The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 2, 1920, Page 1

dwell now h Mayor Cal Pd Five thousand do Moore’ vestigate There ———— pA AARAR ADAP PPD errr is offered him by s ordinance to use In any W the street railway purché has been a lot of talk and a lot of insinuations, ane the opportunity of his life | Councilman | } y he sees fit to in ie. and a lot of “passing the b the Moore ordinance—and uck,”” there is no r If the council passed on why it should not-——-Mayor Caldwell can get down to brass tacks to real action, Caldwell has had years of experience in the prosecut- PAP PPP PLP PLP APA AKE THE $5,000, MR. MAYOR! pep AAPA PRP RRP ap pac rar trac ing attorney's office and as corporation counsel. Both by training and by actual contact with city af- fairs, Mayor Caldwell is well qualified to pursue this in- vestigtaion Certainly, no one else in Seattle has as much incentive to make good on such probe. PPP PPD PADD AD DAA RAD DAA PPP PPP PEEP PPP PPP PEPPER P PPD RE PEPPER EPP PPP PP PRPPD ADP PPP EPPA PPA PPP PPP PEPE PPP PPP PEPPER AAA Caldwell is wasting his time—and the city’s time trying to foist the job on either the corporation counsel | or the city council. “If you would have a thing well done, do it ‘ake the $5,000, Mr. Mayor! yourself.” Weather 1 Thursday, fair warmer; gentle north to east winds, Temperature Last 70. Today noon, 70, Maximum i Hours Minimum, 51, “Si ae os = Sen las IT SEEMS TOME 41} DANA SLEETH iters repeat, uman inter vid make an ad aa in aresting as a front page fea fren the chance Suppose, now fachy ad for a phonogray Would you write the usual du matterof-fact wash about the ton ial qualities, the beauty of finish, ithe singing voice, the acoustics of te Of course you ‘t. Here's the way to do it “Havana, Cuba.—The city today hing over a joke that was y. Havana is not om the joke’ is on but ‘a geod joke, anyway. "Wier Caruso, while here for pera season, practices each in his grand suite Bate Ua. Each mornir er before his windows | Eile teely what they must pay 7 Ba wat to bear in the evening “Sme practical joker, f MaR of course, recen ‘ ley phonograph, and for an hour 7 Caruso rec during the Mme of Caruso, and delighted fy Me crowd. Several critics in the hey had never heard © voice, and every remark 9H volume and clearness of his ‘tones. you were to write a for an Amer secured a on the “hh was later discovered Crus was some m Mi time, « t ie rt bas impounded the phono ph and sternly reprimanded the ner” Sow, that's my idea of a phono Ph 24. Also, it is a true story, ported by a Havana correspond pat of Mus a, but that be trcide that HE phonograph, the au tomobile, the fi ma chine. the th RF n in iS. Caesar w, d- Ma chariot ari preg SE ar f ols te circus a Fistotle woy ro The pomp and pow Bet Were it in apie Mitied on the scree rad Arabian nights, in ¢ t ; Beem ot fact alt about u but we eg PING around with our noses ve oy inert in the midst te eee ‘ 3 HIS largely in the fault of 4 Amonianhe fis fiction writer og ue ie OOP ET Of imaginatio, Laied 4b of telling the story of > imiagi- On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise e Seattle Sta Entered ae Beoond Class Matter May & 1 WASH., W At the Postotfice at Beattla Waeh, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, ° LATE | EDITION DAY, JUNE 2, 1920. “TWO C IN SEATTLE IS TENDERED CALDWELL Ordinance Provides $5,000, to Aid Mayor in Investi- | gating Car Deal Counciiman William — Hickman Moore introduced the regular meeting of the city coun- \ Tuesday appropriating’ $5,000 to} enable Mayor Caldwell to direct per-| sonally an Investigation of the $15. an ordinance at 000,000 street ruifway purchase. The ‘bill will come up for hearing before! the finance and utilities committees! this week. } Moore's ordinance was introduced nto the council after a communica- tion from Mayor Caldwell had been read, urging the council to authorize the corporation counsel to make a sweeping investigation into the trac tion deat and declaring that the mol tifarious duties of the mayor's office made it impossible for him to ferret out the facts and circumstances sur- rounding the railway purchase Moore's ordinance was considered by political observers as a slap at the mayorality wrist Moore was a member of the coun- cll at the time the street car system was purchased and attended the con- ferences when the deal was closed. Seattle Boy, 13, Is Held in Portland RTLAND, Ore., June 2.--Alleged passed two forged cheeks in atte and three in Portland, John Radey, 13, is under arrest here. | The bay is charged with forging the name of Mrs. Elizabeth Parry superintendent of a local children's home, he having formerly been an inmate of the institution. Young Radey’s parents live in Seat tle. Miners, Operators Agree to Arbitrate WASHINGTO? June 2.—Secre of Labor Wilson today will no- President Wilson that anthra miners and operators have agreed to submit their wage differ to a commisivon which the president will appoint POF tity Arrest Horseman as Liquor Smuggler DIEGO, Cal., June 2.—J. P. well-known horseman, is un. SAN Atkins der arrest here tod acused of smuggling liquor acrose the border He was released on $2,400 bond, aft before United States Andrews. er a hearing Commisisoner Sub-Postoffice | for East Pine St. A $15,000 masonry substation will » erected for the postoffice depart on the northwest corner and E. Pine #t Delaware Turns Down Suffrage Del, June 2.—The lower of the Delaware legislature defeated the ratification of the wo man suffrage amendment by @ of 24 to 10, ending a struggle whieh DOVER house has lasted ever since the special ses-| sion of March Motion was made to go into com mittee of the whole to consider suf | frage. a was voted down, thus blocking roll call on ratification it velf and kisiing it my wares so that the public spirit | might be uplifted. To the genius there is nothing common about a shaving soap that will really soften a barb-wire en- tanglement of whiskers #0 it can rased with a few deft swipes of razor. A Homer would be none too able a bard to sing the glories of a corset that really makes mother look twenty ars younger. And #0 on. | ‘The romance of today is in busi | noms ’ MAY HOLD UP LIGHT ORDINANCE Mayor Caldwell to Confer With Ross Before Sign- ing Measure Whether the ordinance passed Tuesday ineteasing city light and power rates approximately 20 per cent will be signed by Mayor Caldwell will depend on his investigations inte the neces sity for such a move, the mayor announced Wednesday. Before I sign the bill I wish to confer with Superintendent of Light ing J. D. Ross and some of the coun cilmen,” Caldwell dectared. mt Rows have gone on record as ap. Proving the construction of an 8,500.) foot tunnel at Cedar Fails, which it | is declared would obviate the neces- | sity of increasing the rates. | “The increase in rates would bring jim an increased revenue of approxi | mately $730,000,” Rons axserted. “If the proposed tunnel was constructed Jat the Cedar river dam, it would | mean that a great part of the load would be taken off the city’s steam Plants at Lake Union. The present bill for fuel of] for the steam units is over $500,000 a year.” CALDWELL WILLING TO TACKLE JOB Commeyting on the ordinance tn troduced by Judge Moore, Mayor Caldwell declared Wednesday that he would undertake the probe of the street car deal if the bill was passed by the council. “The city charter, however, gives full supervisory contro! of euch in | vestigations to the corporntion coun sel” he said. “It seems a neediexs expense to appropriate $5,000 to con duct the probe, when the city a ready possesses complete machinery in its legal department.” . Redpath on State Commission OL PIA, June 2 The appoint ment of Mrs, Lucy E. Redpath, of | Olympia, to succeed Mra. W. 8. Griv as member of the | wold, of Seattle state industrial welfare commission jovernor Hart is announced by N° PREJUDICE | IN HIS HEART | COLFAX, Wash. June 2.-~They |were getting a jury to try Jons O'Connor's damage case against the First National bank “Would the fact that O'Connor once was convicted on liquor charges prejudice you?” axked the Not if Mr. O'Con tendency to divvy,” pective juror Mr. attorney r showed a said the pros |Want Farms for | Ex-Service Men ' Roth the mayor and Bunerintend. | DEATH OF 4 HUSBANDS WOMAN BLUEBEARD! This ad appeared in “Hearts Aflame,” a matrimonial pa- per. It brought a man and a woman together, yet thé man neither wrote the ad, nor did the woman answer it. It sent her half way across the continent, and it made the most slovenly person in Two Forks valley, Montana, buy a new suit. But it did more—much more. The story is that of “The Sagebrusher,” by Emerson Hough, author of “The Way Out,” “The Man Next Door,” “The Girl at the Halfway House,” ete. Says Mexico Is | Friendly to U. S. 108 ANGELES, June 2.—Baido | mero A. Almeda, newly appointed | governor of the northern district of | Lower California, arrived in Los An | eeles today, where he has made his | home for several years and issued a | statement in which he declared that It begins in The Star Monday, June 7. ‘BUILDING WORK HOTEL GUESTS ~ SLACKS: LITTLE Strike Affects Only the Fire “Hybrid” Jobs | Destroys: Adjoining Auto Repair Shop | donee furahe tx Maen nie will take his post “with the fixed| Building work has slacked up lit-| Guests of the Winfield hotel, at men now taking agricultural| purpose of maintaining amity and/ tle because of the strike of building) mignth ave. and Barker st., fied courses, have been forwarded to| most friendly relations between resi J caeggel — Petscsigap Niort Ne their rooms in thelr night Washington by Elmer J. Noble|dents of the two sister republics of | 110°" 004 Pan as “S\elothes during one of three fires ner ree Ameren Legion the United States and Mexico.” | Jobs where are workers were|that occupied the attention of the Young Disclosing what he believed was a plot on the part of his wife deliber- ately to murder him, R. Williams, 70 Years old, formerly of Moorehead, Minn., started sult here today to di voree Mary Anrt Williams, Williams recently recovered trom a severe iiiness and gave his wife $1,000, on which she is said to be spending a vacation in Calffornia, after an alleged attempt to poison him Her sole reason for marrying him, he became sick. He says he thinks Bride Accused by Aged Husband of Plot to Poison Him the illness walk brought on by a dose jot some drug Mra, Williams put into his food, with the intention of get ting him out of the way, | While he lay in his bed, hovering between life and death, Williams | says, his wife went to a store and bought erape and other articles of mourning. These, he says, she ex- | hibited to him boldly, gloating over | the fact that she would soon be wear | ing them, Fortunately, he recovered, and his; trate her alleged plot. non-union men and jobs where they) fire department early, today &re all union men were not affected) — imames destroyed a frame’building Bye. sation At the unions. It) gcoupied by an auto repair shop, y on “hybrid” jobs, where/parner shop and, soft drink stand both union and non-union men had) a 3913, Eighth ave, S.. adjoining | been employed that | work un nmen quit! tne Winfield, but the hotel itself | was merely scorched. The loss w | $5,000 | Another fire on the tugboat J. A Boyden, near the Colman dock, and a small blaze in the kitchen of the |Good Eats cafeteria were quickly Acquit Druggist of Booze Charge S. B, Damon, proprietor’ of a | Unton st. drug store, was found not jextinguished with negligible loss. | guilty of the alleged sale of alcohol by a jury in the United States dis | r ee trict court, Tuesday afternoon |Claim Cider Was Andy Hydes, an expressman, was | Not Entirely Soft found guilty on the same charge Final disposition of his case is sched-| [formation against KE, J uled for Monday, |nux and W. Wilmers, for alleged om s | sale of anti-prohibition cider at their |Army Money Bill Pine st Goes to Wilson Ternie | “soft” drink emporium, 5 | was filed in the United States dis- triet court Wednesday morning | five years ago, (i Moorehead, Wil-| first act, he ways, was to hand his} WASHINGTON, June 2.—The| Wederal prohibition officers claim liame ways he believes, wae to get his | wife a check for $1,000 vacation mon:|army appropriations bill carrying|to have found 810 gallons of cider money, They moved to this city and) ey to finance a trip South and frus- | $395,000,000 was passed by the senate testing all the ‘Way from .92 to 3.68 and sent to the White House today. per cent on the premises, GIVEN SCARE: LAID TO AGED CHARMER TELLS IN COURT HOW THEY DIED State Alleges “Murder Factory” Run by Woman Whose Marital Exploits Rival Harvey’s BY LORRY A. JACOBS ‘SOUTHAMPTON, Mass., June 2.—Mrs. Anna Tomaskie- _wiez, the strange woman “Bluebeard” of South Hadley, was ‘preparing for her sixth husband when her fifth “spouse ‘died. Mike Djurizzko, a boarder was to be her next ‘husband, according to testimony in the case. | Mrs. Tomaskiewiez had already tried to obtain insurance made out in her name for M é The Polish insurance agent refused to accept the appli- Se cation and it was this fact; . * that led to the unearthing of Cupid Twice as Busy Tuesday as |her tangled career. |HAD FIVE HUSBANDS, June 1 ‘Last Year Cupid has evidently improved RECORDS SHOW { Records in the case are almost 8/1). °° aim since last year. There strange as those of Bluebeard Har . ; were 57 marriage licenses issued vey She has had five husbands, as|} 1% Stompective Juie. teins Mie Sects MALEZYK-——Diea of tu-|] Stidesrooms on.June 1, while on yh a Jun 1 1919, the total only berculosis in Chicago. It was this) | 02S f-) y husband, a cobbler, who, according to} Mrs. Tomaskiewtez, “dried up like a) toothpick” and whose shop she RODGERS’ FIRM for $2,800. ALEXANDBR DOLINSKI—Left! her after spending 13 months in a hospital suffering from arsenic pot- soning, and from whom she has never obtained a divorce. THEODORE DARMETKA—Died of arsenic poisoning one year after marrying her. PETER BILOS—Also year after marrying her ANDREW TOMASKIEWIEZ — Died 11 months after his marriage The woinan’s shrewdness and her) unbelievable power to attract men} of her class in spite of her age and Disincorporation Asked in the Superior Court died one Articles of disincorporation for the David Rodgers Shipbuilding and Drydock Co, were asked in superior court Wednesday by Attorneys George H. Walker slovenly appearance, were shows Ht. Ume after, time in the trial and Robert B. Walkinshaw. Hearing on the petition was | TRUCK FARM CALLED ost. fer Auguet Sth by dudes |*MURDER FACTORY” Mitchell Gilliam. Almost as soon as she married} tq meeting of the cérporation each of her victims, she secured in-} at 741 Central building Tues- held surance for him. With the proceeds was decided to disincorporats of the insurance of her first and/or “the best interests of the com- third husbands she bought the truck | pany, farm at South Hadley—which, the |state charges, became a “murder| Te company 1s incorporated at factory.” $2,000,000. The farm was within a stone's} David Rodgers, former stperin- |throw from the cemetery where two|tendent of the Skinner & Eddy lof her husbands now lie buried. yards, returned to Seattle this By the woman's own testimony,| spring, after an absence of a year, three husbands who died suffered|and announced his intention of re the most terrible agony, begging|opening shipbuilding operations here. He secured Skinner & Eddy yard No. 2 from the shipping board. It was reported that Rodgers had contracts that would keep 6,900 men employed for two years. “t have been blocked,” Rodgers announced a month ago. He aban- dened all shipbuilding plans. Wood Advocates Universal Primary CHICAGO, June 2.—A universal primary day, whereby voters in all states will express their preference |for president on the same day was dvocated here today by Major Gen- 1 Leonard Wood Wood, in an interview with news: paper men, blamed the high cost of campaigns on the present primary ystem, LOW MILKMAN; | continually for water to quench the burning thirst, alleged to have been caused by arsenic poisoning. And a fourth—the lucky Alexander Dolin-| |ski, of Cleveland—from whom she| [failed to get a divorce, testified that| | physicians gave him no hope for his| jlife when he was suffering from arsenic poisoning TELLS OF SUFF ER! UNQUENCHABLE THIRST Mrs. Tomaskiewiez, on the witness stand, described without a shudder, the suffering of each husband, em- phasizing their unquenchable thirst. She emphatically denies however knowing anything about the arsenic and paris green found at the house after the death of her last husband The trial is causing no end of ex- citement in the staid old town in the Berkshires and the court room has} been filled ever since it opened The trial is the third murder trial | er in 35 years in the county, both of the former’ cases having resulted in rae executions woman has ever met | SPEEDY THIEVES death on the chair in Massachusetts.) SPOKANE, June 2.--You know | Major Hammond, district attorney | how long it takes a milk-driver to of Southampton, is not at all sure|make a deliver that he has complete record of Mrs./ was delivering a quart of milk Henry Well, while one |'romaskiewlez’s marriages. She has! Wilkin Svans jacked roved in practigally every state inj up the wt removed a New England and lived with» her|tire and trundied it down the street various husbands in New York.) Cops arrested them later and they’ Pittsburg, Chicago, Hartford, New| go to jail unless Ralph DePalma p= Britain, Chicope: and South Hadley, pens to want a couple of quick men Boston, Albany int the pits and bails ‘em out rm ae eat | eB