The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 28, 1920, Page 1

Tonight and Today %, “ t VOLUME 23. AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH — | HE driving {s like the driving of Jehu, the son of Nimshi; for he driveth in mad And ever since, Jehu has stood Wor the speed maniac, tho I sup Pose that Jehu, that time when he fwas going forth to slay, going Worth in his awkward, heavy, ‘wooden-wheeled chariot, was driv: Ming at about ten miles an hour. Still, Jehu proceeded thru life Tike a madman, for he chased King Joram and spitted him with an arrow in his war chariot, and he chased King Ahaziah and caught him and had him smitten; and he met up with Jezebel. who had newly painted her face for his especial benefit, and he trampled Jexebdel under the feet of his horses, and from thence he proceeded a few parsangs and met up with the 70 sons of Ahab, or, rather, the heads of them, for they had been beheaded by his order, Jehu lived fat and furiously He Feigned over Israel for twenty and @ight years, and in his latter days he dallied with the golden calf, and Reems to have been rather a tough citizen. WISH Jehu, who loved fast driving, could have been with me the other day when I sat beside one of his descendants — fm spirit a descendant tho not racially: unless the Irish are in deed thd lost tribe of Isract as some contend. This Jehu wasn't going forth to slay, but how he managed to ew cape dismembering two-score pe destrians and autoists and cows and horses, and scattering them like chaff before the sower I know Bot. For it was & slippery afternoon, the narrow highway was like and Jehu was driving one of van-like Dusies as unwieldy ~ Alto Jehu was in a ute 5 get to town, Lecause te © bed gf bet op with @ fellow on the “Pear seat that he would get to before a rival bus did: and for the considerable sum of 50 cents he risked our mortal necks and ruinéd our immortal dixpost- tions by taking curves at thirty miles an hour and coasting down hill at forty-five. This Jehw, drove that leviathan of « bus faster than I would de sire to drive motorcycle, and , that on A moist, @iidey afternoon, along a highway that spanned deep Favines and wound down high hills, and did hairpin curves at random and abandon, After the first five miles I quit pushing on the footboard, cast dull €Afe and sane caution away, and @xulted with the young man in his wild fight ND I bet he left pricking v4 scalps and hearts skip = ping a beat. or maybe two beats, behind him as he fled, for he kept a bit More than half the road, and he foared down upon approaching ears, some of whom did not know he was a Jehu, and who bravely held to their due share of the high- Way. But they al! made gangway before we reached them, tho it was frequently so close a shave that a Uiteral handbreath would have Closed the gap between us. And then, just as we approached the city limits, a great roaring de geended upon us and the rival bus Whizzed past with loud yells and hootings. And, tho we gvere by then within the city limits, our Jehu stepped down hard on the gas pedal, and we aviated for some fur- Tongs and dodged in between half dozen cars, going and coming, id put the rival bus tn a tight place, and dared it to take a chance, and it didn’t, and we soared past, doing so much better, OF worse, than twice the legal limit that nobody would believe it if I told it. HE rival bus was just end ing a hundred-mile drive from Astoria to Port land; a hundred miles of mountains and bumps, and new road, and old road, and Mot much of any road at all, and drivers of these big caravans make the round trip twice a day, if f un derstood our driver “ightly If that’s #o, these bus drivers are &s deserving of historic mention. as the pony express riders, the old #tage drivers, the engineers of the limited express, or the fi the battle fields of F nothing but a chilled wt Jehu-inspired love of taking chance, and a cast-iron constitution could hold that sort of a job for more than half a day. But I wish old man Jehu, his bloody sword, and his hatred of a with painted women, and his desire for speed could have sat with me on that skiddery flight. OME along some when it's dr: and Y'll_ show you some real speed.” eaid the driver as we left his It's been pretty dry for two | years now,” suggested one panven EF, 1 just thought of something! I bet Jehu was along on that drive That driver WAS Jebu reincarnated. Of course Forecast moderate w ‘Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 71. a tastenasdil On the I sue of Americanism There Can Be,No Compromise Tuesday, fair; esterly winds, Minimum, 57. noon, 63. Entered as Second Clase Matior May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattie, Wash, under the Act of Congress March & 1879. Per Year, hy Mail, #5 to e Seattle Star ” LATE EDITION SEATTLE WASH., MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1920. BREWINGTON MYSTERY IS CLEARED; 0 MARRY [WML SHORT WOMAN HE OPPOSEDAT HAD JAILED | Disappearance of His $7,000 Cleared Up, Setka to Forgive and Forget PORTLAND’S PRIZE BEAUTY | FROM ARMS _ OF MOTHER | | Leap Over Fence With Divorced Wife Sees Father Four- Year-Old Moran, From Vancouver, | Mentioned as Candidate for State Presidency | John Setka, wealthy Alaskan, and BY EDGAR C. WHEELER TACOMA, June 24—With the my % | tery of the ildnhping ot Baby Elmer | verre’ Te saat ieipedae 4 SPOKANE, June 2,—Claud j cleared uy, and the child safe in the jewski after Setka had charged her| ew union, Vancouver, Wash., hands of juvenile |the police were confronted today [with another almost identical abduc- | tion Mrs. Inez Brewintgon, mother of | the recoverearbabe, came here from authorities here, | with grand larceny, will be | unless plans formulated Monday mis | carry. ” John and Josie came here June 15. | Jonie deposited $7,000, belonging to! Jobn, in a local bank under the name married | | was mentioned as a possible op- ponent of William Short for pres ident of the Washington State Federation of Labor. The state convention got under way here SECOND KIDNAPING! LABOR MEET “TWO CENTS IN SEA = WILSON’ MEN SAY McAD00 iS “| ” Word Passed Around Con- | vention That President De- | cides on Candidate SAN FRANCISCO, June 28.— The movement to nominate Wil- liam G. McAdoo gained additional impetus thru several occurrences shortly before the democratic national convention opened to- iy Several cabinet officers openly began campaigning for the for mer secretary of the treasury and reports spread that President Wilson had finally decided to let it be known that McAdoo was his choice. Supporters of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer sought frantically to get a denial from the White House. Among the members of the prést- dent's official famity who began s| | DEMOCRA MEETING BEGUN OVATIC [Demonstration Is Sharply on Calling vention to Order AUDITORIUM, SAN CISCO, June 28.—With @ ling fanfare by two marine trumpeters and the unfurting a big United States flag, by a detachment of Unde sea soldiers, the national cratic convention was order by Vice Chairman Kremer at 12:26 p. m. a The delegates were nach ing mood as they went into opeping stages of the big I ical event. For ur before the gavel fell whooped it up with college and yells, yelled thru phones. ‘wer to | Seattle and was pleading with Prose jof Jonie Setkp, altho the marriage| thks morning. pass the word that “McAdoo is the | cutor James W. Selden and members had not taken place. ‘Ten days ago.{ Moran ix backed by the red fac.|)man," were Postmaster General of the sheriff's staff here yesterday lJohn discovered that the money and{tion and has been active the Burleson, Secretary of State Colby cs ppc wan ror Pt cbr his fiancee had disappeared, When | Workingmen’s Nonpartisan old son, when the second kidnaping jarrented. Josie suid sh had tran:| ‘The convention was opened thik | pomgeyt | [ferred the $7,000 to the First Na-|morning with addrbases of welcome | SNATCHES CHILD | FROM MOTHER'S ARMS | Joseph Torporke went to the home of his divorced wife, Vernie Surura, Who recently married another man, @ Jed with her, and about 843 @el matched thelr ¢yearoid Frances from her mother's. . vaulted over the back fence, and disappeered, with the child cling- ing about his neck. Up to a late hour today the police had been unable to trace him farther | Mayor Charles President J. EB. Spokane Central Labor counc! | President Short, of the federatio tonal bank and had merely gone on | bY Fleming “an |e vacation “I'm willing,” ing the marringr ym 1," Joni echoen. only dincordant element ta the | mittee ge engl ie the tar &, Dirks, the Pe avae seer soste eprone:| teat Urtobs te. Back cutor Fred C. Mrowh was asked to/ the Spokane dlgmine it Motiday. to WOMAN KEPT AT The executive committee readh DETECTIVE’S HOME says John, regard | Pp bh | t t heels in the | Majewski and Bianchi favor dis praer poy oer eee aaa of the | missal of the charge, and it is prob. ment; two-year terms for state of- ious. er able that if Josie and John agree to | ficers; reindorsement of the Plumb! fence. | Mrs. Brewington expected today to | obtain the court's sanction to remove her baby boy to her home at 422 N 47th st, Seattle. Efforts to aid her railway plan. an immediate wedding Brown may lconsent to drop the case. Hlitieal prisoners. | Joie was at the Bianchi home| The one big union fight Is not ¢ Monday, where she has been since | pected to be seriour Saturday morning. About 400 delegates are in atten | an soned ex-husband, Or Tals Peowttateh, 2 thomas tose “4 don't want to see her go to|ance rule, which was scheduled to be at clied for their children’s sake have jail,” Setka pleaded with officia ‘The legislative recommendations | tacked in the rules committee and proved futile. , “Yes, there's some dope fiends of the executive coynell include:/open convention. Should the unit |” Brewington, in custody of @ Taco there, and I hate ‘em," Jowie added, A law prohibiting injunctions in|rule be abolished, the New York dele- . . with a shudder, So it was agreed | ldbor disputes; creation of a state | gation, it | ma deputy, Fred Ewen, brought the t boy back from Portland with them that she be remanded to Bianchi and industrial department to administer /*plit between Cox, Palmer and Me- Eekuetna ede The ee Mrs. Bianchi's custody, instead of | aii labor laws; creation of a com: | Adoo. Saturday evening ir arrival se = , ee ae: Seid | at rest a fear that they had disap being kept in the city jail. [mission to revise all labor laws nally, tiam J. Bryan, who wa | peared. Chief Searing, Detective Captain | aafending minimum wage for wom-|¢*Pected to exercise more individual ‘ C. EB. Tennant, Presecutor Fred C./en; home rule for cities; repeal of | Power in the convention than anyone BOY SEEMED PLEASED Brown and others saw no startling |/the present public service commis. |°!*¢. told friends that while he pre-| mont. abr See iS VATEES irregularity in this procedure. Jalon tax; tax on war pfofits, eur red Senator Robert L. Owen, Me. As Brewington had promised to do, | he led the deputy to the home of a| Miss Helen Duncap, 20, salesgirl in the Meier & Frank plus wealth and idfe lands to | responde® and announced the com- ee eecctseey a prohibition plank. however. W. L. Buck, of seattle: | Morphy has sever ieaen the fact] VIRGINIANS START” * candidate, and) WILSON PARADE | tions include support for the triple|i¢ he refuses to pote Cee Teas | |, he, whole. turmaleee alliance, with $1 membership asses | assumed he would switch New York Ed- 5) nd release of all w} and Secretary of Agriculture Mere ith, the last candidate for th ination, but regarded lection for the vice presidency. McCracken, of the REPORT TAMMANY 1. | DESERTS COX n, Then c the report that T: Charles Wi that he wants a allegiance to Gov. wards, Edward 1. of New Jersey, regarded a Cox. Murph New York's 90 votes rested, of cours: 4 | friend near Portiand, where he point | store’® drug department, was the choice of the Portland judg- prong Ph sey tpl ny rhe yobs most of the administration candi | fd out his child, a golden-haired lit: ing committee to represent Oregon's chief city in the Ziegfeld ila, Tovtioniar Prec nye ntl con. | ates. | Ue fellow playing with several other | national salesgirls’ beauty contest, the winner of which will vention In 1921 to redraft state con. nom a likely se Following the notes of the |buglars the band broke into | ‘Star Spangled Banner,” crowd stood up and sang. The ® organ swelled into time with: | band and a huge American Z, dropped across the wall back platform. It was a mammoth As it was rolled up again played “Hail to the Chief,” | huge oil painting of Presid son was revealed. A deaf me practical verification of | any had decided | Sox, because of | a far less dangerous contender than ability to swing all of mered for order. on his successful defense of the unit Tade is ‘Understood, would be & bit, but welled back as ‘aid | A200 Was “not unacceptable to him.) Chairs calling out “One solid McAdoo’s. supporters claimed that | excepting Palmer and Owen,|™ing and Arkansas swung into were waiting for the opportunity to| FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT . “favorite CARRIES children in the yard, and looking ex — jth Nl the | ceptionalty well cared for. Elmer | get a $100-a-week place in a Ziegfeld beauty show and a try-|! Butter Up a Cent stitution; amendment of registration | son ereacth rie Ptcado at the |was clad in a neat, whiteand-red out in the Mayflow er movies. | p “ s eb eee citizens NOW| proper tim eg ra | dress, He seemed greatly pleased to| —- Western ave, jobbers boosted | deprived of vote 4 AREA ste his father. |] the wholesale price of butter COX FOR SECOND cent a pound Monday morning) Bricks are now $5 cents and AROUND CHURCH Were Not Agents The Portland family knew nothing of the search for the child they wore sheltering, and were unaware | Brewington had kidnaped Elmer ‘ast | | November from the bed where he |and his grandfather were sleeping, in | | WILCOX BODY IS POLICE HUNTING FOUND IN BAY | | DARING BANDITS LAC ON TICKET? Reports were circulated that ef.| "2° impression. outsiders between | had las j forte were being made by arrange a conference {nbadco sea’ coa teabete for the pur- {pose of getting the Ohio governor jto accept the vice presidential nom | form Tacoma. Brewington had told them | f P Li f. | cami | the child's mother was dead, and had o hoenix Li e| been paying them #25 0 tontn cor Drowned June 3; Fell From| ‘Three Are Wounded During! crana. ‘arceny charges piace a/ Two Rob Auto Party While). Abe Ma 9 AR Biber Elmer's care. He had been ing the clothing for the boy supply Ship Revival Row | against Matt and Plage dropped Monday by Prosecutor Fred Street Car Passes Ewen took Brewington and the a |. Brown when money borrowed by ae t that baby to Vancouver, Wash., across| The body of A. Wilcox, 22, boller-| TOLEDO, O., June 28.—A religious | the men from the Dexter-Horton Na-| mat the two daring highwaymen, rae cores’ Postel os Bers no the Columbia from Portland, to avoid sacra pie | drown , dared 4. | revival that ended in a gun battle tie bank and tie ules National who held up a party of nine in front) ganization, : ae possibility of trouble over extradi.| When he fell from a staging While) A terwoen two partion of 50 men| Dank was returned © money was |of the home of Oscar N. Olson, el 2 | tion, and spent the night with them | Painting the side of the steamship | og Bs tee bagi iad i borrowed on Phoenix Life insurance |tricjan, 4010 Woodland Park ave. ae se a de ap sm for there, reaching Tacoma Sunday aft-| West Ivan at Pier 5 was recovered | 6 in Urenyard St policies, and the brothers are not jiast +night, were professional ‘hold-| white or myself,” a Mace | ernoon. | Monday within a few fect from where | Bernniggers county, Michigan, near! agents of the ‘Insurance company, 48/ uns who have recently migrated nyself,” said be met his death here, brought death to one man col previously stated F. L. Jackson, first assistant port warden, saw the body floating near |Probably mortal wounds to another. 4, 000 SOLDIERS | ELUDED MRS. BREWINGTON AT THE STATIO! Mrs. Brewington was at the station to meet the train. Her husband saw day. Special warning was given a’ | the street end of Pier 6 at 9 o'clock| The church was surrounded by| |the pair of bandits details were giv lustily for his father Sotaile: wees Eire were getting settled in the auto, an seen coming “Put passes!” one robber ordered. All except Mr, and Mrs. obeyed. J. 1. Gray, of Tacoma, the child's diamond stickpin and other gems, | (Turn to Page 15, Column 2) valued at $200, were leome up in the federal before Judge Jeremiah day 9 a. m, to noon. court July 8, stolen Olso1 the auto were being robbed. The robbers ordered all the victim! to back into the Olsen home, fire one shot in the air as a sp culal goodbye, and fled, A diamond ring, Seattle boxers and promoters aré;tion “he” event with plenty of ac-| park offer was accepted so ag not to} a reduction in his medal for the local determined to do thelr share to add | tion, because it will, us the fighters | conflict with a benefit dance to be | box rs to follow. valted -a6 some real ¢ the fund bein, | Vie Gauntlet, press agent de luxe, Here are some noise iaed voy Brgy ae Root, ein are being paid, altho they have all/ held soon at the Arena, | has promised to have the Levy Or. | Was stolen from Mrs, Olson. that are strictly taboo by ae of the deputy sheriff killed here re. | Consented to @ Wig cut in their med Johnny McCarthy, one of the best! pneum trio sing some snappy melo. rs “Soen, dinance in Seattle: Toy pistols, leently, by outlaws. The “knights of | ala to boost the fund along | welterweights on the Coast, eri ise and will ante * coup of young Had Still and Bit toy guns, blank cartridges, fire the padded glove” will perform in a| The fighters aren't the only ones|headline the smoker, with Billy | lady boxers go thru their “paces” in |] crackers exceeding two inches in | big odie is be staged by The Star| helping to make the show a success.| Wright, Seattle boy, who has just|a two-round battle. The policemen's of Grapo; $200 lehgth and a quarter of an inch lat Liberty park Wednesday night.| Dan Sajt, Lonnie Austin and Nate returned from the Kast, ‘The fas! band will also pep up the smoker A. Corradene, charged with pos-|] in diameter, explosive canes, fire- All the net proceeds of the show will| Druxinmam, promootery, are donating have seen these boys in action| ‘Pickets are on sale at Brown &| session of a still and sundry quarts || crackers containing — explosives be turned over to the fund, aborts, page for te smoker free of enough to know that they will bat-|Hulen’s, Green's Cigar store, the| of grapo, pleaded guilty in the Unit:|| more powerful than black pow- McCarthy is an out-of-town boy | Elks’ club, Battersby & Smith's and Cigar store today And the fans don't want to think | rent. Hite, another promoter, | tle, ed States district court Monday an: that the bengorag? ont be @ regula- sitered M9 Arona, but the Liberty | and is setting ap example by soning Joo Dizard’ |here, was the belief of police Mon-| |patrolmen to be on the lookout for make, but it and thelr | not reg: * a Mondoy morning. The harbor pa-|men who, according to witnesses, at- Cash and jewelry, valued at $1,000, if aa thal tee betes hore fat ‘boat brought the body’ to th © |tempted to break up the meeting. | were stolen ps the Olson party, hae f | arden's jon t ‘oot » ! r' ” past. They eluded her, and it was| Ort warden’s float at the foot of| si oe the congregation went | Olson, his wife, Ellen ; ¢|Yesler way and Deputy Coroner H. | |two sons, David and Walter, were {there rar aaa she was aware of/ 5. ss-nonald removed it to. the home for weapons. The women and paying goéchye to airs, Willlasa Wee | their arrival | me errata es 3 - She, went ‘directly. to the, county |™Ore™ |ehtldren remained in the church.) 3 7 areaen, June 28--|tervelt. 608 South J at, Tacoma, and jail, where Brewington was again| Jack Pearce, tormer councilman. | When the men returned a deputy | 8 oe esr dhe sasa yrs her three daughters and son-in-law, ow 7 Sixth 2 s © tho a privone: : a | pacing his cell, She learned from|%f 1444 Sixth ave. N., who is em) sneritt ordered the crowd to dis-| py Iretadina. Cerman, Austrian |t2¢ Misses Marjory and Jennie, and | Prosecutor Selden that she could not| Ployed ax a checker by the-Northern | pare Me greeted with a hail! ina on greedy were drowned | Mt: and Mrs, John Korsberg, as the | . and sh troops, we pwned | ya" Ae “ |have the child’ at once, and that he| Pacific, made a heroic effort to res-| 4¢ pullets, The church defenders| Wren an &.000.ton Bolahevik veasel | Wextervelts and Korsbergs were had to be taken to the juvenile horae. | Cue Wilcox when he fell in, Pearce | fired, o attackers threw down| Shem AP 8,000.ton Bolshevik vessel |asout to leave th their auto for Ta-| Hastening there to see him, she| has only one arm.’ Wilcox formerly | + pons and surrendered after| veto « Moscow dispatch today, No {COM &t 11:36 o'clock Sunday nigh |found little Elmer in tearn, bn lived at the Right hotel | bettie The Westervelts and Korsbergs | your hands down as the car one of the car's passengers dis- covered that the party crowded about $600, |Campbell, of Ohio, who was |with a statement that Cox was will |“Whatever Governor Campbell may |say represents only 1 opinion, prohibition question. ard the matter as 2.9n ks issue.” POPE TO HAVE d| captain of the Univer. ton track team, has Gus Pope, | j sity of Was! | “‘Slmer, dear,” she greeted; “come lKitchen Without WATER SHUT OFF the Olsons were about to re-enter! peen selected to enter the final try. |to mamma! Don't you know Water will be shut off in all | Lindquist Trial |their house, when the two bandits/outs for the American Olympic team } | Gems Worth $300 iaad. poritoaiel Gectgtews tying || Cc Jul gmerpes from behind the auto, and/at Cambridge next month. Pope | Byvi lently the little ehap didn’t Jewelry thieves looted the house|| east of the river track und west oming uly ordered all hands up. throws the discus. He finished sec He shrank from her, clutching &lof J, W. Kitchen, 2195 a7th place, | of 19th ave. S, supplied from the ‘Trin of Verner Lindquist, alleged| ‘The robbers were half thru search| ond Saturday at Pasadena with a nurse. he reported to police Monday. || old Georgetown reservoir, Tues- || master bootlegger, is scheduled to/!né the party when a street car w | throw of 142 feet % inch, the third best heave made in the United States this year. He is conceded a fine chance of making the Olympic team. | He was chosen by the Coast Olympic games committee today, according to reports from Los Angeles. DON’T SHOOT ANY OF THESE THINGS, BOYS, EVEN ON THE 4TH n 5 d | | der and chlorate of potash, J EASTERN TRIAL; edited | Moore, | Finally his personal We have no statement to| him the heavy standard, and. should be understood : as far as I know, Governor Cox | not changed his attitude on the | secretary In Ohio we do | | | | Virginians tried to launch another | Wilson to Stay at [dent Wilson | came from the crowd and ina & Wiison demonstration —— hall, Hats were waved and to The great cheer almost ‘ThE 5 flooded in the Gnnatural of the searchlights while the 1 men cranked their cameras, {band stopped playing but the és jonstration went on. Kremer t Virginia delegates started a” yelling: “Hurrah for and waving Palmer pennants, Montana, Oklahoma, South E and Nevada were the next to into line. The cheering thinn ever when Kremer banged for o} |He grinned at the cheering joined the Wilson Michigan,. Hawaii, North Florida and Georgia the lina, Mississippi, Cheer leaders ran around ‘over now, boys; one solid hour. Tennessee, Oregon, Texas, Y. STANDARD Most of the state standards moving about the aisles. The geant-at-arms was ordered to the center aisle, but his efforts At this point the demon d seven minutes. The ¥ ginia standard wes carried to ~'etform and planted in the box. ane crowd surged around the while the cheering, showed signs of dying out again with renewed | was louder thap at the start. ‘The Virginia delegates sto platform, trying to plant their ard on the nestrum. Kremer to lift it up to the “bridge,” Palmerites yelled wildly at their standard bearer cl into the stenographers’ box dit before the rostrum, carrying planted it. Franklin D. Roosevelt, of the navy, carried New York standard. Every was in line by .this time, around and around the hall, 4 Delegates said they considered it a demonstration of loyalty to the presale dent, not a demonstration for him a® a candidate. DEMONSTRATION LASTS SEVENTEEN MINUTES Shouts of “Hurrah for the i ations!” broke out over the The Wilson demonstration ‘ated 17 minutes, It took the delegates some time to get into their seats, and Kremer continued to pound for or- 7 der. Policemen helped to clear the of aisles. ks “Be decent! Be decent” Kremer |” shouted, as some over-enthusiastio | outburst. Work This ‘ SHINGTON, June 28. now has no plans. leave Washington for the su it was learned today, The president plans to Washington. Pam Not Safe From This B A “coal shute” burglar oe the home of K, Uyotani, 1423 ave, W., Sunday night and pair of” se cigars