The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 31, 1920, Page 1

wy OTHER KILLS FIVE BABIES; CUTS OWN THROAT K CITY, Okla., M arch 31.—Mrs. FE. J. despondent and in ill health, cut the Weather Tonight fair; and moderate westerly gale. Temperatare Last °1 Hours Maxtmum, 44. Nenn today, 44 Thursday, north Mirima throats of her five children and then slash- ed her own, this morning. The five chil- age, are dead. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Com The Seattle Sta Montered as Gecond Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, OLUME 23. , WE DN ESDAY, ™ MAR r cH 31, 1920. dren, ranging ie 4 months to 12 years in Mrs. Bowart is in the hospi- Wash, andor the Act of Congress March a, 1879 tal here unconscious from loss of blood and will probably die. promise ‘TWO CENTS IN § TH LATE EDITION Por Your, by Mall, $5 to 69 UNDERGROUND CHINATOWN __ Fiction is what the au thor writes to sell to an publisher, flection has to pas the ’ Creation ts beauti B Mature; only modern man @& vile Mess of it oe UT, as 1 was saying, truth some ago, I cranked up nding along. @ bank building with large plate marble coun grills and such. third time I the brute start and plate glass window, with in amaze. thru the window I on the running then climbed over prepared to get while an onlooker the engine for me. an I was starting out, a native cop hove to know how I and how I could 60 miles an hour, was. plain truth, told one had put the car was gone, explained i, and offered to “& diagram, and all he sald "Get in the back seat. 1'll this car to the station. It’s fellers, fike you that should be Jocké4 up and never let loove ‘And the crowd cheered lustily by no other conceiv- could that car have it did; but truth was too for the officer; indeed, it was th for the desk sergeant, the captain, and everybody then and later eee 1 e a satan CANOED on the Colum- bia river for four years. ,I went by myself, and I never could swim a stroke, and I have upset ‘the middie of the Columbia at and have gone down at least dozen times, and have bob: up serenely, and finally d the canoe and righted tt, climbed in, and paddied to and I bet nobe'y will ever that, either ind T've caught catfish and lost few ‘off the string, and found the next afternoon, and them, and put them in the ff 26 hours after they had left , and I've had those cat- f decided signs of life in minus head and intertor mm. And nobody but a cat in Will believe that T’'ve known carp, in time of wh water, to pasture over flooded eral feet above , and to dig up vegetable on ten acres that d two inches of water over it. te stranger than fiction. time we will consider why ia usually truer than (ruth use it in, ar OTTAWAIS ALLOPED Easterners Lost on Wide- Offside Area; Western Style Puzzles Toronto BY LOU MARSH Hockey Expert, Toronto ster TORONTO, Ont., March 31 Ue still haw a chance to take home [the Stanley cup. In-the fourth game of the series on hard ice they wal }loped Ottawa & to 2, and now meet the Eastern pro champions on Thurs. |day in the deciding game Five thousand people turned out | to see the contest with the Western style of play Seven m |many to Eastern eyes, because they jare accustomed to the sixman style and the area at mid seemed mucti too big and m |xame more or less a bur c local fans, who have just sur brilliant series of amateur ch ship games with a no-offside area ex cept for the defending side 20 feet out from their ne There we Offside game, and the crowd early ado an attitude of amused tolerance. checking was very | way The Ottawa team seemed complete on the wide offside area nal Hockey League off if it did not exist, area they use of offside tactics | Frank Foyston, all old Toronto play ers, got a great hand and the choice of the Sea Gerard best for Ottawa. Toronto fans think Ottawa will the daylight out of Seattle Thursday nder National Hockey league rules. Wetalled d | Play on Sport Page) AND SAKES, JOHN!) IS THAT YORK, March 31 Pershing has been made an team. NEW en. |yohn J |honorary member of tt | lof the American Revol Pedestrian Hit; tion. Lake Forest Park police Wednesday 2. P. Perkinn driving FE. S..Wren, re ported to the automobile on night Perkins suffered a p fracture of a rib and body scratch: CALES BALANCED The sea Ww March 31 George voree | GARY, Ind balanc today e les in a never had agreed before WOMAN FALLS WELL; CHILDREN HELP IN RESCUF WOODBURNE, Ore., March 91. Fortunately, when Mrs. Zack Broyles fell 20 feet into a well con taining 14 feet of water, children who were playing near the scene witnessed the near tragedy youngsters called for help, pur men who responded with the ald rescued the of a rope and ladder Mrs, Broyles hausted when rescued 4 ult of her struggle to keep hold of the pump line, which she grab- bed after rising to the surface of the following her fal into the we! womar va ox the re wa TTLE MAY COP FOURTH Seat a side appear much too tee le the to 1a nplon- in the ea ladylike all the The | ¥ a is not wide enough to admit | return offside stuff, so the |down-Hast teams simply go along aa| and on the large| | lowt to make effective|and the sake of millions of others who are living in a hope- Harry Holmes, Jack Walker and| federal looked Cleghorn and Darragh were | ¢ YOU? | great. Daughters Driver Reports! ning tomorrow. © ALLIES FACING ible IN DIVORCE COU RT} T HOCKEY CUP ! His 7 shook. A wild light glittered in his eye. | He rushed into The Star office as if propelled by a power |he could not control. — He stopped at the city editor’s desk. He shivered. (The| Armed Men Attack Police - Neapiork and Meet day was warm.) | He spoke—or tried to speak. His voice broke. He turned, Defeat | DUBLIN Maren 31.—Soldiers away. He stopped at a desk, leaned his elbows on it, and buried| this face in his arms. } ch eke and The telephone operators and the office boys looked at him) “7™°t #'" machine guns gut curiously. | ported by flying squadrons with ar The police reporter stopped typewriting, scribbled a word|™°"*? “*"* were a tan on a slip of paper and shot it to the city editor. bay a ag >| ad The scribbled word wa po went yoga §) “Denar | there that an effort pe! [might rescue them. ional troops arrived yee the regular! Minor clashes were/ In was| IS LIPS TREMBLED. His face twitched. on today rts made te Th WORE beneath it, a, terday | prison guard reported from several districts Dublin, Joseph Sweeney, M. P. | arrested “I wonder if I can ever tell you e. I'm trying to do I'm lucid now. Attack on Barracks | But I'm a ‘hop-head.’ My wife’s contracting the habit from Near Cork Is Defeated | me. I'm afraid for her and my two beautiful children. And! Conk, March 31.—A large party I'm desperate. I see nothing but hell ahead of me—ahead |! rmed men attacked the police of us—unless we can get relief; unless something is done to|Daracks at Durmas, 48 miles west help us and the other drug victims there’s no telling what} | raiders were Gstved at unter a Wee will happen. [hour fight. Two policemen were “There are hundreds of dope fiends in Seattle. There are| wounded millions in the United States. The number is growing every UR VISITOR seedier suit When he became a trifl to take a sea “My God!” he started out. the effort it has cost me to come here. something for myself and other ‘hop-heads.’ a seedy overcoat; reinforce almer, the city editor invited him Sir Edward Carson Says Plan Is Made to Kill Him - LONDON, March 31.—Prime Min inter Lloyd George's home rule bill sake,! tor treiand passed second reading iny. The vote was 348 During final debate Carson, Irish unionist leader he had been warned Scotland Yard that six Clan-na-gacl members had landbd from America with the avowed intention of assnesinating him Eammon De Valera, president of the “Irith republic,” is putting for ward the same in the! | United States that Davis jdid when he attempted justification of the secession of the Southern states, Prime Minister Lioyd George declared when he took the floor in defense of his measure. | |GPOK/ ANE DESIRES | A PRAYER OR TWO SPOKANE, March 31 lcities please heave a prayer or two} |for us? They're trying to license tree pruners here now. | Mebbe He Forest It Was Mac’s Suit John Rowe, Puget Sound hotel, let his friend, John Me and, wear his tit Tuesday to go see his father, in Renton, and he has 1 MeFar land or the suit Rowe is in clined to believe that McParland hag | South with the outfit | HIS BURGLAR SEEMS MUSICAL old violin Nepoll: ar. “The Harrison act isn't helping matters any. “Yet the drug evil can be overcome in three years’ time. “L know it. I know how to do it. “And I'm praying that for my sake, and my wife's less hell, I can rouge the public and the legislators and the Sir Edward iuthorities to the danger and the remedy. “IT want The Star to help me.” . HY PICK ON US? you, by the way *m—I'm——” He wrote his name on a sheet of copy paper, and then | tore it up. It was the name of a newspaperman who was the star reporter twelve years ago on a newspaper then considered asked the city editor. “Who are “Write your story,” said the city editor. | The Dope Fiend’s story of his struggle for decency jand the way he believes the evil can be cured will] be printed in three installments in The Star—begin- er agg gen 10-YEAR-OLD BOY MISSING: TURK REVOLT 31L—A_ revolution the allies has all Turkey, ex a Budapest dis Hugh 1 boy, home oberta, 10-year-old school ng from his N. by his The police ind disappeared Tues about 9 a PARIS, March directe inst vio out thruout entinople the newspaper Pastel was reported miss non at 621 16th Wednesday nd the morning M ‘gone rents were day m. dark ring a stock! He ha could furnish was w id a blue gray when eyes. Left Groceries, ot an Took the Smokes The pare from. the tained by thieves grocery store of An was stolen from the po-| Frank n's room, at 416 ‘Ter the boy's|race st night, the police were Informed Wednesday, Nepolian | offers a $10 reward blue for wsdl y disappearance who robbed Stanley Burswe./ TONDEE SCARED BY 1000 Ninth ave. S, Tuesday night.) TWO BLACK BEARS! Is There a Home Bursse discovered the robbery Wed | F TARRYTOWN, N. ¥., March 31—| for This Woman? ng, when he opened the Dusiness ha 2 apes wor el at arg Pate is frowning cruelly on a warning oye — gal vg arold woman in Seattle [neighborhood of Focantico lake: Chat | phe husband has deserted her, Bituminous Miners |two black bears are roaming in that |} Zome time in duly she will, be Consider Contract | section. The Rockefellers at Pocanti-|{ SMe Un phi pi |] mother. She needs a home now NEW YORK, March 31,—The sub-|¢o Hill do not go out is ar tio || for herself and t willing to permit | comm © of representative of bi 1 e adoption of the baby. Ie there |! tuminous tminers and operators to womeone in Seattle ready to give || day took tentative her a home, and adopt the baby? || |which was drawn up last night by| GUMBERLAND, Md.—Three|| address written communications {John H. White for the former and|mountains, Hay k, Polish and to Baby Editor of The Star. Phil Penna for the latter, Knobely, ablaze with forest fires, nesday morr store for }lews there are three or party up the contract | De | ford the 1G Spokane, | shut off Thursday morning, ete |DISCOVERED BY MAYOR AND POLICE CHIEF MARY PICKFORD BRIDE Divorced 28 Da TUNNELS ‘Ago: Honeymoon "Abroad WEDs DOUG FAIRBANKS (QNNECT DENS OF | Caldwell, Warren and Party Pierce Way Thru Cunning Subterranean Passages Seattle's underground Cht- natown, for years believed merely a myth, was discov- ered and explored today by |Mayor Caldwell and a ‘of other officials who spent /more than two hours search- jing its tunnels, secret pass- jageways and subterranean gambling dens in the vicinity jof Fifth and Sixth aves. 8. and King and Maynard sts. The mayor said at the con- clusion of his inspection that Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks the whole locality must be ANGELES, March 31.—jleave Los Angeles May 19, and sai!/cleaned up in a week or the gias Fairbanks—the ever smil-| from New York in the Cunard liner/cijty would take steps to do Doug—and his bride, Mary Pick-| Royal George America's theart - were] The honeymoon will include trips|80. He deemed the honey- showered with messages of congrat-|to England, Denmark, Sweden,|combed section unsanitary ulations from all parts of the west-| France and Italy, and will consume/and unsafe for habitation, ern brnss monary today, following the| several months time. Z, Announcement of their secret, wed-| "Doug announced to and a menace fo public Saami ding here Sunday night Jare being made for his bride and) and morals, he said. Messengers streamed constantly| himself to appear as co-stars in at| Descending a ‘crooked stairway to the door of the palatial Pairbanks|jeast one motion picture to be pro-| leading down under an alleyway in home at Beverly Hillis, One servant! duced shortly | the rear of the Paris House at 521% signed to the unceasing task| Monsignor Sixth ave, S, the mayor, Police the telephones. Mes \ana's cathedral, declared today that | Chief Warren, Health Commissioner 1 men and women|Mary Pickford will not necessarily Read, Building Inspector Johnson from the roman- be excommunicated from the Catho- | &"d police and workmen armed with ment of |lic church, but by re-marrying she is | Crowbars and sledges, discovered ® no longer a regular communicant of recently constructed, thru ak aaa hich a peep-hole stared. The door When asked for a statement, Owen | Was padiocked. Moore, who was divorced by Mary “SMASH THAT DOOR! Pickford 28 days ago, said; “I have HIT IT HARD" nothing to say.” Smash that door, Halley,” sala the mayor to a man with a heawsity sledge. “Hit it hard. It's probably lbarred. We'll have to break it | Probably won't catch anybody gambling, but we'll have @ look around,” Halley backed away and swung his 10-pound hammer against the door, open with a splintering of The official party stepped Los sw y that plans Hartnett of St. Vibt- came fi lh walks of life in a tle shop girl several mon Meanwhile 1" Mary remained in seclusion the morning at their home, planning joyously the detalis of their honey moon trip to Hurope. They will DELAWARE VOTE |2,000 PETITION; AGAIN DELAYED DON'T HANG BOY | siieabes It flew |Isom White Sentence Called {aise “Legalized Murder” and turing Mississippi House May Okeh Suffrage Today DOVER, Del, to call up the re the woman suffr the house of repre: legislature “The lookout's room,” observed | Caldwell, “If I had money and look- ed good the lookout would let me in. Look—here other door, Smash it down, Halley. Again Halley's sledge thudded, But the door didn’t give. WARREN ORDERS DOOR BE RAMMED et a timber ana ram it,” Chief Warren ordered. Three men’s combined strength on an improvised battering ram failed to break the barricade, tho their blows shook the building. A work+ Commutation of the death sen- tence of Isom White, 19-year-old Everet¢ slayer, was demanded of Gov. Hart Wednesday, in a series of petitions bearing more than 2,000 names. Replying to the petitions, the governor stated that he had no information re eee garding White, except newspa- JACKSON, Miss, March 31.—Suf-| Bee stories, that the case frage leaders planned to force a vote| WA* Still pending in court, on the resolution ratifying the wom: | Resolutions. adopted by the Card} an suffrage amendment to the fed-|2%4 Label league, affiliated with the | man Cashed up the steps, rounded sel conctitution in the dower house | Seattle Central Labor council, head | the corner into Sixth ave, and five of the Missisxipp! legislature Inte to-| the petitions, Capital punishment is| minutes later had opened the door an suffrage Fesolution was to] eferred t “legalized murder." {from the inside. It was found to be be up following a speech by | an Stovall, woman labor leader, |four inches thick, of hard wood com jov. Russell, urging adoption of the|!* conducting the league fight for| struction, double locked and bolted Hiaasure | commutation, and barred with a heavy timber set UST HAVE HAD tei this door, the mayors BRAZEN NERVE party found themselves in an empty Dancers attending S. C. Stevens jroom, Half a down other doors, University Stadium} : ldance hall, at 1523 Fourth ave., will each pierced with a peephole, led off from the room, Halley and his sledge Meetings to boost the university! nave to dance with their hats and staditim plan were held in four cities | pyuppers intact, because a thief stole }did quick execution here, A buite of gambling rooms was opened up, ‘TAesday night, Professor W. D, Mo} 109 clothes checks Tuesday ylarity going to Tacoma to speak; J At the fur end of one of these rooms, beyond a stack of gambling tables Fletcher, seeretary of the Alumni that had been piled into a corner, assolation, . Ea, mundson, coach, to Everett, | was still another door. and Professor Frederick A. Barton to March 31.—Efforts plutions ratifying amendment in aatives of the failed today. sntative Hart, sponsor of the refused to call for a vote easure went over un Delaware Rey m today and thi til tomorrow, anure Four Meetings Boost brass night. WORK NINE YEARS TO MAKE TUNNELS Prying this open with a crowbar, Halley admitted the party into @ Chinese bathhouse. Another door led into a laundry in full operation, Still another, much smaller than the reat, was oponed by Mayor Caldwell and, stooping thru this the executive en- tered a passageway leading to a maze of tunnels and underground workings that had been nine years in the making. With Chief Warren carrying ¢ Gust Tum the Pag Pet Fido was nowhere around, A wild 8.0.8. did they sound, ‘They put in an ad; Soon along came a lad Leading the wandering hound, Get free tickets to the between Greenwood ave. Clemmer Theatre. Bighth ave, N. W., needn't think the | city ig playing an April fool Joke = Turn to Classified Page. them when they find their water Phone Main 600 ILL , SHUT OFF WATER APRIL Residents living on West st, repairs are to be made between § a m, and 6 p. m. of that day, >.