The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 19, 1920, Page 1

'8e Tran 82758 Psyche » Tonight and Friday, fair, warmer, moderate north- easterly winds, Temperature Last 24 Hours: Maximum, 70. Minimum, 53. Totay Noon, 70, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise ROBBERS AWAY Detectives and Deputies Follow Futile Clue in Wild Auto Pursuit ‘Two men, who may be the armed and the Pskyscraper | Copyright, 1920, by Doubleday, Page | 4 Co; published dy special ar- Fangement with the Wheeler Syn |Dandits who last night staged a dar dicate, Inc. ing safe robbery in the Coliseum If you are a philosopher you can | theatre and are thought to have fled 0 this thing: you can go to the top| in 4n auto after lashing Superintend ef @ high building, look down upon | ent Ben Larson and Manager Frank fellow-men 300 feet below, and | Steffy to chairs in the office, stopped ; them as insects. }at the Marshall & Valley garage in thie high view the city ttsert? Auburn early today and purchased becomes degraded to an unintelligible | ®*8 for their car. ‘mass of distorted buildings and im-| | A* they drove away, the gerage , pe: ves; the revered Manager telephoned to detective i Aoersg ven the earth it-|¢@dquarters here, and Lieutenant ‘a lost golf ball. All the minu- | Detectives William B. Kent, ac iis oak The philoso |COMPanied by Detectives Yorts, Re pi ‘nfinite heavena |cochrane, Montgomery and Landis + ap wd ‘and allows his soul to|*?d four deputies, all heavily armed, and in the influence of his new | lett the city tn pursuit. View. He feels that he is the heir to| SEND ALARM TO eternity and the child of time.) SURROUNDING TOWNS Bpace, too, should be his by the right| The supposed bandit car was not of his immortal heritage, and he| overtaken and the posse returned. thrills at the thought that some day|Towns and cities thruout this por his kind shall traverse those mys-| tion of the state and in Oregon have aerial roads between planet | been notified to keep a sharp look- Yand planet. The tiny world beneath |out for the two men and the stolen ‘Bis feet upon which this towering | machine. Meanwhile; in more methodical fashion, detectives were following out leads from clues found in the office of the theatre after the ban- dits left, the most important clue being a halibut line with which the robbers bound “Larson and Steffy to their chairs An effort in, being made to find the store where the heavy line was purchased. Detectives are convinced from the manner tn which the robbers dispatched their “tusinesw’ that they are experienced bandits as well as persons ‘having considerable maritime knowledge. The knots used to secure Steffy and Larson were distinctly the work of sea- farers. The bandits entered the theatre at 10:30. One carried a market bag containing the halibut line, cut in two-foot lengths. They whipped out guns and one ordered Larson to open the safe. TOSS KEY BACK OVER TRANSOM While he was doing so, the other robber bouml Steffy. Money—$300 in silver and $200 tn currency— was scooped from the safe into one of the theatre's brown money-taen Larson was then firmly tied to an- other chair, and the two men left, tossing the key to the room, which had been taken from Larson's ring, back over the transom. Hunching their chairs to the tele- phone, Larson and Steffy sum- moned the police. Their alarm was noted at headquarters at 10:36. whirling atoms. What are ditions, the achievements, the Paltry conquests and loves of those _Festless biack insects below compared the serene and awful tmmen- of the universe that lies above around their Insignificant city? __It is guaranteed that the philose- ' ‘will hive these thoughts. They have been expressiy compiled from the philosophies of the world and set) down with the proper interrogation | point at the end of them to represent the invariable musings of deep think: | ers on high places. And when the philosopher takes the elevator down his mind is broader, his heart is at ce, and his conception of the cos of creation is as wide as the le of Orion's summer belt. But if your name ha»pened to be Daisy, and you worked in an Eighth Bvenue candy store and lived in a Uttle cold hall bedroom, five feet by | eight, and earned six dollars per ‘week, and ate 10-cent lunches and were 19 years old, and got up at 6:30) and worked till and never had| studied philosophy, maybe things ‘wouldn't look that way to you from the top of a skyscraper. Two sighed for the hand of Daisy, the unphilosophical. One was Joe who kept the smaljest store in New York. It was about the sizeof a toolbox of the D. P. W., and was stuck like a swallow’s nest against a corner of a downtown skyscraper. Its stock consisted of fruit, candies,| A car belonging to Arnold Zbin . Newspapers, song books, cigs |den, of 620 Cedar st., was minned and lemonade in season. When stern|from Fifth ave. and Pine st. after winter shook his congealed locks and| the robbery. «+ was found at day. Joe had to move himself and the| break at 20th ave. N. and Louisa fruit inside, there was exactly room | st. im the store for the proprietor, his| In a compartment of the safe ‘wares, a stoye the size ct a vinegar| which the robbers neglected to open and ofe customer was $2,000, Joe was not of the nation that! Beeps us forever in a furore with! and fruit. He a capable! |, vu Tennessee House Amer! nm youth who was ‘tng by} J . ily cas: wentel ‘Daley 00. eto! Meets on Friday hisn spend it. Three times he had} NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 19.— asked her. |The house of representativess ad- “I got money saved up, Daisy,” was | journed today until tomorrow morn- his love song; “and you know how/ing at 10 o'clock without “reconsid bad I want you. That store of mine/ering the suffrage amendment. ain't very big, but-——" It was expected an attempt” will “Oh, aint it?” would be the anti-| be to reopen the question phony of the unphilosophical one. | tomorrow “Why, I heard Wanamaker's was! eee trying to get you to sublet part of | your floor space to them for next year.” Daisy passed Joe's morning and evening N. Carolina House Rejects Suffrage RALEIGH, N. C., Aug. 19.— “Hello, Twoby-Fourt’ wag her|(United Press.)—The lower house of usual greeting. “Seems to mo your|the North Carolina legislature today store looks emptier, You must have|Fefused to ratify the federal woman ” | suffrage amendment by @ vote of 71 corner every| | So a saiaiaae of stewing gum. “Ain'® much room in here, sre,” | '0 41 Joe would answer, with his siow| The senate had previously defeated ratification grin, “except for you, Daise. Me and the store are waitin’ for you when ever you'll take us. Don’t you think "wars, tm norm vue ex | Classified Advertising “sardine box! Waitin’ for me my? Gee! you'd have to throv HE STAR lines in about a hundred pounds of before I could get inside of it, Jo“ “I wouldn’t mind an even swap gained classified 11,976 adver. like that,” said Joe, compliment: tising the first seven monthy Daisy's existence was limited in of 1920 over the same period every way. She had to walk side of 1919. ‘The Star has also ways between the counter and the the largest daily circulatio shelves in the candy store. In her|| of any Seattle dally by a own hall bedroom coziness had been || gubstantial amount. carried close to cohesiveness. The walls were #0 near to one another that the paper on them made a per-| Best Results “fect Babel of noise, She could light Best Service Lowest Rates the gas with one hand and close the door with the other without taking her eyes off the reflection of her brown pompadour in the mirror. She | (Turn to Last Page, Column 2) Cinderella Mend * * * * * * Actress Finds Way of Beating the H. C. L. ds NoM SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1920. * She Ne s Slippers POLES FAL TO RESUME h 8, 1879, The Seattle Star ed as Kecond Class Mutter May &, 1899, at the Postoffice at Meattie, Wash, under the Act of Congress Per Year, by Mall, $6 to #9 TH LATE EDITION PEACE TALK ATTORNE Delay May Give Them Equal Diplomatic and Military Prestige With Bolshes MOSCOW, Vin Wireless to London, Aug. 19—“Armistice ne gotlation between Polish and ives were not eee LONDON, Aug. 19.—(6 p. m)— Failure of the Poles to renew armis tice negotiations at Minsk was inter- preted here this evening as indicat ing the Poles’ representativ be Meving the present victories of their arms are undermining the Bolshe viki morale, are “marking time.” Military experts here pointed out that cach day of continued Polish successes on the battle front adds to the advantage of their delegates’ po- sition in Minsk. The belief was even expressed that if the negotiations could be drawn out until the end of the week, the Poles could meet the Reds on terns of absolute equality. eee “The Minsk conference opened to- day at 7 p. m. with @ speech by Chairman Danishevaky, after which credentials. were exchanged. Dan- ishevaky emphasised Russia's re- spect for Poland's independence, sovereign rights and rights to deter. mine her own form of government and said Russia accorded Poland Cinderella—otherwise Miss Doris Lytton—runs a “shop|™mere territory than the entente. for sick slippers. LONDON, Eng, Aug. 19—"Cin- derelia®” Fancy tha’ All alone and romantically, the sign swings there tm the summer breezes in quiet, sedate, aristocratic Sackville street. x The old Cinderella of the child- hood story lost her slipper. What kind of romance does this new and modern Cinderella Betoken? PRETTY GIRL ASKS FOR REPAIRING WORK In a quaint room all done up if it were a lady's boudoir, a very pretty girl asks whether one has any repairing work to be done. Ah, now the secret is out! This modern Cinderella doesn't lone stip yPers. She finds them. She looks ‘not for the Prince Charming of the old fairy story, but an the very wood friend of all the Princesses Charming who have danced and danced until their pretty satin slip- pers look like the leaves of last au- tumn. She heips the dancers to solve the high cont of daneing. All these slippers that a done up tn delicate white eatin or pink satin or silver satin or brocaded matin cost anywhere from $10. to $50. In the old days, when the cov ering began to wear, the slipper had to be thrown away. CINDERELLA OPENS NEW | KIND OF SHOP, AND PROSPERS | That's where Cinderella whed her {brains, She opened a shop for sick |alippers. The leather and the gen eral shape tn these pieces of foot- | wear are usually still good. Fact ts, {they are more Comfortable than jnew pair, All they need are new | coverings Cinderella furnishes these at the actual cost of the ma- terfal selected, plus about $5 f the labor, She's prospering. She’ an example of the new woman who has gone into business for herself and made good. Outside of her shop, Cinderella ts Mins Doris Lytton, a talented young jactress who, In the season, is regu |larly in the company of Gerald Du | Maurier or some other leading Lon- idon star. NEARLY 2,000 MINERS STRIKE Scale Committee in Session at Cleveland JOHNSTOWN, Pa, Aug. 19.—Be- tween 250 and 300 men employed at the Ford mines at Portage ‘walked out today when their demands for a wage increase was refused. The group was made up of rock men, dumpers, motormen and drivers. They want $1.25 an hour. ‘They have been getting 75¢ an hour, eee TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Aug. 19.— Fifteen hundred» coal miners lett their work at the Brazil mines today, |according to reports reecived here. It was said the men walked out be cause of dissatisfaction’ with the of fer made by the operators of the | wage scale committee meeting in CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 19.—The |ncale committee of the United Mine | Workers of America, in session here | today, abolished the central competi | tive district as a basis of fixing wage agreements. This action followed the failure to obtain supplemental wage increases for the soft coal miners. |The committee adopted the proposal of William Green, secretary of the organization, to reach wage agree ments by sub-districts, There are about 100 sub-districts and each one will, under the new rule, negotiate its own Wage agreement, WOODS NOT OF JUNEAU BANK He Is President of Fair- banks Bank SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19.— Plans for the return of R. C. Woods, president of the First National bank lof Fairbanks, Alaska, and Mrs | Woods to Fairbanks are indefinite, Mrs. Woods declared today. Woods was arrested here on a con- tempt of court warrant from the dis- trict court of Alaska. Woods is president of the First Na tional bank. of Fairbanks and has no connection whatever with the First National bank of Juneau, Alas ka, ns was erroneously stated yes terday. Prominent Society Woman Kills Self OAKLAND, Cal, Aug. 19.— Mra. Alice Mary Bain, 50, wife of Robert Bain, millionaire coffee importer of San Francisco, and member of 4 s0- cially prominent St. Louis family, killed herself yesterday. Mrs. Bain locked herself in the bathroom of the Bain mansion and shot herself thru the brain. She used her husband's revolver. She had been iL for several weeks. She was formerly the wife of Jack Albright, a Fruitvale, Cal, capitalist, Before her marriage she Wis & #0 clety belle in St, Louis, one, of the beautiful Carroll sister Mrs. Bain has been a leader in the elder social set in east bay cities, “He said Russia must demand from the landlords of Poland such guarantees against renewed attacks as would not be necéssary from the workers and peasants of Poland. The Polish delegates proposed to hold the next sitting August 19, but the Russians insisted it be held August 18, which was agreed to.” Chairman Danishevsky is quoted as follows “All general meetings of the con ference will be public. We will Masten to all Polish arguments and while keeping close to the published terms, have no intention to refuse reasonable modifications, The eru- cial points are those giving us se- curity aguinst Polish aggesston. No new demands will be added to those already made public.” eee REPORT BOLSHES EVACUATING |VILNA LONDON, Aug. 19.—{3:30 p. m.)— The Bolsheviki are evacuating Vilna and removing their headquarters to Grodno, according to official advices received here this afternoon, eee Tho above dispatch indicates that, despite Polt*#h and neutral reports that the Russians are being routed on several portions of the front, the Reds are moving their headquarters 90 miles closer to Warsaw. Grodno is 150 miles directly northeast of Warsaw, where the river Niemen strikes the new Russo-Polish bound ary fixed by the treaty of Versailles. Vilna is 90 miles beyond Grodno in @ straight line from Warsaw. . ENGLISH-FRENCH DIFFERENCES SETTLED PARIS, Aug. 19.—Differences be- tween France and Great Britain, cen- tering about French recognition of Gen. Wrangel’s anti-Bolshevik gov- ernment in the Crimea, have been fully settled, the French foreign of- fice announced today. A formal note to this effect will be issued shortly, it was said. British Ambassador Derby, who has been conducting the negotiations between the two governments in Paris, has been authorized by his government to leave on a vacation. e-. POLES, IN RACE AGAINST TIME, USE RESERVES LONDON, Aug. 19.—The Poles are reported today to be desperately pushing their newly won advantage over the Russians in a race against time. Balanced against continued Polish successes along nearly the en- tire 500.mile battle front was the ap- parently well established fact that (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) If it Is Not Held for Sale, Prohibition Agents Won’t Interfere A formal statement that warrants for search of private dwellings by federal prohibition officers will not be insued unless actual sale of in toxicating liquor fg shown was made | by United States District Attorney Saunders Thursday morning. Attorney Saunders bases his atti- tude. on the following clause from section 25 of the national prohibition law: “No search warrant shall iasue to search any private dwelling occupied As such upless it is being used for the unlawful sale of intoxicating Ii quor, or unless it is being used in part for some budiness purpose, such as store, shop, saloon, Festaurant, hotel or boarding house.” “A man's home shall still be his castle, just my it was before the na tional prohibition law came into force,” Attorney Saunders said. This, however, is not binding on Police and county officials, Seattle Woman oe Attempts Suicide PORTLAND, Ore, Aug, 19.—Mrs. Kate Miller, 39, of Seattle, in in a serious condition at a local hospital today following her attempt to com- mit suicide. Mra. Miller, soon after registering at «hotel here, took 12 bichloride of mercury tablets. Heskies saying sho is a widow and wanted to die, she refused to discuss her troubles, Roosevelt Makes Flying Trip in Auto SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. 19.— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic vice presidential candidate, is sched- uled to speak at the armory tonight, following a swift trip by automo- bile from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where he will deliver an address earlier in the evening. With his party he will leave on & special train at 11:15 for Seattle, stopping at various towns along the eee Roosevelt Will Be Here 7 P. M. Friday Stephen T. Early, advance mem- ber of Franklin D. Roosevelt's per- sonal staff, hag reached Seattle. Roosevelt, he said, will arrive here at 7 o'clock Friday evening. Doors of the Arena, where the vice prest- dential choice of the Democratic party is to speak, will open at 7:30. The meeting will begin at Dr. Chase’s Pills ‘The third selzure in Seattle under the national campaign against harm- ful or misleading patent medicines was made Wednesday afternoon when a federal attachment was served on a shipment of “Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve Pills." They were sent from Buffalo, New York, and it, is alleged do not contain any combination of ingredients that will produce the cures claimed for them. Rattlesnake Bites Rancher at Yakima YAKIMA, Aug. 19.—James Me- Kerlie, rancher, pletely recovered today from the bite of a rattlesnake, which sunk its fangs into his thumb when Mo- Kerlie, while picking tomatoes, sur- prised the reptile. ‘was reported com-) “TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE _ | 4 4 HOOVER’LL VOTE, BUT AS TO TAKING STUMP, NOT HERB PORTBAND, Aug. 19.—Her bert C. Hoover is going to cast his vote for one of the presiden tial candidates—whom he refused to name—but that’s as far as bi going. Hoover, during his Portland, declared visit in an in inter. view he will not go on the stump for Senator Harding, take no active interest presidential campaign. “It is absurd to think of my going on a speaking tour of the United States in behalf of Sena tor Harding, or any other can didate,” the former federal food administrator said, “In the first place, I'm not a public speaker and couldn't make a political har: rangue to save my life. Besides, I have no inclination for that kind of activity.” and will in the COLEMAN FREED IN B,C. MURDER Proves Satisfactory Alibi to Vancouver Police VANCOUVER, B. C, Aug. 19.— William Coleman and Fred Saun ders, who had been held for in- quiry by the police following the discovery of the murder of Mrs. Charles Sampson of Seattle at the Castle hotel here, were released this morning. Yesterday Colman furnished offi- cers with @ statement of where he had been on the night of the mur- det. This was carefully checked and it is said his alibi was per- fect. Saunders was known to have been out of the city on Monday night. When it became apparent that neither man could have had anything to do with the tragedy, ‘the police gave them freedom. ‘This morning detectives were working en an entirely new set of cluea, BURGLARS GET JEWEL HAULS)= ‘Three jewelry burglaries were being investigated by police Thurs day. J. Lucanovich, 4234 Woodland ave. N. reported that a stickpin, set with a moonstone, surrounded by diamonds, a lavalliere and a topaz ring were stolen. Jeweiry and a suit, valued at $125 were stolen from the room of Joe Shimidu, in a hotel at Sixth av. 8. and Washington. Two rings, one set with diamonds, were taken from a trunk in the home of Mrs, B. Mullen, 3145 Northlake ave. SEATTLE NEEDS A NEW HOTEL LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19.—Visitors here during the past three months have spent, $75,000,000, and total ex- penditures of travelers in the city are expected to approximate $150,000,000 during the present season. CANTU MAKES HIS SURRENDER MEXICALI, Lower Cal., Aug. 19— Another picturesque figure in recent Mexican history had today slowly faded from the center of the stage with the passing of Gov. Esteban Cantu, of Lower California. Cantu last night surrendered his office to his friend, Gen. Luis M. Salazar, federal appointee. Fights Vainly for Mothers’ Pension A 21 months’ controversy over the granting of a mothers’ pension has been going on between the Mothers’ Pension board and Mrs. Katherine Robertson, 1733 Melrose place, who has three children under three years of age. A pair of twins are 2 years and 9 months old and a baby 19 months, Her husband died 21 months ago of influenza. Charity funds and donations of food and clothing from the Social Welfare league and the Fruit and Flour mission have kept the family from want since the father's death A monthly grocery order from the county and some funds from the rent of rooms in her house have sup- plied them with means of living. At the time of her husband's death Mrs, Robertson applied for a moth: ers’ pension, which she was denied because she had not lived in the state three years as the require Tents demand. In May she had completed the three years’ resi- dence in the state and applied again. Investigation was made but no funds have yet been granted. The pension board, thru Mrs, Jo- sephine Stuff, commissioner of the mothers’ pensions, stated that ob- jection is made to the district in which Mrs. Robertson lives, and that Mrs. Robertson was receiving help from ‘other sources and was not in actual want has delayed action of the board. “I do not think any money will be granted her until she moves to more desirable quarters,” said Mrs. Stuff. Mrs. Robertson objects to moving. She has $25 still and her time is spent in caring for the children. She resents the fact that Mrs, Stuff asked her if she couldn't remarry. | SHE WAS WEARING STOLEN JEWELS © Unable td Deposit $1,000 Bail, Tacoma Bride-to-Be Waits in Seattle Jail Thursday was a day of sorrow for Ruby Rose, 20-year-old Taconis girl. It was the day set for her wed- ding—but instead she svent Thurs+ day in jail in Seattle, where she remained alone, unable to raise $1,000 bail. A maze of perplexing legalities must be surmounted before Ruby can become the bride of James, Cantow, whom she was to marry Thursday, For Ruby Rose fs accused of stealing a lavalliere, a bracelet and a coat and dress from Mra. Helen Hanks, of the North Broadway dis- trict, in Seattle. STOLEN JEWEL SEEN IN TACOMA Ruby's arrest halted not her own marriage, but also that of her girl chum, who was te marry Jim Cantow’s brother, aa ding. Ruby would have been the larceny charge, and timber adjoining the raflway track. Samuel Willoughby, engineer, was instantly killed. E. P. Davidson was probably fatally scalded and Wilbur Watson seriously injured. Denver Strike Is Still Unsolved DENVER, Colo, Aug. 18—Delib> erations by a special grand jury which is to probe the tramway strike riots began today. Nearly three hun- dred witnesses have been called. Settlement of the strike contro- versy today seemed as far away as ever. No action has been taken by Federal Mediator Harry and tram way employes have not shown any tendencies to return to, work, altho more than 900 employes signed ap- plications, New men are being broken in by the company. AMERICA STILL LEADS ATHLETES ANTWERP, Aug. 19.— America ‘gi continued to lead the field in the Olympic games today. With 13 events completed at the end of the fifth day, the total score of the lead-, ers was: America, 119: Finland, 46; 38; England, 37, aa The biggest surprise of the day's events was the overwhelming defeat of Joie Ray of Chicago in the 1,500 moter run, the Yankee champion do ing no better than eighth, A steady | rain turned the track into a mud © = puddle and Ray faded completely on the last lap, The last American remaining in the Graeco-Roman wrestling matches was eliminated when Lindfort, Fin- land, threw Szymanski of the United States army, 148-pound class, in 30 seconds. Mother Asks City Free Water Right “Mother” Ryther, who makes seve eral scores of kiddies happy at her home, petitioned the city cowmell Thursday for free water,