The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 10, 1920, Page 1

Tonight Maximum, 61 Today w EM Weather and Sunday, Moderate fair. westerl inds Temperature Last 4 Hoars Minimum, noon, 57. 53, VOLU ME 23. On the || AS IT SEEMS | | || TO ME DANA SLEETH at men of every ite are essen I renewed my faith in the innate kind of Men the ‘last two days, wh watching a crew & street-grad ing contract Tt was a mean. on of a job, They f , Scrapers and then loads to lot that was trees, and sh and And bushes, Th their knees in Mightily to get rigs trees and had to be pulled by main strength. It was he dusty, and my mule-skinn Gays the air would have been blu ‘ With strong lancuag Just wh y #wearing does not the air i pink, or purple, or don't know; but it turn ways—all authoritie There were numt playing about the kx Several giris from amor 10 years ¢ didn’t h te and in the two days I n indecent word or a righ} mean oath. That took a lot of repre finer d else men are much than they used to be AN my 4year-old son w gather during the week able to ating with the grading gang he ‘ sprung on me when I called him to dinner last night. He didn't de sire any dinner, and he said so, and XQ when I insisted he lifted up bis shrill, infantile voice “Aw, go’ on, you big stiff’ that the driv D I noticed ers were careful of their horseflesh. When a team sank In the soft dirt and floundered about, there was no jerking of the Jines, no sawing on the bits, no ashing, and kicking, and ill-tem per. A firm hand, a quiet word, often a brief rest to let the team Eollect its wits and its breath One straw boss, who attended Yo the dumping, let she scrapers too far down the bank before he dumped, thereby throwing « sad load on the teams, and right away the foreman was informed ind attended to the affair, ‘The only men who seemed Indif- ferent to their language or to the ‘Weifare of the teams were a couple of South of Europe fellows who could scarcely speak English, The native-born workmen were gentle men, whatever that word may bring to your mind I think considerable of the roughneck atmosphere has been lost since my youth, It seems to ™me that crews of workmen gener ally are quieter, sweeter mouthed, better tempered, less quarrelsome than they were when 1 was one in the gang. Maybe it’s prohibition; maybe it's the suave, soothing climate of the Northwest. Perhaps a different type of men age on the job thess @ays. Certainly, something has calmed the turbulence of the old time manual laborer “ee OR did this crew of some 50 men—teamsters, pick and shi I men, laborers ot a dozen varieties— loaf on the job. I think every man did ag near a day's Work a= ever Was one. There ‘Was a constant string of tears co ing and coming. I saw ing. They were getting thoney,” and they were doing work There was not so much “bawling out" from the foreman af of old The men did their withou const supervis on the job consider good as any guess was his work efficiently Abc only difference that t started to work in the morning, instead of 6 they quit at 4 in the afternoon tead of 6; and, so far as I can about all the is be Certain chance their fami! light hours of thelr their own we worked al night meal and to go to work-—a made Eve nd i doing me man on earth since he e was » men was at 8 thelr gardens, some their own, for old days aa) one that our citle in the land I think this 1 tion of the “common Jern that s¢emed likely to stop ou industry for a whit body was rush lar job Manual d no m probably the solu labor pro! because ¢ for ver a white « a {jization goes on. The day, the ot mac decent wage for ix the r, labor paid than form tion is campeten the and an today are, ar hie honest and w for a |} iy « doctors jats, and pre might work To toaf take mone arned fied, but labor that keeps the healthy and happy is dignified, Should become fashionable. to do eight hours’ work age, I don't kilo extra jawy f it BV AV AV AV AV AV AV DVO AV ae FES BL LF not as we is undignified, and and Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Siiiiliieae Seattle Star u " SEATT At the Poatoftice at Hea WASH., SAT Falls Overboard i in Sound TRAMP ‘VICTIM OF ‘Youngster Swims Bravely 2 ae Boy, 5, Saves His Own Life | Frank McHugh, 5-year-old, who was rescued from the Sound. —Cress-Dale Photo. | MURDERER “| Was Tired of My Wife, So | Shot Her; | Want to Hang,” Says Slayer CHICAGO, July After signing | a oO wion that he staged a fake | doorway of his home ke age hot hin wife murdered a hobo, Carl mer my leutenant | begged from his cell toduy to be} hange } Iw f my wife fe,” he | aid. “Now I want to join her in Jeath. I loved her too much to let another man get her, bu 1 didn’t want her for mynelf- 1 shot Then I shot the bum. 1 won-| | der if she'll forgive me | Wande wap held to the grand | | Jury today on the charge of wife! murder. The tion was taken fol | lowing ® brief, formal inqueat over! [the Yedy of Mra, Wanderer, his/ uride of eeht montana ‘Wanderers confension was deltb H « Michae HE Tr orately made bern pers ed continuously by 20 cel at the detention Hoffman and I ANNED CRIME WITH GREAT ¢ oe URDAY, For 1¢ houm he had | Wash. under the Act Y 10, f Year, by Mall oe Va COOKING GAS EXPIRES HERE But Officials Promise Re- . vival Today Following m the kitchens Ballard, Fremont and vernity districts yester 0K Families from End of town were ea fast downtown this moming. kas at all or only a mh was those districts ri the Standard Of tanker to arrive as scheduled on July 1 with fuel off in the manufacture ¢ ng & the Hutchingon, fetary le I pan) just as much gas and he ire is just as high r 4 mixture of coal and o wan y * from until 7 “ Hutchins uid 7 1 oll ar ve ornir nd f ince ficiaix eaid, Aa 5 ax the Coal of the pipes no more will be experienced, t 4. The gas at noon tor was normal, officials insisted Homes south of the canal hove experienced no gas trouble and no further shortage is anticipated | by the gas company Adjustment of the gus plates’ for the lighter mixture by sehutting off part of the r supply ts the proper method be followed. according to the official ‘STEPHENS FIRST. IN JAP INQUIRY |aoverner Will Appear Be- fore Congressmen SACRAMEN’ Stephen before the mittee investi ituation in Cal The \A x | state | McClatehy The that Tue ernor governot Ben of pub! anley governo the probe day morn , | chamber of the announced Altho gold is no jit i proc at the rial and labor | alicia ; fee week * * * * * & Wo CMe A growth of be He a bath Five-year-oid Frank McHugh |and, with a long-leap, plunged over. | dressed hime nent clothes, broke thru the top deck of the! board pene..onls. he zfecsrny dmer Suquamish as the versel was! Auna came to the surface clone to!‘ we , ean, Magnolia bluff, off Four-|the struggling lad and wits] Saar caeen. eS | Mile pe yesterday, and would| nim to the fie a . h liown his we Dat for bie Goelnene Of] wince 6 Gcoen be helped. then |APRAID “BUM" WOULD n ability to swim hack onto t wi ‘ ; SHOOTS HIM t nm of r m oo i ! tn wife I ah the bum Prank Of Mt. apd Mrs. | oqvmber IX” VERY } ay wee : Frank J. McHugh, 1 Fo DAY LAST SUMMER men was afr nen he returned home this morn-| Frank shook the from his!) war tt ye ran to meet him ie-R-00, I'm a 6004/the a fr usped hiro | *Wimm 8 a 1 him with} Mrs. Manca jifted” her nd fe Son, I guess you think you're Wormer au where he was rub-|and 1 hin EATS POPCORN jother | he did. 1 told him St |APTER HIS MISHAP They spent the rest of the day ut 1 he it was a | truggied away. “Aw, I'm ali|Gilberton, returning this mort m. On Monday night I he sid. “Look! Lost my | After brenkfa: with bh grand. t for me and I would » in the water, and had to buy aj father, Frank was , me by|show up about 9 o'clock. He was to| | new one.” h other tnecle, M. J. Manea “ | He waved his new cap, and danced 1 m to swim aid the I took my wife to a picture. show her, munching at a ball of | latter We used to go in| When w me out the bum followed andied p n, none the © for | about eve t sumer G Whe react the his cold ng and his mir ou. as just ¢ knew b eh um steps nd dus. | It was a miracle wn, |I B 1 be . uid Mrs. V. E.| anyway,” said 1| ‘Hand over IT shot her known. res.| Should think the navigat mpany | first at-old uncle,| Would see that their boat rails are] Then 1 ® bum, T shot him marked on) kept safe for passenger three times sure, Then I an up “Fran 0 bi. and fh y for h ammered his he oo t tel te when Frank a ascended | #float e100 YP th t ensuing furore raat | to the top deck to ge drink from ic, and this | 1, he forgot about the $1,500. railing and was watchi the back trawer Pilg > ; oo baby wash from the steamer's propeller Sethen Mir nderer hi 4 hen suddenly the rail gave way Bill and Tom making in expectancy of the tes with crash and he plun 1 head he 7 jen sewing on th — ne o tt wirling water 15 feet Just N. d N. ust esr ‘ and sobs bs A cov ot coer aawoardpikrcush: Se Re pctreperamn ; f engers and deckband Th LEANING WAS they iis cone: etriasiins po ey ass| ~ 'THOROLY DONE manft usting the nurning| LOS ANG | AN DIEGO, Ca 1 f ” 7 | Balloon Dye Work philnd worked | LEFT FAR BEHIND out, Bill Hart a cd olathics Wiin. nome ha reiaee CHURNING SHIP to him wh sr taper Ah ae yo gap ae The helmsman, he the ery That was brought out in the tes}, od” the dye. work Li “ had left the boy fully 100! Read, ir ing comm leged be sununied U dite Uk the mathe, Se ania a | Must Surrender catty, orled for eb ahd diac ore Pos | Order to Villa to e the little fellow Do 1 ¢ him r | mexico CITY, J 10.—« n As the boat drew up, with propel-|nod our heady a he ropited.Jered by the Mexican government, it maft just perceptibly turning _ | was officially announced today, Thi near the place where Vrank wa In one year the United States bu-| wae a flat refusal of Villa's armi bobbing about like a cork, Melvin|reau of standards analyzed 260,000 terms, published in Ei Universal | |Auna, a deckband, flung off hiv hat| tires for the’ war department. yesterday. longer TO. will be July 10. the first congressional ating ‘the ifornia Gov wit com Japanese be followed by of the Vv. 8 member control lisher rs office would for and said today mally open the senate and not Mon terday ye abundant in Alaska, mined, th present cost of mate would not pay, 1 | Movie op uns in ¢ theatres went on strike tle Saturday The theatres will continue ‘to oper ate, accordi > a statement issued at by J. Von Herberg, manager Theatres Co. enterprises dispatches, the employed pr mus ortland - Parents Out strike pala Mas erro Mab io Sai JUDGE ORDERS WINE SEIZED IN YAKIMA SHOOTS DOWN WES t into fe SAYS MEN GO OUT IN SYMPATHY Von Herberg’s statement said ‘Movie Operators, M usicians Strike t in Tacoma last week. PP PRA LDP PLL PDP PPP PLP PP PPP PPP PPP a WILLING a 10 LEAD EX-ARMY OFFICER CONFESSES TRAGIC CRIME LIBERALS, So Declares Member of Third Party Convention in Session at Chicago HOTEL MORRISON, Chi- ” cago, July 10.—The name o Henry Ford, Detroit man facturer, will formally placed before the conventio of liberals held here for th presidential nomination) Charles F, Hoffman dee! | today. Hoffman declared he h Ford's ssurance that — would accept the nominatio | Hoffman has been back @f |a movement for Ford’s candi |dacy for the last month. +o Robert M. La Fol |whom representatives of the liberal factions have appro with a proffer of the preside nomination of the thind party, ator expected to indicate today that will await further developments fo giv 4@ definite answer, CONVENTION SESSION IS CALLED TO ORDER The national convention of jcommittee of 48, one phase of formation of the third party | ment, caligd to order here t by National Chairman J, A. HL kins, of Morristown, N. J. With the exception of bare in the Kentucky, Montana, We Virginia and Louisiana reservati the hall was well filled. The assemblage, including tators, numbered about 1,200, whom 20 per cent were Rev. Noble 8. Elderkin, fy Park Ridge Community hi Chicago, delivered the invocation, following | Chairman Hopkins, prayer, said We are here today to open up jthe American people a channel whith the country will be able fight the things nearest to @ }hearts. Just as Lincoln, half @ tury ago, struck off the shackles slavery, we are here today to sti the shackles of economic slay from us. We need such a chant Opportunity never comes to a | twice, and we have that opportu | today, | “There are difficulties In our “Virtually all of our union operat.|Ut they are minor difficulties. ors and musicians at the Liberty, | essential job for us to do is to Colis¢um, Strand and Rex theatres °UF forces upon a common piatfo togay’ failed to appea for work, @nd upon a common candidate.” much against the individual inclina- NOT CONCENTRATED Vions of the men for the most part.| IN ONE CANDIDATE he waikout is a sympathetic strike! “This convention is not concem use the operators in Tacoma/trated on one candidate,” shouted) {suddenly ma up their minds that! Hopkins. “We may en beat the they-could no longer abide by an/record and take 50 ballots. Let n@ eement which was to have con-|man think he is the only man whe tinued until September 1 ttle of $1.25 RETURNED TO HOME 'Tacoma and Butte Operators on Strike YAKIMA, July 10.—Activities of prohibition busybodies received a setback here lute’ yesterday, when Judge R. B. Milroy refused to consider liquor charges inst Mrs, Rertha Johnson, im whose home 60 gallons of wine and five ‘“ases of home brew were taken by officers. The judi consider the ficers to return the Johnson only refused to but ordered of. liquor to Mrs. » not case, 1 do not agree with the prac of. issuing warrants for the reh of private homes unless bootlegging is going on or booze ' sald City move that be re tice parties are Attorney a the confiscated turned.” PORTLAND, scheduled strike Jensen & .V ture hquses at followed employed Portland, union leade An iner an hour workers, Fire Destroys 15 Stores in Taft; July walkout of all union memb the Seattle announced. © from § anded by the in is di TAPT, Cal stroyed 15 stores |doing damage $150,000, fir an in m's nd 10, Taft last night, estimated Butte, 1 operators demanded the § an hour musicians went out in symp thy hous today at/mention the possible candidacy of Henry Ford on a third purty ticket, B., ‘ a id the in Tocal | cents to $1.25 Tacoma can lead this movement to success.” TACOMA MEN When McCurdy declared that the) | UT LAST WEEK N for the convention was Bs : to rea ‘ihe Gola one 1 here be.{Ubon the “conviction that. thelial cause we are financially interested in | OS™ al parties were united” five Tacoma houses which are, how. |'" thelr determination to perpetiaiaag ever, under the management ana|°V!'S Which the American | people) that city. So far as 1 know our em-| "1 “2” enthusiastic barst of elma ployes here had no complaint what. |. speech particularly de I emen, deputy sheriffs and ever, Ail their requests with re oes rw Pes sipsvey privilege and marr nse clerks thr to wages and working conditions |\)h°r Ne declared that the re a Washington day are conspiring to satisfactorily adjusted long ag n W aeanaton. r 6 *seleael break up the youthful love affair scale here was a high one and nshington, thé Go that sent William Coleman, 17, and! number of the operators and mu hoe agg ri his intended bride, Mary Howe, 17+) cians were being paid far in advance | r blog = gow phe non- on tour for a wedding licen: Jof union requiremen' partisan defeat of the ol political W. P. Coleman, wealthy Toppenish| “1 regret that this strike merely |? \ in North Dakots Sram Ue early Baturday In search of thelt |o¢ work. Of course the unions did| cneiee of the ted ae gece lovelorn son | not expect us to close up our pl es : ‘ ra 8 1 whe sotikinneapianiied de Siesta a » Up our play-/ 1 Follette decide negatively, ‘The © young couple applied Ce | houses, and we shall fot do 80, Bust-| most prominently. mentioned We ii aha eld die od borne arly usual today and* every-| Amos Pinchot, New York, formal ened % th is running satisfactorily with | jy) ha, eget: vine ae jy 120k too young, said tne clerk competent staffs,” ecer fy poor’ pes Big he dejected pitir disappeared. Five | cela erse ‘ormer republican, minutes later came a telegram ask-! ‘ is popularly credited with being the’ ng for their arrest |Movie Operators [principal factor in Woodrow Wik Father Coleman says he thought | ection as governor of New his son was out mowing hay, until Out at Tacoma 1 Others mentioned for the he found the mower idie TACOMA, July 10.—The strike of (Just Turn Over the Page) And then I went to the barn and| moving picture operators and musi ina found Billy's pony missing, Later 1| clans in Jensen & Von He rg thea : ’ LE OO a oe en ene ite, tee: | Hearst's New ieee had drawn $200. We put two and the managers immediately employed HY LY id two together and canaded’ne saa|fomunien myn to take ther since) +c. vaced iii attem to elope. and declare the shows are running| | CHICAGO, July 10.—William Ramee Father got busy then and asked | Normally, with no noticeable decrease ia pag Soe t's ne wy nolitical ea ; that his boy and the girl be arrested, | in_ attendance r merican constitutiona: : was in the field here today, | Despite a discouraging attendance At the initial meeting of the new or jxanization last night, another meets was scheduled to be-held tonight, to Which have been invited delegates to the conventions begun hene today the committee of 48 and the sin Ore, July 10.—The » tax party. At last night's meet- Of operaters in the |ing the audience, including speakers n Herberg moving pic-|and newspaper men, consisted of 11 o'clock today was | bout 80 pe immediately by a sympa hie. , | Ford’ 's Paper Scores G. O. P. and Demos DETROIT, Mich, July in @ scathing denunciation of the repub- [lican and democratic candidates for |the pr and of the platforms adopted by the two old parties, the sidency, Dearborn, Independent for July 17 will declare the support of Henry Ford's weekly for a third party movement, it was learned here today. The editorial declaration will not