The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 27, 1920, Page 1

Be Spiecieeideemneteltieerenar ee ee eee eee ee app eae eee eee a ne ar gn A me me ROSECUTOR CARMODY GETS SECOND DEATH THREAT! =O EEE ew eather) Weather Tonight and unsettled w erate westerly winds, ‘Temperature Last 24 Hours cs Maximum, Today VOLUME 23. || AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH FEW nights back I had retired, and settled down, relaxed, and mtart- ed to drift out on that dark tide that engulfs us ,the night, when large and footsteps were heard on the porch, the bell rang, and large body could be heard nn Gua @rose, paddled to the door in met feet, turned on the porch ght, and, peeking thru the cur- Toad & large, formidable sort Ucwrhat you want? r'yetted | "You know where tha’ Finn doc. live? he shouted back. | “Nein, na and nix already,” I re- “Who lives next door? he ven- “I don't know. I Ive here and mo Finn doctor. Good-night!” And I morosety snapped off the Might and left him to stumble hia We have no civic spirit, because Never get together. We live,little routine livgs, be- we never do anything for one; because we never extend mccept hospitality; because our ate hermit ceils, wherein we ourselves and live monks I remember, years ago, when life simpler, saner; and when moet us either lived in the country or small towns that we knew ev- é ody in the town of 6,000 folks. Our socials, and our high school uations, and our ball games, our fairs and bazars and pic mice were like the gatherings of big Probably there were half a dozen urches in the town, and practi- ly every family in the place gome member that was if = congregation. ‘There was no such, thing as iso ition, Everybody sort of grew together, pulled together, suf together and rejoiced to- er. And that community life gave to nation about all that fs decent hin it. ° HERE ts one force in Se attle that is striving to unite neighborhoods in social groups, and to bring close together a lot people who are missing the things in life thru isolation. ; x ce is the community wel ae proc and work of the sort it tly did in Ballard is work of est value. art son @ week, the majority of * people: in any neighborhood Bara get together and spend an ing in a community sing, we 4 all of us find that this ts | Sosiderable of a world, and’ that are hundreds of fine folks In it; living on the other side our fence, across the street, over the corner there; people who, are somewhat lonely, disillu- tired of the rut, wondering ‘the old youthful days, when were community minded, go much happier in retro- than the present dull times. Aa & nation, we have not only self-centered and unsocial, we quit amusing our. eS Mon the movies to do ‘That's Bo way to live Wednesday, eather; mod- Minimum, 46, noon, 53, Entered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1 9, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wa the Act of Congress Mare 2, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise eSeattle Star %, Per Your, by Matl, $5 to #9 8 ATL E, Ww ASII., TU 1920, o7 27, ESDAY, , APRIL TH EW é ATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE VETS VS. JAPS' "The Confessions of a pirit BY: R ger g a Faker 'SILVERTIP” REGAN (Notorious Spirit Faker! eek 4 | Whether it ts possible to secure a) hundreds to spiritualiem thru trick Pass Resolutions Calling for | message from the spirits of the de | parted, I do not pretend But I do know that the postwar wave of mpiritualiem now sweeping this country ie making good business for the fake spirit medium and bis dag of tridks. For the past 25 years I have posed as a “medium.” I have converted i, » to know Hi reveal Warns “Aileen POINDEXTER'S Mee eer NAME FAVORED | State G. 0. P. to Indorse His| Matthews In!) candisacy tor President | Revelations From Mars Tonight to Be Brief But Important BELLINGHAM, April 27— With Judge ©. W. Howard, of Bellingham, as temporary chair- | man, the state republican con. vention assembled this morning | ar aan | a¢ the Armory here, to indorse BY AILEEN CLAIRE | Old John Partridgt's spook came/ back last night and ouljaed with me. Fiftting back into theyconversation| president. fone for the first time in a week, the} While the egact wording of the in ones famed astrologer and inventor | dorsement threatened some difficul-| per “iets Reger ee ain A jay | t% this will be smoothed out, it 1# be serious! n eg promised confab with his friend, the) "eved, before the afternoon session, Martian scientist. | when it ts to come to a yote. The seance, I reminded John, The original intention was to have scheduled for tonight, and asked: | the resolution read, that the 14 dele tet void-| #ates frotn Washington at the Chica-; ep ed for the coming seance.” | “¢xter as long as it appears that he eels ase too impatien John re | "8s a chance at the nomination, plied. “You have been making light | atte wel h they would be free to > pallot for another candidate | |bore a reputation as an equivorator | STeund hime ie, sroup of ardent] |here on earth, and I had to keep my-| "unporters sought to « bange the ree-| |self right with the public. I didn't rena pa ng — angle — | know whether you were spoofing ge | reba bear gratrvensire ed or no! | 4 jis not satisfactory to the supporters | “Decidedly not,” was the answer.|'* 00 “9 Pocdipeg cond neh “If you are serious, you will get the | Gen. Wood, who claim to have a ge. DO NOT PERMIT DR. controlling influence at the conven | menwa, b oR | MATTHEWS TO COME TO THE “LAST DITCH SEANCE” | PPOSED “Why not? I oo ted, ‘eensaeenn! | Wor ipo that matter, is ft satintac: | "He is bn 92 precguan e the devil,| tty to the Johnson and Hoover and «dg —— ‘ong Sor years wo | Lowden supporters, all of whom are It is not hocu 1c set lin © Poindextey |bave been striving to communicate.” | SIT ‘0 Hid te apeacenent incon “All right," I woud sad pu erned, but are not willing to vert in one ms Ae tave Geotge| "im the power to hold the delegation ou wi ‘ec ary 7 ot a a ite Benedick come tonight ahd he will)" ace ¥ Rote of Ellensburg. get the message. It will be short,| |) °0)' 4 ie permiabe but Important. Do not fail.” man. Caucuses held “Will the message be in the Eng) 1/5 morning make cer lish language?” tion of the following dele At this point, Just as T was about |" Of the f © Wale se'ee to learn what I consider a moat vital attle, who is to ne nate Poindexter matter—for I can't nanernend ire jat Chicago; Thaddeus Lane, Spokane Martianese obn aGec W. Condon, Ki p county, and C. fused to budge. . worse, I don't|_2 inst district—-Capt. Ewing D, Col To make matters worse, I don't) V1, ona william T. Laube, of Seattle know what has become of George 5 ; ty peng Pe ne wit le % er Benedick. I tried to locate him this) mere, and Frank Setrit, c ; morning to remind him of the seance.| ay tM Setrits of Belling. | His landlady told me he had moved) wing aistrict—Mark. FE. Reed, of | Lam all fussed with excitement. At) cotton, and Henry W. McPhail, of 8 o'clock tonight I shall be taking | po ong | notes on the first mestage ever re-) Fourth district—M. C. Richards, of ceived from the planet Mars—if Lean) yayima, and Frank §. Dement’ of find George. | Walla Walla. (GEORGE: If you see this call me) pifth district—Charles Hebbard, of up) and Senator Lon Johnson, YELLED “WHOA!” name at the Chicago convention, it is *TO BALKY FORD | vetievea there will be at least 10 of OTHELLO, Wash., April -|the Washington votes for Wood Laurence Smith, farmer, was used to|Hebbard, of Spokane, is a Hoover | driving a team. | man, and the remaining three are un “Whoa!” said he, when a new Ford | certain | \gtarted to run away. Sawing on the| The convention will honor a num | steering wheel to stop the runaway | ber of women by selecting them aa| landed Laurence in the hospital, alternate delegates, | the candidacy of United States | Senator Miles Poindexter for ts sup IDEA chair rday and George out Should Poindexter withdraw his | lover |formed at Palace Hip theatre ery me I have on th and have received thousands of none of them genuine. alwayn justified my a that it gave ¢ or that they wan “i that I might as w 6 game an any wide-spread fakery become and so many victima mnong the poor, war widows have been shorn of their meagre funds by these takers, of which I was one. that I think the time has come for me to expone th® game HOPES TO SAVE POOR THEIR HARD-EARNED MONEY 1 do not hope that the things I will WwUl stamp out spirit ¢ The best I hope for is to sive some hardearned money the poor now | Pouring into the pockets of men and! women whose chief stock in trade! in thetr ability to decetve. t Equipped with a peer i | magio and of human nature, baad S mymelt be drawn inte ssetbecbnans a an easy way to make a living. Real ining that there Iq as much supersti tion about us as there ja in the env: | age. I created a belief that I was ponmeaned of supernatural powers With afi sorts of hacus pocus I surrounded mynelf with mys tery With this cloak of the ma gictan about me it was an easy thing to fool the people—so ea that at times I was almost tot the money.” SCIENCE MAKES FOOLING THE PUBLIC EASIER wit ing easier the growth of science, fool become even Mediums employ chemiatry electricity and mechanical devices of 4 sort. The re-} mult in that today the repertoire of an uptodate mediam requires a very modern and intricate equip-| the p has the most complica | ment. In the forthcoming articles I wilt explain away some of the more fav orite awe inspiring manifestations of spooks. I will show how “spirit are received, “wptrit ple: | produced, how table tipping meana, tures’ and spirit tapping are accomplished. | the appeal of thelr former com-|,4 new Interest in life I will tell of the whole bocus-poeus | Tides, it is ald, will be provided with | Pou! of the fake medium and prove that in hundreds of thousands of cases the manifestation ia not the volce of a departed loved one, but another triumph of 1920 science and «kill, in the hands of a deft, but unscrupu lous spirit fakir whore only purpose is to turn the love of a mother or aweetheart for her departed #on or | into hard dollars for himeelf. In doing this I realize that 1 am taking a risk, and stand a good chance of bringing down the wrath of my former fellow “mediums” on my head. I will | feel easier, however, even at this risk, if 1 can do any good by my story. Tecan in a measure then compensate for the harm I real. | ize I have done in the past, (More ecsicbew) | | | | That Hotel-- | Sce Page 7 } IDN’T HOTFOOT OVER SNOQUALMIE YAKIMA, April Martine, walking from New York, didn’t hotfoot enough and One of his feet f going over Sno-| qualinie pass, , He'll start again to day. 27.—Hippolyte | Beattle to un | Overall Parade Staged Tuesday | Mercedes’ Overall club sta ed its | overall parade downtown Tuesaday | noon. About 40 members, who are pledged to wear overalls to cut the expense of present day clthing prices, marched in the line, which Mer cedes is an actor who organizes over all clubs. in every city he visits. THIRTY.N local. restaurant | men pald $10 fine each in Justice | Otle W. Brinker's court, Tuesday, } after pleading gullty to advertising syrup of Inferior quality as syrup, E | TO ASK COMRADES, | TO FOLLOW LEAD | today, “ashamed | | REFUSE T0 WORK WITH NIPPONESE 100 Per Cent American Employment Relations Two hundred overseas men, veterans of foreion Werr, shouted thete acclaim im oe hall, 1616% t night, when two iy resolutions were wnanimously GQ) "Theat all loyal Americana, members of the Vetertans of Foreign | Ware, the Amerioan Legion and oth jer veterans’ quested to with any poration Ss a “That a movement be started otdnd business organizations to em phasize that it Is a privilege to be an American by pinctng In @ cortispiea- # pistes in wuch business houses a organizations, be re never thelr nections hoern, company or cor ntrotied or operated, by con } { eg ard, ‘American Owned and Oper: ‘ The resolutions, it was annou: will be carried to the al conference of Veterans of Foreign | Wars, which includes World War Veterans, Legion. the G. overnear the American Spanish War Veterans and A. R. Frank KE. Kannatr, panese leagu: of the Anti said today that the men who attended Inst night's meet: | Ng weer inapired to call out all loyal American workers from Jap-employ 4 to call out all loyal towards giving re-) employment when dered their guns ‘and went away | these men have come back home to} find & Jap in their old positions, or in & porition they are entitied to occupy | as real Americans,” said Kannair. No wonder they are sore.” | TO FIND JORS FOR MEN WHO QUIT Veterans who relinquish their jobs in Jap-employing concerns in answer other employment by the Veterans lof Foreign Wara, | Stores and other business houses | which display a placard, "American Owned and Operated,” will be given the patronage of the Veterans of For ‘ Warn, it is stated, and the at torney general of the state, the pros eeuting attorney and corporation counsel will be consulted to deter. mine whether now suffi cient to pre the fraudulent use of such 5 Citizenship en Is Proposed by Ex-Service Men BELLINGHAM, Tho abrogation of the “gentle men's agreement” with Japan was recommended by a caucus of war veterans, who are dele gates to the state republican con- vention here. The resolutions were referred to the platform committee and also asked for the confirmation and legal ization of the policy that foreign born Japanese shall be forever barred from American citizenship; t an amendment to the federal constitution be passed barring from citizenship children born in this country of parents who are not themselves eligible to naturalization. It was further récommended that € ens send committees to the cific slope, to Hawali and to Philip be able intelligently to report legisla tion along the lines named.” The antiJapanese olution was introduced by Edward Clifford of Se. attle and Bert Rosa, ‘s are th An honest young fellow \ named Pete, Found a purse at night on the street. The very next day a Want Ad they say Caused the finder owner to meet. See the rhyme contest on Classified Ad Page. Get Free ‘Tickets to Clemmer Theatre. and they shoul-| “to study conditions and| | » a W YORK, April 27 “So the roots of my soul Flating among depressions nega- tive, So the blooms of my will winging dead in a bondage sighs.” | / That's the way “America's most beautiful woman,” Mrs, Leonard M |Ttiomas, used to talk in her poetry Tt has just been learned that Mrs. at of |Thomas and her husband were | Yorced in Paris months ago | CAL 1 ED MOST BEAUTIFUL | WOMAN IN AMERICA Sociéty leaders of Newport, Phila. | 4elphia_and New York have thereby They have | ped upon Mra, Thomag weird free, verse, much of it melancholy, seeking something that connect with the wreck of | Thorases’ married life. Mrs. Thomas is back in New York h her two children. Paul Helleu, French artist, called Mrs. Thomas, who was Miss Blanche May -Oclrichs, “the most beautiful woman in Americ She was a leader of Newport and Philadelphia society. | _ But af! the time she led cotillions |sation never strays far from the dance and the shortage of liquor, she was hiding a terrific secret Mrs, Thomas was an authoregs! F ree versers who proudly imagined MAYOR PROBES wi be “hauled over the carpet or Caldwell Tuesday. : xtracting a petty graft from traf. |fic violators is said to be the pasis of the investigation, One patrolman was placed on the grill in the mayor's of Monday He was questioned at some length. It i# intimated that at least one of the men under fire will be given an opportunity to resign from the de partment Scokadya Tired — " by May Deputy County Clerk Ed Ver pen sputtered fretfully Tuesda Vernon mumbled under his as be wrote: cokadya Czarnicki.” | She was plaintiff in euit |vorce from Joseph Czarnickt “He,hit me when I couldn't keep the baby from crying,” Mrs, Czarn. icki alleged, on's for di \Better Enjoy It While It’s Here United States Observer Salisbury | refuses to promise a continuous per- formance of sunshine and warm breezes. Tonight and Wednesday, he says, the weather will be “unset ‘ Wed,” with moderate ‘westerly winds, they may | the} and talked with folks whose conver. | POLICE GRAFT Two patrolmen were scheduled to! of Mr. Czarnicki | themselves “free” gave the Croix de License with palm to Mrs. Thomas |for her freedom. Her creations are {among the most meterless and. rhymeless yet produced, She calls-an apple a snowball,” says: “Oh, that the wind might sink into the distance of my depth disturbing its terrible tranquility!" Her book, * was published by Brentano's under the name of Michael Strange,” and it. was a long time before her Newport nelgh- bors discovered it, | It shocked them, some say, to find | that their beautiful leader had “for- “green-vined and as for the wind, she | gotten* hernelf” so far as to write! | free verse. Now they have exhumed the book and are trying to find a connection between the verses and the wreck is her married life, Once she wrote— “You cannot like me “Knowing not that I smelt “Of the moon! the sea!” ALL ABOUT COLLISION | WITH DOUBLE TOMBS | Here's a fragment that puzal of the phrasing class “Yet behind them leaving a soul | fractured certainly “From collision with double tombs.” Ned this * | Somebody c orchard idyll: “Apples “Lacquered in Chinese*green, shin- ing! “Like a wind-blown cheek— “Apples “Savoring in their juice their fra- grance “Of enttee orchards. “They tasting of stiff rose-cofored petals “Varnished in moon dew, Iridescent of the sun, “They tasting of atumnal earth, “Earth exhaling thru vaporous frost | the aroma |“Of Harvest and Death! ‘a charming | “Apple s | “Green-vined snowballs appeasing “Both hunger and thirst! “Apples “Savoring in their juice their fra orance | “Of entire orchards.” TARTS GEYSER WITH NEW AUTO Before this morning Har Thal, a tailor living at ave., couldn't drive at all, But this morning he stepped into his new buzz wagon and with- out the slightest difficulty drove it whang into a hydrant at 27th and Columbia st The hydrant was broken off, Under 125 pounds pressure a stream shot up 40 feet into the air. In another minute it had flooded the lower floor of a house on the cor. ner, driving out the occupants, It took a fireman 15 minutes to stop the geyser. Instead of speaking his mind, a married man often speaks a mind made up of pieces given him by his wifa, might | even an expert eighth grader | SKULL AND BONES ARE: SIGNED 10 DOCUMENT ‘Note Says Deputy Prose-. cutor Will Be “Shot to Death” Deputy Prosecutor John D. Carmody today received another sinister warning that he is mark- ¢d for destruction—the second death threat since Saturday. In his early morning mail, Car _ mody found the following letter, with — a skull and cross-bones penciled sig- nificantly in place of a signature: | “We will send you to hell yet. When you get shot to death, you will know whag a habitual crim- inal ts.” J Tho there was nothing tm the letter to indicate who wrote it, Carmody — believes it originated in the county jail and was carried out and mailed by some confederate of the —— who, perhaps, may be in the plot to do away with him, DEPUTY BEEBE ASSIGNED TO CASE Deputy. Sheriff .C. H. Beebe, closeted with Carmody for @ erable time, after the prosecutor ceived the note, and left im after the interview for the i jail to question Arthur Wood Charles W. Keich, both prisoners. Jt was Wood who last Saturday, after his sentence fn Judge J. T.. | Ronald's court, turned on |and Prosecutor Fred C. Brown, as he was being led to a cell, and dectarea he would get them both. | Inasmuch as Wood had just bese sentenced to serve 10 years to life im prisonment as a habitual criminal, — they were inclined to regard hie | threat lightly, but with the likelihood that more dangerous persons may be |concerned in the plot for revenge, they are taking a more serious view of the affair, | TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO PREVENT ESCAPE ¢ Kelch, the other prisoner suspect- ed of having knowledge of the threat note, is scheduled for trial on Ma: as a habitual criminal. Both he Wood are declared to have records that class them as bad men. Wood is a gunfighter who has used | his weapon in battles with local &u- | thorities on two occasions, ft is said, while Kelch is charged with being a! |forger, thief and burglar, Extra precautions are being taken jat the county jail to frustrate any possible attempt on the part of ei- ther man to escape. Wood proved his skill at jail-breaking here some When he held a jailer helpless at the point of a gun, took away his keys and opened the cell | doors, liberating himself and several other prisoners, | years ago, Federal Inquiry. } Into Strike Is On. | NEW YORK, April 27.—Federal jinquiry into strike conditions in New York was conducted today by | Judge C. B. Ames, assistant United States attorney general. Ames planned to make a thoro probe of not only the “outlaw” strike of railroad employes, but also of the strike of longshoremen and steamship clerks. '$200,000 Fire in Los Angeles Plant | LOS ANGELES, April 27.—Fire starting at 2 a. m. today“in the base. ment of the three.story building oc- |cupied by the W. P.* Fuller Paint lecompany on N. Angeles st. caused “Yi. damage estimated at more than $200,- 000, Numerous small explosions } added to the difficulty of fighting the | fire, : ro THREE KILLED ~ INGAS BLOWUP | DES MOINES, Ia,, April 27.—The toll of the known dead in the explo- sion which destroyed the Des Moines Gas company plant here early today, | Was raised to three at noon today, | when firemen searching the ruins re- covered the bodies of William Wish: {man and James Miller, both work: men, The body of Phil Devine had previously been removed from the debris, The entire city is without gas as the result of the explosion. A gas. company official said this it probably would be several days before the damage could be @nd,normal gas service resumed,