The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 25, 1920, Page 1

SEATTL »* @ Weather Tonight and Thursday, un- settled, p southwesterly winds. Temperature Last Maximum, 67, Today Noon, 54, VOLUME 28. Copyright, 1920, by Doubleday, Page @ Co.; published by special ar- rangement with the Wheeler Syn- dicate, Ine. Money talka. But you may think it the conversation of a little old bill in New York would be mg more than a whisper. Oh, ‘Very well! Pass up this sotto voce QBtebiography of an X if you like. ‘If you are one of the kind that pre fers to listen to John D.'s checkbook Tear at you thru a megaphone as it Passes by, all right. But don’t for get that small change can say o ‘word to the point now and then. The _ *Bext time you tip your grocer’s clerk _ & ailver quarter to give you an extra words above the lady's head. are they for repartee? robably rain; MM Hours: Mininum, 54, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Batered ax Second Class Matter May 3, 1599, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. E BALL PL EATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1920. AYER’S WIFE FINDS HE HAS ANOTHER; MARRIAGE ANNULLED ARRESTED AS “TRUNK MURDERER” Suspect in “LeRoy Case Is Picked Up in South America RIO JANEIRO, Aug. 2%5.—The British steamer Dryden arrived here last night with Eugene Le Roy, center, is a picture of the Americanus, miscalied a buf- 60 Americans. The Lewis and Captain On my back figure of Liberty or ino Eliott standing in center of the stage on a con plaht. My references is— Section 3,588, Revined Stat, Ten cold, hard doliars—I don't her silver, gold, lead or iron Sam will hand you over the if you want to cash me in. a ¢yearoid, I have had « ly and gorgeous circulation. I r Man who dies. I've been owned by But a little ragged, damp, dingy ‘ive-doilar silver certificate gave me a jar one day. I was next to it in the fat and bad smelling purse of a butcher. “Hey, you Sitting Bull,” says I, “don't scrouge so, Anyhow, don’t you think it's about time you went in on & customs payment and got reissued? For a series of 1899 you're a sigh.” “Oh, don’t get erackly just ‘re a Buftalo bill,” says the "You'd be limp, too, if you'd and the thermometer ‘ander 85 in the store.” “J never heard of ke that,” says I. oa “A shopgirl.” “What's that had to ask. “You'll never know till their mil- Jennium comes,” says the fiver, * Just then a twodellar bill behind me with a George Washington head, ike up to the fiver: oan Sie out yer kicks, Ain't lisle thread good enough for yer? If you ‘was under all cotton like I've been | today, and choked up with factory ’ be ‘ ust till the lady with the cornu copia on me sneezed half a dozen timee you'd have some reason to omplain.”” That was the next day after I fved in New York. I eame in 00 package of tens to a Brooklyn bank from one of its Pennsylvania correapondents—and { haven't made | the acquaintance of any of the five i and two spot’s friends’ pocketbooks yet. Silk for mine, every time. I was lucky money. I kept on the move. Sometimes I changed hands 20 times a day. I saw the inside of every business; I fought for my ow er’s every pleasure ‘on Saturday nights I never missed being slapped down on a bar. Tens were always slapped down, while ‘Ones and twon were slid over to the bartenders folded. 1 got in the habit of looking for mine, and I m 4 to soak in a little straight or sme gpilied Martini or Manhattan wig ‘ever I could. Once I got tied up in @ great greasy roll of bills in a push- gart peddier's jeans. I thought I never would get in circulation again for the future department store owner lived on & cents’ worth of dow at and onions a day. But this idler got into trouble one day on account of having his cart too near & crowing, and | was resected Jal ways feel grateful to the cop that me. He changed me at a cigar More near the Bowery that was rur ing « crap game in the back room it was the captain of the precinct ter all, that did me the best yi on he got his. He blew me for restamrant, and I ly felt as glad get back again as an Astor doen when he seen the lights of Charing "we paid as many debts as the" 1 It seemed that wanted in connection with the New York. Detrait, “trunk snurder “mye tery,” under arrest, ‘The body of a woman, later identi- | tied as Mrs. Eugene Leftoy, was | found in a trunk in New York, from [which It had been shipped from De troit. Her husband, suspected of the crime, was hunted for several weeks jand was last previously reported in New York. ‘The Dryden left New York for Rio Janeiro on August 3. | LeRoy, alias Oscar Fernandes, alias |0. J. Woods, alias Morris Fox, has been reported in many places, but investigation each time proved that | | the wrong man was being held. ‘ o ire Breaks Out | in Lincoln Ruins More care in burning debris on the Lincoln hotel site at Fourth ave. and Madison st. was being observed today following a fire which got beyond | control in the rubbish yesterday and | Necesmitated turning in an alarm. The | Lincoln was destroyed in a disastrous fite several weeks ago. wers Curbing Forest Blazes Weather with showers have contributed to practically eliminate! forest fire danger, according to Chief Fire Warden G. C. Joy, who report) no new fires for two days. 65 Speeders Drop Coin in City Till Sixty-five speeders stepped before | Acting Polic Judge Thomas N wale Tuesday and contributed $937 Ww the city coffers. That is, 65 were supposed to step up, but 25 got cold feet and forfeited their bail. Vive speeders were able to talk fast jand gpevincingly enough to escape | fines. | One man, who admitted he was | drunk while driving, parted with $40. \ The | for fines in motor vehicle uses. |Wife Cruel! She . Feeds Relatives | Wearied, he says, of entertaining his wife's relatives for long periods lin their home, Arthur R. Alexander. | bricklayer, living at 1412 20th av |was suing her for today |These family visita, encouraged by contends, constitute a form y divorce {hei | of cruelt | plain |Seattle Barbers Will Not Strike barbers will not strike, it today. pir local scale, offered $27 a week guar Jdition to 60 per received by the | | Seattle was announced union has accepted th by master barbers anteed wages, in cent of all money | barber in exceas of $40 |Zamora to Give Up Mex. Government WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—The | Mexican government will begin ne | gotiations at once with Pedro Za | mora for his wccording | © official reports tod to the atate lepartment from the American em at Mexico City | baswy \King George Sues | New York Company | NEW YORK King George V lfiied suit here to ‘collect an alle overcharge from a machinery n vany, dating back to war times, is said to have set a record} nT | 360 JAPSIN- PORT LEAVE THEIR SHIPS Now Deserters Are Sought by U_ S. Immigration Otfi- cials for Slipping by Gates With 18 desertions from the Jap crews of the shipping board vessel Kastero Leader and 10 from the eastern Temple, the total of J) entering the United Statew in Mmadaner since June 90, 1919, was swelled to 349, it was announced by immigration authorities Wednes day morning. The Eastern Temple arrived in Se | attic harbor July 30, and the East ern Leader Augest 2. Both wert built in Japan for the United States shipping beard, and were browght over for delivery to the gov- ernment. Under the existing seamen’s act, such vessels are to be manned by Japanese crews, which are to reship for their native country after their boats have been formally turned over to representatives of the shipping board. SLIP THRU JAP | GUARDS AT HOTELS } Both the Eastern .Temple and! Eastern Leader were delivered, and |representatives here of the Jap steamship companies quartered the | two crews in hotele and employed | guards to watch them until they could be reshipped for Japan. | Wednesday morning these represen tatives reported to the immigration | officials that the crews had been sent back—minus the 28 whom they alleged deserted. According to immigration authori ties, thin in the big loophole thru which Japs are flooding into the United States. UST HIDE FOR YEARS HERE It is shown by the annual report of the Seattle immigration station that during the fiscal year just ended #61 Japs deserted vessels in this district.. The 28 from the two latest vessels brings the® total to 389 If they escape capture for three years, these deserters become legal residents of the United States, cording to the immigration law, | apelin MAN, WOMAN BITTEN BY DOGS: Taken to City Hospital for Treatment ac: Seattle pound authorities are gun | ning Wednesday for two dogs said to have bitten two persons Tuesday night H. J. Schumaker, 710 Boren ave., reported he was bitten by a dog own led by Paul Wright, department man ager for the Western Dry Goods Co. Schumaker was placed under a phy sician’s care. | Mrs, Mary Hill, |waid she was t by a next door 403 26th ave, N., ten by a dog owned | neighbor, She de: | clared t me dog had recently bit: | ten another person, Mrs, Hill was| treated at the city hospital The police notified the pound au-| | tnorttien {Man and Money | Disappear Here! Police are making city-wide | Wednerday for John Lucy a lumber worker, reported miss: | today from home at 2003] a search {45 } ing Boren ave. Mra: Alta Luthness, who reported | Ithe disappearance of Lucy, told the that he left the Pri} morning with a and his pol house | day had @ lar possession [tout play. stranger amount of money in the ume, She fear jot | must be \F IT HAS A KICK, MR, DAVIS WILL HAVE SOME LOAD SAN FRANCISCO.—To decide whether the Ne-Ka-Hy ts @ Cht nene beverage or a Chinese medi- eine, Collector of Customs Davis must sample 600 casen of the stuff, according to Instructions re- ceived from Washington. HIGHER FREIGHT STARTS TONIGHT Will Add $4,100,000 a Day on People : WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-~4United “freight amd parson, ratey go into effect on American railroads at midnight tonight. Higher rates for passengere and freight carried on great lakes and constwine vessels may be put into l effect at the same time, if ship own ers desire. These rates, granted by the shipping board yesterday, may be held up, however, until January 1, 1921 | It wan estimated by competent of. flelals that the new rall freight rates | will cont .the nation $4,106,000 per | day, which will be reflected in the prices of commodities, The new pagenger rates which are an increase of 20 per cent, will bring to the railroads about $20,000 000 & month and will be paid directly at least by more than 100,000,000 per. sone who ride on the roads h month, according to latest figures available at the interstate commerce commission. Many of thease passengers wil! also | pay to the railroads increased Pull man car charges and higher rates for their excess baggage. Government officials and W. J Leuck, an economist employed by the railroad brotherhoods, insist that the increased bill the public must pay for freight should not result in any appreciable increase in the price of commodities. Any attempt to in crease prices on this ground will be clonely watched by the department of Justice. eee FARES GO UP | THURSDAY; TRAINS FILLED Beginning Thursday, an increase 20 per cent on railroad tickets and 60 per cent on sleeping car tickets will become effective. The one exception is on round-trip tour ist tickets to enstern points, which will be sold at the present rate until September 1 i A 25 per cent increase in freight rates in the west and 38 1.3 per cent} in the east morrow, In order to carry rates freight also goes into effect to the old must be rolling this afternoon, and actually in Thursday morning. According to Seattle rajlway of fictals nearly all berths have been sold out on trains leaving today Freight #pace alvo is at a premium, with every available car Dressed into service. Can’t You Help Mother Ryther Get Some Ivy? Ahd now that Mother Ryther has built a new home for the 90-0dd fatherless children wards out on Stone Way, she wants to plant them “ garden You, ¢ made ain kinds of garden late in summer. Mother Ryther wants slips of such bushes and shrubs planted at this ume of and especially ivy Ivy 1 are are year her favorite vine. There ivy clinging to all the walls of the new he and ivy the fence Such the cause deners who wish to help her brood of youngsters, vay take th slips in end them addressed to th Child home, Seattle, on or Ryther transit | around | SHELL TAKE ‘HER MADEN NAME AGAIN “Bil” Cunningham Ordered to Pay $250 Damages; Thought He Had Divorce Petite young Mra, Marie Cun: ningham, the. wife, that waa, Lett Felder Bi" Cunning of the “Se atte “Ral club, resumed maiden name Thornton today and went home to live with her mother. Yesterday, in Jude John 6 Jurey'’s divorce / court, she ex plained that she married Cunning- ‘ ham three years Cunningham soe" under’ the misapprehension that he was a sin fle man. She added that while visiting re jeently in California a friend in- formed her Cunningham already had pne wife and a child besides, |tiving in Colusa, Cal. GETS ANNULMENT AND $230 DAMAGES She investigated the matter, to be more certain, and found her friend's advice was true | Judge Jurey gave her a decree of annulment, $250 damages, which | Cunningham must pay, and restored her the name of Thornton, She had originally asked for $5,000 dam- j®«es, pointing out to the court that ‘unningham earns $300 a month at the baseball business, “He told me," said Miss Thornton | today, recalling an incident of their courtship, “that he had been mar- ried before. But he didn't tell me hye was still another woman's hue band. I want my many friends to know. THOUGHT FIRST ;W FE HAD DIVORCE ¢,“We were married on March 30, 1918, and I thought I was getting a real husband, but I found I wasn't | He didn't want anything said about the affair because he was afraid it might hurt the ball team. But jthink some consideration shouts be given me in the matter.” | Cunningham made the excuse to jthe court that he thought when he married Miss Thornton, that hts first wife, Effie Cunningham, had divorced him. He applied for a di vorce himself last April in San | Franciaco. The case is understood to he pending. Miss Thornton is well known in Seattle as a cabaret singer. |Switchman Dies After. Injuries Roy C. Petty, 29, a .Milwaukee| switchman, who lost both legs when he was knocked from a freight train at Whatcom ave and an der st, Tuesday by an overhead walk and was run over, died late Tuesday night at Providence hos pital. He is survived by a wife jand four children at 1830 Fourth jave. W \Foch to Visit U. S. in April Next Year PARIS, Aug. 26.—-Marshal Foch will visit the United ” States next April, according to an announce- ment made in Strasbourg today Girls Held for _ $1,620 Bunco Game Two sisters-—Pearl and Ruth Rog. ers, 20 ahd 15, respectively—are be | ing held in the city jail today on the} accusation of Harry Zimmerman | theatrical booking agent, that they robbed him of $1,620. They are said 'to have fled to Vancouver, Wash. with the money. They were arrested The Seattle Star Per Year, by Mail, $5 to 9 Marie. Thornton FIND BODY IN |ASKS $7,014 FOR ELLIOTT BAY DEATH OF BOY Crowbar Is Tied to Man’s| Clothing The body of “James Taylor,” whose true name is said to be James Stinch- comb, watchma the navy| route steamer, Kitsap II, was found) Wednesday morning off Pier 12 by | officers of the Port Warden depart: | ment. | Stinchcomb disappeared Tuesday evening. When the body was fished | out of the bay, a heavy crowbar was found attached to the man’s clothing. | He left a suicide note declaring his | intention of drowning himself and | asking that “none be blamed, but} me.” Stinchcomb's purse, containing $150, was found in his room. aboard Officer Roses His Teeth in Pursuit Patrolman GC. E. Walsh, of Co jumbia precinct, is minus two front teeth and the police department has a jitney to repair as the result of} an unexplained rifle bombardment early Tuesday evening in the woods near 54th ave. S. and Alaska st Walkh sped madly towards the seene of the noise. His machine struck a log Osaka is called the janchester in that olty and brought back here by by Detective Sam Simundson, “yee of Japan” because it is the center of the country's cotton ae, Son Run Over and Killed by Auto Suit for $7,014 was instituted in the superior court here Wednesday by James McIntosh for the death of his 7-yearold son, Duane, who was struck by an automobile driven by Irvine Ankemy last January. The accident occurred at First ave, and John st R, V. Ankeny, well-known Seattle banker, ‘and his wife, who were in the car at the time of the tragedy, are made co-defendants in the ac- tion, Seattle Sleuth Is Named Chief William 8. McSwain, «ince 1917 an operative under Capt. Thomas B. Foster of the United States secret service in Seattle, has been appoint- ed chief of the secret service in St. Louis. He left: Wednesday for the east. Brakes Released Auto Runs Away Someone released the brakes on an automobile belonging to W. Hal- loran, 507 Jackson st. as it stood in front of a house at 1915 15th ave. N., Tuesday night. The wrecked machine was found by Patrolman H. A. Holmes at the foot of a nearby embankment, inna lied hgh an ay tans ci ci adel LATE EDITION Blockade if Reds Fail to ~ Modify Armistice Terms =~ LANDON, ‘Ane, 25—{6:10 p. between, i ty and ee BY WEBB MILLER LONDON, Aug. 26.—Whether: of Europe again will be involved war wis expected ‘today to be within 48 hours. bi 2 Russia bas until Friday BRITISH NAVY READY TO ESTABLISH BLOCKADE If the Bolsheviki refuse to their terms as demanded by the: lies, military and naval plans ready to establish'a, blockade 13 hours. At the same time ) would be taken to brush aside tht Te it militia in Poland, was Unconfirmed. It ported that the armistice 4 at Minsk must be transferred te Warsaw. bd The Bolsheviki and Sis pect to leave London on Friday in the event their government fails te accede to the entente'’s demands, sheviki terms to seized upon the Red proposal creation of a civil militia in As word was awaited from cow, the Minsk correspondent of Herald telegraphed that armistice delegates have rejected the Russian terms, even to discuss disarmament, mobilization or creation of @ militia. The next session of the mission was expected to be the one, the correspondent said. Reports from various sources com- tinue to reveal the magnitude of the Russian defeat in Poland, At 1 sf il ai} was negotiating for surrender, KERENSKY SEES END OF BOLSHEVIK RULE Alexander Kerensky, who preceded Nikolaj Lenin as Russian premier, expressed the belief in an interview here that the Bolaheviki forces are So shattered they will be unable to present a formidable front again for at least a year. In fact, he said, this may be the “death blew _of Bolshe visth, since Lenin ‘and Tivtsky pend upon the army for theif” on the Russian people.” ‘ Unconfirmed reports were received from anti-Bolshevik sources that sey. eral serious outbreaks have ayead against the ‘Soviets in various eae of Russia, particularly the southern regions. : Oe A Brussels dispatch stated Foreign Minister Hymans: had signed because of the Belgian cabk net's refusal to permit transportation of munitions for Poland across Bel- gium territory. Premier De La took over the vavant portfolio, eee WARSAW, Aug. 24.—“The norte ern soviet army is completely eum