |Judge Takes Dough in Doe Dough Case “Doe's dough had weevils,” said Mrs. W. H. Coffin, state bakery ir w take some of his dough erth decided Judge John B rdon. “Fine of $50 imponed. Doe and his partner, To pea, bakery proprietors, 1517 Pike place, 4 the case to superior with the en yom | {Flees From Husband After) | Two Days of Married Life KA HIKOYAMA, a pretty Jap anese girl, in not a believer in ‘the Infamous “picture bride” yr tern in vogue among her fellow: | countrymen on the Pacific cogat. ‘Taka in a picture bride. She was married to her husband by proxy She had never seen him Arriv ing in Seattle, a week ago, she waa | turned over-to Shibata, her un known husband. He filled her with repulsion. She lived with him for two days. Then she left him and sought protection with her brother. Sho is now a refuges at the Bap tist Japanese Women's Home, on Spruce st. pending a hearing for deportation before Commissioner of Immigration Henry M. White. eee KA was a girl of 19, living tn her native province of Shizu oka, when her parents married her to Shibata, then living in Nebraska Her first glimpae of her parent | | picked husband was when she stepped down the gangplank of | one of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Uners last week With the blind obedience of the Japanese woman, Taka went home with Shibata, who was a total | stranger to he For two 4: Then she fl attle Japanese, who lives ay the 8 she endured hiv. H 1 to her brother, a § U 8. hotel, on Maynard at "He wag rude to me and he lack ed refinement.” she told her brother tearfully. “And he is not rich, like he wri parents.” IIBATA, in the meanwhile, had sworn to “get even” with the ave-wife he had bargained for He swore out a warrant for her arrest before the immigration au thorities, stating that his wife gained entrance into the U. §. by falne representations That is how stands to Taka is out on bond provided her brother. Commiasioner | White will hold shortly to determine whether the girl will the case a a hearir be sent back to Japan to stay in the U. 8 husband, is vowing re And tho picture-br | which Japan has don, has blighted | other human being US. SOLDIERS re tha tite of an. | DIE IN SIBERIA jClash With — Semenoff | Troops; Two Killed | | WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—Two | United States soldiers were killed |and one seriously w fed in a fight with Cossacks at Posoloskaya, Siberia, January 10, Secretary Baker was advised toda cording to ® cablegram to | Baker from Gen. Graves, comman |der of the United States forces on | Siberia, the crew of an American armored car clashed with the erew of one of Semenoff's armored ca Five Russians killed wore and on i || QUENTIN at is QUIDNUNC us ‘i DAILY HE ASKS A QU TION OF FIVE PERSONS 4 PICKED AT RANDOM in. | art, as do THE QUESTION ne age Should a professional woman who anes ; Si hn, | marries retain her maiden name? $0, maybe, if I live long enough, Wwrpa I'll hear some harp music before I | ANSWERS go to heaver | DR. MARIE MARSH ARM 7 es | STRONG, Leary Bide Why should HO I'm frank to admit | she lose her maiden name? She can that if the heavenly use it as well as her husband’s, She harps are played the can call herself Mra, Jones-Smith, It erage church organ 18 jis a dignified thing to do. ee ee ee ee DR. U. ©. BATES, Leary Bldg. not going to be What's the joke? I'm no matrimony As the organist student said, |expert. Cail up Dr. Matthews—he's at his hopes: | the expert on changing names . . DR. MARK A. MATTHEWS, First dys Presbyterian Church—No, she I ‘ We iat . houldn’t The only name the oak vi > church or anybody else recognizes The church for ages dominated | the name of the man arried. | and monopolized music; and music If she uses any other—it's her came near dying | ‘Aioaynoracy Jecular composers r domu | = H si nic, and today it is coming to its | MIS. AIMEE J. GOULD, of Was 7 ag @ great moral power, but |satt & Co., Hoge Bidg.—It’s a mat le y outside organized |ter of choice. My maiden name was chureh |v tt. I retain it in the firm " 4 name, but use my married name in Maybe there is a ation here storm in seeking | for a pop thoughtful n audience, in stri r appeal, try thing from display ads to cantatas who, nigning papers That's the only legal i REAH y Bidg.—Aside from the | And, then, maybe I'm all wrong | and just a durn barbarian, va question involved, it’s her af- c fair, It is purely up to herself. WHITEHEAD, injured The Americana captured one gen. eral, six other officers and 43 non Some husbands are mean enongh to keep half a dozen mothers-in-law busy. Honeymoon shipouiiders Examined in | the attorney general. The frauds, |han been declared, in jof dollars Federal Quiz With men well known in the | Northwest shipbuilding industry summoned as witnesses, the federal | frand Jury began Ite second day of sevewtration etnte ategda | shipyard fraude in the Puget sound | dietrict. Among the witnesses examined | Wednesday was Bert Schieainger, of | San Francisco, asnintant apectal The grand jury was expected to! make a report of {ts Investigations | Thursday RUMOR WILHELM | DIES OF STROKE i Travelers Say Ex-Kaiser Is Overcome by Paralysis PARIS Travelers arriv reported suffering a stroke suffered a stroke me, on the estate of Amerongen, Holland, Jan the former kaiser former k rden at his bh nt Bentinck, sald rumors of his death had ted in Holland. ed Press was not able to report from any source The Ur confirm the Thug Ambush Fails; | Duncan Too Speedy 1. Bh. D. Duncan, 4325 Pasadena place, was surprised while crossing an at KB. 43rd at. and Pasa lena place Wednesday night by two men, Ww arose from the 1 robbing walked so They ev he fast they ntally inten reported, “but I couldn't catch me. Better Register Before Tuesday If you do not register before 9 o'clock next Tuesday evening, Janu ar you will be denied a vote at the primary election February 17 and at the municipal election, on March 2. A | of 84,425 names e on the registration books to-| Now Is the Time to get into business for yourself, Mar good businesses are listed for sale in the Classified columns today. P. will not decrease i growing city the s Seattle. Investigate these offers. You may find just what you want, Some one wants what you have but you must |) tell these people that || you have them, And if |} you do have something that you’ll sell, you can || tell nearly every one in | Seattle about it. Phone |) Main 600, | The Star Offers a $50 Prize for the Best Suggestion on How to Make Seattle Safe for Pedestrians _ One hundred and four Seattle people have been killed or injured in automobile accidents since the first day of} January, 1920, THE DEAD: Miss Blanche Misauer, 4626 Henderson st., died from in- juries sustained on January 9, when she was struck by a jitney, driven by Harry E. Johnson, 5990 Wilson ave., in Rainier Valley. James McIntosh, 7, 2102 E. Madison st., died of injuries ustained January 10, when struck by an automobile at First ave. and John st., driven by Irvine Ankeney, 21 Prospect st. | Marion Reiker, 408 Roy st., died from a fractured skull| received when an automobile, driven by Arthur C. Butler,| 401 Harvard ave., overturned after striking a street bar- ricade at Fourth ave. and Virginia st., on January 16. Mrs. Amelia Johnson, 818 Allen Place, died shortly after being struck by an automobile driven by an unidentified driver at Fremont ave. and N. 45th st., on the night of nuary 20, ‘ive people, on an average, are injured and taken to the city hospital daily—the victims of traffic accidents. Because Seattle streets are not safe for pedestrians, each day claims its toll of maimed victims. Little chil- dren, mothers, aged folk are struck down in grim succession. The Seattle Star offers $50 for the best suggestion, of 100 words or less, that will help make Seattle streets safe. If you have a recommendation, mail it to the Auto Accident Editor, Star building, before Friday night. All data. will be turned over to the Public Safety committee of the city council. AUTOS INJURE FOUR PEOPLE DURING LAST 18 HOURS collided. W. C. Gilbert, 4103 43rd ave, S., driver of one of the colliding automobiles, reported that one of the machines was forced upon the sidewalk, injuring Cairns slightly Mrs. ©. A. Harrison, 210 17th ave. S., sustained a black eye and a sprained shoulder when an automo- bile driven by her husband collided with another automobile at 17th ave. S. and Jackson st After being held several hours for investigation, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Petersen, 1116 Boylston ave., were again enjoying Mberty Thurs- day. Police said evidence was not Four Seattle people have been in jured in auto accidents during the | last 18 hours. While crossing Occidental ave. and) King st. Frank Quiett, §03 Dakota | st., was knocked to the pavement by | \ truck and later taken to the city hoapital suffering from painful body | bruises. His neck, back and shoulders were severely bruised. The truck driver sald he was going slow Police released him. Cecilia Turcott, 15, started to cross the street at 17th ave, and Utah st A motor car, driven by W. W Coombs, 425 15th ave., swerved just in time to avoid knocking her down, mobiles but ran over her foot. Her injury | sufficient to charge them with the is painful, She lives at 3107 BE. Madi-|death of Mrs. George Johnson, son st mother of three children, who ws +R. FP. Cairns, 1808% Terry ave.,| killed by an auto Tuesday night in the street near Allen place was standing on a sidewalk at Ninth ave. and Howell st. when two auto: her home, 818 Who Said Seattle Is Teetotally Dry? According to the weekly report of] J. 1, Wilson, 926 Third ave, W., re: the Seattle port commission, made | ported his safe robbed early Thursday puble Thursday, there are 273 tons | morning. of ajder on hand at the Bell st. dock.| “The safe was on the back porch,” This shows a decrease since the last |reported Wilson, “The thieves got report, some sugar, butter and eggs.’ Valuables Stolen LIFE SAVERS FROM STAR READERS I am a street car motorman and see autoists speeding every | day. Why not let us motormen and conductors take the numbers 9 ~ of speeding motor cars and turn them over to the police depart ~ ment? 1 believe San Fra © has adopted this plan. oad —J. EB. FOURNIER, 2121 Seventh Ave, o 8 Autoists should be compelied to equip their cars with on ing specdometers that would record the speed and time of Gag, when the speed ts beyond @ ¢eftain number of miles Police would then only have to look at the record, to © car, Such a speedometer could be made. —TOM TEETS, . ee nee section streets will help elin ntlal districts are almost dark, Brighter lights tn resid auto accidents. Some resid & woman or child is struck by alarm. Some cities have resi business districts sections lighted as welt i k “EB ORITT, 707 EB. Pike, Compel all autos to display a red light, six inches across, in front of their at night, and a red flag, 14 by 9 inches, in ‘ time. We all associate red signals with danger. Also watch livery trucks for speeding, as well as pleasure cars. —JEAN THOMPSON, 414 Fourth Ave. o 8 6 I recommend a fine of $100 or 30 days to be impased upon @ _ driver only if he is found guilty of reckless driving in polloe court, or before a jury, where such accident does not result im _ permanent injury or death. Where such accident results in death I suggest that if the coroner’s inquest finds the driver guilty of h reckless driving that he be punished by a jall or penitentiary seme Pi 0' tence. Also suggest the above be advertised so as to be brough® — to the notice of all vehicle drivers; also suggest that pedestrians be instructed to cross streets at cross walks only and to heaitatems look to the left first—then cross to center of street and look to the right—and educate them that way on + M, McINNIS, 4852 35th Ave. SW, : . o . b. The only time Seattle streets will be safe for pedestrians be when a sane judge looks a fenders. Each offender sho accepted. wilh r their safety and locks up all of 1 be given’ 90 days with no fines —"A STAR READER” — & Certain streets should be opened to automobiles only, while j others should be closed to all motor vehicles,’ Streets where uto~ mobiles are to be elimina should be marked so that pedestrians: ainted with their safety —JACK HORTON WALL, 3715 Angeline St ¢ ee bs I suggest that there be some way whereby the offender can be put in jail for a time along with the additional fine. The fine alone been tried and does no good. Lock them up and see how quickly speeding will stop. —H. D. L., 2046 W. 62nd St. es 8 6 j Force automobilists to reduce their speed on downtown streets, blow their horns more and keep away from the curbs. I think {f these rules were observed life and limb would be much safer in Seattle, : —R. G. GORDON, 2817 First Ave * eo 8 e To make it safe for Seattle pedestrians it will be necessary to do away entirely with all automobiles and trucks, Prudence in walking will help. p to the sidewalks, the streets are for the automobiles, Pedestrians should be thoughtful at all times, —V. W. CLOUGH, “The ExJudge” . . . ee No street or highway will ever be safe f each man or woman who sits at an automobileliyneal asks hi this question: “How would I feel if some on near and dear te me was run over and killed or maimed fo! tome je Dt for Ife by an aw : —SAM 8S. LYNCH, Shell Off Station, 34th and B. Union St. 28 Pedestrians We have sufficient are ‘not enforced. Seattle's stre: laws to protect pedestrians, but the lawe When autoists feel the full force of 8 will be safe. the law —J. L, JEROUE cue 6 6032 Sixth Ave. N, BE, Form a vigilante army of 2,000 members in 20 districts, each district to have its headquarters in a school house, where tm structions to pedestrians and automobilists can be given, If @ car is reported twice within a short time, the police should prosecute, —BRUNO WILDE, Virginius Hotel Annex, 8 Give every violator of traffic rules front page publicity and plenty of it. Publicity cold and exacting is the headlight ot progress. Impose jail sentences on all culprits, autolsts and pedestrians. We have ample traffic ordinances; let them be enforced rigidly, ARTHUR PHILLIPS, 451 N, 49th St ee 8 Let the city council repeal all ordinances regulating and punish ing autoists who injure pedestrians, and appropriate $150 for rough lumber to build old-time “stocks.” Place the stocks at Pioneer square, in front of rough benches for offenders, stocks tack a placard stating offense. Minimum sentence be not loss than 12 hours daylight. Enforce the law alike to all, and aceldents will drop off 75 per cent, Could use the stocks alee . to expose hold-ups and woman sluggers. i —JOHN P. CARLSON,