The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 17, 1920, Page 1

€ L ¢ Moderate Copyright, 1920, by Dowbieday. Page é Ont aeemane dy special 1 gaid to him, to try him. “I hare been to write up some of the ex- the unfortunate ones their evenings® in this I ask you to what you How do you size me up?” “I should say,” said the student of human nature with unpardonable hesitation, “that you was, say, in the contracting business — or maybe in @ store—or was a sign Painter. You stopped in the park to ‘finish your cigar, and thought you'd get a little free monologue out of me. Still, you might be a plasterer or a lawyer —it's getting kind of @ark, you see. And your wife won't + ket you smoke at home.” T frowned gloomily. “But, judging again.” went on the reader of men, “I'd say you ain't got wife.” “No,” said I, rising restlessty. “No, no, no, I ain't. But I will have, by the arrows of Cupid. That is if—" My voice must have trailed away afid muffled itself in uncertainty and despair. “I see you have @ story yourself,” said the dusty vagrant—imprudent- ly, it seemed to me. “Suppose you take your dime back and spin your yarn fdr me. I'm interested myself in the ups and downs of unfortunat: ones who spend their evenings in the » park.” Somehow, that amused me. I looked at the frowsy derelict with more interest. I did have a story. Why not tell it to him? I had told none of my friends. I had always been a reserved and bottied-up man It was psychical timidity or sensi Tonight and Saturday rain. winds. Tesnperatare Maximum, 73. Today RGE GIGANTIC BOMB PLO southeasterly Last 4 Hours Mintuum, 56 noon, 66. Boose, valued at $18,000, was in Police custody Friday, while Fred lertck H. Heuns, 36, president of the Sytvanite Mining Co., was held on an open charge in the city jail, accused of having the liquor in his cellar at |1423 Sixth ave. N, when the dry j@tuad raided it Thursday afternoon. Every wire in the police depart fm an effort ty ret him re but to noAvall Lieut. J. J ordered . y that he inet Heuse within the 24-hour limit for open charges. Charges against Heusg will be placed in federal court. When Heuss’ arrest became known, dozens of telephone messages poured into police station from citizens, de manding to know whether Lieuten ant Haag was going to raid cellars jcontrary to U. 8. District Attorney | Saunders’ (nterpretation of the law. Saunders says that “the home is a man's castle,” whether he has booze |in it or not. | SAYS HEUSS IS BOOTLEGGER DE LUXE |, Lieutenant Haag dispelled these fears when he explained that infor. mation reaching his office showed conclusively, in his opinion, that Heuss was a bootiegger de luxe Heuss catered to a select trade, Lieutenant ‘Haag said. Smugglers recently brought the whisky here from Canada tn a char tered boat, police agy. The liquor | consists of 74 cases of Canadian Club whisky, 40 gallons of fine bar reled whisky, 20 gallons of wine and 10 gallons of alcohol. ‘The raiding party was made up of Sergt. J. L. Allen and Patrolmen A. | Anderson and L. J. Gardner. | Good N. ews Oh, Boy! Sweet Spuds! They're Cheaper! | ‘The mileage of grins of those who have a hankering for sweet spuds On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Second Class Matter May ‘Hist! Then Pat Spilled His Secret Man Whose Home Ie Jail Tips Star That He Has Booze Cache on Sub as be walls of central pelice station Fri- . “And that's why I'm here.” “But I do hold « grudge against the cop that sent me in. 1 don't mind being here in the cold and bit- |ter months of January, February autumn months, out making “HIST® SAYS PAT, LIKE THAT—“HIST? “Hist! and Pat i Booze Entering Pat's Submarine “It's on a wubmarine, No, Towont tell where. Bat that's where I get my: booze. “But hist,” and again Pat spoke in subdued tones, “Ill be out tomorrow. I've a pull. Only presidents and gov- ernors have pulls, it is generally be lieved. But I've got one. I'll be out in the morning.” AND HERE’S REASON | JAIL’S PATS HOME With that, Pat Industriousty scour. led the marble walls and hammed a chanty of the sea te himself. Pat has been arrested 27 times since the first of the year’ That's why Pat Crowe, 54, connoisseur of liquor, says the city jail is his home. Father Slain, Fails to See New-Born Son | HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 17.—Mrs. | Joseph Snow, a Mother of four days, | today wondered why her husband did ndt come to see hin newly-born son. anow, sheriff of Brazoria county, wan killed while attempting to arrest Oxcar Beasley, a negro, on a charge! of theft Physicians decided the mother’s cqndition was too critical to | tiveness—perhaps both. And I smiled! is mounting, for the yellow tubers | tell her of her husband's death to myself. in wonder when I felt an impulse to confide in this stranger ‘i tell you.” “Do you want the dime back In advance?” said he. I handed him 4 dollar. “The dime,” #aid I, “was the price of listening to your story.” said he. “Go on.” And then, incredible as it may seem to the lovers in the world who confide their sorrows only to the night wind and the gibbous m laid bare my secret to that wr all things that you would have sup- posed to be in sympathy with love. I told him of the days and weeks and mohths that I had spent in adoring Mildred Telfair. I spoke of my despair, my grievous days and wakeful nights, my dwindling hopes and distress of mind. I even pic tured to this night-prowler her Beauty and dignity, the great sway she had in society, and the magnifi conce of her life as the elder daugh ter of af ancient race whose pride overbalanced the dollars of the city's polliionaives “Why don't you cop the lady out?” asked Mack, bringing me down to earth and dialect again I explained to him that my worth was so small, my income #0 minute, anc my fears so large that I hadn't the courage to speak to her of my worship. 1 told him that tn her presence I could only blush and stammer, and that she looked upon me with a wonderful, maddening smile of amusement “She kind of moves in the profes-|use it when some weak sister like|direct action.” gional class, don't she?” asked Mack. (Turn to Page 11, Column 2) ba getting cheaper right along. Friday they are quoted: on the wholesale market at 5% to 6% cents @ pound so very long ago they were selling at 10 and 11 Beasley was taken from authorities lat the Angleton jail and hanged in | the cdurthouse square by a mob of 400. He confessed to killing Snow| just before the noose tightened. SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1920. 1,000 REW For Kidnaped Tacoma Baby| ORDERED —y 5 Stagg took his wife a box of can dy. While she waa in another room, giving some to her grandmother, Stagg is alleged to have selzed the baby and to ‘haye run out to a wait- ing automobile. r. Mra. Stagg and her mother say there was another woman in the ma- chine with Stagg. Since then, nothing has been heard from the missing pair or the baby. Stagg was a reporter on the Seat tle Star a year ago. He wag also a reporter on the Tacoma Tithes, where he met the girl who later be- came his wife. She wan also doing newspaper work at that time RETURNS STOLEN MONEY TO WIFE She Gets Shoe Box Contain- ing $10,000 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17.—Mrs. Charies Hayes, wife of Charles Hayes, chauffeur for the Angio and London-Parin bank, who disappeared September §, simultaneously with $59,000 of the bank funds, today re- ceived a shoe box containing $10,000 in currency from an Eastern city. It came via parcel post, Mrs. Hayes notified the police, who refused to reveal the city from which the package came. Businew cards, stamped and certi- fied for small sums, have been cir lating as money in Papeete, Tabi Baldness Due to Haircuts, Says Barber Tonsorialist Avers U..S. Will Be Hairless Un- less Practice Stops “Why Men Grow Bald.” It might well be a comedy in three parta, but {t's a serious matter. The entire male population of the United States is steering toward baldness. ‘That in, if men continue to cut their cowboy and the miner wear a hat 14 to 16 hours a day, he asks. But o baldheaded outdoor man was seldom seen. He kept his hair because he had it cut only once every three or four montha. No, it's the continual weekly Or biweekly .trim that makes men bald, he says, Cutting the hair opens a wound at the end of the hair, and nourishment is drawn from the fatty cushion on top of the head to heal the wound. This impoverishes the ahead covering, makes it grow thni and weak, forcing the hair to fall out, ‘Then « man's up agvinst it. Ne ture put the hair on top of his head that a regulated degree of heat might be maintained there. With no cover ing, the arteries on the upper regions ‘Aare exposed to the sun, cold and wet, and & man never enjoys the aame health) with which he was blessed before his hair departed, But it's no use, says Hatfield. Men are more slaves to fashion than ‘women, even, and as long as fashion decrees the close haircut men will continue to ‘grow! bald and less | healthful. Back to the days of the | powderedq ueue and good health, he advises. British scientists are experiment- ing on the manufacture of paper from (The Wobbly, the Weak Sister, and “Right on the point of the jaw,”) By FRED L. BOALT | TVE MEN sat at an oblong table in New York city. were dominated by one. Four of them But one of | the four did not like the business in |hand, and said so. | “It is letep! *@ 8 8 }but to kill!” | He turned to the dominant one. | This man was unlike his companions Jat the table. They had the ance of being factory workers. fleshed and flabby muscled dominant one bad a red, leathery | face, as if he had spent his life out of-doors, and high, cheekbones. His |hands were big, bony and capable }looking. He had céld blue eyes. He wore mackinaw coat, a blue flannel |whirt open at the throat, and calk he four looked to him. His jd not be m, 1) easary—th lw Direct action; extreme yew appear soft boots. |lips moved and they lIieve their ears. He said “Meouw!” in imitation of a cat. “You don’t know what that means, do you? It means you make me wick. Out West, where I came from, they call me a wobbly. And that's the eateall of the wobblies, and we the comrade Meouw! here gets cold feet, The | IRECT ACTION; kill!" he mimicked. yee—but 40 his thin Nps yellow teeth and his lean cheeks taking on an even deeper | hue of red “Listen! I'm tellin’ you something. | 1 don't care what. you call yourselves anarchists, nihilists, eommunistas, syndicalist®, bolwheviks. What do all jyour fine theories about direct action | jamount to if you don't act? curling over against the master class” Establish a | court enjoins yourand police club and shoot | rT A woldiers and you, “Old stuff! Let me tell you how |we do it out West, The highbrows ‘ll, us seasonal workers, , We call stiffs Who cut) and make the lum. do. Who build the rail roads and bridges? Who ‘harvest |the wheat? Who pick the hops and | |beries? All the way from the Grande to Saskatchewan? ' We “Who's exploiting us? Farmers | We get the grain afire, A.railroad? We wreck a train. The lumber mill | operators? We burn the miiis. ‘That's jourselves blanket down the ber? We trees He spoke. in a dead monotone of| immense earnestness. tures relaxed in a good-natured grin. “One time we wax pickin’ cherries in Oregon. The pay was rotten and the bunks crummy. So every time we picked a cherry we nicked it with a thumb-nail, The farmers never got wise, Every cherry rotted before it. reached market. Direct action!” ° 667] KNOW,” said the man who had objected, “that the has made better progress in the West than here. We have been slow. I do not question the wisdom of your advice or the necessity of the step we are about to take. But to kill and maim so many in such & wholesale fashion when we desire to kill but one seems—seems He halted, wearching his mind for words. “I suppose I'm orthodox he ended, lamely. “I do not like the thought of killing.” “Neither did 1, at first,” said the ‘obbly, with great good nature But here's something you got to re member. The master class are hu man, like us. You puneh a king on the nose, and the nose will bleed. You step on # multi-millionaire's corn, and he will say ‘Ouch! That the way they hurt us—physically. moyement them. “Your economic troubles originate in Wall st., you say, The big gun |in Wall at, is Morgan. All right. | Morgan! The proletariat will never rule unless you d eee | JN THE center of the table stood @ small packing case, on which was stenciled ‘Glass, Fragile. |Handie with care.” ‘The wobbly picked {t up and bal j anced it carelessly on a palm, The four stirred uneasily “Now, then,” he said, “get this. | It'@ now 10 o'clock Plenty of time |to get there by noon, 1 déal one jeard round.” | He drew a pack of playing cards from a pocket of the mackinaw, “Ace it low. Low man wins." “| “Wins? asked the man who suf. fered from orthodoxy. “af “You said it, brother, Wins! Low man gets to the house of Morgan at 2 minutes past 12, just. I couldn't get an auto. It'll have to be a horse and covered wagon. “And It?" said the orthodox one, | pointing with an unsteady finger at |the box the wobbly was holding. “You tell him, comrade,” said the wobbly to a fat, greasy, bearded man Then his fea-| And that's the way we got to hurt|who had not spoken The Seattle Star 1999, at the Postefiles at Seattia, Wash, under the Act of Congress Merch 8, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 ROUNDUP OF REDS TO BEGIN Death List in New York Hor- ror Is Now Increased to : i i | | £ i i 3tF it i a il fi “Instead of repeating thelr former tactica, they just made bigger bomba. Yesterday's explosion undoubtediy was caused by 300 or 400 pounds of TNT. The object of the perpetrators plainly was to utterly raze the offices of J. P. Morgan and the subtreasury. The only reason the bombs gvere not carried into those buildings was that they were #0 large it could not have been done without detection.” William J, Flynn,, chief of the fed eral secret service, who directed the questioning of scores of witnesser, conferred with about 30 of his oper- agives today. Many of these, who included sev- era] women, arrived during the night from Washington and other cities, GENERAL ROUNDUP OF REDS TO COME Plans were made for & general roundup of known “reds.” This, it was said, would be extended to other cities. ss One clue, upon which the police were working, was furnished by steel shoes taken from the horse which is believed to have drawn the’ wagon containing the bombs. The shoes, it, was said, bore the mark of the shop in which the horsd was last shod. The exact number of dead was still in doubt today. There were 27 bodies at the city morgue. Five more victims died during the night. Police were preparing a revised | list of dead. Injured totaled more than 200, of whom a number were ‘expected to die? Some of the most famous detec-| tives in the country were working | on the case today, including William Flynn of the department of justice; | Ww Burns and Inspector the bomb ex of the the Pack 7 66] MADE it myself,” said the bearded man, proudly. ‘From an alarm clock. Give it tome, * * * See, here in the top is a wire. The mechanism i not now working. When the one who is chosen reaches the house. of Morgan, he will halt, get down from the wagon and walk slowly away, He must not seem to hurry. But first, he must pull the wire, That will set the mechanism in motion.’ Three minutes later the T. N. T. will explode. Pouff!" “You get it, don’t you?" the wob- bly broke in. “We know Morgas leaves the bank at 6, minutes after 12, sharp. ‘The one who is chosen reaches the bank at 2 minutes after 12, We know Morgan always halts for a few seconds at the entrance for | a word with the porter. There will be no danger for the one who pull the trick, Three minutes is plenty of time to get out of range. Are, you ready?” The wobbly dealt five cards, face! up. One was an ace. “You win,” he said to the man who suffered from orthodoxy. < His face blanched and his eye! grew Wide with terror. The “winner” | picked up/the box and left the room! | Later the bearded man and the wobbly were alone together. “You aren't as slick with the papes * INSANITY SUSPECT IS ARRESTED IN ONTARI Ey Weather {fk TH LATE -EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE “WHAT WE EXPECTED HAS HAPPENED,” IS FLYNN’S STATEMENT WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.-- When William J. Flynn, of the department of justice, received word of the New York explosion he ® «aid to have " “What we expected has hap- pened.” The military intelligence, it was understood, had intima tions that an outbreak of some wort might be -expected along with radical demonstrations in European countries, These inti- mations have been communicated to the department of justice. U.S, OFFICIALS PROBE TRAGED was the result of a bomb piot. This conviction, it was learned, was based on the character of the explosion and on evidence and frag- mentary. warnings coming to offi- such have been an accident haye been here and officiais today had jen these steps to hunt out the perpetrators of the disaster and ments were lending aid to meeret service’ had its detectives ‘The military intelligence ig following and the de- parienne ag culture bas as- signed its ¢: expert to the work of finding thé Tehagacter of the blast. So far as known the man ques- tioned here, a waiter, is the first to be taken In the radical hunt. He was haid to have told detectives, “I know all about the New York explosion. Tho treasury will be next to go.” Federat officials did not consider there was sufficient evidence to hold the man, but he is being carefully watched. A small quantity of explosives would have been sufficient to pro cuce many deaths in*narrow Wall st. Dr. Charles E. Munroe, interior department expert, pointed out here today. eee police department. + There were numerous clues today. The shoes of the horse which was blown to pleces by the explosion were being used in an effort to lo cate the stable where it was kept This horse was supposed to have drawn & wagon containing the ex- plosives. Iron slugs made of win- dow weights which killed and mangled many people, and a few sections of the explosion container Itself were ‘in possession of the po lice. Investigators believed today .the infernal machine was loaded with T. N. T., as witnesses described a cloud of smoke and said they no- ticed the peculiar odor of T. N. T. immediately after the blast. Many victims were burned and their flesh stained. Chief Flynn, of the justice depart: ment investigators, declared he had positive information that the explo- sion was caused by a time bomb, and that the driver of the bomb wagon was seen four blocks from the scene at the time of the disaster ing Case as you used to be,” said the bearded man, "I saw it come from the bot- tom. 1 wonder the others didn’t.” “I'm out of practice,” the wobbly confessed. “I picked him because he's a' weak sister, and we can spare him if he’s out of luck.” “That,” said the bearded man, “was poor judgment, comrade. Such men are bothered with consciences, and, when hard pressed, confess to the police, But Karl will not con fess.” He chuckled, “0?” inquired the wobbly. “I was slightly inaccurate when I described the bomb's mechanism and the time of Morgan's departure from the bank. He quits the bank at ex | actly two minutes past 12, The bomb will explode the instant Kart pulls the wire. He and Morgan will go to- gether.” Thoy sat and listened. The beard ed man's forehead was covered with sweat. The man from the West roll- ed and smoked brown-paper cigarets. The city rocked! The bomb killed Karl. It also killed 30 or “so others — small-salaried clerks, for the most part—"capital- istic slaves,” the wobbly called, them But it did not kill Morgan, for the simple reason that he did not leave the bank at two minutes past 12. Morgan happens to be in Europe, Edward P. Fischer Is Plac Under Arrest by Police in Hamilton, Ont. :,, of Hamilton buliding. Pope, in a statement thorities, sald Fischer's dition was not normal and for ume financtal district of New York ing them of what to! The Hamilton lunacy Drs. McGillivray and visited the prisoner in § room and examined him. The officers who took Fischer custody said his conversation SAYS HE WAS PARTNER i Fischer, they said, declared he. once was a sparring partner foe Pope supplied the police with, story of Fischer's activities duri the last three weeks. He had subject to spells of mental sion, Pope said, and his N feared he was on the verge of nervous breakdown, They sought: persuadé him to go to the woods for a rest but he refused. Pope aseePted Fischer did not fm contact with anarchists, and did not believe it possible he met s Rersons who would have had k edge of the bomb plot. He then. vanced the theory of mental path c Pe Fischer and Pope arrived in ilton from Niagara Falls this ling. They breakfasted at the naught hotel, Fischer may be deported to United States on the grounds having made a false statement om his immigration slip when he ¢ tered Canada, provided there is . being of unsound mind. * eee NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—1 tion of the explosion in Wall st. terday which cost 33 lives and it jured 200 today centered on French high commission in York. a Attention was directed to Fischer because of warnings he gave hig friends to keep out of Wall st om September 15. CARETAKER GETS FISHER WARNING New York tennis club, declared today Fischer warned him two weeks ago Wail st. would be blown up “on the 16th.” Delahunty said Fischer ha@ previously made revolutionary utter ances. He said Fischer was a star tennis player, a Maurice Casenave, the French higtt commissioner, said the comm! had been warned, in a letter from @ former employe, that there would be danger in Wall st. about the 15th, George F, Ketchledge, a broker an ‘old friend of Fischer, said he rés ceived a postal card from two days ago, mailed at Torente, Canada, which warned ‘him to “ out of Wall st. as soon as the strikes at 3 o'clock Wednesday,” Inspector Lahey said he had informed Fischer had had m tion in Toronto, ~ VIOLENT TALK DRAWS ATTENTION A man who registered as B. | Fischer at Queens hotel in substantiation of the charge of € P. Fischer, former employe of the | Thomas Delahunty, caretaker of @- trouble and had been under observa |