The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 24, 1920, Page 1

ARMY “KNOCKED OUT” Tonight an wester Temperature Maximum, 76, After 20 Years (Copyright, 1920, by Syndicate, Inc.) ‘The policeman on the beat moved Bp the avenue impressively, The Ampressiveness was habitual and not for show, for spectators were few. ‘The time was barely 10 o'clock at Right, but chilly gusts of wind with @ taste of rain-in them had well ‘Righ depeopled the streets. ‘Trying doors as he went, twirting club with many intricate and artful movements, turning now and then to cast his watchful eye adown the pacific thoroughfare, the officer, with his stalwart form and slight ‘Bwageer, made a fine picture of a Suardian of the peace. The vicinity Was one that kept early hours. Now And then you might see the lights | of a cigar store or of an all night funch counter; but the majority of | the doors belonged to business places | that had long since been closed. | When about midway of a certain} Block the policeman suddenly slowed his walk. in the doorway of a dark. | ened eee, re pamen Nemes, | with cigar mouth. | fas the pttteman walked up (© him | the man spoke up quickly: “It's all right, officer,” he said, re “Pm just waiting for a friend. it's an appointment ‘made | 20 years ago. Sounds a littie funny | to you, doesn't it? Well, Pl ex plain if you'd like make certain {t's all straight. About that long there used to be a restaurant where this store stands—‘Big Joe’ Brady's eestaurant”” “Until five years ago,” said th policeman. “It was torn down then. The man in the doorway struck al tch and lit his cigar. The light) showed pale, square-jawed face with keen eyes, and a little white scar near the right eyebrow. His scarfpin was a large diamond, oddly ort. “Twenty years ago tonight.” said the man, “I dined here at “Big Joe’ Brady's with Jimmy Wells, my best | chum, and the finest chap in the| world. He and I were raised here in| New York, just like two" brothers, together. I was 18 and Jimmy was 20. The next morning I was to start | for the West to make 4 fortune. You coulda’t have dragged Jimmy Out of New York; he thought it was the only place on earth. Weill, we agreed that night that we would Meet here again exactly 20 years from that date and time, no matter what our conditions might be or from what distance we might have to come. We figured that in 20 years each of us ought to have our destiny worked out and our fortunes | made, whatever they were going to; be.” | “It sounds pretty interesting.” said | the policernan. “Rather a long time | between meets, though, it seems to | me. Haven't. you heard from your | friend since you left?” | “Well, yes, for a time we corre: | sponded,” said the other. “But after | @ year or s0 we lost track of each other. You see, the West is a pretty big proposition, and I kept hustling | ground over it pretty lively. But I iknow Jimmy will meet me here if he’s alive, for he always was the| truest, stanchest old chap in the world. HP'll never forget. I came} @ thousand miles to stand in this door tonight, and it's worth it if my old partner turns up.” The waiting man pulled out a handsome watch, the lids of it set with small diamonds, “Three minutes to nounced. when we parted here at the restau rant door.” “Did pretty well out West, didn’t you?” asked the policeman. “You bet! I hope Jimmy has done halt as well. He was a kind of piodder, tho, good fellow as ho was the Wheeler 1 | } 10,” he an T've had to compete with some of the sharpest wits going to get my pile. A man gets in a groove in New York. It takes the West to put a razor-edge on him.” ‘The policeman twirled his club and took a step or two. “Vil be on my way. Hope your | friend comes around all right. Going to call time on him sharp?” “1 should say not!” said the other. “1'}) give him half an hour at least If Jimmy is « on earth he'll be | here by that time, 80 long, officer.” | “Goodnight, sir,” said the police-| man, passing along on his beat, try g doors as he went ‘There was now a fine, cold drizzle falling, and the wind had risen from jts uncertain puffa into a steady iow. The few foot passengers astir ¢vurn to Last Page, Column 2) | Weather unsettled; general south- Noon, 64, d Wednesday, ly winds, Last 34 Hours: Minimum, 59, MOTHER OF GIRL KILLS OTHER MAN “Let the Girl Decide,” Ad-| mirer Had Cried in Hus- band’s Presence TOLEDO, Aug. 24.—When Leo Cousino explained to his wife that| he would be gone but a short time, and went to the home of another girl, he dropped a 45-caliber revolver Into his coat pocket. And it was this revolver—tho It) was never fired—that solved the/ short-lived mystety surrounding | Coustno’s sudden death and put the le to a suicide story. MOTHER CHARGED WITH FIRST DEGREE MURDER Mrs. Myrtle Hensley is in jail) charged with first degree murder, | and her daughter—the girl in the case—and her son-in-law, are held as witnesses under $1,500 bond Cousino fell in love with Mra. Fifl- da Shinbach. Mrs. Hensiey, mother of the girl. knew that trouble alway rehults when two mon love the same wirl, expecially when one of the men is Married to the girl and the other map is wedded to another woman. | So she arranged a meeting be-| tween Cousino, Mr. and Mra. Shin | bach, and herself, An argument en-| ed. “Let Hilda decide for herself™ Cou sino blurted, “No.” protested Shinbach, my wifer" COUSINO REACHES INTO PISTOL POCKET And according to Mrs. Hensley, Cousing reached toward his pocket. One shot, a burst of flame—Cou- sino dropped dead in his tracks. Police came. The suicide story was told. The widow of the dead man, re- fused to believe it, and the apartment | ot Mrg. Hensley was searched. Un der a bed the 45-caliber gun, belong | ing to Cousino, was found. A gun/ of different caliber lay at the vic tim's side. Trapped by her own amateurish attempt to cover up the crime, Mrs. a ee. She had shot Cousino, she said, because she thought he himself was preparing to bring a gun into play She then hid Cousino’s gun and put her own by his side. “she's ‘F you tried, and have not won, never stop trying. All that’s great and good is done just by patient trying. Do not stop today because your prospective buyer did not come up to your expec: tations, look at the above lines. Advertise Again It Pays | BY HAL ARMSTRONG “It was exactly 10 o'clock | TWRANK TOMLIN crept noiseleasly |of wierd happenings up the stalrway. On the thresh hold of Chief Engineer B, H. Lee's office he halted Just long enough to| gian this watch. It was 10:0. | It is always well to note exactly the time when strange incidents 0c 1 Tomlin knew it, eur, an¢ You will never feel the atmosphere 4 less you of this uncanny yarn un | have paused an hour and a half be fore midnight of a dismal night, in the basement below the auxiliary | city light plant that jute out from | Bastlake avenue over Lake Union, | and have seen what Tomlin had | ‘Tomlin, pausing thus on Sunday night, had seen a shadowy figure glide swiftly thru the sbasement and but into the blackness among the, piling that supports the pler-like structure ve. Without a sound the figure had entered, pasced, de-| parted, carrying” can. ‘That was the reason Tomlin crept | noiselessly up the stairs, glanced at/out a daily report hia watch and entered the chief en- gineer's office. . H ¢ MADE a hurried report. Out- side the window @ red halt. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise at the Postoffice at Heattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 8, SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1920, CAN’T EQUAL THESE 5 BEAUTIES With a satchel filled with pictures of England's finest beauties, O. H. Hoppe, famous English artist, who says England has the handsomest women in the world, has arrived in America, is in America to be shown. Hoppe (lower center). thinks the five titled women above are the prettiest women in the world. They are: Lady Curzon (upper left), Lady Lave ess Massereene (upper right), Lady Diana Duff-Cooper (lower left); Sutherland (lower right.) Hoppe Incidentally, one of his five titled beauties, Lady Lavery, is an American girl—formerly Miss Hazel Martyn, of Chicago (center), Viscount- illicent, Duchess of loubts whether America ‘has five women as beautiful. He COX TO BE HERE SEPTEMBER 11 NEW YORK, Aug. 24—The fol lowing speaking dates for Governor Cox's Western tour were announced today by the democratic national committee: Fargo, N. D., September 7; Bull ings, Mont, September 8; Butte and Helena, September 9; Missoula, Mont., and Spokane, Wash., Septem. ber 10; Tacoma and Seattle, Wash. September 11. eee A. R. Titlow, democratic national committeeman from Washington, left for the East Tuesday morning to complete arrangements with the democratic national committee for tours of thia state by Governor Cox, William G, McAdoo and Homer 8. Cummings, former national chair man. moon hung in a hazy sky—an omen with black amoke-wraiths wafting past in ghost- ly procession Not that Tomlin had any idea that the figure he had seen flitting thru the basement whs an unreality, He knew it was the figure of a human. But what good mission could a hu- man be performing at that hour and in such @ place with a 6-gallon can? All but employes were forbidden there sald Lee, “Find ont ‘8 up to and report “Follow him,” what mischief h to me at onc . E . MLIN: WHEE: snappy exit. stairway cautiously D and made a He descended the Minutes passed. Tomlin did not return. Lee found himself becoming neryous. What if the myaterious visitor had—but there was no use letting one's imagination run wild Lee tried to fix his mind on getting The door opened suddenly. Lee looked up and saw, not Tomlin, but Ray Catteril “Tomlin,” said Catteril, faltering. His face was strained, | | | | “RECALL JAPS FROM U. S.” PROPOSAL IN TOKYO PRESS HONOLULW, H. T., Aug. 24.—Japanese newwpapers are dincussing the suggestion from a prominent source that the imperial govern ment recall all its subjects who have emigrated to the United States, as a step toward ending Japanese American misunderstandings This information comes in the form of a special cable to the Hono lulu Japlanguage newspaper, Nippu Jiji. Prominent Japanese citizens, unnamed, sponsored the proposal. It has received support from important Tokyo newspapers. Registered? This Is the Last Day If you haven't registered—do it to |B00ZE GURGLES | DOWN PIPES | Thirty-five quarts of gurgles mean. dered their melodious way down the day. Unless you voted in the spring |{"!n pipes of the federal building ianieen' Tuesday morning. The registration office will close Two prohi sleuths pulled the corks at 9 p. m, Tuesday. jand dutifully rinsed out the bottles It will not open again until the |before they were turned over to the Wednesday preceding the primaries Junk man. on it. 14, Not even the corks were saved. “Yes, yes!” snapped Lee. “What's|up and there stood neither of the happened?” men he had sent out, but H. R “Well, Tomlin—he followed that | Anderson thing and he hasn't come back.| Anderson's eyes were wide. His That's all.” | mouth was drawn. “Follow Tomlin,” Lee commanded,| “What is it?" Lee jerked out, grip: sharply. “Find out what's up. Re-| ping the arms of his swivel chair port back.” and leaning forward as if about to eee spring. “Quick, what is it? IATTERIL swung out and down! “Mebbe," said Anderson, I'm un the steps and vanished into the | W!¥ excited. But, I'd like to go out shadows thru the door leading out of |2N4 see what's become of Tomlin the baxement-—the door thru which |"M@ Catteril, 6 tho thing and Tomlin had already Piaiss wet Py sins et mat disappeared, Lee turned back to his ies desk, ring at the report blank but NDERSON went, slamming the seeing it not door behind him. Almost anything might happen out| He turned at the foot of the stairs under the pier there near the edge|and went to a window. A strong of the water. Lee tried to shake off‘ light from the interior of the base the thought, but couldn't. It was|ment threw its rays thru the pane only a few days since the dead body |for some distance out among the of a man had floated up under that| piling. Anderson could see the black very pier. With the roar of machin-| water lapping at the foot of the piles ery pounding in his ears, half a|—and behind one of the big upright dozen men might utter the most| timbers, with its. back turned, piercing death screams in unison | crouched the thing, the figure. and he not hear them ‘There it sat, down on its haunches, He was on the point of leaping | the shape of a man, huddled as if down the stairs himself, when again to escape detection, motionless, wait- the door was flung open, he looked | ing. The Seattle Star Entered as Second Clase Matter May 8, 1991 Unused Pis 1879, Por Year, by Mall, $5 to 69 tol Gives Solution to TRIANGLE MURDER MYSTERY ENGLISH ARTIST SAYS AMERICA MOVE OUT OR CET NO PENSION” owed Mother Refuses to Accept, After Hearing Representatives of the King Coun ty Welfare department and of the | Social Welfare board, this morning accompanied Mrs. Katherine Robert son, 1733 Melrose place, mother of three children under three years of age, to the juvenile court where she was asked to file a formal petition |for the mothers’ pension for which lahe has vainly struggled (for 21 months ‘The decision of the court fo grant the maximum allowance of $25 wi reached after a conference yester lay afternoon of all members of the Mothers’ Pension department, repre sentatives of the Social Welfare board, the Frutt and Flour Mission, King County W departmen:. Child. Welfare division of the health department, and the Scandi navian Mission. All organizations represefited have at”'Warious times helped the widowed mother. When informed that to obtain the pension she would haye to move to a different location, Mra, Robertson flatly refused to comply. 1 will forfeit the pension before I will move,” she said, “If I were to take another douse it would cost all of the pension to pay the rent. I save my rent here by letting out one room and neighbors here help me. 1 would have to pay so much more for food that I could not live on the 25 granted me. I will try to get a place as housekeeper where I can keep my children, rather than take the risk of moving and possibly losing the pension, but I will not move from here.” Mrs. Josephine Stuff, commission er of the mothers’ pension board, | stated that the Welfare department would pay the expenses of moving | the family. “It is the opinion of the court a |of those interested that it would | better for the children to be raised farther from the down-town district,” he said. “The pension ,has been granted with the understanding that | Mrs. Robertson will move to a better location and the warrant will be beld until the conditions are complied with.” Exit Hotel Guest, * Enter Mr. Burglar Miss L. Davenport, U. 8, hotel, left her door unlocked for a few mo. ments Tuesday morning. The thief only took a watch, Cost Him $5 fo Tear Doctor’s Shirt It cost Robert L. Sunderstrum $5 and costs to tear the shirt off of Dr. H. A. McMillan, 1707 W. 59th st, {in a neighborhood fight two weeks jago. Sunderstrom was convicted of in the third degree in Justice assaul Otis W. Brinker's court Tuesday, Anderson shrank back from the pane and hurried for the door. He cautiously exited. He crept stealthily about from pile to -pile. A ‘whisper stopped him. It was Tomlin. “Did you see him?" Anderson asked. “Yes, I'm going to report.” “Where's Catteril?” “He's here.” The three slipped back into the basement. Tomlin leaped up the stairs. “He's out there, hiding,” he told Lee, whose nervous tension broke as |he reached for the telephone, eee HE POLICE were. there in 20 minutes, They ploded down the staira and |out under the piling, and the flare of | their torches fell upon the back of | |the crouching figure. It did not | move Policeman N. P. Anderson ap. proached the thing and tapped its shoulder, “Come on™ he barked. The thing straightened up. In Its hand was a stick, and on the ond of ‘This Is Ruling Which Wid-. |container floating half submerged at LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE ‘Skipper and Crew Both Must Satisfy,’ Declares Douglas In @ statement issued today by Malcolm Douglas, republican candidate for prosecuting attor- ney, he emphasized the idea that he is not running against the deputies now in that offices, but Against the prosecuting attorney himself. “The argument hae been ad vanced jn behalf of the present incumbent,” said Douglas, “that he has appdinted a number of good deputies—some of them ex- service men. “Well, I'm not running against the deputies; I'm running against Fred Brown. ‘Those of his deputies who cannot be improved upon I can retain— those who are weak can be re Placed. The main thing is to have @ change in the head of the office, because’ no matter how good the crew is, the ship will never get anywhere unless the skipper knows his business.” Dougias will speak at Raven- na hall, 55th and 26th ave. N. E, Wednerday night; at West Side hall Thursday night, and at Botheli Friday night, YOUTH TRIES SHOOT Raft- Wrecked on Rocks of Skagit River Attempting to shoot the cataracts of the wildest stream in the North west on a rudely constructed raft, H. M. Henry, @ student from the University/of Californta, all but lost his ife im Skagit river Sunday, it was learned here today. Henry built bis raft of logs and, strapping his belongings to the frail craft, set out from the Seattle light plant headworks, intending to ride the mountain torrent .to its mouth jin Puget Sound a Connors Flats, M. H. Compton, 622 White build ing, just returned from the Skagit, |said today that Henry and his raft were wrecked on the rocks in mid- stream at the outset of the intend- ed voyage. The raft’ was battered to pieces and, as the logs parted, | Henry's, coat,. hat,. camera. and . suit- |case were lost in the rapids. The adventurer, being a sturdy swim- mer, was able to save himself. | Henry and Compton were among }& number of business men, mostly from Seattle, who are spending their vacations this summer. work- ing in the Grant Smith company’s construction camns on the Skagit. ‘ea The company ts short-handed, it is said, and is paying $5 a day to/ business men who care to work in the camps for a short time during the summer months to hasten com- pletion of Seattle's much needed plant. The promise of good food, clean quarters and plenty of time to fish for trout and salmon during even- ings and Sundays, together with the remuneration offered, is said to be luring many office men into the camps. The work, at best, it is said, will not be completed before December. “What's the idea?” the policeman asked. “Fishin said the thing. “Bah! Can't come that wheeze on me, sonny, You saw you were watched so you rigged up a line for a stall. Where's your five-gulion can “Over there.” The thing, a lad of 15, seemed about to burst into tears, as he pointed to a large, shiny tin the end of a tether nearby. “Pretty fair stall for a kid boot- legger,” the policeman asserted, reaching for the tether and drawing the can towards him. “Thought we wouldn't find your can of moonshine, hey?" “"Tain't monshine,” whimpered the youth. “Look and see. It's fish—I caught two already before you came and scared ‘em all.” The copper flashed his light into the can, “IU suckers! he admitted eee HE KID was the first to break the silence. He said: the stigk was a string, “This is a good place te catch [suckers at night,” message was made by ‘Premier before the end of this week, British leader said. ing the Rem occupation, ing they fr@urnized with the exes RED RETRZAT VERY DISORDERLY Serious outbreaks against ish soldiers were. feared. Frantic efforts of the to extricate themseives , north of Warsaw has disorderly retreat, unofficial ad . reported. General Haller’s army tag cut the last line of railway : nication, forcing the reds to abandes most of their artillery and t Polish cavalry de stantly at the heels of the: fleeii Russians and low-flying al add to their panic with maci fire: Four Bolshevik divisions maid to have been completely. out in thls aréa through -p and casualties, 7 The Bolsheviki already have uated Lomza (85 miles north and ¢ ‘of Warsaw), ard Polish of Bjelostok (110 miles northeast’ ‘Warsaw and Jess than 50 miles of the Bolsheviky headquarters @& Grodno), was expected hourly, | BRITISH SQUADRON ORDERED TO DANZIG A Copenhagen dispatch today. ported that a British squadron been ordered to Danzig, where man Workmen have “Soviet” and refused to permit loading of munitions from warships intended for the British Commissioner Tower, he would not be responsible for velopments if forcible unloading) were attempted, had asked for mili = tary and naval reinforcements, Meantime General Wrangel's dow ble offensive in Crimea and the Dow! region was continuing ew and a news agency dispatch said hig. prisoners now total 6,000. He hag completely liberated the left bank of the Dneiper and occupied the sea coast in the vicinity of Kuban. An anti-Bolshevik movement in Ukrania, has led to the belief that, @ linking up of Wrangel's forces with the Polish army in the Csernd= vitz region, on the extreme southera, end of the present Polish-Rusaiam front, is possible, Uprisings against the Soviets were also reported in the Caucasua BRITAIN, ITALY: DEMAND REDS CHANGE TERMS LUCERNE, Switzerland, Aug. 2& —Great Britain and Italy, demand ing that the Russians modify their armistice propomals to the Poles, have sent a peremptory message to, the Bolsheviki, requiring wi of the objectionable clauses” the end of the week. Disclosure of the dispatch of this Lioyd George in an interview “The soviets' demand that workmen be armed is so intolerable that we (Lloyd George and Premise Giolitti of Italy) have sent a pers emptory , méssage, asking @’ reply, and any similar demand,” “Imagine the soviets asking Ene land to draw its army only: fros a specified. category. This * be direct interference with (Turn te Page 4, Column