The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 1, 1920, Page 1

SEAT Advices received in Seattle today give the censts of Seattle at 347,531. Weather Tonight and Sunday, prob- ably fair; moderate westerly winds. Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 51, Minimum, 43 Tadoy noon, 51. yx § {iit Portland's 1920 census is ENSU While this is not the official report of the United States census bureau, it is credited as highly auth oritative. given as around 310,000, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Eotered as Second Class Matter May %, 1999, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act ef Congress March 3, 1879, VOLUME 23. SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, MAY The Seattle Sta Per Year, by Mall, $5 te #9 47,09 The 1910 census for Seattle was 237.194 Tt Ew LATE EDITION Gane , 1920, TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE DEMOCRATS SQUABBLE—CALL P | AS IT SEEMS TO ME D/ ANA SL EETH we NU RICH are always fools. Whether their sudden wealth come from oil, gold ines, speculation or unusual wages, it matters, not. he shipyard worker who put all his money in a cireassian Walnut grand piano was just as big an idiot as the aaa “farmer who wakes up to find himself with an oil well in his back yard, and who buys a $1,000 yellow diamond to Stick in the bib of his overalls. You have to get accustomed to money as you do to running water, and electric lights, and until you have been blessed with money’ for a considerable period you will usually spend it on foolishness, whether you are a laborer, a broker or a college professor; the last class,’ however, is seldom troubled with sudden wealth, or. any. other sort. And yet the professors prove about the easiest marks for con games in the whole wide world when they do manage to scrape up a few hundreds. . T THE DRESS GOODS COUNTER of a dig Seattle stare this week ppeared a drab sort of a figure; a worrlah Who,had worked all her life, to whom style and figure and fashion's fribbies would apparently n nothing. She wanted something to make adrena, and finally de ‘on some cous material that was $20 4 yard; and not very wide at (Rat. But she wasn't quite sure whether it would please “her man,” so she sald she wolild be back later. The saleswoman never expected to see her again but, to her astonishment, the womgn came back next day and with her was a latge, heavy gentleman, stmply attired in a sult of greasy overalls, with a somewhat vacant expression, upheld by number 11 shoes The drab pair discussed the goods briefly, the woman turned and said, “Gimme five yards of this,” and the man dug down in his back pocket and forth a rol! of bills, selected a $100 note and handed it over for five | of this material “ete 18 THIS SORT of buying that has been responsible for a lot of eae eh te awrerhsrins; fa today that the country over the people of wealth, the pro- ‘men who have @ competence, the so-called lelwure, moneyed | understand ‘are not buying; they that @ @oliar ts only worth abgut forty today, that it will be worth 100 ‘cents later,’ ft CRE pay wares | for luxuries ts asinine. money fellows, and the suddenty prosperous fellows, can't | they expect the golden flow of surplus cash to flow in for- id worry about day after tomorrow, same business systern followed by the negro field hand of cenwates his work by the wane; ever he gets paid or a week on two dayy’ work he fr 9 gays: Hf it; takes Farcst four, but never Aileen Hears Parseaay I rather admire the w| AM NOT s endetant| adout this, you understand, I am merely pointing a the facts in the case. " SERVICE MEN HOLD RUMP CONVENTION, Regulars Call in the Police | to Try and Quiet Veterans Factional squabbles tn local democratic circles resulted in a “riot” call for police Saturday ‘nerning, when the county con. vention, to elect 268 delegates to thé stdte convention assembled in Moone hall. The “riot” was a peaceful one ’ however. No physical ajtercations Jensued, tho stormy language was |freety indulged in. | The trouble originated in the struggle for control between present federal office holders, who are back ing George Harroun for nations committeeman, and the non office holders, who are behind A Tie low, of Tacoma, Tye fegeral officiate put over a signal coup this morning, when they enlisted to their side approximately 100 exeervice men, and staged a con vention all their own before the reg ular convention could get into action ‘The service men joined the federn! Meh as & protest to the plank in th« aa be bey ing, for the free dom of poli 1 prisoners, ALY — @ WHEN POLICE COME ‘The recur von! wap to be din at 10:30. Bee Sy avine men got Int dabiy, \elettad a bhiairman, a secretary, named @ platform com | mittee, headed by Stephen J. Chad | wick, Jr, and named 268 delegates. |Tho some of the old-timers fumed and raged while this was golng on Ps mes el Sanr tap taken invention, til! |somebody inbugnt of calling up the Police to eject the non-regulars. By jthe time the police carne, t “rump” |convention was finished, and the ¢x |noldiers and.federal . office holders} Hleft inia body) Year i in Jail and | QUEEN OF THE MAY O- DEAR- O- DEAR! IwondeR{ I> WHOS GOING | 1,000 WOBBLIES 24 ARE INJURED WILL RECOUNT "ASSEMBLE HERE SHRYWALKING™ NJ BALLOTS | tobi byou! all) D da@ ‘tell. OLICE BLUEBEARD IS SCORED BY WOMAN | Plunges Down Incline and One of His Wives Thinks He Should Pay Full Penalty for His Crimes —Returning today from a fruit- less search for the lonely grave in the desert of Berego Valley, where “Bluebeard” Charles N. Harvey confessed be buried the body of Nina Lee Deloney, one of his numerous wives, after beating her to death with a ham- mer, District Attorney Thomas L. Woolwine went immediately to, the county hospital to secure more information regarding the exact spot where Harvey buried the woman. Harvey was told that unless the woman's body is found, the agree. tment by, which he was to confers. [Mead frullty’ and 'bé given lifts im | Prisomment inxtead of the death pen: alty, will be canceled. He will be taken to the Berego valley, probably eayy next week, for |the purpose of locating Nina De longyis {His physical condition the tet would endanger. ae ite ff mao today, physicians declared. ) Harvey confession’ in all particulars,’ and gave further details of the burial. He declined to seo newspaper men | today. FIVE MEN - DIE WHEN TRAIN IS Topples Over With Human Cargo at Logging Camp eee Five men are dead and 22 oth ers are suffering from more @F Jess serious injuries in homes and hospitals at North Bend as the result of the derailment of # log- ging train of the North Bend Lumber Co, near Edgowick, early last evening. home from the woods, the plunged down a steep grade when cable broke. The defective failed to hold ang the train, img .of an engitie and one jumped the rails and overturned. the bottom of the incline, two men underneath, They were t | stantly killed, THE DEAD Harry Fleming, 43, engineer the train, pinned beneath the em sine. John Lundqutet, 33, bucker, pinned beneath engine. Joseph Finnegan, 33, faller, gle, died on reaching the Wiliam J. Haliwood, 36, @ied after reaching the 4 Te& Mueller, J. B. Detons, Lyons, E. V. Cook, Albert Sergun, W. Fraser, F. Joseph y Axel Lazick, R. W. McClosky, Wy | “Tt is nothing but curfosity that is| Waltman, Charles Thrasher, ments.” he cried. “I have already Why tadd to my misery? I want to think. Jam weak, forlorn.” From all quarters today came Protests against any compromise pb the confessed wife mur- ‘Mrs, Catherine Wom- ibacher, the “wife”! who caused Matvey's artest, scorned the idea of mercy. “Mercy! causing you to hound me for state-|Caprile, Henry Hoyer, W. P. W. K. Gardiner, Mike Schmidt, Tigg A Péterson, John san, B. ellison, John Miller. When the men boarded the |the engineer is said to have them that the brakes were in order. They insisted on riding when the train had gone but a distance, the cable broke. a Many men threw themselves from the train during its wild course down — He did not have any/|the steep grade. Others clung to the ‘of One Mars. beer gh wi weer Talked With for, but that she desires intensely./ He's a better sport than I am, and probably a better husband; certainty | Vf mercy on the poor women he mur-/car the whole distance, relying of dered and betrayed,” she said. “He!|Engineer Fleming to stop the run- deserves, tp pay the full penalty of away. He worked vainly with his — |his crime. And I shall not rest until/brakes inti! the engine went over An |! ee that he does.” and he was crushed to death. $1,000 Fine for Him, Hold May-Day Ceremony in One year county Jail sentence for wits senprgton mug ptarted by George|, Mt, (Pleasant. Cemetery Richg'rd tin, carpet layer, 1321 Franklin’ ave, Saturday. He was About 1,000 1. W. No Deaths During Last Half ‘Order Issued d by Court on re of Month Johnson Petition NEWARK, N. J, May 1.— } essays tet in Marti ian, W. were re he's a free and easy “provider.” } And I have known tight wads, who! we considered eminent citizens, who pinched pennies all their lives, and who died insane thru fear of something happening to their heaped up treasure. I knew a small town banker once who mighty near owned the town; he was a pillar of the church, he was a leading citizen and gave SIX CENTS a year to the cause) of foreign missions; and donated to! everything else in proportion. He was not a man at all, he was a cash register with the “money out” key removed But somewhere between the stingy, beady-eyed skinflint and the heedless, reckless wastrel there must be a happy medium. | CERTAINLY the workers of| nation who emerge) from four years of super- AE} wages with nothing but bc esses, and wornout autos, | and scratched baby grands, and car bon-specked diamonds, can blame no- body but themselves if when the re-| adjustment comes they find lean | years, full of work and regrets In this country at least the chief | reason 65 per cent of the men at 60 are destitute is because 65 per cent of the lads at 20 never save a cent I have been, and still am on occa-| gion, a rather eagy spender; it} pas always been harder for me to gave a dime than earn a dollar, but feing of a lazy disposition I long ago figured that I didn't want to be dig ging ditches at 60, or boarding with my grandchildren, or haunting an old folks’ home, so I've managed to pinch out a bit here and yon, and add an} acre now and then to what will ome day be my refuge and citadel And certainly if a newspaperman can save, the workers who get real money for their efforts can do #0 But Spirit Furnishes Free Translation BY AILEEN CLAIRE “Weegtus” writes te today that he and a party of friends, on the night of April 27, gotm message from Mars thru their oulja board. “It was % Bons fide message from a Martihn aelortist,” ‘he writes, “It was frinsiated for us by the depart 4 spirit of a person well known to | c us all.” The message appeared at first to be a series 6f unintelligible words, mostly cpnsonants. It was recetved thus; Aaseman masolan tuvoxopzon bebhonegfry tyxargi efg nisg acevzs. But when the “spirit” had trans lathd the puzale, each of the words, with the expeption of two, waa ex pandéd {nto several English words The translation wag this: ASSEMAN—We get you. MASOLAN—Signs received. TUVOXOPZON—Mars will go halt ay to meet you. ‘BHONEGFZY — A scientist named Manshy ZYXARGI—Balloon seen off the earth Martian “ommuniecate, M AN—Mars NTSG—Harth, Mars is near you ACEV 78—W ith best wishes, Tho “spirit,” I take it, must have given a very liberal translation, as the word Mars, which appears twice in the translation but once in the original meneage. I suggest that some of our puzzle sharps take the message and see if they can figure out the Martian al phabet Undoubtedly others besides “Wee: gius” and myself have derived some interesting results from their expert |ments with the oulja, Treanor Arrested by Anti-Red Cops) Federal and police sleuths were in-| vestigating Saturday the activities | of James EB. Treanor, 35, alleged | “woobly”- leader, who was arrested tate Friday afternoon by Sergt. P. ¥. O'Keefe’s auto-red squad, Treanor is suspected of atternpting to re-estab- — the L W. W. district headquar- » here. “a. 4. FISHER, real estate dealer expert horticulturist, waa ap- pointed to the board of park commis. Saturday by Mayor Caldwell. will fil) the unexpired term of temtp to run from Seattle to New comans, w Love hear what the rest of you! And 1| got,” suggests “Weegius.” second the motion, STARTS ON RUN. TO EAST COAST: At 12:18, Saturday non, to the fare well salute of a marine rifle squad, Ray A, Wilson, Marathon champion | an dex-service man, started on his at- York seems to appear |g |eentenced by Judge Mitchell Git |Mam Friday. Fine of $1,000 was }also imposed. Austin left his wife and children here to join a widow with ren in Loe Angeles. \County Pays Him $7,500 for Injury! Permanent injuries sustained by | Constant , Durant when hit flying stump blown 1,000 feet y nty blasters, resulted in his ob taining $7,500. Prosecutor Fred C Brown settled the care out of court] Friday. Duyrant was perched on a ladder, painting ‘a house, when the} [stump strudk’ him ‘and knocked him) |to the ground OLITENESS WINS | SAYS, WM, PERRY | OSSINING. N, os Maly 1 Wilary | Perry ng Sin) “politest prison: | a a so many offers of jobs he doean't |know which to take. A railway pres ident, steamship owner and prisoner reformer services, | Up to Seattle to” Awaken America) | ‘That Seattle should assume the! leadership in awakening the interest | of America in the enormous import transpacifie trade, particu larly with China, was the statement of Julean Arnold, U. 8, commercial ache at Peking, at the Chamber of | | | bid for the exconvict's ance of t |Commerce council members’ lunch 4n| waren, are in need of aid follow.| ing a fire that destroyed their home| the Arcade building Friday. | credits are among | “China's the best in the world, and there is no,in-| , |flation in that country,” Arnold de-| clared | alae iol |P)IDN’T THINK | COW WAS SICK NEWCASTLE, Ind, May 1- Pace different articles, includ {ing a roll of wire, stones, nails and |roofing tacks were found in the stom. | ach of a valuable dairy cow which | sie, here without apparent ilIneos, Tacomans Will Try to Capture Elk To capture a dozen lordly Roowe velt elk, now roaming the wilds of the Olympic peninsula, and remove them to the Rainier National park, is the ambition of a party of Ta- ho will leave shortly for the Olympic range, Ported to have gathered in Mount Pleasant cemetery at 11 o'clock this morning to carry out their gnnual May Day custom of placing Ipfenths on the graves of radicals killed in the Everett dock battle of 1916, Police reserves were held at head-| quarters ‘stalién ‘under orders of the I. W. W. program unless they [started a disturbance or attempted to parade. An I. W. W. convention, scheduled | for Monday, may be held Sunday, the polide, Were inttdrtheds abe spaven tion grduhds ‘are ner Rentoh, out- |side the city. Police will be in esadb ness to respond only in case trouble develops. . CHICAGO,, Mi Némobatration t Jdeportation of . 1,—A nation-wide protest arrest and radicals, failure of pardoned from a life sentence, |the government to deciare peace with | [Germany and to demand recognition jof the Russian soviet, was planned for today by radicals, according to announcements by leaders here. I. W. W. meetings will be held tn Chicagq, New York, Minneapolis, Mil- waukes, Denver and other big cities, according to William Haywood, ex- ecutive secretary of the 1. W. W “There will be no violence,” he said. “That kind of talk is ‘bosh.’ |Heuse Fire Leaves Family Destitute| Michael Noehl, his wife and nine ave, 8. and Roxbury et., according. to reports reach- The Star Saturday, «hbors are doing their utmost Ip the family, They are really destitute—down and out—and have had a lot of hard luck,” a neighbor told The Star over the phone. S4th Barkentine Near Umatilla Reef A fivemasted barkentine, prob- ably the Alicia Haviside, was re- ported by the Merchants’ Exchange as dangerously near the Umatilla reef at noon today, The report said the United States coast guard veasel Snohomish had gone to as- sist the barkentine. The Haviside loaded at Vancou- ver with lumber and is bound for South Africa i & Traffic accidents for the last half/ of April show a slight decrease in| adults injured and a considerable in crease, in the, number of minors in jured, ndcbr@iby to the némi-montiily report iawued Saturday by the secre tary of police. Forty adults, as compared to 59) during the first half of the month, were Injured Yy automobiles, while | by alChief Warren npt to interfere with| 14. mivarg as compared to §, were injured in. traffic accidents. were no deaths. In all | motor vehicles figured In accidents, | while 6 motorcycles and 18 street | cars, figured : alates As a |iday @ total of 34. vig thn heh Ub Siok f thone injured, Special Session of Jury Is Called Off| iStetay tots 9 of the grand jury achiedul Mohday has been called off at the request of Ben L. Moore, special representative of the attorney general. The matters in regard to certain shipyard cases that were to be presented at that time are not ready, says Moore, USSIANS CAN'T | SNEEZE “TYEE” She ts a gasoline schooner plying the coast of Siberia. She bore the good Chinook name of Tyee. “Unpronouncenble-sk,” gaid the na tives, “and entirely too long-ovich.” Today the customs officials are the richer and the Tyee is the Chu kote There! a7 { “| City’ Overallete: Step Out Today Chic suits of khaki and denim were in marked evidence Saturday around the county-elty building. May 1 was the day set for the inaugura tion of the Overall club among city employer. Miss Esther Kaplan, stenographer to City, Comptroller Harry Carroll, | was the first woman to make her ap- | pearance | in the nifty habilimenta, IS EVIDENCE WINS DIVORCE MILWAUKEE, May 1, — Fred Hamilton, 39, didi not inherit the earth by his meekness, but he got a divorce, He testified that his wife beat him with a club, lost his money |B Jerhilnd order for recount of the ballots cast | in New Jerkey’s presidential pri- mary was {msued today by Chief) Justice , William, Gummere of the New Jdrdey Suipteing edurt. |! ¢ order was issued on petition Senator Hiram Johnson, who claimed he was defeated for the presidential preference vote by Maj, Gen, Wood thru a miscount, Insists Hi Wife - Treats Him Rough Flusband-beating was against Maggie Hanson tn divorce ac- Lign, opqngd sige caurt by Ray Pjerhdnd dakubhey. Tahe repeatedly settled all arguments at their Georgetown home by hitting him, he declared, Yakinon. ‘Halts More oney to Teachers YAKIMA, May 1.—"Call a halt on raising teachers’ salaries,” says Mrs. R. Thornton, county auditor, giving as her reason for the statement the | near-bankrupt condition of the funds available for paying teachers. Mexican Soviet Is New Bugaboo WASHINGTON, May 1.—Fear that if the revolt aguinst Carranza | ig successful the next government of Mexico will be dedicated to prin- of sovietism was by officials in Mexican affairs, ciples today with close touch Former Alaskans Hold Reunion Here Iniscences and dancing were enjoyed by over 200 former residents of Fairbanks, Alaska, at the titial gathering Friday evening of the Fairbanks tTogether club, at Redding hall, 711 First ave, W. END WAR BILL’ DUE TO PASS WASHINGTON, May 1.-—Adoption of the Knox peace resolution by the senate was conceded today by Sen- ator Hitchcock, Nebraska, democrat, who will lead the opposition. He Rr playing poker, opened his mail and indorsed his checks, expected President Wilson to veto it, however, charged | expressed | J Whether Harvey will be able to | make the trip {s considered doubt- |ful by his physicians, He is in a a nervous condition as a result niente i Br he admitted killing four of the more than 25 women he is alleged to have married. | GIVES NEW DETAILS OF HIS MURDERS The four “wives” fessed to slaying: are: Nina Lee Deloney, whom he mar- ried in San Francisco, October 9, 1919; Betty Pryor, married in | Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, March 25, 949, under, the name of Lewis; § Ailed ‘Ladvigsoh,. married in Spo- \kane under the name of Hilton, jand Bertha Goodnick of Seattle. Further details of Hurvey’s con- fession dealing with these murders follow; NINA DELONEY—“Nina and I were camping near the artesian well at Signal Hill, Long Beach. Some letters from another wife fell from my pocket. She read them and threatened to have me ar. rested. I grabbed a hammer and hit her on the head. I hit her several times, then wrapped her body up, put ft Into the auto and drove all night till I came to a Harvey con- El Centro, where I buried her.” BETTY PRYOR—“Last = spring we were driving from Portland to Seattle. We had some words. We came to a deserted house, She gtub- | bed her hatpin to stab me. I gave her a hard shove and she struck her head on the corner of the bunk, I got a hammer and struck her several times to make sure she was dead, I buried her body. Then I burned the house.” (Her body was found near Plum station, Washington.) BERTHA GOODNICK—"We were in a boat on Lake Washington. The engine stopped. She got scared and moved to the center of the boat. As she did so she went overboard. I was afraid to report, knowing I would be accused of her murder.” ALICE LUDVIGSON—“We were in a boat on the St. Joe river, Idaho, and got cramped between two log drives, In helping me push the boat loose, she lost her balance and went under the current. Being unable to .wim, I was helpless to save her. I did not report it, for something told me I would be ac cused of her murder,” | 1) ke made Thursday’ a SAYS HER BOY IS KIDNAPED. Mother Asks Court to Take Action Accusation that Manley Swanson |had kidnaped Manley, jr, awarded to her in their divorce decree, was made by Rita Swanson in superior court Saturday. She asked the court to sign a permanent order giv. ing her absolute custody of the boy, Divorced in Montana last Novem ber, Swanson married a second wife, Pauline, soon after, Rita, the first wife, came to Seat tle with the boy, She placed him with Mrs, Lucy Osborne, 5536 Kem wood place, for caretaking. Swan son took the child away from the — Osborne home April 29, the firet wife charges. Dempsey Hearing Again Postponed | SAN oy peered May 1.—Date canyon about 30 miles this side of/for the trial of Jack Dempsey and Jack Kearns, charged with conspie ing to evade the draft, was again postponed today, when the case was called before Federal Judge Diets Dietrich will set the date for trial on May 18, when he retu |from a vacation, STRICH ENDS LIFE IN PARK OKLAHOMA CITY, May 1.—“Doo™ Stres ostrich, committed suicide, “Doc's” mate, Ida, ran into the park, fence recently and broke her neck, Grief-stricken “Doc” died the same way, intentionally, his keeper saya, OFF MEX CO SAN FRANCISCO, May 1 ‘ steamer San Mateo, owned by Pan-American line of San sank off the breakwater at Cruz, on the west coast of according to advices received marine department of Chamber of Commerce +a he,