The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 1, 1920, Page 1

GIRL BEATEN BY JAP EMPLOYER On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Ee Weather Tonight, ‘Temperatu fair; fair and warmer erate easterly t Thursday, mod- inds. * Last M Minimum, 57. 0. e Seattle Star Mntered as Second Class Matter May 8, << GIRL FOUND Copyright, 1920, by Doudieday, Page € Co.; published by special ar- rangement with the Wheeler Syn- dwate, Inc. A redhaired, unshaven, untidy man sat in a rocking chair by a win. Ba dow. He had just lighted a pipe, and puffing blue clouds with great satisfaction. He had removed his Shoes and donned a pair of blue, faded carpet-siippers. With the mor bid thirst of the confirmed daily | Rews drinker, he awkwardly folded Back the pages of an evening paper. eageriy guiping down the strong. “Diack headlines, to be followed as a chaser by the milder details of the @malier type. In an adjoining room a woman was cooking supper, Odors from strong bacon and boiling coffee con- tended against the cut-plug fumes ‘from the vespertine pipe. Outside was one of those crowded Streets of the east side, in which, as ‘twilight falis, oe sets up his re- eruiting office. mighty host of ran and played the rags, some in white and beribboned, some swild and restless as young hawks. @ome shrieking rude and sinful ‘words, some listening, awed, but soon, @rown familiar, to embrace—here . were the children playing in the cc ridors of the House of Sin. Above the playground forever hovered « great bird. The bird was known to humorists as the stork. But the people of Chrystie street were better ornithologists A little girl of 12 came up timidly to the man reading and resting by the window, and said “Papa, won't you play a game of checkers with me if you aren't too man sitting shoeless by the window, answered, with a frown. “Checkers. No, I won't. Can't a man who works hard all day have a little rest when he comes home? ‘Why don’t you go out and play with the other kids on the sidewalk? ‘The woman who was cooking came to the door. “John,” she said, “f don't like for Tdszie to play in the street. They Jearn too much there that ain't good for ‘em. She's been in the house all @ay jong, It seems that you might give up a little of your time to amuse her when you come home.” “Let her go out and play like the Fest of ‘em if she wants to be amused,” said the red-haired, un shaven, untidy man, “and don’t bother me.” 7 . ° “You're on,” said Kid Mullaly. “Fifty dollars to $25 I take Anni the dance. Put up. The Kid's biack eyes were snap ping with the fire of the baited and chalienged. He drew out his “roll” and slapped five tens upon the bar. ‘The three or four young fellows who ‘were thus “taken” more slowly pro- @uced their stake. The bartender, : vio stakeholder, took the mon ey, laboriously wrapped it, recorded the bet with an inch-long pencil and atufted the whole into a corner of the cash register. “And, or, what'll be done to you'll be aplenty,” said a bettor, with an ticipatory glee “That's my the “Kid,” sternly. all around, Mike.” After the round Burke, the “Kid's” weponge, sponge-holder, pal and grand vizier, drew him out the bootblack stand at the corner where all the official and im portant matters of the Small Hours Gocial Club were settled. As Tony polished the light tan shoes of the ‘club's President and Secretary for | the fifth time that day, Burk words of wisdom to his ctilef “Cut that blond out, ‘Kid his advice, “or there'll be What do you want to throw 4 that girl of yours for? find one that'll freeze Liz has. She's worth Annies.” “Ym no Annie admirer" said the Kid,” dropping w cigarette ash on Mis polished toe and wiping it off or %Tony’s shoulder. “Put I want to teach Liz a lesson. She thinks I be Jong to her. She's been bragging that I daren’t speak to another girl Liz is all right-In some ways, She's firinking a little too much te: ‘And she uses language that a lady oughtn't.” “You're engaged, ain't you?” asked Burke ‘gure. Wel maybe.” vald up lookout,” “Fill ‘em to nloon pake was trouble wn You'll never to you like a hallful of get married next “§ saw you make her, drink her | two fronts (urn to Page 2, Column 4) ‘They called it a vul-| mentor G. 0. P. CHIEFS DEMAND _ SEN. JONES’ RESIGNATION OF COURSE, MR. HOPPE HAS NOT SEEN THESE]| US.CRUISER | ‘ON: WATCH AT DANZIG Will Protect American Inter- | | ests From Interference by | German Dock Men ci a BERLIN, Sept. 1—The American | armored cruiser Pittsburg arrived at | Danzig last night, it was learned here today. . ‘The Pittsburg recently proceeded to Reval from French waters, Ite. presence in Danzig was believed for the purpose of protecting American sbipping interests from: pomrible | terference by German dock workers, | eee |SAYS FOOD IS PLENTIFUL IN CITY OF WARSAW NEW YORK, Sept. 1—Leon Kal- maky, comrolasioner for the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid socie ty, who has just returned from a six months’ stay in Poland, says “There was plenty of food in | Poland a month ago,” he declared “Warsaw was gayer than New York! | Wine flowed in the cafes and they were crowded nightly | | Kaimaky visited Warsaw, Vilna, | | Lodz, Grodno, Suwalki and a dozen other Polish cities and towns. | “In every place I found the Polish Jew is little better off now than in the old days. | “The new government passed laws which practically make it impossible | for « Jew to earn a living. | | “High officials told us they deplored ‘the feeling against the Jews and [hoped for better feeling when the} | country was again at peace. But if the 3,000,000 Jews in Poland could 1 get on one ship they would come | to Americ “There are thousafds of wives and children in want there, whose hus Ande afe enjoying prosperity in the | United States,” he concluded j The Hebrew Sheltering and Im migrant Aid society, which has |branches thruout the United States, | | Plans to handle the huge task of bringing the 15,000 Polish Jews and | their American relatives together. It| } is supported by Jews in the United States . ‘Polish Communique | | Reports New Gains, WARSAW, Aug. 31.—(Delayed.> Further galing in the north, more than offsetting the temporary Bol shevik in the Lemberg re-/ gion reported in the Polish jcommunique today | “We ent 4 Augustof (40 miles west of rodno) Sunday,” the com. rounique said. In the Bjelostok see tor the @ y ptreat We captured Sokolka (midway be | tween Bjelowok and Grodno) and Gor- | odok (609 miles east of Bjelostok). “Attempted reaistance the fegion of M and has been smash were in Narevska | WASHINGTON, Sept. 1—A for mal reply to the American warning that Poland keep within its present frontier in its campaign againgt the Bolsheviki was delivered at the state | department by Prince Lubormiski, Polish minister here, it was an nounced today. | Secretary of State Colby was studying the note today and officials said it probably would be made pub in a few days. | No Word Received From Gen. Wrangel | IQNDON, Sept. 1.—Speculation rife in semi-official quarters | today as to the ability of Gen Wrangel to recuperate from the crushing defeat he is alleged to have | received on the Crimean and Kuban | fronts here confirmation of the Bol claims of overwhelming de-| Wrangel’s forces way cor tained in unofficial dispatches from! of private stock have been elated| cents a half pint to the consumer, | Constantinople, antl- Bolshevik | wor reported the leader being badly | last week in battles on those | [received trom Wrangel, however, | blood | the | the at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Corfxress March 3, 1979. F SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1920. NEWBATTLEIS ON IN BELFAST Unionist Wagkers Are Fired On in Shipyard BELFAST, Sept. 1.—Deaperate| fighting between Irish factions broke out again in Belfast today. Sinn Fein gunmen fired upon unionist workers in the Sankhill ship- yards from Carrick hill. Soldiers re inforced the workmen and a pitched battle resulted. At the same time minor disturb. ances were reported from other parts of the city The casualties were tncreaned to | day by the death of two men and the} wounding of a won nd several A neore had been killed and | 200 wounded In previous fighting. eee Lord Mayor of Cork | Waiting Death Call) LONDO! Transfusion of | is the only means by which | life of Terence MacSwiney, hunger striking lord mayor of Cork, can be saved, it was said today by physicians at Brixton prison. he lord mayor was in comatose condition most night. To Exhibit Sumbardo| Works at Y. W. C. A.| The first art exhibit of a series to »y the Young Women's jation this fall opened in the blue parlors of | association. Fourteen land | scapes of Mount Rainier, painted by irs. In C, Sumbardo, 1715 sunset , will be shown, The exhibit will be open to the public for @ week. ENVER ALSO GETS HOME BREW NEWS| DENVER, Colo,, Sept. 1—Owners | soldiers. Sept. 1 semi last a of Christian Ags Wednesday, since Judge KE. C. McAdams decided that the declaration of independence | and the constitution were violated No direct word has been | when officers confiscated cranberry | from, 60 to 62 cents 4 dozen, wine in a Denver home Of course O. H. Hoppe,! English artist, had never seen many American beauties| when he decided that five) titled Englishwomen were the handsomest women in_ the) world, Otherwise—but that's) obvious. Here, Mr. Hoppe,| are samples of American} beauty that will help you} change your mind: Upper left, Mrs. Walter J. Sullivan, | of Chicago; right, Mrs. C. C.| Rumsay, New York City; low-| er left, Mra. Angier B. Duke, | daughter of A. J. Drexel Bid-| dle, of Philadelphia, and lower center, Mrs. E. B. McLean. ‘AS FISHING FOR _ TRADE, PERHAPS HARTFORD CITY, Ind, Sept. 1 John donned hip boots) when his barber shop was flooded by | heavy rain and carried customers from waiting chairs to his barber chair and then to the stairway, after doing their work. Bad News: | Milk and Cream Up. Eggs Also. Yet another addition to the high cost of raising the baby Milk is up 1 cent a quart highér, Wednesday, retailing at 15 cents. ‘The wholesale price moved from 11 to 11% cents Cream advanced from 15 to 16 but pint lots still retail for 30 cents. Ranch eggs also rose in the whole sale market Wednesday, advancing Pullets werd firm at 50 cents, - : DEAD AFTER WILD PARTY |county Chairman and Dele- | BEING SOUGHT Chicago Man Is Alleged to! Be Short $35,000 CHIPAGO, Sept. 1.—Chicago po-| lice today announced their search for another “LAberty bond wizard" —| Basil P. Edwardes, former employe! of the Chicago Trust Co. Edwardes, according to officers of the company | and police, left Chjcago in June, leav-| ing a shortage of possibly $35,000. According to the trust company, Fdwardes, a clerk and salesman in the bond department, had accepted Liberty bonds left for deposit, giving his personal receipt. He was be Meved to have lost in speculation, they said. 1 Seattle Cop Band * | Pleases in Frisco Mayor Hugh M, Caldwell was in receipt of a letter Wednesday from Mayor James Rolph, Jr, of San| Francisco, in which the southern! executive paid praises to the Seattle police band, which attended the In-| ternational Traffic association con- vention just concluded in the South. | Visitor Outstrips | Thieves in Sprint} Two men attempted to hold up Fr. FE. Lew, of Medical Lake, Wash. at 1:30 a. m. today at Third ave. and} Stewart st. as he was hurrying to) the Everett interurban depot, he told police. He ran and they failed to| catch him. Ukulele Stolen; Beach Musicless There'll be no more music even-| ings on the beach at Wolf's cove on | lake Washington because thieves stole H, B. Cannon's ukelele Tues: | day night. | Cannon, at 937 85th ave. N. W when not camping, told police that the thieves also took a watch and| considerable jewelry. H. F. Shoppach, en route to Port lan, Mont, dropped hia purse con-| taining $32 at the corner of Yesler! way and First ave, Wednesday morning. He asked the police to! have the person who finds the purse | mail the money to him, . | Coleman, Geo. R. Sibley and Dan W. Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 lll GUEST. OF PAIR Wi Stomach of Young Woman to Be Examined for Traces of Poison Dr. William Dehn, University of Washington chemist, will examine the contents of the stomach of Thel | |ma Colton, the young Spokane girl, | whore dead body was found stretched | acrons the bed in a room at 2302 N. | 46th st, Tuesday afternoon, | The stomach was removed Wednee | day morning by Deputy Coroner Wil-| lis H. Corson, { } BIG MEETING DENO HIS RECORD Examination is also being made of the contents of two bottles found on a table near the body. DETECTIVES STILL SEEKING THREE COMPANIONS Ata late hour Wednesday detec tives had falled to locate either Jack B. Ross, his wife, or Irene Duffy, who are said to have stayed in the} house on the night of the girl's death. | The house had been occupied by | Rows and his wife for several days, | The police have in eustody Walter Pirdzuhn, who discovered the body. Pirdzuhn told the poles he was leav-| ing Seattle for A cruise, and had) riven up his room. He deciared he | was a friend of Roes and had accept- ts! his invitation to spend the night | in his home. He declared nothing unusual bad occurred during the Bight . Neighbors, however, told Detec- ttves Claude Fortner and Ernest Yoris, who are working on the ease, that there had been a wild party in the house Monday night. The body was stretched across the bed in an unnatura! position. It was slightly clad. MYSTERIOUS BOTTLES ON THE TABLE Among the speakers were N. B.| na table beside a bed were placed Caufman, delegate to the national|® hypodermic needle, an ink bottle republican convention; Maj. J. T.| containing @ peculiar smelling odor, and a& pop bottle filled with some Bush | quid. Gus L. Thatcher, chairman of the| The body #howed no hypodermic Lewis county republican central com- | tele marks, and friends of the sirl | mittee, was chairman, declare she was not a user of drugs. eee | Ross, whom the police are seeking, : was arrested August 24, at 1227 Yes- Editor's Note—Chehalis sasw't |e va ang was sentenced last Fri alone im its indignation of Senator 9)? .% . se ” day by Acting Police Judge Thomas | Jones’ “betrayal” of the peopie of | swale to serve 15 days in the stock-| thin state. In almost every CiY ade and was fined $100 for having of the state, resolutions were passed | narcotic in his possession, He was condemning Jones jreleased later and his fine remitted The Chehalis mass meeting £45) when the police were assured by the | typical of similar gatherings every- |) ongshoremen's union that he would tohere. |be given a job. Nevertheless Jones is asking vot-| Deputy Coroner Willis H. Corson, | era of this state to renominate him. goliowing an autopsy, declared he When you go to the polls Tues-| was certain the girl did not die from day, September 14, natural causes, but was at a loss to subscribe a cause until after the con- | JONES! room had been examined, The Colton girl is believed to have WOMAN OWNER OF TELEPHONE SYSTEM had a husband and cia tn ‘Bpokane. © WONDER THE | WANTS TO CLOSE iT CAMBRIA, Cal., Sept. 1.—Cam- OLD COW DIED!) bria’s telephone system wants to VINCENNES, Ind., Sept. 1.— A} suspend operations. } gate to National Meeting Among Speakers CHEHALIS, Sept. 1—The resig- nation of U. 8, Senator Wesley L. Jones was demanded in resolutions adopted by & mass meeting of citi tens bere on the night of March 7, 1917, Gelaster’s tall wes packed. Men who bad helped Jones to the high office he is holding bitterly upbraid- ed his tactics in congress, which were denounced as giving aid and comfort to the Kaiser. The fealty | and support of local citizens were pledged to the government in the crisis then at hand. TH LATE EDITION CENTS IN SEATTLE CTIM OF On Pretext That She Late to Work, Jap Strikes. Her, Is Complaint fit off, she said tedey. His attack, she said, was unprovoked, as her time card, in police hands, showed that reached the laundry yesterday. ing on time. In company with a friendly man, H. P. Bassett, the girl this morning to Deputy P John D. Carmody's office and to a complaint . charging with assault in the third degree, @ gross misdemeanor punishable by & fine of not more than $500 or a sentence of pot more than months, A It was the third thie, she ft ied Be tacked her during the three ai half years she had worked in” ed Ws mother and her father, who was quently out of work. The family lives at 1219 Washington st, in the — center of a cosmopolitan colony, Sakasaki had many times acct her of being late to reach the dry, she told Carmody, and tho he had on these occasions before pum ished her, she had not reported it, SLAPS HER AND WRENCHES ARM bs When he suddenly confronted her” as she was leaving for home last evening, she said, and accused her of being late again, she denied item- — phatically. He rushed at “made a face” at him, and he her, giving her arm at the time a painful wrench. She ed. i. Other employes had seized the and were holding him off when Po licemen Bassett and C. L. Bryant ~ reached the laundry and took Ruth and Sakasaki to headquarters. The — Jap was locked up on an open charge for the night. She was taken to the juvenile home on Broadway, Later, when her parents learned of the incident and found out where their young daughter was, they took her home. News of the alleged at- tack had spread thruout the neigh- borhood this morning, and high feel ing against Sakasaki was more or less violently expressed, The Jap's bail was fixed at $500 surety, or $250 cash. Friends were expected at headquarters this afters noon to free him. | pint of nails, ranging in size from six-penny to four-penny, were taken Its owner and general manager, Mrs, G, Guerra, has petitioned the state railroad commission to per- {from the stomach of an old cow | which died on Harvey Wampler’s mit her to discontinue service to her 114 subscribers. She sets farm. A Lincoln penny also »was forth she is 65 years old, in poor found. health, and unable to get compe- tent help. Mrs. Guerra’s rates are 50 cents a month for subscribers furnish- ing their own instruments, and $1 a month if she installs her own || outfit A VIATOR J. D. HILL les on a owy cot today in the Swedish hospital, He will recover, barring jcomplications, but he will never be the same. Moaning with pain from torn and | bleeding flesh and crushed and shat- | the federal grand jury convened in| tered bones, ne was taken to the hos: the United States district court at/pital last Thursday, Skillful sur- 10 a. m, Wednesday to conéider 45|seons have done their utmost. Pret cases. Twenty-three persons, two)ty white clad nurses, passing by, | women, were seated on the jury, | 100k at him wistfully and toss him - ae sympathetic smiles, It requires more than 500,000,000| It is the old, old storybut with Ake the| Very Unusual variations, Hill | feet of lumber each year to make the | paper shipping cases used thruout|%® chance too many—and lost, the country. waded Two Women Appear on New Grand Jury With Van R. Pierson as foreman, | ILL boarded an it Madison street car last Thursday bound THR, WORLDS. ix, on etic amass sear LARGEST BELL ||""ie'sss"scn sur 3 He had taken many daring, fool has never made a sound It |hardy chances before, and with |much more apprehension. is called the Czar of Bells, It rests in the Kremlin, an Hoe boarded the car and took old fort at Moscow, It meas- ures 19 feet high and 65 feet in circumference and weighs nearly 200 tons, yet it has | al | | (it was Hill, the chief pilot for his jcompany, who was entrusted some | while back to fly with a danger) courting young couple over the city by moonlight, He did it. They flew) |for more than an hour thru moonlit | clouds, to the very zenith, and re . turned in safety while thousands of! strength and efficiency. The |) upturned faces watched in expect: three line Want Ad reaches’ || ant horror.) Just as many people as a full |) Beside Hill in the street car seat wage a |was a bulky, somewhat awkward man, Phge) Pear 6 Se, NEN AR, (it was Pilot Hill who scouted the = airplane way to Lake Crescent | never called a people to ser- vice, It has does not no message. Size always stand for Flying Has Perils, _ But NotComparable _ to Street Car Ride established a winged passenger route to the famous summer resort, The’ first trip was fraught with mang dangers.) The street car proceeded. The bulky passenger was going to get off: He arose from the seat, and Hill, sitting on ‘the outside, moved his feet out into the aisle to give him passageway, (Hill had done gose-dives, spirals, dips and loops over Lake Washing+ ton at great risk many times. Fear no longer found a harbor in him.) The street car gave a lurch, “As often happens,” Hill remin- isced today. (In all his flying he had never once been hurt.) eee iE bulky passenger lost his bal ance. With crushing force he came: down with his heel on the toe of Pilot Hill, Hill should have known better tn the first place than to have flirted with disaster by taking a street car, He admits it now. There was a sickening, crunching sound. * * * The doctors had to amputate the toe, “Hereafter I take no desperate hances,” the bandaged victim said. ll play safe and fly to work.’ WILL HEAR TOMORROW, POPULATION OF STATE WASHINGTON, Sept, 1,— The census bureau tomorrow morning: will make public the pop