The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 11, 1920, Page 1

e Weather Toniyht and Wednesday, fair; warmer Wednesday; northwesterly winds. RIDE FACES MURDER C On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise red as Second ws Matter May §, 1899, at the Postoffioe at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, The Seattle Star | 1879, Per Your, by Mail, $5 to 69 b f LATE EDITION VOLUME AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH — | AST week there were a couple of summ days when th days— spring ow and > away n the sand from town and loat Dh And that was what our family id, and just why a thousand other families didn’t do the same is a Mystery. The average family gets Into a rut, I guess. We loaded six mutton chops and ® wire grid, and a batter b 1 coffee and and wel, and and a cob pipe, and # glasses into the ve Rich an hour from pot, and som, Sandwiches & rug or two, and a toy sh Raggety Ann, & pair of f famity hack Mond Beach, on and ¢ ad and butter half town on a paved road. And on the beach we found drift Wood by the cord, shattered into Kindiing size, tumbled up in fire Tength logs. spicy with the salt of 5 4 the sen, burning with blue and f Breen Mame ip the twilight : We brolled the chops, and bolted the coffee, and fried the eggs, and toasted the bacon, and had the tastiest supper in months. Amd the kids took off their shoes and Stockings and -cavorted in the Warm, wet *sand, and mother re- Taxed, and father thought great A, thoughts while he watched the big nd little boats slip to sea under the crimson setting sun. 4 Nothihe but the anthem of the Waves and the occasional cry of a Gull to accentuate the ailence As hear as I can figure it, that Jaunt didn't cost more than 40 gents, Decause the family was due for a®supper anyway, and nine- ‘tenths of thd famities who have an ite can do the same once or twice ® week, becatise nine tenths of the workers get off the job fust as @arty in the afternoon as I do, _ Why, if you only go to the near. rs park, go on a «treet car, and “Dave a picnic lunch under the trees and the summer moon, it is an ad- Hardly a family but can that, and scarcely a family ever E GET so tied to the kitchen range, and the partry shelves, and back yard, and the job, and the silly routine tasks of the houre, that most of us never think of varying the monotony ‘and taking a couple of hours out Gide the yard. And that is what makes married fotks dull and uninteresting; it is what ages the wife before ber time ‘ana causes the children to chase the néighborhood over for excite- ‘ment. As a nation, we have fallen into * he habit of buying our entertain- Ment, and unless we can take a “might off and go to a movie, or & ‘vaudeville, or a regular party, we qnerely shuffle along in the rut. Recreation means to be born ‘again; and you are more likely to find a renewal of your youth loung. mq on the warm sand with a slice of crisping bacon in the pan ‘ever the drift wood coals than you Bre to find it following the sickly gweet or silly sweet adventures of gome impossible screen scenario. eee AM a movie maniac, and not ashamed of it. I thrill with Bill Hart and bleed with gentle Mary in her manifold miseries, andygioat with this villain and throb with that hero, and chuckle With the other flat-footed come nm, but occasionally I find that moon, and the stars, and the Waves on the beach, and the tang of a vesper fire under the cedars, and the song of the mountain stream under the glistening, black canyon boulders, are essential and always I come home from gociation with these fundamental forces of infinity rested, hgpeful, good natured and house broke And man that is born of wom. an and married by woman; man that fas his risings up and his down sittings, his comings in and Bis goings whither regulated by e . woran for a considerable period, begins to fray at the edges and to hark and to growl, and to kick against the tiny pricks of the mat rimonial goad, no matter how gen 4 tle and velvety m the white hand that holds the r and the gad, and the brake stick ar 1 y ‘And probably women get just aa tired as the men, tho, being better sports; they say so lens frequently. Certainly, those of us who are plesued with @ residence in this wonderful playground, where we ave mountains, and lakes, and oceans, and icy crystal streams in ‘our back yards, are slack witted and lazy if we cannot occasionally dnjoy a few hours’ real recreation Lost Tots Found in Canyon Maze CHEHALIS, May 11—Speelal te The Star}—Lost in the maze of gooded canyons in the foothills 15 miles from here for more than 4% fiours without food or shel the two small sons of Mrs. Wood, a aged 7 and 9 years, were ~ riff Stringer, of Seattle, was tracing them with bloodhounds, Dg posse of 49 searchers who had been ‘out since Sunday found them, weak and exhausted, in a gully four miles home, } | drink place, dance hall, or ca aK idna ped byH. usba * * SEATTLE, WASH,, TU ESDAY, MAY 11, 1920. nd Girl Leaves Chorus |: | a a ‘Yueerie > SAN FRANCISCO, May 11.—"Kid- naped By Her Husband” sounds like the title to a movie thriller, but it has just happened here in real life Pretty Queenie Leonard te—was rather—a chorus girl. When she passed thru Kansas City one of the jin low, | wooed and wed her. But coast with her company. manufacturer of Kansas, and, ind HERE'S a legend tn the under- | 4 world, known only to those who “ig town,” that, of all’ the girls who fall into its pitiless clyteh, none lever emerges; who will dare to tell | tts secrets to the world. Sheriff Stringer failed to act quick- ly on his promise to tomb the un- derworld for Clara, the frightened white girl, yesterday, Before his | deputies had been detailed on the | case, Police Sergeant William Steen, head of the vice squad, and Patrol- man Graves found Clara at 1220 King st. They induced her to go with them | to police headquarters and make an alleged statement. The alleged state ment, not made under oath, and un- signed, follows verbatim: “Seattle Police Headquarters, May 10, 1920; 9:30 p. m “Statement of Clara . 19, in connection with articles - |cently printed in The Seattle Star: “ft have lived at 1 King st. telephone Beacon 3546, over 19 years with my mother and brother. My father in dead. | LEFT HER HUSBAND; GOT A DIVORC “April 15, 1918, I married a man | by the name of Kelley (A, F. Kelley), age 30, street car conductor. I lived with him about one year. He was going around with other women #0 I left him. He got a divorce from ) me September 16, 1919. I have lived | with my mother since at the above addre | “I have worked at Murphy Bros. | Candy shop, Thompson's Candy shop, | Washington Candy Co. my occupa tion being a chocolate dipper. worked at these places before I go! are age married. | worked at a little bakery in Rainier Val (Joe Pete's Bakery) |for about three months after the di |vorce, then I went to the Bon Marche and worked there about nin months as saleslady in the cloak and suit department, then at the telephone office, and 1 am now working at th Fairmount hotel, | 1907 First ave., as night clerk “L have never been empl any movie show ticket offi Seattle, I have known Joseph Aus tin (colared man) for about 12 years; | he went to the South school and the | Colman school the same time I did. | He is a little older than me. | SAW HER TALKING !10 COLORED MAN “Alice James, age 19, hie former fiance, saw me talking to him the | other night, she has seen me talking jto him several times on street corners, erage pa | * it r | dentally the husband, started'on his |honeymoan alone. But ft got mo | notonous, this idea of occupying the bridal suite with an imaginary wife, [so be jumped on the train for San | Francisco. | _ Very’ mysteriousty he enticed his | wandering bride to the railrand sta- members of the bald head row fell) ton and into his compartment, just | @uished. as the train was pulling out. Wheth Queenie’s contract was binding and/or strong arm methods wore ured is she bad to continue to the Pacific| not known, but the kidnaping was|the fireproof room, in which the kfln evidently, for the show ite front line charua. Police Take “Clara’”’ to Headquarters and Have Her Make Statement Saying THE STAR IS NOT “IN TOWN” (Well, Wait and See)————— “At the carnival the other night, May 5, the night I was arrested by a policeman, Joseph was going to | give me wome chances on hamw and she saw him and wanted to ‘blow’ | him and when she saw that she couldn't and he wouldn't go with her, she got sore and happened to walk down Where I was and she swung on me with her fist and as soon as I started getting the best of her, her girl friend tripped me and I fell, her on top of me, and this | fellow on top of her, and I was at | the bottom. | ‘Then as soon an I wan picked up |whe picked up a big rock and was going to hit me with it and some body it away from her, then she remembered she was carrying a hit me in the 1 took | kewple and so face with it, kndécking me uncon. scious and breaking the kewple. “I have never been in the clutches | of a negro man, nor a colored man's slave, I have never been kept a pris oner anywhere. This colored giri | that struck me not a sporting irl as far as I know, I have never | been in a sporting house, never made a dishonest dollar in my Iife. | WORKED FIVE YEARS | AT ALHAMBRA “The articles I read in The Star are all the bunk. This statement is made voluntarily and of my own free will. 1 have passed policemen on the beats and sergeants, too, nearly every day. I have lived at home all the time . “This colored fellow, Joseph Austin, works at Sptkers Millinery store, on | Pike st. at the pre pt time, He ia \ is ‘9 BRIDES SLAIN BY BLUEBEARD 108 ANGELES, May 1L— | “Bluebeard” . Watson now admits that he murdered at least nine of his many wives, The man who has heretofore been |known as Watson, Harvey, Hurt and many other aliases, now declares |that his true name is Joseph Gill man, and that his home is near Paris, Kan., where, he believes, his father | lives. Three more women Watson now admits he killed are | Mrs. M. A. Watt, married in Win- |nipeg. Drowned in Lake Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, ¥ Marie Watson, married in Calgary. Drowned in Lake Coeur d'Alene, Kleanor Frazer, married in “Van couver, Drowned in Spokane river. records? PUT OUT FIRE A BROADWAY HIGH |Building Emptied by Drill in Two Minutes | Fire starting In the ary kiln of the schoo! carpenter shop brought hook jand ladder equipment from Third lave, and Pine st, at 10:30 Tuesday and emptied the building of 2,200 students in tevo minutes’ time. The blaze wan quickly extin- Danger of spreading was remote, according to school officials, who declared that in located, was ample projection f Philip Strasser, prominent cigar} now appears &. vacant space in| the rest of the bulltife, of off barners started the binge. }not a sporting man. He worked at |the Alhambra grocery for five years, driving delivery, then they put him | downstairs in the cabaret in the mix jing room, and he didn’t like that work and quit. Before working for | this grocery, he worked for the Pi oneer Drug Co. He delivers for the millinery store and does the porter work. He is working there now His address is the Verrome hotel 13th ave, and Main st., Room 1, Tel. Beacon 29. “My working hours are 11 p.m. to 7 a. m. at the Hotel Fairmount, and I am home the rest of the tune. I can always be reached by telephone at either place at any time, and will come déwn to police heagquarters or the sheriff's office any time at all that I am wanted. POLICE OFFICERS LOOK HER UP ‘ “Thin evening Sergt. Steen and Of ficer Graves came up to my mother's house, and I answered the door and let them in without questioning them. They asked me if I had been reading the papers, and if it was true what it #aid about me, and I wa! No? | “They asked me if I wanted to leome down to the station to make |a report, and I said, ‘Yea, I would be more than glad to come down and | tell the truth about the matter.’ | “When I reached there 1 went to |the captain's office. The police |called ‘up the sheriffs office and coukin’t get anyone on the phone Then they called the Juventie divis }ion and no one was in, Then I was taken into Room 117 to make this | report.” | SERGEANT ALSO MAKES STATEM The statement bears no signature A supplemental statement, purport ing to have been made by Sergt. Steen, follows “t have known Clara - - for about 10 years and as far as I know her reputation has been all right I noticed this name mentioned in’ The Star but didn’t think for a minute | that it was the same girl, I have |seen her frequently on the streets.” | ‘The statement is remarkable |clearance of the police, certain of | whom, on the day of Clara's trial, |made no secret of the alleged facts |"behind the seenes,” of which the court was not apprised, Clara, the frightened white girl, may not be the slave of the under world, as those “in town” have sald. lit in to be hoped they are grossly mistaken. But the underworld legend that the slave girl dares not tell, is an old one often proved true. One must wait patiently, and sea, 4 the flames | Qe | * Je Lilly, retail clothiers: “It's hard |to may whether or not prices have reached the peak, ang about the best we con do is guewa, If merchants thruout the country—e@o sales dnd hold off buying, prices might not go higher, Goods offered for fall are higher in price, no next fall may see the peak, In other words, merehan | dine in being offered today at prices | that may be lower than next fall's.” | HERBERT SCHOENFELD, retail | furniture: “We ask this question of ourseives #0 many Umes that we [really don't know the answer, I'm jan optimist. 1 feet that the peak has [been reached, 1 don’t think it is pow ‘gible for prices to go higher in our lines. I believe the stabilization Process ts in action, and that we are jright at the crisis.” OTTO KEGEL, GroteRankin, fur- niture:, “dtbink the leas we say the better, Conflicting statements get the public all balied up. We will see some advances in prices beyond what they are now in certain lines. Most things bave reached top price. There ‘will be no rapid drop, in my opinion. Sales we hear about these days result from conditions inside certain stores and not from the general situation.” | BR, E. BROWN, Brown-White Shoe jcompany: “Prices have not quite reached the peac in our line. There is no chance of an immediate reduc- |tion. Labor costs tend to go up rather than down, and there ts noth- jing in the leather situation to indi cate lower prices, Cost of fall met- chandise is higher than the mer- chandise we are now polling.” | | ALEX G. M. FRASER, Fraser Paterson department store: “I wish | we were wine enough to be able to [tell whether or not prices have reached the peak. Anybody who can | accurately tell can make a fortune, |and won't have to work any longer. | We're all guessing thruout the land certainly want low- ler prices. Whether their concerted Jaction will bring about a gradual decrease I don’t know.” T. A. BAXTER, Baxter & Baxter, |shoos: “I think we've reached the |peak, We've already bought our shoes for fall at the same prices | we paid for stock on hand now." | ©. C. GRAVES, president of Cheasty’s, men’s furnishers: “The peak cannot be reached before fall, jin our lines, because orders now be ing taken show an advance of from 25 to 40 per nt I do think next | fall's prices are peak prices.” | KE. BR. MILLER, Monks & Miller, | fuel dealers—t"The fuel market to- |day is very uncertain, A commit. tee of two coal operators and two Junion representatives, who are to |choose a fifth committeeman, is to |go to the mat with demand of miners for a 18 per cent, increase in wages. Until this matter is set- tled it is impossible to predict what the price of coal will be when the |committee gets thru. The city coun- i cil has before it a wood,ordinance to compel dealers to put a greater number of sticks into a cord. If the drdinance passes, the price of a cord of wood will be higher, but not the price of wood per stick The buyer will be getting more | wood for more money.” Good News: Strawberries Drop. Spuds Going Down. Cherries Are Here. Strawberries are selling at $4 te $4.60 a o psule, today. This is the lowest quotation reached thiy season, Consumers are asked 20c to 25¢ per box. New California spuds are still 11 conte per pound, wholesale, but indications are they'll drop within a few days, In the meantime, old Yakima potatoes have fallen to 7%o a pound to the retailers, First cherries of the: season were placed on sale in Seattle to day, ‘They're from California, and grocers are paying the com- mission men $4.50 per 10-pound case for them, * M. A. LUNDQUIST, of Lundquist The retailers | PRICES Have prices reached high peak? Are they on the toboggan? ! Or will the high cost of living upset the dope and try for new altitude Shall we look for “good news” or “bad news”? You can’t find the answers by talking to Seattle business m pn. Hardly any |] two have the same answer. | Here’s what twenty of them have to say: * * * A. J. RHODES, Rhodes Brothers department store: “Opinion doesn’t mean much, because the facts come to us by mail and wire every day, We get notices of advances every | day. There will be reductions in} spots where fellows who are over-| loaded want to get out fram under That was the situation in Chicago }the other day when somebady | dumped some silk on the market. I tell my buyers that the situation ft) like the landscape, There are hilis! and valleys, Something that ts down | oo fq cing trom Canada with three | frighten her husband. today may be up tomorrow, In the| jong run # don't think there will be! any general reduction tor a year or| two.” FRED BESSELMAN, Graham's hwtore for women: “I think we're over, the peak, and I am convinced | to this extent—I won't boy anything at an advance over present prices. jAnybody who somes in here and done to get higher prices for re celves no apneaideration from me, I | won't consider it.” HAROLD N. MOORE, secretary of | the Retail Trade bureau, Chamber of Commerce avery indication points to'the fact that prices have about struck the high level, but no decided reduction is looked for under | two years. A sharp general break in # would mean a panic, and 1 te lipve we are going to avoid a panic. | Some merchants, with seasonal| stocks, are willing to unload by sac- riflcing normal profits because they | don't know what the situation will be | a year from now. The reason for the much-talked-about drop in silks, re-| corted a few days ago, was due to} the financial panic in Japan, and not to gonditions in this country.” R. B, ALLEN, secrefhry of West | Coast Lumbermen's association: “A short time ago buyers were willing to | bid their heads off for any kind of lumber because of the shortage of supply. As the supply increased this | sort of thing decreased. Things are | getting on a reasonable basis, but I can't tell what is going to happen | in tha future. Our business ts to deal with a situation after it develops.” THOMAS HITT, Seatuie Furniture Manufacturing company | } | have gone down, In fact, «| been slight increases, but we have ab- sorbed them and not tacked the cost on to the price to dealers. I think | prices will hold on where they are for some time.” EDWIN MERRITT, manager Craftsman Bungalow company: “I be lieve we've reached the high water mark and that everything ls on the, downward trend. There has been @ | slight decrease in lumber prices, but | I hardly believe it amounts to morg than 5 per cent.” LOUIS L. MENDEL, architect: | “There's no break so far as ff | can find out, but I don’t think pricde can go any higher.” F. W. McDERMOTT of Johns-Ma> ville company, bullders’ suppliva “Looks as tho we haven't reached |the peak. There's an upward trend if anything—in our lines.” 5 R. DOU factory manajzer, | Washington Shoe Co.—"The first reduction jleather since the war was this week, Sole leather dropped cents a pound, ‘There's abotit a pound of sole leather in a pair of shoes. ‘Tanners are holding ‘ther |shoe leather high because tijey bought at high prices, Factory men are trying to force then) to let go at a tower price, but they have not yielded so far, They have enough of this Pigh-priced stegk in the tanneries to last about six more months.” CHARLES —STUSSER, 4! gtusser Leather Goods Manufacturin g Co. “Some kinds of leather have drop- |ped recently 6 to 8 ‘per cerit. But this reduction is hardly safficient to affect the retail price af trunks, handbags and other such @rticles as we manufacture,” . ©. KMMONS, Bonady-Watson undertakers. — “Unulertakers' hardware, «uch as casket handles, plates and ornaments, hy.ye dropped 5 or 6 per cent recentPy. A, J. LENNON, gléves, hosiery and umbrellas: “What kind of an article are you fellows, going to byt up? |I think we havg reached peak—absolutely. Bu! ‘tees )for fall won't be any lower.” made ~~ there have #4 eg record in France, partict- t PHISONER SAYS HE KILLED MA Fle in ‘ty Confession that he was In a motor Motor Car From companions when they charged a Ca: him, jwas made by R. L. Davis, a pris- cote fin the city jail at Salem, Ore. today by Sheriff Stringer. ‘Th killing, according to the al- iy of &: jem, the message follow: “F1. L. Davis, held here on a charge of {preery, has told fellow prisoners thaj} he and three companions com ing Kgorh Canada a short time ago in &n auto, were halted by a Cana dian, officer, and, refusing to stop, had jrun over and killed him and got away over the line into Washington, Do xen know of such circumstances? Anmer, a6 Davis may be released soon t? No of any such case was fours! }in the sheriff's files, An in: vestig/ation Js being made in an effort to Wyn the facts of the incident, PLIIN REUNION SiST DIVISIO i —— “Flowder River” Vets Meet * Wednesday Night Members of the famous 91st Di- viston (Wild West), recruited large “None of frog: the Northwest and organ! the costs of production of furniture at Camp Lewis, plan a reunion of embers. This division made a pating in the Argonne drive, and lost undreds of men in action. A meeting of the members is called for Wednesday, May 19, 1920, by Jules E. Markow, 316 F Signal Moattalion, as temporary chairman, and C. W. Dauscher, 361st Infantry, | as temporary secretary, at Roosevelt Veterans hall, 1616% Third ave. at 18 o'clock p. m. to discuss plans for an annual reunion and picnic, and all survivors of the Powder River outfit are requested to attend Addresses will be made by Capt. Wee Coyle, Sergt. Ten Million, and athers, and the first meeting of the 1st is to be made a rousing success, and a permanent organization formed. Members of the 9ist are requested to parade Memoria! Day in honor of deceased comrades, and are request jed by the temporary committee to Manufactw-ing | march with the Veterans of Foreign in boc} Wars. RTLAND HAS NOVEL STRIKE PORTLAND, May 11.—Something entirely new and novel In the way of strikes was introduced today in Portland—a strike of petition circu- lators, who formed the Petition Cir. culators’ unton association, The new union members demand 10 cents per name for signatures on initiative petitions, instead of 6 cents. Ex-Policeman Dies; Sleeping Sickness John W. Glascock, 64, retired pa- trolman, died at his home, at 1813 B. Spruce st, at 6 a. m, Tuesday, after ‘a lengthy illness from what physi- cians declared to be sleeping sick: ness. He leaves a family of grown children and a widow, Margaret, Backs Motor Car Thru Cafe Window Hatfield's Oyster house, 214 Union st, will have a new plate glasy- window by Tuesday evening. An unthoughtful motorist backed his automobile thru the old-window, Fires When He Threatens to Leave Her; Bullet | Pierces Heart | Madge Anna Sawyer, 21- \year-old bride, must fave first |degree murder charges for | \killing her husband, Howard ~~ |L Sawyer, 32. He died with ja bullet in his heart M jevening. His youthful the shot jadmits she fired |during a quarrel, but insists (she did not mean to kill him: Decision to file murder which may mean hanging or life fm »Prisonment for Madge Sawyer, reached by Deputy Prosecutor , Patterson after a long conference with the prisoner and with Captain ‘of Detectives Charles Tennant, Tuew day morning. ‘The shooting occurred near Weatlake ave. N., where the yers were living in thelr power Hydah, moored in Lake Union. who arrested her, that she shot never fought over anything in ticular, It seemed as if we couldn't get along.” fi thet ber quarrel which resulted in ond time. |SAYS HE THREATENED TO “GET” HER “Get out and stay out,” Mrs. yer she told him. out, or J you,” says fe Ki Thinking then to frighten him, regretting her words, she obt: 32 caliber revolver and fired shots, one at her h second th the ground. The first shot pierced Sawyer’s heart, killing instantly. ‘ Mrs. Sawyer retated at length statement of Lieutenant of D Wiliam Kent the stormy details of her short te. i “Our fighting was always the 6 growth of some petty affairs,” cited. “For instance, he would faces at me, call me names. argument the other night sti after we went to bed. I sleep sort of a shelf on the boat He sleeping with bis arm laid im a manner that it was uncd for me. I told him to move refused. Then I shoved his away myself and he became Mrs. Sawyer told Lieut. Kent tl he had threatened to kill her a num ber of times, SAYS HUSBAND “BEAT HER UP” “He beat me up, too; yet I bear to think of him waving went out with a gun to frighten I fired low. I didn’t mean to him, I saw him limp after I fired and I thought I hit him in the leg or the heel.” When questioned why she got gun, she explained that her husbai had grabbed “something” when were quarreling aboard the boat, she was afraid he might make his threat and ki her. She dec she always knew her husband carried a gun, The police have both guns, which Mrs, Sawyer used and Frogs found in her husband's pocket. i Sawyer underwent a long ordeal fore Deputy Prosecutot T. H. : son and Captain Charles Tennant Mra Sawyer is the daughter \ Mrs. B. C, Wrighter, 240 Fifth ave E., Vanconuver, B. C., while her dena husband recently lived im ae Walla, Sawyer was president H. I. 8. Motor Co. Mrs, Sawyer, altho showing & of the terrible ordeal she during her night in jaf, perfectly self-possessed when appeared before Captain Tuesday morning. She was in a blue dress, which was girdled by a bright colored belt, She was pale and her eyes signs of recent tears. Her light en hair was slightly disarranged, — WOMEN TO SMO) ON TRAINS Ni BOSTON, May 11.—The Bost vated railway company not © established smoking cars, but women to avail themselves of portunity to enjoy a smoke trains, President Wilson . am today, . ey “4 na ch ch ee