The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 24, 1920, Page 1

TROBE PARCEL POST MURDER } © streets, ¥ € ' f paying for the E that the owner of a horse Tonight and early erate Maximam, 53. Today wl morning west Temperature Last 4 Hours x @ Weather Sunday, fair; frost; mod- rly winds Minimum, 40, neon, _ You UME On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Kntered as Secoed Clan Matter May & 1 at the Postotfice t Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1979, TheSeattle Star Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 Tr EW LATE EDITION SEATYLE, WASH., SAT URDAY, APRIL 24, 1920. [| aS IT SEEMS TOME AN otherwise barren and unimproved hill, some miles this side of DANA SLEETH Ban Diego, stands a dig sign board with ig bold @efiance printed upon it in foot Bong letters: “On this spot will Ida May, the noted San Diego me dium, bore for off AND G 7." I don’t know how long the sign Bias been there. Paint fades quick dy in this land of sunshine, but it Than been there quite some time, and there is no indication of Ida May's well ag yet. Buch a sign does; much to make & Mockery of what many earnest seekers feet is truth. Ida May probably will not get oll if she ever dics: anc If she does, the fact that she is a medium will dave mothing to do with her suc art and the most self-sacrific- ‘Man of science, then all we re get ahead in the world is uinting at its depths, is to be hoped that these tens thousands of ignorant folks we gone emotion-mad, and ik the oulja board is bet- to turn ravens and feed these hun- gry prophets from our hard-won . ‘T TS an open season for tourists down here, and the dollars of the auto owners are public treasure, to be ex tracted with as little delay ds pow sible. San Diego has just made a jump of 2.000 years, and landed #mack- Dang in the midst of imperial Rome by enacting the ancient wheel tax. Not content with the state It conse fee tax, and the property tax, San Diego has, for local purposes, adopted the plan of taxing every vehicle so much per wheel, in’ pro portion to the vehicie’s weight, and this new super-tax is amounting to more than the entire auto license fee and afi other taxes did a few years aro. In Oregon they are taxing the @uto at a high rate for license fee. ind then are «ticking a tax of a mt and a half 4 yn on the gasoline the autolst use Almost everywhere autos at leagt double, fee. again on their v And yet there is a « amendment somewhere there shall be no cla or taxation, and th not be taxed dovble on one of propert wh his neigh with a different sort of property, fs only taxed once, The autoists, in a dozen years, have taken over the job of building for the entire public its highway ‘and now it looks as tho the auto fats were to improve city while the adjacent In tin Ford owners and Chevro- let drivers paying for the police admisistration, and Dodge drivers keeping up the city water works. considered states tax for a prop erty owners escape probably will 1 PRINCIPLE, this heaped-up taxation is wrong, Maybe the auto owners should pay more taxes, If #0, then all property owners should. To make fhe auto industry bear excess bur Gens is ta check progres a to malize & man for be progres give 1s to put @ premium on sav- agery. ‘There no reason why the owner of @ fliv should pay more taxes in San Diego than he @oes In New Orleans than there ts ld n bit under it more more taxes in one town th Snother. The auto ts the only of property what is today, the law, regarded as inherently jegnl. Regarded #o because gules of taxation do not appl qe old days, the saloon business was made to stagger under all ports of queer burdens and regula because a saloon was con inherently an outlaw. So, course, the svloon, to pay these IS HURLED AT PROSECUTOR! ASSISTANT Doc Matthews PROSECUTE, Arthur Wood, Habitual Criminal, Swears Revenge | for “Pen” Term Sullenty, Arthur Wood, a twice. convicted felon, faced Superior Judge J. T. Ronald in the latter's Courtroces this morming. “The sentence of this court ts that you serve 10 years to life im- Prisonment in the penitentiary at Walla Walla pronounced the Judge. “What for? shouted the prisoner, stepping cloner. A deputy sheriff seized him by the arm. Take him out and lock him up | ne’ # a dangerous man,” commanded Ronald, and Wood was hustled |from the room, féllowed closely by | Prosecuting Attorney Fred A. Brown and Deputy Prosecutor John D. Carmody | Reaching lw ha threat “When | twor* He locked await suards prison STAGED DARING JAIL-BREAK HERE Prosecutor Brown said sidered Wood one of the m ened criminals he had while in oftine. In_1917 Wood waa in the county jail here under the name of Taylor. He engineered a jail delivery for himself and etx other prisone holding. Jailer Allen Stark at with a revolver whil one of other inmates unlocked the cells. Deputy Sheriff Ed Hughes met | Wood and another fugitive on main street of Renton a day or two larer. After the’ deputy had his hendeuffs on one of W ol whipped out other hand nd Hugt face the bullet the corridor outside. od turned upon them and hissed 1 get out I get you led hurriedly away and a triplelocked cell to arrival of travell the Walla was in the from he con hard. dealt with bay the che ro’ firet w missed the, lank but th and powder fu for and the running the WAS ARRESTED }AT PRISON GATES he turned Cal; and was two to five years in for robbing boxcars on fo day came for his yor of the was met at t Sheriff Stringer brought to Later Clara pri the up at Santa sentenced to Foleom When he prison who releane. John back n man Carmody Ww sa] the Prosecutor enced under ort bitual ertminal” law, which ted felon years to life jail 4 twice-convi ison for 10 and crime specifies th be went to | Boxe were Wood obbing breakin 0 that made April The political policies of the American Fed ion of wilt be enunciated |by Samuel Gompers, its president, in an address here Sunday afternoon, PAPAL PLL PLAS taxes and. stil show a profit, did, in fact, turn to outlaw, get-rich- \quick methods, and become a.na- | tional stenech,-a political evil, and | quickly it own throat, The | brewery control of retail licenses did more to enact national probibt | tion, the knock-‘ern-down and drag- l‘em-out methods of alien Hun bar | tenders did more to end the liquor |traffic, than all the suave profes sional dry agitators ever did | And the sooner the auto and tts owner are considered an every oth er sort of personal property is con sidered, and so taxed, the better. ern vor cut ileen Won’t Go to Hear Invites Him to Come to Office and Help Oper- | ate Her Ouija Board BY AILEEN CLAIRE My oulja warned me last night not te go tomorrow night to hear Dr |Mark A. Matthews answer “the men| jand women who advocate the no| farious idea of spiritualiam.” I was offended. “T'm afraid,” said 1, “you are mis leading me.” “Do not be afraid of me,” returned the ouija “I am a ‘stranger, but ja friend.” | 1 had ben trying vatniy for halt! an hour to communicate with John | | Partridge. SUSPECTS THE DOCTOR |S REFERRING TO HER 1 dare say Dr. Matthews has read {that the «pirit of Jona Partridge, the ancient Engliah astrologer, has prom ined to get me & mesmage from Mare next Tuesday night. And I have a grave suspicion that when Dr. Mat thews speaks of “the men and women who advocaty the nefarious dea,” he means me he @rra epiritualiam I do not believe the epirit .of John Partridge ever talked with me But | have seen some weird demonstra tions of my oulja board; weird cause I do not understand caused them. Tam investigatirt: Ls ate that Dr. Matthews will But why? If #0 I do not advocate I do not believe in it oulja board Matthews, I has never jexperimented with oulja, has Inever sat with his finger tips on the le three legged indicator and asked it questions—and read its uncanny,| unexpected answers. | WHAT SHE'S STRIVING | PATIENTLY TO LEARN | | If he has done #0, perhaps he c mn explain to me what animates thing, where it gets its inowictat: and whether its answers are authen |tle. That is what I am now. striving patiently to learn. And if he has not, Ikely, I Invite him now my office and ait down with With my ouija board between us will initiate him Into a new (weal wball I call It?) cult of investig aT he'll go something zie him. Or, better than that, T will ask nt Tuesday night 1go has promised me, I a memage a Martian believe, which Is more to come to me ors. guarantee ome with him » be pres when Partri shall get aclentist thru t outja to go to hear men and | Tho Tam adv | Dr. Matthews’ sermon to women whogadvoecate the nefarious iden,” I expect the city editor will tent reporter. send a comr I want to find out more ‘SHE FINDS MAN _ UNDER HER BED But He Escapes; Wore a about the “| Pinch Back Suit if When Mrs, E. Nelson entered her room in the Vai 1906 Seventh ave and prepared to retire, she beard a muffled cough under the bed. | She investigated and young with ack | | man, The woman screamed and fright ened the intruder who hastily escaped | from the room, When Mra ison ked up on her belongings, she |dixcovered a $50 Liberty Bond miss: | jie A fow minutes later, Anna Olsen, gupst at the same hotel, reported to police that o burglar had visited nd taken a $115 daft, $10 check cash and her Jewelry. | The chap who hid beneath Mrs.| Nelson's bed waa about age. | | | her room Hils syit was dark browm }a woman READY TO BLUEBEARD Los Angeles Authorities Planning to Put Alleged Multi-Bigamist on Trial Los ANGELES, abl i inebeard; Charles Harvey in alleged to bave married least 25 women, several of whom © missing H\Only the Bartender Heard That CLUE IN Bark From the Wanderer’s 45 at Ponca ! “Shelby rose to hi knees, a revolver gripped in either hand. p° a .45. gle nia in thet a dusty, ety, rough-and-tumble shack town. These threads of adventure are woven into a thrilling novel of love and ro- |mance—-“Comrades in Peril.” that all Ponca NCA was deserted—only an idle bartender saw the figure of tan and dust coming down the main street in a rattl returned, and he barked his announcement wii bartend ‘t ik pas that me Wanderer learns Tebening ple story-teller. And Dad had left behind buckboard. The Wanderer had But only the, abandoned If you ever read “When Wilderness Was King, The decision to prosecate Harvey| there is no need of explaining why you should read “Comrades in Peril,” which | here was made following receipt of @ (elegram from the chief of police) at Wallace, Idaho, stating that if Los! Angeles did not intend to prosecute | Harvey the Wallace authorities were anxious to try bim for bigamy on complaint of Mrs. M. E. Goldensmith, er alleged “wife reported to be recover: iy om his two attempts at icide, Ho ix preparing hin Getenas thru Attorney J. M. Marmaduke believed here he will plead is tn: sanity ‘The latest addition to his matre monial list i eaid to be Mee. C Ballew, of 1246 Wilson ave chicago | who has written Sheriff Cline that) description is that of a} her under the Harvey's man who married name of Charles W jordon ‘Gordon,” she nays, induced her to make a will in his favor, leaving him a part of her $400,000 estate, He van- ished with $1,000 of her money after the ceremony. DEATH PENALTY’ FOR BRIDEGROOM Odell Sentenced for Slaying} of Wife’s Former Lover | ROCHESTER, N. Y., April 24. —Found guilty of murder in the first degree, James Odell today was placed in a death cell to await the week of June 13, when he will be put to death. Odell was convicted by a Jury last of the killing of Raward J the night of January 7. elp was taken to a lonely spot th of the city, handcuffed to a! and beaten in sibility by | said by state to have bride of Odell . night Kaeo on tre been the The young man was left to die, but | when Odell and the woman returned later, and found him conscious, the | handcuffs taken off, Odell's defense was that Kneip then attack 4 him and he, Odell, killed Knelp in| self defer with a club, Odel) con ft that his wife aided In the final | of the murder. Mre, Odell will tried May 26.| Her confegsion that it was she who lured the young man | the taxt,| then helped handouff him and beat him with a h file until he fell, will be introduced by the state's at t were phase rneys. The crime committed in having offended in wala revenge, Mrs. to have been | Knelp once Odell Annual Smelt Run on Near Portland PORTLAND, Ore, April 24.—A/ | drop in the high cost of living—at least for those who like fish—is in prospect, for the annual run of emelt started in the Sandy river, east of Portland, today. | Citizens of Portland wit soon be seen going to the river in droves, and 25 years of| will dip up all the smelt they can wack homp from the Saady, , will 4 serially in The Star, 1} Parrish is the author. Ran beginning Monday. th every evening for two weeks in The Star at means a guarantee of splendid fiction WAY TO MEXICO ‘AFTER SENTENCE’ WARSHIPS ON 'FREE CAILLAUX'SHE DISARMS MAN OF KNIFE |Rebel Commander Sess Solitary Confinement Offsets | Ex-Wife, Fearing Death, Protection of Americans SAN DIEGO, jpril 24.—The United States cruixer Salem and the destroyer McCauley left to d’y for Mazatlan and Topolo- bampe, Mexico, respectively, in response to orders from Seere- tary Daniels, American clthens on the west coast of Mexico will be enabled to work safety on the war vessels in the event of fighting there, it was stated. Roth ships carried huge quan- tities of sea —. . WASHINGTON, Alvarado, representative here of the LObregon revolution, today tele graphed Gov, De La Huerta, of Son ord, that immediate steps should be taken to afford protection to Ameri cans and other foreigners on the April 24.—Gen | west coast of Mexico Secretary Daniels sald today the instructions to the commanders of the gunboat Salem and the destroyer McCauley ordered to Mexlean wa ters, were to “observe and report.” Mexico City newspapers of yester- day reported the salaries of 13 sena |tors and 53 deputies had been sus pended, becaus with Gen, Obre A report from Chihuahua, thru of. ficial sources, sald 50 soldiers of the 43d federal battalion, at La Cruz, re belled on Wednesday. . Angel More there advices to vo broken the line of federal troops at San Lorenzo riv- er, on April 22 manifesto, asserting he will maintain they sympathized order in the territory under his con: | trol to have 2,000 troops. He was said \President Signs Air Mail Measure WASHINGTON, April 24.—Prest dent Wilson today signed the postof- fice appropriation bill, which author |izes establishment of transcontinen- | tal alr mait routes: GINGHAM DRESSES NOW SELLING FOR $69.50 PER DRESS CHICAGO, April 24.—Gingham dresses were offered for sale in shops here today for $69.50 onch, “We could not develop the most simple gown in gingham for loss than $100," the modiste said, “The price of gingham has gone to $1.50 and $2 a yard, and labor—" Dotted Rwiss models to imitate calico were priced at $82.50. waa reported in| Flores bas issued a} Imprisonment Order PARIS, April 24.—Joseph Cail- taux, former premier of France, convicted of holding communica- tion with the enemy, was re leased today Caillaux left the hospital at Neu!l ly, where he had heen confined, after & lecture by the senate officials, who | warned him Whe order of liberation |forbade him to sojourn in Paris or| any of the big French cities, He motored to his residence tn Paris, whence he will leave soon for| the country | | While the former premier was sen. | tenced to three years’ imprisonment, the time he wag kept in solitary con finement was credited as offsetting [the sentence, ‘Maybe | He Ke ept | |His Booze in the Bath Tub’ NEW YORK, April 24.—It long time between baths, short time between Frank J. Gould, his wife, Mrs. | Kelly Gould, former show girl charged in her sult for divorce on | file here today Gould said her husband be: ted “almost daily early the morning, often dyinking as much as a quart of gin or whisky | ore 8 a. m.” She charged that at times Gould | “could not be induced to take a bath | more tha once a month and at one! time did not change his clothes for | was but only drinks for | jould named two other womenewho she said her husband) was associated with in Paria, A divorce was granted Gould in} Paris a year ago, but his wife} claimed this as invalid as his resi- | |@ence is in New York, she m | ‘Boy, 11 Years, Is Declared Forger LOUIS, Mo., April 24.—Milton Jaeger, 11, declared by police to be St, Louis’ youngest confessed forger, | wan released to his parents today | Jaeger, according to authorities, | | passed a check on a grocer, who remembered a similar one that was bad a few weeks ago, Other forged | jchecks which the police said the} youth admitted writing after saying| jboy companions gave them to him| to paas, were found in his mens it I ‘asserted, 4 | 8f. | fore,” her to return to him Wins in Struggle Fearing murder at the hands of her ex-husband, Mrs, Ruth Andrews says she suddenly grappled with C. E. Andrews, 38-year-old blacksmith, jand disarmed hi mof a hunting knife with a seven-inch blade, which he carried concealed in his sieeve when | she granted him an interview at Georgetown Friday night “He had threatened to kill me be- she told the police officers, who arrested Andrews. He is held in the city jail ‘pending imvestiga- tion Mrs. Andrews phoried Georgetown police station at 7 /p. m, that she feared her husband, who had ap peared in the neighborhood. Police officers found Andrews, who prom. ised to leave peacefully. But later Andrews, thru.a neigh bor woman, him at 4970 Corson He asked She refuse woman _notic in the and suddenly ave. It was then the something concealed band’s sleeve, both his hands. The knife dropped to the floor. She hastily picked it up and fled to her home, 7974 13th ave. &. She notified officers, who arrested Andrews, lives at the Planters hotel. iU. S. Recognizes. Armenia Republic! WASHINGTON, April 24.—Recog nition of the republic of Armenia by the United 8S government was announced in the note sent today by Secretary Colby to Pasdermadjain, representative here of that nation. OT SO DEADLY SHE THOUGHT CHICAGO, April 24.—Mrs. MYSTERY OF BABY IS FOUND Name of Washington Man on Box Containing Body of Infant Sent Thru Mails SPOKANE, April . 24. — The name “Edward Johnson, Rockford, Wash.,” scraw! on the box containing the |body of a baby girl mailed from here to New York last month, was being investigat- — ed today by postal officials as a possible lead in the case. The baby’s identification jhas not been secured. She had died from suffocation a few hours after birth. The box’s contents were discov- — jered when it was broken open jin New York. iriduced his wife to meet | 18 | seized | neighborhood. They de police | SCRATCH ARMS He} Bert} knobs from the | Sellers charged her husband threat: | ened her with a deadly weapon. weapon was a revolver without barrel, the court learned on investi Ration. With the coming of fine weather comes the desire to get into the country. There is going to be a big demand for Used Cars. As yet the prices have not gong up. If you are ‘interested at all, turn to Classified Page today and note the many good buys listed there, The lit open w al | barn { | while BUTTE. NORMAL AGAIN TODA ‘plant Dad | Full Operation of of Mines £ to strug- pected Next Week” BUTTE, Mont, April 4.—Another detachment of regular army ny sees from Camp Lewis arrived here today for duty in the miners’ strike. Since Wednesday's rioting, followed by ar rival of the first troops early Friday, the city has been quiet. Except for the patrolling of streets” by soldiers and appearance of a few I. W. W. strike pickets, the city was normal today. A few more union. miners went to work. Anaconda Copper Mining company officials to fa. day predicted full operation of the mines, tied up by the strike, will be — resumed next week. N. Y. ‘Legislature a be ALBANY,. N. Y, April 24.—The |assembly late today passed the Wallk+ jer bill permitting the manufacture jand sale of 2.75 per cent beer in New | York. The senate approved the bill earlier in the day. The measure now |goes to Governor Smith, and it was ag ted by wets that he would sign it, AY DRINK HIS OWN MEDICINE MILWAUKEE, April 24. J, Reid, storm center of a high-rent | inquiry here, over notices to terlante to vacate, has received a notice to vacate his office. “Like my tenants, IM fight,” sald Reid. And Then the Saw Might Hit a Nail! 3 Residents of the Eveline apart- ments, 1214 KE. Spruce st, “most strenuously objected” in a letter to the city’council Saturday, to permit: ting the West Waterway Lumber Co. to open a wood and coal yard in the clared they | did not care for the” noise made bya saw cutting up cord wood, AT DAYBREAK YAKIMA, April 24.—Health offi- cers invaded a local hostlery and vaceinated all guests before the sleep was fairly out of their eyes, Small pox had been discovered thats the day before Took the Knobs B But They Left the Safe. The Tombo Paper Co. 1326 Dease born st. was ransacked early Satury day morning and a number of small office valuables were stolen. The office safe were re- moved but no further efforts to force e found by the police. LL THEY LEFT WAS HIS RANCH HERMISTC Ore, April 24— Some one stole the dwelling house, and chicken coop from ranch of L, M, Canfield, near hei Canfield was sojourning Washington, he says. May Missed the _,Trousers—and $15 Ss. DM 1019 Seneca, pulled off his trousers at 1a, m. Saturday, and — wanted, to put them on again at 6 a, _ The trousers, however, were Heine) as was his purse and $46, — t is the reason why the an et