The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 18, 1920, Page 4

HELD UP BY YOUTH Lad in Knee Trousers Tries to Stage Bold, Bad Highway Stunt Fired by the spirit of the late la Mented Deadwood Dick, an unidenti fied boy of high school age, clad in Brown knickerbocker trousers, late Friday night held up Miss H. Uter Mark and demanded her cash and _ Waluables. Miss Utermark in her report to the Police first said the boy was armed With a gun and flashlight, but later Said she wasn't so sure about the ‘The holdup was staged just south ‘of the Mount Raker Park club house. Miss Utermark said she did not (@ the boy's commands seriously. finally talked him out of want to be a bold, bad stickup artist, he fied. Police prowlers were dispatched to a for him, lights were flashed, and Motorcycle Policerpan J, J. Kush : the neighborhood. “But the ellow-back dime-novel ‘@mateur desperado had fled back to the fastnesses of the mountains, ‘Mebbe, where he and his trusty band lived forever after! TO FORCE SON TO JUPPORT FATHER nty Starts Suit for Aged Man in Alms House officials were searching for Robert Borg in order ‘serve a summons on him of a civil | brought by King county to com- him to support C. E. Borg, his father, now in the county alms & =< in | =o = (——4 — ~ | T _ AS FORD FALLS Bone Broken When Car Plunges 15 Feet ‘Walter J. Santmyer, school board and superintendent of the @team department of the Puget . Power and Light company, slowly recovering in Seattle hospital Saturday from in- received when his auto plunged the trestle at Sixth ave. S. and st. Friday afternoon. One his collar bones is broken and he badly bruised about the body. Charles H. Moog, steamfitter, of 6819 38th ave. 5. W., who was driv- a was only ‘lightly slltinyer's auto tried to od ging) two autos. A wheel with one of the other cars the Santmyer auto swerved, thru the railing and dropped feet. Name Seattle Men on Anti-Jap Committee WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—World War Veterans yesterday appointed Philip Tindall and Philip Tworoger @f Seattle and J. W. Jones and J. ©. Welsh of Portland as a commit- tee to confer with Secretary Colby @f the department of state on ptt ting into effect as far as possible the anti Japanese resolutions adopted “By the veterans at their Wednesday Session. Voter Registration Is Under Way Again Registraion of voters, discontinued temporarily shortly before the pri Mary election, has been resumed, and Will be continued until October 12. Voters who have registered at any time since January 1, 1920, do not Meed to register in order to partici- pate in the general election on No. Yember 2. This holds good, even if the person registered has failed to M Vote at any election since January 1. Raid Poker Party; Find Cop in Game When police raided a poker party @t 211 First ave. 8. Friday night, a fellow policeman was found holding ‘@ hand in one of the games, He had) ' been sent in as advance agent to get evidence on the players, Sixteen men were arrested. W. & McHale, 35, was accused df running the game. = FLOYD W. PARSONS, business and industrial writer for the Satur. day Evening Post, left Seattle Satur day for a tour of Eastern Washing- ton farming districts. Parsons has been attending the irrigation con- gress her 5h PERLE SCOLES! YOUR MOTHER IS DYING; WANTS YOU To Perle Scoles, 18, of Monse, Okanogan county: Your mother is dying and she wants to see you. Police Here * 4 * $1,0 Seek Stag 00 Reward for Bab g y = e Baby “Bobby” Stagg, kidnaped by his father, George A. Stagg, for whose return the wife's mother has offered $1,000 reward. Seattle police satuMley took up the, The frantic wife rushed to the search for George T. Stagg, former | door just as the car—e closed one— newspaper man, charged with kid-| was speeding down the street. She naping his baby-boy Bobbie from the | home of his divorced wife last Tues day in Tacoma, and for whom 4 $1,- 000 reward has been offered by Mra. H. A, Cunningham, the baby’s grand. mother. ‘When Stagg went to the home of his divorced wife to see the baby, he | ing. to believe that, told the police Stagg was accom panied by & woman. Stagg is described as a tall, blond, handsome young man, with a “soft” tongue. Seattle police are inclined altho he drove to Seattle on the night of the kidnap he either cached the baby in . | took her a box of candy. Mrs. Stagg /a hiding place or else has the child left the room to give her mother apart way acroms the United States of the is from house, where he stepped waiting automobile. : maid the By HENRY WOOD PARIS, Thanks rather ° Sept 4—By Mail)— t submarine tanke—or to subfluvial tanks—rivers which In the past have constituted ‘one of the greatest handicaps to ad- vancing armies will in future wars fighting which Austerlita, no longer be The army» which thinks it place itself in safety by getting be- hind @ wide river and blowing wl the bridges will have some disap | pointing and fatal surprises in store | for it. | These are the declarations of Gen. eral lenne, who as “father of the | French tank” during the war is still | at the head of that service in the| French army. As a matter of fact, had not the| armistice put an end to operations | when it did tn the fall of 1918, and had the French been obliged to carry the campaign into German territory, the Rhine would have been crossed by wubfluvial tanks, and the bridge. heads wrested the Germans with this new form of warfare. HAD PLANNED TO CROSS INE General lenne declares that as/ early as the spring of 1918, when the| campaign plans for that year in-| volved the possibility or necessity of | crossing the Rhine, the French had | already undertaken and solved the problem of subfluvial tanks. | old,” General Estienne declared. the moment of our advance in 191 it was by means of amphibious tanks that we counted.on forcing the passage of the Rhine and capturing the bridgeheads on the other side. Thanks to them we would have been able suddenly to burst into the mid. di¢ of the enemy in the most unex pected fashion and pulverize every thing within range. It is very easy to comprehend the importance of such @ method of attack. “The methods we have studied and perfected will permit of the use of @ very heavy assaulting car, These weigh about twice as much as an equal volume of water. Fitted with caterpillar crawlers like the land tanks they will lend themselves to | surmounting all of the obstacies that may be encountered.in river beds. The material as well as the moral leffect of these subfluvial monsters jon the enemy would be terrible. PRACTICAL N PONTOONS “They are also far more practical than the pontoons which have been used to date, The latter are merely haphazard ways of getting across a \river, are easily spotted by the |enemy and easily shelled. With the subfluvial tank, however, emerging from the water at a point unable to be determined in advance, the {enemy will have no way of replying. Two, 10 and even 20 such assaulting cars issuing suddenly from a river's | bed would be sufficient to break up| any bridgehead or any river defense. |. “The tank, both amphibious and for land use, constitutes the great arm of future wars. We are still ig- She’s “80 or More”; Lost on Streets Sarah Clayton, “80 or more,” is held in the matron’s division of the | city jail. She was picked up at Ninth | ave, N. and Harrison st., Friday, lost. | SPOKANE.—Miss Bernice webb, on her way to the University of Washington, files from Lewiston to Spokane, “But it is expectally the amphibious ik cooperating with airplanes overhead that in the future will open up the passage of rivers and force | fudge in municipal court, on com. can ‘fighting in the open such as the re cent war did not nee.” candy, and at that mo-|by this time. An effort is being to have snatched | made to identify the woman who ac- floor and dashed companied Stags. Mra. Stage ts eald to be on the verge of & nervous breakdown. Underwater Tanks Were Ready to Use as Armistice Came norant of ite full possibilities, but it constitutes the coup de grace for the cavairy and permits of close-up will render again poantble decisive battles like those of STARTS TODAY arr af THE SEATTLE STAR SAYS HARDING Talks to Audience at Front Porch BY RAYMOND CLAPPER MARION, Ohio, Sept. 18.—"Amer- ica first," was the keynote of a speech delivered today by Warren |G, Harding, republican presidential |nomines, to a front porch deloga tion composed of American citizens of foretgn birth, “Let us pray that America shall never, become divided into classes and shall never feel the menace |of a hyphenated citizenship,” he de | clared. Harding warned against America lattempting to meddie in European \affairs and asked “How can we ex | pect American unity; how can we jemcape strife, if we in America at tempt to meddie in the affairn of Hurope and Asia and Africa; if we assume to settic boundaries and at- | tempt to end the rivairies and jeal |ousies of centuries of old world | strife?” The detailed itinerary of Hard jing’s southeastern trip was an- | nounced today. The party, includ- \ing Mra, Harding, will leave Marion | Sunday, September 26, for Balti | more, Speeches also will be made in West Virginia and Kentucky. Charles E. Hughes Attacks the League TRENTON, N. J, Sept. 18.—In a lepecch vigorously attacking the league of nations covenant as it |wtanda, particularly Article 10, Chartes E. Hughes, formerly su preme court justice and candidate for the presidency in 1916, today aig. alized hia entrance into the cam. | Paign for Harding and Coolidge. “Article 10 ts @ mischief maker,” he said, In addreasing the New Je sey republican state convention. “T belongs to the category of alliances to make war and is opposed to American principle, It will serve to make disputes and not to heal them. Article 10 is really the vice of the covenant.” . : This Family Gives Golf Tournament PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 18.—The jelght Diebold brothers of Pennay) vania have tssved @ golf challenge w any eight brothérs in the country, any amount, anywhere, at any tima Recently this family held ite annual tournament, but as only five opponents could be found. three of the brothers were automat feally Giequalified. The family gives the tournament, each meeting opponent from an outside clan. She's the Babe Ruth of Marylebone Court LONDON, Sept. 14 —Norma Clark, 54, whom the police said “had the Gistinction of being the first wo man to be sent to an inebriates’ bome under the act of 149%,” was convicted for the 200th time at Marylebone police ocurt, PANKING BOY COSTS HIM $10 CINCINNATI, Sept. 17.—James D. Hall spanked his 3-yearold nephew, Walter Jeffers, so hard that the plaint of the boy's father, fined the spanker $10 and costa | an| ERICAFIRST |Cox Promises A | Solving Problem of Oriental Land Grab BY HERBERT W. WALKER BAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 18-—Cov, James M. Cox, after charging in speeches here today that the repub- pan senatorial oligarchy protected ho Most shameleny profiteers tn his tory,” outlined five “practical, con- crete and defintte measures,” which, he said, will “reduce the cost of liv. ing and eliminate the profiteer.” Tiis proposals were: ~ 1, Congress should grant the pres. ident a permanent revolving fund, which could be used at any time to purchase a4 much of the sugar crop Os fa necessary to prevent profiteer- ing. 2. A law limiting the period dur ing Which goods may be kept in cold storage. A law requiring that the price at which goods were placed in etorage must be marked upon them, 4A statute requiring that all goods destined for interstate com merce shall be marked with the price at which they left the hands of the producer. 4 5. A lew Hicensing and regulating concerns engaged tn interstate com- merce, #0 aa to prewent unconscion- able profits. Cox then charged that the profit. orn are backing the republican cam- palen fund. Another enthusiastic reception was accorded the governor when he spoke, last night, in the big San Francisco Auditorium, where he was nominated, His audience almost completely filled the ball, and his attacks on the republican faders brought round after round of applause, CHEER HIS PROMISE ON OKIENTAL MENACE ‘The crowd waa on its feet cheer ing, when Cox, after praising Bena tor Johnson, eaid: “The voice of Hiram Johnson may be raised in this campaign in apport of the reactionary candidate, but his heart ts not in the fight, and you know it." A demonstration of approval greet od his pledge of “genuine coopera tion” on the part of the federal gov- ernment with California in excluding Ortental land owners, After quoting the democratic plat form on the subject of Asiatic immi gration, Cox anid “My interpretation of that t# Cull- fornia objects to land owned within her borders by Ortentala, The fun damental principle of the democratic party ts that the states shall exer. cae every right in the determination of their domestic policies which they | may properly exercise within the constitution of the United States, To the United States is reserved the treatymaking power, esmblishing the relations of the nation as a whole wth friendly nationa California should not ask, and, I am sure, dors not ask for any procedure in the Ort DENTIST SAYS COX IS BRAVE SACRAMENTO, Cal, Sept. 18— Governor Cox is a brave man tn the dentist's chair, He took his punishment like « man, according to Dr. C. A. Webber, dentist, whom Cox visited during his stay here, , A front tooth, broken when he was eating @ plum recently, was troubling him. ental settlethent problem which can not be accommodated to the general policy of the government in harmo- niously working out such ag ments as must be made with friendly nations». “At thes same time, if California doen not desire her lands to may expect, in consonance with the oxtablished democratic principles, the genuine co-operation of the national government in the working out of a plan whereby she excludes the Ort ental pettier. There tn nothing eva- sive about this, It constitutes a flat offer of cooperation in any decent settlement of this question.” ITALIANS TAKE come in: | to the possession of Orientals, she | i Se seenreseracomenareaae, HERE’S MORE ABOUT BOMB PROBE HERE’S MORE ABOUT ings taken from Wall st, after the explonion. ‘These sweepings were found on & seow bound for the dumping ground at sea, The New York grand jury will re sume tts investigation of the explo: sion Monday. According to oper. atives from the district attorney's of fice, the jury would like to question Edward P. Five! who warned his friends of an accident to oceur in Wall st, and who is held in Hamil ton, Ont, as insane. There were 33 bodies at the city morgue today, and two more were re ported dead at hospitals, eee FISCHER TAKEN TO ASYLUM BUT MAY BE QUIZZED HAMILTON, Ont, Bept. 18.—E4 ward P, Fischer, of New York, who wrote several letters warning friends of Thursday's bomb explosion in Wall street, was held in jail bere ROME FACTORIES But Are Deserting Those Seized in Genoa eee ROME, Sept. 18—Premier Glo lett!, on resuming his duties today, faced a storm growing out of his de- eiaton to appoint « comminsion to de vise @ new industrial system which would give labor @ voice in manage- ment of industry. The premier’s decision met with outspoken disapproval from employ- era, but there was 4 general dinpos! tion to accept Ue scheme rather than disrupt business by permitting striking workers to go on holding and operating the plants, While the Confederation of Labor enthualasti- cally supported the premier’s plan, nocialints were dissatisfied. The feared a heading off of 4 socialistic scheme of government. The Italian press generally ap- proved the premier’s action. News papers were inclined to avoid discus sion of the control bill, making few suggestions as to the form it should take. Plant selzures spread to Rome, ac cording to reports today. Two small plants were said to have been taken over by workmen. There were nelz- ures at Levare and Legnano also, Reports from Genta said workmen, tiring of confinement in the planta, were deserting in considerable nurn- TONIGHT 8:45—The North’ Park Improvement club will give @ special enter- clubhouse, A vaudeville entertainment and will provide the eve- leasure, Open bouse; all CHICAGO, Sept. 18.—John 6. Oglesby, antiThompeon candidate for the republican nomination for governor, was leading Len Small by about 3,000 votes today in nearly complete unofficial return from Wednesday's state primary. IN AN PLAN HOUST O. HENRY STORY “A DOUBLE-DYED DECEIVER” CLEMMER MUSIC— Liborious Hayptman, Director. Concerts Afternoon and Evening. HAROLD LLOYD In His Brand New Comedy— “GET OUT AN GET UNDER” Speed, laughter, action —and a Ford! An adventurous tale of pistols, som- breros and South American romanée. . today pending deportation to the United States, or commitment to the provincial insane asylum. Despite efforts of his brother-in- law, Robert A. Pope, it was believed American authorities who have ar- rived here will succeed in having Fischer removed to New York ap an undesirable alien, The only charge against Fischer is insanity, preferred by Pope. Pope left for New York last night after a conference with Vincent P- Creighton and William L. Buchanan, of Buffalo, special agents of the de- partment of justice, and Charlies Arlen, representing the William J. | Burns detective agency. |Sabbath Schools to Convene Here A joint Sabbath school convention | jot the Seventh Day Adventist con-| ferences in Montana, Idaho, Wash-| ington, Oregon, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manito. | ba will be held in the Seattle Ad-| SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1928. Is Married 5 Days; Enough Says Fair Ida. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18.—Steps to divorce her fourth husband bring Countess Ida von Clausen once more into the limelight, after an eccentric career of years. After five days of wedded life she has filed suit against Raymond Mayberry, local movie ac tor, whom she married in Reno, she says, “to get rid of him.” Mrs. Mayberry has been four times in insanity courts, and as many times declared competent to handle her large fortune. The Gay after her marriage Mrs. Mayberry wrote Samuel Gompers that she would be giad to accept the nomination for president on the ventist church, September 29 to Oc- tober 3. Three representatives from | the world's headquarters of the de-| |nomination in Washington, D, C.,| Will also be present. | This will be the largest Sabbath | school convention ever held by the) denomination in the Northwest. Many of the local churches will be | epresented, while all of the Sabhath |nchool secretaries in the different conferences are scheduled to attend. ABERDEEN, — Watches worth $5,000 were stolen last week from M G roadside near Wishkah. is that of the United States. | Tolt ¢, alenman, found lying by the | yw, ‘The oldest flag tn use at present|ton is champion of the “Big Six” Farmer-Labor party, which Gompers, by the way, ad no interest in. A month before that she told newspa- per men here that she had foiled @ caveman wooer by “Jiu-Jitsu” meth- Some 10 years ago she was ar- rested for writing threatening letters to Theodore Roosevelt and to Charles, | Strauss. 7 Ball Club to Meet Arlington The Carnation ball club, of Tolt, ij] meet the Arlington club at Sno qualmie Falls Sunday, The game will be called at 3 p. m. Arling- league. thy ed:l ¥. ull NH | Every Move a Surprise tery, sensational feate of daring and in six drama, made miracu- lous by the genius of Houdini. JOE ROBERTS COMEDY WLU Four Days Only THE WORLD'S MASTER WIZARD HOUDI ORCHESTRA Mh I #) " wast : iN UHUiA TAT saan) limi ON THE BANJO NEWS