The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 22, 1920, Page 1

{iit ~ VOLUME 23. Fetersestreo FT The Lady Higher Up ) (opyrignt, 1990, by P cate, Inc.) ‘@erted; and that accounted, for the sounds carrying 90 few York city, they said, was de EM Weather Tonight and Thursday, oc- casional rain; strong southerly winds Tomperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 58, Minimum, 50. Today noon, 53. a Da Wheeler doubtless, far in the | jail summer air. ‘The breeze was neouthwest; the ht; the theme was Three hundred and pointed her vacil! t, for the time, f itened into tailor's ‘The lights of the great Gar. were out; the benches in the i were filled with sleepers in tures so strange that beside them ood writhing figures in Rore's tilus- of the Inferno would have! hour was) n a bit of) ine gossip by wireless mythol- sixty-five above the heated asphalt the symbolic deity on Manhat- ting arrow a. The lights of the er = BARRETT IS the direc: dummies. The statue of Diana on the tower of the Garden—its constancy weathercock ways, its shown by innocence the coating of gold that it has ired, its devotion to style by its | fresh to SAID TO BE FILM ACTOR Agle, graceful flying scarf, its can-| and artiessness by its habit of; drawing the long bow, its met- nism by its posture of swift) to catch a Harlem train—re-| Poised with its arrow pointed the upper bay. Had that ar-} sped truly and horizontally it have passed 60 feet of above the the heroic matron whose it is to offer a cast-ironical wel-| to the oppressed of other lands. this lady gazed, and the/| weeks ago, and who was believed by | between steamship lines be ‘& mere iluminator, must be con-| deserted her after their baby was the shadows of |S. N. it ite still, midnight air. " “Ig that you, Miss Diana? Excuse| doned her in Paris, disappearing and | not turning my head. I’m not/| leaving his wife bereft of funds, and| | AH. “Liberty Lighting fas her creator christened ‘would have had a no more re duty, except for the size of admitted being that of an electrician or a Of magnate. But to “en- A, B, C's. ‘there, Mrs. Liberty? called a/ sensational elopement of Miss Alice follicking soprano voice thru Gordon Drexel, daughter of John R. | after being a|ing nothing from the case, became | « . the bell tke tones of the golden like to know where you that ee Hall brogue. that Liberty was necessarily | if ye’d studied the history of art. its foreign complic@tions ye'd not | replied the offshore to ask,” I didn’t ue. “If ye wasn't so light-headed American people on of welcomin’ Irish wince I was erected. . , Miss Diana, that statues the same giddy ye'd know that I was by a Dago and presented to; behalf of French government for the pur-| immigrants | the Dutch city of New York. j that I've been doing night and Ye must ‘tis with with people— ‘tis not their makers nor the pur- for which they were created influence the operations of their at all—it’s the associations th which they become associated, telling y noticed it on myself. “fivecent fare.” “I'm right glad "maid Mrs. Liberty. life I haye down here. thing doin’ up in the city, Miss| na, dear?” he that’ ‘la, la, Ja,’ erty? Got that from ‘Paris hear that ‘la, la, la,’ McCann now, along with BY E. P. day of the “poor, ti T ness man is’ past I used to feel sorry for his own fault. ness show and in hibited there, oe Guaranteed to stamp, may be forced to } “You're dead right,” agreed Diana. “1 the old guys from Olympus were to @ome along and hand me any hot) ‘gir in the ancient Greek I couldn't tell it from a conversation between 'g Coney Island car conductor and a ' vegister 250 envelopes a minute. great boon to lovelorn couples who) with a steel pen resort to corre-}ard Roe, $246.22," If any of ye've made up| ir mind to be sociable, Miss Di-/ “ "Tis alone.|throbbed fn the Lost and Is there “Oh, la la, lat—no,” said Diana, Aunt Lib- by Night’ @@ the root garden under me. You'll at the Cafe| ‘garsong.’ Bohemian crowd there have be- come tired of ‘garsong’ since O’Raf- ferty, the head waiter, punched three| of them for calling him It. the town’s strictly on the bum these (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) Oh, no; CRAFT red” bust- him, but t was before I saw the Seattle iness show down in the Nowadays, if the¥autocrat of the office is tired when the street lamps lows the chief to call a conference| K. Richard Roe account $ are turned on in the afternoon it is Arena. KEithe mallometer, for instance. | seal and A \Mrs. William Sp Spreckels Ac- cuses Man Who Eloped With Drexel Girl los ANGELES, Sept. 22.—Dep- uty sheriffs and priva:’ detectives today were searching for a motion picture actor who came here a f them to be William Barrett, wanted for the alleged theft of $125,000 in| Jewels from Mrs. William Spreckles. The jew theft was reported in dis patches from London. The man, who was said to have Captain William Barrett, disappeared from his apart ments here late last night, police said. William Barrett eloped in 19: with Miss Kathleen Baillie, daughter of Alexander Baillie, of Seattic, He} born. He disappeared, and Mrs. Bar- Last year Barrett figured tn tho! | Drexel, of Philadelphia. He aban.) The jewel theft charge was not) made known at the time Barrett left | | the former Miss Drexel in Paris. It) is believed here that tt, hear. bold im the belief that the Drexels/ would settle with Mra. Spreckels out of court and “hush it up.” ‘The actor, who is supposed to be Barrett, has been living in luxurious fashion at a Hollywood hotel. He wan identified by Seattle and Pért- land acquaintances, to whom he is said to have admitted his identity. 2—__—_____--_____- WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE Water will be shut off on | Jiinth ave. W., between W. Lee | st. and W. Howe st., and on W. | Howe st., between Seventh ave. | | W. and Tenth ave. W., and on W. Galer ast, ave. W. and Ninth ave, W., lAnother “Bluebeard” | Wife Asks Divorce LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22.— Mre. | Elizabeth Williamson, one of the numerous women married by “Blue beard” James Watson, has filed suit for annulment from Watson, who in now serving @ life sentence in San j Quentin 5 prigon. NOTHING BUT ian THE SMELL! beat fast and pulses Found department of the municipal rail: | way Wednesday when a two-gallon Jean containing pure grain alcohol was brought in by a conductor. Alas! the can contained nothing but the smell! |G. D’Annunzio Is Self-Named Premier | ROME, Sept Dispatches from | Fiume today said Gabriele d'Annun.- | zio had nated himself premier of the “state of Quarnero,” which in cludes Fiume. | spondence thru the exigencies of sep- | aration, ‘Then there Is the automatic book- keeping machine, and a billing ma-| chine, and half a dozen other me-| |chanical business college graduates, An interoffice telephone system al of his subordinates without any man | lleaving his office, All sit in on the! the same room, Richard Roe walks into the Inter- national bank and presents a check |to be cash “Certainly, Mr. Roe,” says cashier, ‘just a moment, please | He writes on a little electric plate , “Account Rich- the | paeacige ost fire On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Second Class Matter M It's O The Star office. jay 3, @ The unknown horseman, riding| moun ot the river, indicated the © madly for The Star office, has} * stopped to prospect in Fun Moun- tain. Perhaps you can recognize him by this time. | then again perhaps you can’t. Nobody had up to press time, | altho over 100 guesses had been received from people who are | after that $10 bill which waits for the first identification at) Don't be a quitter. Besides—what, we ask| again, what tidings does he bring? 22, 1920. HARD GALE HITS SOUTH COAST LINE Hurricane Sweeps Up Be-| tween New Orleans and | Mobile; Wires Down NEW ORLEANS, La. Sept. 22.— Transportation and communication lines along the Louisiana and) Missiasippl coasts were tied up to- day following a windstorm which struck at midnight and swept in- land bebween New Or'sans and The wind reached a velocity of 48 miles an hour, Wires were down in all directions from New Orleans, Jand it was impossible to obtain ao {eurate information regarding dam- | Mobile. | | j At the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER age and casualties, | Was reported. | Louisville & Nashville railroad of: | | ficlals reported considerable dam- today. ‘The wind cane miles was report@l and ing at Mobile | ing a repetition of the 1915 wt which wrought great dam- age here, crowds of people residing lin the outlying districts flocked to | and business section of New Orleans and sought shelter. Acting on in- | bureau, police notified all residents lot the Lake Ponchastrain region to |come here, Street cars and other conveniences coming into the city were crowded to capacity. Many street car lines were tied up by power troubles, adding to the confusion. Reports from Burrwood, at the) storm” had spent itself. had dropped from 48 miles to 12 miles and the barometer was rising. TEXANS FLEE FROM STORM |DANGER ZONE GALVESTON, Texas, Sept And} 22.— AIM BLOW AT ‘FIRE TRAPS” Aimed at the elimination of “fire. traps” in Seattle, the redrafted building code was before the public safety committee Wednesday for consideration The proposed amenaments in the code would give greater power to the superintendent of buildings in the alteration of buildings that are hazards. DELAY DECISION Final decision on the price of milk | to the consumer was to be reached at a conference Wednesday night of milk retailers, when the request of the producers for an increase of 50 cents a hundred pounds of milk was to be considered, If the increase is granted by the dealers, the price to the consumer will be raised from 15 to 16 cents a quart, it is announced by the Deal ers’ association. P STAIRS, the bookkeeping department, another pencil traces the question on a roll of pa per. No chance for error over the phone. The question appears the in the cashier's own And the bookkeeper writes back, “O. 0.38." It is all done in a few seconds and the cashier knows the account will cover in He should have visited the Bust-! conversation, just as if they were in| the check. led some of the automatic labor-saving devices ex eee around a booth on hand side as you go in, “This brush"—the demonstrator pointed to an array of samples— “will clean your typewriter, adding machine, shoes, cut glass, harness the Jand rain coat.” TO CONFER ON CONSOLIDATION Counsel Meler and Vivian senting the Real Estate Association |ing an all night exo were scheduled to confer afternoon tH tion of city and county | Corporation of Seattle, Wedn posed | the consoli¢ | sovernments * “Doggone! 01 | ror. goodness!" ble downpourt 1 Interesting, if true, why the great throng? And then I saw a sign, and under- aleohol is in“the han- stood. “The | dle," it said, handwriting. | HOSE shoes Tr y lor ging tho Everything in matic except the information bureau. talking to one of the | Show? ewriter yadn't the heart to intrude He was ov Noiseless ty Here’s a Good Story If It Keeps Raining Doggone!” The entire staff of The Star, from the editor-in-chief to the stuck their heads out of the window at 11:30 a, m. We d loud wails of anguish ven the tough police reporter, ac customed to deeds of bloodshed and | and agony, could not restrain his hor wagon neeeutd And the telephone girl ori¢ For it had started to rain, and the | hopes of @ SeattleSacramento dou ader went glimmering and The Texas gulf coast today for the tropical s¥®rm, report ed sweeping this ay, to strike. The forerunner of the storm was | believed indicated in reports to rail-| roads here of washouts and prop: erty damage early today in Louls- jana. Final preparations for the storm were completed early today follow: 8 of residents of the “danger zone.” Shipping was | believed safely in harbors and warn- ings had reached all points along the gulf. Latest reports here indicated the storm was veering eastward and might skip this section. FIND CAR TOKEN IS COUNTERFEIT Beware, the counterfeit street car token! The spurious hunk of carfare made its first appearance in Seat- tle Wednesday ‘The counterfeit was made from a battered penny, a triangle being punched crudely thru the center of the piece. A regular token had been used as a die, the inscription on the counterfelt reading with re- verse “English.” Walter F. Carkeek, repre: on the pro providing for copy boy, nesday and emit eoernony in the I thought, but) 44, 7Y DEAR,” a lady said to her husband as they listened to the Magnavox throw the human votce the full length of the room, “I want one of those to call Harold gentlemen with the shiny | for school in the mornings.” smooth charge of the booths are brave men. you square in the eye, No direct gaze. be h as glance that w CROWD was packed tight| you with a level look. right|have one of our pamphlets? and see us at No. voices in| sae ‘O—no longer will hubby be able If you s0|** to pull the old alfbi about going they pin|to the “club” for a litte rest after “Won't you| supper, For wifle will say, “John, Call |if you are so tired, why don’t you | get one of those self-starting, adding. | calculating-bookkeeping machines that I saw down at the Business on 13 23rd st.” the show is auto- and I And hubby will have no come-back | to that, girls | structions from the locad weather | The wind | as waiting | {| The Seaitle Star Per Year, by Mall, $5 to 69 sense of justice” we print his letter, and suspicion. POLISH TROOPS (DAVIS GUILTY, R. BRONSON EXPLAINS! Ira Bronson, law partner of H. B. Jones, son of U. S. Senator Jones, explains how young Jones acquired stock in the largest Jap bank in Seattle. Ira cay if we have the courage or ublish his letter, but de- spite his doubts, he" “hopes” we have. Far be it from us to dash Ira’s hopes, he being, as he claims, the estimable gentleman who induced the senator’s son to acquire Jap bank stock. So senator’s son and a senator as well, ought to be, or ought not to be, like Caesar's’ wife, above On page 6, let you judge whether a NOW IN RUSSIA) SECOND DEGRE New Break “With Lithuania Convicted Murderer Shows| w: Is Reported LONDON, Sept. 22.—Unconfirmed | One man was known aead here! prens dispatches today reported the land considerable property damage | pojish.Lithuanian peace conference had broken up and Polish delegates | naa returned to Warsaw. Resump- |age to thelr lines cast of meets | tion of hostilities was said to be Im- milhent. There was no otrtotal, aah stantiation, cee WARSAW, Sept. 22.—Polish troops have passed over the boun- | dary line in Galicia, according to the communique issued today. The statement said the Polirh | forces oceupiéd Revno, several miles beyond the line of demarcation. eee LONDON, Sept. 22.—A_ Moscow wireless today reported the Poles had started a vigorous offensive in the Grodno region and that stubborn fighting was in progress. The London Times said today the Russians had been driven out of Ga- licia, The Poles were far beyond the | boundary line, it said. It was reported here the Russians | had evacuated Dara SAYS RUSSIA WANTS PEACE RIGA, Sept. Russia wants complete peace, Adolph Joffe, head of the soviet commission, told the | Polish delegation at the opening of | their conference here. “Russia wants a peace without victory,” Joffe said. He said it was hoped a direct peace could be negotiated with Po land and that @ separate agreement could be reached with the allies. John Dombski, head of the Polish delegation, declared Poland was tired of warfare and greatly de sired peace. Pullman Company Is Not Bankrupt CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—The total revenue of the Pullman company for the fiseal year ending July 31 was $14,519,777.26, according to the annu- al report of the company, made pub- lic yesterday, After all expenses were pald and $9,599,800 dividends distributed, the | sum of $3,313,709.11 was left to go into. the surplus fund, the report shows, ILL SELL EAR FOR $10, 000 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 may take an “eye for an ¢ wat $10,000 will buy an ear. Shepard B. Baker of San Fran- cisco at any rate has offered to sell his left ear for that amount, and guarantees delivery in good condition—no cauliflower, or any- thing like that included. He had made the offer to Frank 8. Quesana, now in New York, son of a Cuban planter, who lost his own left ear in an accident, and who was reported to be in the market for a new one, CALL MAIN 600 When you have something that has outlived its usefulness to you. A small want ad will likely reach the party who can use it, and you will have the price of something you desire. TRY IT TODAY The Star as your You are as close to Want Ad Department phone is to you. No Trace of Emotion G@harles Davis was found guilty of second degree murder by a jury which reported to Judge Boyd Tall- man Wednesday morning, after an all-night session. Davis was charged with killing Peter Angie, June 18, following a ‘down ‘The jury, composed of six men and six women, retired to deliberate late Tuesday, after a trial which lasted only two days The verdict was reached at 1:30 a, m. Wednesday, Davis accepted the verdict without a tremor. His face showed not one trace of emotion. No appeal will be taken. Judge Tallman will pronounce sentence Saturday. Second degree murder provides for a sentence of 10 years to life. DEAD MAN'S SON WEEPS ON STAND Gustaf Angle, 12-year-old son of the deceased, was the state's last witness Tuesday afternoon. He told to the Davis place and the ingidents leading up to the shooting. Prosecutor John Carmody attempt- ed by the boy's testimony to show that neither Angle nor Routley had touched Davis and that neither had thrown rocks at him. “Did you see your father strike Davis?” questioned Carmody. “I did not.” Upon crossexamination the lad gave way to his emotions and wept | bitterly thru the gruelling question- ing of Attorney Thomas D. Page. Page declared later in the day that the boy had been coached and showed by testimony of police officers who were present on the night of the shooting that the boy had declared he saw his father and Routley with rocks. | ACCUSED MAN TELLS | DETAILS OF TRAGEDY Davis, during the time he was on the stand, told quitly—at times his voice could hardly be heard, go quiet- ly he spoke—the details of the trag- edy. He declared the motive for the | visit which ended in the tragedy was unknown to him, “For no apparent reason,” he tes- tified, “they attacked me over the fence, tearing my shirt and gouging me in the eye. I ran into the house and grabbed my gun for protection,” “Why didn’t you remain in the house?” questioned Prosecutor Car- mody. “Because I thought I would have more chance outside,” responded Davis, Davis declared he backed away from both Angle and Routley, who were pressing him, each with a rock. The shooting, he continued, hap- pened quickly. “Angle grabbed the barrel of the gun and it went off—I guess I must have pulled the trigger.” Prosecutor John Carmody spoke only 15 minutes in his dress to the Jury, declaring that | Davis on his own testimony had ad-| mitted killing Angle, and that the was whether or not there was pre- meditation in the killing. insisted there was. lapse of time between the first mo- house with the shot-gun and then returned for a shell showed clearly that the defendant meant to kill someone. Attorney Page dwelt on self-de- fense thruout his address, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES of the Federation of Women’s Clubs at the clubhouse, of following his father and Routley | ;, closing ad- | only question for the jury to decide | Carmody | He declared the | ment when Davis came out of his| will meet tomorrow at 10:30 a. m./ TH EW S| ED ITION ‘CONVICTED MURDERER IS SOUGHT BY GUARD Trial; Must Go to Pen or Appeal to U. S. Court { William Gottstein, convicted in ste perior court on October 13, 1918, of murdering John Murray, was being — sought today by a Washington state prison guard for transportation to that institution to start a 10-year — | sentence. | Gottstein ts at liberty on $1! | cash bail. Deputy sheriffs were un able to locate him Wednesday, The spectacular case started. King county superior court early October when Gottstein was i y , Suilty of murder in the first degree, His case was appealed and the court granted him a new trial. the second superior case he found guilty of murder in the degree and the case was taken to. supreme court, where the decision the last court was confirmed. A motion for a new trial was then carried to this body and the remittl- pl rata gos down to the clerk of the 't Wednesday. gg oe wil) now have to go alla Walla unless his at appeal to the supreme court of United States, which is thought to unlikely. Li’l “Bossy,” Likkered U; ‘Leads the V DENVER, Colo. Sept, drunken cow, reeling along the road near here, and looked with a glazed eye Sheriff E. A. Gormley. The sher- iff recognized the symptoms, Pood grasped out of his car and cow's halter. The cow led the way across Jt Connor's farm to a hay stack the sheriff found a large of hay saturated with whisky, from a broken two-gallon jug. j Further investigation showed @ complete distilling outfit and 10° gallons of liquor. Connor is under arrest today. The cow was SHOOS THIEF FROM PORCH! Scared of burglars? Not Charles D. Lomen, 3232 37th ave. N. When |a prowler made footmarks on Lo |men's front porch Tuesday night Lomen ran out and shooed him away. The bold crook fled in haste |and neither cop nor constable has caught sight of him since. Charred Letter Here From Air Mail Fire Gingerly carrying the charred re. mains, the postman climbed the steps and paused at the front. door, The lady of the house appeared in. answer to his ring. “Pretty badly burnt, ma’am,” sald the postman, “but we did the best we could.” smiled the read about Be “Oh, that's all right,” lady of the house, “I some Seattle mail being burned in. the airplane accident at Cleveland, and really didn't expect to get the letter at all.” He’s an Easy Bird to Find, Because— Well, Here’s Why: Dusty, disgusted and_ tired, Motorcycle Patrolman F, H. Stoddard threw his worn gaunt: lets on the desk, and vowed, as he threw himself into the chair: “I'll_get him yet.” He drew a grimy, finget-mark- ed warrant from an inside pocket and spread it out on the desk. It was for Herbert Taylor. It charged him with speeding 87 miles an hour. Said Stoddard: “On June 18, I caught him on Eastlake ave. gaveshim a slip and told him to go down to the station and be booked. He must be lost on the way, because he hasn't showed up yet. Well, I get him one of these days and put him on the right track.” Detective Joe Smith, auto thief sleuth, picked up» the warrant and smiled at Stoddard, “That guy is about the easiest man in the state to catch,” Smith said. “Don't see how he'd cause you so much trouble. Why, I could catch hi “How's e | “That boy’s in Monroe re formatory for stealing autos,”