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

Weather Tonight and Sunday, prob- ably rains; moderate easterly winds, Temperature in 1 Maxity Hours NO. 319. iM ar EDNESDAY evening I Was dodging home thru a the rain, and the mist. and the soot, nnd the on four, and, coming “gid a boy on « bicycle, and a lady over the street. [ dodged for a | WASHINGTO: and when I reached it I found I doen't know, where he was . he didn't know: but mostly Was going where he wasn't look The brakes took hold « tie mar danced sideways [| today. @ithered in front of a street » the Jaywalker slipped to one Side, and by good luck anda wateh Providence, everybody emerged peace treaty and And, proceeding on my way with scent of burnt rubber from the | ‘elared ! Dear’ tires in my nostrils, I re If the treaty te ratified the huge} Marked, “Darn these jaywalkers naval expenditures can be checked, es ile calltinad j the seeretary sanicl, ESTERDAY afternoon 1 | gradual disarmament would fol undertook the empra haz | The complete program ardous job of crossing jrocnenmantes today the street near Times square. I noted three | tief it will not be ‘street cars, and two trucks, and & cle, and two messenger Beyy on bicycles, and « sedan, and @ dozen touring cars; noted | these, picked my moment, and @ashed across, and mighty near @ashed under the whoels of a large, grnate, seven-ton van that hadn't Been anywhere near three seconds » The van did gome dodg- (img, and I did considerable more, we managed to pass with ing but the «pray from our hing bows meeting; but it ott & close call safe on the other side. cet against a telephone pole wighed, “Darn al) these reck foyriders, who go forth In sev: trucks to devastate the pop: stay out of the | recommended as He outlined to jencountered, ree This program, should be carried Bo, I guess it in about 50-50, and | the only defense an autoist has i# ) to walk half the time, and hope that he will be run over, rather ‘than do the running: for, I take it @ny of us would rather be run @ver, or, anyway, half-ruh’ over, | than smash some luckiess pedes- | frlan. In the first place, it is | Gheaper, and in the second & is | 2 @asicr on the nerves. | if the senate .- | | ) } | | | pattle cruiser, six ors, six flee . United States to tion of battleships, cruisers could be number of light shoes are in. ‘They are offering some chic little slipper things at $20 a pair, and for as low as $19.48 Orie can get a Feally modish pair of high heels; and heels are about all there will be to the spring shoes. Three years ago, when some eckleas forecaster said that we ten. o. WASHINGTON, tary Daniels today 1 HIPS smoke, with the fathful er "hitting on three and the wheels | Says If Treaty Is Not Signed corner. I found two We Must Have Biggest ime interey “outed suion | Navy in the World With a baby buegy. all scattered BY HERBERT W. March 6.— » The United States must faywaiking pedestrian right in tinue its prewar naval building middie of it. Where he came program until it is determined whether .this country & member of the league of na tions, Seeretary Daniels told the ne house naval affairs committee lf the senate fails join the league, the ¢t immediately start to build the} ost navy in the world, because of the| treaty delay mee the apparent be } ratified at this! seasion, calle fF Veneta,” Tf the! United States definitely believes a much larger should be authorized Daniels stated the [immediate building because of the delay to the treaty Jand unsettled conditions | world as $195,300,000 programs wit league of nations 6 1 | becaune of the delay |atruction during the year in excess of by the general navy whieh, priation bill now being framed the committee, calls for two of the gxest battleships in the world, ltwenty light cruisers, aying cruisers, twenty flotilla lead. | submarines, plane carriers, “one fer and one destroyer tender SEE the new spring | Daniels said the proposed construc cruisers reduced | to ten, the mine-layer light cruisers | to six and the flotilla two mile and a half. we March 6—Secre- any one connected with | asked congress | the |for an appropriation of $1,000,000 to On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise. Entered ae Secon: = ATT! aH. 8 till = was young and pretty. She came into the office, timidly, ery jing. A few whispered words with ‘Kec city editor, then she asked n it be done without any names being mentioned ?* “I think #0,” he promised So we will call her Mrs. John | Smith, which isn't her name. } R. JOHN SMITH has been out! M of work. T $200 savings have disappeared has a job promised. petime fas soon as xomebody quits But meanwhile there are mouths to feed in the home of Mr, and} blue eyes, ar Mra. John Smith; five of them now since the Httle girl came one month ago. She came without a doctor There wasn't money enough to pay a) all.” John Smith had a “When I do have a job,” am capable of earping only $6 physician ‘The little girl, that's who tht iw about Out at the John mith home, Mrs. Srntth ant with the little girl on her jap. The two other children danced around, Th were bright, hand some children, both But the baby's prettier than either of them now,” said John. = BOY SENTENCED TO HANG, DENIED NEW TRIAL AT EVERETT EVE —— March Pc stad nied "the motion of Senator doseph Smith for a new trial for ear-old Isom White, the first murderer to be sentenced to hang in this state under the new capital punishment law. White and Joseph Darwin Mor- tom, aged 15, killed Lee Linton, an Everett taxi driver, on a lonely road near here Inst November, Morton ie now in the Walla W: pent tentiary, serving a life sentence Senator Smith, presenting his mo- tion in behalf of White, pointed out had efitered the a feces of the while the trial ostensibly to get a The opportunity wax thus afford ed, he argued, for them to pasn a note to members of the jury. The }three men were Valentine Shreck. ec. J ent janitor of the courth: Tichenal, county horticulturs and a drayman Judge Bell held that’ there was nothing to show that any overt act was attempted by the three men | and aid he could see no reason, on! the ground presented, for grant ink a new trial “It the parente of this Boy at [Stanwood cap raise the funds,” Smith replied, “I will appeal thie ase to the supreme court. But they are poor, very poor.” WAKDEN TO NAME DATE OF HANGING You White's sentence to death, recommended by the jury, will prob- ably be entered in the records by the court next week. If an appeal is not taken he will tentiary to await execution. The date of the banging must be named by the warden Morton, the other Ind, will be held apart from other penitentiary \ prisoners untit July 10, hin, 16th birthday, the court ordered, when he will be given « regulation convict’s cell and treated Uke the rest for the [remaining days of his life, BAGNALL WAS KILLED ON SPOT WHERE BODY | WAS FOUND-TENNANT lured out there, so far from town and go far off the main road, into That's Walter A. Bagnall, jr, was mur tO} gered on the spot where his body cedar woods | such a dense piece of timber? was found, in the dense of Kent but not by real firms whose advertise |ments were found on a scrap of | fwould pay $15 for a pair of good .|°°Mstruct a fleet landing place and} [newspaper in the dead youth's pock Shoes before we paid less, I an. |* flounced that when common shoes |C#!. on land, to be Went to $15, I would go barefoot. Jeity I paid $15.35 for my last pair of common walking shoes, and I haven't started the barefoot thing yet. Once upon 4 time it was a merry quip, when the boys gathered at SSR Oh the corner bar on pay nights, to Doing a Quentin I: remark that this would be the last sound out sentiment oncthe pro- round, because they had to buy posed city-wide daylight thoes for the kidy this week plan, the civic bite Were there bars today, it would aitie Chamber at be no merry jest; either the bar- askin, Seattle keep or the family would go with concern. . it, for no man could be @ jovial operntors of sound flow and clothe and shee his fam aenas thai By today. Wonder if that's anoth plan to extract n @r case of compensation, or merely |} of a day me of prctieering. The plan Is to go to work an But I have watched the four ra @ dollar child's shoe climb to six, Sister ‘trom the thence to el thence to ten atti thie Sivek O€ Cotalibe, “met to I have watched the five-dollar move the clock ghead. pants climb to sixfifty, thence to nine, thence to twelve; at this spot I alighted from the pantaloon boat, but I h heard that the going is still good from two-bits to eight. discovered the four-dollar bat parading with s twe label, and the $ soming out with a And #0° now nothing surprises me, and if this evenings; when I take my weekly wage and hie me forth for a plain but @ubstantial shirt, size 15%, something “in a modert blue stripe and with stiff euffe—oh, I know they are not lish, but they wear better and longer-—well, anyhow, | 4 I chance upon a clerk and he pws me a whirt like I once bought 50, and he says, “The vercoat bi with the murder Sheriff Stringer & supply storehouse’ at Do a Quentin to Sound Opinion on Daylight Thrift manufacturing ansportation lines and and coast wine daylight out r earlier and to quit an hour ~acilse Lift Suspicion in Cumber- prise tag. land and Tolt Crimes SPOKANE, March men held here under being implicated in beries at Cumberland and ‘4 | Joseph Pasehich at Cumberland, are cleared of the and Pontoffice Inspector re jof Seattle, following i for today at $18.89," IT [amination here yesterday not even reaister a flicker of [the afternoon decided that a mis- + take had been snade na today lex Ten- These were the conclusl of Capt. of Detectives Ch nant, after a careful examination of; the body and the place why Alscove by surveyora Friday mortfing, and a talk with the young ex-service m lather, Walter Bag nal, #r., ave Imme¢ the body had been found, Capt. Ten nant hurried in an automobile to the seene and searched the surrounding brush for some distance into the | woods, in the hope of findink some lturther clue, No such clue was un-| earthed. KILLED IN WOODS, TENNANT BELIEVE “We're plugsing case,” he said today, “but there isn't a great deal to work on. “He was killed right there in the} \ Tennant added “The | « woo amount of blood Jer the pogy |makes that certain. But how was he it wa! terested In buying an auto if some one Was demonstrating a car to him, they couldn't take him out upon learning that| on the the question I can't answer, ‘There's no clue in those real es-| tate advertisements, His father tore | those out of the paper and asked the | boy to answer the Wenatchee fruit} |iand ad, BOY INTERESTED IN BUYING AUTO His father says the boy was In blind trail in the timber with routing his suspicions.” into a out her, Mo the fi Bagn: and got® check for $62.50, He | the office ‘without his overcoat ar took thé check to a bank, Where he hed it. He had $10 in him besides, He again With the § ar with another man, 1 buy the machine, was n on the country road and killed, WOMAN HELD BY POLICE AS PARTNER OF CITY BURGLAR : attle police are working Satur-|her suspicion. Later she saw hel day on what they believe may result | in the disclosure off ope w n bifrglar plet M. Long, with a companion, W. H. Parker while at ting, police suy a lock with a table fork at ave. late Friday afternoon. v Other than admitting she lived with Parker at 706 20th ave., the Long woman refuses to talk he was separated from Parker and placed in a different part of the jail Saturday Mrs, W. G. Thomas, 1216 26th ave. first*noted the woman walking | with Parker in front of the Thomas| tion, a faked marriage Ii home. Their actions at that time, /a number of pawn tickets were | league of nations, the state depart Some said two | broke ranks; | Mes. Thomas told Lhe police, aroused | found ia Parker's powsessiods . Was arrested couple approach her home and be gan working on the lock of her front | the woman looked up| door. Then and saw Mrs, Thomas’ face at the window, They left hurriedly, and | sho called the police, th} | tion, Motorey« | Baerm Armed with Patroimen R. » and ch of the neighborhood. close The officers ran point-blank, they | t declare, upon the two attempting to | winds. “'Y pick a lock within a block of the Thomas residence. When searched at the police sta under the Act of SATU RDAY, pretty? And|she'll have to get out and « nty of good | yle who can give her a petter | home than ours, and we'll bripg up | now it's turned to golden, see? Sh story of five and People owe it dren to bring them up He went on it will mean in able to work! to their chil If we keep the baby: Yes,” said her mother, “Her big! that Seattle Star Mark X opporite your choles or write In name at apace at bottom) BAKER, Newton BORAH, Wm. E... BRYAN, Wm. J HITCHCOCK, G. HOOVER, Herbert... HUGHES, Chas, EF. LOWDEN, Frank 0... McADOO, Wm. G.. PALMER, A. Mitchell POINDEXTER, Miles F... | TAFT, Wm. Ht WOOD, Leonard WILSON, Woodrow MA). SMITH OFF ON LONG FLIGHT Hopes to Reach San Diego in One Day But even he automobile theory, however, ts 4 the most logical one by lay morning young | | appeared at the offices of the Aero Alarm Co., in the Central building, where he had been em- ployed ag a clerk since last October, | TACOMA, March 6.—With Sergt. Maj. Lew 8. Genslinger, of the First infantry, as passenger, hopped off from Camp Lewis at 6 o'clock this morning, attempting to establish the | coast record for the longest His destination is h with never seen alive | The avintor’s goal is to cover 1,1 miles in one day The first stop will be at Eugene,| “Was that when the shooting! miles from Camp Lewis by » route will be to Red} 50 in his pocket, his father considers likely, he got into a! miles to San F mile leap from n Francisco to San no will be the only stop first air flight for Genslinger, who is com- mander of the Camp Lewis post of American Legion, The hop-off w layed two days because of unfavorable weather. The trip is being made in a De Haviland Weather Man Is Expecting Rains Better not count on sunshine this Weather Observer G. Salisburg opines that it is going to There will be a complete descrip: ¥. A. J. Hill began a WASHINGTON, March 6-—-Nor- , Denmark and Sweden have de- se and| cided by executive action to join the mcot was informed The Seattle Star he Portoffice at Seattle, 9, Per Year, by Mail, |MURDERS HIS WIFE, THEN KILLS HIMSE!. DANIELS DEMANDS BOOZE BATTLE ON BORD Cuddly Month-Old Baby Girl Wants to Find Home Discouraged Parents Are Ready to Make Sacrifice itt for | BIG NAVY herpelf. There are p the other two,” ove 4. °QO the blue-eyed, golden-haired | baby girl is for adoption nto your home, write-—tdon't In your lette make thin little kid ed over to the “Smiths. Voted Yet for President? Hoover Is Leading So Far cast Your Ballot in The: | Star‘s Primary | star's presidential primary? Ballots began piling up on the Po- litieal Editor's desk in The Star of- flee carly Saturday morning. By Monday the ballots from other d the farms and villages of up. Herbert Hoover was in the lead on early returns, William J. Bryan, “on were running nipand-tuck for second cities a: Washing xpected to p Leonard Wood and Hiram J: ph other candidates al voters wrote in the name of Senator Hitch cock of Nebrawka, In order that no candidate may xet an unfair advantage in early re- turns, the figures will not be pub. shed until the Fifth Edition of The Star on Monday, which will give a mplete count up to Monday noon me the The and untrammeled expression of North If your candidate isn't leaders w'd better VOT Star wants this to be a fre went presidential opinion, VOTE! Mati or ring 5 POLITICAL i mr ballot to SEATTLE, W. ASH. DENIES PLOT TO | | Massacre Trial BY CLEM J. RANDAU GRAYS HARBOR COURT USE, MONTESANO, March .—Poxitive denial of any con piracy to slay former soldiers on the part of the LW. W. was made by Bert Fanikner, formerly one of the defendants in the Centralia murder trial, who testified in behalf of his comrades today. shattering the windows, drafts of instructions. for the jury | afternoon, Generus A. Peters, was asked, on cross examination, es,” responded Peters, era others said as Many us 30, wr. you would like to weleome il hone or call-—the Baby Editor of The Star. | tell your age, and why | you think your hom would be the Weapons Are Drawn as Deputies Stop Auto on Way to Seattle VANCOUVER, B. C., 6—A_ bloodless battle between officers and smugglers occurred at 3 o'clock this morning at Sumas, on the international boundary were drawn, but not a shot was fired. The officers captured an automobile and $2,000 worth of Letters for adoption | Since inter-provincial trade in liq |our was resumed, a large proportion | force. lof imports to Vancouver have been | [smuggied into the | Tie morning the officers | of a big load going thru. | Have you voted in The Seattle ricated the road, and when an auto-| side Charles L. Jackson, the officers | conductor, married drawn guns, United States. got wind They bar-|door, jerked it open and found rushed forward with y to be met by two determined men, also armed, in the auto. In the excitement a second car ap- man staggered into a chair, Baa hed and turned in the roadway ‘ smugglers leaped from the first THEY “MADE UP* car into the second, and all escaped. | Large seizures have been made dur- | ing the last few days on the Great running from Van: | couver to Seattle, here were scattered votes for Saloon Man Is Slain; Three Officers Wounded resulting from brush with . was killed in a Three officers in a brisk revolver | alleged to have been started Officers said they found considerable whisky Two Men Are Killed in |Battle Over Moonshine HUNTINGTON, W. ‘Two men were shot to death, and} March 6.| battle over a moonshine still near the Kentueky- ding to word re- Mullins, rela- following a Virginia line, acc: ceived today by R. L. | tive of one of the victims, Still and Mash Fal Into Hands of Police Dry squad raid on a house at 153 Michigan st. Friday night netted the) NEW YORK, March 6—Relters Police a still, 150 gallons in mash, | five gallons of grapo and the follow- s on the police blotter 36, and Peter C KILL VETERANS Faulkner Takes Stand in ing two nam Frank Duono, He Pleads Guilty to Taking “Booze Graft” Ax a penalty for using his office as a means extorting money | from a hard cider jointist, Constable James M former | was | addresses here March 16, to pay a fine Superior Judge Faulkner, who was in the TW.) W. hall at the time of the shooting | |said he had been standing within four feet of the front of the hall| when several of the soldiers rushed | up to the hall striking the door and pleaded guilty of graft- ing from R. mediately handed over his resigna- tion from office to the county com- accused of ac: cepting $20 from Hita on January the Jap’s hard cider started?” asked Attorney Vander veer, “Yes,” Faulkner said positively. 14 to “protect” Definite assurances that the de fense will close its case today have been given the court by Attorney Vandeveer. After the defense rests court will adjourn until Monday to permit attorneys to. prepare their | Omaha Buttermilk Fiends | Described by Y. W. Girl March 6,—Omaha got here today, when rns, ay welfare lec: . A. mass meet- Further testimony of witnesses of |® the parade introduced few new ele-| ments in the defense case yesterday Miss Lutie St turer, told a Y. W. ing that she had seen men waiting Several more of the soldier parad-|/" Une to drink buttermilk in the Ne- ers were called by the defense. 1, Olympia farm- er, who said he was in the fourth platoon of the Centralia division, heard the call, “Let's go,” as he was *|standing in front of the hall, “Was that after the shooting?” he Big Liquor Seizure Is Made in Salt Lake City SALT LAKE CITY, March 6.—-One of the biggest hauls of booze since prohibition went made by sheriff's officers here late yesterday, when the r market was raided and grain alcohol and red wine to the value of $17,500 was Various persona, who were on Tow- ve. between First and Third sts., agreed that the shooting had been preceded by the toward the hall. ‘The liquor was in barrels under ithe floor of @ rear room, BREAKS IN HER ROOM AND FINDS MAN THERE ceorse McCormick Beats Rival, Shoots Woman, Turns Gun on Self Murder and suicide early to day robbed %-yearold George | “McCormick of a father and mother by snuffing out the lives of E. BR. McCormick, an automobile mechanician, and bis her two-room apartment in The Emerald, 105 Westlake ave., and wound up a wierd quadrangular love affai McCormick and his 1%yearold sister-in-law, Ethel Lucey, had beet to Levy's Orpheum together, and | ater danced at the Lodge cafes | Miss Lucey lived with her sister | Mra. McCormick. Escorting her back to the apart |ment, about 1:30 a, m., tried the door and found it barred. He had been living apart from hig ~ | wife since New Years. “Open the door,” he called, BREAKS IN DOOR TO FIND HIS WIFE “Wait just a minute,” she replied. | Apparently thinking something” was wrong, McCormick hurled his body at the door and broke it im | Miss Lucey says she noticed on ef \tering that @ chair had been placed against the door on the inside so | that it could not be opened without Mra. McCormick was seated, as it {nothing unusual had occurred. Cormick walked over to+the S18 N. 48rd st. oa aS McCormick rained @ ber oo blows on Jackson's face. FIRST THOUGHT “want to see you ®@ zeman |MeCormick told his wife, ler into the bedroom. She mee | Mise Lucey says from parts of ‘conversation she overheard she lieved the couple were “making up’? Suddenly she heard a shot. J two more.” McCormick linto the kitchen and fell, and unconscious. Miss Lucey ed into the bedroom. Her pody was stretched across the bed, which was soaking with blood. A doctor was summoned, then the police. The two fatally wounded victims were crushed to the city hom |pital. Mrs, McCormick died in 18 |minutes. Her husband expired about 5 o'clock. : Jackson explained to the police |that he had gone to the apartment in search of Miss Lucey with a tle of “grapo” and had been |by Mrs. McCormick to wait as she expected her sister to return shortly, ‘The only child of the McCormicka, George, is with his grandmother, im Vancouver, B. C. McCormick works ed at the Westlake garage, 2015. Westlake ave. Mrs. McCormick cafe, 2613 Westlak: McAdoo Declines California Offer * ating his statement that all dele gates to the democratic national convention should go uninstructed as far as practicable, William G, McAdoo today telegraphed his re fusal to B. F, Ewing, chairman of the democratic state committee of California, to allow his name to be © placed in the primaries of thas state, “i SCULPTOR LORADO TAFT of Chicago, will make several publia | QUENTIN QUIDNUNC DAILY HE ASKS A QUES. TION OF FIVE PERSONS PICKED AT RANDOM TODAY’S QUESTION listen in on a party line on the tele phone? ANSWERS MRS. E, R, McCAUSLAND, 3209 624 st. S&S. W I think telephones: should be taken away from such peo: ple, ‘ MRS. MAUD MANSFIELD, 107 First ave. N—Oh, hum! I don’g know anything about it, MRS, M. M. DEVIN, 5608 Untyers sity blvd.—It's a mighty petty of amusement, but 1 think Jail seme tences would be too severe. 4 MARY E, HOLMES, 1602 Kastiake ave.—-I know nothing about it. ¥ ask me? MRS. NETTIE PILLAR, 3605 set pl.—Folks who listen in party line haven't very much have they? 4 was employed at the New ae a What do you think of people whe —