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

“ht calls me Mary Marie. ” . of the court ASTOUNDING! @eather Tonight and Sunday, fair, continued warm; mod- erate westerly winds. Temperature Last 24 Maximum, 86. Mini Today Noon, 70, jours: m, 57. ATHER calls me Mary. Mother calls me Marie. Everybody else I’m thirteen years old, and—we have a divorce— so I live six months with mother, and then six months with father, by order MARY MARIE Is What Eleanor H. Porter Has Called Her GREAT NOVEL OF DIVORCE Starts Monday~-Next Serial in The Star--Starts Monday On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Comprom The Seattle Star Batered as Second Clase Matter May 9, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879 e Per Year, by Mall, $6 to $9 we | saw have made up her mind to take the rich banker by the time I go to live with her again .. . STARTLING! oe x & f EDITION I wonde “ee ’M sure father is going to marry the widow next door, because I r if mother will ” tHMl wurror PATHOS 1920, by Doubdteday, Page| Copyright, PRISON @ Co.; pudlished by special ar-) Tangement with the Whester Syn- dicate, Inc. | j The other day a poet friend of mine, who has lived in close com munion with nature all his life, | wrote a poem and took it to an ed-| itor, It was a living pastoral, full of the genuine breath of the fields, the gong of birds, and the pleasant chat ter of trickling streams. When the poct called again to see) about it, with hopes of a beefsteak | dinner ‘i his heart, it was handed| AUSTIN, Tex. back to him with the comment: | paid the price—you can “Too artificial.” —_ . Several of us met over spaghett! | Dand Dutchess County chianti, and yewallowed indignation with the slip pery forkfuls. there we dug a pit for the wane. With us was Conant, a well- arrived writer of fiction—a man who jhad trod on asphalt all his life, and had never looked upon bucolic except with semmations of dis gust from the windows of express trains. Conant wrote a poerh and called it “The Doe and the Brook.” It was @ fine specimen of the kind of work you would expect from a poet who had strayed with Amaryllis only as) far as the florist's windows, and| whose sole ornithological discussion | hhad béen carried on with a waiter, Conant signed this poem, and we gent it to the editor. But this has very little to do with | Can Pardon Me sage reached Gov. W. desk a pardon, releasing ly Edwards, 70, from th: tentiary, had been signed Zen years ago “Uncle ® man. LIFE SENTENCE prison for life passed, the judge. of the victim and sought his pardon fot until T have paid ‘Uncle Billy's” was “Not yet,” he would sa that he was free. Governor Hobby’ Again it was refused | during Hobby’s term of c the story. old man reject offers of Just as the editor was reading the “IN write you when first line of the poem, on the next) the price,” he said morning, a being stumbled off the| So, finally, “Uncle Bill West Shore ferryboat and loped| slowly up Forty-second street. ‘The invader was a young man with light blue eyes, a hanging lip and hair the exact color of the little han's (afterward discovered to be ot Sakh danekte in one of Mr.| Wish Hobby changed the Blaney'’s plays. His trousers were | *ccordingly corduroy, his coat short-sleeved, with | And #0, on his Tist birt! A iy” will walk thru buttons in the m of his back. | Pt ‘as outaide the cordu-| ates to freedom and wes MPa weak expet : | For while confined in 8. You looked expectantly, though te vain, at his straw hat for ear| tary three great pools holes, its shape inaugurating the sus | Den discovered on his 3 picion that it had been rm |in Callahan county. @ former equine pons hand was 4 valise—desc fs an impossible task; a Bi would not have carried and law books to his office in it ‘And above one ear, in his hair, was @ wisp of hay—the rustic’s letter of he was free, he shook h “I didn’t expect act 80 quickly,” he said. | pardon for my birthday- “or. WORTH A FORTUNE ption of it ston man | his lunch | account in banks total $ ing men,” the aged prixo In vain did Governor C | three pardons for the aged prisoner. | y, when told | every cent of that money HELL QUIT BIRTHDAY '“Pve Paid the Price; You Now,” He Writes Governor Aug. 14.—"T have pardon me Three minutes after that brief mes- P. Hobby’s “Unele Bib ° ie pen a Billy” kitted DEMANDED HE RECEIVE He demanded he be sentenced to After the verdict whs | jury and relatives | state bs ghd for my sin,” answer, ‘olquitt write | second official act was to pardon Edwards, Twiee more office did the Hberty. I have paid yy" wrote, But when word flashed back that is head the governor to! “T want the August 22." To comply with the aged man's! pardon date | hday “Uncle | the prison alth. the peniten. of oll have 20acre farm 1S LAND IN ITSELF Royalties already deposited to hia! 480,000. The land itself is worth a fortune. “When I'm free I'm going to use y regenerat sner told the 54 credit, his badge of innocence, the e * Jat clinging touch of the Garden of | B0Vernor during a recent visit to the len lingering to shame the gold- | PTson “ssi et . - | “The first thing I will do will be | » the \ Knowingly, smilingly, the city |*° employ the best law ui 4 bet crowds passed him by. They saw |‘? S his nag Pg eat pa the raw stranger stand in the gutter | “#°¢ convicts, ; “a + tae dit om hav a and stretch his neck at the tall build ag — i ag wae ties ious his they ceased to smile, dtl ge “ . — Phe to eee ae him. It bad |t0 ket out. I'l spend the whole dad Been done 20 often. A few glanced |Pamed fortune td see they get what S ey want,” he sald. At the antique valiso to see what |‘" Biemcasti ts oo A ne a Coney “attraction” or brand of|, if theres mM ihe board of sega Tiger a" eat tae tha |Dardons is known to be planning me a os taened or thé | favorable action on the two old con a ieen heared Haven the | victs’ petitions—I'm going to build : ~ewmors open or _ "© | farm where men who have sinned | scampered like a circus clown out Of | ang have paid can start life anew, and street cars. his mouth at a jewelry store window, and shook his head “Too thick, pal,” —"too thick by a couple 1 don’t know what your lay is; | they're going to get it | “I wouldn't trade my other 60 of m 1 he said critically of inches. but for the befor, |member of the Protherh the way of cabs oe waa. 4 At Eighth Avenue stood uNnCO | OOD ; Harry,” with his dyed mustache and WHO N shiny, good-natured eyes, Harry was |v nad life inside these stone too good an artist not to be pained | wari,” pve learned to love my fellow | 4 < he COUN | who need a helping hand. Just so tryman, who had stopped to open |iong ag ‘Uncle Billy's’ coln holgs out 0 years here life. I'm a ood of Man t i you've got the properties on too| «" friends in Callahan thick. That hay, now—why, they! county are planning a “welcome A don't evenjailow that on Proctor’s| pore” for the aged man j any more. -| “It'll be the biggest celebration a. I don’t understand you, mister,” | this neck the woods has { 4 eal the green one. “I’m not lookin’! geen,’ red Chisholm, who has fof any circus just run down |peen m hairman of the recep from Ulster County to look at the! tion committee.” town, bein’ that the in's over| with . ah! but it's a whopper. 1 Canadian Is Sent thought Poughkeepsie was some ° punkins; but this here town is ve| Back Across Line times a8 big | WASHINGTON, Aug, 14.—Arthur “oh, weil," said “Bunco Harry,”| feremont, charged with unlawful raising his cye-brows, “I didn’t mean | entry into the United States from to butt in. You don’t have to tell. | Canada, and alleged to be connected I thought you ought to tone down 4) with the Nicky Arnstein’ case, was Ittle, so I tried to put you wise, Wish ‘eta wucces# at your graft, whatever (furn to Page 4, Column 2) today deported acronn t border, nounced, 4 he Canadian the labor department an- or | | any Gus Pope, athlete in the world. SEATTL E, WASH., SATURDAY, AUGL ‘ST 14, 1920. American discus champion and Seattle's lone representative in the Olympic games at Antwerp, is said to | have the most perfect form in throwing the Greek saucer of Pope won the American chammon- shtp at the final Olympic trials at Cambridge, Mass., with a thro Me BY HAL ARMSTRONG It was getting late when J. W. | Williams of 1124 Howell st. stepped into the Juneau soft drink establi | ment hungry for A weary, mopped | towel. argur for ni At app knees anoth Het and “Ha shovi |The ¢ order He ler | Het sa anche jon h rolled “Ha T in no loon and—well, “cleaned” him, engaged in subject in who had of wreck that beck WILLIAMS INSISTED ON TAKING & w of 146 feet 5 inches. THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER WAS- The Good what he generally “gits’’— Samaritan got in cider sa- they ets “souse” last night, thristy for suds and companionship white-aproned barkeeper counter with 4 | loud-volced mon were| or jess friendly trivial s cared | the Four a more ment over a more or | a corner, Wiillk one of these. the end of the bar. alone a ntly friendiess, with saggin and pale, pathetic f. swayed er. He looked the part of a dere- sailed th an interest a Will he app crosa the pleased. neven seas foundered ams led ar They | ave something ng a quarter derelict accepted, ed nigh-be had flirting with hard and Jamaica ginger, the dere uid, drunkenly, and had droy in the Juneau to reat a # is way home. He had by ruffians and robbed some he couldn't recollect just} but $40 was missing, about} had ard luck,” been commented Williams. 1 HOME ® derelict staggered, condition to be abvut. He was | their hats | ped on the ‘stre © did you say you live?” his {urn to Page 2, Column 2) It May Get Cooler After Tomorrow After it may get cooler. This was the prediction today of Salis. tomorrow Weather Observer George N. |bury, who reported the mercury hovering around 85 at noon. “It may get hotter today and tomorrow,” he opined, “but after tomorrow I look for a break | It was 86 yesterday, hottest day of the week. eee Portland Girl Victim of Heat PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 14.—Cith zens were ge leaves in wearing cabb here today as the mercury It was 95 degrees yester- Miss Elaine Frayne drop sunstruck. ° mounted day when Roseburg Folks Pant for Breath ROSEBURG, Ore, Aug. 14.—It was hot here yesterday at 102, but cool compared with the outlook for today, the weather man said. eee Medford Swelters With Record Heat MEDFORD, Ore., Aug. 14.—-Med- ford was the hottest city in the Unit- od States Friday with a temperature of 108, The Dalles, Ore, reported 10% ¥ . Aged Slayer Sets Own Pardon Date | Seattle will be represented at the Olympic games In Antwerp, Belgium, by an American of true American | bios. | The big honors have fallen on the broad shoulders of Augustus Pope, better known’ ag “Gus,” son of Mr. and Mrs. Dera T. Pope of 1418 Wil- lard ave. The Pope family dates back to the first small Piymouth colony in New England of 1620, while Mra. Pope's people, the Tuekers, date back to the latter part of the hh century. Both families were of English stock. Gu was born herein 1899. CHAMPION AMERICAN DISCUS HEAVER Pope, who is a junior at the Uni-| versity of Washington, and captain: | elect of the 1921 track team, is the champion discus heaver of the Unit ed States. He won the honors at Cambridge, Mass., July 17 with Ja throw of 1466 ft. five inches. | | “Dad” and “Mother” Pope are mighty proud of “our son Gus.” Both have done their best to make their boy the champion that be Ia. The elder Pope, who was the cham-/ pion shot putter and hammer thrower Jof Amherst college in 1889, started! | Gus on his career as a weight throw on | inches in his stocking feet a |195 pounds, is a big fellow and was always big for his age. “When Gus wax 12 years old I saw that he was going to be a big declares bis father, “and I strong believer that every bodied young Now should do some sort of outdoor athletic work, and do it well. So I started him with the shot put then, When he was 16 years old he won the high school championship while at Queen Anne high school in the discus event with a throw of 122 fect and some inches He's been improving ever since.” His mother bas done her share tn seeing that Gus got the proper food and amount of sleep which are se wsential to an athlete's condition. | Ham" Hamilton, who was the| coach at Queen Anne high school when Gus was a student there was his ‘first tutor in the discus event. | Pope is still using the same form that Hamilton taught him. | SERVED IN FRANCE | WITH 63RD ARTILLERY The big discus heaver served with the 63rd Coast artillery in the late war and was in France for about seven month. Gus, who played guard on the unt | versity of Washington football team last fall, injured his knee while play: ng a ame in the army which nearly nded hig career-as an athlete. The | injured knee still bothers him some. He won't play football again, accord ing to his parents The big fellow in conceded a fine | chance of winning the discus cham: | plonship of the world by thruout the country. His rivals are Tiaple, the Finnish cham: |pion, who has a record of 148 feet in the Olympi¢ games of 1912, and Ken Bartlett of the niversity of Oregon, {who was Pope's closest rival on the} Coast this year. | us may not win at Antwerp,” says his mother, “but he has won the | Aftmerican. championship, which we prize more. Gus has worked hard for | his honors and we're hoping for the best.” | The Olympic games open today at Antwerp. Harding Will Speak | at Minneapolis Fair | MARION, Ohio, Aug. 14.--Senator | Harding will speak at the Minnesots| State fair at Minneapolis, Wednes: day, September 6, he announced offi. cially here today, | er when his son was but 12 years of | xy | the | Custer, Gus Pope Is Seattle’s Olympic Hope’ TWO BANKS War Veteran ‘of Old Colonial Stock TOPPLE IN PONZI FALL More Get-Rich-Quick Artists Are Held Under Arrest in Boston Cleanup BOSTON, Aug. 14.—The Polish In- dustrial association, a private bank, was seized and closed by State Bank Commissioner Joseph C. Allen today. Investigation disclosed, Alien said, many bad and doubtful loana He believed very little cash was left The Polish bank is the second to [be wrecked in the Ponzi collapse. |The first was the Hanover Trust company, which was closed a few days ago. Henry Chmielinski ts prest dent of both institutions, It was thru his operations in the Polish Industrial association that Chmielin ski yas enabled to found the Han over Trust company, MORE MEN ARE UNDER ARREST Additional arrests were made to- day. Samuel Zorn, another official of the Old Colony company, was charged with lareeny. He could not furnish $50,000 bail. James R. King, manager of the Providence office of the company, and Arthur Thompson, an assistant, were arrested in Rhode Island. The Old Colony, which offered 100 per cent profit in six months, cracked yesterday when a mob of investors stormed the offices and threatened death to Samuel Charles Brightwell, president Brightwell, Raymond Meyers, of- fice manager, and Fred Meyers, |sales agent, were arrested ‘yester- | day acclaimed as could ries Ponzi, neial genius a week ago > ‘not find a friend to go on his bond The “mast coupons dealer” in postal reply who never talked tn terms than millions, was unable to raise $35,000 with which to obtain his freedom pending trial. PONZL SPENDS NIGHT IN JAIL CELL less Ponzi spent last night in Jail. It} |} Was no new experience for him He was behind the bars for 20 months in a Montreal prison and spent two years more at Atlanta federal penitentiary His arrest followed withdrawal of| the security placed by bondsmen In case Ponzi should raise sufficient money to meet his bail, he would face immediate rearrest on an ad ditional charge of larceny and ad ditional large sums would be neces sary for security. Ponzi's wife did not know he was in jail. When he left his home he told her he was going out of town! |for the week end. |U. S. to Abandon Camp in Michigan) WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—The war | department today announced that} of Camp! had been directed abandon and to event: e the camp. commanding general Mich., t gradually ually salv: He landed the job before he landed! He tod no hance of being “stranded.” He used a “Want Ad” a time or twe And a roster future opened to view, A Classified Ad is the Highway to Better Conditions To make this more success. ful, and “get your job before you jump," use the Classified Section of The Seattle Star. TRY IT TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE FRENCH WARSHIPS MOVE TO ATTACK REDS TENNESSEE SPEAKER NOT FAVORABLE TO NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. Seth M. Walker, speaker the house of representatives, day telegraphed President won that the will not surrender honest convic tions for political expediency.” v 4 to. wi nt urged the ify ment in reply that the house concur action of the senate and rat the federal suffrage amend. JAPAN NOTE TO Nippon Policy Comes Under Fire WASHINGTON, Aug. pation of Sakhalin has been receiv nounced today. The American note to the Tok: government, reply, will it was stated at the White House. Japan's entire Siberian policy understood to have come under t island. BRITON IS HELD TOKYO, Aug | Shaw, |from Shantung. MAJ, DOUGLAS ney on G. 0. P. Ticket Malcolm Douglas, one of the | best known young men in Se attle, Saturday became a last- minute entry in the republican | contest f cuting attorney. pt His filing was in the nature of | @ political surprise, for, tho he t intimation today that he would make the had given no race. Douglas had also frequently mentioned for the legislature from the 42nd dis- trict. Douglas rose from the rank | private ‘when the war statted that of major, was twice cited f t ery and received Guerre with Palm for gallantry jthe Champagne offensive. | A graduate of the University Vashington, he has been practicin jlaw in the Stuart building, bein a member of the firm of Dough |& Schram. Elm Noble post, vice Jof the Municipal league, He is married, and resides at He is 32 years old. NEW OIL WELL preside: TAFT, Cal, being made today ‘which started yesterday at a new ¢ | company's holdings in the Elk Hil) | district, All last night a jet of flame fro the well | surrounding country. burned for days and was not exti used, VOTE ON SUFFRAGE of “men of Tennessee ker's message to the presi- to one which in U. §. RECEIVED in Siberia 14—The to Odessa to attack the Japanese reply to the American | SOV. | there and a French scout ernment’s note protesting the dccu- at the state department, it was an- together with Japan's be made public shortly, | fire of this government in the note | saw is necessary, it was learnéd protesting occupation of Sakhalin) day. ON JAP CHARGE 14.—The foreign of. fice announced today that a British citizen named Shaw, recently arrest- in Korea, will be prosecuted for an offense against internal safety. it was stated, came to Korea ENTERS RACE Files for Prosecuting Attor- the Croix de} He is a trustee of the has one daughter, 2514 Meridian av IS IN FLAMES Aug, 14.—Efforts were to extinglish fire | | well brought in on the Standard Oil 300 feet high lighted up the | About a year ago @ similar fire ins guished until high explosives ergs boat launched here ~ ~ j Front Lines for Discus- sion of Armistice PARIS, Aug. 14—Russo/ armistice negotiations began morning at Minsk, according to = patch from Warsaw to the fo fice today. The Polish passed thru the front lines this. ing and at once started the whieh may result in ending the Ulities between Poland and Ruse, PARIS, Aug. 11a France, Gen. Wrangel has extensive diversion on the front to draw red troops away & Poland, according to unofficial | vices received here today. Wrangel was reported to have feated the 13th Bolshevik army, ing 4,000 prisoners, his orders bombarded attempt to open the D ‘Three French cruisers are m rot the way to Constantinople, ed | Will await orders from Wrangel, Arrangements were made at saw today, according to di from that city, for Poland and vo | gel to cooperate to the fullest” jtent against the Bolsheviki, Bi A representative of Wrangel he |established headquarters in is| French strategists do not. be | that a “last ditch” defense of General Weygand, the adviser in Poland, refused to command of the armies because: differed with Marshal Pi insisted that the capitol be held i the last. iS The diplomatic split x France and Great Britain over sia was believed to be widened day by the French note to announcing that this country aligned its Russian policy with United States, FRENCH FLEET PARIS, Aug. 14.—Three French cruisers were ordered to Odessa, day to protect French and sailors on the ships Batavia and gretto which the Bolsheviki are ing at that port. The réds hold the steamers on te ground that they were carrying con. traband to Gen, Wrangel, anti-Bok 4 shevik leader in the Crimea. The French scout ship Kitoboy wae ordered today to report to Con! nople, there to await the ordem @@ Gen. W. espadeat CITIZENS VOTE TO DIE FIGHTING WARSAW, Aug. 13.—With the ot Teds reported only 20 miles from to| Warsaw on the north, 100,000 people or | Bathered here tonight and swore to | defend the city to the last drop of | blood. The growl of the guns could be heard in the distance as the great throng assembled. There were many armed women in the crowd and sok |diers who had been invalided back, but were going out to the front again to resume the fight. Despite this loyalty to the nation, it is evident that the great mass of |the people have lost faith in the army leaders and in the government, Polish Bolsheviks are busy behind the lines and they boast that the “Red tide” is rising. Marshal Pilsudski, once a national — hero and leader of the armies, és, closely guarded for fear of assassina- tion. The remainder of the Polish armis tlee delegation were to cross the lines Saturday morning. The dele+ gation is presided over by Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs Domb- ski. Newspaper men were going with them, in of os ne as nt e, pil | Is eee CHERBOURG, France, Aug. 14.— Instructions to report at once to Gen, Wrangel at Sebastopol, on the Black sea, were received by the new > : m day,