The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 19, 1920, Page 1

RS. BRYAN’S WORDS USED TO ARE EALY'S PLAN 10 ELOPE On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise 1EM Weather pe thi ==| TheSeattleStar strong pe 9 winds. Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 42; minimum, 35, Today neon, 36, Wtered as Second Class Matter May 2, 199, at the Postotfics at Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Congress March %, 1879, Fer Your, by Mall, $5 to $9 VOLUME 22. NO. 305. AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH NCE more we have tm- pressed upon us that politics ts an amazing In- vention. “The first shall be last ‘And the last shall be first.” “Let him that thinketh he stand. @th take heed lest he fall.” Ho, hum! Weill, that's over with, anyway. You never can tell how the sov- ‘efeign voters are going to perform; t is what makes republics so tn- ing. Down in arid Oregon, the population fs over imingly in favor of the most ngent sort of anti-booze, beer, and patent medicine laws, a “miraw vote is being had on who is the most popular candidate for president. “MrAdoo comes first, next comes of New Jersey, the wet- = simple enough. It once shows the Innate suspicion public entertains of propagan- and it once more discloses that power of the press certainly Goes not consist in a union of pur- | Generally this may be taken as fe working theory: Whenever ‘want popular action, urge the If there is one thing the mob loves, it is to show its thority by doing the unexpected. Next to electing some dub to of- } Our best indoor sport is kick out anybody who has made | Bood. However, the result did not sur- Prise me at all, for more than two “Months ago I had private advice ‘from a seer, who is just now occu ‘prying the county poorhouse, but ‘who still prophesies to some pur “Pose, that’ the stars were for Cald sel and if the stars be for Cald Swell, who shall prevail against him? Instead of wasting a lot of mon. ¢y in advertising, in hand bills, in Wife and drum corps, in cough @rops and throat massage, I sug Beet that Mr. Caldwell have the lines of his head and hand read, a More definite reading made of his Matal horoscope, and then prepare Himself for the daties that the “stars are about to thrust upon him Since the best campaign plans Fesult in utter confusion, and eince the more support a tapn has, the fewer votes does he glean, my best Suggestion !s Mr. Caldwell have his cranial bumps mapped, write Out his election speech, and leave us to calm down, F COURSE, it saddens me to reflect on the indu bitable calamity that shortly will loom over Gil Costello's = young le when he returns to the routine regular work, and Tom Mur- Phine’s life line apparently has a Sudden break impending, too, but Maybe on the other shore there be mayors’ secretaries, and ar lines and things like that, and eur faithful will be again re warded Wasn't it some of Conan Doyle's spirits that wrote that every- thing on the material plane has 4 spiritual counterpart? If #0, why not political jobs, and municipal car lines, and such, Over There? But for the zealous citizenry Who are only happy when bricks Are flying and funerals move un der special permit, there would Reem to be leas hope. For it is hard to conceive of general Btrike in heaven. Or is it heaven where all these Politicians are going to be? Personally, if I can find a smoke- Jess furnace, a typewriter that can #pell, a suburb without a eat, and NM abundance of leisure and copy Paper, I will ask nothing more of at future state, and it will be tirely incidental to me what they i the place where I will be—I'll ke my own heaven out of these simple ingredients a "FRENCH SAY. U. §. SHIPS WORTHLESS ‘claim $80,000,000 Wasted on Purchase of Vessels From America PARIS, Feb. 19.—Of 82 ships built| | for France by the United States dur-| jing the war not one has been able to put to sea, because they were | bulit of unseasoned defective lumber, |M. Bignon, under secretary of state, | told the chamber of deputies commis. | sion on merchant marine yesterday. | ‘The ships, Bignon said, included 40| |achooners and cost France $80,000, 000, The commission ordered an in-| vestigation. | | | eee WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.-—Wooden veasels constructed for the French government in this country were built by private firms and contrary to the shipping beard’s advice, it was stated today at the shipping board. ‘The board. ft was said, had nothing }to do with construction of these ver- | sels, and sold no ships of any kind) | in France. Moisture Coming | dav. me Says! If Weather Observer George N.| | Salisbury’s prognostications fail not, Seattle will be visited Thursday night and Friday by rain. A | shower of moisture called on Seattle late Wednesday evening. i} Wears Out Knife 4 Cutting Down Tree WILBUR, Wash. Feb. 19.—When J. C. Altizer’s auto went over a bank and lodged in a tree top here, Altizer was caught between tree and car. He woreshut a knife and cut the tree down in five hours. No bones broken Gas Hearing Will Be Held Friday First Assistant Corporation Coun. sel Thomas J. L. Kennedy will ap | pear before the public service com mission Friday morning at the | Chamber of Commerce to lead Seat th fight against the proposed increase in gas rates Pedestrians Hit by Autos This Year 26th ave., sust Poor gongs Wott Mrs. Maud A leg and severe bruises when she as knocked down at 26th a and E. Union st. by an automo- bile which failed to stop, Mrs. | Loudon reported the machine waa || traveling at a high rate of speed || | | when it struck her R. D, and Deleie Killeen, 4423 |} Latonia ave. were slightly in jured when hit by an auto driven by J. lL. skman, 3437 Wood land Park ave., as they were leay ing a street car at Kastlake and Broadway Thursday morning. Backman motored them home Pedestrians Hit by Autos 180 This Year | Olaf Sterner, 46, 711 Lane st., suffered a fractured leg when his motorcycle collided with an auto. mobile driven by Mrs, Ff, Johnson, || 702 16th ave, N., at 10th, ave, N. and KB. Aloha st. Sterner was thrown against a telephone pole. || Pedestrians 18] | Pedestrians Hit by Autos This Year Hit by Autos This Year Albert Meyers, 17, newspaper circulator on an afternoon news. paper, sustained a fractured pel vie bone Wednesday afternoon when he was crushed between two automobiles at Second ave, and Yeesler way. The youth was rid- f} ing on the rear of a truck when the accident occurred, He is in the city hospital. | lar |mins bill, jtion of the jturn to their owners March 1 | reached [bill will’ be set forth, | present plans, In a letter to President SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19 Seattlle Style ifth of The Star’s snapshots of attractively- dressed women on Seattle streets. The pretty, youthful cos-|from 7 to 9 inches from the |tume worn by this young wo-|floor) worn with box coats |man, is scheduled for a popu-| 0? Eton jackets, will be quite 1 2 5 early | Ue thing. jwoom among the early} spring styles. According to Dame Fashion plaids, knife- plaited, box-plaited or accor- dian-plaited skirts (length DAISY HENRY. | If the young lady in the picture will come to The Star's editorial rooms and identify herself she will regive two tickets to aah Moore. Organized Labor to Fight Cummins Railway Bill): BY RALPH F, COUCH [battle on the bill, which ia to come WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Labor)up in the house Saturday and in the today decided to fight the Hach-Cum- | senate next week which provides for regula-| Labor leaders today called the bill) uilroads after their re-|@ “hodge-podge” despite the fact that |it sets up tribunals for wage dis- |putes minus any compulsory fea. ture. One clause, however, provides for introduction of wage disputes before these tribunals thru petition by 100 zed” employes. | This, leaders say, is a discrimination ‘against organized labor. hind the decision to fight the Esch-Cummins bil) stands labor's de- sire for a two-year extension of gov- ernment control While this decision was being at American Federation of Labor headquarters here today, rail |rond executives were meeting with Rail Director Hines to discuss wages and ot problems connected with return of the roads Labor's opposition to the railroad according to Wilson signed by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federa tion of Labor. This communication was being framed today at a meet . . ing. attended, ty Gompers, 3B. M.| Planning to Quit Jewell, head of the f ation’s ra WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. Rail Di- road department, and officials of the rector Hines has announced he hopes big railway unions. {to be » to retire from the rail Labor leaders say they will mar-/road administration about May 1, shal their friends in congress for a\and engage in private law practice. Director Hines Is MASSACRE DEFENDANT ON THE STANDDEFENSE WILL VETERANS RUSHED ADMIT HE WAS HALL, HE DECLARES Barnett Gives BY CLEM J. GRAYS HARBOR COURT HOUS SANO, Feb. 19.—Eugene been the slayer of Warren O. Grimm in Centralia on Armistice Day, took the witness stand to testify in his own behalf today. | Barnett's. testimony was highly sensational. }that the American Legion paraders rushed the I. W. hall and were breaking in the | first shots were fired in the | hall, “When the platoons halted) in front of the Roderick hotel, | a man on horsekack gave the || order, ‘Bunch up, men.’ He) ve other orders, then final-| y all, or most of the soldiers, rashes. toward the hall,” he} testified. “after”? heard them breaking In| the doors and windows of the hall, there came some shooting fro the) hall,” he aid. ] tory was the opening gun in the defense of the men who! are alleged to have fired into the| ranks of the American Legion pa-| raders as they stood marking time| on Tower ave. near the Industrial ist headquarters. TRY TO ESTABL BARNETT ALIBI The defense sought an alibi for Barnett, The prisoner testified that he was in the poe) erick hotel next to the I. W. W.| hall, during the shooting and when | he is alleged to have shot Grimm) |from an up irs window in the} q Avalon hotel Barnett’s story told of his move ments on the d of the shooting. when he said he went to Centralia to “fix up some papers regarding | a homestead claim in Idaho,” | “1 went to Elmer Smith's office | first, then to the IW, W. hall,| where I sat reading a paper for a few moments,” Barnett testified. “L was in the Roderick hotel vie | iting Mr. and Mra, McAllister, the proprietors, ‘during the shooting There was also another man there.” Tarnett said that several members of the American Legion had come thru the Roderick botel after the} shooting began. One of them was| armed “with a 4$caliber Colt auto matic, he said ‘The witness also told of th ner ih which he was [next ddy after the shooting to establish man caught the whole * he have shot the came after me “I could bunch as they said | “The only reason I hid out was cause I had seen the lthey had treated the other men.” | Much of his testimony was given jin highly vindictive and heated | manner The atmosphere in the Jcourt room was extremely tense dur irect testimony years old and mar. at all, way ing Barnett's | rnett is ried, he naid. Following the Faulkner yesterday Inaufficient evidence journed in order to permit Attor Vanderveer to appear as a witness | | for the 11 alleged members of the W. W., who are on trial charged | sua eriminal syndiealism. Attorney Vanderveer during | aban yesterday afternoon argued | |for the release of the defendants on | | lack of evidence. The plea for Himer Smith and the other nine men was |denied. ‘The releaso of Faulkner, | | who is 28 years old, came suddenly | | when Judge Wilson ruled as fol lows | “Gentlemen, IT have taken careful |noter on the evidence bearing upon each of these defendants, After read ing the cawes submitted by the state, in which the principle of law govern ing the matter is laid down, T am not able to come to the canclumon that the evidence which applies to Bert Faulkner brings his case within any rule stated. “The evidence according to my notes—and I am satisfied that I took down the testimony very fully—floes not, In my judgment, connect up the defendant in a manner which would Justify the court in permitting his case to go to the jury. The motion will be granted as to Bert Faulkper" release of Bert on grounds of | court was ad: | | throw the government of the United | the meotings IN HER ROOMS His Version RANDAU | SE, MONTE-| Barnett, alleged to have By the Thursday to further convince Ww. October 19 by William Fay He argos and abetted by his mother, M doors and windows when the! ter of the murdered woman, w | What State Has Shown in Ealy Case ‘That Ealy met Mrs. Bryan at her home in Puyallup last August. That she came to Seattle and that they registered hotel “Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Galbraith.” r ee "has on September 18 she left her home $16 ana abet in Puyallup with $4,500 In That she registered at the Placa as “Mrs. Galbraith.” ‘That she got » bellboy to phone Ealy from her room. ‘That Kaly visited ber in her room’ Satarday night; Wetober 18. ‘That she left the hotel about 10:30 a. m., Sunday, October 19. That Ealy visited his safe deposit box about 1:30 p. m. Sunday. That her body was found strangled the morning of Monday, October 20, her money gone. That tracks of auto tires found near the body correspond to the tread of tires of a car belon, to Hi Fritschie, defendants, living in their pend $6 wud spebartraowss shez That Mrs. Nemits visited th it be: Mali ee depos! x about 1 a. m. Tuesday, ‘That it was the expressed intention of Mrs. Bryan to meet Ealy and no other person in Seattle and later go with him to Los Angeles to open 4 garage, giving him part of her money and retaining a sufficient sum to make her independent of him, ‘SOVIET ENVOY {COMPLAINS GOP JOLLIES SOLONS, SOUGHT BRIBE lonatty Morning Enjoyed in Chief Warren k Begins Inves- Questioning Bolshevik | tigation of Case BY RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON, Feb, 19.—"T am a Bolshevist and would be glad to see America become Rolshevist,” Ludwig Cc. A. K. Martens, soviet representa tive to the United States, told the senate foreign relations sub commit tee today Martens dented, was workin States government Martens protested against the method of questioning used by Wade |H. Ellis, counsel for the senate c mittee, who was hes made “th know Chief of Police Joel F, Warren ation Thursday of ainst Motorcycle Patrolman H, A, Holmes by L. H Brown, salesman, to the officer agreed to tear up a speed- ing slip against Brown for $20 Brown, who lives in the Wilhard however, that he © overthrow the United | arrested Wednesday afternoon on Rainier blvd. by Officer Holmes on a charge of speeding and that the officer agreed to drop the matter providing Brown would pay him $20. That's business for us both, isn’t it?” Patrolman Holmes is said to | have asked. Brown ¢ met the offi with the m reading at radical m Marter why are #0 quoting what others say and ever 1 what I said, Martens pre Why you| Patre of my own a jed by Chief Warren, cause I know you were very | story false areful not to advise anyone to over-| “1 simply told him that $20 would square him with the police,” declared Holmes, “and 1 told him to appear at the desk sergeant’s office. T never | meant for him to give me the money.” | Holmes is an ex-fireman and has | riding a police motoreycle for jabout two months ‘Wore Stolen Suit; Nabbed by Police! Recognizing a suit stolen last Wednesday in Centralia by the de-| | scription sent to the local police by the Centralia authorities, Detective | A. A. Brown and L, C. Harris arrest: | on Washing: | | exe ings né I don't diligently clares he was to have pr at the police garige ney at § p.m an Holmes, when question- you once nome speeches: ates,” Ellis replied “Is it any crime not to urge over: throw of the government?” Martens retorted “Were arrests made at Senator | there any you attended?’ tiene Rorah asked. “No,” Martens replied. “Was anyone ever thing said at these meetings continued “No,” Martens answered Asked to define the term Martens declared it is describe “anything | with.’ Yankee Starting French Air Mail) PARIS, Feb. 19,—Capt. Vell, American pilot, Was to start afrplane | servic between Paris and Warea ‘oday. Planes will sto 0 6 Gotlene te daliver an ‘pick up mall, ‘Maj. Smith see | or Seattle dispatches and parcels. | EUGENE, Feb, 19.—Major A. D. Smith, army aviator flying from San Diego to Seattle to inaugurate a | government aeria! forest patrol in | the Northwest, left Eugene, Ore., on |the final “hop” to Seattle at noon | He is expected ta reach peck Thursday, Seattle Woman Is “radical,” used disagree to Jed William Davis, 25 ton st., Inte Wednesday Davis at first denied the theft, but later confessed, Local police records | show Davis to be an old offender. The saying “Oppor- tunity knocks but once” is quite a warning, ‘Yet we advise you day after day to face Opportunity by reading the Classi- fied section of The Star. Seattle at 5 dead woman’s own words, court that Mrs. Elizabeth Bry Bryan, of Puyallup, was strangled for her money effect the} hotel, told Chief Warren that he was | declared the | hii Woman’s Housek eeper Stand for State—Tells of Mailing | Letter to Young Painter the state a jury in Judge J. T. an, misguided wife of Ealy, her illicit lover, rs. Anna Nem itz. It was an auspicious day for little Virginia Bryan, dau ho was celebrating her see birthday anniversary in |}motherless home in Puyall with her wooden-faced When court convened t afternoon, it took the combined forts of Judge Ronald and six d sheriffs to keep the crowd from ing pell-mell for spectators’ “No one shall enter forcibly,” de: clared the judge, unless it is over [dead body.” Ealy sat without a tremop" Walter Fulton, his chief | suddenly snapped out: “We admit the defendant Ealy jin Mrs. Bryan’s room in the hotel on Saturday night, October 18, | We'll admit he stayed there all jit you care to show that point.” _BRYAN'S HOUSEKEEPER CALLED TO STAND This was the first Indteation’ | the defense does not intend to to Ealy’s oft-repeated stat the police and detectives that he be not seen Mrs. Bryan for fore the murder. 4 When court recessed at noon t | state had but one more wits | call. The state won its battle to be: | mitted to introduce witnesses to tes fy as to the conversations in |Mrs. Bryan discussed her in! | wit friends and acquaintances, | won it over the frequent p counsel for the defense. Mrs. Rena Anderson, a f the dead woman and formerly keeper in the Bryan home, sworn as a witness and @sked: “How long did you keep house $or the Bryans?” “Two weeks,” she replied. i | “What day did you cease working: for them?” Aes “On Saturday, October 18 @& noon.” % | “Whom did you leave the Bryan home with | “With Mrs, Bryan and her er-in-law.” SHE MAILED LETTER FOR MRS. BRYAN | “Where did you go?” “They took me to my aunt's; they went to the depot.” “On the Sunday before that, on October 12, did you perform an er rand for Mrs, Bryan?’ | “Yes, I mailed a letter for her in Tacoma.” ° “To whom was the letter direct- ea?" ‘To Mr, Fay Ealy, on Meridian .. Seattle.” : Attorney Fulton broke in: “We will admit Ealy received the letter,” Prosecutor Patterson asked the witness: “On the following Thurs day did you see her writing @ let- ter?” “Yes, sir” “As she wrote the letter what did she say she was doing?” tell him she was coming Satur day instead of Friday and on the 2 o'clock train.” ie “What did she say she was going to do with Billy?" “She said he was to meet her in (Turn to Page 2, Column 3) Many Seek to Adopt Baby Both the police and the city hos Y besieged with tele: Thursday from citi & to adopt the 5-day. infant gil who was found on |) the doorstep of Mrs, George Hum: phirey’s home Wednesday morn ‘ie who. tibataten’ is Hit by Street Car) lost,” so strike while the || Mrs. Leonore Westfall, 9019 Fair. | anode the | mount ave., was knocked down by a | iron is hot. Fauntelroy street car on First ave. | |hureans morning. She was not | acriously injured. Ing, Hospital authorities declare the child will pass thru the court, | and then probably will be given to the family offering the most | | desirable home. “She said she was writing to Billy