The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 17, 1920, Page 1

Weather Tonight and Sunday, unset- tled weathe showers; southwesterly winds. Temperature Last Maxtnum, 78. Hoary Minimum, 57. Tatay noon, 66, VOLUME 23. AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH HE pastor of one of the leading churches of Portland has resigned his pulpit and given up the ministry. In his pina} sermon he said that the futil ity of preaching had been so tm- Preesed on him that he had been forced to enter some other more helpful profession. “All the ser Mons have been preached repeat @diy—there is nothing more to ‘@ay,” was one of his frank admis ions. _ ‘This man not only deserves Praise for his resignation—he |@emonstrates that he never should ‘have entered the ministry For, Unless the preacher in his heart feels the impelling urge to preach, and unless he regards his work as the greatest of all works, he can Meither arouse nor instruct, edity ‘Ror admonish with effect. Tam no Puritan, and the bigotry. and coldness, and devilish creed of the witch-burning, joy-murdering, golemncholy Pilgrim preachers has Bo appeal for me, but you must ad- Mire the zeal for service, the utter on, the unselfish sacrifice of onal ambition of the old tan preachers. ee {T) man, but willing to lay down his life for his ' ideals if need arose. Cotton Mather, on his knees for three days and three nights, with- Out a minute's respite, wrestling ith the Lord for the souls of his 1 on; Cotton Mather, cru- the flesh with & two weeks’ Im 8 single year he fasted 60 and prayed thru 20 nights, over his membership list by name, fighting with the— him — personified devils that u d about him. Superstitious, cruel, bigoted, 3 d, indeed, but certainly preacher who grimly devoted If to the salvation of his ck, and who agonized thru the , bleak years incessantly. ‘When Cotton Mather met a man, here, church member or er, then and there he in- into the state of his soul. He wrote more than 400 books. He was learned in four languages. At 16 he graduated from Harvard @nd at 18 he was preaching. Ho ever knew boyhood; the fires of young manhood were never given & moment's freedom: the delights of ‘s luxuries were not for him; a int stuck in the middle of things, flint on which the striking jars Of steely circumstance drew forth sparks enough, but fate itself was Ro more unbending. ‘This sort of a man was a preach- ‘@r. indeed. What Cotton Mather Would think in the fervent soul of Bhim of our many modern minisater- ~fal vaudeville performances would Goubtiess be interesting, tho prob- @bly not especially Christian. eee AKE Cotton Mather, now: a hard, cold slab of a OR were the old Pilgrim preachers the only ones ready to die for their faith, or to burn a witch and damn a heretic. Even on the Mayflower there were women who had ideas, and ‘who crossed the raging seas and came to a wild, heathen land be @ause of their faith. A far different sort from the ) fmmigrants of today, who come “‘Pecause there is an easy fortune waiting. ‘There was Anne Hutchinson, probably the first American fem! Bist. he declared herself a me. n and was forced to flee Eng- But Anne was too vigorous trouble-maker for the Puritans Massachusetts, and she and her cowere were forced to leave the and establish themselves on Bess grant in Rhode Island. This as probably the first «pot in the godern world where true freedom @f thought was enjoyed, for it was @ basic principle of the that no one should be Unquent for doctrine.” ‘Anne was also one of our first women martyrs for, emigrating to the wilds of Stamford, Conn with ber family of fifteen, she with the gest was captured by the Indians and all but one daughter were new col “held de ered. But Anne had tived long enough fo strike the spark of religious m and to prove that a worn- fn could do and dare and think weit. eynen you study the lives and and aspirations of these 1 olonists you begin to under- ss whens came the early tnews of this nation But you will search almost tn qwain today to discover any well of og ration pouring up from the n hearts of men and women flooding the countryside with Yaith and courage and godliness. 4 wonder if Anne would have sat ‘complacent and listened to a man Sef Asiatic blood, calmly assert the hope of this nation lay in fhe interbreeding, not necessarily lmermarriage, of the Jap and the lestern white women. And yet I @otice that not only did white women, white at least of skin, if @urn to Page 2, Column 6) ered as Second Class Matter May 4, 1899, at the Postéffice at Seattle, w Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Saag “SEATTLE, WASH., SATU RDAY, JULY 17, 1920. ROB HOME OF $20,000 |Six Armed Men Bind Ser- vants and Smash Open Vault in Oakland OAKLAND, Jaly 17.—Stx burglars, heavily armed. entered the home of J. F. Carison early today bound and gagged two Japanese servants, cut telephone connections. broke open the family with siedgebammers and escaped with | currency and jewelry valued at $20, | 000. Mrs. Emily Wicks, a neighbor, told the police she saw stz men leave the Carlson home at 6:30 a m. They came out of a rear door, put their loot in an automobile, and drove away. The housekeeper found the Japan | ese bound when she went to break fast. She said she had heard no un- wonted noises. The servants told of brutal treatment following their at tempts at resistance. Carison and his wife are traveling in British Columbia. BANDIT KNOCKS BOY SENSELESS | Enters Home and Ransacks Trunk Cal. vault Slugged with the butt of a gun by a daring daylight robber Saturday noon, Alexander Kuzmaskt, 13 years old, ts in a critical condition at his home, 523 Dakota st. Dansacking a trunk In the house, the bandit escaped with $9. Motorcycle officers and ‘detectives who rushed to the boy's home, failed to find trace of the assailant Satur. day afternoon. Alexander was unconscious for half an hour, due to the blow. His skull is gashed. He was standing on the front porch when a man, about 20 years old, wearing a straw hat, approach. ed, and suddenly drew a gun. He commanded Alexander to be quiet and to throw up his hands. Alexander obeyed The bandit stepped behind the boy and slugged him over the head While his victim lay unconscious on the porch, the robber entered the house, For an unknown reason, he ran- sacked a trunk, throwing the con- tents in confusion on the floor. Police were notified of the robbery when Alexander recovered conscious ness. He was home alone. Recover Body of Bo@y of Archibald McDonald, 6, of 911 Lakeview boulevard, who drowned in Lake Union Thursday evening when he fell in while enil ing a toy yacht, was recovered Fri day night. No New Clues in Shooting Mystery Investigation of the tempted shooting of John |Herberg, treasurer of the ‘Theatres corporation, failed to r veal any clues Saturday. Von Her berg said a shot was fired at him theatre, at 1:30 a. m. Friday. E. E. | Richardson, proprietor of a rooming house at 1515 First ave. was re- leased by Detective Captain C. EB. Tennant, after being arrested in the investigation. Boy, 3 Years Old, Bitten by “Tramp” Ambrose Prisk, 3, of 1 19th ave. 8. was recovering Saturday from a dog bite He was treated at Seattle General horpital Friday after |the dog, described as a “tramp,” fhad bitten him on the arm | Own an automobile and drive away from care. It will keep the whole family youthful. That used car you have been thinking about is on Classified Page today, and at the price you wish to pay. |Keeps an Eye on Swimmers in tee 28 | | she said,| Boy From Lake! as he stood in front of the Liberty | alleged at-| Von| Greater | | champ life.saver of Lake Union | overlooked. om ‘Lives * * °° *& * He’s Only Via. Years ‘Old Here they are, top to bottom, left to right: Edward Dor- gan, champion life saver of Lake Union; Helme “Coal Mine,” “Baby” Walter “Coal Mine,” Brother Johnny “Coal Mine,’ who owe him their lives many time. over, and Ernést Falkoff, who sometimes helps Edward in his thrilling rescues. * aM 2. + 2 -@. @ This 1s truly the season of small) paper that a boy saved a dog, Well, First it was a f-year-old| When you came out and got the pic tures, you never got mine and never even put my name in the paper, and and manfully rescued himself. Next! 1 helped to ave the dog.” a 10-year-old risked his life to save! a drowning dog. And now comes the champion—the champion of cham pions—-10-year-old Edward Dargon, | boy heroes. who fell overboard from a steamer A grave error, indeed, Judeing from the disappointment in Edward's tut,” he went on, “I don’t only ave dogs.” This young chap, 16 times the|® e y saver‘of human lives, lives with his And then came the whole herole story over the telephone Mr. and Mrs : Northlake, in a houseboat i ere KIA ANG Ladies, 1.66 nm the lake. iT WHEN HE was Baby Mine and HE DOG Brother Johnny Coal Mine and Helme nearly being | Coal Mine—that's their sister—and The Star,|Martha Frye. It keeps me busy watching those Coal Mine kids, espe (Tura to Page 2, Column 3) parents. , Tal PED SAVE Edward came very He phoned fully: Phe other day you had it in the| Lake Union| Martha Frye and|\ |POISONED WOMAN'S MONEY GONE! Horse Gallops Thru Plate Glass Window | _ ! {RIGHTE harnested to a vegetable plunged thru a window of th ran amu the store and the another Terrorized, and k in w w windows. to the w estimated at Albert pwned by Andrew Piatti, a gar was loaded with vegetables Renew Search for Man Who Accompanied Her to | ttt 100 ARMED MEN ROB MAIL TRAIN ished occupant of a room in the! Rarker hotel, in which Mra Clem: | Ireland Raiders Take Offi- cial Documents entine Cash, of Ashland, Ore, was} found dead Wednesday afternoon, | were redoubled today when it was learned that Mra. Cash had $400 when she left Portland on July 1 When the body was found, her purse contained but $1.97, according | to Dr. W. H. Corson, chief deputy | coroner. | Jacobs left the hotel! Tuesday morn presemably to po to Vaneouver . where he had been employed He said, on leaving, that his “wife whe sick In the room and asked that jhotel attendants leave her undis turbed Telegraph orders sent by Captain Of Detectives Tennant to Vancouver jauthorities to arrest and interview |Jacobs, have brought no response | |from the Canadian city. | Altho incomplete chemical analysis of the contents of Mre. Cash's stom- ach and the dregs of three bottles found at the bedside, show only traces of inferior alcohol, duthorities here are not mutisfied that the poison. Un stuff might not have been given | to her with the deliberate intention lof doing away with her, [house today passed the budget, in | The minsing $400 now furnishes, | Yolving tremendous military expendi jfor the first time, a porsible motive tures. jfor crime. Mrs. Cash was not known ae ieee et tai a, Yar abe Jap Husband [to have pomsemsed such a sum until | Demands Toil, ‘est | ° = Bride Rebels 17.—The | crowers deciare, with a resultant de-| Over in cherry blossomed Japan cline in prices. Prices | 7 iad tomost tn Gan cee said Co be | Hittie Hisano Utsunomitya was happy | — a when she married Kineaku Utsuno- | Jitney Men Out miya. They came to the United After Signatures States like thousands of others of their ambitious countrymen. Representatives of the jitney men| Once on the fertile Pacific shores were busy again Saturday circulating |of America, Kinsaku, the husband papers for additional signatures to|obtained a farm tn Hanford, Cali | the petition which would compel city |fornia. Here he started working }officiala to call a special election on | the jitney ordinance. Approximately from dawn until nightfall. And he | 2,000 more names are required. BELFAST, July 17--A mafl train bound for Londonderry was “held up by a hundred armed men today. The crew were covered with re volvers. The raiders, after sorting out and tak 1 official mail, made thelr ow ‘JAPAN BOOSTING MILITARY GASH | Tremendous _ Expenditures Provided in Budget Crop Is JELES, July Southern California lemon crop this | year in the largest on record, lemon LOS AN — Lemon made his wife work in the fields with him. ‘This led to the filing of a divorce complaint Saturday in superior court. “He was cruel arrived in this ‘Hart to Review National Guard} ( { The climax of the annual national {euard encampment of Washington will come Sunday when the Third | Washington infantry holds a e Jand review fe vernor Louis F. Hart at Camp James H. Dengel, at Murray The couple were married in Kar. The public, particularly the ex-/mijama village, Nishiwa county. j#ervice men, are invited to attend | Ehime province, Japan, on January |the performance, which is sched-|25, 1918. The husband 1s still in juled for 4 o'clock. A track meet | California, by the guardsmen filled emost of | the time today. iGas 30 Centsin | Spokane Today) SPOKANE, July 17.—Gasoline | jumped to 30% cents a gallon here | Friday, The raise was ordered by | the Standard Oil company. | 1 ‘oxene jumped 4 ,cents at the | same time. | |New York Democrat } AR Py | | Dies in Vancouver | VANCOUVER, B. C, July 17.— Deputy Sheriff John J. Murray, of! |New York, who was the yictim of a! |stroke of paralysis while in the city {on his way home from the democrat | lic convention at San Francisco, died} here late yesterday at St Paul's hos | pital, Mra, Murray was hastening from New York to her husband's bedside, | buf did not arrive in time to see him Look for Bather With Blue-Red Suit Blueand-red bathing suit, blue serge suit and handbag were stolen from M. J. Fisher's home at 108 Sint st. N, he told police Satur day. to me country," Hisfno prayed in her complaint, “and he made me go to work in the fields. When I pleaded with him, because of my physical inability, he slapped me and threatened to kill me.” Policeman Fires at Burglar on Scaling Ladder Policeman Max Meyers wasted one shot trying to wing two men he says he surprised scaling a ladder leading to a window in Hauff's dry goods store, 6321 Bal lard ave., early today, The bullet miksed its mark. Both men van: ished in the darkness, Later, on a degcription furnished by Myers, two men were picked up on a Rallard street and jailed on open arges. They described them selves as McAllister, and Bill Comrada, 22, shingle weavers. Enters Her Room and Steals Purse Slipping thru an open door into the room of Miss Frances Hutehin. 1122 Marion st, a youthful room prowler stole a black seal purse containing $3 from the bed room dresser, at 7:20 a, m. Saturday. | Miss Hutchinson was too frightened to scream, She called the police aft jer the youth departed. BAND CONCERTS IN CITY PARKS SUNDAY Mr. and Mrs. Seattle Wash, | son, Dog “Barbared to Look Like a Lion|| "4 21 tne tite Seattle Washes, Jack.” an Alaskan Malamute, || W!l! be entertained Sunday by “eer «|| three band concerts, arranged by as “trimmed to look like a lon" |] ())" egg mart re Y by a thief, Carl U. Sorenson get ord me and lace follows: Ninth ave, the rightful ¢ pane Sates i Woodland complained to police Saturday. ; * Adam's band; dog was stolen June 30 and m., Carrabba's band; unteer on the street ‘trimmed,’ Park, 7:15 p. m. Wagner's band. Park, _ son reported, United Furnitire store, | captured at First ave. and Pike st , horse had a cut over one received when h ndows TOKYO, July 16.—Melayed)—The | ines we! om x 6 LATE EDITION £ — TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE cD by a thunderclap at 7 o'clock Saturday morning, a wagon, Jymped free of the traces, 1612 First ave., 4 out into the street thru viciously, the horse was Jack Lavigne, The umped thru one of of the store was The horse is whose wagon plung snortl by Patrolm: and furnitui baum, proprietor. r, 915 Henderson st, HELEAPS THRU ~ TRAIN WINDOW ‘Prisoner Makes Thrilling Escape From Sleuth Leaping thru the open window of @ train at Tenino last night, Kenneth McCauley, 17, escaped from Detec- tive William E. Worsham, of Seattle. and was still at large today, Wor- am was bringing McCauley and a | companion, Roxe Glannattosio, 19, to Seattle, from Vancouyer, Wash. to | answer a charge of grand larceny for the theft of a motorcycle belonging |to Edgar Bixbee, 4442 W. Massachu | mets #t, July 4. McCauley, accord ling to Worsham, complained on the | trip that he was not feeling well and went often to get a drink. As the | train was pulling out of Tenino, go- |ing between 20 and 25 miles an hour, the prisoner, becoming suddenly well, | plunged thru a window and rolled down the embankment. Worsham got off at the next stop and wired back to Tenino authorities to arrest McCauley, but the lad could not be found. The other prisoner is in city | jail. Dazzling Della | Is Coy Bride of Her ‘Cave Man’ | SAN FRANCISCO, July 17.—A wife cannot embezzle from her hus- band, so a charge of that nature against Mrs. Erich Buehl (nee “Princess” Della Pattra) was dis- missed todhy in Judge Ward's court. | Th@ “princess,” said to be of royal Egyptian descent, who recently was brought back from New York, ac | cused of bilking Buehl, a mining en- |gineer, out of several thousand dol- lara stole a march on the law yes- terday by becoming the bride of her , who is, she ¢p: J accu | man. On her arrival here last week, the |aark-eyed prisoner predicted confi- ldently that if she had “just a few minutes alone with Erich” the charges would be dropped. She has had her few minutes. ‘The ceremony was performed by |Judge Bernard Flood. “A little vamping now and then jis relished by the best of men,” said the bride. I'm the happiest man in the | world,” sald the husband and erst- while prosecuting witness. Buehl's case against the “princess” was dropped from the court calendar today. Neither bride nor groom ap- peared in court. “I do not propose that this court 1 be used as an advertising agen- said Judge Ward. “Further- |more, when their divorce comes up, |1 shal decline to hear their case. I would be glad to sign commitment | papers if any of Bueht's friends care to charge him with insanity.” ;Lamping Resigns From Park Board | George B, Lamping, president of the board of park commissioners, submitted his resignation to Mayor Caldwell Saturday morning. Lamp- |ing has been a member of the park board for the past six years. He declare@ that he wished to resign because his candidacy for governor would prevent him from devoting sufficient attention to park board work, OBBERS TACKLE |*+“ YAKIMA OFFICERS YAKIMA, July 17.—Tiring of “easy stuff’ in robbing citizens, thieves are tackling the cops. They robbed a string of officers’ cars j outside the police station last night. Portland Won’t Capture Office Assurances that Portland has no chance to capture the new Pacific Northwest shipping board district from Seattle have been received by the ttle Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club from Rear Ad- miral W. 8. Benson, head of the LL & shipping board, STRUGGLE TS CLOSE \Nip and Tuck Battle for Su premacy Staged Off Sand Hook in Second Contest’ | ABOARD U. 8. 8. DE z GOLDSBOROUGH, off Sandy B July 17.—4By Wireless.}— defender of America’s yachting led the Shamrock at the end of i first leg of their second race ti +The Resolute turned the first of {he triangular 30umile race é 4:33:42, unofficial time, The Shamrock gained as yachts approached the mark and less than 200 yards astern, but to the leeward at 4 p.m. The droped back to five_ knots, threatening an incompleted race, — SHAMROCK LEFT t ALMOST BECALMED The wind hauled a bit to the ward, letting the Resolute up the mark. Shamrock was left most becalmed. At 4:10 p, m. Shamrock was yards under Resotute’s lee with mark about a mile to the the defender. Shamrock was rapidly. Th wind had tereased to knots. Shamrock had taken No. 2 baby topsail and set @ one. The change was made slowly and Resolute increased gain during that shift. As the craft following the Tracers shifted to the other tack a4 came along in full sail, the was thrilling. Far along the the white wings bowed to the Steamers, their railings lined spectators thoroly keyed up dignifiedly in two parallel lines, _ Resolute tacks to port at 3:27. ¢ tain Burton, however, tacked awa The Shamrock was nearly twice aa long in stays. Both skippers wer bringing all of their skill to with the object of snatching a b before the other could find it, YACHTS SPLIT TACKS AGAIN At 3:32 the two yachts again, Shamrock going > and Resolute to port with the about four miles off Resolute’s bow. At 3:50 range finders jthe Resolute 400 yards ahead to | indward. Both Shamrock and olute were on port tack, almost hi ing for the mark three miles tant. yee being held up for more’ an hour because of lack of wind, tl |Shamrock IV. and the 0 | crossed the starting line in the ond of their series of races for America’s cup, ice iP, shortly before 3 p, Both vessels slipped over the close hauled on the starboard t The Shamrock was only nine onds behind the defender. The official time of the Resolute, 1:46:28; Shamrock, 2 The race today was,over @ angular course of 30 miles, first mark was about 15 miles east of Monmouth Beach, near ab pes New Jersey, and the on turn five miles % Long Branch. “a SHAMROCK TRIES TO “CALM” RESOLUTE As the signal balls went ap lute shot cleanly over the and the Shamrock leaped after Both yachts caught the breese clipped thru the water in @ to the 10-mile mark at the end the first leg. The Shamrock tried to kill Resolute’s wind at the start. time Captain Adams sli by bearing off. Bie The Resolute tmmediately to crawl out to the windward whi footing almost as fast as the Shan» rock. Fifteen minutes after ey } quarter of a mile to the wini and holding the Shamrock well, Twenty minutes after the both racers were holding the board tack with Resolute to windward and Shamrock a ahead but unable to cross lute’s bow. At 2:15 p.m. yachts were still headed for Long Island shore on sta: tack, Resolute had increased windward advantage to on of a mile. Shamrock contin sagged off to the leeward In to outfoot the defender, but she forged ahead somewhat too far to the leeward to by it, ae The breeze was less than knots an hour and both yi moved very slowly thru the Resolute kept her nose well into wind, ; Resolute was leading at 2:25 B Gust Tura the Fas