The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 16, 1920, Page 1

Let This Be the Motto of Seattle Landlords: ] 66 NO MORE RAISES IN RENTS’ The Star Invites Residents and Business Men Whose Rents Are Raised After October 15 to Make Their Protests Public Thru This Newspaper. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Eg 0 Ml Tonight and southeasterl VOL U ME 2 23 ing to sou “= Temperature Maxtroum, 49, Today ather Sunday, rain; y winds, shift- thwest gale. Last M Hours Min neon, eSeattle Star Rotared ae Second Clase Matter May 3 *, at the © At Beattie ATU oa WASH, Wash RDAY ; OCTOBER 16, 19 20. under the Act of Congress March 3, 18 79, Ver Year, by Mall, #6 to 19 TH LATE EDITION ) x ¢ Ul TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE STAGG BAB Goin ne | (The Seattle Star gained 11,749 in daily cireula- 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 7.—CLEAN COMICS ORIGIN of the newspaper “comic strip" is uncertain. Gen- ty it is traced to “The Yellow ” @ grotesque caricature that red in series in the New York ronal in 1896. The “Kid" was posed to be a “take-off” on the ‘nal's own editor, W. R. Hearst. the “Kid” was unlike the strips of today in “he confined his postures to ite and his remarks to one a” wi i» the artixta’ for the little line that in- | gupposed-to-be spoken sa six-column strips to appear surv. At one time there two “Pee-Wees,” each ridieub the ether in competing New ‘whe early strips appealed frankly 20 persons with « primitive sense of humor. The “point” in most of them consisted in some person's Deing hit in the face with a custard ple, cracked over the head with a Wallet, run over by a steam-roller OF Sropped out a 1é-story window. Such was the comie when Walter Allman entered the field. Alitoan was te cartoonist on a ‘Tvledo newspaper, the News-Bee. Hie had tne bunch that a series of @ravings built about actually pos- sible people would prove a drawing card. He originated the characters | of Tom and Heien. The first title | Of his series was “Guess if They Are Married.” For six months or © the readers were kept wondering —then it came out that the charac ters were Mr. and Mrs. Duff. Alman’s strip had been submit- t4d to and accepted by the editor. tmchief of the magazine pages in The Star and its associated papers, _ tight years ago, - It made a tremendous hit and A built up a tremendous following. Newspapers all over the country wrote and wired for the local “rights” to R. Imitators sprang up —scores of them. The “polite comic,” as opposed to the “bar-room comic,” became a fixture in Amer fean journalism. The Star's other comics, both those produced for this newspaper @nd those purchased from “syndl. cates,” live up to the Allman stand- ard of cleanliness, Those which ‘shady have been discarded Blosser, in The Star's “juvenile” ic, draws healthy young Amer feans, not gutteranipes t auto mechanic gets @ Ki enicker. And our new W stfip introduces one of loved stage and mov’ whone “Illiterate Digest’ millions laugh and who seeks a | larger audience thru the dailies, | o- (Tel your frienda about The Star. Tell them they can have it delivered, by mail or carrier, any- where in the state of Washington for fifty cents a month.) Failed to Give ’Em Heat; Jap Arrested ‘ Tenants at 1814 Minor ave. con- demned the proprietor, R. Nichimur to the warmest of ™ climes, at Inspector C. R. Frasch, of the h department. That's why he arres a the Jap Saturday for failure to fur- nish heat in the apartment Nichi! gave $16 beds ITY DADS ARE RILED AT MEIER}: City councilmen with legislation to | be prepared on crowing dogs ana! barking roosters were slightly out of temper Saturday when it was din covered that Walter ¥. Meter, chief legal luminary for the city, was out| stumping the countryside in the in- t ta of the well-known G. O. P. thousand exaervice who, as bed, Are forming ye fare | aweet potatoes, | and wheat, o in living ¢ | today to Postmaster ( ‘| Cleveland ‘Ridiivte | While some commodition have drop- ped in price here, busineas men said today that wages. Portland Reports | price of clothing in Portland tw | per cent lower now than before the! |recent price reduction wave men | sweeping the countr: tho living, are officially listed | Belling, prominent clothier, i HERR RRR eee eB eB ROY WOLFF SENTENCE IS SACRAMENTO, sentence of 22 for tl for the PRICES ARE omeias Various Commodities . BY RALPHF. co WASHINGTON, Oct. pe ia! now leading all other necensities in the downward eweep of prices, ’ The level of prices paid farmers for their products declined 15.6 per +z leent during September, according to} reports to the agricultural depart- ment covering the entire country. Consumers already have begun to} benefit from this sweeping decline, other reports showed. | Prices paid the farmer on October 1 thruout the United States aver-| aged, according to the agricultural department: White potatoes, $1.35 per burner | $1.61 per bushel; ap- ples, $1.42 per bushel; butter, 54.1) | cents per pound; eggs, $0.1 cents per! dozen; chickens, 26.4 cents per pound, | $2.14 per bushel. Retail prices of clothing and more! than 260 other commodities still are! on the down grade, government re-| ports show. Numerous expressions of opinion} by high government officials indi-| cate price declines already recorded | are regarded ag the bexinning of a| permanent decline in the general cost | of living. Secretary of the Treasury Houston is one who believes the crest of high prices has been reached. It may take years, howeves, for the general decline to complete its cycle, Hous. ton said. } Governor Harding of the federal reserve board is another official who | has declared the Mecline is a perma nent beginning of lower pri Value of the dollar has increased nearly 18 cents, government records show. The dollar is worth approxi mately 56 cents compared with its prewar purchasing power. ‘Two months ago the dollar stood for only 37 cents. \Federal Enaploves Salaries Are Cut CHICAGO, Oct. 16 Reduction of} aries of federal employes ted bees of recent riisie. Carlisle waa ordered to reduce aal ate, |arles of 450 employes of the post { office ceived Burleson. department in a from Postmaster Thowe affected bookkeepers who r $2,000 and $3,000 an-| letter re General were lerks and od between No General Cutting| CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct, 16— & genuine “satisfying” frop canhot be expected, until there 6 a decline from the present level of Prices Are Lower PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 16 The 20 atarted | declared Ben | today. Food dealers here believe the re (urn to Page 5, Column 1) nually |ises to be the one lon gina its first kit must than nine to | quality | Sentimental Watch (THE When She Awoke A WOMAN S SCREAM Pierced Her Mind Like a Thread of Purple Light PRISCILLA’S DREAMS pe oy =<dypan< fae aye THE DARK MIRROR LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE Come to Mean to Her FEAR AND TRAGEDY Before She Learns Whether That Woman Is Real or a Dream Creature .This Mystery Story in The Star STARTS MONDAY 9 BOYS HELD AS AUTO THIEVES More Arrests “Expected in _ Portland PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 18. — Charged with the theft of more than 100 automobiles and several bur giaries, nine boys were arrested by the police here last night and early this morning. Wiliam Herder, 18, the first to be arres@d, is maid to have confensed, involving the other boys who be longed to the gang. More arrests are expected today. | Some of the boys are believed to participated in the alleged ot automobiles only for joy ha thefts rides, MucH YOWLING | IN DE NVE R NOW DENVER, Oct ay yow! ‘olorado Cat club n show. Entrants over two months and less prom, for | Denver. The be Inspires Thieves) “T love you,” inacrihed on the watch stolen from Carl H. Jones, 4401 W. Bertona st. should not be atken literally by the thieves, he | told police Saturday. Jones also in minus suit, shotgun, suitcase and two elks’ teeth. VES STEAL COP’S TIRE “Where angels fear to tread” has no meaning for thieves. Patrolman R. D. Van Hor tire from his auto ned and Vike st, Friday night, | werted on the city street head of the Lost and) Eighth Wife of Kid McCoy Gets Divorce 1LO8 ANGELMS, Oct. 16.—Andther chapter in the matrimonial expert enees of Norman Selby, better known as Kid MeCoy, former prize fighter and present motion picture actor, had been concluded today, following granting of @ divorce to Carmen own ) hin eighth wite ihe granted on the ground was f cruelty The eighth Mes. Selby told Judge Jackson that Selby struck her short ly after their marriage, “He told me his other wives had been women of the world, He # he wanted a real girl he could love, 1, “1 believed him.’ But she was soon disillusioned, she sald, “This man will get another wife if I grant the dive said, “Perhaps it would be ay weil for this girl to act as a buffer for the rest of the community.” SHE. ROBS HIM; LOCKS HIM IN Lucille La Belle was wanted by the police and Peter Duna, of 103% Prefontaine building, Saturday, Pete waid that Lucille took $420 trom his room and then locked him tn the room. Motoreyole Patrolman O. K. Holschumaker released Pete. AIR NETS AND AUTO TIRES GO Everything from hair nets to auto- mobile tires were auctioned off Sat: urday by the Lost and Found depart- ment of the municipal railway, The | those forgotten or de- 8. Charles good were A, Chambers, Found, wielded the gavel. The sale was at the Westlake market, * Judge Jackson | Cal., Oct. 16.—Governor Stephens today commuted the R Wolff to life imprisonment. | Wolff, formerly of Seattle, had been sentenced to be hanged on October rr of a taxicab driver, Elmer Greer, at Fresno. aredevil Cop lumps to Careening Auto; Shoots Up Tire | Police belleve they have stumbled on a beotleeger ring in full opera tion, following the daring Walter Moore, 27, by Patroimen C. V. Harvey and A, J. Hill, Saturday | morning, One more arrest was made and Saturday afternoon officers were | delving into the operations of the | ailesed ring. More arrests are ¢x- pected, Harvey leaped from a speeding po: | lice prowler car to the tire rack of | Moore's auto, on Olive st, shot holes | in the right rear tire of the auto, | and when this failed to halt the| apedding car, smashed in a window | in the rear of the auto and ordered Moore to stop at the point of a gun. Moore drew up in front of the New Washington hotel, Second ave. and Virginia st. Six quarts of Per fection Seotch whisky were found in a black grip in the tonneau of the | tific HT DAYLIGHT ITS AFTER HIM thought I was being pursued by daylight bandits.” was Moore's explanation of hin fleeing from the police. Thirty minutes after Moore was brought into the central station handeuffed, and lodged in the city jail on two charges, George Brooke, 10, said to be his accompl was rekted at Broadway and Denny way by Harvey, He ie held on an open charge, Moore and Brooke re | tained Attorney John J, Sullivan The daring chase that ended Moore's capture was witnessed thousands. Hill and Harvey were searching for speeders on Broadway when t driving his big car at speed they thought too fast. sy started to overtake him. Moore speeded up. APS TO TIRE: OPENS FIRE turned down Olive st reckless apeed, despite the wet, pery pavement and the heavy fic He was forced to slow down, near Summit a Harvey leaped | from the police auto and hopped onto a tire on-the rear rack of the Moore auto When Moore became Harvey was clinging perilously to the rear of his auto, he emulated a bucking broncho in trying to shake him off, With Hill following close , in the police car, he made a zigzag course down the street | Harvey clung tenaciously rack, Finally, when he Moore was net going to stop, he drew his revolver and fired wlx | shots into the right rear wheel. The \car heeled over. Thousands of pedestrians and mo- torints gaped in astonishment when | |they saw the two speeding autos | and the policeman clinging to the! jfear of the leading car. The shots created a near panic in the crowded Westlake district StiM, Moore refused to stop. His} auto Was much more powerful than | the police car, and altho crippled, it! still maintained the lead Speeding down Olive st. and near- |ing Second ave., Harvey, risking ne-| vere injury, reached up and smashed | the glass in the rear of the tonneau | of the auto and, shoving the gun! thru, commanded Moore to halt. He did, was handcuffed and brought to police station, in by ata stip. traf. aware that to saw the that |ahe says. | cally uniform taflored suits, TO BE RETURNED NEXT She’s Perfect Model RICHMOND Heads‘ U q everst Spokane, w pHi is directin * “Well, today?” a5 nirls, what'll we wear ‘opular Sayings. eee One of the knottiest problems of | Py masa Thompson, Kappa Kappa | inson and the human race since Eve dixcovered the use of the fig leaf has been the question of woman's clothes, For years it hax worried the minds f women and pocketbooks of men Kut at last a solution—heralded as great as the most important scien: revelation—has been discovered. It will be in our own little old city next Wednesday afternoon that the Women’s league of the University of Washington will stage a fashion show demonstrating the proper wear for street, afternoon and evening oc Astor. ERFECT MODEL” HEADS UL" FASHION SHOW Agnes O'Neil, Spokane co-ed, member of Delta Gamma sorority, is in charge of the fashion show, A perfect model in last year's clothes exhibition staged by the Home Eco- nomics department, she was chosen to direct this year's affair. She is a senior in the sociology department of the College of Liberal Arts, Some of ber views on clothes and the fashion show might be interest- ing. “The show has a double purpe “One is to demonstrate to freshmen co-eds the kind of clothes to wear while attending the univer: | sity; the other is to let the people of Seattle know that simplicity is the watchword in the dress of college girls, “It is interesting to note how a! girl changes her clothes habits as she goes on thru her four years of xchool, The freshmen co-ed usually wears the keenest clothes. Some of the raiment brought to school by the beginners is actually wild, owing, probably, to the popular impression that girls go to college to vamp the men students and the profs, "At the end of the year the good ola report card reminds them what the really in school for and a remarkable change comes over the clothes picking. No more of these | over-peeky peek-wboos aud all that, sort of thing. “Styles in women's clothing come and go according to economic condi- tions, Now that woman has taken her place in the Industrial world, I look for the introduction of practi- Men's clothes are just alike and there's no| reason why women’s can't be simija: too, especially during the daytime, Miss O'Neil has chosen 35 of the most popular co-eds on the campus to be the models. The girls will wear their own clothes, Miss Ethel Hunt- ley Coldwell, dean of women, is as- sisting Miss O'Neil in directing the! exhibition, | ‘The show will consist of three seenes, depicting the proper sport, afternoon and evening clothes, Cor- a the pode fh fashion how to be held jon the campus next We gai afternoon. * * x & & rect footwear and hair dressing will also be demonstrated by the models. Coeds taking the leading parts are mma, of Pendleton, Ore; Peggy | {mee Delta Gamma, of Everett, | and Betty Baunmer, Kappa Alpha Theta, Seattle, demonstrating sport clothes. THEY'LL SHOW HOW TO WEAR EVENING CLOTHES Katherine Miller, Delta Gamma, of Portland; Phraser McPherson, Alpha Phi, Seattle, and Helen Dunn, Seat- Ue, will show what to wear in the afternoon. Dorean Kennedy Phi, Seattle; Marion Winter, Kappa Kappa Gamma, of Los Angeles, and Eu Redding, Gamma Phi, of Med- ford, Ore., will demonstrate the prop- er evening clothes, The university Fine Arts depart- ment, under the direction of Iris Canfield, will furnish the music for the occasion, Seattle mothers and all girls at- tending high school are especially asked to attend the show. Remember the date — Wednesday, 20; the time—4 p. m, and Meany hall on the uni- versity Sr MAIL AVIATOR KILLED IN FALL, CHICAGO, Oct, 16.—Pilot Memul lon, of the United: States air mail| service, wag killed today when his plane fell at Batavia, 1 MeMullen left Chicago on the Omaha mail route early tod The aviator apparently lost his way in a heavy fog. George White, a farmer, and his wife saw the ma chine drop. They hurried to the pla ‘There was an explosion and the machine burst into flames imme. ately after it dropped, By the time they had pulled the aviator’ body from the burning wreckage, he was VICTORIA MAYOR SENDS GREETINGS THRU AIR MAIL From Mayor R. J. Porter, of Victoria, B.C. to Mayor Hugh M. Caldwell, of Seattle—airy greetings! Seattle's new international mail service between Canada and the United States was celebrated by the Canadian mayor in a letter received, via the air lanes, by Mayor Caldwell Saturday, “This, the «first international mail service, wit) bind the U. 8, and Canada hy closer bonds of friendship,” the mayor of Vio- toria declared, ‘StyleShow OFFICIALS GET WORD -OF PLAN! 'Where Is Child? New York Police and Children’s Society “Pass Buck” | Efforts of The Star today failed |to confirm a report that reached the sheriff's office here from Ta coma last evening that Baby Bobby Stage had been surrendered to the |New York police by Betty Brainerd, one of his alleged kidnapers. | ‘The message, it now appears, may |have been deliberately falsified with ja double sinister purpose—to furs’ | ther torture Mrs. George Stage, _ | Bobby's frantic and to } | j | mother, throw those searching for the baby — momentarily off their guard, About § o'clock last evening D | ty Bheriff Herbert Beebo says he |celved a long distance phone n from a person representing to be Chief of Police Harry of Tacoma, who read him lowing alleged telegram: “Betty surrendered baby to. York police. Baby in charge of C dren's society. Miss Brainerd ing arrival of officers from | It was signed, Beebe was |formed, by Inspector Lahey, | of New York detectives, and addressed to the Tacoma Elke’ lodge. Today: it was learned that the |eram. lodge received such a tele gram, but that it was signed Willlam Phillips, of the New Yi lodge of Elks, or purported to be. On its heels this morning, Stringer received the Tohowthe» message from Police Chief C, Al Sherry, of Richmond, Vi aL ‘We have positive ini |that Mixs Brainerd and Edna Rot baby have never been in this city,’ but all’ three | went.to New York. We understand | Stagg child will be returned to ita home on or before Saturday, Oc tober 23, and we are fully satisfiel Mr. Cohen has had no guilty com nection with this caxe.” | The New York police and Chik: |dren’s Home officials today, ever, denied that they had the Stagg: baby, t BETT WON'T HALT | Whether or not Mixx Brainerd |has surrendered the child, criminal | proceedings against her and other alleged principals to the kidnaping will not be halted, and the young Seattle society woman, newspaper: writer and daughter of Brainerd of Seattle, will be refui here, if extradition is granted, |stand trial, Tacoma authorities am | nounced today. Mrs. Stagg, tho elated over the report that her boy had been found, does not care, it was said, to drop the charges against Miss Brainerd and wishes to have the search con+ tinue for her divorced husband, George Stagg, and the trmined nurse, Miss Edith Nicholson, alias Edna Robinson, alias Mrs, Harry Evans, both of whom are alleged tp have taken part in the kidnape ling. Upon receipt |telegram from ning, the Tacoma Elks, For days she had been on the verge of collapse. | When the telegram was read to |her she was overwhelmed with joy. Mrs. Stagg wns able to make the following statement today: “IT was sick in bed. Now T am up and celebrating, We're so elated we're going to kill the fatted calf, am might say. wired Bobby's grandma—my mother, Mrs, Herbert Cunningham, at Pasco. She will go ahead to New | York for the baby. | WILL LET THE LAW TAKE ITS COURSE “She has everything he neede—_ jmutta, caps and everything down to. | stockings. | “I doubt if mother will be able to. | put up much of a fight for the extra. dition of the principals to the kid- naping when she peaches New York. ‘The fight will all be taken out of her once she finds Bobby f#-all gicity. ee “Of course, we don’t feel quite as harshly toward them as we @id- fore, but will let the law take course, We will not retrieve steps that have been taken to them, to justice. I think they to be prosecuted, don't you?” (Para to Page 5, Colma 9 of the mysteriaus New York last @¥@ — Mrs, Stagg was informed by |)