The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 18, 1920, Page 1

aL On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Sta @eather south easterly winds. Tonight | probably rain; Maximum, 5° Temperature Last Today noon, Clase Matter May 8, 1899 VOL U ME 23 Going Up! (The Seattle Star gained 11,749 in daily circula- tion in the year ending October 1, making its anderen undisputed. Every sthen Seattle pa- per, j Be’ BR 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 &—“WOMEN'S PAGE! HE STAR'S dally double activities and the kindred cultures ie the most ox tensive department of its | kinti in any daily paper on the Pa | cific coast, excepting. perhaps, one paper in Los Angeles, which runs about as much, r When the paper shortage’ hit jour Pomals all.over America, and paper- ving fconomies were effected, 4 this department first. Tie : placed this deparunent LAST Ton sthe list for cutting—and we haven't cut it yet And so you find in The Star com prehensive reports on club, mustonl Bnd social activities, art gossip and fashion notes, the latest stage news and hints on home-making Mucy “that ordinarily passes for in newspaper offices is of and ephemwral interest, and well be condensed [nto short A Beats Yee is ot more interest locally than train wreck that killa three peo ple im North Carolina, A &ym- phony concert at Meany hall is more Brportant than a rict in Budapest. _ Buch, at last, ts our belief. And the prominence given to “cultural activities in The Star has not in the Yeast interfered with this paper's * function of giving the legitimate paeatine news. "THIEVES ENTER Burgiars last night looted five “homes, all within a few blocks of each other, in the North Broadway @istrict. A home in the University district was also entered. M. Colts, 1811 Franklin ave. re ported the lows of a woman's wrist Wateh when burglars broke in a win dow, between 6 and $ p. m. Sunday Four blocks down the street, at 2232 Franklin ave., Charies Bladine, re turning at 11 p. m. Sunday, found his home ransacked and a woman's gold watch, diamond ring and a re- volver stolen. R. B. For 2717 Boylston ave . N., contributed a $100 string of pearls, an overcoat, a gold wrist watch Charlies D. Redin, 2823 Harvard Sunday and found s window broken. ‘Thinking a burglar was ip the house, he called t Mice. Motoreycle Of. ficer Fred Mille, who responded, Searched the house, but found no one. His theory is that the burglar became frightened and fied. The home of P. J. Gooch, 1909 Pranklin ave, was entered thru a window and ransacked, but nothing was taken. The thieves overlooked valuables, Gooch told police Monday In the University district Mrs. H. C. Clark, 5226 Brooklyn ave., report ed’ that thieves removed the screen of an unlotked back window, entered the house and obtained two gold| chains, an opal and an opal pin MERRY CHRISTMAS! White frost, for the first time this autumn, wag visible on roof and sidewalk thruout Seattle at daybreak today King May Recover From Monkey Bite ATHOQNS, Oct. 18—King Alexander had a fair night and was making! satisfactory progress today, a bul letin from his physicians said. The king is suffering from infection, the result of the bite of a pet monkey eee Regent for Greece to Be Nominated » LONDON, Oct, 1%—The Greek | cabinet decided Saturday to convoke parliament to nomi regent, ac- cording to a news agency dispatch today HE’S TIRED OF Tired, she says, of being choked by an angry husband, and thrown vio. Jently to the floor whenever the whim seized him, Mrs, Norah M Burke today brought suit in superior court to divorce William P. Burke. The couple have wen married 14 months, WEEK WON BY DEATH Woman Tired of Living De- fies Doctors’ Attempts to Save Her Mra Albert Slosson'’s will and the «kill of efty hospital physt clans waged a grim battle all week, and this morning the woman's | resolve triumphed. s A. Campaign Is page devoted to women’s | ) Bhe died at 930 “*T am tired of living.” 3 Then she slashed her throat with She was taken to city hoe Physicians tried to save her, but she repeatedly prayed that her wish of death might be fulfilied. her firm resolve to die as much as her wound that resulted fatally, phy: | Patrolmen C. W. Bell and James of West Seattle \ were called to the house at #936 Klickitat ave., The husband had a premonition [that something waa wrong While at work. He returned to the house™Just Slosson was being away in a city hospital ambulance. Mrs. Slosson, who also was known | as Ruth Russell, is survived by @ mother and 16-year-old a 4 liv ing at 3842 Alki ave. King of England Turns Out to Be boiled Egg n,| to “finish the Job” | for & girly’ boarding home and a cen-| tral service building—was firéd Mon: day by @ committee Prominent business men, Immediately tole rant, the Salvation Good-hearted, kindly, hahtwor bled, love of the world, This Army Lassie has won the respect an is Adjt. Mrs, J. E. Bell, of the Seattle branch. SEATTLE HOMES! Seattle ts backing the Salvation Army lnasic to win! | but is never out?” The first gun of the big campatmn | to raine $125,000 and Western ave. reported with five teama, Union labor, ‘The Notary club always a friend of! funds. The first: #ubscrip. tion of the informally by the Waitresses’ Union labor leaders were to volunteer their Hard- King of England, of the padded cel day after Detective John Flint had| identified him as wanted as parole violator from Walla among the first services in the cleanup drive Chairman William Hi Kiepper, of of Elke and) at city jail Mon. wubsertptions tributes all of them to! organization had been completed for the whole of King county er towns outside Walla prison, | omitable spirit of the brave tences to his record. Lane was arrested at Avaton way and Spokane st Patroimen W afraid to invade the lowest divés on | | their missions of mercy and who won | vanwed respect of the world for in the front line trenches of of Seattle woul Goodwin and} thetr | PLAN HOME TO HELP WORKING and a $1 Canadian bill to the thieves. | .. ave, N., returned home at midnight | Pa iameetivine campaign of the Peatéing heme, Salvation Army was inaugurated last | Year, when Seattle Kika assumed th obligation of raising an allotment All but $125,000 was rained The purpose of the windup campaign is to clean up this allotment. ] CITY DRIVE LAUNCHED EARLY TODAY Work df canvassing the city was! begun Monday morning “I'm king of England and part Smith building,” of the drive, is for the purpone of | working for small | owner of the L Lane said when booked at Police believe Monday that| ¢2 this was a ruse © where they was insane and in r up his long crimina When taken to jail, Lane ranted) ected somewhere in the . Will house the ‘various much as the “If you lay a hand on me I'l call have volunteered their xe were hard at work bringing home to | the people of the | ful work of the Salvation Army. Ladies of Elks, the women's auxtt-| there'll be a massacre around activities of the Army free dispensary, 1 the anti«uicide rious auditing and fin departments of your king,” ave your king CHILD DENIED TOHER PARENTS| custodian for , 16-year-old daughter of 3 and Garrett O'Neil, of Seattle Long live Ger n on its canvass of the jand Fifth a business districts establishment The 100 Per Cent two important ‘ge has taken the éntire waterfront | in Did you know that the Salvation Army conducts an ticide Bureau here? Hundreds of men and women, bludgeoned by life, weary, driven by oircumstances toward have been placed on their feet and started on the sunny by the Salvation Army Anti-Suicide self-destruction, urt to}road to Happiness, jan of Bures au. she becomes of age ‘Thi# new phase of a long dra awn | | out court fight for Natalie's custody 4 at the court house | here this afternoon and @ guardian | of the Army among the poor and hopeles Support the Salvation Army drive | was to be h 1¢ O'Netls were divorced in 1914 and Mrs, O'Neil nwarded custody of | \Palmer Wants to Know About Booze| uimer today called on |Senators Probing “Hostetter Deal’’| ‘The sen-| messages calculated to throw investi: | investigating | gators into a t os today probed ine | ed,” the govern-|coup for the attorneys for Betty ment on the Pittsburg Bitters com-| Brainerd to spring on the governor pany was remitted The Hostetter affair was brought |tectives Strickland, of Senator Kenyon an ot ‘ masority and in| pee shed the age ney General ghton beach. | Acting is in said, has been tints | with her mother at’ Bi BEING CHOKED | 4 tow weeks ag campaign ext “Homtetter deal 000 imposed by , who i#| San Francixeo, to produce proof of a attributed to him in the su-| press that 40 barrels of whisky and withdrawn for the enter # to the demo custhiian of the _postoftice bullding | statement preme court, asking that the minor | Kin were girl be given into his care his ex-wife was unfit | cratic owing to| Francis | tainment of deleg: « up the daughter, i the surroundings in which she was | knowledge, keeping the child with Palmer's or else retract the state- ment publicly, .| “But tt won't work, an | the governor trom Missouri, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Congress March , MONDAY, OCTOBE R18, 1920. “REQUESTS TO FOLLOW Attempt to Take Baby From New York to Be Fought as Kidnaping TACOMA, Oct. 18-—Mrm. Allee Cunningh grandmother of Mrs.| George Stagg, was in receipt today of the following telegram from a Hearst newspaper official in > York, promining the early return of Baby Bobby Stagg to the kid Maped child's mother: “Tell your granddaughter I know positively baby will be returned Can tell exact gime by middie of; week. Know ttkt baby is well and properly cared for Ask her to have faith in this statement for a few days.” | Mra. Cuftningham mld she was in honor bound not to disclose the name of the sender. The mearnes, abe maid, wan in reply to a wire she sent him last week, Mrs. Stack peomed more cheerful, following re- jocipt of thy, Seieer ere. ; c oo ee \SAY STAGG HAS SEEN MISS BRAINERD NEW YORK, Oot, 14.—Miss Betty Rrainerd, held her@ as a fugitive from justice in connéetion with the kidnaping of Baby Bobby Stagg, of ‘Tacoma, was said by the police today j to have admitted she knet all about the kidnaping, but insists she is not | the kidnaper. / She in said to have told the police! she had seen George T. Stagg, father | of the child, since her arrival in New Yc Her friends here say the suspicion against her is base- | tom While technically tn custody ta bail, Mise Brainerd is a guest at the! | home of Sigmund Sake, 111 W. 78th | | st. and is carefully guarded against |answers the telephone it ix merely | to indignantly announce that she is being per say anything for publication Saks, it is und toad, was in! Richmond, Va., visiting his dau who married Mise Frainerd'’s cousir Jat the time of Mixs Brainerd’s ar | rest Search for the baby was expected to receive a now us from the arrival here of aby’s grand. mother, Mra. Herbert Cunningham, of Tacoma, who was due today | |WON’T GRANT I" have killed the city official in an | attempt to qpver their crime |IMMUNITY FOR 'BABY’S RETURN :.| King county authorities said to jday they had reented a plot on the | part of the kidnapers of Baby Bobby Stagg, their friends and hired ' complices, to bring the child back | under cover from New York to Ta‘! ma, whence it was stolen Septel 0 | ber 14, and return it to its mother's doorstep. | if they ean accomplish thie feat,” said Deputy Sheriff Matt Starwich today, “thesfact that the baby ia safe with its mother aga might possibly influence the York governor to fume the extra dition of Betty Brainerd WOULD BE A SECOND KIDNAPING But such a se meet with failure, ‘Phe moment any one but the proper authorities leaves New fork with Biobby Stagg, that constitutes another kidnaping, and will be prosecut Starwich said he hief C. A, Sherry, of hmond. who telegraphed the local ff's office and the Tacoma po-| lice Saturday that he understood the baby would be in the hands of its mother by Saturday, next, must! have had some reason for making *ych a statement Sherry'’s telegrams and others that turnéd out to be fakes, taken | together convince him. Starwich jeaid, that the kidnapers are trying to nt Bobby back to Tacoma under} cover of a barrage of misleading ain Police | Dil hat the baby had been return id Starwich, “would be a final of ew York the day Captain of De. acoma, ‘asks | governor for extradition papers n should rmit her rn to Page 7, Column 4) (r VANCOUVER, WN, sentenced Oct 9. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 IPROMISE FROM NEW YORK TOIf[ RETURN clad BABY! DREAMS OF MAN SHE NEVER SAW; LATER SHE MARRIES HIM Do dreama come true? Her Christian name was Prin s. In her dream, however, she called herself Leonora, and in that strange dream she saw Mario. She saw him and loved him And then—came the time when Priscilia méete him in rea After a serten of remarkat ventures, there come ors soma and wedding bells all in “1 Dark Louls Joseph Vance .! begins in The Star on page & to- day COAST LEAGUE INQUIRY IS ON Indictments of Gamblers Are Predicted 108 ANGEL sumption of the probe of Const Teague baseball gambling scandals was scheduled for today, with several players and man. agers called to temtify. That indictments will be returned Against several “sure thing” gamblers alleged to bave corrupted p four or five teama was the predic- tion of Chief Deputy District Attor- ney W. C. Doran before the jury #ea- nion opened today CALL FIRE DEPT. TO RESCUE PUSSY ON SLIPPERY ROOF A stubborn cat, who refused the enticement of fish and other cat luxuries to come gown from her perch. on a roof at 423 17th ave, N., Monday morning, result- ed in a@ call for ald being sent to the fire department. A fireman was detaiied to bring Tabby down from her slippery niche, MAYOR MISSING VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 18. intruding visitors. When she!-rhe entire police force of the city, assisted by many citizens, is today searching for Vancouver's mayor, K. uted and doean't wish to} G. Percival t The mayor started for a walk at | ang ‘ph 9:30 o'clock Sunday morning and has not been seen since. He had a me thodica} habit of taking a walk every | ointment of d | Sunday morning and not returning to his home until early in the after. noon, for dinner, Percival had no known enemies and his financial affairs were in | splendid condition, so far as known | Offielals think robbery is the most likely ¢ ¢ back of his disappear. and that highwaymen may No trace of Percival. having been found in the city and vicinity, the started HEY DIRECTED HIM TO HERB Herb Owen, mayor's secretary, peeved. Into the elevator of the county-city building “Where is that there insane com mission that tells if people is crazy? he queried And then somebody directed him to the mayor's office CHICAGO, Oct. 18—An earth quake, originating 5,500 miles from Chicago, was r ted early today at the University of Chicago. ‘The seis: mograph record showed the first tremor at 3:48 a, m. ontinuing intermittently until 8 am Observers were unable to give the ex act location, Refuse to Advance Anti-Suffrage Suit WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—The su preme court today refused to ad vance for early hearing the suit of Charles 8. Fairchild, attacking the | j validity of the federal woman suf. | amendment suit was brought against § retary of State Colby and dismiss: by District of Columbia courts, » ALVAR aul jury of fo the re ry .and Federal Judge Jeremiah Neterer in the district court, |‘White Guard’ Organized te Many Are Wounded as Po- | Curb Rioting; Government | — fice Battle Mobs Fol- | are: |that within two weeks after this ar- a8 ge JTING WORKERS | the {which Includes so-called moderate|crowds which thronged toward It |pensed with unless branches can be/ary song entitled “The Red Flag” |immediately called to | masquerading as “labe | Coope ging of the Columbia river has | |port, including petrol, for the ob- | yay jtaining and storing of which the | Railwaymen’s union apparently has is | ALL NE | MAY Bi Monday, a wild-eyed man climbed | of all found guilty | red mail, will be | at 10 a, m, by} 5 Ul ‘TS IN SEATTLE — ~ STRUGGLE LANNED TO SMASH ENGLISH PREMIER SOVIETS Halts Reds’ Coup | lowing Coal Strike BY J. H. DUCKWORTH | BY CHARLES M. McCANN LONDON, Qet. 18.—Some startling LONDON, Oct. 18—Rioting, disclosures have been made of the plans of British Bolsheviks for a ution in England and their ar-? ments to establish jocal sov-| While too much importance ts| not being attached to these grandiose schemes to devastate England as) injufed in fighting between Kuewa bas been, I learn that two| lee ang rioters at 4:20 p,m. very significant steps have been fighting was still continuing. taken by the government, steps that| ‘Thee rloters met ee prove that the authorities are by| chargem of the ee a no ‘means ignoring the possibilities shower of missiles, tearing of an attempt betng made to start, the pav¥@ment. and ripping down tionwide coal strike, | what Lenin calls “heavy civil war”) bal Many police 8, Oct. —Re} count: rand jury} hanue baschat| TO STOP RIOTING over here knocked from their horses “WHITE GUARDS” READY At £50 p. m. the police got crowdwan the run. The police on ageim-and again, hitting out 1—A citizen army, practically a “White Guard,” has been se- and Iftwith their truncheons at cruity,_ erganioad 40 cope with | Peaae peg or any “serious cy ag any, exious rioting” that my | estimated from 60 to 100 were injured either ates by flying 2—Sir Erie coherence: mininter of crushed and, tra ‘These two precautionary measures newspaper in the event of revolutionists seizing ‘the “plants of privately-owned newspapers, ‘The incriminating documents sub- mitted to the authorities indicate Phas «taal be nn ae | that the revolutionary orgfinizations | wien the demonstration | of the Council of Action, altho they al | were at first constituted for calling | © SBUuMrs, designed for just sien castons, were pulled down over the @ general strike upon the pretext of | windows of jewelry stores, “no war with Russia,” remain in equare was a dense readiness for any other occasion. | of humanity after the police The “Council of Action” was form- ol Whi oon ‘August’. It le dow show® iy extended far Into Fonda itreets. rangements were being actively made to extablish local soviets. pele yaa iad REVOLUTION WITHOUT Many injured were carried Downing st, which looked like @ hat the intention of the authors] hospital, with men laid out en the: of ie scheme is to carry out a revo-| sidewalks and others being lution without consulting the work-|into the houses. ere—thereby following the Russian | The traffic was diverted from. Pret method—4s shown from one para | area in which the riots occurred, and. graph in the report of an “‘nformal | police cordons were established at meeting” called “at the request of some distance from the scene of the National Council of Action’ | fighting to hold back the or leaders Mke Adamson, Clynes|from every direction as news of the — as). It states that the Na-|riot spread, tional Council suggests that “ordl-| RIOTERS CARRY nary methods of procedure in the ap-/| RED FLAGS jelegates to the local The crowd carried red flags Counds of Action should be dis-|front ranks and sang a feo 4 ether.” In The fighting extended from Down- other words, these local soviets are|ing st. thru Whitehall, a distance of to be self-appointed, with unlimited | one block to Trafalgar square. powers to run @ general strike just! The ricting started about 11 am, | as they wish. |when a comparatively small crowd — The main features of thin scheme j tried to pass a police coréon aerome for bringing about a revolution are:|the head of Downing st. 1—Th capture by the groups A procession of several thousand of the local! unemployed had entered Whitehalf’ ative society, so as to ensure} st. in an effort to reach the pre the distribution of food to the! mier’s residence. At the head ot strikers and their families, Downing st, they encountered the 2—The commandeering of trans-| police, who numbered about $00, CROWD RUSHES POLICE CORDO: Repulsed in their first effort te penetrate the cordon, the marchers rushed the constables, who drew their batons and clubbed several ot the men in the crowd. operation of ‘this | The crowd, displaying red flags pers may be sup-|and shouting, milled around in front | raph section of the | of the line of police, who stood postattioe workers sod | raltway lay in their places until a ions a — Special) crowd of several thousand men came monnes bs ieee eee h clear-| marching from the direction @f ¥ me ane tapping the wires and the Trafalgar square and the Thames teléphones, | embankment a method already worked out, pressed) the to coo me is going to| Chicago “U” Records words of one of the subcommitters |, 7% mn body of demonstrators | Distant Earthquake | ‘‘”’ '"'"s ' ed, and likely to produce disorder, of the sub-committees, at is most to be avoid marched around Whitehall, singing: |and shouting jibes at Prime Minister: Lloyd George, who was presumed to ness, and hard work would|). ' xe cchiue Wee tae energies | 02.02: bis residence behind the, police ; The mob made a second effort to smash thru the police cordon, This — jtime football tactics were used by i — the rioters, who charged the poli¢e ere, despite the Assur-| repeatedly. The police formed a Hine men as Clynes and soross the head of Downing strest y, together with oa . : three deep and were backed up" by bulk of the British working men, | mounted men, would be swept aside like cobwebs | "4 - Pet by the International revolutionists, | The situation steadily became | ugly as the mob was kept away HERE’S GOOD | its objective, the prime minister's Fea At last the mob, after listening to Benign providence smiled on }| * NUMbEr of speeches, rushed the pp the Lost and Found department lice of the municipal railway Monday. Thia.time they smashed thru: ie Last week two. aatchele were human barrier and penetrated almost | turned in to the department, both || {0 Tox’ & aie 0 “in a tein aa of them containing Inseets popu led by. Horsemen, counter Tetncieaald lar in the front line trenches, | y cigs Monday the conductor of a || %%d swept them out of Downing 9§ Wallingford car turned in a com- back into Whitehall, plete disinfecting outfit, formal- Here the retreating rioters Wares dehyde an’ everything. is idl provic After this exposure there can be! no question of what, at any rate 1 aims of thé Labor viet ove ance of su Adamson hurled against those stil surging (Turn to Page 7, Column ®