The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 15, 1920, Page 1

sionally Maximum, {iit Temperature Last M4 Today noon, 45. occa- moderate urs Minimum, 41 ~ VOLUME 23. AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH DO NOT know much the wires have ried of the troubles our popular heroes heroines recently of those high how ear of and I divinities of speak the film heaveng@oug and Mary and Chas. et.ux, Everybody thought t€ was 1 tled when Mary Bickford was off with the old and on with the new, or, if, not exactly the new, with something different. But it appears that Doug ir banks is likely to be Mary's hue band for an even briefer period than Owen Moore was, because the state of Nevada has risen in its wrath at this late day and threat @ns to annul the Pickford divorce. and give to Mary two husbands rather than one, which is redun ancy, not to say excessivity Just why hitherto long-suffering and forbearing. and broad-minded Nevada should choose Mary as the first victim in its new-found seal for pious living and divorcing is Ret known. HEN there are Charlie Charlie has been getting himself divorced, or something, and there seems to have been & little matter of dispute concerning the alimony Hotment. And Charles, departing from his usual spirit of quirk and quip, meeteth his wife’s manager in @ Los Angeles hotel and invites him to take off his glasses, so that he—Charles—may “poke him in the beak. And the manager upsets all cus tard comedy precedent by smiting heroic Charles, by stretching him prone upon the marble floor, and by skinning up the comedian's hitherto conquering visage And on the same evening that Chartes picked out to stage his lit tle drama, his former wife was ditncing with the Prince of Wales down in San Diego, and dancing so well that the prince, ‘tis said, marked her for special approval, and sent to her, the next day, a large autographed portrait of his highness q Which was enough history for the Chaplin family for one night HILE the prince mingled with us quite ly, his big warship did not enter the harbor, but swung to its chains gome three miles out, and main. tained a nightly patrol that did not allow even a flying fish to get thru. Nobody seemed to know the why Of such exclusiveness until I found extensive one of the # that was on the job of guarding the prince, and he informed me that the Brtileh Officials were mightily scared of the Senn Fenn, and réfused to 7] _ come within the harbor for fear of life the prince's ve I do not know how much founda ’ tion there is for this scare, but 4 certainly the prince was far from 4 happy, and he had a sobernens 1 that was not in ing with his y youth, nor with his native high apirite, HERE i» an awful waste under our present eco nomic system. A waste of brain energy We lose billions be cause we do not get the best ideas 4 of inventive men into spee use 7 I was talking, the other da to an inventor of national sta a xcientific inventor—who things and proves them before ecpts them. He told me about a arburetor he had worked on that y so broke up the hea distillate and kerosene that an engine could p it better than it could the best grade of gan today, He installed such a carburetor on his own car. too, and got 30 miles of gas, but he is not working on his carburetor; he is working on something entirely dif. ferent, that will enable him to make a living for his family, and it may be ten years before he gets around to perfect his carbur or before ybody else stumbles on his id Meanwhile, we will waste billions and hamper traffic nd perhaps the conquest of the air, because We %o not have a national foundation to finance meritorious inventions of public importance Germany, in thia respect, was far ahead of the rest of the world R. DERBY FIRED NEW YORK, April 15—Dr. Rich ard Derby, son-in-law of the late President Roosevelt, fired an engine on the Long Island railroad when the regular Liremen struck. RAILWAY ENGINE} DEATH | MYSTERY IN ~ BURNED TAXI Driver Disappears, Leaving Charred Auto Beside Bothell Road Deputy sheriffs of King and Snohomish counties were search ing Thursday for the driver of a motor car, found hurned by the roadside, two miles north of Bothell, early this morning. The missing man ix Nely ("Red") Union jit- at saying Hayes, driver of an Kast ney, who borrowed | Thursday night from a gare Fourth ave. the ‘car Virginia st. and jhe would be back at 2 a. m. j | He planned to drive two men to erett. Al Fawcett city attorney, brother of Everett ia alleged to have re ported seeing the body of a man lying near the car. 8 E. Hitsman, night marshal of Bothell, towed the car into Bothell, and declares he Wwas unable to find anyone connected with the car There have been eight taxicab | murders in Seattle in the past three years. BODY EXPANDS Will Organize Suburbs oul Ultimately Whole Coast Agitation against Japanese en croachments took @ new spurt today, A special committee of the Anth |Japanese league started movements | | several to organtwe branches of the league in outlying districts, with the idea that it will ultimately cover other Northwest cities and the entire | Pacific coast. the city council, W. W. Ladd, chairman of the executive committee, Central Labor council Thomas R. Kinsey, secretary Re tail Grocers’ association. This committee will boost for or- ganization of new “locals” of the league, following establishment of one in Rainier valley and one in Mt. Vernon. | The AntiJapanese league was or- |wanized last August It meaintains headqquarters at | 1012 Green building. The president i# | Edward Clifford; secretary-tredsurer, |“ Frank W. Kannair. BAR JAPS, The committee consists of: Philip Tindall, newest member of and war veteran SAYS SENATOR ED COMAN a a Weather Tonight and Friday, rains ; southwesterly winds. 'ANTI-JAPANESE | PR ARRAAAAARAAAAAAAARAAAA A Beoond ¢ On the Matter May & at the Postoffice at Seattte Wash, under the Act of © WASH. SE BATTL E, . THU RSDAY, APRIL 1 15, 1920. reas March Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise eSeattleStar A 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 ILLIONAIRE, WITH AX KILLS GRANDCHILD! OI EEE aw INAL {il TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Lure Victims Thru Gazette HERE’S Here's the list of women, personal women lived in Seattle patice, prospective gazette among Many of victims, BLUEBEARD LIST with effects of ations, found by Los Angeles Bivedeard” Louis F. Hilton. and are believed to have been lured by advertisements in a matrimonial MAY WARREN MRS out MRS. MF in a ate MRS. A. F. MKS. FF ore NCES SMITH. gencral delivery, widow, 35, woring GRAVIS, San Telmo apartments, general delivery SCHRAMM, Box 436, Bremerton BELLOW 44 Sixth st, Bremerton; has good property wants some one to help her. MRS. MIRS. A LA I INA SWANSON, Barrington, COURSEY , 2019 East Union, phone, nice income Box 114 MISS ANNA O'KERFE, Wilson's Business college AC LILLIAN SHOEKL BRITTLE c AY A. M. PASHLI MRS land. MISS Fr L BURNS, Sheldon hatel, some IDA REICH, HALMER, Room 17 1615 Joy at MES. BR. KAWS, 4168 élet a PEARL RECTOR, % Paiton ave SVE, 1422 Barker 1049 Derimark. means; did ve in Port Queen hotel, Ballard SB.) widow, lady; « farm. Dd. Charleston, R. F. MISS H.R. ALEXANDER, 37068 Bast Pine st. nurse ALICE LUDVIGSEN, 2719 Rainier ave, Grand Union Tea Co. MES. M. HALL, 1633 Boylston ave. bas large sult pending. MRS, 8. A. MILALETT, has her own home. ZO ESTER, 2459 Queen Anne ave. MISS IDA TILBON, MISS FRIEDA CROW! MISS EVALINA MOSER, Many Seattle women were be- ing considered as prospective brides of Louls A. Hilton, ab leged modern Bluebeard, poly se confidence 1622 16th ave. ch, general delivery, has means Box 116, teacher obtained them gazette “2 | Some of them, interviewed by The Star today, said they could not re- member having corresponded with| jeuch a man | Mien Bvetina thru a matrimonial Moser, a teacher this city today from Lee Ange (4129 ioth ave. N. E., one of ie women on the “prospect list.” was Police of that city, searching the| said by a woman living at that ad-| effects of Hilton, alias Charles N.|drens to have married « man named | Harvey, and also known as Andrew. | james Donaldson some time ago,! Huirt and Watson, discovered the|after which she nold her home here! list, containing the names of 25 wo |and moved to Munson, Wash three | men seattered thruout the North: |weeks ago. | Hilton Is presumed to have) Mine Zoe Estes, another name on west the list, was the maiden name of Mes. | | Ernest Edwards, now living at 1707) [N. 4th at | ‘ Mrs. Edwards said she could not} MURDER VICTIM Warren Working on Blue-|»tronized here | Captain of Detectives Tennant dis beard Case |covered today another alleged victim | jof Hilton, who, he says, was “Blue: / LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 15.—|beard’s's” 26th wife, as near as, he} A furthér search of the effects of |©an learn. Mra. Gertrude Wilton.) Charles Harvey, alias Hilton, now in] Who owned a farm somewhere in) the county hospital here, suffering | Alberta, married Hilton, under the from self-inflicted wounds in two|ame of J. P, Watson, here in June, | attempts at suicide, today revealed| 1917, secording to Tennant. They A liat containing 25 additional names | Went to the Hoods Canal country | ; ot women Harvey, fo be 1 tojand “Mrs, Watson” returned here in have considered prospective prey |October of the same year, Tennant Harvey Is accredited with approxi. |™AY™ and hay 6 a , © trace her failed mately 26 wives, many of whom| "nit" ikon was toying with the have mysteriously disappeared affections of the daughter of Coun Having discovered Harvey's true] ciiman Oliver T. Erickson was also identity, the police today began the |established definitely today. | recall having corresponded with any man, She said she knew a man) named Harvey in Alaska, and an-) jother of the same name who was 4 ‘driver for a laundry she formerly }eteht LONG TERM, MAYOR ASKS Caldwell Would Drug Addicts Six Months, Hoping to Effect Cure Declaring the city is not ade- quately handling the dope prob lem, Mayor Cakiwell this after noon addressed a letter to Cor- poration Counsel Meier recom- mending © more drastic program in dealing with addicts who ap- pear in the police court. ‘The mayor asked the cooperation | of Meier's department in taking some practical steps to discourage the habitual use of drugs in’ this city, which he says he has noted in the newspapers is a growing evil. According to his information, the mayor says, a number of persons are ‘brought into court as many as six or timen drug users. Under the present sys tem the maximum sentence they can be given ie 63 days, The mayor ad-| |viwes that future cases of this kind be turned over to the promecuting at- torney for prosecution under the state vagrancy law, penalty for vio-| lation of which is six months’ impris onment “During this time,” the mayor says, “it would be possible to eure many of the cases. The ponnibility jof such @ term would also act a8 @) for the fund deterrent to others who look lightly on the habitual use of drugs.” ‘ OUTLAW STRIKE MEN ARRESTED, Government Issues Order to Take Leaders CHICAGO, Apri 15, — The United States government struck today st the radical clement backing the “outlaw” railroad strike which resulted in partial paralysis of the nation’s indus. tries and threatened industrial centers with starvation. Deputy United State, mar. shals, acting on instructions of United States Attorney C. F. Clyne, arrested 19 of the strik ers’ leaders and expected to take 15 more into custody this after preside: tion, the original union, Grunau called the first stri The warrants charged violation the Lever law, and officials sald criminal prosecutions will be sought. United States Commisisoner Lewis Mason, son of Congressman Wil. liam Mason, of Tilinois, isued the war rants: |task of tracing his movements since | Correspondence between Misa Irene “If the Japanese government can-| nie first marriage, 15 years ago. ‘The | Rrickson, now a student nurse in the| Th¢ 19 prisoners were taken before not enforce regulations that will! poijce deck his true name in| Alagneda county hospital, Commissioner Mason, where Clyne check the inflow of laboring peo-|Charles Newton Harvey, of Shel-|andro, Cal. and “W. L. urged that bail be fixed at $20,000 ie es oat ewe | ae "|\bourne Falls, Mass. | Hilton, was brought to light by the; °*¢h | should take steps that will J. F. Warren, chief of police at|investigation into Hilton's affairs This is a very grave offense,” ho the fairest part of the American's iii wired Sheriff Cline that he\ being made in Low Angeles, news dis. | 4 continent being overrun With btieven the body of a woman found|patches aald on said hy wen net the bags Asiatics.” é lat Plum station, Washington, on| Councilman Erickson’s daughter | 4t $10,000 now, anc ig the facts ater declared Senator Ed T. Co-| july 9, last, will prove to be that of has been in the Alameda hospital) W#rranted it, he would raise the bal m republican candidate for gov-|Mra, Bertha Goodnich, who is said|#ome time, her father said, but he AmonE thone arrested with Gru ernor, in an address delivered be-|to have married Harvey June 19,|denied knowing anything about her | au, Were FAmer Bidwell and Jaco fore the Pierce county republican] last year, while he was using the|connection with the | “Bluebeard | 5 stata doris ca es yee Ameer | club ‘at a Thursday |name of HL. Gordon. The blood-|case.” He said he had not heard | Palmer was reported to have termed question of whether | staine the a superior or an inferior ator urged, “That they ent strain than our ancestry i sufficient to disbar them, lest we add another racial question to those already unsolved.” | FIVE MEN DIE IN MINE SHAFT [Bodies Recovered After Fatal Accident DAWSON, N bodies of five men were today from the Phelps-Dodge mine here, following ‘an M., April 15—The shot firers unawares when they be fired by electric! | recovered | found in t coal | cerning th explosion | The last night that caught the quintet of | tive, of Wats the propert ‘The police declare that at least | five of Harvey's wives have been victims of foul play. to these, seven others are miss- search of Mexican sorts is being made in an effort to find several of these women, ing, A fur which rooms. y ‘ of Mrs. found in one from her for several weeks | = be oS SHE WROTE | Goodniph |ONE LETTER FOUND Miss Erickson is said to have writ jten her first letter to “Lewis” in an. In addition ewer to his advertixement in a mat | rimonial gazette, “in the spirit of | fun.” A second letter followed, and among Hilton's effects Is said to have | been found third signed, “Your! re. i: ared on trips to | wite, Irene,” which Miss Brickson |} aoe denies having written cnaatge # condition in slightly im-| ‘The second letter reads | proved, it’ was announced at the how pital today. It is expected the au When I wrote beg bend let. | thoritien will be able to question him|, ter I was in a rather unhappy state of mind and was willing in a few days. Altho it is admitted there is little Ukelihood of a confes to do almost anything to escape sion, his version Is expected to shed| from cortatn fs ite The some light upon many of his opera same — cor jor ave since ‘ie. cleared away and 1 hesitated | Appended i thought believe Harvey Heved the shots had been previously these women thru matrimonial ad ty polic to some n vertisements new list, are notes con: | r financial circumstances, which to be Seattle about going further with an fair, well, 0 unconventional an you say, you are shortly returning to California, 1 shall be gind to meet you. IT think that I need not tell you more about myself except that I'm (Turn to Page 2, Column 5) of the names of them The ot many met most x ngerous men.” Woman Falls Down Elevator Shaft ‘ailing accidentally down the ele- shaft of the Bon Marche p.m, today, Mrs, Ravina de 12:15 Bruin, 46, a clerk, was taken to the} hospital, where it a fractured Seattle General was discovered she ha » and cuts about the face. bret ly live. Her residence 1114 Stewart st in at Lowden Plurality Now 80,000' Votes CHICAGO, April 15.-4Governor Frank ©, Lowden’s pluraifty in the Illinois preferential primary Tuesday was more than 80,000, returns today indicated, All but 227 precincts re- ported, Lowden’s total in 6,635 of the 6,262 precinots was 234,878; Woods, total was 159,624, Hiram Johnson's vote was 46,181 Imprison | charged ax disorderly | persons, meaning they are habitual | She will | LaCASSE FUND TO DATE Herbert Schoenfeld $100.00 | @ Vineent No Name 5.00 No Name 100 111.92 50.00 10.00 $00 2.50 5.00 lazen J. Titan 100.00 dohn 4. (Jack) Sullivan 5.00 ©. 0. Mart 25.00 | Tota $430.42 | Oh, boyt Did you see Mayor Caldwell and his friend, F. B. Lazier, hot-footing it up Union st. to Seventh ave, this morning, lugging that heavy sack? Ob, did you notice their snappy Step—thowe smiles? “Is it @ worthy, bona fide proposi | on?” asked the mayor. “You bet,” we told him, “That's all 1 want to know," he | said, and sat down at the editor's | desk and took out his check book | and fountain pen and wrote To the Fireman LaCasse Hero Fund, $60.00.” And Lazier boosted the heavy sack |up onto the desk and clanked it down and grinned. “There,” said he, “is $111.12 more | meeting last night | ented we the boys dug down and tossed $5 bills two sone, and linto their pants jand silver dollars, | quarters and dimes—and a few pen. I nies—into the middie of the floor. We gathered it up, and as near as Nile Temple held a} ‘The mayor sug: | all chip in something for | | Fireman LaCasse’s witow and her) and halves and) SEATTLE WOMEN AS HIS PREY PUPILS Olympic Hardware Co. to GIVE DOPES Give Part of Receipts;| Mayor Boosts Hero Fund Nile Temple Collects $111.92 for Fire- man LaCasse Family; Hazen Titus Sends $100 we could amounted to $2n3.12." The boys of Nile temple may be philanthropic, but they are poor mathematicians. When The Star's young woman cashier counted the | |eontents of the sack, it contained | $111.92 ’ figure it ks and money orders for the fund reached The Star toflay from several other sources, bringing the total up to $430.42 to date, In addition to this, the Olymbic Hardware Co, 1021 First ave.,| writes “We shall be pleased to give 2 per cent of our recelpts for the coming [week to the fund for Fireman La Canse’s family.” Hazen J, Titus, of the Chauncey | Vright Restaurants Co., one of the first to suggest a fund for Fireman Dooley, and a contributor of $100 to that fund je a similar contribu tion to the LaCasse fund. Jack Sullivan, attorney, sent $5, and C. O. Hart gave $25. G. A. Held sent $10. Ernest T. Reynolds contributed $5. vm. fF | Bresster mailed cheek for $2.50. |And Patrolman W. J. Sheehay sent a money order for $5 with this letter: | “Enclosed you find one | day's pay to fulfill and start the | ball rolling along the line of that suggestion of mine, I am hoping others will do likewise. Yours for | more action.” | Patrolman Sheehan had suggested | previously that each fireman and policeman give a day's pay. | Contributions may be made to the} treasurer of the fund, Herbert Scho- enfeld, of the Standard Furniture Co, or to The Star. Address mail “LaCasse Fund.” ! | | | Two KAISERITES | ARE CAPTURED |Ptans for New German Re- | volt Are Unearthed PARIS, April 15—A news | agency dispatch from Bertin to day said that Major General Von | Luettwitz and Major Bischoff, accused of attempting to foment | a new revolt in. Germany, have been arrested. The men were found hiding oh an estate Prussia, the dispatch said. e- anger of eal and BERLIN, April 15.—The a monarchist coup was more of defense, told the ‘The situation in Pomerania was particularly serious, Gessler said. He to the right parties to use with their conserv ary and military friend: outbreak with “en ine that the Iron division and the n brigade, which supported the Von Kapp insurrection, were eneamped at Muenster, ready to assist in the new | coup. | The movement, Gessier believed, | would not be directed against Berlin. ‘The revolutionists planned, he un derstood) if successful in the south, to surround Berlin, cutting off its supplies and agitating disturbances erthrow of the government. NION OF MIDDLE CLASS HIS PLAN NEW YORK, April 15.—A new junion of “middle class men and women” was advocated by Chauncey | |M. Depew to solve industrial diffi-| culties. for the o | Caillaux Tri all Is Now in Final Phase PARIS, April 15.—The _ prosecu- tion was prepared to complete final summing up of ft# evidence when the trial of Joseph Caillaux, former pre- mier, charged with plotting against France during the war, was resumed this afternoon, Defense attorneys were to begin their, final arguments as soon as the jeloped yesterday to that city from|lor, Neiner, Kinney and Walker, prowecution finished i imminent than generally believed, Dr. | to new sulng horrors.” Geaster urged “a general popular | union” against the “forces which | would injure the fatherland.” He said it was reported, apparently reliably, HOTEL PROJECT _ TOPS $200,000 Rhodes to Call | Meeting for Active Canvass Over the $2,000,600 mark The hotel fund is crowing—not by «OF jof |been raised properly and th |Prisoners Flee From | WATCH GIRL Madman Grandfather Slays Tot as Hundreds of Chil- dren Look On KE! April Moon, 78, wealthy lumbern of this city, killed his year-old grand-daughter today by cutting her open with an ax. Moon attacked the ch with the ax on the schoo grounds here and hundi children witnessed tragedy. Officers said Moon was sane. He was reported j}have said the child had |he wanted to kill both her | and himself. Moon was ii mediately arrested and iomet will be held, it THREE ESCAPE . BETENTION CE gration Station + Three aliens held for epee tation made their escape detention station, foot of Ui ee st., some time before usage MANUELE Italian AUL KING, 20, English Jew. ERNEST WATSON, 18, Scotch, According to immigration cials, all the prisoners were counted for when they went stairs to the dining room for CARDINALS, per at 6 o'clock. The next ol was at midnight, when the guard came on, Three men then found missing. A search revealed no cut bars other clues as to how the might have made their escape, the theory héld is that they under a table in the dining until the guards and their panions had gone upstairs, an escaped thru the door leading the kitchen. This is the only from the mess hall, it is said, Y cook, who did not leave until ae leap and bo: t growing +A subser $25,000 by N. H Latimer. f the Dexter. Horton the Automo | bite et pencer BE. An- |derson, v nt of the Univer sa! Savings and Loan association, and | $500 by Seattle Hotel News, brought | the total at noon Thursday to $200,500. Chairman A, J. Rhodes, of the | Chamber of Commerce hotel commit. | | tee, who subscribed the first $25,000) to the fund, has called a meeting of | j his committee for Friday noon. The} Chamber of Commerce committee ts | |not the board that will manage the| | new hotel campaign. it was or ganized months ago for the purpose jof creating sentiment towards the hotel project. Following the meeting of the} hamber'’s committee, steps will be | taken to organize a city-wide com. mittee for the further handling of | the campaign. It is expected a meet ing of at least 200 business men will be called before long, and a mass- meeting to which everybody is to be invited will follow. In the meantime, the voluntary subscriptions are coming in steadily. | ‘Poisoned Wh isky on Sale at North Bend Poisoned whisky being bootlegged near North Bend sent four men from | |Sheriff Stringer's office speeding | thither late this afternoon. Deputy Sheriff Mike Willard, at North Bend, phoned to Stringer that several men there and at Snoqualmie | had become iil after drinking the| stuff. Chief Criminal Deputy Sheriff | Toney and Mec o'clock, declares that he saw no one after the room bad cleared. 3 Cardinals was to have been de | ported with the next party to leave. His passport was verified Tui He was sent to MeNeil’s Island on August 19, 1918, from Callfor- nia, on a charge of using the mails, to defraud, He was released on March 27, and was immediately” held by the immigration authorities for deportation, sige King and Watson were to be de aq Ported to Canada. They were am rested for entering the United States illegally, a few weeks ago. — Descriptions of the escaped men — were sent out Thursday 3 In the meantime an investi is being conducted, says sioner White, NATIONAL LEAGUE q R. Boston be New York ° and y, Gonzales, Batteries—Oeschger O Philadelphia + 8 1 Brooklyn cores TO Batteries—Smith, Causey and throw; Marquard, Mamaux, and Krueger, Frank Brewer left for the scene in an auto, accompanied by Deputies Stewart Gaenpeen and N, L, Loveall, ODE TO GOSHEN; NOW -ARE WED CHICAGO, April 15.—Frederick W. Seymour, 81, and Mrs, Marie Web- ber, 70, could think of nothing nicer than a ride to Goshen, Ind. So they Chicago, Washington .. ton. Johnson, Zachary, Snyder, ney and Garrity; Russell, and Walters, New York At Philadelphia Batteries—Quinn and “Ruel;