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

@eather and fair, warmer; moderate northwesterly winds. Tonight Temperature Last 24 Hours: Maximum, 76, Today Wednesday, Miniusa, 50, Noon, 61 VOLUME 23. | 1 i | Lover “Copyright, 1920, by Doubleday, Page | & Co.; published by special ar-| rangement with the Wheeler Syn- dicate, Ine. | There were 3,000 girls In the Big-| gest Store, Masie was one of them. | She was 18 and a salestady in the gents’ gloves. Here she became ‘Versed in two varieties of human be- ings~the kind of gents who buy their gioves in department stores/ {and the kind of women who buy | gloves for unfortunate gents. Besides ; Wite knowledge of the human s Masie had acquired other in formation. She had listened to the | Promulgated wisdom of the 2,999) other girls and had stored it in a} Drain that was as secretive and wary as that of a Maltese cat. Perhaps | Nature, foreseeing that she jwould Jack wise counsellors, had mingled | the saving Ingredient of shrewdness | along with her beauty, as she has endowed the silver fox of the price. Jess fur above the other animals with eeunning. For Masie was beautiful. She was = tinted bionde, with the calm Speise of a lady who cooks butter in a window. She stood be Bind her counter in the Biggest Store; as you closed your hand over tape-line for your glove measure | thought of Hebe; and as you again you wondered how she Bad come by Minerva’s cyes. * One day Irving Carter, painter, | Millionaire, traveller, poet, automo- ‘Dilist, happened to enter the Biggest Btore, It is due to him to add that his visit was not voluntary. Filial duty took him by the collar and) dragged him inside, while his mother philandéred among the bronze and terra-cotia statuettes. BRIDE CC LOST GIRL MISTREATED DISGUISED HER, CLAIMS AS A BOY YOUNG WIFE Clipped Hair, Wore Men’s| Seized by Blind Rage, She. Clothes, and Slept in Reaches Gun Under His | Garage and Woods Pillow and Shoots After spending two nights in the! OAKLAND, Aug. 17. —Mre home of a boy friend, another night, Virginia Clark shot and killed in a garage and another sleeping in hee husband, Chester J. Clark, the woods, Maxine Carr, 15, of 320, while in » blind rage because he N. 10ist st, was found wearing| had treated her indecently, she boys’ clothing in a hotel at Edmonds | told the police today, according yesterday, and today is a ward of to their statement. the juvenile detention home. “I was crasy with anger and Maxine vanished Wednesday. Her| fepulsion,” she sald. “I reached mother reported her to the potice| over him and found the revolver as missing. At 130 a. m. Bunday| under his pillow. Then 1 shot Robert Purvis, Canadian exoldier,| him four times. I tried to make brag Ad gdh bp and inquired) lt appear he had killed himself. was still being detained this morn’| MP Clark mid she met Clark thru ing | the medium of an advertising agency When Maxine appeared at the E4-| They corresponded some time and monds hotel and asked for work, |¢xehanged photographs. Then he the heels of her shoes aroused sus | paid her way to Oakland from Hart. | picton. They were high Cuban heels, | ford, Conn. They were married in| The rest of her makeup was boy. | Berkeley, ish, even to her hair, which she had| Mrs. Clark sald powders found in clipped’ The police here were nots | capsules on her contained #trych- fied and her subterfuge Aisclosed. | nine, which she had been taking in email quantitics since she had the @ year eee SUNDAY SLIPS En bate GLANGY SLAPAT oh ]) Of724ND, Aus. a. Mra vie. sinia Clark confessed today, the po NATIONS’ LEAGUE lice announced, that she had killed) her husband, Cheater J. Clark. Biliy Seoday fea mag “a | Her alleged confession will be to favor the league of nations. ||™ade in more detait later, they sald | Here ie what he said in an ad. || re i her present story as reported dress here | by the police “{ am not tn favor of allowing [', “! Killed him. but I don't know a bunch of mutts, mollycoddies ||P°* °F why. I will give you the | whole story later. My mind ts now SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, AUGU 2 0, Are you going mad? If you are, go to the country once a and curmudgeona to sit around a table and decide when we are to declare our whra,” he said. “I am not for a league without reservations, and if Jim Cox and the democratic party stand by the kind of league Wilson brought home with him they will go to digging graven so deep they will never hear Ga briel’s trumpet on judgment day.” Water Cart Draws Gals in Bath Suits Carter strolled across to the glove counter in order to shoot a few min- utes on the wing. His neei for gloves was genuine; he had forgotten to bring a pair with him. But his action hardly calls for apology, be cause he had never heard of glove counter firtations. As he neared the vicinity of his fate he hesitated, suddenly conscious of this unknown phase of Cupid's less worthy profession. } ‘Three or four cheap fellows, sonor- | ously garbed, wery leaning over the} counters, wrestling with the media-| torial hand-covering», while giggling ygiris played vivacious seconds to! their lead upon the strident string of veoquetry. Carter would have retreat- ed, but he had gone too far. Masie | hot weather. Several of those living le residence confronted him behind her counter |0n one of the fashionab! with a questioning look in eyes as | streets donned their bathing sults to coldly, beautifully, warmly blue as|day and following a street sprinkler the glint of summer sunshine on an | took # cooling bath from the spray. feeberg drifting in Southern seas. i And then Irving Carter, painter, RUTH NOT ONLY | BALL BABY, EH? ‘millionaire, etc., felt a warm flush rise to his aristocratically pale face. But not from diffidence. The blush| PASADENA, Cal.—H. F. Newell, He knew | commissioner of public safety, found in «was intellectufl! in origin ranks of the ready-made youths who with a small object. Investigation MODESTO, Cal., Aug. 17.—Society | women have 4 new gtunt during the| the three Mexican children playing ball | tin a moment that he stood wooed the giggling girls at other showed the “object” to be a three | bod counters, Himself leaned inst the oaken trysting place of a! cockney | Cupid with a desire in his heart for weeks old baby. the favor of a glove salesgirl. He ‘was no more than Bill and Jack and Mickey. And then he fel sudden | tolerance for them, and an elating, | courageous contempt for the conven tions upon which he had fed, and an| unhesitating determination to have| this perfect creature for his own When the gloves were paid for and wrapped Carter lingered for « ment; The dimples at the corners Masie’s damask mouth deepened. All gentlemen who bought gloves linger- Dawson Miners on_ | Lookout for Airmen DAWSON, Y. T., Aug. 17.—Min-| ers from every creek and diggin’) gathered here today to celebraty the) 24th anniversary of the great Kion. | dyke gold strike and to await the ex pected arrival before night of the | American army aviators flying from *New York to Nome. The planes | reached White Horse yesterday and| were reported to have left in the aft-| ernoon. Skagway reported their) |e blank.” The alleged confession was made |to Inspector Drew after a long period }of questioning |. Mra. Clark, who married Clark in March, notified the police early Sun- day that her husband had commited | suicide. The fact that the body showed four bullet wounds, any one of which would have resulted in| paralysis of the nervous #ystem, caused the police to doubt her story. | | She said Clark, without any known jcause, had killed himself as she vay | beside him in bed. They had talked for some time, she said, about com- | | monplace things after they had re| turned from a dance. Blood waa found on her hands, but [she said she had turned the body | over to kits her husband before he| died. | |. Mra. Clark is said to have con-| feswed that she killed a negro in Nor folk, Va, some years back She is 27 and good looking. The police expect to find valuable | evidence when the comtents of four | capsules found in Mrs. Clark’s shirt | waist are determjned. It is a white powder, ‘The police took her to view Clark's y (IT’S K. P.! READ IT RIGHT, FOLKS; IT’S K. P., NOT Y.M.C.A. |) MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 17.— Knights of Pythias in national conclave here today decided to re turn $200,000 of the war relief || fund to contributors. Of the || $365,000 originally contributed || only $25,000 was expended for war relief purposes, a report |! showed. | farm. week, That's the advice of Miss Martha Hedman, great Swedish actress, who says there would be fewer nervous} wrecks in this rushing land if everybody spent one day a week away from everybody, under the trees. She does it.| And some day, she says, she’s going to live permanently on a) House Adjourns; No Vote on Suffrage NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 17. —The house adjourned late to day without acting on the suf- frage amendment. The vote was 52 to 45, The motion was made by Speaker Walker and anthratift This brought a round of applause. “Giving negroes the vote was the| worst thing that ever happened vad | them,” he said. i Representative Canale declared women could purify American poli: Uce “Shouldn't women who work have | the vote the same as negroes?” he demanded. “Don't hide bebind the cloak of conatitutionality,” Canale challenged. Representative Sharpe declared he could not vote for suffrage because of large negro populations in other states of the south. eee a point for the anthsuffragists. However, several voted in fa significance. The committer on constitutional amendments, to which the resolution lof ratification was referred, has pre- | pared a favorable report. The com mittee decided this last night by @ vote of 10 to &. The real battle got under way when Representative T. K. Riddick moved that the house concur in the bate, senate resolution ratifying the fed- eral amendment. Riddick gave the names of fational and state leaders who favor suffrage, including President Wilson and the presidential candidates, challenging his opponepts to name leaders of the opponition. RALEIGH, N. C, Ag. 17.—The North Carolina senate today began debate on ratification of the federal | woman suffrage amendment with ex- | peetation of voting before adjourn- ment for the day. * Both suffragists and anti-cuffrag:| ists crowded the galleries during de- | Suffragists predicted the senate would be close, with chances slightly | in their favor. ‘Their opponents claimed a majority of 10 in the| house, . Solons Want to Hear ed in just that we She curved an arm, showing like Psycheé’s thru her irtwaist sleeve, and rested an el. | Bow upon the showcase edge Carter had never before encounter- | ~@4 a situation of which he had not Been perfect master, But now he| stood far more awkward than Bill or Jack or Mickey. He had no chance of meeting this beautiful girl so. cially. His mind struggled to recall the nature and habits of shopgiris as he had read or heard of them. Some- | how he had received the idea that! they sometimes did not insixt too| strictly upon the regular channels of | introduction. His heart beat loud! fat the thought of propo | pasging last evening GHE ALWAYS HAS THINGS CHARGED LAKE FOREST, Il.—Miss Marion |Clow has opened a “charge” ac lcount with the police department |here. Arrested and fined $2 for | speeding, she promised to pay later. 66 ng an BY HAL ARMSTRONG HE STRANGER was fat and car- ried a bucket. They tell me,” he beamed, “that | you're about the oldest, ablest and | safest aviator around here.” tn me,” he| 1. 'T. Maroney tapped a propeller but I D- | blade and blushed. allow me the| Well," he answered, ~ modestly, pleasure of seeing again, Here | “t a whole mouthful to say of fs my name; I ax you that it is|one man, But I'm so old in the fly- with the greatest respect that I ask | ing game they all call me ‘Pop.’ And the favor of becoming one of your | I'm supersitious.” fr May I not hope for the privilege Masie knew especially men ywho buy gloves. Without hesitation (furn to Page 4, Column 2) tu-| him coura ly and virgins mult in his heart gave After a few friendly ipeves remarks he laid his card by her hand on t counter. “Will you please par said, “if I seem too bold estly hope you will The “1 didn't acquaintance: erstitious?” 4) veomed surprised an aviator could be superstitious und be an avintor—long.” “That's just the secret of it,” the men |T)OCTORS HEALTH | OFFICE BUSINESS | CHICAGO.-—Health Commissioner Robinson was practicing segrega- tion of women in his department today for business efficiency. He “did thin to keep us from flirting with the aldermen and other cal!- ers,” one stenographer said, flyer said. “Show me an aviator that’s superstitious and I'll show you the fellow that still has his health.” “Not scared of ghosts?" * ¢ ¢ . * HE STRANGER’S sunny face grew sunnier. Curly-cues chas- €d each other round the corners of his mouth. He might have been a oman, or a retired ship- out for a lark ‘They all come, sooner or later, all creeds and denominations, weights | and sizes—clerks, bankers, chorus girls, politicians, governors and bell boys—to fly with “Pop.” “Ghosts? No, I'm not afraid of them,” the aviator laughed, “But He charged “subtle influences” are operating against suffrage and said he would be ashamed if suffrage was defeated. Representative Boyer argued would degrade women to give them the vote. “I have nine daughters and eight sons,” he said, “and I do not feel those daughters should have the vote.” Both Candidates NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 17.—The it} State senate late this afternoon adopted a resolution inviting Gov. ernor Cox,and Senator Harding to address the legisiature on “political issues.” The resolution asks that the ad dresses be made before September 1. SUPERSTITION WINGSLIPPED” “But what's that got to do with undertakers?” “Nothing, unless you let it go that far, As for undertakers, I just nat- urally don’t like ‘em, I haven't any thing against ‘em, and nothing in common. Whenever I see one of those long-taced, longfingered, skin- ny ambulance chasers in bis long black coat, smirking and palavering around and wringing bis hands, it gives me the willies.” ary BH STRANGER laughed loudly. Ho shook like a mound of red raspberry jelly. “Who would or thought ity” he said at length, then added, “I came there's the rule of three, and under- takers.” “The rule of three,” confessed the stranger, “I never heard of.” He couldn't be a shipbuilder, then, Every shipbuilder knows that acct- dents occur in series: one-two-three. “When something goes wrong with my machine,” Maroney said, "I know by the rule of three that, right afterward, two worse things are go- ing to happen, unless J interfere. Superstition tells me to shove her into the hangar and give her an overhaul. If you don't mind the rule of three, if you let the two accidents happen, you don’t keep heaithy.” On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1199, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879 Por Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 MAY GOLDEN | es |Confessed Maiden Safe | Cracker Arrested After Jewelry Store Robbery While enjoying freedom on proba- tion, May Golden, alleged girl safe- leracker, pickpocket and shoplifter, was rearrested early today as she was fleein gfrom the vicinity of a Jewelry store at 1120 Howell st, just after the store window had been broken with @ rock. It was only after a chase of sev- eral blocks that the 22-yearold girl lof mystery was overtaken and made captive by Lieut. Gus Hasselblad and Patrolman J. B. Orser at Yale avo. and Republican st. She was locked | up on an open charge, | ‘Taken to police headquarters, of. ficers searched the girl's pockets and | found a ring, which was later identi- | fled by C, Hudson, proprietor of the | Jewelry store, as his property left on display in the window. When taken before Captain of De- tectives May Golden was dry-eyed. “What did you do, May, toss @ thru the window?" asked Ten- mareantica lly. With the identification of the ring thé jewelry merchaiit, ‘Feainant told an orderiy to take the girl to a cell. May Golden was first arrested on the night of July 19 by Sergt. Has- selblad, who caught her’after a lively chase down the street. A few hours before a Japanese had reported that a woman, disguised in a red wig, had held him up at the point of a gun. The girl was taken before Capt. Tennant. After the conference Ten- nant said she confessed to a career of lawlesenens rather than “go bad on the streets.” According to the police records, she admitted cracking the safe of the W. L. Keene wood yard office at 1834 Boren ave., and admitted resort- ing to pickpocketing and shop lifting. The girl refused to reVeal the names of her male “pals,” who taught her crime. Because of.the girl's youth and neat appearance, she was released on Probation. Her case will now be re- viewed and a series of charges probably filed. AAWING HORSE . DIGS SKELETON BAYEUX, France, Aug. 17.—A restiess horse, hitched outside the Bayeux inn, pawed a hole in the ground and revealed a trunk. In it was found the skeleton of a man. Police investigation led to the confession of Mme. Huchez that the body was that of her husband whom she killed 15 years ago, when they ran the inn. The crime was outlawed—more than 10 years had elapsed—and she was freed. FRICAN GOLFER SHAKES CLOTHES Bt ALO, N. Y.—When Pa- trolman Palmer found himself hold- ing the empty coat of an “Africart golfer,” he grabbed the crapshoot- er's belt but the man wriggled out of his trousers, escaping in his union suit. OR down to get you to fly me across the lake, Can I take my bucket? I've got to beat the ferry to Fortuna Park, and she just pulled out with the other excursionists. I've got to get there first to make the coffee.” ‘That's how it happened that the fat, good-natured stranger and his bucket got to Fortuna last Satur day, in spite of missing the ferry, and that the Rotary club picnic ty found plenty of piping-hot coffee waiting for them when they docked on the other side. “Yes, sir," said “Pop,” his head sagely, as he and the stranger parted. “I used to pass by an undertaker’s on my way to work wagging AGAIN HELD SAVES SELF FROM LYNCHING BY HIS ORATORY POWER THOROLD, Ont, Aug. 17.— David McNeal owes hin life to- day to his power as an orator. Last night a mob set fire to the town hall, where he was locked up on a charge of mur- dering Margaret Boucock, four years old, dragged him to an improvised gallows and prepared & noone for his neck. McNeal, facing the rumbling mob, made an eloquent appeal for hin life. Biood streaming down hin face, he cried: “Men, I appeal to you in the name of the man who wag crucified, was put to death with. out @ fair trial, to give me the trial that was denied him.” As he finished a half-hour || speech, the crowd, calmed, quietly permitted him to be taken away by the police. REPORT 26 DIE IN CAR WRECK \Electric Car Overturns in | Indiana Town CHICAGO, Aug. 17.-—A report re- ceived by a train dispatcher of the Lake Shore railroad here from South Bend, Ind., states a South Shore elec- HUSBAND MAKE DEATH THREA On complaint earty today that a man at 1909 Minor ave. was threat- ening to kill his wife, Motorcycle Policemen W. W. Dench and George F. Reynolds hurried to that address and arrested Louis 8. Dellar. Dellar ts said to have explained to the officers that he had just had a family quarret and had ended it by playfully scaring Mrs. Dellar with a revolver. SAFE CRACKED AT NORTH BEND Cracksmen with a bag of dynamite crawled thru a warehouse window early today into the General Mer- chandise company's store at North Bend to “peter the safe.” The safe door was unlocked, but the cracksmen didn't know it. They biasted off the combination, opened the inner door and found only papers valueless to them. These they left strewn over the floor. AMERICA KEEPS OLYMPIC LEAD ANTW P, Aug. 17.—America maintained its lead in the Olympic games and at the end of today’: contests the score was: ‘ America, 68%. Finland, 34. England, 19. Sweden, 13%. France, 12. South Africa, 14. Exsthonia, 3. Norway, 1. Seven complete events have been contested so far, ‘The events to date and the nation winning each follow: High jump, America. 800-meter run, England. 5,000-meter run, France. 400-meter hurdles, America. 100-meter dash, America. Penthalon, Finland. Javelin throw, Finland. “WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW WON’T HURT YOU.” every morning. Every time I saw jhim thru the window I had an ac cident that day. So I moved to an- other part of town, If ever an un- dertaker wants to fly with me—* “Pop” was climbing back into his plane. “—he'll have to walk. I'm that superstitious, By the way, whenever you want to cross Lake Washington to boil a pot of coffee, look for me. | 1 ought to know you, I've seen your face a thousand times, You must “Bert Butterworth,” the stranger beamed. jot—"" ‘The undertaker.” Not Confirmed; \Poles Optimistic LONDON, Aug. 17—(12:60 p. Reports that Wareaw hag fallen without confirmation, up to hour, the Russian trade — and Kamaneff, declared ‘The T pees ha, Polish foreign minteter, “The general feeling of is growing,” the message c “The government saw, which will be defended to. last breath. State have no ii the reports that Russian cavalry trols have entered Warsaw and report was not generally Polish Situation Is Topic at Cabinet Meeti: BY A. L. BRAD! WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. b out direct reports of latest moves: the Bolshevist siege of Warsaw, cials here were in doubt today cerning dispatches that the capital had been invaded by Russiag cavalry patrols. The latest official i reaching here was that the vists were 13 miles from W: This dispatch came from Poland @ rectly, under the date of last Sunday night. The actual entrance of troops into Warsaw would cause surprise here. However, reports cently have toki of a stiffening Polish resistance. The entire Russo-Polish crisis was expected to be discussed today President Wilson and his cabinet at their regular weekly meeting. * Secretary Colby will probably bring before the president the quea- ton of food and supplies for Poland for final decision, eee Battle Raging Today Decides 7, Warsaw’s Fate LONDON, Aug. 17.—{10 a. m}— (United Press)—Warsaw's fate was being decided today in a fierce battle on a front of nearly 200 miles, A strong Polish counterattack was developing successfully, according to unofficial advices received here to day from points in Poland within sound of the cannonading. The last official word from War saw was the official communique | issued late yesterday. This said the | Poles had driven the Russians back |across the River Bug, between | Viodawa and Hrubieszow, and that a successful Polish thrust had been carried out in the direction of Mlawa, The Polish communique also said that on the southern front the Poles had evacuated Brody, falling back to the River Bug. East of Cholm—on the southern front—Polish troops broke thru the enemy line and ocew- pied Dorohusk and Swieze, the state ment said. These operations are not in the Warsaw zone. An effort by the Russians to en- circle Warsaw by breaking thru the Polish line at Plotsk and swinging around the city, first marching south and then southeast to join the red lines on the east side of the cap- ital, was defeated after a bitter bat- tle, The Bolsheviki made such progress at first that they issued a. communique announcing the city was surrounded. Later the tide turned, and the Russian attack was smashed. They lost all the ground they had gained, and left hundreds (Turn to Page 4, Column Q hon he oe te