The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 8, 1920, Page 1

IGHARGE WIFE IN DEATH PLOT REPORT CARRANZA IS TAKEN PRISONER EW Weather Tonight and Today {iit = 23. ras IT TO ME DANA SLEETH HE bakers’ strike hasn't worried us much at our house, becwuse “we” bake our own bread and things. Not that we save Much of anything by home baking =I think ft tigure# about 15 cents im three weeks, if we throw in the abor “and the fuel—but we like home-made bread better than bak- @r’s bread, tho probably no baker Would agree with us. As a nation we are not great Bread caters. We eat more meat, and pastries, and confecti¢hs, than any other tribe, but we eat less } Bread-than France, or England, or ‘Italy, or even south American countries, Abroad bread is really the staff of life. A dash of garlic, | & dunk of black bread, « wad of “meary cheese and a cup of pink “ink, miscalied wine, are a square meal, but here it is different, and bread is merely something to put from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m.” ‘The average citizen imagines hat 20 long as he gives this sign ‘good faith and future compliance with the law. When you see one of these signs, ‘@s you park your ear, you get out and look for an almost invisible drab line on the curb, 4 line that once was white but that is now 4 platy gray, like the beautiful snow fn Pittsburg: a muddy, disheveled, almost imaginary line that extends for severa) feet from this saffron sign; and then you get beyond that ine and park your car, and save Wf money and annoyance. I watched a busy officer jotting down car numbers yesterday for ‘an hour, in which time he had scheduled dozens of estimable citi- 1s for an unpleasant journey, F and I decked that 90 per cent of you folks needed a little informa- tion. see HE English are a strange ly frank, matter-of-fact nation. Reading a cur rent English magazine, T came across this little text on half @ dozen biank white pages: “This space to let. Inquire adv jing manager.” Can any one imagine an Ameri an magazine, or newspaper, ad. mitting that advertisers were not vainly clamoring for admission to its columns? Is it conceivable that any nation nal in this country would al Be even half ah inch of white space to ever go to press? Indeed, can you conceive of business men allowing blank «pace fm publications of general high- class circulation to go untenanted? Advertising in this country is pot « luxury, nor is it a fad, or a usiness experiment: It has so en tered into the weave of our nation- a) existence that the great public never congiders the existence of a business, & movie feature, an op- éra, a new book, a spring suit, or a hand ax, unless it is nauonally ad- vertined. No other country advertises as does this gne; no other country has as high ideals, as good service, as acientific a management in its — stores, as this country of and. no nation finds as lux i he + hail and modern fittings and T pititities in the average home. The tisement is probably more of civilizer and uplifter than its ardent suentien understand. mM : 1 Production fon Is Falling Short WASHINGTON, May 8—Bitu- coal production now is run- approximately 3,000,000 or about 25 per cent un- demands, according ably rain; moderate westerly winds, Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 79. Minimum, 49. other victims named in his confes-| ; Sunday, prob- noon, 56, a | |BIGAMIST 4 BRIDES IN LAKE | Bodies in Lake \ Washington, | Says Bluebeard in Latest Confession of Crimes Take Washington, graveyard | the brides of “Bluebeard,” will be dragged for the bodies of four of his unfortunate victims who, ac cording to his alleged confessions, he has now admitted he tured ohto the lake and drowned, Dragging the lake for a body, ot not Agnes Wilson, of Alberta, Canada, | and dnother bride whose name he could not remember, according the version of the confession | received here, were taken for a! boat ride on Lake Washington and) doliberately drowned, } Authorities here, as well as in Los Angeles are inclined to believe the “unremembered bride” was Mrs. Ger trude Wilson, a widow with a young son, who married “Bluebeard” here | in 1917, who took her and the boy to/ the Hood canal country. | SON MAY HAVE BEEN DROWNED, TOO | There he left them for a time, lat er sending for them to come to Seat tle. They joined, him here, and neither has been heard of since, If Mrs. Wilson was one of the Lake Washington victims, officials say, it in not unlikely that her boy was drowned with her. District At- torney Woolwine. of Los Angeles, to, whom “Bluebeard” made his most re- cent confension, in said to be holding back certain details of the prixoner’s statement for some unexplained rea _ son. FATE OF OTHERS STILL A MYSTERY Alice M. Ludvigson, Bertha Good nich, Agnes Wilson and the “unre membered bride” were the four| whose bodies were consigned to the lake. Beatrice Andrewartha, drown: | ed in the St. Joe river, Idaho; Betty | Pryor, slain at Plum station with a hammer, and Nina Lee Deloney, beat, en to death in California, were the Low Angeles officials are still en deavoring to learn from Hilton what | has become of two other of the score | or more unfortunate women he mar. ried—Mrs, Emily J, Rose and a wom. | an known only ag “Eleanor,” whose | papers were found among the pris | oner’s effects, | During yesterday's conference at Los Angeles, Watson was under close | observation by two alienists, It is} understood they have agreed that| Watson is mentally unbalanced. Watson is scheduled to be ‘sen tenced Monday for the murder of} Nina Lee Delones NATIONAL LEAGUE Fae a EK | 1 ia O'Farrell; Chicago At Pittsburg ... Vaughn and Killiter, Hamilton and Schmidt At end of ninth inning: Cincinnati, 4; St. Louis 4. Other two National league games postponed; rain. AMERICAN LEAGUE R. HE. +41 H| +5 6 (Dadarshe St, Louis . At Detroit Leverette and Severo Stanage. New York At Washington . Shawkey, Collins and Ruel; ary and (harrity. Philadelphia at Boston peatponed; rain, Zach- Entered an Second Class Matter ‘Helen Plays ‘Heiress’ Girt Wite Poses as Rich Woman to Win Husband's tiove DROWNED Tis Sweet but Short May 2, 1999, at the Fostoffi. Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1920. | today, according to a tele-| ) TWO RIVERS, Win, May § Day dreame of a winsome lass, com ing true for three thrilling months by reason of her own forceful imagt nation and convincing invention, went all to smash when detectives brought Mrs, Harold Haltaufder: heide here to face charges of obtain ing money by false pretenses. That is the hard. legal term for what this girt did, but it is expected that ber father and the family of | the boy she married will somehow Patch things up. | Her name, until last summer, was Helen Herzog. | It was revolt against the unmusl-| cal names of Herzog and Haltauf.| derheide and against the prosaic role of a factory worker's wife that im-| pelled Helen to enter upon her ro-| mantic adventure. Until the detect: | ives caught up with her, she lived | j like the heroine of one of her favor-|kee and nothir ite novels | ROMANCE IS HE) MIDDLE NAME ‘Thin is the story, as structed it te Helen con | Helen confessed and wept: Harold \No Confi he recogmzes as the man | her heart, the dull farm, her hard working father and an unsympa- | oun she elopes with ‘The honeymoon wanes cont of living gets in ite larold live with Mar- itement. ‘Harold! she says, “yon didn’t marry 8 poor girl. after all!” Ie from her aunt, Mere. Heo SUNDAY TO BE MOTHERS’ DAY Sunday will be Mothers’ Day. In a proclamation issued from himoffice | Mayor Caldwell declared tomorrow set aside as a “day that honors the dear, patient, loyal mother — the mother of our hearts; the wonderful woman who has suffered and sacri fice for us.” ‘ Solicitation of funds, the mayor said, for any purpose on Mothers’ Day is unauthorized by the city, Juvenile Crooks Steal From Autos! Three Juveniles, held by the police ©| saturday, have agmitted « career of | mond”) Pomeroy, six months of thefta of auto acces- wories, Detectives aay the youths carried wrenches, and systematically cars of parts that they later | the | police we ! | } | | sttghtiy Haitaufderheide Mrapp of Manitewec, has informed Meten that her name was net Mersog, but that she is actually the daughter of Herbert Earle, = wealthy opera star, Her mysterioas father has left eatat valuable property. jelen at once insists that Harold Halteutderheite draws money from the tank to keep the heiress lied untli her own shall come slender oH I array com *. “iihere ‘are confersnces with law- | yers, sage. consultations with hank- ers, rosy plans for everybody's fu- tare. THEN— Harold and Helen went to Milwau was heard from| them day after day. Suspicion and| finally panic invaded the serenity of | Haltaufderheide household, The tified, At the home of | Helen's cousin in Harold were | unsentimental detec Adam Horning, Milwaukee, Helen and found by large, tives embraced her and wept. They wept together, and Helen sobbed: | “I thought you'd love me more if T/ was rich, I got the name of H t rle out of a book catled ‘St. Elmo.’ letters to myself and I » lawyer's paper and ev-| erything myself. {am all to blame." | And Helen, in the midst of her| }troubles, says that «he is sure John Herzog, plodding farmer, and her honest togoodness father, will come to her aid, even tho he has to mort: | gage the family acres AP LEASE MAY BE CONFISCATED That the leaxe of the St apartrhent house, 1810 Yesler \ will be transferred from its Jap pro- prietors to local prohibition officers was predicted Saturday as a result} of a raid, In two of the rooms, officers say, they found a complete still in. opera. tion, and caught F. Hamado, one of | the proprietors, Manufacturing sake, fix George | Deputies Arrest Stockade Fugitive “I had @ hunch you were golng to get me,” said Wayland H, (“Dia- 48, after being ar- rested by deputy sheriffs at his mother's home, 6756 23d ave, N. W. Friday night. Pomeroy escaped’ the « jarrived at 6:20 a. m., |did not say | Key West MEXICAN CAPITAL SEIZED, REPOR U. S. Marines. and War- ships Held in Readiness for Dash to Mexico NOGAL’ ES, Ariz., May 8.— President Carranza was taken prisoner when revolutionary’ forces captured Mexico City) | gram received here this after-| noon by Obregon adheren The message was dated Mex- ico City and came via Chihua-/ hua City and Hermosillo, rapes inited marines will be sent imme-| diately to Key West to be held in readiness for dispatch to Mexico if necessary to pro-| tect United States citizens, Secretary Daniels announced | today. Five Of the ix destroyers sent to Key West to prepare for ponaible service off the east coast of Mexico the mavy de partment was advined today. The destroyer Flusser, which was delayed in leaving New York, will reach Key Woat by to- night. The Hiack Hawk, tender for the destroyer division. lagged = be- hind the swift warcraft in their dash down the coast At Key West the destroyers will take on emergency supplies of food and fuel, and wait for further orders, Secretary Daniels said. The marines will go to Key West on the transport Henderson, which left Charleston, 8 C.. today for Phil. adelphia, where the troops will go aboard. The capucity of the Hen derson 1,200 men. but Daniels how many would be In. cluded in the force which will go to The marines will be at the destroyer division, tached to which began arriving at Key West| this morning. }Report Obregon * Enters Capital AGUA PRIETA, Sonora, May §,—(ieneral Calles, revolutionary commander, received a message from Chihuahua City today say- ing Obregon entered Mexico City this morning. . mation Received by U. S. WASI #TON, May 8.—The state department has no co: firmation of the report that rebels had taken Mexico City Neither bas it received any in- timation that the fall of the city was imminent, However, no direct advices had been received from the cap- Hal sinco Thursday night, All telegraph lines out of the city had been cut. The city of Saltillo, in Coahuila, home state of Carranza, has been taken by the revolutionary forces, ac cording to a dispatch to Washington, El Paso Meare of Mexico City Fall! EL PASO, Texas, May 8.—An unconfirmed report reaching Juarez today. from Chihuahua City stated General Benjamin Hill had captured Mexico City and that President Carranza had fled. The important cities of Saltilo, Zacatecas, Aguas Calientes, Torreon and Oaxaca were said to have fallen into rebel hands, with Generals Man- uel Dieguez, Cesario Castro and J, Austin Castra joining the revolution, the reports stated. The trio of generals were counted as among the most loyal and effi- cient of Carranza's military men, and each had a large personal fol- lowing. The defection of Dieguez ts perhaps the most serious. personal blow to Carranza sinee the begin: ning of the Sonora rebellion, if true, Dieguex having been axsigned by “On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star 1879, Por Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 Mayor wre, P| DITION {iii TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE and Sheriff Are | Town”’ |Harry Legg Is Not “In Town,” So Far| | as Concerns the Goings-On in the Dis- trict About His Ultra-Classy and} Very Celebrated Alhambra. OWN in the territory well below j “the notch” ix the ultra-classy negro cabaret, Alhambra, rendez yous of the very fashionable adven turous, black and white Its proprietor is Harry Legg. high-! brown politician, precinct committee man, and, quite recently, moral re former. |. “Slumming parties" from Capitol | ts, hill, tourists who want to “sre the | sights,” young girls looking for their \first “thrill,” and thore countless others who roam at night, after most asleep day: the ter trict at "th ave. 8. and Jackson at, Alhambra flashes its sign across the | sidewalk and beckons pasnersby with thone two attractive words, “Dancing | —Cabare: BUT YOU WON'T HEAR THE STORY OF MABEL It ix In that district that young | «iris disappear, in town,” you will not hear of 3 bel, the deserter, and of the white wife of ané of the black “magnates” who shot herself to death, | Mabel began at the Alhambra. She was tall and blonde, and had “had ex perience.” I was “jocation.” She found it in a house near by joint, ‘hired a few other white girls who knew the game, wired the doors | with electric apparatus that woul | warn the Inmates in case of raid, and her business flourished. | She paid a for the privilege of selling drinks and “meeting the trade.” But that was not all. Night after night, when she was counting outthe earnings of the day, the negro “magnate” came and robbed her. ’ When she objected, “You don't dare to squeal.” it. If she did “make @ rumble,” she knew she would be the sufferer, not her landlord, She closed her place and went away | HE COULD HAVE SENT HER UP FOR BOOTLEGGING | “He had ft on me,” she explained. | “He could have sent me up for boot legging. I Uidn't have a chance, be cause he could do as he wanted with | me Just | the same ag with every oth: she was told, She knew but unless you are | looking for a) She opened up & bootleg | earo leswpe $15 a day) er white girl who falls into the net be- low the noteti.” They tell the story of Mabel, the | | deserter, in Alhambra, and the one | of the “white wife” ed by her negro mate because she was too old and was found with a | bullet in her afterwards. But Harry |Legg, the proprietor, doesn't like there things. Bometimi not very often, Felix Crane, the old-time “king of the un- derworld,” slipg into the Alhambra. Only those who are “in town” rec- his , who was discard: | ON FARM ACCUSES WOMAN | Attack on Husband But She Is Held in Con- nection With Case and Billy Beggs, and sid he Sen'yy | want to be mixed in with a gang of | | crooks. | FATHERS MIGHT NOT | LET DAUGHTERS COME If the public generally were put )“in town” gangsters frequented his place, he said, fathers would hesitate to let their daughters come to innocently |dance and hear his classy singers |sing the latest hits. He was, he said, catering to the | fashionable set and, being committee- man from his precinct, was held in high esteem. He courted an investi- gation, but had no time, he was so ‘busy, to look into the affairs of neighbors in the district with a view lof helping clean it up. He sells no liquor at Alhambra, and stands for no such traffic. Or so he said. And last night unusual quiet pervaded all that district. | But those who are “in town” | whisper it about that one can buy a bottle of real, undiluted stuff at the | tables In Alhambra, and that an auto- | mobile party once was served with | cocktails brought to them at the curb on a tray that was carried by a unk formed negro waiter. These stories must be untrue, but they are told. Harry is anxious to |keep Alhambra free from taint and all suspicion. And Mayor Caldwell, who has heard such stories, and Sheriff Stringer, who also is “in |town,” say that they are not unwill ing to help Harry to purge his pre einet. Virtual elimination of jitney bus competition against munic ipal street | railway operations, was agreed upon by city councilmen and Mayor Cald- well in a closed conference Saturday. The bill will be passed Monday, and signed by Mayor Caldwell, ac cording to an agreement reached Jafter a stormy session called to con sider the street car situation Members of the city council also greed that D, W. Henderson, super intendent of railways, should be lgiven a ft | the street routes and schedules out the ministrative | economy GIVES CITY POWER |TO FIX ROUTES Ae redrafted by Corporation Coun sel Walter F. Meier, the jitney ordl | na gives almost complete super: | vision of the busses into the hands of |the eity authorities, The council is given power to lay out prescribed routes, determine schedyles between fixed terminals and inspect all ma- chines, “The jitneys will no longer be per: mitted to skim the cream from the business of the city’s railway,” Cald- well declared Saturday, The ordinance does not declare jitneys illegal, the city not having the power to do so, but It handicaps them to suchfan extent, it is lieved, that they will be put out of business, Instead of running on: the well-traveled streets, where car, lines operate, they will be required to Seve | on other streets that are pat- Th Barat will v r system, both as to 80 as to carry program of | hand in the operation of COUNCIL AGREES TO DRIVE OUT JITNEYS drawing up the ordinance, this con- dition was precisely sought. Jitneys, it has been estimated, have been taking $1,000 a day from the street railway, Caldwell declared that the street car situation was reaching a crisis, “The municipal railway is going behind $400,000 annually,” the may- or stated. “And this gigantic sum | does not include depreciation or pro- jvide a sinking fund to pay off the | bonded indebtedness. “In other words, the city is losing $3,000 a day its street cars That the city council would tak up the question of a raise in fa lin a few weeks was indicated by | Caldwell Radicals Facing Chiminal Charge Criminal syndicalism informations against’ James Shipley, James EB. ‘Trainor, Herman Jensen and Edward Johnson, arrested by police “red” quad Monday, were filed in superior court by Prosecutor Fred C. Brown Saturday. Call Conference on Quarantine Conference between the mayor, the commissioner of health, and the the quarantine of social diseases was suggested Mayor Caldwell in a to the fact that such old) lice two days after the but which was not made today, Mullinix is said to only admitted the shooting, have confessed to illicit | with Mrs, Steiger. Mullinix is a |of about 40 years of age and | Steiger is 62. In his confession to the grand pe Mullinix is said to have accused Meg Steiger of paying him $100 to i her husband, with the und u she would then marry him, is worth about $70,000. Steiger, who was shot three ti and who was confined to a h for some time following the is now well on the road to FISHING CRAFT WASHED ASHO Fear Men Drowned Off on gon Coast ASTORIA, Ore., May 8.—Two ff ing craft have been washed at North Head and it is feared the men who operated them their lives, ‘The first vessel to come was that belonging to a crab |man, Members of the coast erey at Fort Canby say the came in too close to the breakers ¢ the north side of the jetty, and the fisherman was, without drowned. The second was a trolling Lifesavers have bean on the for possible survivors for 16 but have found no trace. The |was probably occupied by two BOY, 9 YEARS, SAVES MOTHER Brutally attacked near her Friday night by a man who upon her from behind, Mrs. W, 7046 16th ave. N, E., was saved her 98-year-old son, who summa neighbor, C. Barbor, from’ he house at 7025 16th ave. N. EB, ” Barbor arrived just as Iteen was being overpowered, afi des- perate struggle, and chased the thug away, Police froin Densmore pre- [einet station combed the poten hood for several hours without suc- cess, : The attack occurred at 70th st, and 16th ave, N. E. Moa. Itsen and her Jeon had just paseey the corner when the man, Ange While public safety committee to discuss | @lly-to thug,