The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 14, 1920, Page 1

Tonight anc sionally rai um, 67, Today souther Temperature Last 74 F ba ¢ Weather Tuesday, mn; occa- moderate ly winds, Mi Noon, 6 Entered On the I. as Second Class Matter May %, 1899, at the Postoffice at Se attle, Wash. under the Act « gress March 3, ue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromi eSeattle Star Per Your by Mal (i EDITION ATE VOLUME 23. AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SL SLEETH OLOMON there der the cxpressions right- was sun. of new m of of communication mew types of thought ment, of people, of phi humor, of art; all these changed in the slightest | Bands of years. For instance, silly “popular intense pain? Do you hate the sickly swe sentimentality ant ¢ platitudinous Vaporings. gnd the exh mea are but govern losophy hav thou does the ballad give average you an Peant, and the light wit, near hu pmor of the hack song writers? Well, so did the ancients; listen to this, written in Nero's time by PAweullus, concerning 4 deceased Huneker, of of popular songs. of Ame 1 crit F tes," couldn't ao tabunsece be r Justice. “EBwtychides, who wrote the songs oe Has Weft the realms of day: "Tis time that you who dwell below Should haste to fly away. And even a dozen lyres He ordered to be burnt with him Amid his funeral fires five and twenty boxes filled ‘on's bowt *has crossed the atream Youll have him with you soon | But where in future we shail vo The dead will have no refuoe now, With Eutychides im he see Fj Pe} ERE'S another problem musical critic: What makes one song eternal and ten thousand others but passing interest? ‘to us like a burr while twenty nd other songs have died? are not deeply concerned these sixty years in the fate of Old it was original with Foster, is not much. Why does “Nellie Was a Lady” remain a keystone in the col been scores of songs about that have died, but endures. Somebody hére may remember | O'Grady”; twenty years ago it was “as popular as “Bubbles” or “Long Trail” is today. And the music of Wt has a lit, a rhythm and joyous- Rave excelled, but Rosie died and fm a short halt decade. eee 8’ IT likely that more Merry Widow” will be written In the next ten years? It i not, yet the Widow has gone along with ) tho the sentiment of the latter Bong is distinctly obsolescent it had a dahdy tune I have a five hundred page dog- that was published thirty years or mor ago, and that has some fifteen hundred songs in it, ranging from Haydn to “Nellie 1,500 hardly can be found fifty Phat would be recognized by the Majority in the average audience of today. And yet many of these bate wittier and have more melody fm them than most of our popular > truck. If this community singing spirit 1g leaders should exhume these forgotten melodies and instil the spirit of true folk lore in the people; that way we might, within mate a great folk lore treasure P trove of our own. To this time Most of Gu- musical composition fias been waste motion, written to He's coming with his odes, he is, With many @ vulgar tune. I really cannot tell; for some philosophical a Why should “Old Black Joe” Joe, and the music, even if Wife of the nation; there music of “Sweet Rosie Ress that few cf the lighter songs catchy music than. “The “Under the Anheuser Busch.” and eared, tattered, coverieas old song Was a Lady,” and among the ola English concert hal! ballads i geally takes hold of the nation, the coming hundred years, origi day, sung tomorrow, forgotten the next day, and, aside from Cad jman and Foster and a few more, nothing left behind for posterit Ror for an upbuilding of a ea for a week live for two thou- A speech ‘gong may east wand years, an gand million folks million Ames. AWAIT WORD OF KIDNAPED BOY Ransom Letters Received by! gladden a thou ten thousand mt | Levy Offers Benefit Show m seat “Salesgir Beauties Ar } | i { all exrpens to New York and return. Eugene Levy, manager of Levy's theatre, hin staff of stage-hands, ushers and other attendants and his whole company of players to be uned next Monday night at a spec bene fit performance for the Scott Kiddie | Fund. As an ton, The the appear or fashion sh by C. W the Metropolit company, and booster. This will especially Star invites alluring attrac all Seattle en before the picked by the Coughlin Parents PHILADELPHIA that they have heard from ductor of Little Blakely Coughlin month-old boy kidnaped from hia E home in Norristown, June 2, was ex June 14 Reid | the ab 13-} 4 by the parents when a letter tenarked Atlantic City, N. J., was feceived by them early today | ‘The writer demanded $6,000 ran-| gor. The Coughlins say the the sender privately will deal) About the only fault the average n has to find with ber past is it's too long. the wame price per acre, Total. . see stage >w number, as sug) Twiss, local an Life Scott Kiddie Judges to jegfeld's natic Miss Cillia B. Kehoe, 3246 42nd ave. S. W., employed in the} , underwear department of the Fraser-Paterson store, is one of the entrants in The Star contest to pick Seattle's repre- sentative in the Ziegfeld national salesgirls’ beauty contest, the winner of which will receive $100 a week for 12 weeks in a Ziegfeld beauty show and a Mayflower photoplay, with! paid for herself and chaperon from her home city salesgiris who have entered or may Orpheum, today offered The Star his|enter the Ziegfeld beauty contest to “ on ‘ “ay he a special | fronting him. Without « word, it is te manager Insurance Fund} I give people of their home | city a chance to wee the young wom most handsome one représent |Seattle in Zi swide | | search for the most beautiful sales is naw ide 40044 54 Cc. Ewing Co. SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, JUNE , 192 TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE "SHOOTS HUSBAND; “DOESNT KNOW WHY” ited to “Appear : Wil Help the Scott Fund WIFE TELLS DETECTIVES Effie Reynolds Attacks Hus- | band in Hospital; Divorce | Suit Is Pending Mrs. Effie Reynolds, a brown. | haired little woman, who tipped the scales In the Bertillon room at police headquarter, at 59 pounds, sat dejectedly in Cap- tain of Detectives Charies A, Ten- nant’s office today, her left eye bandaged and pale of face, and told hin she was sorry she had | shot her handsome, strapping husband, Alger J. Keynolds, carly this morning in the basemem of the Swedish hospital here. With @ bullet scrateh on his head and a hole In one leg, Reynolds lies on a cot in the city hospital recuper ating from hin wife's ewift attack Reynolds is 36, his wife 31. Their family trouble dates back about a month, when he ix said to have left her and filed suit for divorce. There ord of the pending divorce in unty Reynolds obtained employment at! the Swedish heepital as night en) kineer. His wife also got @ position there, but neither knew of the other's presence in the hospital until last night, when they met unexpect Ped in a NaNway, his complaint, on May 18, thé arrested Mra, Reynolis for} thréatening his life She told the polleé the threat was made in a mo ment, of anger, and she had no in tention of injuring her husband. She | wag released on her personal recog: he told the policeman she Jeaiou of another woman. 1 Seven days later Mra. Reynolds as found toting a gun and was again arrested. The revolver was taken away from her and the case was ndefinitely continued on the court! salendar, It in till pending. | THO WOUNDED, HE | LDS ON TO HER | About 145, as Reynolds was pass. ing from the engine room to another basement room, hin wife stepped sud- \denly out from behind a door, eon: | i |mald, whe opened fire | Reynolds grabbed her by the gun| of | hand and held her wrist, groaning #0| joudly he was heard by Harold Van | Dayton, living at 804 Summit ave. Jacrons the street, and led her up the| stairs, whete he handed her over to| a group of frightened nurses before lhe collapsed. He was taken to an upstairs room nd later removed to the city was in the parlor car with sonators' could tell how it was goin; urn to Page 7, Column SORRY NOW, M issing. Woman Delays Sawyer Trial State to Watch Accused Murderess. for Symptoms | of Insanity Defendant Keeps Up Hope in Her Cell Madge Anna Sawyer, at the barred window of her cell, waiting for the trial that will! nd kis wounds hurriedly dressed, | mean freedom or continued incarceration. NEWPLAN {Would Charge Ten Cents. | Fare for Those Who Fail to Buy Tickets Whether Seattle street car patrons will pay five, seven or ten-cent fares ‘was “up in the air” Monday as the result of a new gcheme fostered by Councilman William Hickman Moore to raise the fare to ten cents. A seven-cent-fare ordinance, in troduced by R. H. Thomson, | was scheduled for final action | before the council Mofiday aft ~ ernoon. | At an informal caucus of | members Monday morning cn providing for a 1 cash fare or four “tokens” for jcents was under discussion. a the amended ordinance would | placed before the council if a fitient number of votes could j assured, was the opinion of servers. pproval Seven votes and the {the mayor would be place the ordinance on the books. Mayor Caldwell declared that he did not approve of *| proposed bill. He declined to whether he would sign the if passed by the council, WOULD AVOID USE OF PENNIES Caldwell stated that the disp would be too great between cent cash fare and the 6% “token” fare. Councilman Moore declared tl his proposed ordinance is designed get a 10-cent fare from the rider only, and would avoid in pennies. I would give stéady riders privilege of buying ‘tokens’ at four” for 25 cents, eight for 50 cents and 16 for $1," Moore €xplained, “Under the terms of the on I have suggested, the cagh which will affect only the casual tron, would be fixed at 10 cents, where there are two, the cash would be 15 cents.” Moore declared that his p measure would really reduce the ft under that of the Thomson nance, as far as regular riders Were _ concerned, as they would only to pay 6% cents instead of the 7-¢ fare, “The system of selling n would al8o go away with the great delay and inconvenience to patrons: in making penny change, Moore: pointed out if Councilman R. H. Thomson was consultation with Moore Mt ¢ girl ; londay |" All the money derived trom the| hospital for consultation of doctors | While beautiful Madge Anna/ bride, was to have gone to trial! Deputy Prosecutor T. Hiram Pat-|morning. He declared that if the 6% sale of benefit tickets will be added |&t 4 O'clock, to determine whether it/ Sawyer, murder case defendant,| this morning for killing her hus-/terson represented the state, |cent fare plan was adopted, he waa to the fund to save the widow of | *oUld be necessary to operate |spent another morning of anxious} band, Howard 1. Saw 4 young | Patterson has been given the task /in favor of charging for t 4 Robert C. Scott, iate deputy aherift,| Ya" Dayton, from a telephone) waiting in her cell today for the| inventor, near the moorage of their] of appearing for the state in the|except when the straight 10-cent fare | — who Waa killed in a punfight with |2cross the street, summoned the! opening of her trial, detectives, sher-| motor-yacht Hydra on Lake Union, | trial of Mrs, Sawyer, was charged, in which case transfers: Sand Point Field Purchased) hichwasm and hee, tend Matin cht Sorat aren’ 1 eaigoreann geo ay. ure deputies and lawyers continued the morning of May 10. > | SEARCH FOR pyro ce ae parts Gren, trom being forced’ apeyt thro c ene, arrested! fruitless statewide search for a| Rut Prosecutor Fred C. Brown| MISS KNETTLE CONTINUES ‘ouncilman R. B. Hesketh declared at $895 an Acre Gestitetion |the wife, and made a hurried invest!:/ woman of equal beauty, Bessie) obtained from the court f continu:| Her trial wax scheduled to begin| that he was opposed to the 10.cent ™ 4 1a Sa baba Shs Seotiamaanoh .wik'| Sisatia. one auras teen tee cat ens vanished witness. nee of her case until another im-/at 1:30 this afternoon, The hunt for| fre. Oliver T. Erickson is oppoged: ey nm the| hoped the performance eynolda had stood when firing a . 7 40 ‘months’! porta’ wan finished c F Seattle definitely on thel aaa , Bat $1,000 to the propoved|her husband, Denach found a wo-| mu" awyer, a three months’! portant trial was finished in whi m_whleh | Mins Knettle, divorced first wife of | Kodi raise In fares on the municipal” aviation map of the country and! $5,000 fund chats hakdierdhiet With w hole in it dawyer, will continue, in the hope of opening the way to future commer. | Meanwhile The Star will continu he is believed to have used it to poli -? with vd ns — com- cial tr re, the board | to receive individual contributions to|cover her revolver. ar in e urns (6) for cig areal suise worsen amas at eed of county commissioners purchased | {0 pointy ipo! ware ba nr — as ee cee ow | ‘The search, begun in Spokane, ‘g mee: rine | speed « possible in order to keep : GOT C | m ; okane, F. the Sand Point airplane site Mon-|the tatherless Scott family together.|° tekem to the Bertillon room to e ‘ | where she had been living with a day morning Left utterly pennilews, Mrs, Scott/have her picture taken for the police Qa l a S ea prise chines ee wee : The airdrome purchased by the) has found a temporary shelter for! gallery and to be finger-printed and 5) 9 on auickly spread to Walla ‘ commissioners consists of 219 acres| her four-year-old daughter and six |measured for the records, Mrs, Rey ng whore «Migs “Snstite "Bas ad north of the city on Lake Wash-| year-old son in the home of a friend | nolds refused to discuss her case fur common ned nda and relatives, and to + tor gon] mls fie herself has taken a Job in) ther or renuous or | Pomeroy, whe ® her father, N. D. and wax obtained for $895}a department store, a position she| she said she had no idea how she Bee kt oncbeteon D Is Testi the total price being some-|cannot hold any length of time ow-| got a cut ove iat Wk ee he suddenly disappeared in’ Spo- lempsey, Is Testimon’ uae ranider Gaeabe Vin uo vere rae etme em] cut over her right eye, which] BY RAYMOND CLAPPER | wives and other women on the train.| kane’ week Ago leaving not cee ae Fitty eres owned by the county, [leas other’ relies igihtOneee Bho wil her ‘dpnivate 16 Hata £00 the pedi WASHINGTC June 14.—Sena-| Senator Harding peeled off his coat) a forwarding address for her mail,| SAN FRANCISCO, June 14.—Testhe_ escery the old county stockade,| be forced to give her children up tolr ord with firm hand, but com. ('?" i i . Me 7 st oe Laker pra euiee & oe Refers in his|In some way, it was learned, she|Mony tending to show that Jack — was traded in by the commission-| some institution or foster parents. | plained after the 15 snatute that} eo ome ee tenet eee pally a he Sunday pa-| had been apprised the , Dempsey wanted to enter the Be pia wey denser wee « natitution or foster parents, | plained after the 15th signature that/ 1, capital today preparing for the| pers, swapping stories with other | he called as a pager tliee nc . A tod h onvine Be ers on the deal for approximately |) aRGEsT SINGLE her fingers were tired. | called as a witness, and probably | Was introduced today at the heaygs sARGES GLE i _ 4 |coming cami n, Senator Harding | senators who dropped in and sipped | would be call ‘| weight champion’s trial in the federal $68,000. | SUBSCRIPTION TODAY I shot him,” she told Captain ‘Ten ate eae ten Pi id be called upon to reveal the | Weight chamy in % No money will be paid out by the} ™™ ” 7 nant later, “I don’t know why, I'm] WII rem ee kata iaaatioltes Tit ties cates : ,| details of her life as the first |court here on a charge of conspiring county on the principal for the next! The largest single subscription tolsorry now that I did It ried ~ sdetine With woue oom Pe Bye She aera haem yrs: MY | wife of the murdered man, to evade the draft. ose, 15 var eee t vac Pre pein hase cy > a ae holes of golf at Chevy Chase ctuh, |te ire ertiis. Later nearly ali], Altho Prosecutor Patterson said Reger gy er? scalpel * eee sa in, the budget will be increased| the Overland Transfer company “ys “ “ ; a 2 tp | he wanted Miss Knettle here to| the U- 5. 8. ssissippl test by $6,500 pee credited toaay, Old Potatoes Drop ibe I he ah anybody to play with ae nee i got autographs from! prove his contention that Sawyer ener told him, “I tn — ‘The original proposition was to Is roup of eight wo , pathy cbr ay iar “mere : a : ee so many men in uniforth, os se beh gve the, me t's 00.000 for | $5.50 porch Mf ad th solediveat: de § rf on Chicago Market | Ginersise the day wilt be taken up| Harding chatted at length with} bo Kenge iaidacs of cunrreres waatan oe a the service, toa ron on a ca hile ipl: ‘i “ Santee iti aia’. CMICAG c é 08 packed, sorting orresponde: state ell. | re disposition, Attorney (Ka. | “4? ; . the purpose of acquiring Sand Point. | Widow with two daughters went §15,| CHICAGO, June 141d potatoes) with getting unpacked, sorting mail| correspondents in his stateroom tell-| arg CG, Hee eounse ter tiene | Kennedy shld this conversation, Practically all civic organizations | explaining "$5 for each of us.” dropped from $2.50 to $3 per bushel| and receiving visitors. He expects | ing stories, analyzing his emotions | ’ n F the del took place while Dempsey was ape have.been behind the movement to| $ 10.00}, the Chicago produce market to-|to be at his office in the senate| during the last dramatic 48 houns,|fens®. Says Miss Knettle will be.| searing at’a boxing show “at the vcquire a landing field for Seattle. | widc ot sere +8 10.00] aa. Heavy receipts was the reason | today |and talking shop. He is a publisher |!f She can be found, a star witness |Great Lakes naval training station, As a sted ot tha: ootsald pel <Ouc ee 15.00 given by dehlers, New potatoes were| He arrived here early today from and the conversation got off on the| fr Mrs. Sawyer, and would cor-| “Accordingly,” said the witness, “E ‘imate ee on ten way kel Lanrdens i in heavy receipt, but prices remained| his triumph in Chicago, literally in| question of the print paper shortage, | Teborate the fair young defendant's | wired to the San Francisco draft” heat a dabnmuted cantort, widen nn firm at $8 to $8.75 per hundred-| his shirt sleeves, and slipped on his| Harding will go ahead leisurely | try that Sawyer was not only |poard and had Dempsey released and for miceladad, 1 wae Baclared Mou-LA: Me. Ie. weight coat just before hi te@ from| with campaign plans, postponing im.|@arrelsome but brutal to his wives. | nis papers forwarded Bast.” io P ee ie ce ’ Fy as % _— the train to be ¢ by 3,000) portant decision until further confer.| MRS. SAWYER Dempsey was expected to take the airplane plants in the United Staten be O. mivater Two Girls. Two Men people ¢ jences, Meanwhile he will attend to| BUOYED UP BY HOPE stand late today. ‘ “King county has acquired what lA Friend can” ; It Was a “democratic special that | his usual senatorial duties, Calmly, sadly, Mrs. Sawyer has! Maxine Dempsey had offered te in declared by every Slying expert | Policeman Are Killed by Train | cae tv renubtican candidate and) MRS, HARDING KEPT remained in her cell for more than |sell the series of alleged “slacker who has examined the property the| Mra. snyder RICHMOND, Ind, June 14,—Two| Dis, Wife back to Washington. “They OWN SCORE CARD & month awaiting the day when |letters for $40,000, according to, the ' |had a state room o rain so the ; “ Mg finest aviation field in the count [Mrx, Daily young men and two girls were killed | jy A og ese eg ie ne a a Both the Senator and Mrs. Hard-|S%@ Will face the jury. She has{testimony of Tommy Fitagerald. Claude C. Ramsay, chairman of the} flenore Dennis . instantly elght miles east of here! io ste, and friends of Harding ing said they felt fine altho they ac.| been buoyed up somewhat by an - board of county commissioners, de-| Mrx, Rogers last night when a westbound exprens |’ rare padnigy knowledged a strenuous week, ‘The | #PpAarent assurance that she will r) clared, “It will be the aim of the| Mias K train on the Pennsylvania railroad| A CHATTY TIME | senator engaged nearly every minute | SPeedily be freed when she has t Ss a D \ | county to encourage every branch of | Mrs, Grandy struck the automobile in which they | WAS HAD BY ALL |of each 24 hours in endless confer-| ld her story of the shooting and the government, army, navy and| Mrs. Johnson were riding. Senator and Mrs, Harding took | ences and Mrs, Harding, as she con.| the elroumstances that led up to it, The 143rd_ anniversary of thé postal, ax well as public and private! Mra, Ring - |breakfast, luncheon and dinner in fessed today, was busy She has been forbidden by her|| pirth of the American flag | interests, in making this the greatest | Mrs, Raynor THE COMPTON LUMBER CO,|the diner, refusing to be served in| her husband's chances of getting the | Counsel to discuss the case with |] observed Monday in Seattle base for « lane and aviation activi has purchased a lot near Wertlake | their room, The stateroom door was | nomination any one. She was permitted to have & general display of the colors: ties on the Pacific coast. Today's total .......ceseeeees ave, and Virginia st. for $16,000, it) kept wide open and fellow travelors| "J was just as much interested |no hand in the funeral. arrange-|] buildings and residences, An option on 40 adjoining acres | Previously acknowledge 4 was announced today In real estate| stuck thelr heads in to exchange |as Wari ‘she said. “I kept my| ments for her husband. She asked |] cial Flag day exercises were was taken by the county officials at ex. Sale was made thru Henry! passing words, Mrs, Harding chatted | own tally sheet on every ballot so 1) that, his. body be cremated, it is