The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 2, 1920, Page 1

Tonight, fa and northwe Temperature Last a1, day noon, 63. Maximum, T Weather - war POLES REPORT NEW VICTORY! Tr Ee LATE EDITION On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Entered as Second Clase Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wah, under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879. tr; Friday, fair mer; general sterly winds, Hours Minimum, 56, Por Year, by Mall, $6 to 69 SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1920. The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Copyright, 1920, by Doubleday, Page € Co.; published by special ar- fangement with the Wheeler Syn- dicate, Inc. This document ts intended to strike @omewhere between a temperance lecture and the “Bartender's Guide.” @well the theme and be set forth In smbundance. Agreeably to the former, an elbow shall be crooked. Babbitt was “off the stuff.” h means—as you will discover by referring to the unabridged dic tionary of Bohemia—that he had) “cut out the booze;” that he was “on the waterwagon.” The reason for Bob's sudden attitude of hostility toward the “demon rum”—as the white ribboners miscall whisky (see the “Bartender's Guide"), should be ef interest to reformers afd saloon. Keepers. ‘There is always hope for a man when sober, will not concede or that he was ever drunk. ogre gered will say (in the apt phrase-distilier), “I had skate on last night,” you apm ee ited Bie dropped tn at the Broadway bar fthat he liked best. Always there three or four fellows there from | Bowniows offices that he knew. And there would be highballs and fates and he would hurry home to idinner a little late but feeling good, sand a little sorry for the poor Stand. -jard Oil Company. On this evening ms he entered he heard some one say: “Babbitt was in last night as full as @ boiled owl.” Babbitt walked to the bar, and saw the mirror that his face was as hite as chalk. For-the first time had looke@ truth in the eyes. 0 had lied to him; he had dis jeembied with himself. He was a idrunkard, and had not known it. pleasant exhilaration had been maud- in intoxication. His fancied wit had drivel; his gay humors nothing but the noisy vagaries of a sot’ But, wever again! “A glass of seltzer,” he said to the Bartender. ‘A little silence fell upon the group sof his cronies, who had been expect Hing him to join them “Going off the stiff, Bob?” one of fthem asked politely and with more Wormality than the highballs ever sealled forth. “Yes,” said Babbitt. Some One of the group took up the! nwashed thread of a story he had fisen telling; the bartender shoved er a dime and 4 nickel change irom the quarter, ungarnished with | this customary smile; and Babbitt | County, where so many rivers and #0 Much trouble begins—or begin; how. would you say that? It was July. and Jessie was a summer boarder at ho was just out of college, saw her | @ day—and they were married in Septembds, That's the tabloid novel —one swallow of watergand it's gone But those July days! Let the exclamation point expound it, for I shall not. For- particulars you might read up on “Romeo and Juliet.” and’ Abraham — Lincoin’s thrilling sonnet about “You can fool er) some of the people,” &., and Dar *win's works But one thing I must tell you ‘about. Both of them were mad over Omar's Rubaiyat. They knew ry verse of the old bluffer by heart not consecu owt here and there Mushrooms in a but picking ‘em as you fork the O-cont steak a la Bordelaise. Sullivan County is full of rocks and tr and Jessie used to sit on them, and—please be good —used to sit on the rocks; and Bob had a way of standing behind with his hands over her shoulders holding her hands, and his face close to hers, and they would r aria over their favorite verses of the old tent-maker. They saw only the poetry and philosophy of the lines then—indeed, they agreed that the wine was only an image, and that her | | what was meant to be celebrated ‘was divinity, or maybe love lite However, at that time neither of hem had tasted the stuff that goes ahote Oh, they married ahd came to New York. Bob showed tis college diploma and accepted a eposition filling inkstands in a law: yer's office at $1h a week. At the @urn to Page 7, Column 3) MRelative to the latter, drink shail | fWhat he had fondly imagined was a/ Mountain Squint Hotel, and Bdb, | at over BABY GIRL KIDNAPED:: Chauffeur Is Wanted in Los Angeles for Embezzling | Big Bank i Seattle police were asked Thurs-/ day, in @ telegram received from) Chief of Police D. A. White, of San Found in*Water; Descrip- tion Sent Out RIVERSIDE, Cal., Sept. 2.—Belief was growing here today that 22- month-old Edna Simmons, missing | Francisco, to maintain a ftrict since Tuesday, has been kidnaped. watch for Charles W. Hayes, 30, a) After talking with her father, chauffeur, wanted for the alleged George Simmons, of Riverside, of- ome Of $58,000" Wednesday after. | | noo: ficlals have sent descriptions of the child broadcast to police departments ‘and detective bureas. In the meantime divers searched the floor of the Mocking Bird canyon dam, near here, and dynamited parts of the stream, in a last effort to bring the child’s body to the wurface, in case she had been drowned. Failure to find) the body gave strength to the kidnaping, theory. It was at first believed whe had toddied to the dam and been drowned, her: tiny: footprints having fl heen traced to near the water's edge. or hers the verdict 6 im iy ag Italian rms read Riv sedgar ol Is is made Pek idr ry) ys? might be Tegel. "Vee pot te was employed by the Angio| and London: Paris National bank, and | disappeared in the downtown district j wits the bank's collections for the) Hayes is described an being fiv feet nine inches tall, ruddy complex joned, with a scar on his left jaw. Hayes wore a gray sult and a gray fedora hat. The automobile bears the Hcense number 3709, and has a green body with yellow whedls, The car is badly in need of painting. had worked for the tank but a week and had come to the organisation with a good reputation, Bank of- ficials believed at fire, that Hayes had been kidnaped. The Seattle poties, were asked to watch for Hayen at ‘all depots and docks, ax well as on the highways. SLUSH FUND” PROOF IS DUE: E. H. Moore Says He Has| the Evidence CHICAGO, Sept. leampaign fund invest tee adjourned today until next Tues day, when the hearings will be re {sumed in Chicago. ee Hoppe proclaimed ate come to America to sak flee tabee beoettfer. eter % well. Your English Seeuthes, Mr. Hi , are of one Over Ship we have variety of type, as these three Aneritn beauties testify. Left—Mrs. John Kiser; cen Martha Granger; right—Mrs. Leslie Morton Wilson. They are Chicago beauties, picked by Paul Stone, Chicago artist, to help change Mr. Hoppe's mind. 13553168 | REIMEIMIBER (cox Reavy 10 bl. CENSUS -_ JONES! - TAKE BIG TOUR pbs pallh oy ik cab of WilfulMen”’|| 00. ~The senate WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 —The cen COLUMBUS, ©. Sept. 2.—Gov. From the New York Sun | #us bureau today announced the fol v4 4 gation commit: | igwing 1920 population figures: joantee M. Cox tonight is to begin | State of Washington, 1,356,416; in. the most extensive stump tour ever crease since 1910 of 214,326, or ‘8 The specter of Benedict Arnold | undertaken ‘by ‘a presidential candi-|the program of anti-Japanese legisla- | per cent Returned to ‘visit this | date, tion to be voted upon in California in fi ed in the fi pete | Starting on his big “xwing around | November, were taken today at a Of Vardaman, Kirby and Lane. He thought of his treachery, fearful, ROME, Sept. 1.— (Delayed.) — An earthquake in the Benevento district caused a panic today altho there were no victims. The shock lw | 10 seconds, ANTE-JAP UNION | NOW PLANNE Californians to Merge Into One Organization SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2.—Steps | towards the amalgamation of all ele- ments working for the passage of | } | ) . Idaho, 8,324; increase ors 58,3 per cent. CHICAGO, Sept. Bringing evi-| Twin Falls ken dence which he said absolutely proves | S!nce 1910 of 3.0 the circle,” just a year to the day| Conference called by United States after President Wilson made his | Senator James D. Phelan, Gov. Cox's “slush fund” arp 4 nation-wide tour in the hope of ob-| Samuel Shortridge, who has been Against the republican party, E. RECOUNT OF . a a |nominated to run again Phelan for joore, Gi | taining ratification of the ace tative, artiend here today to re NOSES GIVES bppdlcre: poop irdynen 9 oy hanna |ireatys the, democratic ‘candidate, |the Fenate in November, as the re: Before the senate campaign fund ip And gazed on the visage of Norris, |with his pledge that. the United | Publican candidate, was in attend- Of La Follette, Cummins and Jones. He thought how the doom of the traitor, Forever his name must enwrap, Then looked upon Works, Si and Gronna, And feasted his eyes upon The specter of Benedict Arnold States shall enter the Wague of na.|ance at the meeting. tions, will wage his battle in every! The conference planned to form a state west of the Missippi except|central bedy which will launch an Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana, His|intensive drive for the passage of | first speech will'be in Lansing, Mich.,|the anU-Japanese program. tomorrow, 4a . - ’ e Baseballers, Teachers Woman s Ag em |SPOKANE GAIN WASHINGTON, Sept The cen vestigating committee. He bore a mandate from Cox to “carry the fight to the enemy.” He| sus bureau’ today unfounced a re [indicated on hig arrival that Cox be-| vised population total for Spokane lieved the senate committee is not! wash, of 104,437. The city’s popu |Kolng after evidence as vigorously 4% | iation was previously announced May it might. A large part of the evi | 7 am 104.204, which was a decreaxe| hwalked out | Zepoe Moore Brought was document:|in population of 2° per cént, com:| Found balm in these men for his crime; Now, Babbitt had a home and a) ‘senator Pomerene, who conferred | Parsy, “in Me 1910 population of “Behold,” he cried, “they are eleven, iCall on Sen. Hardin e wite—hut that ix another story. And| with Cox at Columbus yesterday r | And I was but onejin my time!” : s) ections a I will tell you that story, which will | concerning the inquiry, also returned | _,1h* Teviaed figures were announced | MARION, O., Sept. 2—Big Jegaue show you a better habit and a worse today Senator Poindexter, chair. | 2fter the chamber of commerce sup: baseball and school teachers com story than you could find in the man|man of the republican senatorial | Pll¢da& list of names of persona who, | peted for the attention of Warren G Into Court ‘who invented the phrase campaign committer, said today he|it Was claimed, had not been listed | |G. Harding today. 0 Ss It began away up in Sullivan | appointed a subcommittee headed by |‘? the 1920 count The Chicago’ Cubs arrived early!’ poRTLAND, Me, Sept. 2.—The | Senator Frelinghuysen, of New Jer-|, Th? revised total may again have 6 ] today to call on the candidate and} question of whether a woman has a sey, to make collections, Funds so to be revised, census officials said. Play an exhibition game with the) right to the one secret she is sure to | tar ‘collected Imost negligible,” | The population ot Spokane nag Marion semi-professional team. | keep- her age—may be determined he said, All money collected is to be pon cine a ps nl including the “ raul, their heels, in a special car from | pefore the courts here. japplied on a loan or guarantee of sd thea aac See tric ta wi) leago, came a dozen heads of| Mrs &.. Ernest Holman, wife of a 00,000 from: the national commit 5 \Close Pennsylvania Anthra- | Believe That Plotters Killed |sducationa!” amociationn, represent: ptttintat tertianl eiuon” tas ee ing 700,000 school teachers. \“Armored Cars” Run) in Brooklyn Today| e, he said | nied her right to register for the Sep- Poindexter named Oklahomh, New |tember state elections because she cite Colleries Merchant Hampshire, New York, Maryland, |IM - — Prince of Wales Is refused to give her age. | Ken Ohio, Indiana, Missourl,| NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—"Armored| WILKESBARRE, Pa. Sept. £—| CHICAGO, sept, 2.--The first deft: ; > The incident may be made a test Wisc asin North Dakota, Washing cars” of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit! practically every colliery in district | nite clue in connection with the mur- Going to Mexico case and the courts called upon to de- tor idaho, egon. » ‘on a 4 ‘ere o1 D J nm. Idaho, Oregon, California, Art | company were ordered sent out in| x. 1 of the anthracite region, em-|der of Howard B. Rhodes, dry goods| HONOLULU, T. H., Sept. 1.—(De-, “ide Whether a woman must divulge zona, Nevada, Utah and Colorado as! large numbers today, in defiance of | ° } 1 4.)—Mexi vill be th her age in enrolling for an election, battle ground states” in the sena-| the strikers who are attempting to, racing Lackawanna and Luzerne) merchant, who was slain while on an area nye *y ‘4 next stop Si diss toria} fight, where most of the mon-| tie up surface transportation in that| counties, in which 50,000 miffers are) automobile ride with Mrs. Gladys| On the world tour of the prince of Jey will be spent | aes iia) eae Wales. Loses His Command | borough. ‘These cars, sheathed screenings a8 a safeguard the missiles of the strikers, to remain) Virginia Jacobson, was obtained by “vaca-| police here today Questioning of L. H. Merriman, fa ther-in-law of the murdered man, de- veloped that Rhodes was fired at | while in his home here a month ago The prince was scheduled to leave Honolulu during the night for Aca pulco, on the west coast of Mexico. He has spent nearty a week here, having come to the Hawaiian islands from Australia, | employed, seemed likely in wire! ciowed today because of the againat Mnoved | tions” being taken by miners dissat thru the streets at intervuls, two isfied with the wage award of Presi- policemen beside the motorman and| dent anthracite commis- one at the elbow of the conductor cial in Arrest Attempt GALVESTON, Texas, Sept. 2. Colonel Billie Mayfield, provost mar- shal of the Iveston military zone, was relieved of -his command today following his statement assuming {Portland Lumber Mill |Sells for One Million! PORTLAND, Sept, 2-—The Mon arch lumber mill, In North Portland, Wilson's 4 been purchased by Stanley Do They carried but few enge: lar of Rag? some Apeabig' te : pasenke™:| Reports trom: the collieries indi-| Police now believe the murder of ROBABLY KICKING | responsibility for the attempted “ar- ‘the announcement of L. W. David ABES, 600 OF THEM, | cated thousands of miners were re-| Rhodes was a deliberately planned | HIMSELF. AI go | te of G. V, Sanders,” editor of the jformer owner. The transaction in HUNTING 4 | maining away from their Jobs. ‘Thix| Plot and redoubled their efforts to 4 ’ z | Houston Press, Monday night, Briga- volved more than $1,000,000, David | x7 HOME ered at a meet.{leate two men who were in the| PORTLAND, Sept. 2.—Police are | dier General Wolters announced, said | NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—Age is no| Vacation” was order | vicinity @t the time of the murder. ” |looking for a man walking around - " barrier, Six hundred babies in a| ing of insurgent miners yesterday State's Attorney Hoyne was ex-| talking to himself. He sold a stolen| It is estimated that 70,000 tons of VANCOUVER, B. C.—Fire dam-/children's dispensary face eviction It does not have the approval qf| pected today to renew his question | suitcase for $2.50 and the pawnbrok:|cork are needed for the bottled beer ages Fairfield block to extent of $30,-| uniexs the officials buy the building. | the United Mine Workers of Amer-|ing of Mrs. Jacobson regarding the|er discovered it contained $990 in|and mineral water consumed annu- 000. The price Is prohibitive, officials said, ica. detalis of the shooting. gold and currency, ally in Great Britain. An O. Henry Story That O. Henry Did Not Write First | LL RIGHT, | you casual readers, you devourers and you ardent “O. Henry got me to write that story for him, and I wrote it in my “I'm still waiting for my divvy, ©. Henry, poor devil, never got a, | students of O, Henry, put out the eat and read own peculiar way,” nings said today, “We both needed money. check from his publishers that some leech didn’t come around to get | In tomorrow's Star you will find a story called’ “Holding Up a | He sent it to the publishers, And they sent it back. Their letter said a slice of it, Train.” It is by O, Henry, but O, Henry didn’t write it first ‘o man could write like that, like a school teacher, and rob a “He always gave it. He told me, ‘Al, these people blackmail me out — | Al Jennings’ name isn't mentioned in the story, or in connection train, Rewrite it, in the language of an outlaw, and we'll accept it.’ of money faster than I can make it. But I have to give it up because | with it, but he i# the man referred to by O, Henry in the author's “©, Henry rewrote it, and it sold. He wrote me a letter about it, they know I was a convict, and they'll spread my record if I don't.’ | “That's what killed O. Henry. He was blackmailed to death—always fearing his record would be exposed.” begeing my forgivencss, and saying he'd send me my divvy as soon as he got the check, note at the beginning of the tale as the “man who told me these things and was for years a famous outlaw.” “ Riverside, Cal., Tot Is Not! bay TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE RUSSIANS 18 TO 50 ORDERED |Polish Troops Are Pursuing — Fleeing Bolsheviki 50. Miles From Grodno WARSAW, Sept. “Gen. Buden- ny’s army was annihilated Wednes-— day,” the Polish official communique announced today. sa If the Polish asin of “anni tion” of Budenny’s army is out it apparently removes the est Russian menace on the front. Even-at the time all Bolshevik forces were retreating, famous cavalry leader ha@>his in Galicia and only recently @ circling drive to encircle from the north, which the mitted was progressing to their advantage. eee LONDON, Sept. 2.—Further tion of the intention of the viki to take the initiative in ali tary operations was seen in the port today that the soviet rn ment had decreed general tion of all Russians between the of 18 and 50. eee PARIS, Sept, 2—The Poles, suming their advance on the have administered a heavy defeat te the Russians and reached the -Léti anian frontier, according to advices received meoaived by the freee Sail tape inhibi sedge ele o northwest of Grodno) and ante Ste “We have columns on are pursuing them in Grodno.” considering what on. to take Poland’s answer warning that Polish jet be ki — the east frontier in the Soviet Russia. "Poland's reply is understood have been sent to the White H late last night. The president, it wus called for the note ax it was to be made public at the state ment. Germany All War BY CARL D. GROAT BERLIN, Sept. 2—Germany has refused proposals from both Russia and the Entente to join in war with the other, Foreign Minister Simons declared today. 23 INDICTED ON ‘DOPE’ CHARGES. Action Taken by Federal Grand Jury Sixteen open indictments, ‘embody- ing the names of 23 persons and all charging violation ‘of’ the narcotic laws, were returned by the federal grand jury at 5 p. m. Wednesday. Two secret indictments and four nb” tru6 bills were also included in report of the jurors, Charged with importation, trans- portation, concealment. or sale of narcotics are William Lee, Chin Lun, Chin Wah, King Lee, Charlie Dong, Look John, Lee Can, K. Yammoto, Y. Yagisaiva, James F. Chambers, Alexander MacDonald, K, H. Long, , W. EB. Callahan, Lyle J. Agnew, James Johnson, Louis Green, John Doe George, R. D, Noble, C, Kay, Donald E. Brown, Albert Meyers, Heck Meyers, and Ed Louie, Bail for each was set at $1,000, ex- cept Heck Meyers and Ed Louie, $500 each, and Donald E. Brown, $760. No true bills were returned against Edward Flanders Ackley, Ralph ‘Ed- vie Canole, May Featherstone Faus » Ing Ching and K. Iwaski, <n IVE CHICKEN ee LEGAL MEAL WINNIPEG, Sept, 2-—If a boa constrictor will not eat a dead chick- én, it must be fed live ones, said a justice here, dismissing the com: plaint of a humane officer. 'T is said that “excessive cau- tion ix a pickpocket.” If you won't risk a few pennies to make your wants known, your pocket | is being picked daily, The Star Classified Ads swell your income at a minimum of expense, ] Phone Main 600