The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 22, 1920, Page 1

Weather Tonight and Friday, gener- pr frost; ir; w Temperture Last ? Maximum, 48. light to heavy sterly Heese Hours Minit Today noon, 48, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise e Seattle Star Entered as . HERE was a man. aa whether in the body or out I know not You remember how St. Paul told adout MM betme caught up on the wings 4 ~ and seeing strange e { too, today lived a few hours & strange world—«a world that Muld, that had neither earth sky, but that was equally @qualy transparent, equally in its every atom. ‘World peopled by strange crea lke none ever seen by the mortal eye. World in the center of which & great, translucent, floating ef a dead giant, whether or fish I know not; a Gena thing, with horns that Across the horizon, and Great hairs lke trunks of that still were Mexibie in ev jon, and that slowly swept E circles thru space. Wworld where siender eyes, or legs, or by like clouds. A World where little round bits jelly bounced like brisk rubber things, limbs, stant crabs, more fantas than any pictured fairy tale, their grotesque paths air; you are entirely wrong far as I know, California is ab ats observing the prohibition mt. I didn't dream it; I #t, Lived in this world for the part of twoand a half hours, @idn’t see half its m ag ¥aried as on Third ave. at The good folk of the tribe Pretosca; meet Mr. Sporozea and Miss Gregarinida Aunt Angicfporea and little Dacytophoridae, who has epimerite which is asymmetric ‘and irregular, which is consid highly unfortunate py her im- te family circle. abundant life, cycles on of life, tribes, and nations, families, and races, moving in variety, the largest of them visible to the keenest eye, smallest of them fleeing be the highest-powered lens, ted life, tiny, one-cell crea the lowest living things, so that science has not yet been to always define where such and plant life begins; but fn all this microscopic throng te in its simplicity, was no that did not move, did not @id not respond to outward ios, tures #0 simple that they t one cell, and yet creatures im digestive tract. a nerve sys gome of them with an armor gome of them opening their fylike legs and closing them je @ flower, and then, for a getting up on half a dozen these legs and doing a shimm thru town—the gigantic ils of maybe a bun dth of ND on the tiniest proto zoa, had we a lens of high enough power, we probably would find a tinier something, it, too, ity, very much on the } king out its little round science always haa beer Giscover more life whene glengthened its vision. Ir drop of water, receding , but never ending. is, ever extendin reaches out, until m are arching before us, no end, , tine, bounds and Mafinity! What confessing but chains but weak- are they human ‘2 simple, tra rent, appar- lifeless drop of ocean water A under the glass, reveal a Saas of living creatures if all Cagis best intelligence, after these fg still unable to grasp the Saale bounds of life and natural Within this tiny drop, think are wise to no blithely net ‘all problems of human destiny mere speculation? to the last ntonia, fc 2 thru the infinity of the ocean's we find the same laws of na- working as we do in the most 0 sage. To the very last kk of microscopic life, Is its nd its birth from some » miracle of spon generation, no primal egg St a parent; lke from like be Jike to the last tiny link in bain. are prone, these lazy, specu- days. to take much for to settle eternal pecbieinn ¢ we call revelation, rather hard work, but finally an ng his urely =a" SAYS Second Clase Matter May 3, 189%, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash, ander the Act of Congress March 3, 1579. Por Your, by Mail, $5 to $9 1920, SE: ATL: B, WwW VASIL., | THU URSDAY, AP RIL 22, TW SYNDICATE BACKED BLUEBEARD ELL CONFESS TO 6 OPERATIONS “vm Not Altogether Blame,” Declares Man With 30 Wives Pollee were poised today in a score of cities thruout the West ern half of the United States to strike a gang of bigamists and matrimonial crooks whom “Blue. beard,” the man with 30 alleged wives, has promised to expose as soon as hospital attendants at Los Angeles will permit him. In an interview cut short by how pital authort last night, “Blue beard™ is said to have told a party | of detectives and reporters that he is a member of a gang preying upon wo- men in many cities. Prestimabty, jthe headquarters is Kansas City. “Bluebeard” said bis real name ts | Walter Andrew, that he is 44 years old, and that he was born in Dallas, Tex., in 1876 am not altogether to blame | he ts quoted as mying. “Who ta?’ he was asked, | “Many others, near Kansas City,” | he replied. Andrew's hands were strapped to lh agp Atmne Fy Phas Fa mieten stad wounds In hin neck. to ciently so that he could not them open afresh, PROMISES TO TELL EVERYTHING Questioned further as to gang” he mentioned, Andrew prom |ised to “ten everything.” The quee | | tioning party was then hustled out| Of the room, lest the prisoner-patient exhaust himself. | ‘The result of the Interview was mmediatety dirpatched to police of other eities Interested in the case, with the warning to be ready to arrests as soon ag the expected saion™ is obtained in full How farflung are the operations of the “gang” can only be conjeo tured, Letters wri mn by “IMue beard” to his “wives” from many towns {f the Northwest and In Can jada, indicate that he was the North | west representative of the “gang.” By means of the postmarks on these |letters, his movements re been slosely checked, SPOKANE WOMAN {TURNS OVER LETTERS They it im said, that on De ember 1918, he was in Seattle, and on January 11, 1919, was in Ta oma, On the 12th 19th of that th he was in Vancouver. turning to ma on 13, he remained there until the then mailed a letter from Se attie om the Jist. . On May 3 he was at Divide remaining until the 9th. May |was in Portland. On June mailed a letter in Tacoma. All the letters were ta a Spokane woman who has turned them o to the police. Presumably she was to have become another of tear show, ary B.C. 21 he 10 he Mrs. Mande FE. Goldensmith, of Wallace, Idaho, has turned op as the 30th alleged bride of An- drew. In a letter to the Los Angeles police she is reported to have admitted marrying Andrew | under the name of Charles New- ton. | In his brief interview with detec | | tives Andri is maid to have de ared he was once a patient in an {Ohio hospital for the insane, indi ating that inaanity may be his de fense if charged with murder. ARIED JOURNEY FOR GOLDBERGS SPOKA teanle C The lates oreed t mar nd be found, no matter how great ous the company that de that no theory that Is not 1 by the last wiggling proto- in the last ocean's theory. To th er discovered |to that infinite order which we call law, tho, to soothe his just he has frequently tried varch of the heavens above him Material science, spiritual science tut, tut! There Is no difference fundamental difference 4 sunbeam and a thought is material—inert matter Neither do ot thing apart from its material em |hodiment, tho we talk so blithely [of white souls it last drop, is s hour man n exception ue | natural to be. we conceive any- “the | r his | Aileen Gets HE TRIES Rebuff From | Ouija Board Suspects Celestial Bellboy of Butting In on Partridge Line | BY AILEEN CLAIRE | Tt was a sassy epirit who got con trol of m oulja board last night when I asked to confer again with reapected ghostly friend, John goblin bell boy. ank to run my and cut me short who refused nth elestial errands arte fome hot you ark he is t do what know wher I wit ne It was wholly buff. When yvered posure he was gone, nor w efforts call him back. 1 his breach of etiquet to his higher ups at the first opportunity POMING MESSAGE, IN | ENGLISH OB MARTIANT ; I wanted to learn more from the ghost of the English astrologer of that re my aid all my all report r com WITH GLASS }old, who had promised me a conver-| jxation with a aclentist of Mars. For instance, | wanted to ask him | whether the message I am to receive next Tueeday night will be in the Martian language, tn English, or what. Partridge, I aswame, can transtate| the Martian. He was an apt student In ancient died, in 1718, ane Greek and Latin, 96, presumably, by) Kneip, resumed the witness He will remain thus manacled, it {*\+his time he has mastered the Mar|in hie trial today. He continued Din | ne said, unt the wounds hea! suff | tan communication methods as well.| description of the crime Crowds | 1 wanted to ask him, too, the name | of the noted scientist on the brother | planet, or, if he hasn't a name, his number, or whatever means of identi fieation he han MARTIAN A GIANT IN STATURE AND INTELLECT Unable to converne with Partridge. |i turned to some astronomical vol umes and other aecientific works, from which I draw the following conclu sone ‘That the Martian professor must be a giant fn stature as well as in wisdom, as compared with us puny jearthlings, Mars is eons more cider }ly than the earth: therefore civiliza tion must be farther advanced. And on Mary is much hter than our own, and gravity [much Jews, the Martian mt grow taller, move mach more rapidly and be able lft a ton or two easily with one hand. Tonight I shall ¢: verse with John ¥ ag the atmosp I to again to com tridge CARRANZA NOW SEEKING PEACE Report Mexico Chief Tries to Placate Rebels WASHINGTON, April 22— President Carranza is now at- tempting to make peace with “the Sonera revolutionary forces, according to General Alvarado, representative here of the Obro gon revolution, Ignacio Pesqueira and Robert Pes queira, representing the Carranza} government, passed thru San An- tonio yesterday en route to the |nora border, where they will try t open @ pence conference with Gov ernor De La Huerta, Alvarado said. At ogales, Ariz, the two men wi be joined by Gustave Eapinoza Mi former private secretary to Carranza nd now governor of the state of Coahuila, it was said, and the three will form a peace commis sion, acting und instructions of Luis Cabrera, minister of finance H* PREDICTION SURPRISED LONDON, April 22 returning home, that had broken his clock, Wil Peskett gloomily declared “Somebody's going to die in this house.” Shortly after wards he collapsed and died of heart ailure Febro- | Noticing, ps on nters |‘Generally Fair” Weather Coming Weather er Salis de clares. Friday ll be “ fair,” with probs frosts the morning, and moderate winds EW YORK HEN LOOKS LIKE AP E } NEW YORK, April A |hen that looks and_acts @ mon } key Iw the unique dinpia a Brook The hen has no bill and It chatters like an ape. Obsers ury arly we like in lyn store. no claws. | |Moral: | generally terly | | NN A FRUIT REPORTED | Poindexter HIM) 0 BEAUTY CAUSES or Mle SUICIDES SHOCK pan, April “Three prominent Japanese including @ prince of the ruling family, are © by their own hand, a fourth, the son of 4 family closely connected with the rt, is owtra ized, and Tokyo society over the whims of a little one-time geisha girl in her sudden leap tame Suyede Oda ts her name now. Today she ts considered the mont beautiful actress of the Flowery Kingdom; yee terday «he was just ‘“Teruho,” merely one of the thou ands of geisha girls to be found in the dance halls and tea gardens of Tokyo, But with a difference. Attracted by the beauty and vivactournens of the child { the dance hall, scores of wealthy Japanese noblemen hopelessly in risking name n 1 thelr bearts and at her feet. Gifts and attent were showered u Bociet favored none given her fame “Terubo,” a dancing girl equal favor WEALTHY SUITORS OFYERED FORTUNES ‘Then came Oda, wealthy scion of Japanese arixtoc racy and controller of vaat theatrical projects, He was no wealthier than the others, no more attractive, no higher in society, but he held out visions of a life in which she would appear on the stage before thousands of applauding admirers, Hor reserve waa broken down, and the little dancing girl became the wife of Oda. To. gether they laid plans for a bright and brilliant future pefore the footlighta ‘ But it was not to be. Broken hearted, three prominent Japanese, including the Prince, deciding that life was pot worth while without “Teruha” committed hart-bari. And Oda, whose family ts too high tn the Mikado's court to permit thelr son ». marry a geisha sir, ontractredy ra A | Shunned on af sides, the | young couple Areided | tife away from Japan wonld be maré plesennt. All hope reeoneitiation with the young man's family war given up, and the outcast dancing girt and the husband who morificed bis family and social position on the alter of love are pow on their way to the United States, dreaming of fortane awaiting them and of friends with |whom porttion will not count. Back in Tokyo, three familien of the arixtoctacy mourn the death of sons who would not go thra life without the litte gelsie gtrl. TOKYO, arintocrata, dead royal ¢ Misunderstanding in Love Affair Given as Motive by Roommate After slashing his throag with the jagged edge of a looking glass, Patrick O'Leary a ship yard worker, iy in the elty hos. pital Thursday, near death. ‘ o in stignted, is in mourr ane we und pomitic 1 was near ed, But O'Leary dtr room wm she refused offers whict nd wealth She 618 Dear tly after $a. m r of letters written by a atrl gn Cincinnati, Ohio, and ad tremaed to O'Leary, were found in the room by James MoGoyern, who | roomed with the injured man. The police premume that O'Leary suffered & misunderstanding with the woman |! 4 decided to kill himmelf, ty howpita! physicians declare} his condition to be extremely pre cartous bern A num Husband Relates Story of Murder ROCHESTER, N. Y..Apr 22— tempted to get into the canrt m. Women were barred by the court on account of the nature of hag sesso a 'To Form Chapter DEATHS Three Oriental Aristocrats Put to End Their ‘Own Lives! JAPAN! sent. Anti-Jap League} Stepm to organize another chapter | of the Anti-Japanene league will be taken by page! hUl people NS ny | nigh ing scheduled tn Renton Hill se hou Frank FE ors will speak by H. HH. Reed, the HOTEL FUND IS (BREAD PRICES | aeet OVER $400,000 10 60 HIGHER 1408 Pike st. | Like to See E feisekuteie Announced Is Prediction of of Government ee a ee eee Today Amount to $64,000 | Wheat Reports Fried on Ice and dail poniff Poison Gas? i demonstra tions of deadly p gases, models of the Skagit river power project, practice tests of gasoline 1 exhibits of reforestration will ure the engineers’ open b to be held at the Universit Washington ‘Thursday and from look y. Everybody ng the lay Friday loned all day. | | BY RALPH F. COUCH David Whitcomb .. Trafford Huteson $ 5,000 | With the above subscriptions an- nounced today, the new hotel fund rose above $400,000 at noon today Huteson, the optical man, had previously subscribed $1,000, but this morning's mail brought word to A) bert J. Rhodes, the original booster of the hotel project, and chairman of the hotel committee, that because of ttle's great need for a hotel, he his previous allotment to } | WASHINGTON, April, 22— | | Bread prices will be increased again, following rising flour and wheat quotations, government re ports indicated today, Wheat, now selling far above the government guaranteed price, has not yet reached a high lew according to the crop estimate bureau of the agriculture depart- ment “The 1920 crop will be short, not only in the United States, but the world,” said Statistician Nat Murray | “This will affect prices inside the David! united States It means what the) Arcade) trade calls a ‘healthy market.’ building and other properties, sent| wp the reverse of reductions, his subscription of $10,000 | Muctuating market and perhaps, o All these subscriptions have come/further advances in prices.” voluntarily. | Other signs also point to a rising No organized canvassing effort wil|market. One is dissolution of the lhe made until enough large subscrip | United States grain corporation Jane tions come in to give the committee |30. The grain corporation, thru its A reasonable assurance that the/ability to buy, sell or store large project can be made a} A success. }quantities of wheat, has power to control prices to a large extent. | |Many farmers contend it deliberately | |has held down wheat prices, Sen-| Ators and congressemen ‘from agri cultural states today predicted dimo- | lution of the corporation would bring sudden increases in pric | Two factors, however, may tend} to keep prices at their present level. | These are: | First, fluctuating foreign exchange | rates which will restrict foreign buy- | ing of American wheat and 2, a big} carryover of 9 wh . announced today by the argriculture depart ment. |Pays $25 Rather Than Face Judge Joe Ghilardi forfeited $25 bail in police court Thursday when he failed to appear to answer charges that he sold a short weight piece of meat Reported Missing to IS. Robinson while acting as clerk | Ira Alhadeff, 14-year-old school) in the Rainier market, 1320 Pike reported missing Thurs-| «recently Joseph Athadeff, his father. | Lert eee , who is described as being King George Will Visit in Scotland and dark complexioned, left Wednesday night, the father the LONDON, April King George and Queen Mary intend to visit Edin. burgh in July. They will reside at Holyrood palace. on 20 to 10 8 welcome, Dur celebration of Campus the exhibits will be | raised | $5,000. Keep Your From Santa Barbara, Cal, . Whitcomb, owner of the Money in Your Sox John Kriark, guest at the Main hotel, dropped hia pocketbook, con: | taining $860, on the floor of the Cen tral cafe Wednesday night. A by stander saw a man pick up some thing from the floor. Police think it might have been the pocketbook 0 does Kriark. (UAL FAILURE \Mike Is Lost on City Street Car One rare old violin ahd one Boston pup were turned into the lost and | found department of the muny street car system Thursday. The Boston dorg answers to the name of Mike, AKIMA SCHOOL BOARD SURPRISED YAKIMA, April 22.—The Parker Senator | school, in the lower valley, together tonight| with its grounds and barns, was Poindexter | sold by the city for delinquent taxes neeretary. School directara said they re of the proceedings. 14-Year-Old Boy a WALLA WALLA, April 22 annual “failure” of the peach apricot crop in reported here. Due! to an error on someone's part the | cherry crop is reported ta have ex ellent prospects, The and Sen. Poindexter Is Coming Here! SPOKANE, April 22 will leave here with Mrw. rd Rice, hia for Seattle, and He Those having prop- erty to sell at Bargain Prices, and which can be bought for a reason- able payment down and the rest Easy Payments always advertise in The Star. home told police Now if you'll look on Classified Ad page to- ‘ day you'll see many Cop’s Trousers i such “bu If what Vanish Over Night you are looking for is || yortunately Patrolman R. D. Van not there today, it will || Horne nas an extra pair of trous be tomorrow or some orn. He left his locker door un i i , p, || locked Wednenday night and some} time in the near future, made off with a pair of green penders and all ‘ Sugar Rationed in Spokane Now SPOKANE, April 22.~-Sugar is be- | ing rationed here again-five pounc jee customer, Pricg 18\4c a pound. sui it| Proved today ‘SAY LEGION MEN SPURN SHERIFF Refuse to Act ¢ as Deputies in Strike BUTTE, Mont., April —Mem- bers of the American Legion are re ported to have refused the appeal of heriff O'Rourke to nerve as special | eputies in the strike zone. Prosecuting Attorney Rotering and his staff are engaged today in ke curing dtatements from the men who are believed to be dying. Rotering said he soon expects to » warrants for several men who are all d to have participated in the shooting yesterday. In anticipation of the arrtval here tonight of several hundred regular army soldiers from np Lewis, the situation was very noticeably im The strikers withdrew their pickets from the mines this morning. City authorities declare the strikers | formed what was claimed to be a/ woviet government, with headquar ters in the I. W. W. hall. Sheriff O'Rourke, in statement today declared: “In view of all the information that I have, the present situation is not a labor strike; it is a revolution.” ¢ charge is made by strike lead ers that most of the shots in yester. a formal day's clash came from private mine | guards who had been called upon to assist the sheriff and other peace officers in orting strike breakers |thru the picket line on the Ana conda road. Capture Alleged Slayer of Sherif BUTTE, Mont, April 22H. C. Davis, who is alleged to have shot and killed Sheriff Wyman of Beaverhead county at Monida yes. terday, was captured in the base- ment of a house two miles from Monida Inst night, according to re ports received here today. The capture was effected after a posse of 60 men had surrounded the house in which the alleged mur derer was hiding. Wyman was searching a horse thief at Monida at the request of officials at Idaho Falls, It is belleved he did not see the man who did the shooting, but was recognized by the man he sought, who killed the sheriff in an attempt to escape capture, Tho slayer made his escape on foot after the horse upon which he had leaped was shot from under him by a clerk in a store, GEORGE 8. KAHIN, attorney, was granted a certificate to practice in the U. 8, distriet court by Federal Judge Neterer Thursday morning. 0 “CENTS IN SE ATTLE WORKERS CALL FOR MONTANA WALKOUT | '20 Men Wounded in Clash During Strike Troubl One Youth Is Killed SAN FRANCISCO, April Troops from Camp Lewis, Wash- ington, are on their way to Butte, Mont., as a precautionary meas ure in connection with the strike of miners and reported disturb- ances there, it was reported at the office of Lieut. Gen. Hunter Liggett, commanding the West- ern department, today. The number of troops sent has been left to the discretion of Gen. Morrison, commander at Camp Lewis, according to army author- ities here. . . TACOMA, April 22.—Camp Lewis | headquarters today refused to make ny comment on the announcement jthat troops had been sent to Butte. Officers there are under orders, they | said, to give out no news on the sub [ject at present. . SPOKANE, Wash, April 22 Troops, characterized as “a small de tachment,” are en route today from Fort George Wright here to Butte, to help preserve order there. Col. Inglis, commandant at Fort Wright, admitted troops had been 7 THREE MEN ARE ° NEARING DEATH BUTTE, Mont. April 22.—A general strike thruout the state of Montana was brewing today, following the strike clash near the Never Sweat mine, late yes terday, In which 15 men wore seriously wounded. At an indignation meeting here | last night, called by craftsmen and miners, it was charged that the shooting was done by paid deputies of the company. Telegrams calling on workers to strike were sent broadcast thruout / | Montana, and favorable replies were coming in today, according to labor leaders, About 20 were wounded, at leagt | three fatally, in the clash. A report was received that the body of one man, killed, was found this morning, but this was not opn- firmed, Strikers who were picketing |the mine denied that they fired a |shot. They say they ran when the shooting started, and that they were shot as they ran. | ‘The three wounded men who are | believed to be dying are: ‘Thomas Manning, shot thru the lungs. James McCarthy, shot thru the | lungs. James spine. The seriously, but not necessarily fatally, wounded include George Dra- pulia, shot in the groin, and Roko Lavis, shot in the back and legs. | The others were injured by being shot or struck over their head with | missiles and barrels of weapons in | the general free-for-all attending the clash, One policeman was hit over the head, but was not fatally hurt. Striking miners, who claim they, were attacked, say they offered no resistance and that they were un- armed. Both police and sheriffs men declare they did not fire a shot. ‘The situation in Butte is extreme ly tense today. . YOUTH KILLED IN PRESS ROOM BUTTE, Mont, April Hugh B laran, 19, was shot and killed in the press room of the Daily Bulletin here to day, The Bulletin is the organ of the striking miners, Joe Pabst, 23, arrested on a charge of shooting Haran, claimed it was accidental, Both men belong to the radb cal group, many of whom, heavily armed, assembled in a mass meeting at the Bulletin office last night, following riot- ing yesterday afternoon at the Never Sweat mine, where a score of men were wounded, three perhaps fatally, Pabst was one of several men who volunteered to guard the Bulletim property, as result of a reported com templated raid on the plant. He claims he was doing the manual of arms with a rifle, when he accident: ally Glachaleas the weapon, the bullet striking Haran, and causing mediate death Ly me if Sullivan, shot thra the