The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 17, 1920, Page 1

ISIDE Temperature oF Today Mawxuinnceen VOLUME 23. ’ morning Weather =| TheSea Sunday, fair esterly wine last 18 On the I. Entered s Beoond Class Matter May 3, oF chs ue of Americanism Thete Can Be No Compromise 199, tle Star t the Postoffice at Beattie, Wah, ander the Act of Congress March 3, 1878, is a 1 |. eee WASH., SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1920. Sa AS IT SEEMS TO ME I & DANA SLEETH N THIS columf T recently wrote of the pitiful igno rance of most of us big truths of scientific Ug were stumbling @ark. knocking our shins over @tubborn facts, but never turning arot derstand . the Were stated Today let’ to prove it by considering heat and light Your idea of why you are warm what mine bas been my life thru The sun was a great. big, burn pins body, that sent out heat waves Uke a stove did. And the nearer you got to the @un the hotter it Would be. And it has sometimes bothered ome of us to discover that it was Rotter at sea level than it was on ® Mountain top, and that an Plane pilot would freee to When he dared climb too high A pe r sort of a stove, that it was. doesn't send out heat waves. What it doom send out is enerry, energy that may be compared spe electric current that travels a mile of copper wire with- ing the wire, but that te the platinum wire inside Ught balb-wetil it ts white hot. rays hit the resisting at- oo of the earth and heat is ited, and the denser the atmos the more heat. The sun ray More energy at the top of the intain than it has in the valley, as the electric current has 4 © energy when it leaves the pS Benerator than when it makes the Bire white hot, but until it meets Pesitance it does not generate eat. Now, that is easy, isn't it? And +t, how many of your in Biligent folks ever “got” it be fore” Tt seeme silly not to know what heat is when it is so easily digested pe that. Now about fight. You know about the wireless ‘Wave length; about the pulsations, the throbbings of the current. Well, ligtt is the sun's radiation } at @ certain epeed, at a certain ‘wave length; and the wave that we P experience is traveling another rate. Consider one the big roller Bon the sea shore, the other faster, lesser wave from a ship's propeller. | The light wave ts not affected by D the atmosphere. speaking generally, p mimp! It is about 4s light on a DS hiazh peak as on the ocean. Tt in Bbout ae light 2,000,000 miles away 1 from the sun as at the earth's sur Mace, because the light waves have Bo trouble getting thru the wall @f our atmosphere, any more than Water does thru @ pipe ‘Then there another sort of a higher velocity current, as that comes from the sun hich we won't bother about this ime. It more like the violet my, and science is just beginning get acquainted with it. It may be aero. ELL, the sun is het, prob ably about 10,000 de grees above zero, but the is we were of high importance to future enerations; it may provide power: but that's mere tion, guessing. And so the gun Dike a bonfire, ix n out suddenly burnt all ite fuel. our specula not being a blaze some night » in its power Nght, burning oyed; shinin ; rather like ans gle its envelope Limon nation medium. », it has great gushers Jot chemic ases belching up from Hjte incandescent midriff, that mes change its comp’ and may, indeed, affect far dis- nt with their emana tions, too vomething se again still gues en In the fhe “earth Phat the sun's ra pit at an angle; ar ing directly focused they @ widespread weakened. But most everybody knows that, guess. So much far ‘ourth of July eather than Christmas. and its ema paselr create at, and xion, spot C sphere © that and mor because lanted winter it in tipped ¢ 1 of be diffused, nd, in what better makes the ice cream COMPANY B, Third Washington fantry, has completed arrange ents for # military ball in the Armory, Friday night, Aprit Proceeds will be used for recruitin 4 for financing the en ppment. Lveryone is invited. summer RS CRY FOR MERCY “HELLO GIRL” LUEBEAR Woman, Whose Name Ap- peared in Hilton’s List, Among Victims of Mys- terious Slugger in 1917 That Louis A. Hilton, so-called Bluebard arrest in Les Angeles in with of , may } whe & score of | 1917 was today by of 1707 &. Mrs. Edwards, formerly Misa Zoe | Rates, was one of the “slugger’s’t ¥ic tims, She was living, at the time, at 2459 Queen Anne ave. and says she was at work im her kitchen one morning when she was suddenly ap- | proached from behind and slugged | bya man whose face she did not nea. | The name of Zoe Estes, and the | Queen Anne address, were found on ja lst in the poasession of Hilton shortly after hie arrest, Mra. Ed wards said today this fact convinced her that Hilton must be the man who |slugged her. In no other way, she | | said, can she account for his having | | ber name and address. TENNANT DO! ‘Tv BELIEVE HI .UGGER” ‘aptain of Detectives Tennant said he could not believe Hilton and the “slugger” are the same man. Hoe |said a deseription obtained of the \‘slugger” at the time of his opera- tions here does not check with the description of Hilton sent here by the Los Angeles authorities. ‘The “slugger” was described, Ten- |nant said, as a huge, brutal type of |thug, “Hilton is decidedly the op- |ponite,” he said. today, . however, * was variously de |scribed by the few of his women vic- }ttms who saw his face. He usually jattacked from behind, without warn jing, and few actually saw him WAS PECULIAR TYPE OF CRIMINAL University professors and experts lin psychology in many parts of the country advanced theories, at the time, as to what type of criminal the slugger” must be. They agreed that he was in all probability man with a grudge against womankind.” Hilton, according to women who k him intimately, apparently held the same sort of grudge. He |was extremely brutal after he got jthem securely in his clutches, it maid. L PED FROM | WINDOW; ESCAPED The “slugger” disappeared for a few days, following the brutal mur- der of 17-year-old Ruth De Merritt, of Kirkland, whose body wag found Septemt 1917 the prairie, the Country club, north of the Later he bobbed up again. A suspect, Albert Moorchouse, 20, was arrested by Sheriff Stringers deputies on October 19. Taylor's mill is on while his room was being leaping thra a window never recaptured The killing of Ruth De of a long ls WwW. T | searched by He was one Mrs t of brutal crimes Harris, of 1103 14th slugged on October 12. Miss Molly Paul, of 3111 219 slugged on October 1%, and Cheasty ave was bivd. found and Esther at., wa j victims, as were O11 N. 86th at 6211 Sycamor on October 5 Winthrop st Thayer, 18, of 1056 another of the Mra. &. R. Kinsey 1d Mra. P. , whom he attacked ut Sulli slugger’s NEW 17.—AN rail districts to YORK, Aprti roads in the New York reported strikers returning to work in large. numbers. Several de announced they expec prac tically all strikers to report for duty before night, | on Rainier beach, but made his| Merritt was | Carlson, | Overall Club | Idea Sweeps City Office WASHINGTON, Agra 17— | Wearing » sult of Bitte ovrralia, | B Upham, ef Geor- | appeared on the floor of the | today. He was greeted with applause and cheer. City hal society wes agog Saturday over the pronounce | Ment of sarteriad leaders that | beginning May 2 the correct wear for men would be some thing chie in overalia The movement followed close on the decision of Parisian sock ety leaders to wear inexpensive garments to the Langehamps races. Hoth experiments are dé | reoted at the high cost of liv | ing and profiteering In clothing Practically every employe of the city hall had pledged” him | self, by Saturday noon, to “wear nothing but khaki or denim til such time an lower clothing prices enable us to dress so as to retain our self-respect.” The Overall club was pledging } new members rapidly Saturday | Great impetus was given to | the movement when City Comp, } trolier Harry W. Carroll, Beau Brummel of the city hall, placed his signature to the contract Mayor Caldwell declared that he would wear overalls if every body ele did ‘RHODES CAN'T READ HIS MAIL Throng of Hotel Boosters Besiege His Office ‘ un Ive a riot! That's what A J when he reached h Arcade building, today The corridor was filled with busi ens men seeking information or of | fering subscriptions on the new com munity hotel which Seattle is going to build. | There were men, Rhodes said, who, | when the matter was up @ year ago, |said thie city conidn't build a hotel without outside capital | Today they declared Seattle could and would. The special subcommittee of five of the hotel committee of the Cham ber of Commerce will report to a selected group of 60 business men at Monday, at the Rainier club. Thin meeting is expected to call a general conference of chamber mem- bers, which will be followed by a mass meeting of all interested. With yoluntary subscriptions standing at $300,000 a week after Rhodes had subseribed the original $25,000, the chairman of the hotel committee had been unable to get to | his his mail at noon, and ge could not ry how more subscriptions | had been volunteered thodes thought office, in the noon | Aged Physician Awaits Verdict FRANCISCO, April. 17 of Dr. rank Thomas, physician on trial for murder of Rose White, was |to be submitted to a jury today, |Wrinal arguments were being con- | cluded this morning Dr. Thomas denied formed an illegal caused the death of Miss White. In his testimony he declared, “1 have wished a thousand times that i died instead of she.” SAN |The case i2-yearold the having per. operation which |Los Angeles Deputies Start for Border to Seek for One Wife; May Be Dead or Held in Vice Resort HP iri i is rf i rll i fi i ; i } : 3 i c i i |_ Unknown to her, she will be met at |San Diego by Deputy Sheriffs Couts and Bell, of Lon Angeles, who will examine any papers ahe may find in [the deposit boxes, came known that, following the find- ing of a new clue relative to the dis- appearance of Mra. loney, Deputies Couts and Bell left for the Mexican border and Tia | Juana | It tm believed the officers are en [route to a secluded point, on the out- ekirts of civilimtion, which was marked upon the bloodetained map ‘found among Watson's effects. | Whether Couts and Bell expect to |find the body of Mra. Deloney or |whether they expect to rescue her |Trem a resort on the other side of |the border, they refuse to say. The woman is known to have made a number of mysterious trips with Har. vey in an automobile, It was on one of these journeys that uhe disap | peared. Find Tranke of Bluebeard Wife at Vancouver Word from Dr. A. R. Eben- reiter, = Spokane dentist, was awaited by the police here today in the hope that he can darify the mystery of the Plum station marder and its poraible connec: | tion with “Bluebeard” Lous A. Hilton, alias H. L. Gordon, et al. Dr. Ebenreiter bas been sent a chart of the mouth of the dead woman found in a rrave at Plum station near Olympia last Jnty, with a request to compare it with a chart he made at the time he was doing dental work for Bertha A. Good | nich | Mies Goodnich married Hilton, an- der the name of Gordon, about a | month before the Plum station mur- | der was discovered, it is said. She disappeared. A man answering Gor | don's desertption was seen near the seene of the murder about the time it was committed | FIND TRUNKS OF ONE BRIDE By comparing the two dental | charts Dr. Ebenreiter will be able to tell instantly whether the body in | the grave was that of Miss Good- | nich. | Trunks containing many of Miss | Goodnich's effects have been found |at Vancouver, B. C., ineinding wed. |ding presents According to news dispatches trom Los Angeles, where Hilton is under arrest in a hospital, efforts to make him talk yesterday were prevented by his doctor. ‘The physician was afraid the stitches taken in Hilton's eck, where he slashed himaelt when arrested, might brenk and cause his death if he was permitted to speak DWERED BRIDES WITH HIS GIFTS It was Hilton's practice to shower costly gifts, that showed traces of having been used, upon his prompee- tive brides, according to a dispatch from Spokane today, He invariably |explained that he had found the articles, Nina Lee De-| yo re eee This is Miss June Brower, work at the switchboard resulte Per Year, by Mail, #5 to 0 20- arises.”—Photo by Cress-Dale. operator, by the of fate, entered in- The girl is June Brower, 20, 348 W, 54th at. a telephone operator a the main exchange Mabion, who weighs more than 200 pounds, entered the tire store when the front sales room was empty, all of the employes being in the rear room. He proceeded to the cash it, extracting $170. Employes heard the cash register |ring, and went into the front room. |Mabion seized a heavy tire hammer jand backed against the wall A |number of the men employes rushed him and in the scuffle which followed the telephone receiver was knocked jeff the hook. One man shouted “Police.” ‘The giant negro then be- |came infuriated, and his battling be- came more violent. | “Leave me go, or fll kill you,” he shouted. | R. W. Cofftin, one of ‘prietors, rushed the negro and, evad register and opened TRICKS BAND the pro} ..Or. Ghent Tells How. to Solve Dope Problem--Page 7} | Real Community Hotel, Kind Seattle Needs-Paell) | TH LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE BOP, wre" add ar-old Main exchange telephone operator, whose quick J in the capture of a gigantic negro bandit while*he was grappling with his victim. “It was just one of the first duties of every telephone operator,” she told a Star reporter. “We are taught to get the police in a hurry when‘an emergency ng @ wild swing of the deadly ham mer, clofed in on Mabion.. The men |fell to the floor and rolled over and | over. In the meantime, Miss Brower, |Moting the light from the tire com |pany phone, tried to make connec |tion, ‘Then she heard sounds of the seuffie and occasional threats from the negro. Her cool wit enabled her to senso the difficulty and she im- | mediately notified the police. | Motorcycle Patroimen R. F. Baer- |man and J. H. Stoddard and Patrol- men R. C. Watson and D. C. Grif. fen arrived with drawn jand arrested the battling negro. RAILWAY STRIKE NOT SO SERIOUS 29 Leaders Arrested in Chi- cago Await Hearing ther arrests among leaders of switch- men’s strike here, signs today poMt- ed to a formal and complete end of the walkout, Of the 29 leaders arrested © chdrges of violating the Laver act; furnished bail, The remaining seven lincluded the leader, John Grunau, who confidently asserted he would n their own for recog- hearing ‘were relensnd on nizance to appear April 24 Neither switchmen, government of- clals nor-rallway managets indicat- ¢0 officially the strike would be termi nated. Lord Jellicoe Is New Zealand Chief LONDON, April 17.—Lord Jellicoe has been appointed governog general of New Zealand. CHICAGO, April 17.-—With no fur-/ 0 to Jail before furnishing bail. Yes- | terday, Grunau and six companions | CARRANZA PLEA BEING DEBATED Wants Troops to Cross U. S. Soil to Sonora WASHINGTON, April 17,—Lively |aebate broke out in the senate today over the Mexican request that Car- ranza soldiers be permitted to cross | American territory to attack Sonora | rebels, During the debate Senator Knox said the permission has been refused. Later, however, he said he based this on an article in @ morning news. paper. Civii war thruout Mexico between the forces of President Carranza and Gen, Alvaro Obregon, candidate for the Mexican presidency, may break out if the federal govern- ment proceeds to suppress with military force the secessionist move. ment in Sonora, officials here feared today. ‘The Sonora seceasion is primarily an Obregon demonstration against the Carranza government, military intelligence officials here believed. BRITISH BLAMED ~ IN IRISH DEATH Jury Verdict ‘Given ‘in Slay- ing of Lord Mayor CORK, April 17—Thomas Mac- Curtain, late lord mayor of Cork, was murdered by the Royal Irish constabulary, a coroner's jury de cided here today. The jury’s verdict said in part: “The murder was organized and eartied out by the Royal Irish con- stabulary, officially directed by the British government, wherefore a | verdict of wilful murder is returned against Prime Minister Lloyd George, Tan MacPherson and head officials of the constabulary.” Fair Weather for Week-End, Mates Fair weather over Sunday—with a heavy frost early Sunday morv- ing. That's the official prognostica- tion of U, 8, Observer Salisbury, who adds that the winds will be of the moderate westerly vintage. revolvers | IT BOYCOTT Hears Sounds of Struggle During Robbery and Calls Aid POLICE ARE SENT TO RESCUE SPREADS | Housewives Urged by Cater- ers Not to Use $200- a-Ton Spuds George Ford, president of caterers, after a two-hour investiga: }tion Saturday morning, found that | Yakima Gems were being offered at |$175 a ton—$25 drop—and that local spuds were offered at $155. r Dealers were urging customers 0 |buy today, and promised to rebete | the amount of the further drop ex pected Monday. “The commission men comp Friday about not being everything on to the publi why we took action.” | Members of the Caterers’ associa- | don igsued a statement, calling up on housewives not to use all reason, and such rank profiteer- ing must cease.” * At the same time the association” | offered potatoes on hand to farmers | for seeding at cost price of $100 per on. Applications must be made at tite caterers’ offices, 104% Pike st, and buyers must bring their own contain- ers and give satisfactory references. This is necessary, officials of the asociation say, “because the prot- iteers have already attempted to buy |some of these potatoes by sending | men to our offices under the guise of | farmers, so they might resell our pO | tatoes at a handsome profit.” | Walla Walla, Tacoma, Bellingham and Everett caterers have followed Seattle's lead in the boycott, JAPANESE ROUT BOLSHIE TROOPS Advance From Irkutsk TOKYO, April 12.—(Delayed)— Two contingents of Bolsheviki ad- vancing from Irktusk were routed |with heavy losses last Thursday by | the combined forces of Gen. Seminov and Japanese troops, according to a war office communique issued today. The Bolsheviki advancew as com- pletely checked by the RussoJapam jese offensive, the statement said. © eee Irktusk, capital of the rich Si berian province of the same name, is one of the most important points en the trans-Siberian railway, It is lo cated on Lake Baikg@l,. 1,800 miles | from Vladivostok, [Man Killed in Row | Over Horse| Trade | RIDDLE, Ore., April 17.—As the result of a stabbing affray n last night, Ode Bates, 18 is dead, and Arthur Thompson, a fellow workman of Bates on the Sout Pacific section here, is being fy in jail today awaiting the coronér's | verdict. The two men had quarreled over @ horse trade, Bates was stabbed just over the heart and died within a few | minutes. |News Print Paper * to Come in Free WASHINGTON, April 17.—A bill” admitting duty free all print -paper valued at 8 cents or less a pound was passed by the senate today, ; ‘The house already has passed it,” Existing law places the free limit at” 5 cents a pound, ‘ “The hope is that this will let more Print paper into the country,"* Sena- tor Smoot, Utah, said, urging the measure. The measure would be effective for two years: a safing that the prices are ai oH ‘Battle Is Fought as Reds Be