The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 20, 1920, Page 1

Maxin Tonight generally fair; frost; Weather and westerly winds, Temperature Last 24 . 48, Today noon, 45, bin eee Ml Wednesday, morning oars Minimum, 33, Matered as Second Class Matter May 3 TO ME tions. tions that have the world. ioe S Ben cave, Yet as they were when Mr. Meditated on the unknowable. above @caying tropical mand becoming stone, mo higher culture, AS IT SEEMS DANA SLEETH HERE are First Things, First Places, First Emo where the sun made dia- monds of the dashing | 1S SEIZED Things, places, emo their eternal feet set firm on the ribs of Such a thing ts sunshine; such @A emotion is fear of the unknown, | @Md such & place ts & sea cave. For an afternoon I reverted to @icestral type and was a cave man Back in the purple depths of thie Y—rimal cavern you looked out on @em and sky, ever changing, and care Man gnawed his hairy thumbs and The millions of years had left their scroi! on the cave walls, High my head were the an- Gent water lines left by wave, by vegetation, linea, each @f them telling the tale of tens by went about their business as they for aeons; no change in them, the good old chore of eating for 18 hours a day, ‘Without pause or stomach ache. I once thought that gulls dipped and dived and soared in play; that their graceful flights were for ex- ercise, that this incessant volplan ing Was due to a restless spirit. i But the gulls are not playing— they are feeding. Hour after hour they circle over the surf; they fol- low the waves in, catch sight of fish, dart down, dive into the crest again and repeat. light hours, Along the beach, haste. ing. [that The beasts of the host for food. Sometimes AN has managed his that to improve system 80 fer his nourishment, @ baif-starved brother, and be content with | enjoy good; be the public of his desires his god fungle jackal Jot of life's fritteries, and silly “honors begcane to we get hy because our earthly en if it did cross the border Finally, unless each age ig a decadent knowledge, it Dand has lived in vain nk i6 @ dead year, no strain his appetites ever hungry, like the gulls: greedy, ever snarling over E “rights.” Musing in this ancient cave, and gauds, * peemed excess We travelers sometimes miss our train to eternal happiness fussing about e, that can Rio possible chance go on our train, and that would be barred by -the gelestial customs office from entry Ana r of @ man's life that sees him phead only in wealth or official matter of the wave, gulp once, soar up Every minute during the day- every marine bird geerms to be feeding with frantic from tiny little sandpipers to the great | herons, all are on the job of gore of guiping, of trying in vain to glut thelr stomachs with food. All nature below man is like jungie they find it in quantity enough to satus Vf them for an hour or two, but hore often they keep hunting and ying, and feeding and hunting. re and feeding three hours in the 24 suffice leaving sev eral hours a day for real accom plishment, Bat you will notice that man still clings to his beast instinct of acquisition Having his ‘imple desires satisfied, he is not dimple desires sotistied, he is not éontent, but seeks more food, more E ereasure, more property; just as the civilized pup buries his excess bones rather than share them with so man is ever his In afew o4d thousand years man May love this ancient animal trait what he can be content to spend some of Dis excess tirne and strength for content to make something else than the belly and become @/reaj social animal rather than a a by adds a tie to the sum of truthful human age the ‘@nat the blue book may say (Aileen Will Get to Talk | With Mars! AUTO LOAD OF WHISKEY So Promises a a “Spirit But George Benedick | Must Assist Hero BY AILEEN CLAIRE If the eptrits who claim to talk to |me thru my oulja board are to be | relied upon to tell the truth, I am to jibe permitted next Tuesday evening Deputy sheriffs and police were to be present during a conversation searching Tuesday for the Pleree- with « noted scientist on Mara. oe car, leaded with whisky, | 1 am to be merely an interested that commped » cordon of deputies Iryyander. ‘The conversation, 1 was a! informed last night, must be between | hall |Another Car, With Contra- band Cargo, Escapes Am- bush Early Today morning, when » gang of alleged [1,. Martian scientiat and an ac iiielt whisky (raffickers were quaintance of mine, George Bene omnes hed. | dick Verner “Tiniiquist, whd faces! put why cannot I recetve the |charges in federal court, fell victim to the same trap from which the, | Plerce-Arrow eocaped. He was held lin county jail Tuesday without bail, | An application for writ of habeas | menage?” I anked the “spirit.” “You are too frivolous,” came the rebuff. “Who are you™ I inquired. HE PASSED BEYOND corpus was set for hearing this after) iy 9745 noon, “John Partridge” replied the! Deputies Frank Fillott, William irit.® “I came to this plane in Cottey and Asa Lee surprised the alleged boose runners at Spokane |, aye. while police were waiting for Martians yeutneit ga your oe came yarty farther up friend G. Benedick to take the mee-| ginal way. Lindquist, in his Paige. |.2c0 It can be arranged for him to| wae daltet, Wat the Perce Arrow coramunicate with a man af scientific | If you are sincere in your ex teased wish to communicate with ‘sped on and made guod its ascape toward West Seattle SEIZED LIQUOR 18 WORTH $3,500 note on that planet.” ‘The outin was fairty Ganctie “When?” I asked, excitedly “Viave your friend Benedick here) Whisky valued at more than|in this room at § o'cloek the night] $2,500 was seized in the Lindquist |of April 27. The conversation must | car, deputies say necesmrfly be very short. It is very | Lindquist was only relensed on difficult and tedious to communicate ball from the county jail Saturday. |even under the "most favorable cond!- He is charged with alleged grand tions.” larceny. | Will other ouija operators be able With Ole Anderson and Peter|to communicate with the scientist! Larson od to have in-| you mention, or with other Martians municate with me |aibly be arranged.” | Yakima Police Seize A dozen more questions were on |Brewery of Japanese | the tip of my tongue, but the “spirit” | YAKIMA, April 20.—A sete John Partridge apaprently had! | oe * of | business elsewhere { brewery, organized to turn out 30 ° | rewell. Come tomorrow nigh | gallons of miki a day, wan seized Ne - A: 2 oie night, | said John, an 0 the chief ‘o lice | pons gym gin Forgets! The scant-haired friend who had been operating the board with me, of rice mash anda Japanese ging) - 1. up and went home, « bit miffed by the nom de booze of Jim Met I thought, because HE hadn't been 7 ewe thosen to’ receive the Martian mes-| | sake i | % c ie |Home Made Whisky 1 phoned to Mr. Benedick. H seemed deeply interested, and said) | Factory Is Located fam Greeeo and G. Fazzi rented }a house out east of town and ex | be'd come. American Imports perimented in new methods of fer " mentation. ‘Their laboratory was! in New High Record & huge success until Prohibition ; aint 2 | rr - WASHINGTON, April 20 lenth Chas, W. Kline put his! states importa during March totaled | } moe ~ = — —. located | $444.000,000, the highest in history |of raisin mash. Fazzl and Oreeeo | Scording to comin 5 inst raigned before Federal Judg h Neterer Tuesday mornin i were gi till next Monday to plea. The government and_a half of distilled us record, January, 1920, was ex $10,000,000 vi ceeded by RANK’S PROPERTY holds { Nine rebels were killed in a clas jas evidence SEEMS IN DANGER) tctween government. troopn and) AF® there 10 firms or Individuain | | WALLA WALLA, April 20.—Mra.| Obregon rebels under Gen, Benjamin|!n Seattle who will voluntarily sub |Father and Son Plead Alice Welker is suing Frank A.| HiIl, it was announced officially here | scribe $100,000 each to the new hotel Se peg | Wallace here for heart balm, $10,-| tonight | project? Guilty in U. S. Court 000, one dog, one cow and calf, o engagement occurred in the} 410 1 oe Elihu and Ceci] Heath her and| one saddle, 12 chickens, one churn|federai district surrounding Mexic " re 25 who will subscribe | | son, pleaded guilty to liquor law vio-|and 100 acres of summer fallow|City, the statement said | $80 000 each? lation in Yhe United States district | plowing, value $1,154 Gen. Hill, the #tatement said; sent] Are there 50 who will subscribe |court, Tuesday morning, and were| “He repeatedly refused to marry/a note to the seaaral mmanders, | $95 000 each? fined $200 each. me,” the plaintiff says ann@uncing he had entered the field | 1 ioe, there are tha LET’S SMASH THAT FIRST DAY RECORD Seattle Siwashes Meet Frisco Seals in Opening Home Game Wednesday ‘Tomorrow is the big day when Big Chief Clyde Wares will trot out his Seattle Siwashes against the San Francisco Seals in the first game of the Céast league's baseball season at Rainier valley park. U Observer Salisbury promises fair weather officially opened two weeks and the Seattle squad has played in Sacramento and Salt Lake City, coming i home with two more defeats than wins | attle is anxious to smash the attendance mark set by San | Francieco at 14,000 opening day in the Golden Gate city. There |] Ain be adequate car servigo to take care of the fans tomorrow 4] Rainier va cars, ranning on Fourth ave., will haul them direct to the park. The big festivities get under way at 3 p, m., with || Mayor Caldwell heaving thé first ball and Chief of Police Warren trying to catch it. Before the game there will be the usual downtown parade thru the business district wth the mayor and chief, the club officials and the players of the two squads on promenade. | movement 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattle, Wash, SEATTLE, WASH., 1920. TUESDAY, APRIL 20, PANAMA TO FAR EAST |Whole Submarine Crews Are Found} Traveling Toward Nippon | SAN FRANCISCO, April. Baan ex-army and navy | officers are going to Japan by the thousands to accept high! paid commissions in the military and naval forces of the Mikado, This is the statement made by Americans who have just| returned from Colombia and other South American coun-| = thru which the Germans are passing en route to the cast. These Germans, who have grown pointed beards, and who ure claiming to be Swiss citizens, carrying Swiss passports, | have all received offers of pay much in excess of that offered) ing to W. C. Campbell, who} has just returned from a year} spent in Colombia, where he IN DEATH TRAP snc cues "mays Campbell, carries o ie contract signed by Japanese ‘Federal Troops Cut Down at! ‘ma CARRANZA MEN in their own country, accord-| | Was: soars in platinum) representatives, stating the salary to be paid and the boat or army or Pulpito Pass ganization to which he is to be as. —_—-— ggned. } AGUA PRIEPA, Seere, WHOLE Tt. cRewsa) | 8 —arabee Pr sf thete first effort to penetrate hedeapsbaiy In several cases, Campel) stated. whole German submarine crews have been found traveling toward | Japan. In one instance, he says, be | ‘ran across a German ex-submarine | captain with his mate and chief en gineer and the entire crew. He was informed by the Germans that they |were en route to South America to engage in commerce, but he staten that he later ran across them again With concrete breastworks and machine guns clamped to the sides of the pane, it proved a death trap to the federal troops, according to the reports of the meawengers, No casualties were reported among the Sonora defenders, and no infor mation wan available on the Car veigied mmen, Pres ston at the same time? I queried. ranzista lomma, the measengers|'" Mexico engaging transportation | hotel, to Larson's room April 13. OTHER WEEGEE OPERATORS ie to Japan. in the belief that Lommen had MAY GET RESULTS ‘The Carranza soldiers, tn thin sktr The Germans are entering not $500 They are accused of rob “Only by the most sincere ettort.*| mish line, last night felt out the sea the Japanese forces, but the bing Lommen of $50 and a f0ld| was the answer. “Even then it is|*trength of the defense. A stronger atte ae ote a according to state wateh. not certain. Ask them to try to com-|ffort to force thru the pass In ex) veadied ,~ Americans who have| eee Then it may pos |Pected shortly, but officers of the hed thin city. Mexican army organizations are being put under the direction of German officers of the former German navy who have now found thémaelves without com Sonora army declare the narrow pas sage and new defence made it powmble for 50 men to hold the pass against an army Anticipating that the Carranza | mands j government will launch its strongest | MANY PASS THRU attack upon the Sonora and Sinaloa | PANAMA CANAL | rebels from the invulnerable Duran go border, seceenioniat forces are be jing hurried there. Detachments of Yaqui and Mayo In4tans friendly to the anti-Carranny cause have been ith into Sinaloa to guard the | Large numbers of theme militariats who have no knowledge of other means of livelthood are passing thru the Panama Canal, dinguised as Swiss citizens, sys Campbell. Japan has offered to pay almost any price! ide passes in the Durango moun-/ demanded to the Germans, he says tains | Into Chile the subjects of the ex The Sonora army chiefs are count-| kaiser are also gving, according to | nent 0 ing upon Villistas to protect the | reports received here. Thousands of | southern Chihuahua-Sonora line | Germans have already reached that |from an approach of Carranza|country and Peru where they have forces engaged in commerce — tending | PrP Callies has or | toward a resumption of commercial 100,009 rounds of machine gun | relations between Germany and the| Ammunition sent to the Villistas, | Bouth American countrie OBREGON MEN JIN FIGHT AT MEXICO CITY | MEXICO CITY, April 19 WILL TEN GIVE ove» $100,000 EACH? many sub confers the hotel project will have ult, if not impossible sledding. This was the concensus of opinion t a meeting held Me Chamber of Commerce mittee Carranza the troops inst the and asking government, | to join the oie | | ‘The gommander answered by| | marching on the rebels immediately | It was the first clash in the district around Mexico City, and was the first official information confirming | ay by the! hotel com Following the meeting Chairman | reports that Gen. Obregon hag start-|A. J. Rhodes, the original subscriber | Jed active organization of a rebe}| to the hotel fund, issued the fallow: | | movement ing statement oie ye “After careful consideration by | } £ | the committee it has been decided Mexican Troops | dane $a ordae to ralep: te monayste Can’t Cros U. S, | butia a large hotel at this time, it [will be necessary to have at least WASHINGTON, April 20.--No per mission to the Mexican government for transportation of federal troops icrous United States territory to at ptions averaging $100,000 | subscriptions averaging | $50,000 each and 50 subscriptions av eraging $26,000 each wuck tho rebel forces of Sonoi | | tack the rebel forces of Sonora i! couia then be raised by popular sub- | contemplated by the state depart | scriptions in lesser amount ment, it was learned today The committee deeply preased with the imperative A great, new hotel in Seattle. member on the committee jready subseribed a liberal . is im Obregon General Wounded in Fight WASHINGTON, April 20. Gen jeral Benjamin Hill, leader of Obre- gon's rebels, wae wounded in. fight ing at Contreras, near Mexico City, | last night, the Mexican embassy janndouriced today. Most of Hill's followers were killed, the embassy asserted, ry al has amount and is willing to give his time and effort to bring the hotel project to & successful conclusion “This being a public enterprise, the committee fecls that the larger property interests should voluntarily come forward with subscriptions along the lines indicated.” nder the Act of Congress March 3, jsays tho execution place. On On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star 1819, Per Year, by Mall, $6 to 19 JAPAN IS HIRING ERMAN OFFICERS HUNDREDS PASS THRU Mrs. Allen V. Grammer; and below, Alson B. Cole (left) and Allen V. Grammer. OMAHA, ‘April 20.—Vincent Gram mer and Alson B. Cole have been sentenced to death and the date of | their execution fixed 13 times, and | they are still alive. Three times executioners have made trips haif across the continent to Lincoin,, Neb. to carry out the death sentence; and gone back with- out having done no. Once, on Feb. 7, the reprieve came almost at the moment set for the men to die. ‘KE IN COLLAPSE, TAKES IT EASY under the strain, and he @ in a state of collapse. Cole takes the matter easily jokes prison officials about it never will He and take Cole was sound t for the march air, and the warden had to wake him to tell him that he had been reprieved again. Mra. Grammer ts the daughter of the wom her husband and were convicted of murdering, Her brothers and sisters have all turned against her. Once she met her brother in the hall of the courthouse he on his way to-secure execution of February Cole | 1s ATE DITION Two CENTS IN SEATTL E Wife Pleads for Man’ s s Life 14th Execation Date Nears her hushand’s sentence, she to beg the governor to spare his brother turned his head away and/ ‘The floral float parade, today’s | did not speak. |BOTH CONFESS, BUT | LATER REPUDIATE Cole and Grammer were convicted in 1917 of the murder of Mra. Lutu b, Juty &| university will form downtown Vogt, whore body was fo |rural road, near Palmer, Neb. Both men made confe repudiated them. mer promised him $500 | mother-in-law. The fight for thelr lives has been | two young Lincoln, Neb. | Grammer's nerves have given way |attorneys, John M. Priest and Sterl-| 99 eral of the reprieves [have been to permit appeals and mo-| made by ing F. Muts. tions for new trials. | One was because equipment |electrocute the men. there | Another was because ‘the execu: |} tioner who had been engaged could) not come. Another | was sanity | ‘The last one was because the state the dismissal of the could not secure appeal before the St. Louis court of “Who wants to take the witness appeals before the date set. stand and be asked whether he ‘The execution is now set for Frt-|| knows who kissed the chamber- day, June 4. Grammer’s wife is still|| maid?” is the question being | working to save his life |] asked in the exclusive circles since it became known that life. jo kill was ‘no} on hand at the“time to BLUEBEARD MAY ‘EXPECT ARREST DIE OF WOUNDS OF POTATO MEN ‘The govern-) a: | New developments here tn the case of “Bluebeard” brought to light to day the 28th bride of Louis | A. Hilte Mra. Beatrice Andrewartha, sister of Mra. J. W. Haydon, formerly of 4 Bastern ave. is said to have married Harry M. Lewis in Tacoma, on February 5, 1919 Lewia is one of Hilton's many | aliases, Mrs, Andrewartha’s rela tives say the description of the | bridegroom tallies with that of the alleged beard,” now reported dying Los Angeles from. self-in flicted wounds It is also pointed ont that the sta tionery on which Lewis wooed Mrs Andrewartha was the same as that of form le found in Hilton's possession when he was arrested in the California city in Mrs. Andrewartha is missing, Like! many other of the ‘brides of Flue. beard,” her last letters to relatives said she was preparing for a Honolulu.” Letters purporting to have been written by her some time afterward in Sacramento, relatives declare, are forgeries. It is feared she may have met the sume fate supposedly meted out to other brid the “Honolulu trip.” HE UNDERTAKER LOST HIS GUEST MILTON, Ore, April 20.—A wom- an autodriver, believing tn short cuts, ran her car thru a plate glass window into an undertaking par- lor here. “Not yot.” stahed the mortician, looking the driver ever hopefully, é “trip to . who vanished on} CHICAGO, April 20 |ment today was expected to ask warrants | |for the seizure of several cars of po- jeral Judge Landis to issue tatoes, which dealers are alleged to be holding for higher. prices. If the Asleep 60 Days | warrants are issued, three carloads} san }RANCISCO, A\ 20. “a will be eclzed and sold. under ,the|yace John g) Mecm mncen, ee Lever act, officials said. 4 ees ber of the Orrin K. Earl, king, with 16 othe chanta was questi grand jury yesterday ned by as to the co Jof high prices of potatoes. |Says Men Quitting w ASHINGTON, April 20.—The hai? navy is only a “battered nuk" of] Two Commissioners | what tt was when the armistice was! waco, April 2 signed, Captain W, B. Pratt told) ) TaqMan’ eet ae the senate naval investigation cont | Yoers today are electing two city mittee today. He chief of operation. “Men are droves and ships are navy yards,” he declared. was Patr home weather for ground game of heavy frost, shine, quarters for identification, assistant idle Fair Weather for First Ball Game? | Woods Gets Off Seattle's The |in several years, hia |Facket, led by the 50-piece untversity: to test Grammer’s Chicago's potato commission mer- federal use | | American Warships leaving the service in lying a first | the Coast} league season was promised by Unit ed States Observer Salisbury today Strong westerly winds, with light to will accompany the sun- TWO DOZEN EGGS were found on the Fauntleroy Park cy ‘Pugs. day, and are held at the Murphey - (SEA WILL BID OR 1924 CLASSIC Funds for Ampitheatre Now $140,000-- Nightshirt Parade on Streets Tonight eo | activities at the University | Washington, set the ball rolling today to land the 1924 Olympic Games, the world’s greatest quadrennial athletic carnival, for Seattle, The classic will be staged in the | University stadium, if, plans suo lceed, Meienest sald. The games are scheduled for Antwerp, Belgium thie year. The last time they were | contested in this country was im St Louls in 1904. Funds for | | | | bufiding the stadiam mounted today to $140,000, it was announeed at campaign headquar it rs in the Arctic building. 400 SALESMEN ARE OUT TODAY [ite employes, served seats for five years each. ‘our hundred salesmen were at work downtown today in an effort to raise the $600,000 total required for the stadium within the week. feature, was scheduled to form ag Dp. m. at Fifth ave and Stewart st jtbe line of march: Down Westlake to Pike, to Second to Cherry to Thing to Union to Sixth. At 7:30 students and alumni of the the night-shirt parade, a classic ture of tin horns, fancy raiment and jband. High schools agreed today to | participate. Salesmen combed the city | day's work. HOW MANY KISSED THE CHAMBERMAID? > EVERYBODY SILENT SAN FRANCISCO, April 20.— Pierre C. Moore's friends in the exctusive Pacific Union club say it is right to stand by a fellow, but that there’s a limit. Moore's attorney Intends calling fellow club members as witnesses in the $10,000 damage suit filed by Mary Wurtenberg, chamber- maid. So extended summer vacations and visits out of the state are be- ing planned, it is said. Yankee Soldier Je7th United States infantry, just re- turned from Siberia, has been asleep : |for 66 days, physicians at the Letter- man general hospital here reported today. Army surgeons have di; Egan's ailment ag sleeping si His recovery is doubtful, they said, Tacoma Voting on commissioners, The names of F. A. Pettit, now commissioner of public safety; Ire |S. Davisson, commissioner of light and water; Robert C. Howard, ex: service man, and J. W. Silver, Ta bor Deane, appear on she ballot, t With Ten Years Arthur Woods, 39, will go to for ten years, following conviction a “short term” habitual criminal, He is Known to police a8 a gun fighter, burglar and jail breaker, C It is estimated that 1,000 nuts will deliver 25 gallons of coop nut ofl, which is used for sonD mak ing and candle manufacturing. ~