The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 13, 1920, Page 1

Dinners What’s a Real Hotel—Kind Seattle Needs? Read, on Page Four, About the Davenport, Temperature Maximum, 52 Today noon, VOLUME Wedne eday uv, Last Hours Minimum, 40. 16 On the Matter May 3, sue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, TTLE, W ASH,, TUR Wash., under the Act of Congress March SDAY, APRIL 13, 1920, 9 Por Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 The Seattle Slar | in Spokane RAR AAR ARAL RAD RL LDP TH LATE = ITION ) x ¢ vo Ul 1 SEATTLE | IRE GONGS FAILED, SAY WITNESSES How About It? Nas tr IT “SEEMS TO ME DANA SI SL | DANA SLEETH HIS may be worth $100 to some reader: it m Worth $50,000 to ano cnet, and it may save some of you a few hundred or thousand dollars. By “this” meaning the slogan, “Buy Real Estate Now.” T have had a sort of a hunch for Months that land was the cheap- et buy in the country today, be @ause Iand has not increased in Price, as has everything else, but }R took Southern California to Wake me up. Here is the system the ahrewdest Men of money are following today fh their California land deals Buy anything, improved or unim préved, that ix selling for less than 106 per cent more than it did in 2918. Tg raw land was worth $35 an ‘Bere in ‘16, it is today a good buy up to $70. If a house and lot were h $5,000 four years ago, they $10,000 today, and s0 on. tens of millions are being oy tm the land, im what has for years been most speculative market in country. And what the big fellows do with ‘their millions is generally safe for the little fellow. eee H, BUT you walt until the market bottom drops out,” = says some pessimint, some canny lad who has waited ten years to see proper ty get cheap, tehed California lands ty years, and have seen preposterous prices of today be come recognized values tomorrow, and bargain counter prices the day after. And after these years, after this Drecord of high prices, after this Ereiterated and continued boost for two decades, I have decided that Bouthern California is a law to it igelf, and that probably {ts houses nd lots, and ite little and Is citrus groves, will always be ted higher than corresponding property elsewhere But I am not writing to sell rn California lands. I am to give the home folks a s to the trend of real es es, a hunch as to how the investors and the biggest pitaliv’s in the nation are work to “lle up future millions for seven nd will not be cheaper any re; on the Pacific coast it wil fi a *- arn, stoc other ners, who are of a few hun purchase g to not Lp @atate is the biggest bargain in the state in Washington or Oregon at Parry, and contain less element of ry HAVE believed this ina io have gone into land, usu 4 interest have kept me broke orn more land and placed my of this system than I wo ‘thing. dread dollars over your Ing to find another he years be Kee uch higher as the years go by Moday, with a 50<ent dollar, real gountry’s history, and it is a 10-to-1 Sehot that money invested in real Prevailing prices will make more mney for you, and cost leas to ifiek, than any other investment or Bpeculation. . vague Way for 20 y and my few "TA U3 ai ally into unimproved Peountry property. And while ta all these years, and while ev lary time I began to catch up I Gears, wtill I know that today I am Porth considerable more because fecn had $ invested in fonds, insurance or any And you home « tempted by an r ric’ n't sell. Yor a 50. ollar. Yo St for as little * much to build id get more land jousible. ‘our home if next door, but van for general may may go up; lower t ma ears be “Gossips have no use for people 9 refuse to furnish material for |"" || SEEKING : FIX BLAME Lincoln Hotel ‘Survivors Tell of Difficulties of Es- cape to Safety Survivors of the Lincoln hotel disaster testified today thag none of the inside alarm gongs were ringing during the fire that de stroyed the hotel and the lives of four persons last Wednesday | morning. They were awakened in smoke filled rooms, they said, by the arrival of fire apparatus and the accompanying clangor of gongs outside the building | | | One witness told of the discovery | Jot the fire, of vain attempts to [put it out at the start with a fire Jextinguisher that would not work, | and of the night clerk phoning the fire department that “there's a lit- tle fire here, better send up ao Tho inquest to fix responsibility for the death of Mins Blanche Crowe, jone of the hotel guests, was resumed jin the basement of the county-city |dullding at 10 a. m. | From the witness stand during the morning. came tales of thrilling ree cues and bravery in time of peril modestly related by participants themee! ves. | WILL TRY TO FIND OUT OWNERSHIP Attorney Carroll Gr for Coroner C. C. Tiffin, said he posed going fully into the question of ownership to determine whether were the real owners and, whether they were re: |for conditions that made the firetrap. Harry WL. Neff, aasistant fire marshal, and former occupant of a room on the sixth floor of the hotel near that of Mins Crowe, was the first witness called He produced a plat floor drawn by him arrangement of other features of ¢ ered of consequence Japa of the , showing the apes, and truction in the probe DUMB WAITERS ACTED AS FLUES 1 An inside stairwa shown on the } plat, he testified, led down to the ) first floor above the lobby. | “Was there any exit from the end | of that stairway into the open?’ asked Attorney Graves. | “No,” the witness answered. | Dumb waiters extended up to the floors from the basement. sald. These formed excellent by which ft and moke climb from floor to another, lspreading qu into the connect re Is that a proper method of con struction?” he wa k It is customary,” bh aid, “to put stops h floor fire t go from one floor to another.” S OF NIGHT i FIRE STARTED Neff said he the fire about an he kh on n0 retired the night of 10:30, and had been time when tinkling of his shor the He awakened by phone bell dazed, he said ing was on fire by th ot ing wood rising thru the court to his open te © ame hear said y of the Hada would have to have | wall that conne atic sprinkler a ringing, but Neff said he dres an possible, then hurried and a quick ir tairways to ree if it a to get people out by than the it was not door to coping guests. fire escape lclimb down. the fire appara “put I couldn't fire gongs in the they been ringing made enough com the sound the outer ected with the auto the basement hur they motio’ roused est gong on in that wed as the made c ble any means He from awakened he led them fire nother, There told other found on capes going to and MED AFRAID “They seemed afraid,” he said. “I red them to get out, then I atened them, but till they were (Turn to Page 15, Column 1) sixth | con. | flues |” INQUEST IS A Letter 0 to Gussie © TRAFFIC TO Benedetti From the AttH®> of The Star’s Seattle Story Book Seattle, April 13 Benedetti, Black 1920. Miss Gussie Dia mond, Waah. Dear Child: OF COURSE Star wants you to have the mi chapters of our Seattle Story But how to get them for you? dear child, was a problem, I hunted high and low, but I couldn't find ANY of the chapters you wanted at home dren and my neighbors’ i saving theirs carefully an Ing them in books. So I went to the office—and what }do you think? There have been just | | FLOCKS of little boys and girls, and thelr mothers, there, to get “back! copies” of The Star with these stories in—-and all they could find for you Was page 1}—there t a sign of @ page t ors your 0 oo page Sterer And I mld to the editor, “Ian't it & shame? Why couldn't you print the early chapters over again, in a pamphlet or something, for the little girls and boys that want them?" | And he said: “AN right: I will™ And so the linotypes at The office are clicket king away at all those early chapters again, and the editor is going to have them printed in a special booklet, #0 that everybody who wants to can atart saving them and have every one. And this booklet will be printed in a few and YOU, Miss Gu» edetti (bleas your heart for very first cc froth (Agknc | DAYLIGHT PLAN KILLED BY VOTE The wing Rook That, children past ar very daya alo I ir lovely off the press! troduce Bill than 3,000 letters from Star | expressing opinions for and the proposed daylight saving were placed on Couneth ordinance, man Philip Tindall's desk during the| meeting of the city council Monday. | Final tabulation of The Star day light saving vote indicated that the citizens of Seattle are three to one nat the measure. "The letters of The Star readers prove decisively that the people of the elty are not in favor of the day- light saving plan,” Tindall declared. “| want to thank them personally for the interest they have manifested tn the matter. They have helped to de termine that the community does not want a daylight saving ordinance tor Seattle.” Definite decision not to introduce the proposed ordinance has been val by Tindall S $6 FOR HAT; ‘SHE ASKS DIVORCE NEW YORK, April 13. — Marie Baddour asked a divorce because she said her husband allowed her to spend only $6 for a hat, gave her two | pairs of shoes a year and kept the| key to the pantry German Ex-Empress |Reported Near Death BERLIN, April 13.—The empresa of Germany is seriously her retreat im Holland, and her th is expected short! the iteche Tages Zeitung said today A doctor ts worse { might as well hire a hearse.” But the doc put a card In The Star, now it's hard the doctor to carry his purse, said, “Business For Instructions for Rhyme contest and how to get prize or free tickets to Clemmer Theatre on Classified Page. And my chil-| ¢ ence with Chief Warren and Lieut ¢ letter), are to have} Tindall Says He Won't In-| former | DIVISION OF BE CREATED | Mayor Instructs Chief Wars ren and Liet. Carr to Work Out Details Mayor Caldwell announced at noon Tuesday that he has “deft nitely decided to create a separ- ate traffic division in the police departinent.” | This decision followed a confer- Carr, head of the present squad of traffic officers. “Chiet Warren and Lieut. Carr are to work out details and report back | to mo," maid Caldwell “There are! jfeme minor matters to be solved, | such as where to get the men to | into the division and where to lia WILL STICK TO SETTLED POLICY Caldwell’s decision means that Se attle will adopt the approved meth- od of America’s largest cities in regu }imting traffic. A campaign of edu cation will perhaps be the first un dertaking of the division, which will decide all traffic matters and have full authority to handle violators, create “one way” zones and worl Jalong definite lines. Under present | conditiona, there is a different policy | “with every shift’ at police head. quarters, according to critica. | Chief Warren hag not been an en-| thusiastic advocate of a separate traffic division, but Lieut, Carr has insisted that it ia the only way to handle the growing congestion in an | efficient, metropolitan way. He re turned to Seattle with this view last fall, after a tour of the largest cities jin the country, and numerous con. | |ferences with the nation’s foremost traffic experts CARR CONSIDERED FOR NEW POST | Whether or not Lieut. Carr will head the new traffic division is not settled, but Mayor Caldwell inttmat:| ed that Carr was being given careful | consideration, owing to his knowl-| edge of traffic division work in other cities, The Seattle Star launched a pub- lictty campaign for a separate traf. | fio division, following investigation of the alarming increase in traffic accidents, and interviews with police officers, nutomobile men and publt-| cation of hundreds of written sug-| gestions from Star readers on “how | to make Seattle atrecta safe.” The civic bureau of the Chamber of Com merce later wert on record in favor | of a traffic division, NEW HOTEL TO | BE “POPULAR” Man With Small Subscrip- tion to Have Full Voice It’s going to be a popular hotel | in the real sense, according to | the plans of the citizens inter. | corner entad- ested in the new hotel project. The people of the city are to be behind the project at all times, The man with the small subserip. | tion will have a voice in the selec tion of the site, the management, jand other details, just as the man with the larger subscription, And, |if the hotel is to be built and really | popular, it is the “small subscrip tion” man who will make it so. The Kiwanis club composed of bust: | ness men of the “smaller” type, is going into the project with enthusi asm—and a systematic ¢ | Will be inaugurated to canv club members and others. Subserip-| tons of $500 and $1,000 will be urged |by them—and even smaller denom |inationa Frederick & Nelson, with $25,000; Chauncy Wright Restaurants Co. |with $5,000, and Strang & Prosser, |with $1,000, are the new subscrip tions ve teered This brings the |total up to $191,000. Before the week | [is over, a committee will be organ: ized to solicit subscriptions. instead of depending on voluntary contribu: Uons, |bonus of $1 for each day’ | would | than |the r »| cents on ¢ BILLION IN USES IS. USE AIM Committee Favors Reward to Veterans by Taxa- tion on Sales BY HERBERT WALKER WASHINGTON, April 13.—A cash morvice be given to approximately 1,000,000 of the 4,800,000 men in the army, navy and marine corps during | the war, under a plan that han been | |approved by the bonus sub-commit |tee of the house ways and means| committee, it was learned today. | The program, which will be sub- mitted to the ful) committee for ap proval during thin week, calls for PUtlan expediture of slightly less than|the furniture man, ' That was fine of him, wasn’t it? Duhite setety, Mae tax of ofehailf-of one percent! + talked it over and decided we'd have to sell our equity 000,000,000, which is to be raised * considered very Iikely that) this ‘pian will be the one which will | De sumitted to the house in the near | | future, SEVERAL CLASSES WON'T GET BONUS With the purpose of limiting the bonus to those who endured heavy | financial sacrifices during the war, the subcommittee has eliminated sev. | eral claases of service men from the Rroups entitled to benefits, the total number eliminated being estimated | At 1,800,000, Among these classes are “Those who served leas than 60 days, because these men already | have received the original $60 bo nus, Men “ho were assigned to indus trial pints, such as shipbuilding, and received extra compensation there- for. “All officers. | “Men in the regular army — | the declaration of war n who, while in service in th received employers army, their owts.” No man would be given the tionue| anti he applied for it, and this, it is| believed, would reduce the total ex penditure, as many service men who | have wealth are not expected to ask | the extra compensation. The appli cation in to contain an affidavit that the soldier is not in any of the above claases, AVERAGE BONUS ABOUT $300 The plan cals for payment of the | bonus in four equal installments, and | the sales taxes are to be collected in the corresponding periods. The average service, the subcom mittes has been informed, is 10 months, making the average bonus about $300, Men who were promoted to be commisisosed officers would be paid only for the time they served aa enlisted men The committes ts now waiting for estimates from the treasury depart: | ment as to exactly how much can be raised by the tax on sales, put pre liminary estimates place the amount at about $1,500,000,000, The levying of this tax also would be in the na ture of an experiment, as there is sentiment in congress for having it For the present, however, it must be in addition to all other taxes. | Under the house committee plan, all businesses with total sales of less $2,500 a year, and all small armers should be exempted. The tax | fsoanpenention trom of, business inter- | would not be paid by stamps, as in| | the case of the present consumption | levies. | Its collection, it is belleved, would be simple, All business concerns at the end of every three months, after ssage of the law, would simply pay one-half of one per cent on their sales. It would amount to only 50} ery $100, All transactions, | retail and real estate, taxed. wholesa would be O FRANCE FOR MADEMOISELLE YAKIMA, April 13.—Fred C, Me ex-Yank, is on his way back , for one mademoiselle and 15 francs a day, toda ean live on 10 franes a day over there when | mademoiselle becomes Madame Me: | Wayne,” said Fred, “Over here I can’t save @ cent.” \charge of the money An upright, manly-looking boy of 20 came to The Star offi e yesterday afternoon and introduced himself: “Tam Clyde LaCasse, the like to get a piece put in the thank the friends who have said and done so many kind | Model father lost his life put that in the paper? { And we told him about several | lauding the bravery of the men who and particularly of the man who went far rabid for us since fire. Can you Yes, we could, w letters we'd received, fought the blaz said. son 6 paper. of Fireman LaCasse. I'd} Mother and I want to\ in the Lincoln hotel) up into the flames in search of human lives, and was caught by a falling wall and killed—Fireman Charles LaCasse. “Some of these people, who wrote us letters,” | “feel that they'd like to do something fine for your mother yur younger brother, Clarence, to show how and you and we told him, they feel towards a man who died a hero.” We asked him about the home that his father had con- | tracted to buy and had paid a small amount “down” upon just before his death. “Well,” he said, now. “there’s only $200 or $300 paid on it It would cost, altogether, $3,500. There’s $100 taxes due pretty soon, they're going to regrade and pave right away, | handle with father gone. full.’ in the home and let it go. “DON'T DO IT,” we advised him. We were betting on the gratitude of Seattle; that some- | thing that rises up in every emergency and does something and we thought it would be more than we could We had our furniture partly paid | for and today we got a letter from Herbert Schoenfeld, enclosing a receipt marked ‘Paid in But mother and “NOT YET.” for somebody who needs sympathy and cheer, and gives us all a feeling of betterness, We were betting that the great Star Family, our readers and ourse Fireman I he meant it to shelter. ves, would take up one of the burdens left by zaCasse and buy that home and give it to those We were betting that Herbert Schoenfeld would act as trustee for the Fi n LaCasse hero fund, and take s it was paid in. We were betting that, before the end of the week, the whole $2 500 will be raised and mailed in to the Fireman | LaCasse Hero Editor, in care of The Star, and that next | Monday morning we can go to Mrs. LaCasse with a deed | to her home and hand it to her and say “Here’ lee The Star.” HOW ABOL IT i? a little gift of gratitude and es teem from readers PICKFORD SUIT DUE WEDNESDAY Action to Set Aside Mary’s Divorce to Be Filed CARSON CITY, Nev, April 13 The suit to set aside the divorce de-| cree recently granted Mary Pickford | in Douglas county court will be filed | Wednesday or Thursday, it was said today at the office of Attorney Gen- eral Fowler. The attorney general said the com- plaint would be filed In spite of ef forts on the part of Attorney Gavin MeNab, of San Francisco, been retained by Miss Pickford, allow him to assemble and submit the facts in the case before legal ac- to tion is begun. . CARSON CITY, Nev. April A sworn statement retracting charges made by Mrs. Sadie rdnerville, who said that Judge “rank Langan and Sheriff Chris Neilson of Douglas county had re. ved money in connection with the} kford divorce, will be published this afternoon by the Carson Appeal. 18 the Brown, here City CHOIR BOYS STRIKE; SINGING INTERFERED WITH “LOVING” TIME CHICAGO, April 18 use chureh services cut into their oving” hours, choir boys of the Protestant Episcopal chureh of the Ascension went on a “silent” strike, The congregation, noticing the thinning of the ranks and the fact that the only voices left were soprano, investigated and discovered the choir boys were quitting because the hours of service—T:45 to 9:15—interfered with calls on their girls, Now the hours are from 7 to & and the boys have agreed to come back to the choir. who has} | met tling and Aft fair | was maye jto th what | Ct price invita sible The | Jurisd | ment. | distrs tribu to th nd nd | the f | Seer } milk | ing mittee accomplished the dairy mittee has done wisest ILK MEETING FIZZLES HERE Fair Price Committee Says It Cannot Act Mayor Caldwell’s milk committee today with the fair price com. in the latter's offices and nothing toward set the dispute between producers distributers over the price of product. er consulting the statutes, the price committee concluded it without authority to act. The ors committee then hastened ne city hall to ask the mayor to do next. airman Ernest Wells, of the fair committee, issued the follow- | ing statement: Yot having the jurisdiction or the ation to act as arbiters, the com- thing pos- in not acting in the matter. committee is acting under the liction of the federal govern- Federal law does not adjust | disputes between the producers and buters—~ merely between ters and consumers.” dis- | The mayor's committee then went e city hall and reported. Mayor Caldwell instructed his organization to sta and ready ta serve as abiters, ing an effort to have producers distributers agree to abide by indings after hearings are held, retary Homer Detrick, of the producers committee, on learn- of the situation said: “If the distributers are as fair as they say they ing to thrash the | tho mayor's committee.” Thi are they will no doubt be will matter out before © effort to settle the contro. | versy followed the ultimatum of pro- | ducers that they would stop sending | milk lagree to pay $3.90, | per 1 | dema to Seattle unless. distributers instead of $2.60. 00 pounds for milk. This price nded is being paid pending set- | tlement. PORTLAND, Apri 13.—J, 8. Dal- | ton, | William Gorman, tenant. the head, landlord, attempted to evict Dalton left instead, landing on his He's residing at a hospital, house =e ONE WIFE SAYS SHE WILL AID DEFENSE | \“1 Considered “Him a Kind Husband,” De-~ clares Woman Victim Andrew Watson, alias Louis A. Hilton, alleged Bluebeard,” | who now lies in a precarious con- dition at the county hospital at Los Angeles, following two at tempts at suicide, was considerate and » model hus band,” according to Mrs. Harry Lewis, of Sacramento, one of his many wives, who is on the way there today to defend the man. Hilton was*formerly a Seattle lection agent. “Mrs. Lewis” claims to have ried him under the name of Huirt Spokane. Further documentary evidence said to have revealed that, while using the name of C. N. Harvey, tson married Agnes Wilson, 25, in Vancouver, and shortly married Mrs. Florence Sherrard of Spokane, Both of these women have wives who have paces out of sight up to six. Physicians say Watson ts slowly regaining his strength, but believe it will be at least a week before he can be questioned. The “modern Bluebeard” of the Pa- cific coast. married Miss Ludvigsom here last July. Police Chief Cusick, of Olympia, stated in an interview with The Star today that the wo man’s body at Plum Station was dis- covered last June 9, a month before the wedding of Hilton and Miss Lud- vigson. NORTHWEST WOMEN AMONG VICTIMS Cusick and Captain of Detectives Charles E. Tennant, of Seattle, agree, however, that the methods used by the Plum Station slayer correspond closely to those alleged to have been adopted by Hilton in the disposition of several other “wives” after he is said to have swindled them. Hilton is charged with marrying several other women after the dis appearance of Miss Ludvigson, and the most probable theory entertained by Pacific coast authorities now seems to be that the woman's body found in the “murder ravine” near Martinez, Cal, is that of the Seattle "bride. The “Mrs. Hiltons” already ae counted for, according to Los An- geles dispatches, now total 20, inglud- ing the following Northwest women: ALICE M. LUDVIGSON, of Seat daughter of Henry Ludvigson, mer Renton hotel man. Married in July, 1919. FLORENCE SHERRARD, of Spo- kane, who vanished six months ago after her “courtship” and probable marriage to “Hilton, GERTRUDE WILSON, married three years ago in Alberta, supposed to have gone to Honolulu and dis- appeared. A postcard with her sig- nature, ready for mailing, was found in Hilton's possession. BERTHA GOODNICK, married in December, 1919, to H. L. Gordon, at Yakima. Gordon ts one of Hilton's alleged aliases used in duping wo- men. She, too, was supposed to have gone to Honolulu. All mail ad» dressed to her there was returned, according to her niece, Mra Burt Harris, 314 S. Ninth st. Yakima, NINA LEE DELONEY, married in San Francisco in December, 1919, to Charles Harvey, another Hilton alias. Disappeared from Santa Monica in January. Last November Hilton ts said to have married Katheryn Wombacher, of Spokane, in Seattle. He was liv- ing with her in Los Angeles when arrested and is said to have been making arrangements to take her on “a trip into the hills.” TRACE LONG LIST OF HIS VICTIMS A long list of other women Hilton is said to have married at one time or another on the Pacific Coast and in Canada where his operations were | (Turn to Page 2, Column Q - SF é