The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 13, 1920, Page 1

ater f Weather Tonight and Saturday, fair, continued warm; moder- ate westerly winds. ) x § {ll VOLUME Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 84, Minimum, 60. Today Noon, 72. Sagal 23. On the I: Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1920. sue of Americanism There'Can Be No Compromise TheSeattle Sta at the Postoffice at Seattia, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 8, | *. Per Year, by Mail, $6 to 69 TH ALATE EDITION HUMOR PATHOS FE ROMANCE Witches’ Loaves (Copyright, 1520, dy the Wheeler Byndicate, Inc.) Martha Meacham kept the chat for a while across the showcase. bakery on the corner (the one/ He seemed to crave Miss Martha's you go up three steps, and | cheerful words. tinkits when you open the| He kept on buying stale bread. Never a cake, never a pie, never one of her delicious Sally Lunna. She thought he began to look thin ner and discouraged. Her heart ached to add something good to eat to his meagre purchase, but courage failed at the act. She did not dare affront him. She knew the pride of artists. Miss Martha took to wearing her biue-dotted silk waist behind the counter. In the back room she cooked a mysterious compound of quince seeds and borax. Ever so many people use it for the com- plexion. 9 One day the customer came tn as usual, laid hfs nickel on the show case, and called for his stale loaves While Miss Martha was reaching for them there was @ great tooting and clanging, and a fireengine came | lumbering past. ‘The customer hurtied to the door te jook, as any one will. Suddenly inspired, Mind Martha seiaed the op pitt Martha was forty, her bank showed a credit of two thow dollars, and she possessed two | and a sympathetic heart. have married whose so were much inferior FE i | re Fe s. or three times @ week a cup came in in whom she began interest. He was a mid- earing spectacies and trimmed to a careful rae English with a. strong nt. His clothes were ed in places, and wrin- in others. But he had very good man Hi i i Hi i i z portunity. . On the bottom shelf behind the counter was a pound of fresh butter that the dairyman had left ten min- utes before: With @ bread knife Mies Martha made a deep slash in @ach of the stale loaves, inserted a Pressed the loaves tight aguin. When the customer turned once around them. When he had gone, after an un usually pleasant little chat, Miss Martha smiled to herself, but not without a slight Clutter of the heart. Had ahe been too bold? Would he take offense? But surely not There was no language of edibles. Butter was no emblem of unmaidenly for wardnesa, For a long time that day hy | dwelt on the subject. She ims | the scene when he should discover her little deception He would lay down his brushes and palette. There would stand hts eage! with the picture he was paint ing in which the perspective was be yond criticism. He would prepare for his tuncheon of dry bread and water. He would |alice into a loaf—ah! Miss Martha blushed. Would he think of the hand that placed it there as he ? Would he—— ‘The front door bell jangied vicious ly. Somebody was coming in, mak ing a great deal of noise Miss Martha hurried to the front. Two men were there. One w attic. Miss Martha's heart. been told, was a sym test in order to her theory as to occupation, she brought from her one day a painting that she | bought at a sale, and eet ft Qgainst the shelves behind the bread counter. It was a Venetian scene. A splen- @id marble palazzio (so it said on the jure) stood in the foreground—or Father forewater. For the rest there were gondolas (with the lady trailing her hand in the water), clouds, sky, ‘and chiaro-oscuro in plenty. No ar- fist could fail to notice it. ‘Two days afterward the customer ame in. “Two loafs of stale bread, if you Please. “You haf here a fine bicture, mad- fame,” he said while she was wrap- ing up the bread. “Yes?” said Miss Martha, revelling fm her own cunning. “I do so ad} mire art and” (no, it would not do to my “artiste” thus early) nd Paintings,” she substituted You think it is a good picture?” “Der balace,” said the customer. is not in good drawing. Der bair: ‘spective of it is not true. Good morning, madame.” He took his bread, bowed, and hur fled out. she had never seen before. The jother was her artist. His face was very red, his hat was on the back of his head, his hair was wildly rumpled. He clenched his two fiste arid shook them fero Yes, he must be an artist. Mies |ciously at Miss Martha. At Miss ‘Martha took the picture back to her| wartha! room. “Dummkopt” he shouted with ex How gentle and kindly his eyes!treme loudness; and then “Tausen ghone behind his spectacles! What |donfer!” or something like it in Ger & broad brow he had! To be able to} man fudge perspective at a glance—and| ‘The young man tried to draw him to live on stale ‘bread! Put genius | away often has to struggle before it is rec “LT vill not go.” he said angrily. ized. He made a bass drum of Miss Mar What a thing it would be for art] tha's counter @nd perspective if genius were! “You haf sh t me.” he erted, hi Backed by two thousand dollars in| blue eyes blazing behind his spec bank, a bakery, and a sympathetic/tactes, “I vill tell you. You vas heart to But these were day-| yon meddir me old cat!” dreams, Miss Martha. Miss Martha uned = weak! Often now when he came he would against the shelves and laid on ee ~~ T hand on bh blue dotted silk tint ~4 The young man took the other t rince Varo the cola « me on.” he 1, “you've raid ‘ f; enough.” He dragged the angry one S Not After [rere cre in Mooi ana then came back t S I “Guess you ought to be told Heart Solace |i: .2'i.0° ia." x0 ot * SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13.—Thir | about That's Blumberger. He's an teens, Fridays and such things don't | architectural drafteman. I work in worry Crown Prince Carol of Ru-| the office with him mania. / “He's been working hard for three Established with his retinue of 12|months drawing a plan for a new fn @ suite of 13 rooms at a hotel here| city hall, It was a prize competi fhe was ready early today for busi.| tion. He finished inking in the lines ness or gaict yesterday ou know a draftsman Further than to say ho belle nys makes his drawing in pen: the allies should + tamped out |first. When it's done he rubs out Bolsheviemn before it had gone as far|the pencil lines with a handful of as it has, the prince remained siient|stale breadcrumb: That's better on international! and diplomatic mat-|than India rubber. ters * iberger’a been buying hi Members of his party were permit. | bread here Well, yesterday—well ted to discuss “domes questions | you know, ma’am, that butter isn’t to the extent of denying that Prince |—well, Plumberger’s plan twn't good Carol is making bis world tour for|for anything now execpt to cut up the purpose of forgetting h elinto railroad sandwiches.” the girl of lowly birth whom h Miss Martha went into the back startled European courts by marr ym, She took off the blue-dotted ing k walet and put on the old brown The prince, who is being onter-| serge whe used to wear, Then she tained extensively by San Francisso| poured the quince seed and borax society, expects to remain here unti!| mixture out of the window into the funday. ash can. her) el young man smoking a pipe—a man | HOUSE VOTE IS DUE ON ‘Expect Fight Before Final | Passage, but Victory for Women Seems Near NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 13, —The state senate today approv- ed the federal suffrage amend- ment. The vote was 25 to 4. The ratification resolution new | goem to the house of representa- | tives, where action is expected Tuesday, altho a quicker vote may be had. If the house passes the ratification resolution, it will provide the 36th state to ratify the amendment and insure the voting by all women in the Unit- ed States in the November cleo tions, The senate committes, In tts fa- vorable seport peior to the senate ratification, declared the legislature | has @ “legal and moral right to act.” | Inhibitory clauses in the state con- Girl, 16, Man, 49, Found Dead TUESDAY:DESPERATE BATTLE 1S NOW RAGING He Found Out W. BY HAL ARMSTRO:! iG Poles Are Fighting Hand-to-| AREY sent. dodged smiling Hand Struggle shevik Invaers thee delegates mee commimary at the front today and agreed to begin negotiations LONDON, Aug. With Bol- the Bolshevik stitution are invatided by the United 40d Premier Millerand over the rec! States constitution, it was anrued. The house committee, to which the | @9t+-Holshevik government were con-| #l¢s from the trolley tinuing this afternoon, it was learn | red, decided net to make ita report | 4 in official quarters. resolution of ratification was refer until after another meeting Monday jnight. The house adjourned shortly | that the situation wan easier, but) that a weekend conference by the, before noon unull Monday, ‘The government's impression was ‘The hardest fight on the resolution |Prémicrs may be neoened: was predicted in the house. “majority “climbed on the wagon.” “The victory tn ‘the Tennesnee sen. | for woman enf: llong strugrie ran. Miss Sue White! chisement,” satd Uonal woman's party. Out of Frying Pan | Right Into Flames | J. Cartson, 24, a seaman, com- | pleted a 30-day sentence Thursday at | the county jail and was immediately rearrested. He i being held for the Police on a criminal aw ITCH LETTERS IN CUPID MAIL | CHICAGO, Aug. 12—Mayor! Thompson received @ letter signed Katherine Tierney, Somerville, Mass. | for @ husband, and one from A rth Schnickie, Bt. Louisa, asking for 4 wife, He ordered his secretary to “switch the letters” end send ‘em! hack |\President Barrows Back From Europe BERKELEY, Cal., Aug. 13.—Preat. dent David P. Barrows, of the Uni. vernity of California, was back at hin desk today, having arrived late yes terday at the conclusion of @ trip to Europe. |AHA! EVIDENCE IN THE SPONGE CHICA Aug. 12. When prohi bition age raided a saloon the owner's wife threw a bott on the floor. An operative tomed a sponge Result: Half @ pint ts in the puddle. of “evidence,” RMY OFFICER HAS NEW THUMB) PASADENA, Cat, Aug. 13 pt. David Fallon, British army of. r, now hi a new thumb. Physi- transferred an index finger to a thumb lost in the war. IS NO LAUGHING MATTER, MARIE} SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 13 Ch tina Marie Dettner, in a div oF compiaint,. charged her husband hook her because she laughed wher |he stubbed his toe while préparing | for bed | CHICA Myrtle Moses Alschu ler, member of Chicago grand opera y USED CARS T BECOMES OF THEM? Your friend is running _ new You know old was a daod and || f« een well taken ht to one. care of ome What me of th used car? It went way of many 4 good, faithful motor—sold thru | | | tar If you car or self, you'll reading want bargain in have a one find a to offer your the using ad) Automobiles answer under The 8 the stamp. BUYERS || in Sale in These columns are jing ground of good and SELLERS. Polinh and tattio Berth of wan still. | dispatches: Potiah capital generous quantity of butter, 294) ate brings us to the last lap in the} The Poles were offering bitter re ry. Bolshevik atnies fave Point about 36 and the re- when the ae sprinted for the car. with that keen joy of Harry was ina hurry, It ts a long headquarters, He would have barely time to get into his uniform and jump into the squadron for the cap tam's roll call. But he glowed as he Friday the 13th and the He Nearly Missed His Car, He Knew He'd Forgotten Something, and The Other aang oa oo and t Was. ride from Green Lake beach to police | who had something other people to think they had no lth Cop enickered again. No Goubt ft was amusing thru the throng of bathers and ‘The reet of the trip was a confused His tanned | nightmare. face beamed. His whole being tingled | mindedness should finally develop living that | into comes of a brisk rub with a rough | min PARIS, Ag. 13.—Potish armie | towel after a plunge in Green Lake. | strange things, but What if this absent complete blanking of his Harry had heard of such had thought them chiefly the invention of those they wanted recollection of. He swung from the front vestibule at Second and Yesler way, and bolt- 12.—Communtea. | sped up the hil thra Woodland park.|ed for the station, Squads were al. |tions between Premier Lioyd George | He felt supremely giad to be alive.| ready beginning to form. He dart- And then, as he pulled up puffing ed into the office where sat Curtis the hill, 9 feeling of quite sort surged u; any yo sap el» ‘tare hack tir} bathhouse—no; It toe towards elimked aborad, about for @ peat, then suddenly real sistance, repeatedly throwing the | 4d it was @ Green Lake car and, of Russians out to.advicen f the Of, defensins where a | COUTN® there was none. more she was tying the paper Tennemseo state chairmaa of the na.| foothold had been gained, according * #ttap and-Knitted his brows, front. Much of} the fighting waa hand-to-hand. j be a feint DESCHANEL MAY’ RESIGN /New Policies OFFIC | May Force, French President Out BY HENRY PARIS, Aug. 13. President Deschanel a result of France’s new and aggres: | what he would do. sive anti-Bolshevik consequent reported toda *. In such an ev sidered likely that Premier Millerand|ing thingy. | would be elected president and M.| im exactly what it was y Briand appointed premier. |not he had only forgotten to cover! The press today generally declared hin h recognition of Wrangel diplomatic jstanding with Great Britain, it was|@ telephone and call his wife. in high political cir-| ‘woop He grasped What waa it he had left, his gun? He changed hands on the strap and A considerable force of Poles wan | felt for the holster under his left being held balck of the lines an a| Fm. | mobile reserve, the staff fearing the | Russian attack on the porth might Tt was there, and the gun was in it, He searched his pockets. notebook, letters, papérn were all where they belonged. nent dared and aggravated him. His} In a funk be entered and looked | joy of living. | Hia predica-| @mbulance on the way to a hos | pital, wan the experience lognition by France of Wrangel's| Ger the “car stop” sign that dan-| Watson, the report clerk. Watson ! . awOD/ was his friend. a another] .“Watron,” he dturted. “Caf ap you? Ask her what it was T ) hurry. socks. BAs KANSAS CITY, Mo. Y IS BORN Aug. to do, That's a good the FE HAD forgotten to put on his | TO GO WITH MAN The girl's aunt, who runs the ho- TENNESSEE SENATE RATIFIES SUFFRAGE! INNOCENT CHILD IN Warned by Girl’s Relatives to Stay Away, Wealthy Man and Victim Die WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—The tragic romance of a wealthy man of the world and a country miss was unfolded here today thru investiga tion of the deaths of J. Ford Thomp son and Mary Sneeringer, While Washington police spread a dragnet to catch Thompson on a charge of abducting the girl, the bodies of the 49-year-old man and the pretty 16-year-old girl were found yang the woods Pig Wednesday night. LEFT AUNTS HOTEL 3 TRAGEDY Another cent profit trying to “out- The O14 Colony Company when federal officers took business of Ponzi and Ponai on charge of using the to defraud and larceny. i Brightwell admitted when doors of his sieged by hundreds - a, Takes! BOSTOD Aug. tel, wearching Mary's room, found messages which vaguely hinted at her going away. Whether these IN AMBULANCE }nwtes referred to suicide or to plans 13.-|for an elopement with Thompson Born on Friday, the 13th, in a city | Could not be determined. shortly Perhaps, whatever it was, he had after midnight of a 10-pound baby not Jefe it at the bathhouse, after all had asked him pftvately to do. So much the worse. Ag the car jerked uneasily around a curve a vision came before him; the vision of an absent-minded copper, helmet in and, standing firet on one foot and then on the other on the rich carpet| no terrors for in the chief's office, with the chiefs steely eyes boring into him while he | that date and toda: tried blunderingly to explain. cee | Possibly it was something the chief | Crowley of t boy, son of Mr. and Mra. L. his city. eee RIDAY, THE 13TH, G | Thompson, rich and with nothing to do, met the girl this spring when |he moved from Washington to Mary- land. He often spoke to his friends about Mary, telling them of plans to educate her, The girl apparently returned his affections. But her relatives object Is JOYFUL DATE |* to Thompson because of the dis- rity in his age and Mary's and ST. PAUL, Minn, Aug. 13.—The | P™ old bogey “Fri the “aun has also because Thompson was marriéd. John Smuisky of | His Wife some years ago obtained a Groton, &. D. He was born on| ess! separation trom him and now ¥ received word that he was heir to a third share of a $50,000 estate. He wants Resignation of TE CAR teetered out of the curve name his latest baby “Friday.” is imminent, as| policy and the| misunder- | ent, it was con:| anti-Dolshe and the vision fied. Harry kyew quarters in time, jf the Fremont bridge wasn't open, he would get to His wife had a most memory. She was always remember She could probably tell Likely as finished of] painting; Harry is an artist of some note. Or maybe If he got to héad-! retentive | vik government by France ‘was ait was the ever-blooming geranium: | mere incident gene France and Great Britain vergence has existed newspapers said, and h point where tmmed tion of the entente id basis i lomaticall, amooth over thelr differe whether it was justified |to be done parleys fail to bring of hootilities: if the Minsk in the gra@Sai diver ‘« between the Russian policies of |!ne with in the garden and had for. | nd This di-| for months, the is reached a) jate reorganiza conmilale upon ry. | a nece 1 and Franoe today were dip. negotiating in an effort to eos with re office gard to Russia, The foreten Jet it be known that the points under incision were the soviet peace terms to Poland, which Britain ad: | vised the Poles to accept and which France advised them to re the French recognition of Wrangel and and wh t in arm’ . about « France Agrees With | View of PARIS, Aug. 13%. a note to the Lt tha it holds rd to od by Pres to the Italian a claring w note Pope Bened th re Russ ident America) today de views France nited State the ia as Wi mbasskador ict Is on in Injured in Fal ROME, Aug. 13--Pope 1 et fell, ‘slightly hurting # knee, while he was in hia library today, It was) learned at the vatican | oe LONDON, Aug. 1%—-News of Pope Benedict falling artings his knee aroused nin London as tot of his h It was ently rumored that he had suffer a stroke of paralysis SPOKANE.—Spe a) railwa taling $330,000 within it is announced Internation: | n the next year, | hydrangea that he was experiment gotten to water; Harry is a # Burbank when ft comes to flowers, Anyway, hie wife would know The car hit anotheg curve and ran out on the bridge with gong clamor ing. The center span waa lifting. A slow-moving, high-masted tug was approachihg with a tow of logs Harry's hopes sank, He would have no time to telephone now, He would be fortunate if he got to the squad ron on time Hang it, what was the s big memory had slipped on? Bad N ews: Butter Goes Up. Wholesale butter dealers the ante Friday morning Local creamery cubes advanced to make improvements to-| two. cents, selling now at 58 cents a pound, A similar raise brings bricks to 69 cents wholesale, control when a torrential rain lof King county, raised | Hall-Luhrs O JINX DATE to| FOR CHICAGO CHICAGO, Aug. 13.—A veritable cloudburst on the south side early today drowned the Friday the 13th jin. Fire which destroyed five dwell ings e@was rapidly getting beyond put out the flames. GATES SHUT ON _ HIM, HE SAYS $5,000 Damages Removed from the superior court the damage suit of tug @nailed past. The bridge |C. J. Smith against the Puget Sound rang again, The car| Traction, Light & Power Co, was en ssed the bridge and stop ed in the United States district ye people were getting off.| court Friday morning. wank dazed into an empty Smith, who is an attorney and is seat up front onducting his own case, asks $5,000 me ) damages for injuries alleged to have HERE W two young girls|been sustained on June 30, 1917, On acrows the aisle from him. They | t! » sets forth, he boarded looked at him amused, then turn a Ki ark car at Olympic way their faces and tried to shield a/and 1 W. An assistant con snicker behind carefully manicured | ductor, Smith alleges, closed the iron hands |wates prematarely, catching Smith's Barry. iol r mirth uneasily.| Tight ankle and inflicting what ap His face flamed underneath the pear to be permanent injuries, ne He clutched at bia te. Yes, it was | cessitating the use of a cane, in place. Ah, he knew what it was!| ‘The Kinnear cars are now part of In sitting down he had jerked his|the municipal lines, but at the time trousers up nearly to the k He|the injury is alleged to have been could fee! their cuffa binding under | *ustained they were privately owned ‘his calves. Probably his garters|@nd operated showed, Gazing down the aisle, try-| “ ro ing to seem calm and unconcerned, {$200,000 Fire he lifted his pantslegs over his az knees and let them drop. ‘The girls| in Sacramento SACRAMENTO, Cal, Aug. 13 Fire of undetermined origin in the commission district this morning caused losses estimated at $200,000 The plants of the Vaile 1c pany and the California Pi Distributors were completely stroyed he big warehouse of the company, buildings destroyed, SPOKANE.—Robbers frightened away in attempt to burglarize.Farm ers & Merchants’ bank at Rockford, adjoining was say the | Sues Traction ‘Company for) lives in France with their 11-yearold child, according to information here. Thompson and the girl continued to meet, however, in spite of objec- tions. Last week the gir! relatives | told Thompson to LW When he and Mary disappeared, her rela- tives notified Maryland authorities and Washington police to apprehend | Thompson on a charge of abduction. The two apparently went to the lonely spot in the woods where their bodies were found and killed them- |selves, Police believe they agreed to die together because of their hope- j less romance. Thompson was a son of Dr. J. Ford ‘Thompson, widely known Washington surgeon “Crank” Is Charged in Kidnaping Case NORRISTOWN, Pa. Aug. 13.— Augusto Pasquale, confessed “crank” in the Blakely Coughlin kidnaping c was today charged with kid ng, extortion and use of the mails to defrauwi, on arraignment here today. Bergdoll Findings Sent to General YORK, Aug. 13.—Th martial in th Bergdoll, notorioy draft evader, w tilard for con- verdict was five minutes’ delibera- NEW finding of the. court Erwin a trial jas an alleg | sent to° Maj firmation today reached in tion. WEST SEATTLEITES ASKED TO USE WATER SPARINGLY FOR DAY of Water’ will hut off on W Spokane st, west of Lov putting all the low service |] in West Seattle and You out of water Saturday even ing, August 14, from 9 o'clock p. m, until morning, The low service system supplies of the territory lying below feet elevation around the rfront ag far south as Lin coln Beach All water consumers in West Seattle are requested by L. B. Youngs, water superintendent, to use no water for sprinkling on Saturday evening after 5 o'clock in order that the storage may not be depleted, as there will be no water pumped into the tanks dur: ing the period of the shut off, Ponzk wh financial on shifting sands tu a letter t he told police officials, © The letter was written by @ who said he had been tm Fonzi for 12 years. Police bell the writer may have been one suffered as a result of nancial operations in Montreal: 12 years ago. : Of the hundreds whe came to torney General Allen's office with Ponizi notes were many ing girls of from 18 to 35 jold. Most of them told offi |that they had invested every | | they had with Ponzi. All | worried. There also were |youths, nervous and awed by quick developments in the in gation. . ’ Ar aged Jewish taflor from stooc in line and wept h: Pa Ke clutched tn his worn hand my. note for $1,000, which |the savings’ of 15 years of with-a needle. He was heartl PRINTER LOSES $6,000 SAVINGS OF YEARS ~ A printer from the north end ‘ the city showed a note for $6, the savings of years, which he vested with Ponzi instead of ing a home as he originally tended. et There were many Italians fn Jong lines at the attorney office, but the majority who today were native Americana, of them factory girls who had been carried away by Ponzi’s promise of, riches in 45 days. Be Attorney General Allen was seeled ing to determine whether Ponai’a: agents are \liable for the losses o€, investors. The self-claimed “financial wizard | was at liberty on $35,000 bail—$36,! jon the federal charge of using mails to defraud and the other $10= 000 on a state charge of larceny, The report of the audit of his books: expected to be made public to-, « Forecasts were that the report | would show Ponzi had: 40,000 customme s; that they “invested” as high ag | $14,000,000 in his scheme; that he paid approximately $6,000,000 bee: fore the doors of the Hanover Trust. ompany were closed, and that he still owes the remainder. Bank Commissioner Allen stuck to his statement that the capital of the na. te ee * | Hanover Trust company was “badly impaired if not wiped out,” despite deni of offic va | poni declared today that he was happy because his girl wife still poe a fessed her love and faith in him, PRETTY WIFE SHOWS LOVE AND FAITH | Rose Ponzi, pretty dark-eyed Ttale jan girl, proved her love and faith By the simple statement, “He is my hug! banc ne is happy that the nerve-trytng? strain of the past few weeks is over, Altho she loved the luxury their new. found wealth afforded, she said she would toil long and patiently to help her husband meet his obligations, and | she was confident he would pay all he owed, After his surrender to authorities ~ yesterday Ponzi rushed home to hia: wife, She was waiting for him on the lawn of their beautiful estate. The worry and weariness that was shown on Ponzi's face disappeared as his (Continued on Page 11, Columm: