The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 29, 1920, Page 1

On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Per Year, by Mall, #6 to $9 » *« @ eather Tonight, fair; Thursday, probably rain; moderate southwesterly winds Temperature Last M4 Hours Maximum, 65, Minimum, 51, Today noon, 65. Waah,, under the Ac TH e aed ||| WASH., WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 1920. =U, 5, PROBES BASEBALL =. WOMAN IS HEMARRES "2. TWO MORE INDICTEI ° Two Hobbies hay fur behind that night. He trav | Pp ISONED M THER A R : led & league and then passed 4) at | Jarge chateau which snowed testi: | | re oping ® : \ ! “mony of recent entertainment. | | | sea shone from every window; | \ ) | th greht stone gateway ran K| fs | | | ’ the dust by the vehicles of the | | Ps @ tracery of wheel tracks drawn in ST are Dead Body Found by Police! Now U. of W. Graduate Sues | THREATENS ‘Three leagues farther and David) in Houseboat at Fair- for Divorce; Matrimony “was weary. He rested and slept for! ‘ while bed ot pine boughs at fe renee. i “Snare and Delusion” Entered as Second Clans Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie of Congress March 3, 1879 ULS.P * THE RIGHT BRANCH | ’ Three leagues, then, the road ran, > Gad turned into a pussie. It joined WHA another and a larger road at Tight angles, David stood, unc 4 @ while, and then took the road the right. (Continued From Yesterday) | | STEAMER PRINCE RUPERT BEACHED; PASSENGERS SAVED VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 29.—G. T. P. steamer Prince Rupert, which sailed from Vancouver for the North on Monday, struck a rock while leaving Swan- son bay at midnight last night and water came in the roadside. Then up and on again Blong the unknown way Thus for five days he traveled Sreat road, sleeping upon Na- balsamic beds or in peasants’ BY @ating of their black. hos q a3 bread, drinking from streams the willing cup of the goat- At length he crossed a great bridge set his foot within the smiling that has crushed of crowned poets than all the rest of the His breath came quickly ax sang ‘to him in a little under- her vita! chant of greeting—the che Of voice and foot and wheel. | High up under the eaves of an old | “Rouse in the Rue Conti, David paid for lodging, and set himself, in a Wooden chair, to his poems. The : once sheltering citizens of im. | and consequence, was now over to thome who" ever folidw the wake of decline ‘The houses were tall and still pos- of a ruined ¢ many them were ipty d the spider. By night there was clash of steel and the cries of view Avenue | a ae lights burning in a houseboat at 1015 Fairview ave, at 3:26 a. m, to day attracted the attention of Police | Sergeant W. F. Denlan and Patrol man J. R. Murphy, scouting in the “prowler” car.. A man in the door way beckoned them: “Come in and see this woman.” ‘They entered and found Mra. Mary Boyle, 45, lying on a bed, dead. | The body was turned over to the coroner, who pronounced the cause of death “alcoholic poisoning due to drinking Jamaica ginger.” | CHIEF URGES To BAN SALE OF GINGER . In a communication in the hand the city council teday, Police ot Chief Searing recommended the pho-| hibition of furth’r sale of Jamaica singer by druggists. The Jamaica ginger situation “is ajmost,a scandal," and “certain dis honest druggists are making for: tunes out of the unlawfyl traffic,” Were the opinions contained in. the letter, The chief quoted them as | federal prohibition officer. Jamaica ginger is largely used by Lowell EK. Williams, young overseas veteran and University of Washington graduate, ap peared in Judge A. W. Frater’s court today seeking a divorce from Grace W. Williams, The wife b nearly twice Williams’ age, and is the mother of » fra- ternity brother whom Williams | met while in colle; He mar- ried’ his pal's mother on the eve of his departure for France two years ago, Thru the marriage, Williams teat fied, he acquired a lonly four years younger than him | self, and a stepson hin own age, SCHOOL, PAL TOOK |HIM HOME AS GUEST | ‘The young husband, blushing on | voice expiained to, Judge” Prater! for dust! coming from Donald A. MeDonald,| that he met hia wife for the first time in the fall of 914, when her son, hin frat brother, took him to iwiers straying restiessty from inn} japorers in the South End as @ sulk? nin home ax &*euest. inn, Where once gentility abode now but a rancid and rude in. tinence. But here David found commensurate to his scant Daylight and candlelight ind him at pen and paper One afternoon he was returning a@ foraging trip to the lower with bread and curds and a of thin wine. Half way up “iis dark stairway he met—or rather . ame. upon, for she rested on the| young woman of a beauty should balk even the justice of poet’s imagination. A loose, dark . flung open, showed a rich beneath. Her eyes changed G@wiftly with every little shade of thought. Within one moment they ‘would be round and artless like a Ghild’s, and long and cozening like a One hand raised her gown, ping a little shoe, high-heeled, ay its ribbons dangting, untied. so \ heavenly she was, so unfitted to _gtoop, #0 qualified to charm and i ind! Perhaps she had seen coming, and had waited for fils help ther Ah, would monsieur pardon that occupiel the stairway, but the a naughty shoe} Alas! it . not cemaim tied. Ab if mon would be so gracious! ‘The poet's fingers trembled as he tied the contrary ribbons. Then he Would have flel from the danger of hher presence, but the eyes crew long and cozening, like a gypsy’s, and held him. He leaned against the balustrade, clutching his bottle of sour win “You have been so good,” she said, emiling. “Does monsteur, perhaps, live in the house?” think 40, y, then?” “No madame; higher up ‘The tady fluttered her fingers with she Jeast possible gesture of im- Certainly T am not dis erect in asking onsieur will for- give me? It is surely not becoming that 1 should inquire where lodges “Madame, do not say 80. 1 live in the—" “Mo, no, no I see that 1 erred the interest I feel in this house and ‘all that is in it. Once it was my ‘home. Often 1 come here but to dteam of those happy days again. Will you et that be my excuse?” “Let me tell you, then, for you need no ¢xcuse.” stammered the poet. “I live in the top floor—the, gmail room where the stairs turn.” “In the front room?” asked the , turning ber head sidewine. do not tell me we The lady sighed if with re. “1 will detain you no longer, then, monsieur,” she said, employing the round and artless eye. “Take good care of my house, Alas! only the memories of it are mine now. Adie i H.C.Witwer’s Baseball Yarn, ‘No Base Like Home, Begins in The Star Tomorrow | 2 stitute for legitimate hoose. If the | sale of Jamaican ginger cannot be pro- hibited, it should at least be regulat- ed, the chief sald. | Drug stores are allowed to scl Jamaica ginger in two-ounce bottles. Jamaica ginger ts 92 per cent alcohol |" In the hoase with Mrs. Boyle's |hedy were H. R. West, a cousin of |the dead woman; and Richard Mur- phy, 4 marine fireman. Mru Boyle leaves a sister, Mre Arthur Burns, 1631 Fairview ave., | Berkeley, and a daughter, Mra. | Juanita Smith, 1806 66th st., Berke. ley LOSES $30,C90 A jury today’ returned a verdict \for the defendant in the case of Mary L. Snyder, who ts suing her | husband, Thomas, for alleged slan- der. She asked $30,000 jhe told her lawyers he had |with her six months before they were legally married, The case was |tried in Judge King Dykeman’s court.’ lived |Chink Was Doing | Rushing Business Joe Billy, 35, Chinaman, was ar | rested at the’Bather hotel, Sixth ave. jand Pike st. by Lieut V7 Hassel blad and Patrolman Paul Kna when the officeré found three cus | tomers in bie room. The officers the customers were trying to buy one of the 17 packages of cocaine and morphine found on Billy and aceept thanks for your courtesy.” She was gone, leaving but a «mile land a trace of sweet perfume. David [climbed the stairs as one in slum ber. But he awoke from it, and the my he | «mile and the perfume lingered with | him and never afterward did either leecm quite to leave him, ‘Thik lady lof whom he knew nothing drove him to lyrica of eyes, ch alr and sonnets to slippers on slender feet | Poet he must have been, for Yvonne was forgotten; this fine, new loveliness held him with ite fresh oan and grace, The subtle perfume about her filled him with strange | emotions | . | On a certain night three persons | were gathered about a table in a room on the third floor of the Thr chairs and the lighted candle upon it was all the furniture. One of the per sons was a huge man, dressed in black. Hix expression was one ¢ sneering pride. The ends of his up- (Turn to Page 4) _ SLANDER SUIT alleging | nsons of switt- | But | cannot jowe|iy concelved love, odes to curling | herself. “L was then 18 years old.” said Williams, “I continued visiting at their home for two years "In March, 1917, when I was 22, our relationship grew more intimate. Later in that year I went to Alaska to work In a cannery to get money to continue my course in college She wrote | there, and I answered them.” ‘Thix correspondence, as well ax letters exchanged after they were! married, and while he .was in | France, were introduced in evidence. When Williams returned from Alaska, he said, he continued to | viait the older woman tn her home. and when the United States entered the war he enlisted in a base how. | Dital unit recruited at the University and’ went Camp Fremont SAYS SHE FOLLOWED HIM TO CAMPS She followed him. About 1 o'clock one afternoon, he testified she camé out to the camp and told him that her condition was critical and begged bim to marry her, intie 4d Col, John F. L. Herbert of Mass: | ing that if he did not she would their af m tell his mother all about fair. | “More to keep the truth from my mother,” he said, “tahn for my lother reason, I consented, and that ‘afternoon the ceremony took place | _“It was 29 days before we left the camp to sail for France. Meanwhile my wife kept calling me up and taking me to task for the way I was conducting myself, We quar reled.” Williams was with his unit in service in France fog 14 |months, and when he returned, he valid, it was with the firm genolve to et himaelf out of the “mess.” He and his wife had their reat dence at 1209 E. 45th at. in the University district, close to the [home of Williams’ mother. Th gtwo women met at times, he said, jand their relations were not, alto leether pleasant. He told he would see a lawyer and find out if there was any grounds on which she could get a divorce | WIFE TO TESTIFY ATER IN DAY | t day she saw some lawyers he testified, “and came | home nd told me she wasn't going |to let me go. She said the Inw« lof the state required that a bus band support hix wife, otherwise he could be arrested. She said if fot a divorce it would cost me u« [tot of money | “1 was thore Iscusted with the | whole affair. I completed my col- lege in August and started these proceedings.” Mrs. Williams, wat ata | courtroom across from liams, her mother-in-law. The two women looked at each other coldly at times “without a sign of recogni, tion. ‘THR wife's ‘textimony wis to be heard this afternoon. hospital course the wife, clad fable in, the Mrs, Will step-daughter | the witness stand, in a deep bass) me letters while I was) hin wife | [pt Netaoshrdetacmtwemfwyshrd Will, Rogers, ‘whose comic strip, “What's News Today,” will start soon in The Star, was born on a ranch in Indi- an territory and was able to jride almost before he could | walk. | He is married and has three children, all of whom \are excellent riders. He has jtwo hobbies. The first is rop- ing and the second is—rop- tng. ~ FOR BABE RUTH Gets It in First Game With Athletics PHILADELIHIA, Sept 2 Babe Ruth made his 64th home run of the season this afternoon in the first game of the double header be tween the Yanks and Athletics ‘There was one man on base, [Parris was pitching CINCINNATAN HEADS LEGIO LAND, Ohio, Sep! FN, Galbraith of Cincinnati, | Ohio, was elected commander of the American legion here this afternoon He ford MeNider of Iowa received 275 achusetts received 145, | On motion of MeNider, seconded | by Herbert, Galbraith’s selection was made unanimous. ‘CARKEEK CASE IS CONTINUED Without hearing any testimony, Judge A. W. Frater yesterday con. tinued until September 20 the case of Charles W. Carkeek, president of the Seattle Master Builders’ as | sociation, who ix suing his wife, Anna J. Carkeek, for divorcee on which Mra Carkeek al- were framed up by her hus AMERICAN LEAGUE First game RH New York Yeoyt 40 At Philadelphia e399 202.6 Collins and Hannah; Harris and Perkins. Second game— New York At Philadelphia Shawkey and Hoffman; Hasty and’ Walker Cleveland Prise At St, Louis Coveleskte | Vangtider | NATIONAL LEAGUE First game RH Philadelphia ie | At Boston re | 7 0 | Smith and Withrow; Geschger and | O'Neill Second game H. FE, Philadelphia 4 0 |At Boston .. 1 1 Meadows and Wheat; Fillingim jand Gowdy K Naylor, 10 12 and ¢ nd Severoid 0 R em 0) 1; Wellman, | B. | P. 0. BLDG. Warning Is Sent Chief of Police; L. C. Smith Block Is Also Mentioned Crudely printed by hand, and | stgned “A Friend to Workers,” = | letter giving warning of an al- | leged plot to blow up the post- | office and the L..C. Smith build , Ing In Seattle, and institutions in | Tacoma and Portland, put the | entire federal criminal ma- | | chinery in this district on its | | mettle Wednesday. | ‘The communication’ waa turned | lover to United States District Attor- ney Squnders late Tuesday by Chief | of Police W. H. Searing, It was ad —* simply, “Chief of Police, Be | PORT WARNED District Attorney Saunders at once dispatched copiea of the warn- jing to United States Marshal John M. Boyle at Tacoma, to the army in. | teligence headquarters at Camp | Lewla and to Division Superintend. | ent Bryon of the depagtment of jus-| tiee at Portland. | The .butidings named are ubder) [heavy guard today, and agents of | |the burean of investigation, the se-| cret service, Immigration service, the United States marahal's office and members of the postoffice in- |apector’s force are endeavoring to trace the origin of the communica- tion and locate the writer. | WRITER SAYS HE'S “NOT A CRANK” ‘The text of the letter follows: | | “chief of Potice: I am going to tell you « thing or two that probly you dont no, There ix going to be some innocent people killed in thin town inside of 20 days unless you get busy and get some of the anar- chist out of town.” They are prepar- ing for a bunch of explosions in | public buildings and that would only kill working people. Tam an I. W. ¥. and would help kill every mil lionaire in the world but dont want |to see any workers killed and that will happen if they pull this stunt | whitch they are going to do if they are not stoped. Dont think this is sent by a crank for it is not but I |dont want to see workers killed {There is at least 6 places in town |that I no ts marked—some in. Ta coma, Portland, Smith building, P. ©, and others. | “I will sign no name, if I did I would not live to get out of town. ‘A FRIEND TO WORKERS.” The letter of warning ix being compared, it if understood, with threatening communications that | were received last summer by Ben L. Moore, special representative of | the attorney general. The federal reserve bank in the Central building and the U, 8. assy office have been under guard since the Wail st. bomb outrage on Sep- tember 16 Chief of Police Searing nad no | comment to make today further than to admit that the police were co-| operating with the federal officials. ee TACOMA, Sept. 29.--Information said to be in possession of United | States army intelligence department } officers at Camp Lewis, showing | |that a plot is under way by an Jafehiats to blow up a bank and a sawmill in Tacoma, will be laid pefor a special agent of the de [partment of justice and Assistant | United States District Attorney Hoyle here this afternoon. | ‘Tho Boyle and ‘United States Mar Boyle both regard the matter a hoax and declare “there is noth ing to it,” the army officers were Jconvinced their informant had posi- ltive Information. They told the) | district attorney they expected to hayp the name and address of the man and he may be brought here | for questioning by federal aptiory | ties. | shal so swiftly that Captain Duncan McKenzie beached the vessel in order that the passengers should run no risk. The company’s vessel Prince John went to her assistance and took off the passengers, proceed- ing North with them. * * HARDING COACH IN WRECK MILLWOOD, W. Va., Sept. 29—Senator Harding and entire party had a narrow escape today when bis private car jumped k near Millwood, W, Va, and bumped over the ties a high, narrow trestie before the train could be stopped. No one wan injured, The front truck of the Harding car was smashed. The party was transferred to other cars and the train Went on, the private car standing on the track was traveling 40 miles an hour when the front truck of Harding’# car broke, apparentiy as it Gas crossing «witch. Railroad employes sald the switch was not open. rear truck of the “Ideal” jumped the-track. The car was ‘ed along the road bed. ‘The train rae 00 feet before was stopped. Senator Harding was in his drawing room the time of the accident and’ Mrs, Harding was in her private eompartment. Both “came out *and calmly walked afotind, looking at the derailed car, All ‘that saved the Har- ding car from falling off the trestle inte the deep creek bed 20 feet below, was the timber cumpd_talloalong the ends Gt ) the crosé*tfes, WAM of the other cars on the train stayed on the track, * 8 # CHASE SUSPECTS THRU STREETS An dooryards and into basements was before Police Lieut. Gus Hasselblad pp overtook W. Bowman, suspected Bowman was picked up at Seventh and suspicious looking sack. In a brace and bit and a “worm he git it, Bowman leaped war being taken to head It ended only after a which Knapp sprained: his wrist. * * & SOVIET ARMIES ISOLATED COPENHAGEN, Sept. 29.—Gen. Wrangel’s anti-Bolshevik foreen have practically tsolated the soviet armies in the Cau- secording to a Helsingfors dispatch to the Bertingeske The sald the W el troops had broken vik n Ve hand Tsarisin. The on Don. miles south of Moscow Vols miles southwest of Voron- leaving The train erciting chase thru back staged this a and Patrolman Paw of be votlegwer Cherr So m. it for from the “prowler” Then the cuffle ernocn Kn 52, vg, ah at 12 ord carrying a to the police, were Asked where car in which started purposes: quarters to-hand casu: Tiden the I former 4 1 the messa the latter i betwee ronjet only 300 River an the jet om * * * MOTHER IN JAIL STARVING DOYLESTOWN, Pa Sept Protesting ber ne for which she was committed to jail Muller, 32, began the 15th day of her hu the mother of two small boys. rapidly and cannot survive a prolonged Mrs, Muller attempted to kiN Julius I whom k house p of . Mrs. Strike ans innoren ot he ic for ® VETERANS AVOID POLITICS CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept After one hour of tumultous rimonious debate, Ameri exion convention here tay defeated the organisation into rwhelming the yY an ov ma nstitutioral interpretative reso an * * ; : , CHOKED, ROBBED ON FIRST AVE. Strong-armed in broad daylight while traffic swirled all about them, Saul Peterson, a laborer, was choked and robbed of 195 two thugs on First ave. near Pioneer Square today. Be sides the 1 rson lost a watch, chain and: locket, He said the men from behind. One choked him and the other robbed He said one was about 32 and the other 43. He said had small mustaches. * HAD BOOZE; IS Suddenly changing hie having booze in his: po: in federal court today ee ee PAIGE CAR PRICES LOWERED DETROIT, Sept. 29.—The Paige-Detroit Auto company | to announce a, reduction in the price all models of Paige ranging from $155 to $250, effective immediately * * POSSE CAPTURES BANDITS MONROE, Mich. Sept. 29.64A posse of 800 citizens late today captured the five men who held up the Dansard state bank b All except $1,000 of the $4,000 taken by the bandits was covered. mM they * FINED $200 plea fr not guilty guilty Gvorge Cravatte was fined om to da: of * * * ACKENZIE IS NOW CITIZEN AN FRANCISCO, Sept, 29.—Mackenzie American citizen today ciate and Col. noted in “the Justice spons Gordon, became an by superior court here William P. Lawlor naturalization ypreme Court Charles Stanton were his rs. . i | ; | ! | | |where I met Eddie Cicotts New York Officials gate Alleged Attempt to Fix the 1920 Series __ WASHINGTON, Sept. Uncle Sam will take s hand the investigation of | > gambling charges, it was before the grand jury today, would present evidence that tirely different clique of gam from those alleged to have con with the eight White Sox p has operated in the National Officials announced they had ficient evidence, apparently obtained from the “confessions” of Joe Jack: | son and Eddie Cicotte, White Sox stars, to obtain indictments of gam- — blers in New York, Chicago, | nati, St, Louis, Detroit, Des Moines and other citi “Lefty” Williams, pitcher, told of | his part in the alleged consp Assistant State's Attorney Replogle, in charge of the investig@: |) tian, announced. Williams said he got $5,000, said Jackson and he were given 000, which they split between Williams said he was first proached. about the conspiracy, New York. “Gandil called me to one side, in front of the hotel Ansonia, asked me if anybody had approached, me about the world series,” Williams: said. “I asked him what he meant, — He said the world series would be — fixed, and wanted to know what I would do about It. “I told him I would give him my — answer later, after thinking it over. When I came back to Chicago, I was called over to the Warner hotel, Chick — Gandil, Buck Weaver, Happy Felsch and two fellows introduced as Brown. and Sullivan, The last two were 3 supposed to be gamblers, or the fel (Turn to Last Page, Column 2) |