The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 14, 1920, Page 1

fresh Ew Weather Tonight and Frida eriy win Tem peratare last Hours Today noon, At the Postoffics at @eattia, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, VOLU ME soa , THURSDAY, OCTOB Up! (The Seattle Star gained 11,749 in daily circula- tion in the year ending October 1, making its leadershi, undisputed. Every other Seattle pa- per, according to its of fi- cial circulation figures, lost circulation, the loss of the second paper, The Star’s closest competitor, being over 14,000.) Some of the Reasons Why 5.—“N. E. A.” #E STAR not only took a lead. is one of own and direct the strongest “auxil Mary” news service in the world ‘The Newspaper Enterprise Associa @verywhere as “N. E. A.” ‘The peculiar fod of *N. E. A” have kept secret. with Japanese activities in Siberia; could goto Nikolayevak, fhews bureau at Shanghai, China fore. Others may be expected “N. EB. A.” maintains news bu reaus in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Dallas, Kan eas (City, Feporters—many of whom are ex pot where big news ts breaking. lusion of a corrupt state gov ment, used its armed guards to tern (row a censorship ove Pennsylvania, two N A.” re maid they co Lee J. Smitw and Milton Bronner. its is now head of the N. E, A the London bureaw. months ago, Russ Simonton, form: erly of Seattle and now of the the minin rds’ ri the truth At th all nevespapers were eager for th first direct news from Berlin BA.” assigned three men to get ‘One was to go in from Sweden me from France, one from Switzer nd. be didn’t have any is news past the al d armies’ cen In a few days in came another IN. E. A.” man, “Ed” Thierry. He ad acarefully laid route fot getting Vienna, Geneva and a jout news Paris, whence it was to be ca New York. He took Lyon's copy md bis own and filed it by that uundabout method--and it came u, the first news written by merican reporters from the capl- fal of the vanquished enemy Duckworth, of “N. E ree weeks in Bolst fter Lenine and T: im he couldn't. F ky had to echtol, of B. A.,” sent the first picture of the Wgning of the peace treaty « Ihe Atlantic by dirigible oon. Gardner and Kerby, of A..” ‘unearthed the Ballinger land frauds that disrupted a president's cabinet Burton, of E. A.” cabled the lonly eye-witness description of the pattle ef the Marne. These are only a few pews-gathering that make journa lists «everywhere remark: “News paper Enterprise Association cer. tainly lives up to its middle name.” (Te your friends about The tar. Tell them they can have it iwered, by mail or carrier, any- in the state of Washington fifty conta a month.) i ing pert in organizing ' the United Press and so breaking the ews monopoly in America, but it the 20 newspapers that tion, known to newspapermen ie t do the difficult , to get the ews that ls hard get; to dig beneath and behind ‘apparent facts and find the hid- { truth; to be at the forbidden ce when events are transpiring 1 the participants would like to For instance, there are the news [ articles from Jack Mason that are | appearing daily in The Star dealing DENTON GIRL'S [Tr LAWYER TALKS) Zi iFirst Witness. ‘Summoned in L. A. Probe 108 ANGELES, Cal, Id Man of the Circus MIDDLEBORO, | big auctioneer and a tiny gray hatred with the light of hope fading Mason traveled 2,000 miles to get his facts after the Japanese govern- ment had announced that NO KE | ward }found not guilty of murder by rea json of insanity. geene of the latest Jap reign of roles in one of life's tragedies in old ant poverty when the Jack Mason i the chief corre- effects of the Spondent attached to the “N. EB. A.” . heiress to the) Countess Magri, | Frances Denton, |bulk of the estate of Jacob C. jton, murdered mining man, was tho were sold to the highest bid Other important “scoops” from the Far East have come from him be- vithess summo ed by the coun-| . No larger than a 6 year-old chtid a diminutive chair, a silent, » treasures of hin wife | home were auctioned off. d with his wife ity grand jury |Denton's death was begun bullding today The charges are that he misused for $4,000 signed oung lawyer employed by Chicago, Cleveland, Washington, New York, London And Paris. From these bureaus its Other witnesses to be questioned! according to triet Attorney Deran, |tives Hickok in circuses and poor and in ii}health He had been ordered to a warmer The sale has been he acted not of 4 local superior court judge perienced newspaper editors—are feady to dash at any time for the rin wan the first witness called Beattlo Rar association, which other matters next w altho many Mrs. Richard C. Peete nt of the Denton b When the Steel Trust, with the inlaid Japanese sewing box much used by the co expected to be jury until next w efsation with Ol porters werit where the Stee! Trust idn't go, and sent out the truth. The two reporters were area of stock cycle ridden by little old man in other days #old for Attorney W Pre ident Accepts Shouse Resignation WASHINGTON, closing of ita doors by order ttle bureau; Bronner is head of 1 that Olson g cake were 9old p antique dealers return to his na nd his remaining WANTS POWER RATES LOWER sion to make in its light and power rates to cer uncilman R. | utilities com: | j mittee, declared Thursday that the would get Gorin When mining companies tried the game game in West Virginia a few alary of $1,000 @ y resignation of E. A.” Cleveland bureau, went into “and Olson was to get me camps, defied mine and brought back of the treasury, | be effective November 15. ONDER WHO THE ATTORNEY IS 4 prominent Seattle and he told me | Storrs would surrender himself as soon as he learned of the supreme court's action in the ter. GIRL IN INSANE WARD, close of the World War stock should be forthcoming After gome days had passed, Gorin he spoke to Olson tment of the jin & ing to the witn he was afraid | municipal railv Ing the purse i Lyon got there first, but 1 reductions y of getting | Okanogan was ja phoned a bank official to retgrn the tain Jarge consumers, Authorities decline to di Gorin said he heard Olson talking to the bank official, but that the note d and after the bank he noticed tn its publiehed list the owner's name ‘Slick City Chap | Argues Rancher | Out of His $23 Harold Rosebrugh | was not return order to obtain | the business of the larger companies: Immediatety, official and ¢ otgers connected with th in conferenc manded that his note be returned. > assumed the form | w As to why the asset of |clerk at the attorn , he got Olson, Fear Grecian King Fatally Stricken| PARIS, Oct " spent of an inquiry had been listed « Olson blaming the » bank official blamin into one of Pros ¢ cleaners for $23 Gorin charges that Olson put the » bank to his own credit Good News Lo’hd Love Yuh uh, Lookit This! Laws-a-massy, police | read in de pa | wasn't more, ¢ man certainly HE STESSES | THREE MURDERS ‘| feased, August Pasquale, | Biekhaty Coughlin, was expe | SIEGE OF RUTH assured the poll and Main st of the memorable feats in | Later he was se E- k ag security for @ loan of $237" |feused he took her once to B a the stranger more confessions » obliging Mr Thursday morning F assured by the was worthless, all the crimes which he admits bank that the eheek | Pasquale smothered the nished with @ desttigtion of the | lin baby and threw it into the Schuyl |4% cents ao poun’ market Thursday. Dey's 4 and|come with her love for him did sh wholegule fall his vidtim, That was in Febru WOMEN CONFESS COMPL IN STAGG BABY KIDN On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star as Becond Clase Matter May 9. B Tt EW Z: ATE EDITION = _ ma Per Yoar, by Mail, $6 to TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE oing |DOUGLAS STORRS MUST SERVE? lucky Mother Breaks Down OFFER FOR 5 YEARS IN PRISON TOMORROW | The Star Will Have | Something to Say to LANDLORDS agedy Grips |DISBARMENT TRIAL OPENS: Seattle Clubman Accused of Misusing $4,000 Note Hearing of charges against George | . Seattle attorney and clubman, meking hin disbarment from further joe of law in this state, ) before Howard M » member of thé LOSES HIS APPEAL T0 HIGH COURT Affinity of Ruth Garrison Is Ruled Against in Decision of Supreme Bench | OLYMPIA, Oct. 14—Douglas Storrs’ whereabouts are unknown, but It is believed he is in Seattle. | He has been out on bail wince July 19, 1919. He was tried in Okanogan, | Where the intimacies with Ruth Gar | rigon took Mies Garrison In in the insine at the state prison. She was! The supreme court, tn its written | »pinion, comments The only thing lifting this case | above the usual in such cases is the great, uncommon and almost unnat ural love of Ruth Garrison for the ppevant.” The holding of the supreme court is that the trial court in the Storr esror| ase committed no reversib in not permitting the defendant's) counsel to interview Ruth Garrison | before or pending trial. The trial) court's refusal to permit Storrs to} marry the girl ix also upheld, eee STORRS SEEN IN SEATTLE LAST MONDAY Storrs was seen in Seattle not ater than last Monday “I saw him motoring south on Broadway near Pine St. in a Ford,” aid Deputy Sheriff Asa Lee today I think it was Monday.” | Lee said he recognized Storrs} from aavociation with him when| orrs was a deputy sheriff like himself, | of the sheriff's convinced that Other members office force seem STORES LON The Ruth Garrison case starded| the Northwest Great crowds packed the courtroom ttle when the girl was brought to trial, The little courtroom at} nmed when Doug:| las M. Storrs was convicted? ‘The eirl in the sensational murder | | dicted that the grand jury, if it in Collector of Internal Revenue Justus| Tacoma police spurned the offer | | story” of the alleged liquor ring’s se haw been in the criminal insane | ward at the state prison, Walla Ia, more than a year, She is still} there. Storrs, the man accused of causing the girl's downfall, has been free | since July 19, 1919, while his case | went to the supreme court Ruth Garrison met Storrs while both were employed at the King county courthouse, Seattle Storrs | ‘as a deputy sheriff and mechunic{ ge. Ruth. was information in the county pounter, Ruth was a demure, almost pretty ttractive girl of 1%, with dark hair and a*dark complexion. Storrs was & careful, natty dresser—a “lady killer.” He was 27 and married. LONG RE ED Storrs was often seen hanging Ruth's desk, whispering to her. n driving her home in a county automobile, THe con. ett, but that #! resisted his advances. The testimony in the mu and in the trial of Storrs broug that he had made several attempts to ruin hy Not until she was over: lo | Mra, Warburton, It was emphasized] LOS AN | least, occupies only a clerical posi-| Coast league pennant by members of| doing, Tell them Betty Braii |county jafl here today. R (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) Mrs. Stagg Is Unconscious! RETURN (F | INFANT IS SPURNED! New York Editor Telephones Proffer, Contingent Upon Miss Brainerd’s Release | OLYMPIA, Oct. 14—~ Governor Hart signed * extradition papers at 11 o'clock this morning re- questing the governor of New York to permit the removal of Betty Brai-_ nerd to this state for trial. Mrs. George T. Stagg TACOMA, Oct. 14.—The* condition ; Brainerd, to accompany the official! Wired to New York authorities of Mra. George T. Stagg, mother of party to Olympla and personally, And the net about the other mem- the kidnaped baby, Bobby Stagg, waa| plead her case. bers of the kidnaping party is fant” much worse today. But she was so much out of her| being closed, according to the state From time to time, between @pells right mind yesterday and today that|™ent of authorities working on the” of violent hysteria, whe lapses into she was not even informed of the | Case here today. unconsciousness for as long as 25 or | developments. She was merely told| Detective Archie Mondeaw left Tas 30 minutes’ duration. | that things were progressing nicely. | Cm for Olympia this morning with 7 She had intended, when the time) “Then why don't you get my boy?” | !al Papers asking that Governor | came for Governor Hart to be asked she cried out, repeating the question | Hart requisition Governor Smith) 68? for extradition papern for Betty over and over, siqv Yor’ te, turn. over Oia Te : e MANY CHARGES POLICE CHIEF AND WIFE x Hickle they will be presented to the governor. If the extradition papers are issued, Chief and Mrs. Harry | Smith will leave at once to bring © Miss Brainerd here. ‘ dition papers, said he was certain he. jhad sufficient evidence to convict, RUSH T0 CET TO BRING BETTY HOME As soon as the papers are passed. California Investigation Is Californians Approve Home| Prosecuting Attorney Askren, of upon by Secretary of State Grant Brisk Production Eaeniger in his request for the extras | SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14.—The} SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14—Call.|He recommended that Chief Smith California prohibition investigation | fornians already are taking advan |and his wife be sent for her. ter of interest, and | te of the opportunity to make wine| First overtures offering the sum tion, tonne jin thetr homes, prohibition officials | tender of Bobby, contingent upon > charges of | Ported today. the guaranteed release of Miss ngs piled up|. AP Increasing number of house-| Brainerd, it was learned today, holders are visiting the offices of | reached Tacoma early yesterday, continued as a sometimes of » Charges and counts various forts of misde to such an extent t at it Was pre stids to settle all the phases in.| Wardell to file notices of intention | and in a 3,000 word telegram inform | nd, must prepare for @ long and | Teduired under the new interpretation |ed New York authorities that pe stormy seaston | of the prohibition 1aws, by which the | would insist upon the return of ~velopments of the last ddzen|™&nufacture of 200 gallons of dry} Brainerd to this state, the trial of udibe tnmudall * | wine or cider is permitted for strictly | George. Stagg, Mrs. Stage’s divorced — Announcement that Robert I, Jef-| home use, without regard to alcohol-| husband, if he is captured, and the fress, charged jointly with former | '¢ content and without the payment | trial of several other persons, includ _ ptus Supervisor Francis Mannix, of any federal tax, ing women. of San Francixco, with alleged deal.| Sitce publication yesterday of the | OFFER. TELEPH ings in whisky, had bad a long con.| test ruling, more than a score of FROM NEW YORK (ITY . ference with United States Attorney | Persons have signified their inten-| at _iey a m. yesterday, it wall tion to make their own wine, it was} said at the Internal revenue office, |r Tene aka Tork “Aineviengh al Great numbers of similar notices! Hearst newspaper, telephoned” by wiekings. | Were expected from deputy collectors | ing distance to Chartes B. Welsh, Charges by John L. Considine, who | of internal revenue in other cities and} caitor of the Tacoma News-Tribune. succeeded “Mrs. Glad Kimball War.| tos of the district, especially from! jie asked Welsh to ask the ‘Tas burton aa prohibition director for those situated in grape-producing : sections, coma police if they would dismiss Frank M. Silva, He was said to have told Silva the supposed “inside Caltfornia, as Mrs. a rburton's| Brie aha rges of kidnaping against Fes statements have savored of a “smoke I rainerd if Bobby was retui Fane th f dutt in th ffi .|Gr d Jun Pro yee llcnse on s#umption of duties in the offic: Shaw's inquiry w: nicated of the special prohibition agent by | Coast Baseball |... "tnt ‘pois, as sequested to the police, as requested. The | ui , Oct. 14.—Probe| reply of Chief Harry Smith was: that Mrs. arburton, at present, at) of alleged “buying” of the Pacific “Tell New York there is nothing tion. the Vernon t m last year will be| must Announcement that Mrs. Warbur M “Mak anak ae undertaken by the Los Angeles coun-|want Stagg, and are going to get ton had written Federal Prohibition | ty grand jury tomorrow, it was an-|him. He must stand trial, There Commissioner Kramer, at Washing: | nounced at the district attorney's of®|are several other women here who ton, @ report of the situation. | fice here today. must stand trial, too. Tell them, Mrs. Warburton’s report charged | ~ a however, if Bobby Stagg is voluntan | that Considine refused to cooperate SEES COAT-TAIL FLIP ily brought back to his mother here with her “as to enforcing the law.” we will recommend light sentences She declared that “Mr, Justus War THRU WINDOW | tor au concerned.” 4) delt has become the selfappointed| when Mrs. C. Hoffman, 1416 11th] Deputy Sheriff Matt Starwich de oe ppmabery director for the state Of | ave, W., returned home Wednesday | clined to disclose the identity of the california.” Wardell is collector of | night trom a call shesheard someone (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) internal revenue, in the house. Upon entering her ‘ George Washington bedroom she saw the coat-tail of a Patrolmen Fred Mills and R. R . Moulton investigated without suc-|| Is Going to Move George Washington is going to cess, Nothing was missing from the house. as is 2 move. For a good number of CHICAGO, Oct, 14—Frank cam-| Wedding Ring and yearey noe 2000, 25 0008, eae he 40th st, plone, Italian, and James Reese were Teron Kt. thee ee Soe University” : hanged simultaneously in the Cook Pearls Are Stolen|| ‘2? Umer” of Washington, Now the Sons and Daughters of se Pro. A wedding ring and a $150 string |] the Amertean Revolution propose tested his innocence to the last.[of pearls were reported stolen! } to place him in Rainier Vista, op. Campione broke down as the noose| Thursday by J. F. Anderson, 1245 |] posite Meany hall. Lorado Taft, was slipped around his neck, Reese | 22nd ave. N, Motoreycle Patrolman || Washington's sculptor, approved was accused of murdering his wife)J, BE. Clark called at the house and/| the change when he was in the and Campione of killing a man in al took a look at the window thru}] city last summer. holdur which the burglar entered