The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 21, 1920, Page 1

TAGG BABY S REPORTED — b> f @eather Tonight and tomorrow fair, moderate ly Tomperature Last VOLUME 28 y noon, 58 southwester- winds Hours Minimum, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Ratered as Second Clase Matter May 2, SEATTLE, WASIL, Going | Up! (The Seattle Star gained 11,749 in daily circula- tion in the year ending October 1, making its mecerektp undis, sagen Every other Seattle pa- per, according to its obtt- 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 l.—Bureau of Missing Relatives NE OF THE MOST popu lar departments The Star has ever had is the Bu reau of Missing Relatives, This human “Lost and Found” ing house, instituted less tha Year ago, has already brought to- scores of mothers and sons, nds and wives, uncles and brothers and sisters who not heard from one another for ( & People write us from all over the ited States—from towns and we never knew existed— us to help them seck rela- who they think may at some have lived in Seattle. _ And often these years-old searches ch seem fruitless, turn out sur- ingty after an appeal has been thru The Star's Bureau of Relatives. Recentinng! Union re to peo im Seattle, apprising of the death of retatives. The Union combed the city. t could find no trace of the per to whom the messages were So ny appeal- Mi t6 The Star. A paragraph was ited in the Bureau, and thru this the relatives were found hin a few days and the messages red. “His mother is dying. She keepa ding for him. He was Mm Seattle years ago. Then the letters coming. Will you please iy to find him?” / We get appeals like this from clear to the Atlantic sea- |. Oftentimes we fail, of courve. many times the wandering, itleas, hoy stumbles onto the lines which tell him of the in the old home, thousands ‘of miles away. Or some bunkhouse of bis in a logging camp on Sound or way up in British Co- may read ft, réecognize the and pass the paper to the lad whom the appeal, was intended. An ex-soldier now working in a dier hospital in Iowa had been hing for his brothers for nine Twice he resorted to The s Bureau thru the Seattle Red The day the second appeal red a man telephoned to The lar and gave us the address of the in Ban Francisco. We could cite numerous parallel f The Bureau of Missing Relatives slo to Star readers, and The lar invites them to make the most it. The Bureau's services are ab- utely free. Tho it is called the Bureau of ing Relatives, its activities are necessarily confined to seeking tives. Many an old friend of me lonely:one has been found by Bureau, too. ‘The Bureau in ity short existence has built up a big following. Its ture possibilities are limited only the number of people who read gaily and who take advantage of services in time of need. ee ri P. 8—Here's a sample which ame in today of the daily grist of | als for help ra. John Ford's mother has been missing for 14 years, The last t she saw her was 14 years ago Mrs. Ford's name was formerly Vera Hall. Her mother’s name is Stella M. Hall.” If you know where she is, please communicate with The Star (Tell your friends about The Star. Tell them they can have it deliv- ered, by mail or carrier, anywhere in the state of Washington for ity cents a month.) “Hootch” to Get|| Key to Seattle Hermione, the glittering “key to the city,” that hangs In Mayor Caldwell's offi will be on the job again 81 when the steamer City of Seattle is ached uled to arrive at this port with a Aistinguished visitor. Hermione will be presented to “Hootch,” the big buck ¢ that the city of Wrangell is donating to the clty park Hootch will be given the free- dom of the city for 10 seconds, when he will be sent to the big nelosure at Woodland park, 0 TRAPPED ARE DEAD | Tragedy Occurs When Bus- iness Building in Los Angeles Is Burned LOS ANGELES, Several jhave been burned | fire which partially | four-story building in the downtown | wholesale district here today | One body, that of Miss 1. | Beobarn, bookkeeper, was lered from the burning building. according to Fire Chief Scott Several other employes of whole sale firmé are missing, according |to reports “gathered by firemen More than 100 persons were trap ped in the building when the ames, originating from defective wiring, spread rapidly thru the structure. Noarly all of them were} pees Several women were # 1% burned. Their injuries were joey for at the reeeMing hospital, where it was oaid at least one woman might die. The four-story building was occu: pled by four wholesale firms e¢m- pleying more than a hundred per- sons, many of them worren. Almost the entire contents of the buliding were destroyed, according to insurance company fepresenta tives, who said the. loss would amount to $200,000, The following firms were located | in the building, which stood at Third and Los Angeles strs.: Low Angeles-Pacific Coast yelope company, Lichtenberg-Fer guson company, John Brothers’ | Trunk factory, and the Robert Baer Hat company. | The flames, which broke [shortly after 9 o'clock, were | ported under contro! at 10:16 Firemen at that time said the believed only one person had been kifed. John Richards, overcome by smoke Many of the women employes of the building were driven to the roof of the building by the intense heat, their escape being cut off from be Cat, were Oct. 21 believed to death destroyed persons to in a a recov out re enpes and fire ladders, +The body of Miss Hepburn was burned to a crisp when it was found She evidently had been overcome by smoke tm attempting to make her way to the roof, according to Chief Scott. 8. A. WEEK BOMB WARNINGS | ET COMMON Wholesale ‘Threats Made in California ‘comprehensive tonight, with SACRAMENTO, 21 |The 1. W. W. plan | blowup’ in Californ levery federal building, three newspa capitol and other 4 for destruction, eter received at the eaday. Word of ne public today, ‘The letter was written on a type writer and on “flimsy” las is used by press associations and in offices. pers, the state buildings marke cording to a governor's ‘offic its receipt be see Tex. Oct. 21 Dallas and Ellis have received letters destruction of thefr plants if the publications don't sup | port demands for 40-cent cotton | M. Spencer, head of the d of justice investigation bur | nounced here toda 4. A, WEEK |MacSwiney Can’t DALLAS Editors of several newspapers threatening | Recognize People|. | LONDON, Weakened by | severe paroxysmd of delirium yester day, Terence MacSwiney was said by relatives to have lost his memory Relatives said he failed to recognize t Oct. 21 0 The Dally Chronicle said today prison physicians fed MacSwiney with brandy and beef extract yes terday while he was. unconscious following a delirious spell. Mac Swiney was wald to © been’ en raged at what he lied trickery and to have refused further nour ishment, AS En-| fireman, was) low. They were carried down fire es- | paper such | Miracle! Reporters Take Campaign Seriously. They’re All Het Up About It. They Want to Debate. We'll Let ’Em. Ready, Ed? Ready, Ben? GO!!! There ARE people who take this campaign seri- ously. W didn’t believe it was possible. But there are. ‘Two of them actually are working for The Seattle Star—and we never suspected them. Until last night. They stood beside the editor's desk. They cleared their. throats in unison. And one of them said—said he: “Boss, when are we coming out for Cox?” “After the election, Ed,” we told him, pleasantly. “Aha! I TOLD you we would be for Harding!” It was Ralph Benjamin who thus exclaimed to the shocked and grieving Wheeler. “But—” said Wheeler. “Wait!” said we. “Why jump at the conclusion jthat we must be either for Cox or Harding? We ‘ean also be for nobody—which is just about the’ same!” | This was a cruel remark. We realized it when we saw the hurt look in Wheeler's eyes, the injured expression on Ben-, jamin's face. "Twas then we made the discovery that these two reporters take their candi seriously, Benjamin) believes in Harding; Wheeler’ bel in Cox. They really jexpect the nation's-ilis-to-be solved by~their~respective ies. | We gazed out the window at the strange hie! which the rain makes on the newly-repaired roo! | Seventh avenue. “Can you boys,” jthe election of your respective, if not respected, | dates?” yphics | Across | we asked, “give me any good reason for candi- “I certainly can!” said hi rl “Then do so,” said we, “and we'll run ’em side by side on the front page of our very next issue, and let you fight it out till election day. And here they are: * * * | FOR COX } BY EDGAR C. WHEELER |VHE FINEST argument for ] league of nations I have came ia Des Moines October 7, when |Senator Warren G. Harting in * * s * * BY RALPH J. BENJAMIN F YOU WERE in a small boat on rough water, with @ flock of Whitecaps just ahead, rocks to right| and left, shallow water here and formed the world his back wax) there, whirlpools and the walter was | |turned on it licy cold Constitutionally Harding looks) What kind of a man would you backward }want at the ones? | | Thus leaving the league in a'very| A careful, stendy fellow who knew enviable ponition the channel and had the strength * the seen Ben? Since that memorable day in Des Molnés Mr. Harding has been squirming and sweating to readjust his physiognomy into line with thone of his political helpers who have wished to keep their eyes on the road ahead. “SUPPORTERS STIFF-NECKED | TRYING TO FOLLOW” . ere of them have grown” stiff ed trying to follow him in his |contortions, while others have given }it up a# a bad job, turning their mocks on the row of backs for a | glimpse of the horizon. { As I understand it, 1 | uphold the debate of ours presidential campaign, and to be loaded |down with the republican end y Tut, we've got to aecide how we tell me that it's custom want to go. jbating, to have a * If we want a afe, careful trip, jkind to start on, The fact that the wel) elect a pilot who will run the jeditor didn't supply us with one of! gnip that way these “resolved” things makes no| 1¢ we want a kick-ful voyage, with | difference as far as I'm concerned. | pjenty of noine, a lot of excitement, and a using in the briny, we'll pick out a gay, jumping-jack sort of a captain Do yourget me Or a Mighty, frisky, nolxy lad who might jump up and wave his arms and howl, “Yip-yip-yipee-ce-ee' | KOC AND WHIKLPOOLS | AHEAD, SAYS B / | We are in a small boat and there are rocks and whirlpools ahead, We xn follow the channel and get thru \fely, or we ean flip and flop around, bounce off all the rocks and shoals, and finally upset the. craft | and swim the rest of the way thru | the frigid water We're going ever it is we're going—no who runs the boat. We're not to catch pneumonia or the fla Me, even if we do have to swim. that!" wher: | matter going and Get to get there I'm to in this ton, demoer! the The main point in # is to go after the other fel | the nm I began this word bout by patting Mr. Harding on the back another which was the only place visible. , t6o. wit AR BRINGS OUT w little matter to and sane captain will P paaseath less money. Excitement Y STUFF \™ race sf comes high and the bird who will Now for the heavy stuff. rock the boat for us will dent our | James M. Cox, nominee of roll: Yea, Brethren! democratic party, has firmly and) oo. ldefinitely promised that if he is pant , | elected will enter the league of 1 nations In the me of es American) The man who'll take us thru the people as soon as wible. after /#ext four years, miss the bumps—or 1921. That tle ir-eut, defi. |tTY Nis best to miss ‘em—and deliver position, I contend, is the fore.|¥% Mito the next presidential cam |moat’ reasoh why he should be|PAalgn with the lous sof sleep, jelected president cash, and the least worry and trou is Warren ©. Harding | ble | varre are publican Watres Rapding, _ Pepublicar » foxy rascal who will get us how, if he has to throw andid: has announ that he und us and drag us, and | weeks rejection of the us wet and cold, and make gue covenant re announcement by eld, and mak us worry and trouble, very thing he ’ al is sufficient ‘Cos ae ee Both of these lads come from Ohio defeat Both are able to get us thru. goth | 1 believe you will agree with me, have pilot's papers | Ben, that acceptance or rejection of Harding is a reliable sort of fellow. the league of nations is the one big He says what he thinks, but he issue of the presidential campatin.|qoesn't think foolish, imaginative | It has been made the issue, it is true, |things that he can’t prove, He has by a few selfish political republican never awakened the natives by his| opportunists in the United States! yelling. He never stole a red lan- senate and elsewhere, maneuvering | tern, walked a tight rope, rode a (Lurn to Page 7, Column 4) (Lurn to Page 7, Column 5) safe us the | nite G ‘sera only sidling rejected ping follow that up to the That his | reason for 1899, at the Postoffiee at Meattte, Wash THI IRSDAY, pcerity below, j inside. The \Decause of lack of air. and courage to keep the boat in itt), | to strike Sunday at midnight in sym-| | pathy with coal miners The Seattle Star under the Act of Congress March 9, 187 OCTOBE R 21, 1920, , Per Year, by Mall, $5 to #9 RETURNED! TH - Ew LATE ITION TWO Ck ‘TS IN- SEATTLE ~ BY FIR JAPANESE SMUGG PLOT Nine Stowaways Are Found on Alabama Maru Here; Organized Ring Working? G Evidence of an organized ring for the amuggling of Japs into the Unit ed State. is mald to have been un covered by immigration officers, who found nite Japa cleverly hidden be neath the flooring of the liner Ala bama Maru, now anchored at Pier 6 Officers of the ship reported that. they bad heard strange noises under the flooring of the steering gear he ¢. in the after part of the khip [at various times during the voyage from Japan, Immigration inspectors found nothing amiss, however, and were about to abandon the search, when thelr attencion was" attracted to a twofoot section of the floor planking that had evidently been freshly cautked The section was removed, and one of the Inspectors, peering Into the saw a Jap Jeing. down stowawny refured to come ont, so the officer squeened thru the narrow opening and found nine Japs in hiding. They were tak: en to the immigration detention sta- tion and will be deported to Japan on one of the next boats, | EVIDENCE OF OUTSIDE HELP SEEN | Two Sallon casks of water, some | rice, fish and canned foods were found in the hiding place of the stowaways. In addition there were, mats for them to Me upon, showing Ahat thege were well fixed for the voyage” The fact that the section of ved planking was recently | cauiked shows thit the Japs had ontee hep Immigration officials are of opinion that so many men could pot have remained very long in the amall quarters after being sealed in ‘The section | was about eight by eight by tive | feet Immigration and customs oftelals | |are working @n the theory that the | xtowa ways in one of the lower holds untif yearel wag about to be board crawled into the place prepa: th the floor of the steering housing and were a in by Leeomplices Seven of the Japs give their co | cupation as farmer, while two claim | to be merchants, Eight of them, come from the town of Wakaya- meken and one from Hiroshimuken. | Their ages ranged from 21 | —8, 4. wee | BRITISH RAIL MEN TO STRIKE, Will Join Coal W Miners in Big) Walkout BY CHARLES McCANN LONDON, Oct. 21.—Urders have been issued for British raflway men the | Under the orders sent out today | railway men. thruout the United Kingdom will walk out Sunday mid. | night unless specific instructions to| the contrary are issued in the mean-} time, Transport workers, the other dl vision of the “triple alliance,” an-!| nounced thru thelr secretary, Robert | Williams, if negotiations were not} reopened within 24 hours the tas would be clearly, drawn between the government and the workers. Williams is regarded as a radical He is credited with being the real head of the organization. Thomas, | secretary of the railway men, is a moderate, but has been committed to the policies of the union heads. eee MINES MAY BE OPERATED BY STRIKE RULE LONDON, Oct. 21—A moye to! force nationalization of British coal! mines was seen today In the demand of Welsh miners that pits in South Wales be occupied and operated. The threat war made at a meet-! ing in Coedely, which decided to ask | the South Wales conference, meet-| ing Friday, to expel owners and their representatives from the mines, seize and operate them un- ti) @ wettiement has been reached, | about. | tries or who has traveled there. “Make Scenarios Human” Read’s Asics to Writers The MOTHER © IS SAID TO HAVE HER BOYNOW Delivered to “Her in Seattle | Today by New York Wome en, Says Tacoma Report Bobby Stagg is believed to have | been returned to his mother! He is said to have been delivered to her either last night or today | at some place as yet unknown, bus | believed to have been here in Sea Mrs, Stagg and her long-lost baby, | kidnaped by his father, George Be September 14, i charged by Miss Betty Brainerd, Louise Glaum, for whom the scenarivs in The Star-Read $5,000 contest are to be written, * Do you wish to enter the J. Parker Read, jr-Seattle Star $5,000 scenario contest? There are three prizes of- fered, First, $2,500; second, $1,500, | and third, $1,000. In addition, all sconarios sent to the final judges will | be purchased at prices ranging from | $490 to $1,000 If they contain good | ideas, | Seattle is one of the nix cities gtv-| en a chance in this contest. The oth er five are Portland, Tacoma, Spo- | kane, San Francisco and Los An gelos. Each city will wend the three | beat scenarios to neadquarters, at the J. Parker Reed, jr, studios. The | three best of the 18 received at the | studios will win the big cash prizes. | J. Parker Reed 1s looking for sto: ries that will fit the personality of Louise Glaum, his star, He ig willing to pay big money for these stories If You do not come within the prize qualifications, you send in a story that will attract Read because of its splendid possibilities, and for which he will pay $400 to $1,000, What the motion picture industry needs now more than anything else is good stories,” sald Read, “It doe not matter what kind of story— whether it is period stuff, whether it | is sex, whether it is spiritual, rural, | melodrama or comedy drama—if it is | & good story. “I would advise all contestants to make their characters as human as | the people they meet in real life. T/ would advise each contestant to write about something they know A person who has lived in Seattle during a lifetime cannot write a story with Chinese or Kast Indian characters as well as the per- won who has resided in those coun Register Now! Semario Contest Editor, Seattle Star: 1 hereby enter the Seattle Star J. ro rage gingesy +» $5,000 scenario con- Name VAST FORTUNE to Get Billions WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—-Specu lators and middlemen stand to win | profits of $2,640,000,000 on food, it wax shown here today, on the basis | | of statements put out by Secretary jot Agriculture |inbor department. Consumers on this basis will pay $25 each into the pockets of specu: lators during the crop year 1920-21, This in addition to the money the | farmers will receive for raising thé food. —r- 8. A. WEEK — |Woman Blames Dogs “The point is this; Don't attempt | fe Committing Theft to write a story about people you do not know, If you 4 your charac-| Dogs, who come into her yard and ters may pot be convincing. They | steal things, were complained against may be artificial and unreal, and the! by Mrs. J. Dowman, 4432 38th ave. public will not accept such people.” 8. W., Thursday. Here Are Conditions for Scenario Contest The Seattle StarJ, Parker Read, Jr., scenario competition is for three prizes aggregating $5,000, The first award is a cash sum of $2,500, with $1,500 and $1,000 respectively, to be awarded to the second and third prize stories suitable for production in motion picture form. In event ‘vf a tie each of the tying contestants shall receive the full amount of the prize for which they are tied, The contest is open to all, It begins today. You may write your fdeas in any form—all scenarios will be con- sidered from the basic standpoint of quality of idea—not of form, The contest closes December 1, 1920, The judges, whose names will be announced in The Star, will make their awards as soon after the conclusion of the contest as possible, All scenarios must be sent to the Scenario Contest Editor, Seattle Star. TO PROFITEERS ‘Meredith Says They Stand. Meredith and the/ | Seattle society and | woman, were scheduled to return t the Stagg home at Tacoma at 4D. my This announcement, coming Charles B, Welch, editor of Tacoma News-Tribune, was only of the startling pieces of info! which kept Tacoma on the qui today. Next in importance was the “Please be brave. I am doing all I can to help you and, York, seeking extradition, of Miss Strickland sent the following bg | wire to Police Chief Smithy bathed hearing Thursday. Bole | by Stagg being smuggled back to Ta coma by two women employed by | Hearst papers. They should arrive they will protect Betty thereby. Am standing pat on case. Expect to | bring Betty back.” Despite the fact that Chief Smith immediately ‘announced that he | would make no arrests of persons re turning the baby, it is believed that \the women—if women they are— may have become frightened and designated a place outside the juris Stage. Mrs. Stagg left Tacoma suddenly late yesterday, MRS. CUNNINGHAM WIRES: “INTERVIEWED OUR PARTY” | Her mother, Mrs. Ada Cunning. ham, in New York to aid in bringing back Betty Brainerd, last night win ed Mrs, Stagg.as follows: “Interviewed our party. Wire when Bobby arrives.” One report in Tacoma today was the mysterious Hearst women intend jed to leave Bobby Stagg all properly tagged and dressed for identification, on the doorstep of some home in @ remote Tacoma suburb created @ stir, until the later announcement. came that Mrs, Stagg had recovered her baby. A report that Mrs. Stagg had gone to Portland for the baby was uncom. firmed by the sheriff's office here this afternoon, Deputy Sheriff Herbert Beebe said that if Mrs, Stage had left her home in Tacoma, as reported, to get the baby, she was being followed by two Tacoma city detectives—of that he was positive, eee MISS BRAINERD GOES TO COURT |AND GETS DELAY NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—Counsel for Miss Betty Brainerd, magazine and newspaper writer, arrested here im connection with the kidnaping of the baby of George T. Stagg, news paper man, in Tacoma, Wash,, ad mitted today he knows the where: abouts of the child, As the principals were leaving police court today, following adjourne |ment until Monday of Miss Braim erd’s hearing on a charge of being a fugitive from justice, pending re sult of the extradition hearing before Governor Smith in Albany tomorrow or Saturday, her attorney, Isadore J, grandmother of the baby: “Madam, we sympathize with you, You may rest assured the baby is ‘He would say nothing @ora, alded, it is Brainerd for aiding in the kidnaping, jthere Thursday night. They think — diction of the Tacoma police where” they would deliver Bobby to Mra ~ Kresel, told Mrs. Ada Cunningham, —