The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 29, 1920, Page 1

oa = hens on the matrimonial : ee t earnated loveliness, VOLUME —_———— HTS | treble-voiced, | nomic conditions m building nigh impec 20 KILLED IN TORNADOES Ew Weather Tonight and Tuesday, rain; sonthed winds, moderate Maximum, 50 dill Temperature Last 34 Hours Today noon, 49. terly Minimum, 42. On the I Entered as Second Clase Matter May 3, 1899, ° SEA at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress March I. MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1920. ssue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise TheSeattle Sta a8 Yer Year, by Mall, $6 to $9 TH EW LATE EDITION T CYCLONES S DEATH AND SSES SEEK MAN THOUGHT DNAPED OR MURDERED AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH ESPITE March winds an¢ Spitfalis of cold rain, and gusty, storm-<iriven clouds making a frown over the fair face of pa Deaven, still spring is among and Nature is moving in her pussy willow has been down teacher's desk for days; the song of the frog ie heard in our neighborhood; the Joafers are wearing brighter and the street boys have to kites and tops. furnace is not such a de demon of our coal pile as Was, and father has a boil on back of his neck. electric light bille are spring millinery stands ready itself in a death grapple lower Gad’e onally an enthusiast turns the back yard dirt and sticks and peas, and occasion- ether digging enthusiasts the elusive angie worm to who lived thra the few -days ‘fnére, man recovers from his equinox spree, the smiles of ‘will del), A] abe ND about this time, when the moon gets in the full and the nights grow spicy with spring odors the young of the species Jove as a revelation, and Jand is filled with exultation, , heart burnings and the ‘of new-chowed gum. ‘And, however much these old de ot the sens and the cockerels, still, their tough old hearts, they re- their own moonlight and are filled with envy tt Js nothing on the earth, it, nor above it, that fas much of an angel, as &e a monkey, of a man as @iscover one girl who some t fits in; who somehow you experience eternal life hope and unselfish joy, that is fevelation, Probably her broth- hever recognized her wonders, Cowen her mother would be sur to discover the hidden her nature reveals to her afl the rest of the world con her, in its blindness, as a Pather ordinary girl critter; but to the seeing eye of love she Is in and no altar bears the burden of a truer Hon than does the shrin the bright presence (her adorer. gS . 5 may cackle and crow in over the matings i i He a ee moonstruck and have jilt him, his out blood, beefy ND take a ¢alf like that, his adored one make light of pouring heart's away with some other person—think Ih is to be derided? And yet age alw: laugha at the ing heart of youth. There is thing funny about being in love, there is nothing funny about ing up with a bang from love's dream. Just as the girl fas real a heartache over fuined doll as the mother suf over a daughter astray, 90 the downy faced, stam youth a you such feels of ction vis as _mering, awkward deeply the plunging blad: hig father does when affli its the housebold Man may make | woe as and eco e family nd the S world gets hard and hurried and cynical, but in the spring the eternal laws of Nature get on the job, the great work of genera bn starts anew, and the thoughts ‘of the young turn to love as sure ly and an effectively as the sap Flees in the bush and the seed Dreaks its coffin and starts to the Me icth, mating and death—the seed in the ground, the flower and | fruit—then the harvest; like the | grass of the fields, man is born for his hour, he is generated, he gener ates, he dies; and, probably like the grass, hin winter of death merely on him for new generation, new destiny, new evolution lor if not a blade of grass with Without being taken Into ac Veount in the great white book of nfinity, shall it be said that man after his little hour here, his rote utterly perish? ‘DEP AUTOS RUSH “TO AUBURN '24-Year-Old Dore Bortholi Drops Out of Sight Suddenly Citizens of Auburn, aided by deputy sheriffs organized a posse Monday to search for Dore Bor tholf, wealthy M-year-old son of W. E. Bortholf, believed to have been kidnaped or murdered. Young Bortholf suddenly dropped out of st at lia Thursday and no trace of him has been found m | since then. “I'm going after a package of; cigarettes,” he said, as he left home He 4id not return, and no one has | | been found who saw him after that. | } ‘The young man had less than $10 in his pockets, After walting three days, Badr tholf’s parents and friends enlied for aid at the sheriff's office and today organized the search party. The missing man was one of the! moat popular residents of Auburn He is six feet tall and weighs 710 pounds. He has light hair la circular scar on his left thumb. Says Hotel Clerk Bounced Her Out Declaring she was thrown down a flight of stairs and out onto the side walk by a night clerk In the Hotel Hydah Sunday, Mrs. L. Winters, Se attle hotel, appeared at central p aces for advice. ferred her to the prosecutin, ney after she explained she | ited the hotel at 4:30 a. m ad vis ORM IN LINE AT THE LEFT, PLEASE PARIS, March mannequins to display re being used by a Thus Jreaemaker the on awaking from * |Wilson May Take Summer Vacation WASHINGTON, March 29.—Tenta plans have been made for, Pres Wilson to spend a part of the er at Woods Hole, Mass., it He will pro nce of dent sum |learned today cupy the res Crane, recently | China. ACRES, SULTS like the above what make The Star livest Binley Ad” spaper in S ‘Every day you'll find a new list of “Wants” and “Don’t Wants” printed on Classified Page to take the place of ones that have produced RESULTS the day before. When you have a Want that needs filling quickly, PHONE MAIN 600. are the IN Vacation Tough on Our Cats But Proves Inventive Genius of Youth Schoolboys their vacatio’ spare time have discovered a new kind of toy—-the It ot cored balloon and cat When the balloon ia blown up is rubbed brink tn consists one col bright the it agninat sleeve, which generates ele Then the “blimp” ts stuck on the cat's back. Immediately the feline’e fur nds upright and clings to the on. cat begins to “seppelin™ iteelf up the nearest tree. Sometimes the animated blimp” will last for hours The grand al climax comes when the cat suceseds in explod ing the balloon with its claws “cat HOOVER WON'T to see a} ae |a democra | wire tre RUN IN OREGON :: rue pou ere Wires Ex-Gov West to Drop ™ His Name “Maren refuned ¢ Herbert ow his | PORTLAND Hoo name Oregon primary ele candidate for the ul nomination x-Governor Onw who has been ¢ of itiona for candidate n Hoover toda name te has to appear on the bal t the democratic pre he wi low hi lon the ¢ regon ballot as a dew | candidate : BOLSHIES OFFER : PEACE TO JAPS «: Soviet Proffer Brought to|: Tokyo From Siberia | TOKYO, March 22.—(De Peace in of the soviet forces Russia brought here today who the fight nyed.) prope n we by ta Ntic mina returned from | front in Si M ppointed minister to|reported in official circ ‘Dave Rogers Due in Seattle Today David to have nequired due Rodger the sh r & Kad back former reported yard No Monda erintende said to have shipbuilding totaling $40,000,000, Should direction it ment for hed for up urd contracts urd n under his that emplo be furn the 3 od is 6,000 expec men two \Finds Daughter Thought Kidnaned | wit! otter meat cuts mat aren't as fi Frankfurt, the 1-yearold rton girl reported to po kidnaped located by the mother, Mrs, O. C. Frankfurt, at the Seattle-Tacoma rurban sta tion later in the GAYt HER PRE even ovelyn Fr inte ur a 21, a police hh gave ries and to have been stolen |from Miss Alvina Poche, Brenton hotel, 1420 Sixth Murray. ip being held in the city jail Monday on an open charge if Steven is in bad with the have made a bit with girl friend when he worth of lin Murray, Tacoma $200 | clothing allege ave. + Pushin hinent compa: BUT LANDSIN JAIL| RISKS LIFE IN FIRE T0 SAVE BIRD Blazes Does $15,000 Dam- age in Allen Shipbuilding Plant at Ballard Flames shooting up thru the floor of his bedroom over the of- fice of the Allen Shipbuilding company’s plant at 4271 Ninth ave, N. W., awoke Alex Michaels, manager, about 7 o'clock Mow day morning He uwed Mra. non. They had Mre. Michacls her life by ng into another room to save ber canary The three reached the ground in their night clothes jist as the whole end of the building burst | into a rearing conflagration. The fire resulted in about $15,000 | damage to the plant, owned by C. W. Stimson and leased and insured by the Chicago Machinery and ‘The Michacts’ sonal fifepertY dnd furniture valued at about $1,000, was @ total loss THOUGHT ONCE HE HAD BLAZE OUT ‘The pu Uon for @ year and was in charge nigt Shortly befe noticed — ame the office w the Mich Michaels and his no time to dren risked ant had not been tn opera twatchm ‘omin dows apartr With an extingu tered the building and after f aught he had left the yard, Woupstairs. Other sher Hertleson en mir utes’ work th He had . ane pe arm as the the build a fir chaels were leavin WOMEN CARRY PIANO 100 YARDS Mrs, Paul Brehmer, 4250 } N. W., next door to the building, th ng her home doomed, began carrying out furr Half a dozen other women ran to her as er difficulty the plano, ich 100 yards before the sand. in a mystery sons tur ned in Me th ave burning ture with great HIP OF BRIDES, IS PARSON OMAHA, March 9, There's hortage of brides for Middle Weat ern farmers tw te He asant girl Omaha ried 4 few rdidates left No Sunshine for 24 Hours, Says He Don't count on sunsh for at east 24 hours, says Observer Salis He waved his rain flag nd said the id was coming the | today wi from southwest spring lambs chops wrterhouse steaks English mutton er toothsome ¢ by the High Cort of Livin for an eclipse this week Thrift movement The Con under thi inaugurat Week” umer’s Money Monda Each day this wee utchers just deli expensive si are An fashionat is, a8 more tera allowed nt a high. Seattle butcher & named below listed, on nell | eee named Here's Tuesday and a ecipes recommended by Unc the eut rate than liat few m | Pork liver or lamb liver Plate of beet v der (boned for stuffing) Ff steak : ‘oat Veal Lamb he ronst (center rump. Phree pounds cr }znrse large ontons alle Three Tait of drippings, "Flour miaed with salt and pepper, to | ning off | Esther E »-| | e|the judge ‘day day Love Thief Laughingly Apologizes “Seven Seas Cannot Sep- | arate Us,” Esther Cries When Jury Disagrees 29 | | BAN FRANCISCO, March guess I owe you an ap with your MacOinnin pret government on wife of the eloped. In the wife witne man with this fashion Myrtle MacG met the woman ¥ her home A Sur n’s court could not whe t. BV MacGin the man the was gullty of violating the Mann act} when he ran away from 8t Louis with the Botts girl ‘The case may go to trial again. her Botts was in court when the “hung” verdict came in She hurried fram the room to the corridor. “Why dido’t they let Bim gor" in has maintained thruout the trial wan gone “L love Capt she cried hysterically. "No Tocsts of tate, enhibaid bin Crom will follow him to the end arth! is part of met ot meparate ts! "Where I whall go Mrs, MacGinnis was In court room, Yesterday whe collapsed, All last night she was iil in her hotel room. me! I of the He oa The seven too” the he goes is not Don’t Miss The Ridin’ KidFrom Powder River Good Humor Wins in This Court Mareh 29. unted ogre OKLAHOMA CITY Hodges, truck driver the old bo: The judge refu Hodges $19 for good humor remitted $10 of the T OU T OLD REEL AND OIL HER UP! Fly, line and stilly pool fish rose ‘ta’ bite fisherman's dream season opens Thurs April Fools’ day at won't make ed the bet and speeding and aaa fine od because of his nat G* Hist Fishing ure Whrerrr! creased the tho. also “Save Money on Meat” Is "| Slogan er Housewives "or one-half well and Brown in of Breast of Veal Stuffed Make a pocket In a breast of veal to old dressing, or rumble one pint of old water and drain it is moist thr pa with salt and clory salt, « little poultry eapoontule, of deip. ssing lonely into the It into shape and bake fo tonster, or for an hour and a quar ’ pan. In the lnttor cane It is nocesaary to bante sev. oral times, Strips of fat salt pork placed lon top of the meat while baking im- proves the favor be eet z afternoon | YOR FOR A DIVISION: Tells Chief Warren Present? System Is Inadequate Asks Report M. | Caldwell, Chief of Police J. F. Warren and Lieut. Clarence Carr, traffic ex pert, were assembling data Mon day for the creatic a metro politan traffic division in the po- lice department Just what taken de be held t Chiet Wa Mayor Hugh © Caldwell he council's tude t d any ordinance that may be presented by them. Mayor Caldwell in convinced that Seattle must follow the lead of America’s foremost cities in dealing with traffic congestion and accident hagarda. PRESENT METHODS and ath she robbed. gg me All the fMippant alr that the st} His letter to Chief Warren mys: “The present mothod of handling |this perplexing problem is wholly in: of traffic laws is sporadic that enforcement more or lews ding to my opinion most of ; Point, ¢ Macdinnis rmaaty |adequate and my own observation is| ountry have} of a traffic 4 very satisfactory method he situation ord of all traffi kept. The first ned, but sub actions should pur itual offenders bre ai ed violat offer nequent ished and b to trial ALSO ASKS FOR LIEUT, CARR'S VIEWS In order that I may be fully ad. vised before taking steps to es tablish a traffic po lice departmen would furnish me with your premises and wh of force will, in y ught ivision in the wish you a repor if any ur lay recomn one increase inion, be ryt rry out this plar of » your opinion, any be required, can be paidf r derived from the enforcement of our traffic laws. Since Lieut. Carr traffic fay m the increase of revenue has given much m, 1 would 4 with his views study to the 0 like to th prob! receiving to have a feut upon your upon the subjec CALDWELL GOES AFTER JITNEYS Be They Take $1,140,395 a Year and | Charging that jitney busses are oping the cream of the busin of the municipal street cars, M |Hugh M. Caldwell recommended to | the yuneil Monday legislation to regulate the operation of the Se- attle jitneys “Jitneys running on the city are securing nue of $1,140,895 c Jitneys |werve operating the end of the main on their routes und stop the practice of blocking the street cars." CITY TO DEMAND city « 14 routes in yearly reve dwell’ declared. lied to ob. run to re should be different lines, All of the time, now id to | exist entrance to IMPROVED GAS, Complaint Ready for Coun- cil’s Approval inade and in quality and Complaining of “unsafe, quate and inefffeient s |ferior and defective |quantity of gas’ furnished by the Seattle Lighting company, the city {will file a complaint with the public | serv ‘ice commission to force the om |pany to remedy conditions he the ordinance drawn up by Assistant Corporation Counsel Tom Kennedy is adopted by the city council Mon {day afternoon, t without de | in the] it} | from: here, | nine | killed, tS IN SEATTLE wo Cc OVER VAST ‘Middle West and South Suffer in Path of Terrific Gales; Eight States Are Hit by Twisters Tornadoes which ras eight state states on Sunday claimed a toll of approximately lars’ worth of propert less. ey tae es !Middle West. some cities, adding to the suff Food, were rushed to the stricken cared for in temporary buildings. in the hunt for La Grange, Ga., storms. Between 40 and 60 were reported killed there ‘aa 300 were homeless West ia., reported five dead and Agricola, Ala., five dead. | The Western Se ap-| peared first near St. Louis, where one was killed. It} swept northward, branching out over Indiana, Ohio, Illi- nois, Michigan and extending into ,Wisconsin. It finally spent itself over Lake Michi- gan. GEORGIANS ARE WITHOUT HOMES ' Havoc Wrought in South by. Sunday Tornado missing. ATLANTA, Ga., March telephone message from La stated the death list due to the tornado there was far greater than indicated in earlier reports, First reports | stated 60 were killed. LA GRANGE —KRelief workers today cared for | 300 famil de homeless by the tornado which struck here yesterday. | Arrangements were made to ry the 60 dead. Appeals were sent to surrounding cities for food and clothing to care for the living, and coffins in which to bury the dead. Every home and left undamaged by used today a pital Men searched the March 29. | other buildin the storm temporary as hos ruins for miss | and children. The re- after 24 hours of con- rked on, attempting in the stricken | ing women lief workers stant labor, ¥ © restore order city Ohio Villacss Are | Wrecked by Cyclone! CLEVELAND, ©., March 29.—Be tween 15 and 25 dead and 200 injured was the estimate placed early today on the toll exacted by a terrifig storm which swept the western edge of Ohio yesterday afternoon and late in to the night. ral smal) villages were reported in ruins, oe Indiana Town Is Blown Off the Map; MUNCIE, Ind, March 29.—Re- ports reaching here early this mor ing from Portland, Ind. mi give the known dead as| in the tornado that swept over this section of Indiana Sunday even ing. West Liberty, Ind., is reported | completely wiped off the map. | Eastern States | Swept by Tornado CHICAGO, March 29,—Sixty were more than a hundred injured | and millions of dollafs’ worth of | property was damaged by @ tornado Which swept Illinois, Missouri, Wis-| eonsin, Michigan and Indiana yester. day, reports here today showed. eee Ohio District Is Isolated by Storm | DAYTON, ©. March 29,—Indica- tions early today were that at least three persons were killed and 20 hurt at Nashville, in the tornade which swept this section yesterday. W: are down And communication with the stricken era is almots impossible. Scores of houses were demolished ‘n this district | blocks jand Missouri | bathing in the | lice 125 lives, destroyed millions of dol- and left hundreds of families home-_ Reports today showed there were two distinct storm —one in Georgia and Alabama and the other in the Fire followed in the wake. of the ‘storm in ering. hospital supplies, physicians, nurses and clothing areas today. Injured were The debris was coml Caer a to be the hardest hit by thé: DEATH TOTALS ARE INCREASING Citizens in Storm Razed Area Begin Rebuilding: CHICAGO, March Chicago and vicinity, 31; Im - diana, 24; Michigan, 5; Missouri, 1; Winsconsin, 1. It was believed the list would be increzsed as wire communica- tion was restored with small out-— lying towns, In Indiana the situation was if some doubt, due to conflicting Fe ports of large losses of life in iso lated villages, PROPERTY LOSS RUNS INTO MILLIONS The property loss in Iilinois will run into millions. At Elgin, where great destruction the tornado to bore thru the main part of the city, the property loss was estimated at $1,500,000, The wreckage of homes, business and other property in Chi cago suburbs ran the loss into high figures. In addition there were the losses of farmers whose improve: ments were gathered up by the storm and demolished Rehabilitation was begun at once, A feature of the storm interesting meteorologists was the fact that tor- nadoes apparently were developed at | different points from a storm area | moving down from the northwest. The storm dipped its destrueti funnels at two, possibly three points in Ilinois another in’ Michigan and still another in Indiana, At the same time destructive phe: nomena were observed in Oklahama was confined In Oklahoma camel It Louis to property one life was lost. The western outskirts of Chicago made a picture of a war-torn coun: try, Crumpled masonry, hanging wires, twisted girders and piles of. debris intermingled with partially wrecked buildings comprised the hu- man ant pile over which thousands { persons swarmed today, BELATIVES SEARCH F THEIR DEAD Clearing the wreckage has begun but the swarms of searchers prin cipally sought for victims claimed by the storm. State and city authorl ues immediately began relief work. ‘The Red Cross sent help a few hours: after the storm, The wounded who couldn't be cared for in the homes still standing pitals in the city proper. The tornadoes, according to the weather bureau here, developed from. a storm originating in the far north? west. The |dropped from heavy when the storm hit fitst storm clouds this section, warm weather of spring From reports here it was believed three tornadoes developed near here, | All were reported to have been dis- sipated on striking the cold air over Lake Michigan. In the Chicago territory the Na+ tional Guard was called out for po duty, Wrecked stores and homes offered rich booty for looters and they were quick to appear. The soldiers stopped the robbery and as darkness came all citizens were of dered off the streets, The guards were to remain indefinitely, Freaks were numerous, Practical ly every place invaded by the whirl. ing clouds reported miraculous eseapes and queer whims of the wind, The tornado, cutting a foot path, bored thru whirling funnels were _ instances of — was wrought in the three minutes ff took” é were rushed to hom