The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 20, 1920, Page 1

* Tonight, , x f {iit Q@eather Thursday, moderate southeast- erly winds, Temperature Last > Maxtmam, M4. Today moan, 56, rain; Hours Minimam, 43, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Ca he Seattle Star gained 11,749 in daily circula- tion in the year ending October 1, making tts 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 f| Reasons Why 10—STAR STORY BOOK ea THE STAR has intro @uced has made such a hit with the youngsters as has The Star Se attle Story Book. This newspaper was the first daily in the Northwest to run a children’s story. The first such a succeas-(altho it ‘was a “syndicate” feature) that later Oliver Roberts Barton was engaged to write stories for The Star and its _ @mpociate papers. But The Star wanted a children’s feature that would be exclusively go interested that they are flooding the author with a wealth of material turous freedom ot the early days. (Tell your friends about The Star. Tell them they can have it deliv- Boy, page Hazen J. Titus! Hazen used to think he served big baked potatoes on. his trans continental railroad. But they are babies compared to the murphies raised by Mra. H. Ayers, 3437 Belvidere ave ‘One of the Seattle spuds meas | ured 11 inches in its stocking feet Wednesday, and tipped the scales } at 4% pounds, ringside. \i@ Befriends Aged Ph ee e Man; Physician ¥ Willed $20,000 | ille ’ ¥ REDWOOD CITY, Cal, Oct. 2. q Dr. J. L. Rose is richer by $20,000 to- ‘ Gay because he was kind to an aged man whom he believed to be penni- Jens William Chappell, originally from England, 80 years old, and without Telatives or friends, died in his little cottage at Menlo ark last Sunday. | Dr. Rows had cared for him up to | the moment of his death, physician had attended to Mrs. Chap | pell in her last illness, some years ago. To all appearances, the feeble octo- genarian died practically a pauper, a will was found in the cot | but today tage. estate worth $20,000. It disclosed Chappell h REACHES N. Y. MINEOLA, 1. L, Oct. 20-—A ree ord-breakin ended at 1:37 p. m, today, when army plane No. 4 alighted here on its re turn from Nome, Alaska. ‘Three other planes participating tn 4 the flight followed a few minutes * alter No. 4, which was piloted by Ldeut. Rows Kirkpatrie Just as the | All of that he | air trip of 9,000 miles | | | Armenians. | ha, so her “son” could be born in the | the presidency. The child is a girl | men operate. | badge, watch and 6 centa, SEVEN DIE IN WRECK OF TRAIN Collision at Switch on New York Central Line Near Erie, Pa., Station ERIF. Pa, Oct. 20—Seven persona! were reported to have been killed| and five injured when two pamenger trains collided on a New York Con- tral switeh near the Erie union ste The Pullman was hurled from the | track and thrown on its side, and the | engine of No. 60 continued its dash and collided with the third Pullman, All of thew dead and seriously injured were In the second Pullman. ‘The engine crew was not injured. Both fireman and engineer stuck to their posts. ‘The unidentified bodies of three women, a*irl and « little boy were taken to the morgue. Searchers) were in the overturned car hunting | other victima. Three of the injured | were not expected to live, ——8. A. WEEK — Allies Plan Naval Move on Black Sea PARIS, Oct. 20.—A naval demon-| stration in the Black Sea is planned | by the allies, foreign office an-| nounced today’ The demonstration, | the nature of which was not dix | closed, will be made off Trebizond, | Asiatic Turkey, in behalf of the ——&. A. WEEK — NYWAY, SHE GETS THE VOTE OMAHA, Neb, Oct. 20. — Mra. Frank Byam is thankful for «uf. frage. She traveled 10,000 miles, from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Oma United States and have a chance at/ —~B. A. WEEK — Nine Injured in Street Car Wreck! SIOUX CITY, lowa, Oct. 20-—Nine persons were seriously injured, none fatally, it i# believed, when a Sioux City Traction company car ov turned rounding a corner here early today The car, a light one and heavily loaded, came down a long incline and attained a high speed before it reached the corner, where the brakes would not hold on the slippery rails The car plunged acroms the street and into the curb, breaking off a lamp post and overturning. 8. A. WEEK - DERSTANDS HOLDUP METHOD} ILAND, Oct. 20—Patrob | man Mason Nicholas now has his first-hand knowledge of how holdup Four of them took his 8. A. WEEK Omaha School Boy Is Football Victim OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 20.—Franklin | Worrell, 12, is Omaha's first foot ball yietim, Young Worrell died to- day of injuries sustained in a grade school game b 8. A. W DWARD PROVES A BRIGHT BOY NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Columbia| “U," permitted Hdward Hardy, 12, to take the entrance examinations, be eause it “would do no harm.” Hardy made the highest grade on ‘record His new skull eap denotes his treah- manship. | to create Louise Glaum is to be the heroine of the photoplays for which prizes aggregating $5,000 are offered thru The Star today. With an enlightened and discern- ing public constantly demanding bet ter photoplays, and with producers roping in every direction for avaik able material for stories—always in | search of something new, something thrilling; something human-—the de- mand for screen material has greatly exceeded the supply. Realizing thie fact, J. Parker Read, Jr, prominent Los Angelen film producer, has arranged, with the cooperation of The Star, the first international scenario contest ever effected. The prizes aggregate ¥IVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR ALL ACCEPTED In his arrangement with The Star Reid has announced his willingness to purchase, in addition, any avail able ideas beyond the three he has committed himself to buy, at a flat sum of ONE THOUSAND DOL- LARS EACH, with the nummy in definite. ‘The purpose is to give to the world an accurate ifea of the needs of mo- producers explain {lable sereen material really sists of, and to offer to who grasp these ideas so clearly as material suitable for duction motion picture produc tions; a series of cash prizes aggre ure to pro- as gating FIVE THOUSAND DOL, LARS. It in especially the intention of The Star to hold out to the Seattle contestants means of ning the technique of the motion picture scen | ario. Read has gone further than the mere offering of money—he has evi denced his entire willingness to de velop special scenario tale tie, And, if in the course of the competition, amateur “contributions disclose any unusual aptitude in their respective authors for the career of a motion picture writer Read will ma @ plac in his scen ario department for such writers They will be given opportunity to yarn the business in its every phase, with the prospect of big pecuniary those | sate haan For aPhotoplay! under the Act of Comeress March 3, 1 * * rewards for the successful ones. One of the conditions of the con- test is that the prize winning story must be written around the type and personality of Louise Glaum, Read's | beautiful The rules that govern the contest are simple. them out and paste them over your deak: First. star, Here they are. Send in your name, address, age and present occupation to the Contest Editor, constitutes your registration fn the Seattle Star, competition, Second: advice to of interest to wri! | avail themselves of this special op: portunity. ‘Third most suitable to Louise your stor Fourth brief as any form @ubmit them, given will be Be guided by the daily ac counts in the Seattle newspaper exclusively will be found contestants and everything ra who Wish to| hide herself until her 18th birthday. | Star. Study the y must fit this star, Make your possible. They may be n in which you choose you paper day by day Fifth lished soo Sixth contest You must attempt no com- tion with the judges in this whorse names will be pub- om. No one is barred from this equal very one has an | chance to win, t in Seat.) Kennario Parker tent. Addreen Age Name... Occupation ...+++- Register Now! Contest Editor, Reattle Star: I hereby enter the Reattle Star. ead, Jr., $5,000 scenario con- ee Cut This In this type of roles laum, for scenarion as Advice along this line thru this news- NURSEMAD OBJECTS TO HER LOVER Refuses to Wed Farmer Her Parents Are Said to Have Picked for Her ‘The myrterious dimppearance of Winifred Kelty, 17-yearold, blue-eyed Irish asa, was explained Wednesday by Deputy Prosecutor Joha b. Car mody, who said the giri had run toon doraad uae ry» them her to marry & dove not love, Next month Winifred wi be 18 and can marry the man she loves without the consent of her parents, according to Carmody, Police were aaked to search for the j sir Tuesday by Mra, Arthur Drtvar, 1515 W. Barrett st, who said that she had disappeared from there Sun- day night, Mim Kelly's parents live on Vashon island, and she had been bearding with the Drivara FEAR AT FIRST SHE'S KIDNAPED Saturday she had obtained employ- ment as nursemaid at the home of Charles M. Thomsen, RF. D. No. 7, and intended to leave the Drivars and live with her new employers Monday, Mrs, Drivar told police. Winifred came to the Drivar home Sunday night, wrote a note to her mother and then dropped out of sight. Mra. Drivar suspected a man who tions on Winifred, ax having kid naped the girl Winifred wan report ed as having been seen driving in this man's auto. mody's office Tuesday and explained to him the desire of her parents to make ber marry a man for whom she did not care. FARMER PICKED BY PARENTS FOR HER Winifred came to this country from Ireland with her parents 4 year |ago, according to the story Carmody jays she told. The Keliys settled at Vashon, A farmer, much older than the 17-year. old girl, was selected by the parents jas a fine future husband for Wink | fred. Winifred did not care for him. fo she came to Seattle to got away from her parents and her and-picked” husband. As she will be 18 years of next n.onth, she feared her parents would attempt to force her into the mar. riage before she reached her major- ity, She left the Drivar home (where she had been stayIng since October 8), Sunday night, and fmtended to DELIVERS HERSELF TO COUNTY FOR PROTECTION She asked Carmody whether she could become a ward of the juvenile court until that time, ‘and he told her such a course would be all right if whe would make out a voluntary petition of delinquency. Winifred went to the juwenile home after that and is there Wed- nesday, according to Carmody. —8. A. WE . HOLD GIRL AS BOLD BURGLAR in to coma Wednerday@afternoon to re. jturn “Buster” Taylor, alias Lucille | La Belle, arrested there on a charge of robbing Pete Duna of $420 here Jand locking him in a room, He's vanity is directly respon for her arrest, detectives say. | She made the fatal mistake of leav- ing one of her pictures behind her. Detectives checked this picture with one in the rogues’ gallery of “Bus- ter” ‘Taylor room by Motorcycle 0. K. Holschumaker Oct, 16, when he phoned police and explained his plight, Luicile is 22 years old, had been trying to force his atten: | Winifred came to Prosecutor Car | Detective James Doon went to Ta- | Duna was rescued from his locked | Patrolman | The Seattle Star Watered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1999, at fhe Postoffice at Meattia Wash WASIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1920. 479. Por Year, vy Mall, $5 to $9 GIRL RUNS AWAY TO AVOID FORCED MARRIAGE $5,000 * GIRL SLAIN IN ROOM OF $F. HOTEL Man Companion During the Night Is Being Sought by California Police was found by Edith Jackson, chambermaid at the hotel, when she went to clean up the room. It was lying on the bed, the face half turned towards the pillow. The man with whom the girl came to the hotel last night was described as large, handsome and well dressed. The dead girt apparently was about 23 years of age, had a mass of dark brown hair and was wearing a plain jbrown suit She carried a cheap hand bag. When found the body was clad in underwear, The suit, hat and hand |bag were in the room but contained | no indication of the owner's identity, & powder puff and handkerchief be ing the only contents of the bag. | Police immediately began tracing | where the clothing which the girl | was wearing had nm purchased. | They identified the hat as having jbeen bought at a local millinery | store, | At the morgue an examination of the body revealed what evidently waa a knife wound across the fore- head. Police said they believed the girl had been stabbed and then choked to death —— 8. A, WEEK — KING ALEXANDER CRITICALLY ILL -ATHENS, Oct. 20.—King Alexan der’s condition continued critical at midnight last night, a physician's bulletin said today. There was no change either way, | the bulletin said. ° PARIS, Oct. 20.—Prof. De Bolt, one of the most skillful surgeons in France, was en route to Athens on a lapectal train today to operate upon King Alexander, of ¢ who is suffering from the effects of a monkey bite. The Greek Jegation here had no confirmation of an intercepted wire- less reporting Alexander’s death, ‘The Iegation said the king was alive at 2p. m. yesterday. MAY HAS CURE FOR ROYALTY’S MONKEY BITE, SHE AVERS! King Alexander of Greece is in for a hot tine! May Anderson, Seattle#healer, has a cure for the illness of |] King Alexander, which if he adopts it will probably kill him. May asked Mayor Caldwell, Wednesday, if he would help her get word to the king’s physi- clans. “I have a cure that will save his life,” she declared. “Put him in steaming woolen blankets and plage 15 hot water bottles around his body. ‘Then place two dry blankets over the wet ones, prop an ice bag against his head. Don't let him get chilled." May added that she hoped the mayor could get in touch with the king in time to save his life, (REMEMBER THE SALVATION ARMY! (CHINATOWN HOTEL SET AFIRE Tt EW LATE EDITION ( TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE.. WHAT’LL HAPPEN IF RETURNER OF BABY DEMANDS REWARD? TACOMA, Oct. 20, — Police watching the home of Mrs. George Stagg, expecting the return of her kidnaped baby, Bobby, were wondering today what would hap- pen if someone were to appear at the Stagg door, present the miss- ing child, and say: “Here's your boy; give me the $1,000," Mrs. Stagg’s mother and grand- mother have offered a reward of that sum for the return of the baby or the arrest of George Stage, the child's father, who is wanted for kidnaping Bobby, with the aid of Betty Brainerd, last September 14. Should the expected happen, the Person who returns Bobby will be promptly arrested, the police muy, but they are doubtful whether it would be possible to hold the per- | | is alleged she helped to kidnap the | is ordered she will be sent back to son, or even prevent him from re- covering the reward. MISS BRAINERD Case Is Due in N. Y. Court Tomorrow NEW YORK, Oct. 20,—Miss Betty Brainerd, Seattle, Wash., will be ar- raigned in the west side court at 9 & m, tomorrow as a fugitive from justice, it was announced today. It child of George Stagg, newspaper man, from its mother, from whom Stagg was separated. If extradition Washington state to face trial. ——8. A. WEEK — ber 9. ‘This fire was also sti in the lath pile used to feed furnace. MAC SWINEY IS UNCONSCIOUS LONDON, Oct. 26.4-Terence Mac Swiney, hunger striker in Brixton fail, suffered two delirious spells to- day, the second more violent than the first. At the first attack, which lasted two hours, all relatives of the lord ¢ were called to his bedside. he had recovered somewhat, physicians said his condition was not serious, but his mind appeared clouded. At 6:15 MacSwiney appeared un- conscious, a Sinn Fein bulletin said. The only sign of life was the twitching of his body and limbs. He talked wildly in the delirium which attacked him twice during the day, BISHOPS SAY IRISH ARE BEING TORTURED DUBLIN, Oct. 20.—Irish bishops, meeting at Maynooth, near here, de- clared in a manifesto today the “atrocities committed in Ireland by the crown's forces are surpassed only by Turkish atrocities in fright- fulness.” Men: have been tortured with bar- barous cruelty, it was charged. Maids have been torn from their mothers’ arms and there have been countless raids and imprisonments without trial, burning of homes and massacres of civilians by soldiers and police, maddened by drink and bent on loot. eee LONDON, Oct. 20.—Sir Hamar Greenwood, chief secretary for Tre: |land, charged in the house of com- |mons today that the Sinn Fein cam. paign is an organized and highly paid conspiracy to smash the Brit- jish empire. ——B8. A, WEEK — MARTIAL LAW IN PETROGRAD COPENHAGEN, Oct. 19.—(Delay- | ed.)-—Martial law has been declared jin 12 Russian departments, including the cities of Petrograd and Moscow, sccording to a report published in The Pravda today, HUNDREDS IMPERILED Blazing, Oily Rags Hurled Milwaukee hotel, 668 King st. early Wednesday morning, Harry M. Bringhurst said at poom after an investigation. the second two hours later, were | put. out by Patroimen Tom Walsh and George Finnelj and hotel Ployes before damage was done any of the several hundred guests of the five-story building aroused. leader in. Chinatown, lives im the Milwaukee, | heart of new Chinatown. the victim of incendiaries om tober 9, according to Bri ing coals from the furnace i the pile. by Fire Marshal Bringhurst in $3 investigation, he said. The is owned by Goon Dip. the street from the Mil was discovered at 2:37 a. m. © Amateurs Busy on bery at Lowell, near Everett, thatoe | curred a few days ago, points to ee operations of a gang that has working time, according to the report of office Inspector Pinkham, smashed in by some heavy ment, pointing to the work of inex- pert yesgs, the inspector said, and it is this method of safecracking that coincides with other robberies re cently, BUNKED STORES Justice Otis W. Brinker's court, J, M. Weber, 42, and O. F. Holderman, 34, both salesmen, were held jail Wednesday. ment store detectives are investigate ing the alleged activities of the pats, who are accused of buncoing dowl town stores out of $1,000 in three days by cashing alleged bad checks, office in the New York block by De tective R. R. Herbert and agents of the Merchant Protective A: . is said to be the writer of the bad) — checks. checks, according to police. WHEN FIRE BUGS WORK Thru Coal Chute at Milwaukee Hotel Firebugs started two fires in the Fire The fires, one at loa m and Goon Dip, Chinese consul The hotel is to the bi The Rex hotel, 657 King st, was nell and Walsh the alley they noticed paper reached the front Japanese night clerk the street and called beside strewn ies No motive for the fire was ¥, The fire in the Rex hotel, —8. A. WEEK— P. O. Safe Cra Investigation of the post in that vicinity for some The doors of the safe had —— 8. A. WEEK — OUT OF $1,000? Charged with grand larceny im pens City and Weber, who was arrested atehis, Holderman passed the © You Want What You Want When You Want It— And you have but one thing to do to get it. Merely in- sert an ad in The Star Clas sified columns and tell your wants to all the people of Seattle. You may want to buy a house, sell your ear or secure 9 a better position, It makes no difference to a Star Ad, It produces one thing— , bg RESULTS