The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 25, 1920, Page 1

On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise eSeattle Star A Clans Matter May 2, ve mrs Fill TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE ‘3 > FOUR, ASLEEP DWELLING, DODGE DEATH IN BLAST Police Seek Prominent L. W. W., Said | to Have Made Threats Against “4 Building’s Owner % Tonight and Tuesday, moderate southeaster- ly winds. fair, Temperature Last '4 Hours Maximum, Minimum, 46. Today noon, 52, {iit VOLUME 22 1999, at the Poste BATTLE, WASH., * at Beattin Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879 Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 SEATTLE Going Up! (The Seattle Star gained 11,749 in daily circula- tion in the wear 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 PRISONER SUCCUMBS TO HUNGER ntenced accusations against Hin pomnonn counet! | Famous Irishman’s _ Life PS asagpes seals ardent: ny 9:09 Comes to End on 74th by & court Day of Fast in Prison Upon con. martial and senter MacSwiney refused to eat. He informed his judges he considered the court Ulegal and without Jurisdiction. vietion MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1920. was nvicted and for which he a tu Iiritieh police ir Ireland. Consul to Ask for His MACSWINEY JAILED » HER ESCAP IRA AFTER CONVICTION ER E IS MIRACULOUS LONDON, Oct. 2 ‘The charge : on which Lord Mayor Mactwiney | py of resolutions passed by State Department Wires : | Immediate Arrest That an I. W. W. threw the bomb and left only four intact on the sete that wrecked the home of F. R.{ond story. Windows in houses om Shows, general claim agent for the | both sides of the Shong home were: Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail-|also broken. The ground floor looks : 14—CYNTHIA GREY { — LITTLE SERIES |s fitting ly closed with a mention of one @f The Star's most important pub We eervices—the department con ducted by Cynthia Grey, mender of broken hearts, comforter of the sad and weary, Big Sister to the Great Northwest. Much of Cynthia Grey's most tm- nt work ts conducted outside column in the newspaper. Many , mre thd personal callers she receives; many are the letters “not for pubil gation” and requiring wise and ene answers; many the trips le court, the aid societies, e the children's homes, ete. - Beores of homes are happy today that were on the verge of breaking up when their troubles were told to _ Cynthia Grey. Hundreds of young people are “playing the game Straight” who were about to take a false . step when Cynthia Grey “turned them back. ' Milas Grey's advice is free for the % QUESTION What do you think, more than any- ANSWERS C. 1. TWIS8S, life insurance, Crary Duilding—Oh, autos, 1 guess, and the call of Nature on a nice bright Sun- day. MRS. W. S& MAYFIELD, 152 Lee brought to the people, as it should be. S. MALAKOFYP, 1325 Yesier way— Some are too busy and some don’t care to go. MRS. A. McDANIEL, 1410 E. 65th nisl BF Sing, cies heros people sway from) st.—The fact that the church is not) | | | jer, and his brother John. BY LIAYD ALLEN LONDON, Oct Terence Mac Swiney died In Brixton at 5:40 a m today, The lord mayor of Cork died without regaining consciousness at the dawn of the Téth day of his hun wer strike With MacSwiney, as he died, were Father Dominic, his religious advie- John re mained in the Brixton prison thru out the night, and was not permitted to leave until 645, Until that time he was not permitted to communt cate with other relatives. MacSwiney began sinking at mid- night last night. Officials refused to permit the priewf to notify relatives, | according to a Sinn Fein announce } ment. The lady mayoress and Mac- | Swiney’s sisters, Annie and Mary, visited the prison, at 8 p.m. They stayed 15 minutes, MES. MacSWINEY 18 PROSTRATED Friends took charge of Mrs. Mac Swiney, who was prostrated when! james Doom, a detective, to arrest told of her husband's death. She was removed to a private home, where they could care for ber. Se, bank ne ane fates to Brixton prison during forenoon. It citoemins on which one of the late lord mayor's Annie, drove up at 11 ‘orcloak. | Brixton. Fears a demonstration might be started seemed dinipated when no unusual crowds materialized, Those that assembled appeared more curi ous than excited An inquest probably wil! be held today, prison officials said. The in vestigation was expected to be pure- ly formal, with two prison officials testifying to the cause of death. RELATIVES BARRED FROM PRISON ‘The prisoner's wife visited the bed side Saturday afternoon, but the two sisters had not been allowed to see their brother since Friday. They were denied admission Saturday, and remained in the prison waiting room all day without food. They finally | Were ejected late at night. MacSwiney’s death was believed near Thursday, when he became de- rious. His body was racked with tremors, which continued even after he bad regained consciousness. Phynl- clans gave him his first food as he lost control of himself. They gave} him beef extract and brandy ‘FORFEITS $50 FOR BLACKMAI |Tried to Falsely Accuse Man of Theft, Charge Charged with biackmall aa the outgrowth of the alleged burglary jot Ris home here last September, + E. Trude failed to appear for before Justice of the Peace Otia W. Brinker today ahd for felted $50 cash bail. The day following the alleged, bursiary, Trude ts mid to have threatened to fasten the crime upon Wiliam sSthwarts, whom he well know had not committed the offense, and to have intended to induce Sehwarts. ‘This, according to the ntate extor tion jaw, constitutes a form of biack- ‘ASKS $2,500 IN ‘SLANDER ACTION Anna Helgren began suit for $2,500 in superior court today against Ranghild Schobiom, alleging that, in the presence of H. BE. Dahlstrom wer ion persons, at $47 W. Gist st, March 28, Schoblom said she was |" "housekeeping unmarried man.” By his manner, she xald, he inti mated that her conduct waa not | above reproach. HILLMAN FACES "$25,000 SUIT C. D. Hillman, former realty oper | ator here and in California, and his | wife, Bessie Olive Hulm&n, are de | fendants in a suit on trial before for an | Judge Royd J. Taliman today, in| | which George H. Rummens, former | counsel for Hiliman, seeks to recover 229.75 attorney feem. WASHINGTON, Oct. 25. — The! murder of M. Sevrey, an American citizen, at Cananca, Mexico, was re | ported to the atate department today | Becretary of State Colby telegraphed lto the Amertoan consul at Nogales, [in the Mexican state of Sonora, to cali on the Mexican authorities “to } take all pownible measures to appre hend the murderer.” } The report of the murder came to the state department from the American conmul at Nogales, who) jntated the murder was reported to |have been committed by Raymond) |. Navarre, without provocation | Navarre i discharged miner | | whom the Cananea copper company | had refused to employ. Mexican troops are searching for Navarre, the department was ad Vvined. Sevrey, who was killed | Wednesday, wan a resident of Bis) | ben Acts. A reward bas been of-| fered by the copper company, ) the western provinces—Haakate! wan, Alberta and Manitoba—it was | claimed by the ‘wets that British | Columbia's recent election decidin: for sile of liquor under government control will have « decided influence | in their favor. Nova Scotia proba- bly will vote “dry.” : Japan Is Watching * * Korean Situation! TOKYO, Oct. %6.--The clone watch | kept here on the Korean situation | was quickened today when reports | were recetved that several ministers of the Korean provisional govern ment at Shanghai have gone secret: ly into Manchuria to prepare for mill- tary operations. Phe reports set the date for the commencement of these operation as the end of November. Lest You Forget; War Is Stal On WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—The su- preme court of the United States to- | day ended an attempt to bring an end to the technical state of war with | Germany, when if refused to review | 4 sult brought by Harry 8. MeCart-| ney against Secretary of State Colby. road, at 215 Belmont ave. N., at 3:30 | a. m. Monday, was the theory adopt- ton. Search for a prominent 1. W. who was arrested in the basement next to the Shong home, November { 28, 1919, and who imagined that H. |J. Aronson, owner of .the Shong | home, was responsible for hiv arrest, was started by the police Monday noon, | “That guy next door tipped me off | to police: I get him,” the 1. W. Pl ts alleged to have said, after squad officers under Sergeant Keefe | ¢, |arrested him in the basement of the | building at 219 Belmont ave, N. | WAS CAUSED BY | BOMB, SAYS TENNANT | “The explosion was certainly caus- ed by a bomb—probably made out of dynamite, Detective Captain {ine proves Nemes Four lousy escaped injui mar tua Gira care | rectly under her bed, but she was | not even thrown to the floor. The explosion smashed every win- leas on the ground floor of the home, HE THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY A BURGLAR, SO SNOOZED ON “If I had known it was a bomb B. Tobey, deputy U. 8. marshal, related Monday. “But when the door rattled I just thought it was somebody trying to get in, and roiled over and went back to Tobey lives two blocks from the home of F. R. Shong, that was dynamited early Monday morn- ing. | od as if it had been swept by » hy | ricane. # 8 ed by police after @ thoro investiga | HEARD MILES AWAY: ow. jaa SES N heard by policemen on duty. aroused, and men and women rushed out nightclothes to find where tne ex« plosion had come from. patrolmen raked morning, but found no trace of any | bomb fragment. This did not dig — they that the explosion was by the wrecked interior of the sive had been used. every one in house probably would have peapile were in the ‘Shong|Killed. If several sticks of {Rowse teoplns epeinics, 9nd geirnce. were thrown in a window, we ave a hard time finding any siting Henrietin Parker, a niece ot |% sleeping directly above | NO. are no potted marks on the or walls to indicate shrapnel it bomb.” |east $5,000, Shong estimated. | house is a two-story building | attic. | southwestern corner of the fi room, on the south side T might have been ‘scared,” Edwin | directly in front of the Sropines: plaster in this room was sti clean from the walls, and many were broken. Furniture was t into @ mass of jumbled wreckage. piano, ‘standing lamp, davenport, ble and several chairs were : {into an almost inextricable tangle. was, wrecked nearly as badly. | strange thing in this room wag only the plaster from the ctiling knocked down. tered all over the pantry. kitchen the wreckage was minor, tures were torn from the walls, GHBORHOOD away the explosion Miles The entire neighborhood was — of their homes in wraps and Captain Tennant, detectives and ” the wreckage ae pourage the police, so certain bomb. “The bomb was made of dy as near as we are able to ase said Capt. Tennazstt. plosions direct their force down The gaping hole in the floor b |Chartes E. Tennant said, after prob- | out this theory. “Dynamite If some other exy them now. re Damage to the home will total at) The explosion occurred in The room next to the front Nga Dishes were In ‘ho all windows were broken. FRONT DOOR BLOWN OUT; HOUSE OUT OF PLUMB Upstairs windows were broken, chairs were tumbled over. The front door and panel blown outward onto the front The front of the house was kno out of plumb, as were most of walls, \ A strip of lead, from a many. window, was catapulted’ across street onto a tree limb, The odor of powder was p The prisoner raged when he recov. | F | Rummens alleges he carried one posal on — eens ee ‘euit against Hillman to the supreme he : fa cesta mene loat conscious. | Court of the state, winning It, and ts © oh pray ap Seamana.| | thereby saving Hillman $150,000, but physicians had little hope that he| se "original retainer te efforts would recover, His mental attitude | “ Woman Murderer Flees San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25.—Cap | tain of Detectives Duncan Matheson | admitted today he believed the mur derer of Mra, Ruby Allen, of Mobile, Ala, had eluded the police and prob- | ably fied to Mexico or Canada. st.—Many wives stay away because their husbands don't believe in the church. MRS. A. 8S. PAUL, 224 ave. and E.! Gnion st.—I think lack of sociability fm the church is one of the chief/ “feasons. Often one may go to chureh | _ and come away without being spoken to by a single person. was against it, and he wore himself | out raging against being fed Physicians protested the process ms - — | feeding MacSwiney made ts advisable e t Pleads Not |to bar relatives. Mrs, Allen was etrangled in a room noticeable immediately after the a gis | FORCIBLE FEEDING in a hotel last Wednesday. Mathe og Guilty Dope Charge is conpEMN son said he believed the man's true tg: It Ri gion. 4 dis Charies B. Kelly, drug store pro-| ‘The last outsider to see him ws a Seattle authorities were asked | Me Rot Sih be vaypel = lh ct they said. In the house, at the time, tor, pléaded not guilty in United| Art O'Brien, of the Self Determina-| Monday by Mrs. K. Towell, of Bel-|" pak Et besides Shopg and Miss Barker, were tes district court Monday to a/tion league. O'Brien insued a state. | Ingham, to assist in locating her hus- = A. J. Osborne, @ssistant cashier at [Tage erand jury indictment charging|ment saying the feeding of Mac-| band. Flyzik Accuses the Consolidated Raitway office, and trafficking in narcotics, |Swiney was unnecessary violence. According to Mrs. Towell, her Dr. S J Kloeber Mrs. Grace Monroe, housekéeper, e somata ——— After lying Mm comparative comfort — eres with & aire mite | a pia add minrtcodageiel BE.) uuretta Parker (above), Was asieep mn tne Snong home on Belmont ave. N. when wiebon, arian the tastemee from the — King Alexander Is for almost 70 days of his strike, Mac rry Is aid to have left her home|employers of the state, Martin J it was wrecked by an explosion early today. A hole was torn in the first story ceiling|to a man whose name petri Swiney’s last days were painful ana) Fy directly beneath her bed. The middle picture shows the wrecked house—notice rovi: pat Fi ednesday, telling her husband she| Flyaik, member of the state safety | the Turn to Page 12, € plete Not Improving | Trevlcusly Macswiney had Iain on|W&# not going to return, Towell dis-|board, Monday declared that thru| blown-out windows, At the bottom is a view. of the living-room after the explosion. ae King Alexander's; condition is an-| his bed packed in hot water bottles, | *bpeared Bunday the Interference of Dr. 8. J. Kloeber, | Photos by Cress-Dale CYNTHIA GREY IS ¢hanged ,according to an official bul-|contentedly receiving visitors and | chairman, the work of the board is} ee: | rere cance cane fe 88 occa! Ut | eecatully contemplating the ettect| being rendered Ineffective, He SHAKEN BY BOMB; charged that Kloeber has been tn lor his act on the cause of Ireland. strumental in destroying the mini GIRL BECOMES Asks Habeas Corpus MI, Killed THOT IT FURNACE} |Explosion Shakes Then came his delirium and hin | Ps | ‘ tics ahaa. tows were dvacas mum wage commission, and that he| to Stop Deportation. by Dynamite Blowup|. Church; 20 Injured BY CYNTHIA GREY oun ra delirious spelia, during which Mac has erected an impassable barrier! petition for writ of habeas corpus dr a Rip Ordinarily there Is 0 Joub aint Swiney raved and shouted of the between himself and labor represent-|t. stay. deportation proceedings | DES MOINES, lows, Oct, 26.—| ROANOKE, Ind., Oct. 35.—County |] rected with a bomb, and: Unie Store Burglar Irish republic, driving im het VA, Weneaed, FP cbtont Flyaik er hey Freeney with against Jung Ham and Seid Yam, | William Spurrier, a prominent lum. | fficlals today investigated an explo-|} jan’t in connection with this one, a troops and presiding over imaginary the tak teteenl at _ agement. and dictatorial man-| chinese, was ontered in the United |berman of the Northwest, was killed |" which shook the Simons United |} except the joke on me. Living di- to His Home } |'::' conrts |, | University” of Washington, Was ad « Be a ee States diatrtot court Monday. | [Sunday morning when dynamite ex.{Fetheen church here last night and |] rectly back of the residence: on The lady mayoress apparently | mitted Monday to practice in the| am and Yam were arrested in| it 2 Belmont ave, N., which was P Dynamite and Lightning got ex-||knew death was coming when #he|federal court, upon order ot Judw Didn't t Impersonate _{ keten'xan tast June on orders from|Ploded in a barn at his farm near |!Nured 20 members of the congrema-|} i crbed, naturally 1 heard the ex: | tra bones to gnaw on today saw her husband Saturday. “It's! seremiah r. Miss Chartotte| Officer, He Asserts | Avant Secretary of Labor Post, | Pine River, Minn., according to word an, one seriously, plosion | Some time last night the store || too terrible, 1 can't talk about It any | Kotmitz, assistant United States dis. u u Jand brought to Seattle, where they | received today by his parents, Judge| Rey: J. H. Barker, an Evangelist, 1 awoke in midair between the | of E. Eckert, at Getchell, in Sno- || more,” she sald when she left the |trict attorney, was sponsor for Mian |, Charles H. Hodge, charged with nave been held in the immigration | 14 srs. W. A. Spurrier, of thig}d Just finished his sermon and in-|| bed and ceiling at just exactly homish county, was reported || prison late in the afternoon veal i nation of a segret service | detention station. ‘They were ordered | ®1' © 0 , vited the congregation«to come to|} 3:40, with a terrific roar in my 4 burglarized, with $400 of merchan ghiiy ng ff! and with obtaifing money | deported on the grounds of being un- | ©'Y lo details of the explosion/ing front and be saved when the|| ears dise stolen. | Mac#winey, said to be suffering | under false pretenses, pleaded not} desirable aligns. were given. bladt cane, First impression was that a . ‘When « call for help was tele- || from lung trouble when arrested on | guilty when arraigned in the federal Karl Rupert, janitor, was badly || meteoric stone had come to make phoned to Seattle, Deputy Sherifts || Ausust 12, went on a hunger strik court Monday. ae burned. Rev. D. W. Seartman, pas. || {ts home in the top of our apart: Matt Starwich and Herbert Beebe || immediately. He was convicted Aug | aay Yale f tog, was injured, ment building. responded, taking with them mE 1¢wy & geoeyt court on be ees Pockets Picked of (@) l 1ca Ss er Ss! The explosion was’ belleved to | te a bs A when I namite and Lightning, afore ||t Preparing and having in his pow have been caused by escaping gas in|] heard voices outside exclaiming ahened. sesuion seditious literature. | $80, Boarding Car e the basement that a furnace had blown up in Dynamite and Lightning are LD r irish Sponsored by Councilman Oliver T. Pickpockets stole $80 from C, B. ——$$— one of the nearby houses; that about the same tin an effort was being made | py, clerk, 737 N. 66th st, while the fire department was on its Joodhounds: Earle, clerk, 737 by Bioodhounds, on the trait, |[#er strike two days curller in anctine = apeatal mecting [he waraed’ a Great” Lake cay iat { ||Gets Scalp Wound as || ‘"", "2. ain thea’ thhiingy , | Cork jail. When Mac®winey was de etly council in the afternoon ot . and Pike st. Sunday | . 1 decided that no mere furnace ee m to the home of John |i ported to England to be placed in| for the purpose of obtaining final uc re ane ol . These are a couple of shots exchanged by our rival Taxi’Strikes Auto|] ...0°(00) out into the cold, 4 Brixton jail shortly after sentence, | tion on the proposed changes to the reporters, Ralph Benjamin and Edgar Wheeler, of The Charles Walker; 4346 36th ave. W..|] dark, foggy atmosphere—result, I the bursied store. he was wo weak he had to be carried | amendment of the jitney ordinance.| § DKYNER, 9627 TH AVE. N. received @ scalp wound when F. J-|1 went back to uleep. Star staff, in their debate on the presidential candidates. In Jobn’s home was found all Ohman's auto was struck by a taxi » merchandise. aboard the mer. It was believed| The amendment, w at this], wam reported improved at the “« “ ‘This morning, on my way to the (pleaded renee teamed that ||'He0 he would die within a few| time i* up for adoption, has to do! city hospital Monday, after being in Wheeler says Ben is “backwatering” a la Harding. Ben || ariven by J. M. White, 825 Yakima} ofrice, 1 learned that I had slept ahs denratas at || weeks | with routing and other matters per.| jured in the head and back when|| Says the league is the bunk—and the issue is Wilsonism |/ave. at Broadway and BH. Pine st..|| straight thru the excitement of & he | The lord mayor liveds however, | taining to the regulation of the jit-| struck by a ntrect.car at Fourth ave. || —that's all. They’re debating on page 14 today. Bungay morning. Ohman lives at} | bomb outrage, 24 36th ave, We (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) ney businesa, end Dexter st. Sunday night,