The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 30, 1920, Page 1

a “diplomat.” We Maxkin Today Tonight and Friday, occa- sional rain; southerly winds ‘Temperature Last 4 Hours m, 76. Around the Sacks to Happiness “Home, Sweet Home” and the Home Plate are closely connected in the life of Ed Harmon, and he makes the two meet and get agreeably acquainted after traveling over the usual route of trials and tribulations of a mar- ried man. He bats a thousand when it comes to being ather moderate Minimum, 53. noon, 61, By H.C. E'S NO BASE LIKE HOME Witwer There’s aWoman in the Dugout Harmons? On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as & ane Matter Mi Ay 2, 1899, at the Pontoffice at 1e, Wash., under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879. ht te, Ine.) editor of the Hearthstone has his own ideas about | selection of manuscript for his n. His theory ts no secret; he will expound It to you fy sitting at his mahogany smiling benignantly and tap- his knee gently with his gold eye-glasses. Hearthstone,” he will say, not employ a staff of readers. S obtain opinions of the manu- is submitted to us directly from | of the various classes of our} « by the Wheeler | hat ts the editor's theory; and gis is the way he carries it out: na tatch of MSS, is received editor stuffs every one of his fun of them and distributes as he goes about during the) The office employes, the hail| the janitor, the elevator man, ticket chopper at Sixty—th st, fund maid ‘at bis home— the readers who pass upon | in to the Hearthstone If his pockets are not en- ‘emptied by the time he reaches | ‘bosom of his family the remain. | ones are handed over to his ong | after baby gots to sleep. days later the editor gathers | MSS. during his regular) and considers the verdict of | eagpeaegd readers. system of making up a maga-| Yas been very successful; and cireulation, paced by the adver) rates is making a wonderful of speed. Hearthstone Company also books, and its imprint is) - found on several successful recommended, says the to talkative members of staff) the Hearthstone allowed manuscripts to slip thru fingers on the advice of its hetero reader, that afterwards | to be famous sellers when cht out by other houses. instance (the gossips say). | Rise and Fall of Silas Latham’ unfavorably passéd upon by the} or man; the office boy unant- ly rejected “The Boss”; “In the p's Carriage” was contemptu-| ly looked upon by the street car » “The Deliverance” was | d down by a clerk in the sub-) tion department whose wife's mot had just begun a two visit at his home; “The Quair" came back from the with the comment: “So is the But nevertheless the Hearthstone | to its theory and system, it will never lack volunteer read: me each one of the widely scat- staff, from the young lady pher in the editorial office | the man who shovels in coal adverse decision lost to the Tee rearthetone company the manu geript of “The Under World”), has expectations of becoming editor of the magazing some day. ‘This method of the Hearthstone| ‘was well known to Allen Slayton psa he wrote his novelette entitled f Is All.” Slayton had hung aboot the editorial offices of all the} “magazives so persistently that he! “was acquainted with the inner work-| {ngs of every one in Gotham He knew not only that the editor @f the Hearthstone handed his MSS. among different types of peo- for reading, but that the stories of sentimental love-interest went to} Miss Puffkin, the editor's stenog- yapher. Another of the editor's pe-| euliar customs was to conceal in- variably the name of the writer from his readers of MSS, that @ glittering name might not influ-| ence the sincerity of their orts. Slayton made “Love tf» All” the effort of his life. He gave wix | months of the best work his heart and brain. It was a pure love story, fine, elevated, romantic, jonate—a prose poem that set] the divine blessing of love (I am) naposing from the manuscript) M above all earthly gifts and) nore, and lated it in the catalog heaven's choicest rewards, Siay-| on's literary ambition was intense. would have sacrificed all other oridly possessions to have guined (furn to Page 9, Column 3) #0 it ot | BEHE0000008 SATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1920. ofopojopofofojolo) TheSeattle Star Per ¥ ir, by Mail, $5 to $9 And of course she is the wife of the man who pitches his way to fame and fortune. What is money to the Don’t miss reading about how both mem- bers of the family bring in the coin. This serial novel begins today on page 5. TWO CE TH EW LATE NTS IN SEATTLE _ ITY MAY TAKE OVER MILK SESB0E00008 MAYOR THREATENS TO HANDLE DISTRIBUTION. 5. NAVAL ALVESTON BUILDINGS WEPT | $2,000,000 Loss in Flames, Which Qestroy Ships, Docks, Warehouses GALVESTON, Texaa, Sept. 30. —Fire swept s portion of the waterfront carty today, causing & long estimated a¢ $2,000,000. The blaze raged uncontrolled for nearly nige hours, It was brought under controt by the herole work of firemen and al- lowed to “burn Itself out.” The firemen concentrated their ef- forts on keeping the flames from spreading. The fire was first discovered In the plant of the Texas Gulf Sulphur company at 2a. m. A high wind the flames and sent flying sparks along the waterfront and in- difficult to fight Eight were overcome by fumes from the sulphur company's pler. BIG COTTON LOSS 48 SUSTAINED The, pler and plant, a mass of ruins, were still burning at noon. Sparks carried the fire to the cot jton concentration plant containing thousands of bales of cotton. Th plant and all of its contents were destroyed. ‘The fire centered in what is known of 36th st. The Italian steamer Etra, loaded with 263,000 bushels of wheat, was gutted. The fire was still burning land it appeared she will be a com-| plete loss. The Italian steamer Oceana was also partly burned. The steamships Ancon, Larrinaga and Hornby Castle, th latter two Britishers, were saved, but not without rigging and top decks| being charred and badly For a time it appeared they would be lost. A string of box cars loaded with grain were also burned. The Ship- side Cotton compress was about one- | third destroyed. The Anchor Milling @ total loss. ‘The firemen overcome were vic- jtims of smoke from the sulphur plant, which swept spectacularly over the city. The fire spread to eight blocks of buildings near the waterfront and the monetary loss there will ‘ompared with wharf damage. Fighting flames aboard ships was | difficult and spectacular. The crew worked feverishly on all vessels to | keep the fire from catching the in-| flammable cargoes on the decks. ‘The Etna lay alongside a pier of cotton, which became a blazing mass. Efforts were concentrated on attempts to save the ship. eat clouds of steaen arose from the decks of the vessel as streams of water were played from every point. The crew finally was driven off. Patriot Trucks Are Reduced in Price LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 30.—The Patriot Motor company has an- nounced a reduction of from $200 to $395 in the price of its truck, effect ive today, BY HAL ARMSTRONG WO AND A HALF years ago, Nettie Campbell left her stool in the ticket office in front of the Clemmer theatre and went into the} washroom. As waa her daily habit, she re moved her $400 ruby ring, set with eight brilliant diamonds, and laid it on the little shelf above the wash bowl She washed her dainty fingers, dried them, and went out Ge gg the ring. Two minutes later, whpn, she re turned for it, the rmg was gone. Nettle remained in the Clemmer ticket office for six months Gloria de! damaged. | company’s | > plant was also damaged and may be Most | of the structures were shacks and| |sheds occupied by negroes, be slight, | the shipping and Woman’s Conscience; after | that. No trace was found of the Ly WHITE SOX PLAYERS STILL DETERMINED TO DO GOOD WORK CHICAGO, Sept. 30.—"A happy family for the firet time in a year,” was the way one of the “clean” White Sox players ex pressed it as the remnants of the team left for St. Louis for their last stand of the season. “We are pulling together now,” sald Eddie Collins, “and we are going to give Cleveland a close run." The White Sox squad was cheerful and nappy. They care fully refrained from mentioning the “outcasts.” A large crowd gathered at the Wabash station to see the Sox and show their faith in the team as it now standa College Swain Divorced From Chum’s Mother Omar’s “A Jug, a Loaf and) Thou” Quoted, But All in Vain Parted forever by order of the court “for the good of society and themselves,” Lowell FE. and Grace W. Williams, collvge soul-mates, took up separate | paths today to work out their destinies alone. | The husband of 34 and the wife who was old enough to have been his mother left the courtroom of Judge A Ww vorced. Young Williams and hiw wife’s son were fraternity brothers jat the university and it was thro his college chum that he met th woman. He married her shortly before leaving for overseas duty during the war. “This young | judge, “has not man,” said the proved his allega tions that he was threatened by this woman and foreed to marry her. But no good can come of a marriage of this kind. ‘The gives the court wide powers in a case like this and the divorce will be granted other grounds deemed sufficient ning to | Frater said, luncheon, he seized you in his arms kinsed you © young man ts going to offer advances of that sort who has a son as. oj as he unless he is given some inducement “I am not excusing the young |man. He is lacking in something. for no normal young man of his e would have allowed himself to be overcome as in thin case. “But once he had tasted of the forbidden fruit, like many other young men, he thought he couldn't get along without it “No ool could come pelling these two to gether. The boy, I |the course he has at the University wishes to continue and become a doctor. MOTHER OF BOY 18 OVERCOME of com- remain to take it from just completed of Washington, his education (Turn to Page 16, Column 2) vanished ring. Then she left and went to Tacoma or to Vancouver, B. £. * | eee AST Sunday night, at the Swedish tabernacle, the Rev. Paul W. Rood preached a sermon on “Conscien r | It was an unusual sermon, in- ltensely interesting. It was about a |woman he had never seen, who had written him a letter from Racine, | Wisconsin. He had recelved the letter a day or two before, and when he had opened the envelope, a ring had rolied out into his hand—a $400 diamond ring, set with eight brik Frater yesterday afternoon) |denounced for their folly and di-| as Galveston’s west end, at the foot | Inw | Mrs. Williams, Judge) “You have testified here that | while this boy was in your house | wiping the dishes for you after a to a woman} | “He ts utterly unfit today to sup- port’ himself because he doesn’t! know how to do anything. Were he to take up pick and shove! a Ruby and Pot PROBE Chicago State’s Attorney Thinks Prosecution Move Is Not Valid CHICAGO, Sept. 30.—The Cook county grand jury will continue its investigation into crooked baseball,’ Chief Justice MacDonald of the: | ertminal court announced today. He said he would appoint the grand | jury as a special investigating body Monday, after its term expires, and) instruct the members to continue the) probe, | MacDonald's statement followed Py published report that Btate's Attor- ney Maclay Hoyne had ordered the of no legal bast for-the. dictments Already againat) eight members of the White Sox) team and two gamblers, PROSECUTION IS | DEBATED QUESTION | Several attorneys interested in the investi jon issued statements | in which they expressed views dif fering widely from Hloyne's state ments that the White Sox players ed to have used crooked base- | ball in the 1919 world series could not be prosecuted. | Alfred Austrian, attorney — for Charles Comiskey, owner of the White Sox, quoted the Illinois con spiracy statute which provider: “If two or more persons conspire together with fraudulent and ma- Meious intent wrongfully and wick- edly to injure the person, character ¢ business, or employment or prop- erty of another—they shall be deemed guilty of a conspiracy.” Austrian declared the men could be prosecuted under this statute. Jury to discontinue its work because || ofofojopoyo) ooo opowopopojoyo) APS TAKING OVER HERDS Broken Hun Soldier Yells ‘Kamerad’ to Seattle Folk; He Asks The Star to Help Him “The end of the war has taught that only the American are a people of gentlemen,” says & remarkable letter received to- day by The Star from & former coon soldier, living at Leip- (ust as the Germans yelled “Kamerad” when the Yanks cor- nered them), and asks The Star to tell some “philanthropist” of hin plight. The letter, in its quaint, atilt- ed English, follows: “Leipaig (Saxony), “15th August. 1920, “Uferstranne 17. “EAltor The Star: Although « stranger to you, I beg a great kindness of you, together I beg | your pardon for the grammar in this letter, but I cannot english perfectly, In past time I had CAR CUTS OFF | He also vigorously denied the im: ment, a published here, that investigation was started by ene | mies of Comiskey to ruin the White |nant this year. Austrian announced he was asked | by representatives of the etate's at torneys office and Judge MacDon the investigation until after | close of the present baseball season. | COMISKEY WILLING FOR THORO PROBE “I told them that Mr. Comiskey would rather lowe the pennant than to play a single game with a bunch f players he knew to be crooked,” ustrian said, He also informed them he could produce warranting indictments, and the jnext day the confession of Eddie |Cicotte was made, It was quickly | followed by that of Joe Jackson and Claude Williams. |MacSwiney Seems LONDON, Sept. 30.—Lord Mayor MacSwiney slept three hours during the early part of last night, it was announced tod MacSwiney was | desert as appearing healthy but tired While MacSwiney's life apfiarent- ly is slowly drifting out, cabinet in puzzling over his case Its problem will not be solved with | the hunger striker’s death. If the cabinet dec there shall be no public funeral inéitement of a riot is feared, Hant diamonds. He had brought the letter to church with him. He read “Pastor P. W. Rood, Dear Sir: Could I ask you to do me a favor? “This ring was taken from thi washroom of the Clemmer theatre Jabout two and a half years ago by a ly who did not intend t@ keep it. only wanted to frighten the woman who carelessly had left tt. “Afterwards she became fright: ened and dared not give It back, thinking they would not belleve her, |but would accuse her of stealing it. |So she kept it, but it has been a jburden on her heart. | “At last she thought she might plication contained in Hoyne’s state- | the} ald if Comiskey desired to postpone | the} evidence | Healthy But Tired) the British | May Doughty, 29. employe of condition at Provitence hospital |between the ankle and knee of both her legs, crushed when she was run| down by a street car at Roanoke st. and Eastlake ave. at midnight. She ran from behind an outbound lear directly into the path of an in- pound Cowen Park car, according to | Motorman E. J. Ketzenbarger, 910 Crowne ave. Dr. J. E. Metropole building, rushed her Providence hospital in his auto. to She was unconscious, and it was not un- | til three hours later than she was/ identified. She was still unconscious Jand in a critical condition late |'Thursday forenoon. It was believed, however, that she would live, ‘The fender of the street car evi- dently failed to catch the woman when she ran in front of the car. The car is equipped with a safety, emergency fender which the motor- man dropped, but it failed to func- tion properly. ‘The car was going eight miles an hour, Ketzenbarger says, and was | stopped before the rear trucks pass. led over the woman Conductor L. R. lave. N. E., saw nothing of the acct |dent. May Doughty 1s a half-blood In dian of the Chomawa tribe of Ore. gon, the wife of J. H. Doughty, {naval radio operator iff Guam, and |has a T-year-old daughter attending the Chemawa Indian school, said at the hospital, Diamonds ask you if would be so kind as to leave it with the management at the Clemmer theatre. “I am very sorry to trouble you about this matter, but know not of anyone else I could confide in. Thanking you very much, I “A CHRISTIAN FRIEND." ee ¥ NELLIE CAMPBELL, where ever she is, will call at the Clem. mer, the house manager, C, H. Odom, will be glad to give her the $400 ruby ring, set with eight brilliant dia- monda woman in Wisconsin will be again at peace, after two and @ half years of fear and torment Roanoke sanitarium, was in critical | Godfrey, | Rope, 5116 26th) it was} b And the conscience of a frightened found a old copy of your paper, therefore I apply me to you. In the great war I was wounded se- verely in q battle with Ameri cans from a american officer, now I am sickly for ever. The end of the war has taught, that only the can are a people of gen’ ‘Please, ave the goodness and do you make a lit- tle calling up in your paper for me; perhaps I think they will be to find one or some philanthro- pistes, which help me. The help would be @ loan, wherewith I can begining a new existence, The value of the dollar now as high ia, that little in to be enough, Or when impossible, you give this letter a philanthropist in your town direct, Please, let my cry for help not unheard die away. You will oblige me infinitely by fulfilling my desire. In advance I thank you with all my heart. “I am, your very truly, “ERVALD GOLITZ”" “INDIAN CHIEF'S WOMAN'S LEGS) HOMEIS LOOTED, Clef Homer Watson, of the Yaki- ma Indians, came to police station Thursday with his Indian squaw to | Sox's chantes for winning the pen-| Thursday, following the amputation | report that his home in Toppenish | | had been looted of Indian curios and articles of dress valued at $1,300 The chief is 60 years old, and detec: tives assured him that should any of the loot turn up in local pawn |shows he would be notified, | A picturesque Indian headdress, valued at $300, was the most valua ble single piece that the burglars stble. Chief Watson came to West jern Washington to attend a fair on |the Tulalip reservation. He wore a high black teepee- | shaped hat, with a banded bead and a feather stuck tn it, ‘AUTO AFIRE ON HIGHWAY A Winton automobile belonging to G. R. Pitts, 211 N. 46th st., was to- tally destroyed by fire on the high way midway between Des Moines and Kent. E’S GUEST AT “HOTEL” Hotel Note: Joe Darling, of Pine hurst, is registered at the Sno- |homigh county jail at Everett, | Thursday, Federal prohibition officers from Seattle retain his three-gallon still | and six gallons of corn mash as evi dence, Deny Smuggling William George, indicted by the federal grand jury for importation of 10 taels of smoking opium, pleaded not guilty when arraigned befor@ Federal Judge Neterer in district court Thursday. George was given until October 18 to change his plea to one of guilty. |] WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE Part of Seattle will have to do without its regular water supply Friday, ‘The water department announces a shutoff of water in the district east of 40th ave, north and south of E. Madison | { tt» from 9 a. m. to 6 p.m. Opium Into Seattle! ! — Municipal Milk Depots Are Discussed and May Be} | Opened Unless Producers ‘and Retailers Settle Dis- pute Before Long; Com- | plaints of New Jap Ag- gression | That the city of Seattle will take |over the distribution of milk here | was threatened by Mayor Caldwell | Thursday. | Uniess prices are ized and | the city assuted of ample con-/ |tinuous supply, of milk, Caldwell | declared that it would be necessary |to establish a central milk distri uting station to protect: the public. | Quarrels between producers and |retailers, culminating early — this week in threats of a general “milk | strike,” were responsible for the mayor's warning. MAY BE FORCED TO EN CENTRAL STATION f the city of Seattle is forced | | to do so it may undertake to estab- lish a central milk distributing sta- tion in order that the production of high-class milk and its shipment into Seattle may be encouraged and |the consumer receive milk at a reasonable figure,” the mayor de- clared, “The city is already engaged in | undertakings which, in my opinion, lare less justifiable than this woul! |be under circumstances which will | exist if the dispute between the pro- ducer and the distributor és settled without interrupting milk supply of the city.” The mayor pointed out that the city milk supply should be placed on ja permanent basis and prices sta- | bitized SCORES SEATTLE MILK | DEALERS’ ASSOCIATIO! | “This cannot be dope,” he assert Jed, “unless the producer and the | middleman work together amicably and in co-operation,” | Scoring the Seattle Milk Dealers’ association, Mayor Caldwell - intl: | mated that they were not ¢o-operat- ing with the city in the solution of | the milk problem, He demanded that the association state sperifica! whether it would ablde by the report of the recently-appointed milk com- mission, “The new commission, including | Joseph Passonneau, director of the | State Office of Farm Markets, will| render a report that fully covers the | ground,” the mayor promised. not | the) Milk producers claimed Thursday they cannot develop their herds at the present price they receive for | their product. ‘They charged the dis- | tributors with obtaining an exorbi- tant profit from the public. “Producers are being forced out of business by the prices demanded by |the retailers,” one prominent ship per declared. “Herds belonging to white men are being thrown jnto the hands of the jof its kind on the Pacific coast, | being 200 feet long, with a capacity | nicipal railway has only 184 per Japs.” | Mayor Caldwell, taking cognizance | of the increasing number of Japan. | ese milk producers, declared that if! the Jap got control of the herds, it | would not be long before he had taken over the distributing agencies | in the city. | “And I have no doubt,” the mayor | added, that Seattle will pay well for | the privilege of ‘dealing with the| Orientals.” England Is Facing Big Coal Strike LONDON, Sept, 80.—Danger of a nation-wide coal strike for Great Britain was regarded as more seri- jous than at any time heretofore when the minerW’ conference was re- ! sumed today, BALLOON RUNS INTO: MOUNTAIN Dirigible Crashes Into Hill Near Hollywood and 4 Fliers Are Hurt Eugene Fry, 32, chief machinist’s mate, was cut over the eye and sus tained other injuries. £ Ross Hartman, 26, coxswaim, Coro nado, suffered a strained back and cuts about the mouth. Lieutenant A. G. Pope, 25, second pilot, back strained, Ensign Joseph H. Gowan, 28, was uninjured. According to McDonald, the C4 left San Diego at 6 a. m. for San Pedro, where they were to have maneuvered at a Pacific fleet cele bration tonight. Halt way between San Diego and Log Angeles they encountered, @ thick fog and went up to a high | altitude to avoid it. McDonald said he dropped down to an altitude of 1,000 feet to get his bearings, when he thought he was nearing Los Angeles, and again ~ encountered a heavy fog. While maneuvering in the fog, the dirigible crashed into the motntainside. The car was torn from the bag and fell to the bottom of the canyon with the five men in it. When the car was torn from the bag a large hole was ripped in the side of the balloon, and the big bag fell to the ground. Dirigible C-6.is one of the largest of 172,000 cuble feet of gas. SAYS SEATTLE SAFE CITY Seattle has less street car accl dents than any other city of the ‘West, according to figures compiled Thursday by D. W. Henderson, sue perintendent of railways. In an official report rendered at the request of Councilman William Hickman Moore, of the utilities com- | mittee, Henderson pointed out that accidents are fast decreasing in Se © atte. Thoro instruction given to municipal conductors and motormen is assigned as the reason for Seat. tle’s fine record, according to city of ficials. Comparing the percentage of claim expenses to gross revenue, the ma- cent, as against 5.96 per cent of the same system under private control, Denver has a lower accklent per+ centage than Seattle, due, it is claim jed, to the comparative levelness of the city. Spokane, Portland and Cin. cinnati railways are all far below Se attle in safety factors, it is pointed out. ACREAGE Prices of all farm products make farming most profit- able; hence, farm land must increase in value and those of many other occupations will -be attracted to it, so ther¢’s bound to be the most insistent demand for land ever known, and the land selling will be easy. You can get many promis. ing prospects by advertising your holdings in the Classified Columns of The Star with its 64,000 circulation. Cost very’ small compared.to circulation: The service we give is far and’ away beyond that» of oe other, Cr K If you expect to to Classified Page