The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 12, 1920, Page 1

if E MPEROR lif JAPAN DYING! BY JAC TOKYO, Japan, May 12 a dying ms He is the tria-Hungary is no more. K MASON -Yoshihito, the mikado of Japan, | reached the dynasty autocrats, | mentioned f Th czar is dead; the kaiser in exile; the emperor of Aus-!on-such matters relating to the reyal family. it today from the most reliable sources that he is now in | ailment has affected his brain and he is incapable of at last of » * f Weather mo. Thursday, north nd erate winds Minimum, 43. ‘oday noon, 53, Tonight a fair; » easterly s. Temperature Last 24 Honrs Si Maxtmugn, 57 43 This is the the lirst news of his desperate i world, No Japanese the it; law On the I. Ae Second Matter May 1, 1999, newspaper prohibits *them from commenting! who have ruled Japan before him. Emperor Yoshihito’s condition is illness that has) his has At the Postoftios at Seal But I have} VOLUME 23. SE ATTL I W. ASH., st illness and that it is only a question of a short|tenaing to tne simplest affairs of state, even if he is able even| time before this mikado will be gathered to his 121 fathers|to recognize those about him, Wash, WE DNI SDAY, MAY 12, under the Act of Cong isto, said t Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise eSeattle Star r Be am Por Year | It is possible that a regent may be appointed if death does His | not come shortly. (Copyright, 1920, New o be pitiable. paper Enterprise Association) Ze iil "TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE by Mall, AVE RODGERS DROPS HIP BUILDING PLANS AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH HIS morning I found tho Office boy throwing into the waste basket a num ber of pamphlets. 1 checked him and advised him that he at least open them to find what they were ong they're nothin “1 allus throw betody reads ‘em I found they were the current i #ue@ of ‘the Congressional Hecor: ahd, just to prove that somebod Voluntarily read the Record onc in his life, I dug into the senate minutes for April ult. And ma be if more of us read the Congre« » stonal Record, we would pay more Sttention to our nation’s business and less to the mouthy spellbinder are just now rampaging th: country, making fine speeches, while their vacant chairs in con Bress gather cobwebs, and millions _ -@@ millions of needless appropri: ons are rushed thru house and g@enate with scarcely a quorum of members to vote these new Bardens on an already taxed to @eath people F A nation cannot live half slave and halt free it no more can live | & state of bankrupt and that is precise! where this mation is headed I would call your attention to « few excerpts from the speech of Senator Thomas, statements un challenged by his fellow senators and yet statemefts that would seem to spell the doom of this as a free nation. “The war with Germany has en talled a debt of more than $25,000 000,000 upon the United States, de manding an annual inte FAR PREWAR EXP Pinase let tha 5 Sam today is paying more in inter est on bis war debt, paying more for a thrice-dead and damned horse of debt than it cost to run the country before the war expect taxes ‘em away to come Nb with people staggering under such a burden what does the honorable senate do about lighten ing the load? Again listen to Senator Thomas making an uncontradicted charge on the floor of the senate “The spirit of extravagance on thefone hand, and of indifference the public fiscal conditions on other, Was never more apparent fn legislation than at present “Absenteeism has synchronized with the consideration of great appropriation bilis literally carrying hundreds of millions, TO WHICH §O LITTLE ATTENTION HAS BEEN PAID THAT QUORUM CALIS ARE AYOIDE: [> LEST THEY RESULT ONLY IN NE LESS DELAY.” * In short, with the country stag gering under its huge debt, with taxes forcing the cost of living to fmpossible heights, with actual bankruptcy of the government foreshadowed, our esteemed sena tors are not only hun dreds of millions lazy, 80 callou utterly lost to every that ft is a waste of time to seek to gecure enough of thern to form a quorum. mean nothing bu campaign soporifics.” And then the se “where one item of $65,000,000, to be by standing annual expense hosted thru to attract t Army vote for the G. 0. paign. He points out Milde are greased to hand $3,000,000,000 for a soldiers’ bonus fo attract the soldier vote, tho goores of exnoldier le have opposed, thin bon He Bout that congress right y passing appropriations, and Jously considering others, that af thé confisantion of wealth nation over, if even interest in ibe, paid on the country's oblign squandering but the ndifferent sense of duty ARTY leaders glib reassurance colossal economs give of es in r points out points HOSE tauit is al) this? The fault of our #ena- tors? Certainly not. The venator who makes a like that of Thomas prob- Page 19. 4 " BRIDE SAYS SHE LOVED | HER VICTIM Will Face Second Degree Murder Charges for Slay- ing Husband Murder in the second degree— homicide wiltfully committgd but without premeditation—t» the charge Prosecuting Attorney Brown filed today against Madge Anne Saw. yer, young bride Howard 1 awyer, whom Monday night near their boat anchor: age in Lake with a bullet thru his heart In bitter tears the young woman sat this morning in fier city jail cell following a day of gruelling by Cap tain of Detectives Tennant and Dep Uty Prosecuter Patterson, waiting to be charged with the crime and taken to the county jail, where she will remain until her trial. “It seems Iike years since {t all |happened,” she said T dust can’t | seem to realize he isn't coming back | to me. We quarreted, but, oh, I loved [him so! If I could only tel you |how I loved him” | Her mother and a atater. her name was Mrs. A. Wright, vis ited the girl at the city jail last |night. They left without comment | Apparently overcome. They will probably remain here for a few dave consulting with attorney | about the case before ret | to Vancouver, B.C | TWO GUNS WILL | BE IN EVIDENCE. Two guns will b> Jence at the trial—the automat which Mrs. Sawyer used and which she say “jumped” when she shot, sending the bullet hieher than she intended, and the revolver found in the pocket of Gawyer, which is expected to be the strongest « in her defense She says her husband brandished ¢ gun at her before she fired If she is icted Mrx must spend the next 10 years of he life, or perhaps all of ft, at the dis cretion of the judme, in the peniten tiary at Walla Walla.. She can not | be hanged for murder of the. second | degree | MET HER HUSBAND IN SAVOY HOTEL she led urning home pistol er bullet killed about a th He was another worms | then. It was love, she says, at firm sight. A was soon arranged and his second marriage followed nix months later, The first wife lived in Pomeroy Sawyer’s mother, described by her cused ghter-inlaw'as “fine and nder-hearted,” is living in Walla Walla, the penitentiary city, where she often entertained her son's sec | ond bride. The body, at the morgue, is being | held, awaiting word from the victim's mother. divorce aaid the girl-widow. ant to take him home to I should lke it to be made is possible, but he nd I would like to have about the burial. I would em to ask me about it first.” I Killed; Big Loss } in Texas Cyclone PATUS, Texas, May 12—One de injured ad thousand was the which and several damage a tornado five ed here brush |Poctor WINS | ROBIN FRIEND KAUKAUNA, Wis., May 12.—J. D. Lawe doctored a robin for a broken leg last summer, This spring an un: usally friendly robin appeared. Lawe identified it by a sear on the leg as the same robin . \Fire Breaks Out ate yesterday | Wire broke out aboard the | Funnel liner Ixion at Hong | according to word receive the Merchants Exchang: was extensively damaged The cargo Only @ fool tries to dodge the worst by witting down and hoping for the best wha said | ur ago in| Sawyer, writing room of the Savoy hotel. | might. | BRIDE HELD G || = BLOCKED EVERYWHERE, Above is Madge Anna Sawyer, Mrs. Sawyer sayn she met the man|™onths, as she looked on the eve of her wedding to Howard the husband she killed during a quarrel Monday Insert shows her as she pa are facing charge 8 of second degree murder. ONE MAN KILLED ROSE SOCIETY IN AUTO-PARTY, PLANNING SHOW | |Machine Turns Turtle on Sein to Be Held in For- | Way to Roadhouse | estry Building turned tur pital at 9:36 moved to the sustairic J v the face. Hoth pinned bene it rolled over twice Vera Dow, 20, voeked out First orge Baumgartner, Mrs four teeth k rin, 22, 1907 and ¢ Kye They chine Dugan told the p commissioned to stake Edmonds from a 8 nour the mobile rection | on Liner Ixion| Blue) Kone, | today by | ae His wheel wide ring app red to the city b driven by € and occupied Sheridan apartments, (Photo by Grady wind eee eat | COdaIMEN the Club read. containing a.m. Dugan uth thrown clear of the attle cafe had swerved to th Golf club to avoid an coming of the madly yards at when it suddenly turned turtle. | ‘The injured occupants were rushed | city jai | 31, second assistant) The newly o 8. 8. Kysweeka m, Wednesday on when au six persons n the city The body morgue society, west Rose the 14 Fore socie an died hos try was re shortly The are Dr well ctured skull 15 First cup in the and Cuffee were heavy car when da tra Dugan, 26, driver, to mse the ance , all exhibitor ot Edmonds, had Ruth Har Jack Sapp, 91 both of the 1 without injuries. ma ship tie trea had been party to at ia declared he of the roa auto he the dhoune W ep Nature ated if the A re of were poration Wednesday from the opposite di explained, ran off | UP road, preaking his | The machine ca. | #Y¥8te™m he highway for! miles an hour, | tu up «pital in an automobile | orie Kotk a Jap, by Rath Barbers here Harris, noon, 4 : anized formerly y, is building on the campus at a date judges for the 0,000 thi obtain their from H.C. irer’s office at t Meier Asks for Council’s Plans} of the 21-year-old bride of two the to be and R of year, u ity system to be Rainier Valley line quired by the city ar asked of the Counsel The Melor explained, an ordinance condemnation of the une! Walter V. datd is necessary, he can draw before providing ARBERS DESIRE AFTERNOON TEA NORTH HUDSON, N. Jy have 2, | for a ‘half-hour for te fone Seattle Pacific preparing fo 140 rose show to be held in the J. Gam » behind the an member: | Collier in the | Plant the cost there Rainier DAVID RODGERS SAYS HIS STATEMENT ‘Flags at Half Mast Today at Plant! Taken Over by Veteran Builder | Here’s What Dave Rodgers Says to Seattle Citizens: Redgers’ announcement fol- we io full: To the Citizens of Seattle: On account of my Inability to which would have brought to Seattle employment for nedr- ly 6900 men, payroll of $10,000,000, 1 have spent o amount of my own money in an e or to pat thix deal over and I have not onty been unable to get financial assistance but 1 have been very strongly blocked by certain business interests and confronted with obstacle so that I have become otiations. A concrete example of some of the things 1 against Is contained in the) fol lowing written to Judge BH. H. chairman of the United States Steel corporation: “Seattle is turning to the opeh » plan shipyards are to open up shortly. Rodgers, It is trying to is reported that he buy No, 2 yard of Skinner & Eddy in this city and, judging from = past experience with him, be will unionize any yard he may dering if it acquire, Lam won is possible for you fo assist 08 in any way that opens a yard ine It, as it with an annual other yards very large come to you for steel cont tude.” My shipbuilding obstacle after ed by union officials here. does so it will follow that the fluence might was not actuated by sity of employment for myself here, he will union is taken for grant If he will be forced to do the same. Iypresume that he will or your association tracts, and your in change his atti motive in again starting activities in Seattle the neces or for making large profits, but have been up sands of letter ‘Gary, extract from eral, and 1 those who will open wil plish the sai The prosperity of in indusiry Our association has been work ing with them for the open sitop, ” and I think it will be successful. We have one obstacte in our way in David Rodgers has dropped; his plans for reopening Skin- Sddy Shipyard No. 2. | Lack of financial backing is|one paper violated this reservation | the cause. It does not mean his Per-| statement as proving “feudalistic manent retirement from Se-} domination attle shipbuilding. As to other plans on which |he is now working, he refused] «that has nothing to do with it | today to comment. This followed t to § © stated his reasons for re ntracts aggregating $46,- jner &, vertiseme which |Jecting 000,000, annual Lack of bonds and |said in amplifying his written state: held up his plana, Rose | ment, North. university | | Seattle whom he announced | thrown obstacles In his way fused to comment on statements that |his plans fell thru because he posed to run imcurring enmity of controlling inter ests in the Associated Industries, About the Admiral Flags down as Fireman 1 who pulled them “death of the Seattle spirit.” | show. this year A. Currey, Py sulliger tend: | that | on | gloom. pulled | brate, hall. Rodg: torneys, dential month @ Rode by Cor Meier | for pric jeral of th for the | Valley | May 12. nen on strike ® every after this wh payroll of $10,000,000 | was in sald Al adviser, 6 cam a handful of telegrams which asked on ships, These will show you |am ready to go,” he sald | “Then who i# stopping you?” “Men uptown.” “Lam ready to deliver two ships on the big contract before the spect fied’ time," bonds you direction, Mr. David Rodgers’ Been with should not bs and appeared an article ret | life by the | H “That's wi | We weren't delivery of an ad-| Gary ttle newspapers in| anything.” F letter to Ga the efforts block him. “Do you k | ter to Gary h would have meant an 100,000 for performance her purposes, Rodgers | written . but STEEL TRUST HAS + |NOTHING TO 0 WITH IT nied the Steel trust had any: > with it bankers would not now name, n Regarding | which He said certain | business men, had He re and refu bloc pro yar thereby | on a union shop, to get Pacific wamish He refused At em headquarters, |was said tha Jup the spon; Official |They said Jwith the | abandoning ‘shortage of the | shipl & Eddy No. 2] way there was| were at halfstaff,/ this morning to Van F put it, Skinner rn, wn. the ene with at- his confi whom he hired a from Skinner & Bddy out of his office with pont | real reason. He showed sev-| » to a Star reporter whether I WASHING dent Wilson Cartier de M said Rodgers. you can get your per. are ready to ambassador, Dr, Jacobo from Id have done, written delivered specific of Seattle's Gary.” He couldn't states you know TO COMMENT It ix reported Ri Twohy building wate | mitted that this President to Meet - Ambassadors Today Uruguay, was announced at the ye Hayse. rather my purpose was to pro. vide employment for the thou unemployed and pro duce a permanent and positive prosperity for the city in gen. sincerely hope that predict the yards i be able to accom me results for the all concerned as my (éT)AVE RODGERS,” during the war, became a household name in Seattle, and achieved a good deal of fame nationally. “Dave" was given the credit for the speed records established by the Skinner- Eddy corporation in the building of ships, when “speed” was the urgent He was at the head of the construction work. Previous to this Rodgers was not widely known. He had been superintendent in » Seattle Dry Dock & Construction Co. and in various shipbuilding plants in this country, An unpretentious sort of a man, he was a good mixer with the workers, but not much of a mixer with the “higher. ups.” He was far from being a dandy. He'd wear modest clothes, not always pressed, and his derby hat usually had a stove in it. Called upon to speak at a banquet given by shipbuilders to Charles Schwab on the latter's visit here, “Dave” Rodgers’ oratéry amounted to just this: “Thank you. I can't make a speech.” And he sat down. E during the war period netted him a considerable personal fortune, vart- ously estimated between half a million and two or three millions. until his recent endeavor to re-establish the Skinner-Eddy yard, however, had he ever been in charge of the financial end of the ship- building game eR thank those of my have earnestly statement had the newspapers reservations that it © printed before noon. to the streets to the with Rodgers | d on ferring * Ae * * Did Associated Industries Balk Rodgers? Or Was He a Weak Risk Financially? Why did the expected too © shipya The vealed From Rodgers’ ment it would appear difficulty arose over his inten tion to adhere to the “closed shop” policy of unionizing the plant, The Associated Induftries, it is intimated, blocked him, other sources, it is that Rodgers was not considered a good financial man that his had been the tion end, and that ee . industrial steel trust and Judge rong.” said Rodgers. getting our steel from have prevented le indicated that the ry was cited to show in many directions to Rodgers fail to get financial backing the Skinner-Eddy to help the enterprise go th on & business basis, “This must remembered, however,” declared one banker to the is involved in. this proposition, ought not to and can: not be based upon a record of building ships speedily at a time when neither costs nor any other consideration had to be reckonéd, Rodgers’ record, while undenia bly lent in that respect, is no criterion of what he can do now, when every item of cost construc: must be weighed carefully, His calculated record prior to the war was of from a strictly business stand. no particular brilliancy. He point, he was not a good “risk” was not involved in the financial to the extent of guaranteeing worries of the institution, before; the performance of contracts’ up now he would be mightily in. to $46,000,000 valved, I wouldn't say Rodgers Bankers generally denied they didn’t have a fairly good proposi- hindered the Rodgers’ enterprise. tion, but the structure was not It is claimed, on the contrary, entirely founded on what we con: that they have done all possible sider a good banking risk.” ORDER CUT IN QUARANTINE AS SUGAR PROFIT DOPE CURE,PLAN Telegraphic instructions from eal That the “dope G4 ould be Y | separtment of justice rescinding re | ace ared a “notifiable” disease, to be patoe, De| cent confirmation of the action or |p ton pihinrbereping ey. acar- the Hetgian |the King county fair price commit: A or smallpox, was the recommendation made by ‘ today una) tee Mt allowing sugar dealers an in-|reaith Offlecr George | yr. Sparling, : creased profit, and ordering a return | Wednesday, to the margins established last win-|Dr, Sparling alsé urged” ter was received by District Attor-| here of a public di ney Robert C, Saunders Tuesday, “dope” to tl who sent the let quoted in your now that 4 ment? ‘m not telling the be “inside” reason is not re- what answer today. “A man's rating, public state. extent that that the YARDS other h been used to comment ked my plans for 4." he gaid # still hopes North Du for ring. shipyards dick exes the brothers’ plant on rway to confirm this. ney fleet corporation Securities buflding, it t “Rodgers has thrown aged to be rs had ne} relative the yard, be equipment.”” T “might not be ‘TON, May 12.—Presi- will meet archienne, at 11 a. Carela, at m. the minister 1115 a m, it