The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 5, 1920, Page 1

DISCOVER OMAN'S - x f Weather | {il Tonight and Sunday, prob- ably showers, moderate VOLUME ES southerly winds, HEADLESS BODY ATLOA f TWO CENTS IN SEATT On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise eSeattle Sta Batored as Secund Clase Matter May 8, 1999, at the Postoffice at Seattia Wash, under the Ast of Congress March 8, 1579, Per Year, by Mail, $5 to 90 Temperature Last 24 Hours Maxisnum. Minimum, 49. ‘Today noon, 61, 2 BRATIOR, “Waste, SATURM ES Soe Oy Fee WASH,., SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1920. ras IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH JOHNSON MAY TRY STAMPEDE SH VICTIM F there be against frequently generally one criticism clergy—not voiced, but 1d by the lay men is that the Preachers lack pep. Occasionally we have a Billy Sunday whé takes off his coat and preaches to a mul titude, but usu we have soft spoken, dignified gentlemen, suave ly speaking smooth phrases. To the hopeful divinity student, desirous of @tainihg a punch in his discourse, I recommend the following prayer recently delivered, offered by Chap lain Henry N. Couden before the Rational house of representatives: “Good Lord, deliver us, Thee, from that class of people passing up and down thru the land, secking whom they may de. vour; who delight in calling them selves free thinkers; who think Mttie and read less from whole- some literature, but who spend their time in sowing the seeds @f discord, hate and revenge, ever preaching free speech, free Press, free assembly where they an carry their propaganda among the credulous. ¥ are here to destroy and eat the bread of idleness. Have Mercy upon them, and create in their minds a desire to promote Peace and happiness in every home under the best government Beneath the sun. In the epirit of the Master. Amen.” I wouldn't go so far as to say In addition to the 15 newspaper and magazine stars already an nounred as covering the Chicago republican convention for this newspaper, The Star today ar ranged thru the United Preas for the services of — BRUCE BARTON, famous mag: UP | wery Work,” who will write a dally feature story, starting Mon ay LOWELL MELLETT, former Seatile newspaperman, now man aging editor of Collier's Weekly. MARY GARRETT HAY, chale- man of the republican woman's national committer, |Body Floats Ashore, 4 | Whisky Point on Hood | | ‘Nobody Hazards Prediction; Miles Hopes Lightning Will Strike Him BY H. N. RICKEY CHICAGO, June 5.—Senator Hiram Johnson declired today Canal The headless |woman, which float |at Whisky Point, on jeanal Friday night, is & |taken to Port Orchard |day for further investigat The body, it was repo1 showed evidence of been in the water for Sa ca seed |picion 0! im, janother “Blue! : \the Northwest. ived ty Deval ceiv |Corson, the tugboat J Capt. G. W. charge, dicen the when it made shore |Correspondent D Defies Soviet , Order and Visits Stricken Land Just freed from Bolshevik | Brison, 4. Herbert Duckworth, Star | reporter, today cables his first story > a ’ [from Reval, Exthonia, on conditions es | | as he finds them in Russia in 1920, | Duckworth sailed from New York | later with the Tiktnattabemtuebaes. New York Sun. in Jandary. He is attached to the Canadian Young Women) When Duckworth reached the we pray New York office of the Newspaper Enterprise sasociation, which is owned CHICAGO, June 5—What bb worked for the London Telegraph | and the Northcliffe newspapers, and! soviet officials that was in the spirit of the Master, but I will uphold it a ®pecimen of vigorous pulpit dis course against all contenders. Ww, Y wandering eye was ] | caught yesterday morn g ing by a graceless couple shuffling down Union st. The woman waa fone of those soll-bred creatures with a vacant face, humped shoulders, indrawn chest, thin, straggly hair, rough sloppy shoes; & nondescript dress bulged out here and there and was serrated at the shoulder blade line by the Keen cutting edge of an antique corset. The man was a shambly crea. ture; his hair grew down the back Of his neck and caressed his paper collar; his hat was old and too small, bis chin was of the Bndersiung type, and his joints were all loose and sadly needed Babbitting: his knuckles were knobby, and a young beard grew on the back of each battered hand. Silently they shuffled along, heediess of the crowd; their eyes fixed to the pavement head; strange, shapeless folk, in ©dd contrast to the agile, smart Gressy multitude all a them And then, just before they were gulped down by the crowd, I noticed that the had two fingers on her eft hand tucked in paw of the man; to- gether in and hatever however hard the trail, they would face ft hand in hand. I quit pitying them then; I forgot how they were dressed and how they looked I quit ing for they had som % that most of the clever crowd all about didn't have; the greatest thing the world, gnd the rarest too ut wr bare the great right they were walkin bedy and in spirit happened, and superior in HE speaki Held for Deportation Leap Eight Feet to Freedom — Smashing the padiork on the window of their cell, three wo men, held for deportation, excaped from the immigration de tention station at the foot of Union st. some time after 16 o'clock Friday night. ‘They are: | tales. Hasel Geranson, 17. | They recetve newspaper man twice 1 Lages, |a day, but are much more keen to get information from the writers Mary Jolia McClair, 30. than to give information to them. | All three of the women are The reason is they haven't any to|Canadiana held for deportation be- give cause of evasion of the immigration EVERYBODY 18 Now authorities when they entered the UP IN THE AIR United States. The joyreary and man ary McClair was agers are far up in the air | Seattle on April 26 as the rest of us | About the only thing that one may predict with any degree of cer ty is that no nomination will be made on the first ballot. After that first ballot, which probably be taken on Thursday haps not untill Friday happen At moment centers about Johnson picked up in} while Hazel Ger arrest their anson and Iren ed May o Lagee were and the evidence submitted to Wash ington. Orders for their deportation are expected daily cording to immigration authori the giris were 10 p. m. Friday by the matron. 1 were alone in their cell. When the matron made the rounds at 630 in the morning to break fast, the inmates cell were gone An open window and the missing lock told story. The window will per anything may thes. Checked the chief interest because he is |the most aggressive and forceful of the candidates. He is the stormy | petrel of the situation, and while he has not as yet demonstrated those hell-raising qualities of leadership that made Roosevelt a popular jdol, his abilities as a twofinted fighting man are not underestimate by his opponents his arrival on Johnson has talked much league of nations and about his candidacy His ultimatum to the party lead ers is that if they do not denounce| They have not been apprehended |the league in the platform, he will} A general alarm description make a fight on the floor of the| Of the girls has been sent out preparatory of the the ground There were no bars wire screening, which with the padlock This follows closely upon that of four men who got away the night of May 26 but a heavy Since Thursday wag secured about the very little! RcApE on and but no trace of them had been found at a | late hour Saturday JOHNSON MAY TRY Hearings bad been held on all three | opened on the south side of the ata} tion, with an eight-foot drop to the! | Russian border, | turned him back. “We want no more correspondents of bourgeois news. papers,” they told him. Duckworth cabled his office: “I am going to Moscow,” | And he went. | He erawied ander a barbed wire | fened at the border. On May 1) rea was arrested in Moscow, thrown) into jail, held three days, and then) deported with Swie refugees to! Narva, where he was interned. Here's his first news cable: eee BY J. HERBERT DUCKWORTH (Copyright, 1920, N. E. A) | REVAL, Esthonia, June 5.—I have) Just returned after more than three | weeks in Rusota. | I have seen the real Russia, not the Russia shown to correspondents | |by soviet officials. No other new) paperman without @ permit has crossed the frontier, reached Moscow | and returned. | | 1 spent a week in the capital at Moscow, another week in the Prkov region, and three days in a Moscow prison dungeon because I had en-| tered Russia without a permit. The of the time I spent traveling | 2t, viaiting, in all, five provinces trograd, Pskov, Tver, Novgorod and Moscow ASKED SOVIET GOVERNMENT FOR NO FAVORS My only instructions were to tell) |the truth about Ru in 1920, 1 Janked the soviet government for no| | rewt assistance and no favors, Bolsheviem ts failing. Not be cause of counter-revolutionary activ ities, but because workers and peas. | ants are starving. Conditions are steadily getting worse, and cholera, | typhus and other plagues of famine | are spreading I interviewed many alleged com munista. Some admitted that the kame was up. One man who said| he was a communist remarked that Bolshevists are good destroyers but | poor butlders | Of 600,000 registered communists. NNIE SQUIRES lacks education, but in practical af- fairs she has a gift for comprehension. Her views on matrimony are thus summed up: “A woman’s chance to get the man she wants is never better than 50-50. “When she is poor; when youth begins to fade—she must accept the discards. “Matrimony, being a gamble, may be quite as successful thru correspondence bureaus as thru personal acquaint- Annie is not the heroine of “The Sagebrusher,” but she is one of the many fine characters’ drawn by the author, Emerson Hough. Thé novel begins in The Star Monday, June 7, ‘AUTO STRIKES BOY AT PLAY IS SHORTAGE BUT PRETENSE? ‘PENROSE WON'T BE IN CHICAGO count Ishii, j Washington, has been appointed ai bassador to France. Japs for Renewal | evening. The Kitsap was notified, and the WASHINGTON, June jond session of the 6th congress adjourned finally Two minutes before adjut the senate passed the Po lution continuing and senate campaign exp vestigation. The budget bill, one of the # republican measures, failed. WASHINGTON, June 6. lie!" Secretary Tumulty sald when toid of @ published rep | President Wilson was ¢o be | Rochester, Minn., next week | operation. Tumuity authorized a flat Mother to Answer Charge of Mu NEW YORK, June 5.—Mrs. | Marino will appear in court t face a charge of mbrder for thi jing her child to death in front | automobile yesterday. Viscount Ishii Is Ordered to F TOKYO, June 3.—(Del former amb of British P. | TOKYO, June 1.—(Delayed. Japanese cabinet, at a session t is understood to have favored al of the Anglo Japanese alliance, Persians Deny Red Entry in Cap LONDON, June 5.—The legation here today officially 4 the reports that the Bolsheviki entered Teheran, capital of Persia, To Use Navy Radio. for Press M WASHINGTON, June 5.—Presh dent Wilson today signed the allowing use of naval radio for pi Follows Physicians’ Advice to Give Up Trip PHILADELPHIA, June 5.—Unit ed States Senator Boies Penrose, re- publican national committeeman and is one of the questions |"? of Pennsylvania's 12 delegates by prominént automobile men | #tlarge, wfll not attend the repub- in the city Saturday, Others charge |lican national convention at Chica that an effort ix being made by the | go, it was announced in a bulletin aoe oo tana cat ot hasheees FY" lissued by his physiclans from his In reply to this, representatives of | home here today. the Standard, Shell and Union oil| ‘The bulletin read nator Pen- eae, fe sis. hands ‘pass rose has finally consented to follow oll and gasoline that comes| the advice of his physicians and has given up the trip to Chicago.” Representatives Here Deny} Effort to Kill Competition shoftage in Seattle nda of the big oil pare the public for an advance in prices? Hubert Moore, 10, Suffers Serious Injuries years ait that in which some big new feature pot offered the public The latest thing I have noticed sis the silhouette orchestra that a New York picture palace has adopted ‘The orchestra is spotlight, that throws t Of the players on the TO START STAMPEDE The general interpretation Johnson's strategy is that he will re- fuse to be satinfied with any sorte} |plank which is put into the piat |form and wil) thus have the excuse which is necessary to invade the con. | vention In person Once on the floor of the conven ouette | tion, Johnson that he will| n just Ibe able to stampede it and win the nomination movement of the orchestra is | . | Meanwhile Johnson an a given in black impressive feanwhile Johnson and his mana id cae: “orchestral and gers are working night and day to music is the motion. I hate line up the greatest possible number of those stiff, wooden players that jot uninstructed delegates for the never musses a hair even tho he early ballots is giving @ slide trombone a per- |_,They fleure sonally conducted excursion thru } 100,000 are believed to be sincere MME CONGRESS to live and re main healthy even as a government worker on \Tells Railroad Men Solons Are Failures 2,000 rubles a month |with bread at 500 rubles a pour’. The daily ration of half a pound of bread and a pint of thin cabbage or fish soup is totally insufficient. 1 have en in soviet kitchens and linow that Moscow city is a horror WASHINGTON, President Wilson today exploded | the “bombshell” long expected by congressional leaders. if the California sen-| In a letter to railroad brotherhood ator can show increasing strength | heads he bitterly denounced the pres. with each ballot chances for|ent republican congress and charges! is Hubert Moore, 10-year-old son of Robert H. Moore, 4910 Rose ely is in the city hospital Sat- urday morning with possible in ternal injuries which may prove fatal as the result of being struck by an automobile driven yby Joe Gabalis, 38, 2123 12th ave, 8. Gabalis is being held by the police pending complete investigation of the accident and the outcome of the boy's condition. this ¢ propa by a believes SAYS COMMUNIS’ DECEIV y It in true there are a few theatres Jopen but no restaurants. Other cor |respondents who have told of Mos cow restaurants were deceived by Rolshevist officials who took them dune 5— band whose into the city, stated Saturday that his while there ts somewhat of a short the Livery Stable Yellows. I like to see a player show he's enjoy ing hime, maybe T can stir up a little enthusiasm myself, and half of the allurement of jazz is * of the leader nts have their , too, and the silhouette of a orchestra will add much iMusion of the movie. too, the general of this plan will the more ily end the existence of ful. movie “musical” groups that at presen ct every city to exist 1 piayer making the atretour merci fully withheld from him, but placed under the merctie light Vimned before the with every awkwardness, ¢ of gawkiness, cruel angle and contortion and stiffness magnified not even @ hard-hearted plumber could continue his eer of in- famy. ‘The Good Lord preserve us all from amateurs in public places, capable the darkness; each © much noise that ensemble ia | pulling off a stampede will be great. |to it these faults: lly enhanced Failure to EVEN POINDEXTER consider the problems of tho high GETS A QUIVER | cost of living of industrial unrest. ‘The uncertainty of the situation,| Fillure to revise tax laws as a whole, has given heart | Failure to make peace with }to such candidates as Harding rope present any constructive Poindexter plan for dealing with conditions there.” | In as wide @ contest as this | °°? | egislation so unsatisfac- |is now, and will: probably continue|, Paaaing lesislation so unsatisfac |to be until the nomination is made, | ‘°° Hh ne d ba ane . : thi | desi that! thare te telling OMly because I despaired of anything they . where the lightning may strike, | better ee a There are surface Indications | ne Fe inte im iy 64 | é jannwer to , that the reaction against Wood an | : 474) brotherhood heads protesting the ad- Lowden, because of their boodle tiiticn is any lewe marked than {1 |Journment of congress today without | tion on cost of living measures: has been, On the contrary, the talk | lin betel lobbies and among the po.| Wilson replied he had no hope that litical leaders generally is that the| congress would act if it continued in | that *ession, and diclared tt # stronger each day nether of them will be nominated, |/MAted by motives of political expedi- | 4 livest vice presidential boom by ‘ hed is that of Coolldge,|. The letter was also regarded as a {6 also much| forerunner of vig lord be expected talked of for secdnd place on the ffom the White House and other high democratic sources from now | en caaead on thru the conventior or open no was in no ct on or even seriously | “deplorable | if at all,| railroad | « was domi-| jto certain communist clubs. A few trolleys are running and only government automobiles. All| the big #tores are closed, One train runs daily between Moscow Petrograd railroads Travel permits are ble to obtain, It is illegal to well | food, and the people are everywhere begging for bread, Moscow residents are trading furniture, pictures, pianos, clothing and anything ob-| t able to peasants for food at the Moscow stations, WOMEN, CHILDREN LIVE | ON REFUSE SCRAPS } I saw crowds of children, men and | women picking up bread scraps | thrown from a Red Cross train. At Tver, Vishni and Volotchok | wayside stations peasants traded) milk and eggs for bread, refusing | | money. | “What do we want with money?” they asked near Tosno. I asked a farmer with a family of 2, Column 5) demoralized almost impossi ne ar | Mrs. T. | declared ‘The Moore lad was brought to the city hospital in a machine driven by H houmann, 9765 67th ave. 8, who appeared upon the scene shortly after the accident “4 noticed two automobiles stand ing in the highway ahead of mey" Mrs. Scheumann recounted to the police. “When I drew near I heard & man, whose automobile bore the license number 109776, telling Ga balis that he had struck the lad. The boy was lying beside the roadway in an unconscious condition, So I brought him to the hospital.” Gabalis told Lieut, C. ©. Carr that he noticed the boy bending over his coaster, evidently repairing it. He he blew his horn and slammed on the brakes, “1 could not avoid the accident,” reported Gabalis, “and one of the wheels passed over the boy. I was not going very fast at the time.” Coal prices in Bertin cent higher than before the war, o 1,200 per | age at present that there is no cause for general alarm over the situation They scout the idea that anything | like a gasoline “famine” will occur. | “To be sure there is a shortage | of # said Russell Petergen, as sistant sales, manager of the Union Oil company, “but there is abso. lutely no cause for alarm. I can tel! you this, we are not going to run out of g@. Just now we are dealing on a 60 per cent basis, but all our cus. | tomers are being supplied.” | John McLean, district sales man- | ager of the Standard Oil Co., was/ optimistic over the outlook. “We have a tanker coming Seattle om the 9th or 10th,” he said, “with 850,000 gallons of gasoline, | She was due on the 6th, hence we are temporarily short. But we are| still ®elling gas and will continue to do so, ‘Two other tankers are due on the 17th and 27th of month, he asserts. The Standard Oi) company is limit ing pleasure cars to three gallons and trucks to 10 gallons Saturday. into The statement was signed by Drs Herbert B, Carpenter, Alfred Sten- gel and Charles B. Penrose, JAP WONDERING YET WHAT OLSON TOLD THE COURT “Taka-hashi kumbo sissa suz0 miyi miya,” quoth Attorney Geo, Olson. S. Hayashi, convicted of attempt. ing to pass a $10,000 forged check on the First National bank of Au burn, understood thereby that Judge Calvin S, Hall had sen- tenced him to d@rve from two to 15 years in Walla Walla prison. At least, Olson says he did, Olson represented Hayashi, No interpreter was present when Hayashi waa up for sentence Sat urday, so Olson volunteered to fact as such, Hayashi was taken back to the county jail, wonder- ing what it was all about. Re be hirad at. and pvc wa bennemaniz:2) > Re. house today repassed the budget bill, ~ minus the clause which caused — dent Wilson to veto it late yesterday, The bill was at once sent to the — senate, which also is expected to act on it shortly. Sen. Knox Favors Sproul Candidacy WASHINGTON, June 5.—Senator Philander Knox, of Pennsylvania, to- day came out tor Governor Sproul, of Pennsylvania, for the republican ~ presidential nomination, T waren sin SHUT-OFF Ni Water will be shut off — all of South Park supplied 8 the tank on Beacon ave, see, June 6,