The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 4, 1920, Page 1

AIDDIES BURN 10 DEA EW Weather Tonight and Tuesday, rain; fresh Maximum, Toda; {ilk VOLUME 23 winds, Temperature Last 24 Hours 60. southerly | Minimum, 50, iy noon, 53, Entered as Second Clams Matter Mi ay 3, 1899, the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879. SEATTLE, WASH., MOND FOIA! Hanocents al Broadway ont, 1920, by Doubleday, Page published by special ar- Ganeweest with the Wheeler Syn- dicate, Inc, _ “I hope some day to retire from —Dusiness,” said Jeff Peters; “and phen I do I don’t want anybody to to say that I ever got a dol- of any man’s money without him a quid pro rata for it always managed to leave a cus some Kittle gew-gaw to paste his scrapbook or stick between Seth ‘Thomas clock and the wall ‘after we aro thru trading. “There was one time I came having to break this rule of and do a profligate and illaud- but I was saved from the laws and statutes of our and profitabje country. summer me and Andy rf @my partner, went to New to lay in our annual assort- of clothes and gents’ furnish- ‘We was always pompous and as dressers, finding that vent abel than anything iB cnearese photo of the Presi it Loeb sent us, probably by Andy, wrote a nature let once and sent it in about an that he had seen caught in S trap lots of times. Loeb must ead it ‘triplets,’ instead of lotay and sent the photo. Any » i was useful to us to show &@s & guarantee of good faith “Me and Andy never cated much do busifiess in New York. It was Much like pothunting. Catching in_that town, is like dyna @ Texas lake for bass. Ali to do anywhere between _ the North and East rivers is to stand the street with an open bag “Drop packages of money No checks or loose bills You have a cop handy to pikers who try to chip in post orders and Canadian money, that’s all there is to New York @ hunter who loves his profes Bo me and Andy used to just fake the town. our spygiasses and Watch the along the Broadway ps putting plaster casts on broken legs, and ‘®neak away without firing a shot. “One day in the papier mache palm ie ‘room of a choral hydrate and hops “agency in a side street about eight inches off Broadway, me and Andy had thrust upon us the acquaintance Of a New Yorker. We had beer to » Seether until we discovered that each * of us knew a man namea Helismith, | Sfaveling for a stove factory in Du Thiy caused us to remark that the world was a very «mali place, | and then this New Yorker busts ] string and takes off his tin fol! and| packing and starts . ; ing us his Ellen Terrys, beginni a the time he used to sel? shoe! ‘Mates to the Indians on the spot} Where Tammany Hall now stands. “This New Yorker had made his ‘Money keeping a cigar store in Beek Street, and he hadn't been fe Fourteenth Street in ten years. Moreover, he had whiskers. apd the time has“ gone by when @ true sport will do anything to & man with whiskers. No grafter, except a boy who is Subscribers to an illustrated weekly to win the prize air rif! or &@ widow, would have the heart to tamper with the man behind with the razor. He was a typical city Reub—t'd bet the man hadn't been Out of sight of a skyscraper in twenty-five years. “Well, presently this metropolitan backwoodsman pulls out a roll of bilia with an old blue sleeve elastic ‘fitting tight around it and opens it up. “"There's $5,000, Mr. Pete: vhe, shoving it over the table ‘saved during my fifteen y business. Put that in your pocket and keep it for me, Mr, Peters. I'm glad to meet you gentlemen from the West, and { may take a drop too much. I want you to take care of my money for me another beer.’ "You'd better keep this yourself, says I. ‘We are stranger@ to you and you can't trust everybody you meet. Put your roll back in your pocket,’ ways I. ‘And you'd better | run along home before some farm hand from the Kaw River bottoms strolls in here and sells you a copper “Oh, I don’t know, saya Whis | kere. ‘I guess Little Old New York an take care of herself, I guess I - @urn to Page 5, Column 3) We'd get! then we'd) soliciting | Now, let's have! AY, OCTOBER 4, 1920. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Sta Por Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 Get Ready to Smile With Will Rogers in ‘“What’s the News’’ This Week VEGETARIAN COLOR SCHEME TO FEATURE WOMEN’S CLOTHING NEW YORK, Oct. 4—At almost any garden party this fall you may see garments in Honey dew, tangarine, tomato and pimento red, piped with a de- lictous bit of pistache or endive grey, This vegetarian color scheme was announced today by the Tex- tile Color Card association to rule feminine America in choosing the shade of her new outfft If one is conservative and not inclined to “the festive colors” an- nounced by the association, she may content herself with resolute blue “or turquoise, porcelain or the reliable old navy blue. BOMBS AND SUSPECT IN EAST TAKEN’ Prisoner Fights With Offi cers; Says He Uses Ex- plosives in Mine Work PITTSURG, Pa, Oct. 4—Florean Zelenska, 29, of Brooklyn, today | tolg police, they said, that enough dynamite was secreted in New York | we asgga ee “ATTACKS RIVAL | FOR CONSTABLE arrest of those responsible for the Wall st. explosion September 16 Defeated Candidate Says Winner Ineligible were believed by police to have been unearthed thru the arrest of Zelen- ska. Police said Zelenska admitted he was in Brooklyn at the time of the explosion. He denied knowledge of the plot, however. eh ae Six stick of dynamite, about 25|_ James H. Wollery appeared In| feet of fuse and a number of deto.|JUdee J. T. Ronald's court today [nating cap@ were found in a yellow |CoMtesting the election of James | suitease the prisoner carried when |L4mbert as republicin nominee for pacer joonstable on the ground that Lam After a preilminary hearing before | bert is ineligible to be a candidhte la police magistrate today, Zelenska |D*C®use, when formerly in office. | will be turned over to government |he was convicted of grafting and ‘im * Police said Leon Konkel, New| Judge Ronald continued the hear York, gave them the information | ing until October 8. which led to Zelenska’s arrest. | Wollery cites the prosecuting at Zelenska said in broken English; torney’s record showing that Lam that he formerly worked as a tailor|bert, while in the constable’s office |in Brooklyn, but that business was|last March, was charged with ac- | bad and he secured a job as a miner | cepting $20 from a Jap bootiegger in West Virginia. There he worked |for protection against raifs and but four days a month, he said, ahd subsequently was fined $300 for the} |thene New York employment agency | offense. ordered him to a - in another coal In the region. | received It.was in thie mine in West Vir-| placed ginia that he procured the dynamite, |in the he said. He was carrying the dyna. | mite to his new job, be said. ORAL: DON’T HANG AROUND NEW YORK, Oct. 4.—When loung’ ers refused to get out of his store, | J. C. Rodriguez, delicatessen, shut his eyes and fired. He was held on| | } | authorities. recent primaries Wollery a number of votes that him close behind Lambert © tor Romination. “STAY AWAY!” HE WARNS BOY | Burglars Tote Off 860 Pennies; Candy) ty 9 + | Don’t Disgrace Your a charge of murdering John Lyon | nd got a suspended gentence of 30/ | troversy and the milk situation will! go to jail and serve this sente noon meeting in Meves’ cafe-| mother the best frie u've got Burglars jimmied 53rd Day of Fast ette. “He hung around and didn't Mother,” Says Judge | days in Justice O. W. Brinker's court | | be discussed by Mayor Hugh M.| “You ought to know the reputation league to be held |in the world, Don't come here again of the house of William Finnerty,| LONDON, Oct. 4.—Lord Mayor buy anything,” said Rodriguez, } today, | Caldwell Tuesday. of the place at Bryn M There teria. to disgrace her and yourwelf.” 2426 W. 57th st, and stole 860) Terence MacSwiney was almost com. Evan Pugh, an 18-year-old Beattlo youth, pleaded guilty of being intoxi- | cated in th Bryn Mawr dance hall dance halls and remain sober, Street car finances, the jitney con-| warned the court, “or you'll have to | The mayor will speak on impor-|are too many people being killed tant elty problemse at the weekly|there to make it a nice place for of the Municipal| young boys. You have a good t; | - |MacSwiney Enters | pennies, a five-pound box of candy, | plete xhausted at the beginning of five pounds of butter and $6 in|his 53rd day of hunger striking, a | Canadian money. Sinn Fein bulletin announced today. | the front door | ' Live Ones and Dead Ones; BY HAL ARMSTRONG HERE are, for instance, a dozen | at persons riding in a tram. It would be conservative to say that at tt two out of that group would 1 your wallet if they were sure! they would not be detected.”—From| She hastened up Yesler way, crow the writings of a great Buropean| ing Second ave, At Third she bum criminologist. led squarely into a man who was | The lady got aboard a street car! rounding the corner. | and took a seat. .The car was crowd. | man you rub shoulders with od. The criminologist, had he been | by c! eon a crowded eity str there, might have pointed out half | even if he be @ minister, has con- |a score of potential pickpockets. Yet|templated the commission of some | |the lady was pamtrald. jcrime twice in hia life if has Lad reached the age of 34 years.” Writ-| ALF the ioctl sitting on|ten by the same chap. the bench in the city park, as| The man lifted his hat, begged the you pass by, are capable of crime: As | lady's pardon, and passed on The | great as grand larceny or arson."-—|lady probably gave no thought what-| |From the writings of the samelever to the two brutal deeds he had criminologist. vlanned before his 34th birthday. She ? The lady descended from the car First ave. and Yesler way, and passed a hundred loungers sitting on | the benches in Pioneer Square. Still| she had not so much as a suspicion, eee “ | town store | motive, and because he was sober his \ 6“ FAMINE AND DEFEAT HIT RED FORCES Lenine’s Power Is Waning as Unrest at Home Is Added to Battle Losses WARSAW, Oct. 4—Consterna- tlon in the Russian ranks ts in- Soviet division and near Horo dyszeze an entire brigade sur- rendered, the communique said. cee LONDON, Oct. 4—The Rus sian soviet government has erying for peace at any price and that they were ready for another government, oe LONDON, Oct. 4.—Enemies of Bol. wheviem were crashing thru. the soviet armies on two fronts today, Rumors by way of the Scan- dinavian countries indicated Russian affairs were in a turmoil, with strikes | jand hunger adding to the difficulties of the soviet rulers. A military statement from Wagsaw today said Polish troops were almost unhampered in their advance east- ward, The communique said the Poles had occupied the city of Novo grodek, while on either side the line| had advanced from 50 to 100 miles, with the Bolsheviki suffering heayy | losses. 42,000 PRISONERS ARE CAPTURI Twenty-ix soviet divisions were | destroyed, according to the state: ment, and the booty falling to Polish troops reached enormous totals, The number of prisoners in the} last 42,000, while no attempt made to itemize the booty, Gen. Ptisudsky, head of the Polish government, was reported to have taken the field personally, to make the attack as effective as possible, one Lithuanians and Poles Sign Truce LONDON, Oct. 4.—A Reuter dia |patch from Warsaw today... sald Poland and Lithuania had concluded an armistice Announcement of such an agree- ment had been ex , in view of the fact that Poland had discontin ued her efforts to seize Vilna, Lithuanian capital, Polish troops were within’ striking distance of Vilna, but halted while the main of- fensive further south was directed to| the east against the Bolsheviki. ERHAPS HE WAS PEEVED DENVER, Oct. 4—James Mar- shall, 21, attracted considerable at- tention here when he smashed five big plate glass windows in a down Hé couldn't explain his sanity will be investigated, crossed Third ave. and entered the | portals of the County-City building. UMMING up, there is no person alive today whd has attained the age of 25 who could not be sent to prison for something he has done | were known.”—Same | if the author, The lady hurried down the long corridor that leads to the back of the County-City building, turned to the right, then to the left, and opened a door. It was the door of the county morgue, In the corridor she had left per- haps 60 persons, all over the age of 26, and all of them lawbreakers, ac- cording to the criminologist. With- out a tremor she had done so, act Polish drive was announced as | had been the | Register ‘There still remain six working days in which voters may regis ter to vote in the November elec tion. Those not registered by Monday night, October 11, cannot vote. Two hundred a day was the average registration for the week Just ended. ‘MILK ARBITERS TO START WORK | Begin Sessions Early This Week Seattle's milk commission, appoint. | ed by Mayor Caldwell last week, will start work early this week to arbi- trate differences between the dairy- men and the retatiers, ‘Two ‘members were added to the board by Caldwell late Saturday. Thomas J. Owens, of Kirkland, will represent the producers and Glenn O. Wallace, milk dealer of Everett, will act as representative of the di» tribiitors. Controversy between the produc: erm and distributors arose out of the demand of the former for an increase of approximately one cent a quart for their produ The dealers re- | fused to accept the new rate, deciar- ling that the consumer would not | stand for the increase and that they could not absorb the proposed raine. Hoth the dairymen and the dealers |have agreed to stand by the findings of the commission for one year. Dairymen, took exception Monday to printed advertisements published |by the distributors as being an at- | tempt to Influence public opinion be- | fore the investigation of the commis |nion, They declared they would re- taliate by propaganda in their own | behalf In & letter to Mayor Caldwell, J. A. Scollard, chairman of the produc ers’ organization, requested that the milk commission confine its findings to the Seattle market district. GIRL IS SLAIN WITH FIANCE) Her Companion | ls Wounded in Arm KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 4-—Po- lice today were without a motive for the murder here of Miss Forence Bar ton, 24, society girl. She was killed while motoring with R. L. her fiance. Winters, a real estate man, was shot in the arm, According to Winters, they were fired at by @ bandit CITY BUYS FRUIT, WHOLE SHIPLOAD; SELLS IT AT COST CHICAGO, Oct. 4.—Prices were given another jolt here to | and pears—a whole of them—narrived here to be sid at cost, The shipment was a part of a purchase by the city of Chicago from Michigan fruit growers in an effort to foree prices down. Six more shiploads have been ordered, ‘OU hi dead man hei said the lady to Deputy Coro- a ner W. J. Tiffin, “whose name was Hans Knudsen.” | “Yes, sald Tiffin, “We have. He died in the city hospital from drink- ing Jamaica ginger, Did you hap- pen to know, him?” “I think so," said she. the man I think, he was | pauper, as the papers stated, tho he |had no money; he the of | wealthy parents living in Norway.” “We should like to know," Tiffin ssured her, “He is in the re frigerator, He have had him a week, hoping someone would come in and identify him and save his body from the potters’ field.” “It he is not a is son Winters, | wite and Mechanic Eloped in World Tour Auto “I thought she would play square, | but she didn't," Capt. Walter Wan- \derwell, world-wide traveler, who started on a walk around the world | from Posen, Poland, in 1912, and who | wound up in this country during the war, told cityletectives Monday. “She” in Nell Wanderwell, the cap- | tain’s wife, who recently failed to | get @ divorce here when she told Judge J, T. Ronald she wished to continue traveling With: her husband “an a business proposition,” even if granted the decree. Captain Wanderwell blames Nell) for taking the unique auto, in which | he was conducting fhe Wanderwell World Tours, from Vancouver, B. C., early Sunday, She eloped in the auto with Al Nelson, mechanic with the Tours, according to Captain Wan- derwell | SAYS MECHANIC | CAUSED ESTRANGEMENT mn Police of the Northwest were searching for the pair and the dis-| tinctive auto, known in nearly every city in the country, Monday. ‘The auto is gray and was built by Captain = Wanderwell personally. “Wanderwell World Tours” is paint- ed on the auto in several places and it is of distinctive construction, Captain Wanderwell blames Nel son for estranging himself and his wife, but says he was willing that jshe be divorced when he discovered |that she no longer loved hime “But I didn't expect .that she| would play such a mean trick as to steal ny auto,” Captain Wanderwell | sata. Ti KS THEY HEADED FOR SEATTLE Captain, Wanderwell started on his famous walk from Posen in 1912. Later he conceived the idea of a tour, and butit the auto, The auto hms been in nearly every country in the world, and in 41 states of the |Union, It carries Mississippi license No, 21600. Moving pictures of the tour were | being taken by Captain Wanderwell | and his party. He ctatms that his and Nelson took these. He be: |Meves they will try to continue to [operate the tours, probably in some |distant part of the country. Captain Wanderwell traced auto from Vancouver across the |boundary line to Bellingham, but |there lost track of it. He thought [it might be in Seattle and appealed to local police for aid. Crew Swims Ashore When Packet Burns EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 4.—The | Ohio river passenger and freight! steamer John L, Lowry burned in| the Saline river, 12 miles above! | Shawneetown, Ill, today, with a loss | estimated at $75,000. Members of the crew were asleep when the steamer caught fire and were forced to swim i ashore, or, It’s All in the Viewpoint | “I should like to look at him,” the Indy said, and they went below stairs Jand-across a long hall to the frigeration room, ‘Tiffin pulled open a heavy, steel door and stepped inside a vault, Under the frost-coated pipes were ranged a number of sHrouded figures | stretched out on slabs. that © were | |mounted on wheels, He selected Hans Knudsen and hauled him out to be viewed by the lady, eee 46T'VE often wondered,” he said, be- fore turning around, “why some people are afraid of the dead. It's the live ones, not the dead ones, we should fear. Then he turned around, was gone, The lady Wanderwell Tells Police She the} OYSTERS NEARLY SEVER THUMBS OF THEIR TORMENTORS SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4.— Emergency hospital surgeons ex- pressed the belief today that the lowly oyster is turning on his tor- mentors. At exactly 5:27 a. m. today J. W. Lapointe and M. Carniglia ar- rived at the hospital. Both are restaurant keepers. Both came to have their left thumbs sewed back on. In each case a knife had slipped while opening an unruly oyster, Yet the two men were from restaurants 17 blocks apart. CARL WANDERER |r GOES ON TRIAL Charged With Killing Wife and Hobo CHICAGO, Oct. 4.—Charged with | slaying his wife and a tramp he hired to assist in a mimic holdup, ac}; cording to his alleged confession, Carl Wanderer, former army lieu- tenant, will be placed on. trial for his life here today. | Wanderer's wife and a raggedly dressed stranger were shot and killed in the vestibule of Wanderer’s home jhere June 31, when Wanderer and {his wife returned from a movie. | Wanderer claimed the man attempt- ed to hold him up and when he re- sisted his wife was accidentally | killed. Wanderer said he killed the | stranger tn a pistol duel. Three weeks later Wanderer, in an | alleged confession, said he killed his | wife because he “wanted to be able to go back in the army.” He said he paid the stranger $3 for staging a fake holdup and killed him so there wouldn't be any double-crossing, The hobo has never been identified. Wanderer pleaded not guilty. His attorneys announced the defense would base its case on hereditary insanity. ‘The morning was spent in ques- tioning jurors, RTUNE IN LOAD OF JUNK CHICAGO, Oct. 4,—A tin can con- taining $48,050 in negotiable notes and Liberty bonds was found in a load of scrap iron here, The notes were returned to their owner, in | Rockford, m. | | 'Plan to Probe _ Gas- Shortage SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4.—The |recent gasoline shortage, which was }acute in California and at some |points in other Pacific Coast states, will be laid before the federal grand Jury here, if final reports of investi- |gators bear out present indications, United States Attorney Frank M. Silva said today. Silva said that agents of the de- partment of justice who have beert investigating the gasoline situation have not submitted their final re- ports, ETTOR “OFF” OF BASEBALL CHICAGO, Oct. 4.—For the first time in its baseball history, Chicago | will not receive its annual set of bet- | | ting odds on the world series from its | |local betting vane. Jim *O'Lea: veteran Chicago gambler, who has always doped the odds in the past, said today he will have no book this year. “I'm off gambling on baseball,” he said. “It's too crooked.” Receiver Is Asked fer Boiler Concern Suit asking that a receiver be | appointed for the West Seattle Boller & Engin® company was filed | in superior court today by the Mill| & Mine Supply company. The plain. tiff, seeking to recover an alleged | jdebt of $123, alleges the assets of | the defendant company to be $10,- 000, liabilities $17,000. HERE'S MORE _ BAD NEWS! SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4.—Judge Fitapatrick has refused to recognize | the lower price wave, Hg announced he had raised the “ante” husbands must pay wives In non-support cases from $20 to $30, | Father Also Dies in tempt to Save Trapped in Flam MERRILL, Wis., Oct Five children can b death in a fire stroyed the farm. Stay! WIL PUNIS concerned should be brought to justice ished.” William J. Fallon, ly under the influence of Ii said Burns told Abe he proposition to Arnold Roti York sporting man, to - series, and that Rothstein | “abused him over the Then, Fallon said, Burns to use his influence with and Abe had the same ex Rothstein “bawling him gut ing such & proposition.’ Fallon said this ended Att nection with the alleged plot, a FIXING LEV As provided by state city council at its session afternoon passea an ordi ing the tax levy for the city districts. ¥ The council at the same adopted a report of the committee recommending minor changes in estimates a lished, ‘The average levy for 1920, computed by City Comptroller Hare ry W. Carroll, is lower than that for the preceding year. The” age levy for the various di this year is 30.5 mills, as $1.12 for 1919 |Tosses Cap, Money to Highwayn PORTLAND, Oct. 4.—"Take our cap and throw all your was the curt command Albright, tollman at the On gon end of the interstate bridge: tween North Portland and ver, Wash,, early today, Albright complied, with the a highwayman picked up a cap ¢0 taining $36.80 and disappeared, re we pr ee Prices Not to Drop Says C. of C. Woe! Likewise Helas! Prices will not drop he moons to come. This is the statement of t trade bureau of the © Commerce, which has _ canvass of local m mine if there is