The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 19, 1920, Page 1

RETURN OF STAGG BABY WILL BRING eather Tonight, probably kill fai r frost Wednesday, heavy to morning. r; ain in Temperature Last 2 Maxiinum, Today 49, Mini hoon, 49. E23 VOLUME On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise ecatiie Star Second Clase Matter Ma ’ at the Postoffice at Beattie, W lash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1# 19, Per Year, by Mail, #5 to #9 Up! (The Seattle Star gained 11,749 in daily circula- tion in the year ending October 1, making its leadershi, u wdisputed. Every other Seattle pa- per, according to its of fi- cial circulation figure lost circulation, the loss of the second paper, The Star's closest competitor, being over 14,000.) Some of the Reasons Why 9—“CONFESSIONS OF A | BRIDE” NCE UPON A TIME there was a woman's page editor whe conceived the idea that a daily story of the trials of a married pair ‘Would make interesting reading. So she sat herself down and turned out @ story, which was duly published | im The Star for a period of four! Zears, and it “went big.” | Seon there were many Serials got Yonfessions” and “Revelations” and “Confidences™ an: “Indiscretions” and “Tribulations” | Gnd “Sensations” and what-not. ‘Then came the war. ‘Women dedicated themselves to was that the old married-life fiction was} HER story likewise set a/ fashion. For within three months the writers of imitative serials, and | the syndicates that sell them, had! “geen the point.” Result: fidences* and “New Tribulations” “New Sensations” and new What-not. But the story that set this fashion, Tow called “Confessions of a Brite,” | continues to run in The Star, con- tinues to attract new readers and hold its old ones, and continues to| be imitated. (Tell your friends about The Star. Tell them they can have it deliv- ered, by mail or carrier, anywhere the state of Washington for fifty cents a month) A. WEEK —— BIG LEAGUERS TO BE QUIZZED Chicago Baseball Probe Is Continuing CHICAGO, Oct. 19—The Cook) county grand jury investigating Baseball crookedness resumed ses. sions today with the announcement | three former major league baseball Players probably would be added to} the list of eight Chicago White Sox against whom indictments have been voted. mgnager Cubs; Charles Fred Chicago owner of the Brooklyn and Harry Frazee, owner Boston Red Sox, were among wit Nesses expected to be heard today The grand jury has requested Abe Rothstein of New York and other gamblers to testify but no word has been received from them The jury was expected to devote eonsiderable time today to investi gation of baseball gambling pools Additional subpoenas were issued today tor three major ue club owners. They were G. W. Grant of the Boston Nationals, Barney Drey fus of the Pirates and Jacob Rup pert of the Yankees. All three are in Chicago, being among those who attended yeathr day’s conference of major league club owners. “New Con-| Mitchell, of the! Ebbets, Dodgers of the 8. A. WEEK RETAIL CLOTHES AT COST PRICE? CHICAGO, Oct. 19—Retall cloth fers thruout the country have de. termined to sell at coat, ancording to Andrews Burkhardt, president of the National Association of Retail Cloth fers. | “Continual increases in costs dur- ing recent years have brought con gumers to 4 state where they no Jonger can be appealed to by sheer | reason,” Burkhardt declared plaining manufacturers and ers “have determined to forget their | usual protits.” + in ex-| retail! | the name of the witness today | witness, “SPANISH WOMAN’ IN MURDER PROBE COMPANION OF DENTON [S SOUGHT New Charges in | in Los Angeles | | Crime Case Being Inves- tigated by De Detectives Los ANGELES, 0« Oct. 19.—That Ja- cob ipa Denton, wealthy mining man, urdered in hie home after a| saeeret with a woman known as “the Spanish woman,” early on the morn-| ing of June 2, was the Information given the district attorney's office here ,today in a signed statement | | from “a witness whose name is being | | withheld, it was learned sgyammaiae tively The disttict attorney’s informant, | | who claims to have been present in| the house at the time of the murder, was sald to have denied any part in| the events which led up to Denton's death. Neither Chief Deputy District At) torney W. C. Doran nor Raymond | Turney, his assistant, would mgd Detectives were today checking up the details of the latest state ment. According to this apparently authentic statement, Denton quar-| reled with “the Spanish woman” as the two sat in a room on the lower floor of the Denton home, The actual murder, shown to have been caused by strangulation, according to the coroner's verdict, followed a heated discussion. The district at- torney refused to reveal whether the whose statement they had obtained, was a man or woman, but admitted that their informant had not actually participated in the crime. | ~— 8. A, WEEK —- $3,000 REWARD FOR MURDERER Sheriff John Stringer received word today that $3,000 reward is of- fered by Adams county and the state, jointly, for the arrest and convie- tion of the masked man who mur dered Harry Gregg in Gregg’s home in Ritzville, September 29, by stab- | bing him to death, then shot Mrs. Gregg. whom he had tied to @ chair, and escaped | A, WEEK 8. Esthonia A. Vanderlip, of California, reported ceking coal concessions in Kam chatka for Western bankers | REVAL, Do You Pick the People You Rent Your Property To? Whether you renting a room, a house or a business build ing, you should choose a good tenant. The only way you can do this is to have se 1 pective tenants to choose from That is where this paper will serve you. A Want Ad The Star will place your proposition before all the people in Seattle who are interested in renting. In this way you can choose a good tenant In it worth the small cost of a * Ad to get a good ten yur vacant property? | Telephone your ad now MAIN 600 | pros. | stores at 1425 Third ave, during the | | night | and found that, | rear window, Short Romance of Charleston Maid Blasted by Police ‘The premature romance of Ruth, Cook, 16, who eloped from per Charleston home and married Jufus Sotelo, 29, steward, here last Satur: day, came to an abrupt end Tuce | day, with Ruth In the custody of Juvenile a ities and Sotelo in} Jail. Ruth admits she @j4 not have the consent of her mother to the mar | rie, my police, who point out that the marriage ix, therefore, Megal be cause of Ruth's youth, MAY PUT END TO CITY DRY SQUAD | Federal Booze D Decision May Stop City Raids | That the death knell probably has been sounded for the activities of the city dry squad is the latest angie to the decision on the prosecution of boone cases that was handed down in| the United States district court Mon: | day by Federal Judge Jeremiah Ne | terer, In hie opinion Judge Neterer holds that the power given to the gtate by the federal jaw does not atthorize the state to delegate that power to municipalities: His ¢ ne that wince the city had no power to make and en force liquor legislation, the present municipal booze ordinance is null and void, and the city dry squad has no legal right to continue its raids. County Prosecutor Fred Brown said Tuesday that he agreed with this interpretation of the decisior and to hig mind the police dry squad | would have to suspend action under | the city liquor ordinance “The only way they can legally ar. | fest a man in on a state or federal warrant,” Brown «aid. ‘The matter is creating wide inter- est and is expected to be tried out in test cases in all the courts in r future. The dry squad, now directed by Lieut. J. J. Haag, wan formed soon after wtatewide prohibition went into effect in 1916. It has been a stormy petrel tg oe nearly all administrations «ince time. | B. FR. Putnam was the first head of the squad. He was succeeded by Lieut jeorge Comes Seret Pete Jennings jreeted the squed after Comstock, and then Capt, E. Collier was made its chiet | by Warre a head m de ok Chief W Ff. dismissed Collier as dry sqt and transferred most of the m tailed to that division. Lieut, H took command of the squad at that time &. A, WEEK TWO DOWNTOWN STORES LOOTED Burglars looted two downtown Detective Joe Blanch! investigated after prying open a the thieves stole a small amount off morphine from th Seattle Registered Dentists, and took $1.40 from the cash register of the amilton-Brown shoe store, on the «round floor The thieves tried on sever@l paira of shoes in the shoe store, but took none, ‘They broke in @ door in enter ing the shoe store, They were arrested in their honey. moon quarters in the Spring hotel, Third ave and Spring st. Monday night by Patroimen K. L. Webb and cS ie Ruth told the policemen she didn't even kndW the two men, BH. Rosenthal and Louie BE. Chaney, who witnessed her marriage. She gave her occupation as usher Polloe were investigating the case from all angles Tuesday, and charges may be placed against Sotelo, IANTI-JAP RULE DUE IN COURT Try to Dispossess Oriental of Vast Property VISALIA, Cal, Oct. 19,—Deciaton on questions before Superior Judge Wallace involving jurisdiction in | cases under the antialien land law was anxiously awaited here today. The decision wax promised yeater- day when the case of the state to dis. ponsess H. Sumida of a half million dollars worth of Tulare county prop. erty was on the court calendar Judge Wallace disposed of the mat- ter late yenterday by continuing re ceivership phases of the Sumida case to November 1. He indicated, however, that he would decide juris dictional questions within a few days. 8. A, WEEK —— MacSwiney Shows But Little Change! LONDON, Oct, 19,—-Altho Mayor MacSwiney was reported to show signs of scurvy today, his con dition was practically unchanged, a Sinn Fein bulletin said would permit no action to prevent the threatened disease MADMAN TRYING TRAIN WRECK? Deputy sherifts were sent to Cedar Falls early today to arrest a young! man who was reported by the train dispatcher there to be throwing «witches in front of trains in the railroad yards. The man is believed to be insane, | the train dispatcher said. Deputies Walter J. Kerr and George Bundy were ordered to take him to the county jail. 8. A, WEEK MOKES OR EATS IS HIS CHOICE The policeman that finds Mrs, KE M. Zuarri’s l-year-old white hen can choose between chicken dinner and | two cigars, Mrs, Zuarri, who lives at | 8632 12th ave. 8. W., offered the cig ars as reward Tuesday, Bad News: Lemons Kite Up. Just as lemonade hounds are re- joicing over cheaper sugar, lemons register an advance of 60 centa @ box, with prospects of another raise soon, according to local commission men. Tuesdav's wholewnln tieure is $5.60, Lord - Relatives | ARRESTS! FLYNN KIDNAPING MOTHER IS TRACED TO PORTLAND Girl Disappears on Day Her Mother Takes Her From Pacific College After every public and denomina tional school in eix states and three provinces of Canada had been can vaneed in & futile search togfind his Syearold kidnaped daughter, Lil- lian, C. P. Flynn, of 1416 11th ave. | cate city, with the aid of the prom. leuting attorney's office, wan today | tracing @ new clue. The new clue leads to the law of: | flee of K. KR. Lundberg, in Portiand, | Ore, Lundberg is said to have been) acting recemmtly as attorney for Ed Van Mousen. & former insurance, man here, who is believed to, know | the whereabout of the minsing girt. Littian wae kidnaped on May 16 last from the Seattle Pacific coflege, | where she had been placed as a ward of the court, following her parents’ divoroe. MOTHER FAILED TO RETURN HER With the permiasion of Judes Rv. Jerett Smith, on that day, a Saturda | Mra Julla’ Flynn, the little girl's mother, went to the college and took | | Lillian away, promising to ean! | with her Sunday evening. Neither has been located since, tho the father, a young man grown pre | maturely gray with worry, has con: ducted an untiring search personally | land thru the authorities of many | cities, states and provinces. | Van Housen was named as the! “other man” by Flynn during th trial ‘of the divorce. Judge Smith awarded a decree to Flynn, but de- clined te give the little girl into the loustody of either parent, indicating | that he might later allow the mother | to have Lillian, if Mra. Flynn aban: doned acquaintances who were lead: | | ing her astray | | Pive days before the kidnaping, Flynn said he had learned, Van Hou sen and Mra, Flynn went to the Met ropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s offic here and borrowed $50 on Lillian’s | insurance policy, tho at his trial for | kidnaping Van Housen denied hav- ing seen Mra, Flynn for six weeks prior to the child's disappearance. On the Sunday evening that Mra Flynn waa supposed to return the little girl to the college, Flynn says, | Van Housen went to Mrs. Flynn's | then vacant apartment, at 1120 Terry ave, and asked for Mra. Flynn's; trunks, The landlady refused to give | them up, it ix « until the rent whe paid, and later & woman came and took them awny, after paying the sum held against them, OFFERS REWARD; VAN HOUSEN VANISHES Flynn offered a reward for the ap- prehension of Mrs, Flynn and Lillian and began a thoro search. Shortly afterward Van Housen is said have left the city ana vanished. When Flynn says he discovered that his ex-wife and Van Housen| had been living together fn an apart. | ment at 924 Vine st,, for some time | prior to the divorce, he was convine- he says, that the man had gone Ito. join Mrs. Flynn, and an attempt was made to trace him, Meanwhile school authorities ol Washington, Idaho, Montana, Ne vada, Oregon and California, and of British Columbia, Ontario and Mani. toba, were called upon to carefully leheck students in the hope that Lil- lian might be found attending school No information could thus be guined. | ‘The first real clue since the kid- | naping, Flynn says, has at last turn. | He has learned that after |leaving here Van Housen went to Portland, he says, and there engag- ed Attorney Lundberg to transact some legal business, K MAY BE IDAHO wen then left Portland, it is said, ordering his mail sent in care of Lundberg. “Lundberg told me," said Flynn today, “that, If he were me, he would look for them in Boise, Idaho," Deputy Prosecutor C, A, Bacheller | in said to have written Lundberg de- manding to know any information that he may have as to the where. Jabouts of the missing ,eliild, its mother or Van Housen, to] | Col 1 {KIDNAPED AND UNRECOVERED montha, SIMPSON, kidnaped from mothers home here 1909. Bimpeon ch band, Geor naping returned, mileend LELAND MOLLINGSWORTH, 12. year-old son of Mre Sarah Getdner kidnaped from mother's home, 412 ave, November 11, 1919. ner, diverced husband her, charged with kid- Baping, but mever tried. KLMER BREWINGTON, son of Mre. Ines Brewington, 422 N. 47th st. kidnaped from {i krandpa’s bed in Tacoma last Ni vember Orval Brewingtor rrest 2-year-old voreed husband and fathe In Portiand after monthe of sea admitted kidnaping. Child returned to mother, Case against Brewing- ton met ELAIN, 7, and FRANCES, ¢, ehtidren of Mra. Kisie ADAMS, of Liz? 23rd ate, kidnaped on a Sunday morning tgat February at Madrona Presby- tertan Sunday school. Children and joseph D. Ada divorced hus- nd, traced to California and hus- band arrested. Children returned to mother, freed without trial PHYLLIS VIRGINIA CLARK, t-year- old daughter of Mra, Edna Clark 1 ™, kidnaped by re. givorced husband, 6 with kidnaping AN FLYNN, S-year-old daugh- ter of C. P. ry m, 1415 Lith ave. kidnaped last May 15 from Seattle Pacific, college Mra Julla May Flynn, divorced wife of Lillian’s THREE BANDITS STEAL $70,000 CHICAGO, Oct. 19.—Three bandits secured $20,000 in cash and $50,00¢ lin negotiable papers when they hel up Carl Maurer, a bank messenger here today. Maurer had just left the State| Commercial and Savings bank, @ suburban institution, taking the money to a down-town bank, when he | was held up. 8. A. WEEK 2 TIMBER MEN Top—Bobby Stagg. Cen- ter—Phyllis Virginia Clark. Bottom—Lilliam Flynt. TO SENTENCE ARE DROWNED —_BURGLARETTE VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 19 nwo | Nineteen-year-old ‘May Golden, well known Vancouver timber dealers |attle's daring burglarette pose aig were drowned yesterday, according to} woman, was scheduled to face Judge reports today to the police from) King Dykeman at 1:30 p, m. today Schejt, 40 miles up the coast. 'The|for sentence, victims are L, Henry and J. Ravens-| Mrs. Golden was arrested August croft. Their overturned boat 17 for the burglary of C. B. Hud found after a storm, jwon's dwelling at 1120 Howell st —-8. A, WEEK — She is sald to have heen armed and to have put up a desperate U W STUDENT hand-to-hand battle with two police i a men when they surprised her at Alvih Joseph Wolf, 18, university “work” and took her gun away, 8. A, WEEK student, was added to the missing persons list Tuesday, and’ police took E’LL BET HE’S Co-eds must stay up the search for him, A “MEAN MAN” the University of Washingten foot- Welt had $350 when he left to visit at home when ball team goes to Hugene, Oregon, for the annual gridiron contest, ac friends in Auburn, October 14, hip | Govgin to a ruling of Prexy Sua- roommate, A, 8. McPhee, reported © zal! 4 Officers Believe Kidnaped Child May Now Be,in This State 4 | TACOMA, Oct. 19.—Mra G |T. Stagg’s home was being ci | watched by the police here today, [expectation that an attempt will made today or tomorrow to her baby, Bobby, who was Should the anticipated attempe made to return Bobby to his the police say, they will at once jest the person or persons who jcompany the child. | ATTACH IMPORTANCE TO | STARWIC! BEEBE THEORY | The police attach considerable pe jPortance to the theory of Sheriffs Matt Starwich and Hi | Beebe, of King county, that the |napers plan to leave the mother’s doorstep on or |day Miss Betty Brainerd i Sed. for a hearing in the courts. to present at the hearing to ) that Bobby ever was in the sabe |New York. | On the other hand, the theory” | that if counsel for Miss Brainerd | show the court that Bobby is in his mother’s home, there no other way for the court (turn Miss Brainerd loose. | WOULD MAKE EXTRADITION: © ,OF BETTY UNLIKELY Under such circumstances it be extremely improbable, the say, that the governor of New * would permit the young Seattle ciety Woman and newspaper to be extradited from that state , worthy of the clever youn: and her counsel. But if can catch the person who the child, if any does, new phase of the case sented. Advices received from Thomas Murphy, acting chief the New York police Tuesday, report that Stagg was seen in Manhattan on October 1%, the day on which Betty Brainerd am rived in the Eastern metropolis. Stage’s Gotham address was 220 W, 59th st. Ed T, Shaw, of the New York American, told the police that Stagg had not been at the office for the past two weeks, Stagg is believed to have slipped mat of New York, or to have, gone nto hiding, immediately following the arrival there of Miss Brainerd. SAYS BABY WILL BE RETURNED THIS WEEK Chief of Police Smith said today he iad received word from Chief Sherry of Richmond, Va., that James Beal Cohen, wealthy cousin of Betty Brainerd, had told him that the baby. would be in its mother's arms by. the middie of this week. The message from Sherry also said that Cohen has gone to New York ,to consult with attorneys, It is be |eved here that Cohen went to New York to make certain that Miss Brainerd ts well represented by counsel when the fight begins ‘Thursday against extradition to this state on the kidnaping charge, —8. A, WEEK — HUN THIS GARB, BOYS! DANGEROUS Police were searching Tuesday for a smoothly shaved burglar at {wees in dark sult, worth $50, $10 | shoes, and striped silk shirt. He | stole the clothing anda razor from G, | H. Sage, 105 Yesler way, Sage told police Tuesday GOOD NIGHT, JOSE! W. E, Jose, 1005 Harrison st., 29 quarts HMB. Dry squad, Good. |] night, Jose. y Xmas Romance an October Divorce A romance that culminated ine® Christmas day wedding in 1917 found its way into the King county divorce court today, Mrs, Margaret Mae Carlson” is seeking to divorce Clarence C, Carl son on the grounds of nonsupport. There are no children, ber esa plaint states,