The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 16, 1920, Page 1

Weather ght frost VOL U IME 23. and early Saturday, morning; 49, Minimum, 39. y neon, 19 t AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH Say HEN we wish to express our admiration for same- body's absolute lack of sense, we say that some body is a “poor fish* Than which nothing im af nature fs ailtier, And of all the ailty fishes, doubtiess we would give the gilt diadem to the grunion, that feebleminded smelt that goes mad by the light of the full moon, and @ashes on the beach every «pring, where it flops around for a ally hour and is gobbled by the fisher man. But this same sffty fish, this pow erty stricken of wit, and devoid of inteNigence, suicidal fish, has con- siderable more sense than the ay erage man who catches It, so far &s obeying natural, laws is con cerned. And becanse the story of. the grunion is typical, and because it may give us a new tnsight into the marvels of creation, it is told here > jn drier. . URING two months of the year, following the full moon, there ts a*period of high tide off the Southern California coast, And this high tide is fol lowed, two weeks.ipter, by another higher tude. Our silly grunion somehow | Knows ali about this, and, being of a thrifty bent, it destres that its femme be placed where few will be destroyed, and where the tnenbated hatch will be washed to sea. So the female grunton, escorted by papa grunion, waits until this spring tide, two days after the full moon, and then it dashes high up <7 Just ‘Waves unti) the next high tide pert od, two weeks later . There the eggs lic In the warm, moist sind for two weeks, while ma and pa go about their business, higher and higher; it reaches, finab ly, the hard, compacted sand where these eges are buried: it _ washes them free; immediately the eges hatch, and the new-born (fish are carried out to'sea by the ebb of the tide, and live happily ever after. Bo here that high full moon, is a fish ‘that knows tide follows the «pring and is succeeded two weeks later, by higher tid It lays its eggs, that require two weeks to incubate, that only hatch after two weeks when w malt water, and that are protec while incubating, from harm. | Indeed, the intelligent grunion so takes advantage of this afe nest that, instead of depo sands on thousands of ¢ces, the cod and other fish, it Inyx a few hundred, and from those few hundred hatches safely a bigger percentage than its less wise but more fecund cousins instructed this into the habits of moon and tides? How ame it, of all y batthlions, charge the bulwarks of the shore and deposit its eggs on land? Where was the eternal scale that balanced the grunion egg and t tide so that the heaveng In their orbit moved to the same tempo as the germ of this almost in visible egs in t st wand? Poor fish, indeed, when the can ny smelt moves his very fing in rhythm to the roll of the infinite stars! Wine man has, #ince the dawn of history, been trying to discover what are the causes of ocean cur rents, and only within the last few years has he begun to perceive the reasons. years ago these ocean earth south up at the north the jumble tides follow warm sand would indicate gome of us @ cot epochs more bef in certainty of know er wits of these poc Of course, the will at once critic that the fi high tide, and will insigt that this ie not knowledge, but instinct, and that the grunion will at a certain period of the attempt spawn on shore, even tho from af ty unusual tion th ti (ls not the highest for the sea- fon Al} of wh a differen = knowing tha Jy keep in mind am concerned m gronion does Nate sense of i E with the sort of ye this may be, Maybe man would be better off if he followed instinct more, and 5 is bvcrgeaaaatiadalend ND wha Uny fis to ne > mol dimly t many ext men thought the the ping to pole, and boll but all this time r knew th and th ™ le of glacial appréac © the dul waters cr the hatche that me t wientific mind atatement about rm. h “ke the nd there ia ond ent ime 1 what the uit of ite in and tide than ween in it th tinct tk re with n On the Issue of Americanism ‘There Can Be No Compromise Potered as Second Chae Mattnr May 3, 1999, at ChePustoffiee nt Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congreas March 1, 1579 Per Year, by Mail, #5 to #9 The Seattle Star — SEATTLE, WASHL, FRI FRIDAY, APRIL 116, 1920. . ELKS SPEND BIG NIGHT | Monte Carter “Auctions” for “Bills” With Lots of “Pep, Wim and Wigor’ THEY MADE LACASSY:, FUND Herbert Schoenfeld .. G. E. Vincent -. Elks’ Gus. Members Provident Loan Society Louls Kubenstein ..... A. MeLiesh H. BE. Weaver Total In o horricane of swirling bank notes and clanking silver dollars at the Elks’ club Inte last night, the LaCasse Hero Fund for the widow and two young sons of the fireman who lost his life in the Lincoln hotet disaster here last week, was lit erally buried across the finish line. | When it was al! over $2,002.27 lay | heaped upon the floor, and Anction eer Monte Carter discovered he had | raffled off the entire wardrobe of Dr. George H. Yates, who was sent homm smiling a. barrel Dr. spring union suit is said to have br ght $30 under the auctioneer’s hammer Mayor Caldwell started the ball Appearing before members club at inte hour he said come to get $200 to help p for the home that Fireman Char F. LaCasee had stafted buying few months before his death “I just want to aay it's a worthy he nid. “And the 5 unless a fund is her out.” Yates’ rolling. of the he had cane,” will lowe raised to t DOCTOR'S “CLOTHE AUCTIONED OFF Somebody pitched a dollar }air. In another instant ft wa ing silver. Monte Carter jump to his feet and said he would lttan jokes at $25 a joke. He told | all he knew and was paid his price He picked a brother's pocket of its watch, which he auctioned three times, then returned it to its owner Then he espied Dr. ¥: Ten minutes later the brothe bid ling for the doctor's Charles D, Da was vying mv, Jim into sail ruler M dozen and director club to see ct the ‘i a nes $100 nkled er Car and Pp lar liberal Auctior giving were the floor considering performance ter ¥ a especial theatre thing along present noticed and decided to FUND NOW 1S SUBSCRIBED after to help 400 mer was 12:45 their homes it hunt had been tran of the fund, it the fund is ove hundred, A number of pledged by Elk members re #till to come tn, when the exact amount will be disclosed “Fine. Keep the money, anyway She'll find a way to use | tee that ja fe | neripti In spite of the overs ill ~~a'hotel typifying the Seattle Spirit. pital here today, widow | the | IMOTHER FEARS BOY KIDNAPED SOUGHT FOR May Identify Body of Mur- | dered Woman as “Blue- beard” Wife fname of 2 drotixt's chart mouth ef & dead woman. were endeavor. to unravel anvther connection with Louis Hilten—he of the disappearing — briden—n: held at Los Angeles a6 4 sus- pewted of heaatile ing slayer. If thelr efforts succesd, they sy. Hilton will be linked up as the mur derer of*Bertha A. Goodnick, former hy of Yakin It waa her body, they believe, that Was found in a shallow grave at Plum station, near Olympia, on July 9 last, Miss Goodnick married Newton Harvey on June 19. now believed H. is none other than Hilton. Miss Goodnick disap peared almost immediately after the wedding, She is reported'to have had wome dental work of peculiar de sign performed by a dentist in Yak- |iam shortly before she married Oda bridge-work was found in the mouth of the woman in the Plum sta tion mystery, The chart of her mouth hag been sent to Yakima av thorities, with the request that they locate, if possible, the dentist who did the work If the dentist can be | found, local detectives believe he will | have a record showirig whether the chart corresponds that of M Goodnick A description of Hilton telegraphed to Tacoma was shown to Mr. and Mrs, Edwin Ellsworth, of that city, Charles It is to Mayor Hugh C. Caldwell, who started things at the Elis’ alub last night for the LaCasse |Fund, delivering to Herbert Schoenfeld, of the Standard Furniture Co., trustee of the fund, | $2,002.27. In addition to this amount, Elk members pledged several hundred dollars more. tion, which he sent in behalf of the TSccllis ‘Zinetie’ sald''sotay’' tio wombs a benefit theatrical performance | Jones extate, R. 8. Jones said: “This} Many helped Wuild the fund to| With that of the man they saw leav |for the LaCaane family |gorw to a brave man's memory. Welbay the widow's home, but it. was|!™% Plum station excitedly in an au- A real ntart | ho cannot do ‘uch. things sould the membera of the ik» unt put) mobile the night of June 9 | me x! 0 show o wrectation of “over thé to d 8 | MONTE CARTER TO agg heap Hint ebaniea ab SP spre bye found there, a month later, ft was “It was a great night.” said Re! naiq indications were that she had thore who can.” |ery = Coarse Many other contributions were re-| FE | Ana. tiring Exalted Ruler Davis. “It WS) heen dead about a month. my last night in office, and it} x an The Star predicted, when| coivedt at The Star it #tarted the campaign to raise the|them, one from H. FE. a nd inst Monday? Mra, LaCasse| came in person, and when jcoulin't have been a happler one. rn In ‘The Star’a mail thin morning was a letter from the Bastern Outfit t have to give up the home at|¢,, ady over-subscrity hird N., but instead, next | pied day, can havea deed to the prop | Mrs, LaCasne learned for the! ting Co. incloxing a receipt for $34.50 free and clear, and the aympa-|firty time today that the purchase|Marked “Paid in full by Mra, and well wishes of those who! price of her home is $3,000 instead | Charles LaCusse.” membered her in her hour of be | of $3,500, she had previously under-| reavement | stood, and telephoned The Star. |Casse fund,” “I didn't know,” sho said, “and I| by want to correct the mixtake.” who offices, among Weaver, who told the “d, re | dentist now Spokar atives in nd was alr ave Additional developments in the mystery surrounding the disappear ance of Alice Marion Ludvigson, one of the Bluebeard’'s victims, were dis closed Friday when Tennant re. ceived a telegram from Earl V. Ludvigson, the missing ‘woman's brother In Newberg, Ore. He deciarea in his telegram that he saw Louis A, Hilton, the name used by the Bluebeard when he mar ried his sister, in Seattle on July 18 jof last year. “My sister was married to Hilton in ttle on July 1919," the tel egram read, “and then they left for Idaho. I received a letter from my sister when she arrived in Spokane It was in her own bandwriting. The }next I heard was from her on Sept. 9, when I got a letter with her sig nature with @ typewriter, It was mailed from a train, “This letter declared she ing to San Diego and thence Austral have not heard |her since Ludvi ‘This is our contribution to the La said “the letter, signed A. Shemanski, manager. In a letter enclosing a subsertp | HOTEL MEN TO PICKFORD SUIT TRAFFIC TOLL BOOST PROJECT) READY TO FILE) IS INCREASING Gowman Interests Subscribe Conspiracy . Charged to} Three Killed, 67 Injured in | $5,000 to Hotel Project Fairbanks, Mary, Owen Half a Month | That Seattl® needs a hotel that will| CARSON CITY, Nev., April 14.—| Police traffic accident fill the specificati f »|'The suit to set aside the Mary Pick-|the first half of April show. three ter” ts evidenced the fact that) ford-Owen Moore divorce decree will|deaths and 33 more accidents. than in business here, are as|be filed in the Douglas county su-| were reported in a period her f citizens | perigr vourt at Minden this after-| during the la If o | et oon, it was definitely announced at] ‘The number of 1 nd | of the attorney general| during the 16-day while 42% traffic P Bighteeh u hap m were | | | | reports for by hotel men, one ready as any to boost the pro, | Tv man |Gowman-operated he 4 lwhich Includes the Washington nex, the Knickerbocker and the Wil hard, is the latest to add to the eub- iption roll for the new hotel proj ide the Nevada divorce ect. He offered $5,000. both Moore and his for. | A. Huteson, of the Huteson Optical 5. Sorengeate «Bead Co, $1,000, and declares : {h y to do more, | Six Men Killed oe J age i i or wo urders | 7” Mine Blowup CHICAGO, April 16.—William Y.} ORLEANS, La. April 16! iii, negro, 28, wan he ihe a in & gasoline ex {today for the murder men | t bi bottom of a Mill. 4 Iberia last ay on prints ret as class was go: toda c acting accidents were re I fi eight nt, which charges con pirt of Douglas Mair Moore and Gladys M. street whi cars only cks son declared he would ¢ up these letters and any additiona ones he had received from his | ter and give them to the police, 1 Might eh during ‘the injured on the in w compared to 19 were Owen I “ 1 sis ldren previous fortnight wer us | nubseribed | Have you anything to sell? The Star has the largest daily circulation of any Seattle news- paper. maelf res This bring fund to $206 A meetin hote the total of the at noon toda f the Chamber of Com amitter being 1 it is understood that of tent off eof Jace ne CO hotel NEW men on hanged of tw was convi The trap merce i 1 esterday plos ait mip nummer finger wprung at 918 Therefore, the great- est number of people will read your ad if you phone your abo and “don’t want: The Star Classified Aa Dept. Main 600. w number ive Rhodes, who sut | Theodore N. Vail | gpa Part | Dies in Baltimore, week ago today anxious, or, to make LALTIMORE, April 16.Theodore | |paign for small contributions Vall, former presid of the that the botel, when completed, will| American Telephone and Telegraph be in the real sense a people's hotell company, died at Johns Hopkins hos: Chairman A. J eribed the original hotel a Policemen Give | $419 for Relief Seattle policemen contributed $419 to the Near Bast relief fund, it was! announced Friday by Precinet Capt | Will H, Searing. project he DEATH CLUE who said It quite closely checked | | Dental charts are being sent to aj" from | FISHERMEN STOLE HIM AT LAKE? Seen in Rowboat, She Tells Police Captain Seattle police started on a new clue Friday in their effort to locate little Bigoe Spray, the 7- year-old son of Mra. Ethel Spray, 714 Galer st. whe dis appeared mysterionsly near Lake Union on March 21. It gvas believed at first that the lad might have been drowned and) * |the lake near the Spray home was |draeged without ayail. appeared Friday at ‘Won and told Capt. Hedges that she ‘aw a small boy. she believed to have been her @6n, disappearing in " bout with two men around| | the government vessels anchored in| {Lake Union. ' She feels that the lad was spirited | aboard a fishing veese! which pulled / out the day after her son ditip) peared. The police will attempt to} locate the fishing boat ‘Wear Khaki’ New City Hall Slogan |! The latest thing in men's wear eralle! They are chic, neat and eco- nomical, and how @ey do swat the high cost of ecathing! Two hundred employes of the county-clty building pledged hemecives Friday to wear khaki the business day. office men of the Oregon. ngtotn railroad have band ther in a Khaki club. . movement ts spreading. |} Other cities adopted khaki || and denim and cordumy Have you bought your Spring overalls yet? row during The Washi ed toge The + have Citizenship Lost and Now Regained Losing his citizenship for a matter of five years or so, and then getting it back again, was the experience of Harry Lee Raymond. Born in Boyne, Mich., Raymond enlisted in the Canadian my May 19, 1916, thereby forfeit ng citizenship in the United States. | Now he's come back to his own coun try to live, and waa restored to his native rights by order of Federal | Judge Neterer Friday morning. 28 years ago, She Didn’t Mean to Wed, Says Bride That she was mentally unstrung | and could not comprehend the mar-| | riage ceremony when she married D. F. Thompson at Blaine, November 1 1919, was the admission of Hazel B. Thampson in application for mar riage annulment in superior court Friday. A specialist later cured her, she said. Wear Black Hat? Better Look Out As Mrs. B. M. McCabe, 207 W. Crockett st, walked into her base ment, Thursday night, a man dashed out the front door, He were a black hat, she reported to the police, She was too frightened to observe more details. | \Play Baseball at 6 A. M. on Campus Baseball at 6 o'clock in the morn. ing-—-that’s the program in the inter. fraternity league at the university. © hundred students turned out to} Denny field at 6 a. m. Friday and saw the Sigma Nus win from Sigma | Chi fraternity, 6 to 3 \Rudyard Gets Mad! Well, Wouldn’t You? LONDON, April 16.—Reeently Rud- | yard Kipling put a penny into an au- jtomatic machine and got nothing for his money, He told the piermaster to tell his company that the ma. ipetiive were @ public imposition, | | | Swearing—Even at Horse—Brings Fine LONDON, April 16.—For swearing at a horse at Uxbridge a boy was fined $1.25, T, MAYOR T0 | couneti ORDER ALL. BUILDINGS. MADE SAFE If, Ordinances ces Aren’t Ade- quate He’ll Have Coun- cil Pass New Ones Seattle's firetraps must be re constructed to conform to striet safety ” This was the ultimatum de- livered by Mayor Caldwell Fri- day morning, following report the coroner's jury that — placed blame for loss of fife in the Lincoln hotel fire on laxity of the city government to demand proper safeguards. “Fire traps must be built over” to conform to city pry | matter who, it hits," said 2 |“If the present building are not adequate I will ask to pass new Tl call for a report from the ing department and fire marshal Tm sorry the jury’s verdict was” not more specific. As the situation stands I will have to conduct investigation to find out just is the matter.” _The verdict declared: ©) That @ contributory cans of | death of Miss Blanche Crowe, |erick Hamilton, Miss Gray and Fireman F. L. LaCasse was ity of eclty departments in not! re quiring the hotel comply-with the law, (2) That the existing ronal needs gevision to eliminate ing sections. TINDALL HAS RECOMMENDATIONS Counciiman Philip Tindall, 4 Was as interested listener during the | fire inquest, h&s framed, it is under stood, a number of neces | to lay before the council. One of the high spots of the was the staatemeng by Fire Harry Bringhorst that conditions’ the Lincoln, as thoy existed at the. time of the fire, ¥ re partly due to 7 his department and partly to the Uding department, It was brought out during the dee.) ing hours of the investigation the corporation counsel's office rendered y opinions on building code, setting forth many” faults which, it was contended, rem dered it non-enforceable, Not only were clauses in the confifcting, it was said, but no quate penalty was provided for tion Attowney Carrol] B. Graves the investigation to a close la terday afternoon. The jury its find 5:30 p.m. FOUR TOWNS IN |Carranzistas Surrender Sonora State Troops fallen before the invading ra : nora state troops, according te 4 a report to divisional headquar- ® ters here today from General Flores, commanding the inyad- ing column. The first battle between Carrans zista troops and the Sonora seces< sionists took place at the town Se Choix, Sinaloa, where the Carrany zista garrison surrendered after one hour’s fesistance and joined the be. nora movement, CARRANZA ASKS FOR U. S. HELP Apri ee % T Mexican government asked the state department permit transportation of Mext can troops thru United States ~ territory to fight the rebels im ~ nora, it was learned armed todays = “Sandow the ‘Yeg Likes Heavy ee Most thieves like diamonds — small articles, but not so “S the Yous." Seattle's latest Sandow got a with 1,300 of pig lead, valued at $130, the yard of the Universal Co..N. 57th ave. and 28th ave, W., Thursday night, AYS HE’S CURED _ IN Y. M. Gr A. G BAKER, Ore. April 167A of crutches was left at the ¥, Cc. A. here, Physical Director Yo insists that after entering the ee, bag, turning har springs taking @ ewim, the dues