The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 21, 1920, Page 1

| Weather Tonight fair: moderate w Temperature Tous: ti VOLU ME 7 23. ‘AS IT SEEMS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SL SLEETH T HAS been interesting to Watch the unanimity and celerity with which the harassdl folks the country over Jumped to overalls protest, and from on the bench to congress. the response has been all that ) S0uld be desired—on the part of he overall manufacturers, For, far be it from me to cast @von 9 cloud on the skies of the Pation’s latest hope, but about all @an see to this overall protest is ‘That workers who need overalls to @ever themselves yp with during ‘working hours are going to pay three to five times what overalls worth, while professional folks, have closets full of old suits | Mt home, are going to don overalls "Bnd save the nation. I believe that al! of us should, of us must, save, And [@m shoes until the repair man to apply another half-sole, T get a new suit when I have jueezed the last bit of wear out of rything in the closet, and I ind that a hat can be made about geod as Bew by the cleaners, I refuse to get excited and pay i $1.50 set of overalls that the last month traveled miles, and have listen- of men discuss the rofane one, and about that everybody hats, sults, everything you think Jou need to live an civilized beings fmagine they must live, will be @dvanced greatly in price, rather than lowered. Men's hats are to ‘De from $15 up, shoes will be $20 to $30, sults will be over the $100 mark, and so on. If so, my hunch fia that the lightest sales season in ears will be experienced by the Merchants of the country next fall god winter. And yet here fs the other sharp born of this dilemma:, Suppose we uddenly check up on the buying; jppose business drops off 50 per mnt, Suppose mills do not get or- Immediately you have the toward a business panic, and drafting of a fine army of un ployed, and the average worker, ead of having a hard time to yy hie bills, finds all the time in world on his hands, but’ noth- whatever in the way of cash. e can't buy what we need with- feeling that we are being rob- and if we stop buying, nobody Ms any money, While money cir- ‘culates and everybody is busy, we have what we call prosperity, even tho we are not getting ahead. ‘When hard times come, with their Jower prices and lack of employ- ment, many of us have no jobs, and, no matter how low the price: @rop, we can't buy. So there you are. High prices an4 good times, or low prices and panics. Never has the cost of liv- ing been reasonable with every- body working at good pay. Some- how, the most of us who are mere Sly craving @ job and a chance to | yaise a family in comfort, and give ‘our children a bit better chance than we had, usually find our- selves about two laps behind in the race for security, no matter whether times be what they call good or what they call bad. cee feeling that way about it, I wouldn’t shed all this om if I didn’t fee! that perhaps nkly tacing the probable future Smight give some folks the hunch "go wave, to hang onto the dollars and their jobs, and their little in yertments; to nelther squander nor speculate, nor joyride. It looks Vike our post-bellum joy jag had bout spent itself. The world is waking up and facing a headachy future, and the sooner the average family understands that every dol Jar xaved now ix $2 for afterwhile, dhe sooner will we get back to jpatever tt may be we are going ‘to get back to. Fair weather for the om is promised By United States Salisbury, who says there be frost carly tomorrow. win be of the moderate vas ely. ; 0 I DOURT if we win be any better off before we are much worse off, and, and early morning frost; Maximum, 51, next 24 Thursday, esterly winds Last 24 Hours Mintenum, 38 noon, 45. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Mantered as Second Clase Matter May 4 1 At the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash, ander the Act of Congress March 3, The Seattle Star 1879, Pee Year, by Mall, $6 to 69 LATE ) x ¢ (I ~SEATTL kK, WASH, WEDN alt 73 150 DEATHS ‘1S TOLL OF "TORNADOES |Parts of Alabama, Missis- sippi and Tennessee Hit by Wind MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 21.— Full effect of the tornado which swept portions ef Alabama, Mis- sissippl, Tennessee, was brought home today as reports reached here from the storm swept dis- tricts. The death toll reached nearly | 150 late today, accordigg to re ports received over railroad tele graph wires, the only means of communication, | Latest reports placed the dead « }27 at Aberdeen and 25 at Guna, | | Reports from Eastern Mimresippi and Northern Alabama, told of great suffering. Medical supplies and workers were |rashed from nearby cities. At Hamilton, Ala., where the court house had been turned into a hos j think you will agree are startling. SSDAY, APRIL 21, 1920. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE “DONT WORRY”—BLUEB Ailse F nds | CROWD OUT « Real Man FOR CRY OF | PLAY BALL’ Encyclopedia and Ouija Board Agree as to Date of His Death BY AILEEN CLAIRE |Mayor and Chief Warren in| Downtown Parade With | Two Teams | Last night I talked again with the “spirit” of John Partridge, and to day made some discoveries that I John Partridge first entered my | young life when I asked my oulja board two night ago to Introduce me | to a spirit who could arrange a con Vermatian with someone on the planet Mars | After Partridge had informed me that my acquaintance, George Bene dick, might communicate with « Martian scientist on the night of/ April 27, and receive a message in return, the “spirit” abruptly bade me goodnight AILKEN LEARNS MORE ABOUT PARTRIDGE ‘Tho Partridge called me frivolous I am In reality a sincere investiga. tor of the mysteries that lie béyond| Tiaseball, the national Yankeo| the oulja. I wanted to know more | "P0Tt. Is gone over with a bang all of Partridge, and last. night 1|0¥@F the country, and Seattle is no p ri exception. Everybody, from mother | “1 waa,” he told me, “at one time | W24 father to baby, seems to be talk: | as astrologer in England. I was the Pilot Clyde Wares, of the Seattle Siwashes, was to trot out his dis mond squad in the first baseball bat-| tle of the Coaat league season in Se Attle against the San Francisco Seals at the Rainier Valley park this after noon, While threatening clouds hovered | over the city, thousands of fans| wended their way to the baseball tot | out in Rainier Valley, on street cars| jand jitneya | Despite the heavy weather, a ca | pacity ctowd was expected to jam | the gaten, Seattle was trying to pans) the league record, held by San Fran ciaco, at 16,000 Seattle proved to be one of the beat pital, the storm was reported es pecially violent. Five members of one family were killed? A heavy! timber was driven entirely thru the| body of & young woman. A baby { was carried half a mile by the wind and killed The arn ged of Patrick Sharp swept across country in the neigh borhood of Meridian, the largest town in the state. More than a score | of deaths were reported from Merid jan, Both storms moved northeast into Alabama, but the northern storm quickly spent Ite force after crossing the Missiasippi boundary, The tail! end of the storm struck Southern Tennessee with lessened force. Only three deaths were reported in Ten- Nesare, The southern storm, which did the greatest damage, awept thru Lauder dale county, Missiesippt. It claimed 20 tives at Meridian and) caumed heavy property damage It swept into Nesoba, killed 12 persons at Philadelphia and several in the country around that town. The storm skipped one county and was next reported from Oktibbeha county, where seven were known to have been killed and hundreds of farm houses were wrecked. The next heavy loss was in Monroe county A partial list of dead, collected) early today, contained the following: | Aberdeen, 20; Bay Springs, Amory, 3; Meridian, 20; Rose Hill, 3: Neshoba county, Clayton, 5 ‘cypt, 5; Glens, 10; Ingomar, 6; Baker, 5. Alabama reported the following lonses: Colbert county, 4; Madison county, 18; Marion county, 20; other scattered lonses. . Five Die in Snow Storm in Colorado DENVER, Colo., April 21 ‘With another blizzard predicted for Colo- rado tonight, belated reports of the} record-breaking storm that tied up rail transportation here from Sat urday to Monday showed five per. sons frozen to death and thousands Hundreds of volunteer citizens were today helping to dig ut the Mof. fatt railroad to Corona, “top of the world,” to release snow-bound feed for starving cattle. Have You a USED CAR FOR SALE? Hundreds of Star read- of head of livestock had perished. | butt of ridicule, misunderstood. Look me up.” That was all. My oulja told me conditions were not right to converse with Partridge longer. ‘Thies marning | conenited the en year. cyclopedia in Cynthia Grey's private office. ‘The big feativiting for today started .y With the annual baseball parade in the downtown street edo fy Hert Sweaea and Monte Carter, a pair of rabid fans. ‘The policeman’s band Mayor Caldwell and Chief of Police Warren and the members of the two teamas made up the procession. And I recalled that the “eptrit™ of | The game was to be called prompt jy at 3 p.m. Aviathrs David G. loge and Leo Huber will drop the first ball from an airplane, which Mayor Caldwell will attempt to heave over the plate. Chief Warren will! don the fateh it. Clarence Kolb, of the fa-| baseball towns on the Coast last year, supporting « last place team with large crowds all year, and with| a strengthened team, the fans are ex pected to support the game with the mime speed that they showed last Surrey, Jan. 18, 1444: died Mortinke, Surrey, June 24, 1715." ENCYCLOPEDIA Ai WITH OULMJA DATE tered this plane tn 1715." cyclopedia added “He was bound to a shoemaker tn early youth, but contrived to teach himeelf Latin, Greek and Hebrew, by mesine of which he gained «| ™0Us Comedy team. Kolb and Dill, knowledge of astrology. In 1680 he |W! try to bit the Mayor's delivery, iaeued the firet of hie almanace. jane Max DAN will be the umpire. ‘Merlinus Liberatus,’ whieh with tt Jim Seott, the crack right-hander | rarely perfect equivocation soon |% the Be 1 do the pitching for| | gained popular favor and quack imi jthe visitors. Bob ry, curve-ball| | tators. jartiet, will take up the burling bur | “Seift, im 1768, prompted in part den for the home team, by the spirit of jest, and wishing |lso to stem the flood of auack «) No Portland Game; | man 5 blimhed hy Predictions , Tanne ‘a Grounds Are Wet| by Isaac Bickerstaff in which hy py rag poyhew ng ot Wartee 8t| PORTLAND, Ore, April 21—Due nto ’ March. On the 30th he published [1 ‘ny ccmmet, tne orem nae an the announcement of the fulffiment p Bae a Bete yf se : of the prophesy; so thoroly convine | porund hen eB cmewoe dl gay = ing the public of its truth that Part: |" “0 peavers and A = 4 =i ridge was unable edtabitsh the ling opener tomorrow, if Pi a fact that he was living and he made! oo ts be a better avons no further iamen of ree Be o soars than be antil 1714, probably de was ‘totes: | Swift's continuance of the feat in his! ‘Flegy on the Death of Mr. Part ridge’ (170% and ‘Vindication of | Imac Bickerstaff (170%).* |Where, Oh Where Ge Has Fatima Gone? ‘0 Man's Land.” playground for the World War Veterans’ association. | at Fifth and Lenora, opened Tuesday night. Railroad trouble and rain combined to prevent the opening |Mofday night. The Greater Alamo |Shown furnish 16 tented shows and siz riding devices. There is not « dancing girl show among them. A feature on the show ground te war relic exposition, displaying a collection of trophies gathered from the battlefields of Kurope. The ex | hibit is owned by overseas men. \rhere is no admission charge to the exhibit. to |South Americans Will Be Deported Decisions on the hearings of Putnam and Diego | » Putnam, results of which were | | forwarded w Washington, wore re wived at the local immigration sta tion Tuesday evening. The men are | to be deported to Bouth America. The Putnam brothers were re/ leased from MeNeli Island, April 12 after serving @ sentence of one year and ane day f alleged violation of the narcotic statutes. They are na South America, and will be to New York the initial stage of their urney home with t next party to ttle, immi gration offictals Wednesday | morning orge =Caro on | Tries to Collect |CULTURED HORSE | ..,,cash, With Knife| BUT KICK HURTS | nis brother, Dominick, hold in trust | $1,000 for him, but when Dominick | | refuned to allow him to take enough f the m to buy & pair of socks, Carmeno mad. fle slashed! his knife and nearly brother's hand. The with threat to NEW YORK, Aprit 21—A jury uled that a kick delivered by | “highly cultured and trained horse” hurts just as much as one deliv by a leas refined animal, id aw ed Jacob Tannenbaum $1,200 ages. a got | blindly with |mevered his brother charged bh kill Justice Otis W. Brinker's jcourt Tuesday, As Carmeno had days for the slashing, Jus | tice Brinker released him on peace bonds for 60 days. | en in |Peace Brought an End to Her Income | Isabel Kelly wishes her husband, wie | | nerve ers will buy used cars this spring. If you have a car that you will sell and price it right, no better medium than The Star Want Ads could be used for the best results. Phone Main 600 Many good Used Car “puye” on Classified Page today. Frank, had ed in the army.| Financier Says He | | When he was in, she got her allot | v4 4 Was Bilked in Deal, |ment. When he got out, she got |nothing, she charged in aivoree | jaction in superior court Wedpesday Jafet Lindeberg. married here November |*®* biked, he against the American § 1 Trust Co. Ja Tacoma ban in Judge Tallman’s court Wednesday | berg said he agreed to purchay shares of the Bankers’ Trust Co, of ‘Tacoma, and deposited a check for vorce against Naotaro ‘Koyama in| $14,000 with the American bank superior court Wednesday, alleging | Later he discovered the shares were | abandonment, Hirashirha, Japan,|of leas value than represented, and| jwas the scene of the wedding, May | sought to recover the check from the | 4, 1916. [American bank, but failed, } Alaska financler, | charges, in sults ings Bank eA ray Japanese Ade. a Divorce Decree Moto Koyama filed suit for di ing baseball ja her's mitt and try to)” Self- Wounded Man Talks With Woman Who Offers Blood to Save His Life 10s ANGELES, Cal, April —Slowly, but surely, the vell of torn away “Bluebeard” Louls A. Hilton, the police de clared today. The first important step taken when he faced Mrs, perio beth FP. Williamson, of Sacra mento, one of his many alleged “wives.” Hilton married her under the name of Lewis. Mra, Williamson offered to give! some of hgr blood to Milton in order that he may recover more speedily jfrom his double attempt at suicide, but it in believed physicians will de Jeline her offer. | “Don't worry: everything will be| all right,” Hilten told Mra. William: | son, when she entered bis sick room at the county haspital “Have you neon anyor “flow much have they | told you” he inquired anxiously Hilton admitted to Deputy Sheriff! Manning that he knew Nina L. De-| loney, Alice M. Ludvignon, Bertha A.| Goodnich and other missing “wives.” Ho paid Miss Deloney ia in Kansas City, and that the others are “in the East.” Hilton's condition was| wuch that physicians deemed It un swiss to prolong the interview, but he will be questioned again today. Partial identification of a picture taken 19 years ago in Shelburne, Mase. as that of Hilton, was made by “Mrs. Andrews, the “wife” who caused his arrest. Hilton refused to my if he had ever been in Shel burne. Another picture came from Van couver, B.C, which, it ts paid, con nects Hilton with an entirely new ‘wife”—Mrs. H. L. Gordon, of Van conver. Navy - Togs Found Buried in Woods | Three sailor lads who joined the Crrerall club, despite their navy regu lations, were sought by deputies Wednesday. Three navy mackinaws | and three white y hats were! found buried in the woods of Far rell's ranch, near Elliott, Tuesday. | Deputy Sheriff B J. Hughes, who in-| vewtigated, discovered that the tars had substituted overalls for the ma rine garb. The overall tags were found near by Urges Labor Men | to Use Ballots) “Control your government as you do your union—thru the ballot box and the dangers of a bloody revolu- tion will not menace America.” | That is what Thomas van Lear, | former mayor of Minneapolis, told a} large labor audience at the Arena) Tuerday night. Radicalism is no| crime, he declared, instancing Wash. | |ington as a great radical whose ac- | |tions along radical lines freed America from the power of a king. | Muny League for Traffic Reforms Recommending that the valuation of the Seattle & Rainier Valley line be established by a board of apprais '®, that the proposed ordinance reg: ulaling the jitneys be paased, and that a separate traffic division in the police department should be estab- lished, the committee of the Munici pal jeague, reporting on these mat- ters before the membership at Tues day's meeting were sustained by the league, |Dope Peddler Is. Delayed by Arrest Lock Gee, alleged purveyor of narcotios, emerged from his room at Bighth ave. and Jackson st. 15 sec onds too late Tuesday afternoon, — | An he descended the stairs, his | pockets filled with packages of mor: phine and cocaine, he met an old friend coming up, It was Inspector A. B. Hamar of the treasury depart ment. An auto ride to the city bas. tile followed, and Wednesday morn- ing deposited $500 with U, 8 Commissioner MeCletland to guaran. | tee his appearance later Police Trying to Match Green Ve: ‘Throwing a rock thru the rear window of the Golden Dye works, 1020 Jackson st, a bold thief stole bluish gr He loft the vest behind. lice were |trying to mateh the vest today, ceived the greater part of gold ex ports from the United Btates in 1919, and China and India the allver, ‘ [rs Even Women Wear "Em This is Martha Hickey, who has decided to wear overalls, and thus avoid wear and tear on her tailor-made duds. of course, she just wears them during odd hours at the Palace Hip, before and after she appears with the Delight Girls’ act. She was snapped while enjoying a bit of sunshine at the stage door entrance. An overall parade! That's the next move on foot by the economy-first advocates who think they can cut down the high cost of clothing by wearing khaki jand blue denim And even the women are being | enlisted in the overall army! The overall parade ix scheduled for next Monday noon, and it will start from the Palace Hip theatre, according to Mercedes, the actor) chap who came to town yesterday He started to organize an overall tub 20 minutes after he reached atte. Mercedes has put away his fine] wardrobe made by New York fai-! lors and has donned to help defeat the high cost of clothing. ‘Thruout the country in every town where he has played, he has organized overall clubs. His was the first overall club in Amer fea, he claima. “I'm glad to see the boys at the the overalls ‘MEXICO REBELS TAKE OIL TOWN) WASHINGTON, April 21.— Mexican rebels are threatening Tampico, in the heart of the oil region, according to a commu- nique issued here today by Gen. Alvarado, representing the revo- lutionists. ? He said that 3,000 men, joined the rebels, Gen, Gomez, with seized the town of ‘Tuxpan, the second larg-| now | est Mexican oi! city—and is menacing Tampico. There are extensive areas of oil lands in thore districts owned by} American and European {nterests. nl als ab y EASTER FOR MAIL CARRIERS Seattle mail carriers are celebrat- aster today. ming to work Wednesday morn- in an old felt hat, each man ed with his sack of mail wear ing a broad grin and a brand new Neat, snappy, stylish, of a postof. fice gray to match their suits, new headgear is vated a distinct im: provement both in comfort and ap pearance by the local Burlesonites Took Otto’s Time But Not His V. ei Johnson, of the National hotel, left his vest in the washroom. The vest was still there when came back. But his watch wasn’t Otto the | —Cress-Dale Photo. hall have formed a club,” he “But we want everybody to get in the club, We want every: body in the overall parade next | Monday noon that is fashionable |enough to have a pair of the latest wrinkle duds.” | In the Mercedes Overall club |there are now 1,013 members. All employes of the Palace Hip, includ. jing girl ushers, are on the member |ship rofls. Beginning Monday they | will wear blue cuvennm. . |Labor Men Oppose “Overall Craze” SACRAMENTO, April 21,--Sacra mento federated trades council in a meeting last night condemned the present “overall craze” as detri mental to the interests of the man who is obliged to wear them. The supply’ will not equal the demand, members claimed, which will bring up the foes bMS BRIDE TO TELL STORY TO JURY ROCHESTER, N. Y.. April Pearl Beaver Odell, girl wife of James Odell, on trial here for the murder of Edward J. Kneip, will take the witness stand late today and tell of her relations with Kneip previous to her marriage. Upon her testimony the defense hopes to obtain acquittal of Odell, The prosecution attempted to prove Kneip was handcuffed to a | tree and lashed to death by Odell jand his wife, Sheriff Weidemann identified a nail file with which he said Kneip was stabbed. Baby Boy rs Hurt in Washing Machine YAKIMA, April 21.—Two-year-old Denny Mitchell will always hate wash day when he grows up. Denny turned the switch on his mother's electric washer, Physictiinms may be able to save his ar ; city said. K |Toot Sweet t if She Caw#ia]p It Lillian Sweet asked divorée in su- perior court Wednesdi on the ground that Louis Sweet was always on a toot, Wedding bells rang in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, December 6, 191. Divorce Proctor C. C, Dalton wants to know where Louis got his supply. J) Plan Overall Parade WOMAN | Economy Brigade to Stage March Monday ON EVE DIVORCE! Slain by Infatuated Dough- boy Who Kills Self While Husband Seeks Decree ‘Letters she wrote s lonesome doughboy, first in France and later in Siberia, led Mrs. Grace McCombs down a weird gamat of love, jealousy, divorce and tragedy and straight to the morgue where her body lay to day beside that of a man known to her as Sergeant Arthur Wil- liams. $ While her husband, RD, Mo Combs, a logging railroad engineer, was in the city yesterday afternoon making arrangements for his second divorce from her, Mrs. McCombs was murdered by Williams in her home at Lake Forest Park. Williams thea shot himself to death with the same weapon. Coming fram the lawyer's office where he had gone-to see about the divorce, McCombs was told the cor oner wanted to see him. He went to the morgue and Deputy Coroner Lacius Tiffin took him into the room where the bodies lay. ‘ GOT HER % WHILE OVERSEAS 7 The history of events leading up to the double tragedy dates a= } some months before the war when — Williams was a brakeman on the logging railroad where was employed. According to Sheriff Herbert Beebe and D Coroner Tiffin, who investigated case, Williams met Mrs. McCombs a§ _ that time, and when he went te France induced her to write to him, Williams was a member of the 361st regiment of engineers. He was in France some time and was later transferred to Siberia. In both these countries he received beri from Mrs, McCombs. On his return to this country, he went back to Lake Forest Park and, presumably, was the man who, Me Combs says, caused Mrs. McCombs to often be absent from her homa, — PROMISED TO TURN OVER LETTERS ‘Two days ago Williams is sald to have been seen near the McCombs place and to have had a conversa. tion with the husband, promising the latter he would meet him in front of the Seatile postoffice at 4 0’ yesterday afternoon and turn over the packet of letters Mrs. McCombs had written him. McCombs wanted” the letters for evidence in his ai vorce case, No living person saw Williams em — ter the McCombs home Tuesday af> ernoon. Presumably Mrs. McComhe had told Williams she had no inten tion of marrying him if her husband divorced her. McCombs said he had told his wife Williams was an octo- — roon. SAW HIM PREPARE HIS DEATHBED Hearing @ pistol shot, Mrs. Mary Harris, a neighbor, hurried to @ window and saw Mrs. McCombs stage ger out into the yard and fall dead. A moment later iams prt with a revolver clutched in his hand. He looked wildly at the body of Mra. McCombs for a moment, then with» deliberation took off his overcoat, spread it on the ground, sat down upon it and fired two bullets into his” own body. Deputy Sheriff Herbert Beehe found a note in one of Williams’ pockets. It read: “To my Mot! dont ever look for me in this life, for _ I have finished it all,» Your bey and only son, ARTHUR, “P. S.—My disappointments in life are more than I can stand.” In another pocket was found the name and address of Mrs, Nannie Dobbins, 400 Ruby st. Birmingham, Ala. Sheriff Stringer is endeavoring to learn what relationship she bears? — to the dead slayer. Williams is said to have been em ployed by a Seattle detective agency. Deputy Coroner Tiffin said that he believes Williams was not the slay: er's true name, The name “Arthur,” signed to the note, he believes is probably the correct one. “Possibly Mrs. Dobbins ts his * Tiffin said. to Attend Council WASHINGTON, April 21.—Presix dent Wilson has instructed Ambassa- dor Robert Underwood Johnson, at Rome, to attend the San Remo meet. _ ing of the supreme council as an Um 3 official observer, it was learned tor day at the state department. * ‘ AN? THE GIRLS DIDN'T OBJECT TARTS April, 21-="I won't marry either of you," yelled Sam Roneff, flourishing a gun in the faces of two young girls on Main street, Asyh