The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 29, 1920, Page 1

Tonight {i EW Weather and fair, moderate north- erly winds, ‘Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 34, Today neon, Saturday; Minit 1 um, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Sta Entered as Second Class Matter Ma: VOLUME 5 2 . at the Postoffice SEATTL B, V Seattle, W. HL, ‘ ynthia Grey HERE'S SECOND List oF QUESTIONS re Due hy sad fa the Cynthia Grey answer of $5 wit be paid for the prises of and value of the advice given All answers to the first list of quee Prize winners and the dest answers to “sae second Uist will be printed next ‘Thersday The judges are Mise Grey, the manag- editor and the associate editor. Question No. 1 Wear Miss Grey: pany with a young man for many Months, and being of a constant na @eeply. At times he professes to love Me and at other times denies he is @apable o¢ loving any one. ‘This irks me in the extreme, as we fre very congenial, enjoying the! game things, save golf and dancing Bhould 1 continue encouraging him fo call? Many of our friends think Wwe are engaged, which, of course, ‘Keeps possibie suitors at a distance PERTURBED, Question No. 2 Dear Miss Grey: At s double wed- @ing is it appropriate to have two and two best men? BBL Question No. 3 Dear Miss Grey: We have taught ‘@ur little son not to kiss people on ‘the lips except his parents, for sant far; reasons. We were visiting his ther, and she was very ‘ could not kiss any one on the Ups, but would kiss her on the cheek. Are we right or wrong in teaching this way? A SUBSCRIBER. Baker & Co. Limited? CURIOUS. Question No. 5 Dear Miss Grey: During the past year I have received many attentions from a young man employed in a Jarge business here. About four | montis ago he asked for my hand end we became These ¥ I must consider my possible heirs. | Dear Miss Grey, what shal! I do? STORM-TOSSED. 0. 6 Dear Miss Grey: Is there any dif ference between consumption and tu- berculosis? A. T. B. Question No. 7 gin of the idea of ladies proposing on Jenp year? Ig this somebody's idea @ is it based upon anything? HOWARD. Question No. 8 Dear Miss Grey: Is it unlawful for | cousins who were legally married fm another state where such mar- Fiages are permitted to live together fn this state? If they do reside here ean they be prosecuted by law? MRS. J. W. K. Question No. 9 Dear Miss Grey: I have heard there are 32 degrees in the Masonic lodge. Please tell me what degree ‘@re the Shriners? F. K. Question No. 16 Dear Miss Grey: I am a newly ‘wed, endeavoring to become a good} either falls to pieces when I attempt to roll it out, it is tough or if it sticks together when baked. Can od recipe and full diree you. Iam Vv GRAT! OULD DIVORCE ' HUSBAND OF 85 SAN FRANCISCO, Oct Mrs. Dorothy Johnson was refused a di vorce today for the md time in five years from A. P. Johnson, Infi delity and cruelty were the grpunds on which the divorce was asked 1863 you UL. 20 ‘The Johnsons were married tr Their oldest « is aged youngest 28. Johnson Steal $1,000 Furs From Washington Burglars visited the New Wanhing ton hotel again last night oy on caped with $1,000 worth of furs #tolen from the room of Mr. and P Mra. J. Berger, who were absent at & theatre Plone are due in this office by Monday | T have kept com. | ture, have learned to care for him) Much burt when the little fellow said) Dear Miss Grey: What is the ort-| ook when I don't know anything about it. Now I am appealing to you fn an effort to learn how to make| gpood ple crust. I have followed sev. |‘ etal cook book recipes, but with lt-| tle or no success. The pie dough Convicted of f Kicking Log- ger to Death; Identified | as Deputy’s Killer 1 Joseph Scanlon, the dope fiend identified by a former pal here as the slayer of Deputy Sheriff Robert C. Seott, will not be brought back from Vancouver, B. C, to answer to a ypasaas of murder. Instead, Scanion and Mike Moly. neux will be hanged in Vancouver on January 27 for kicking to death a exer, Daniel Morrison, whom they found in bed {lt when they went to rob his hotel Scott was Jiled in a skirmish be tween deputi€s and two automobile bandits in Rainier valley last April | The bandits fled from the scene tn a commandeered car, On the trip into | the city, ‘Robert Cady, one of the highwaymen, was shot to death In the auto by his companion, sald to [have been Scanton. CONFESSES SCANLON MAN SOUGHT FOR KILLING Months afterward Deputy Sheriff Matt Starwich, in the presence of ® | Star reporter, drew from Voiney | Burt. a former pal ot Scanlon's, a | confession that Scanion was the man sought for the killing of Scott and Burt admitted having been the Squadron thts locality last winter and earty spring. He eaid Scanion and Cady were Members of the “squadron,” and were the two bandits connected with the BKeott killing. He said Scanlon came to him after shooting Scott and Cady, and that he hid Scanlon in a room here, shielding him from the Police and deputies who were on his trail, and finally helped him escape | | to Canada, | HAD “CHANGE OF HEART’; IDENTIFIED SCANLON After Burt's arrest, he profemed a change of heart, eald he was done with banditry forever, and wanted to “make 4 clean breast of it” This he did, pointing out to Starwich the places hereand in Pleree county | Where the loot from scores of burg. -|laries and holdups was cached, and) finally accusing Scanlon of killing Scott and Cady. i wae fect that Scanlon turned traitor and slew his own pal, the truth of the killing. took him to Vancouver, where he | identified Scanlon as the slayer of | Scott. Other evidence against Scan- Jon was checked up that bore out Burt's story. Canadian refused to give Scanion up to Star- wich, They had, they said, suffictent evidence to convict him of the mur der of Morrison, the logger. Scanlon was sentenced in Vancou- | | at the end of a rope for the crime. It was proved that the two men en | tered Morrison's 100m May 17, in- with a handkerchief soaked with chloroform, it is Before they were ready to leave |the room, Morrison partially re gained consciousness and opened his| eyes, Rather than waste any more good chloroform on their vic lotsa they | booted him to d Hiad the ¢ | convict Scanlon, he was to have e been | brought to Seattle to face a I | of murder here. | Burt, the Informer, t# now in jait acoma, and Ix said to Le aiding authorities on !mpurtant post fice robbery canes. Yo, Ho-Ho! anda Cargo of Bones Whoever he was, he seemed to have the “low down” on the situ at | feve rom pier 14" he waid over the phone, “on the steamer Talthy bius, the bones—" “The WHAT?" yelled the re porter, “Yeu, that’s right—the bones of 600 Chinamen were shipped to old country for burial.” y, what is this, a massacre?” eporter wanted to know spe. This is a straight tip Good story if you work it right. Go down and see for yourself.” And he hung up All of which is why the reporter {a wondering today if he has not discovered ® new variation of holding the bag for snipe Anyhow, he failed to find the bones of 600 Chinamen on the Taithybius or any other vessel ng the waterfront otleatl up five peaple and sak and / question, Your name was today, Burt said, that induced him to reveal | Starwich authorities, however, | | ver yeuterday, with Molyneux, to die | | tending to tor him, They stifled him | DoY ou Favor Shimmy? Asks Scribe; Bang! | Star’s Inquiring Reporter Tells His Woes to Cru-el World BY THE INQUIRING REPORTER | ‘The Inquiring Reporter has been the victim of circumstances long enough, He has played the role of every bedy*s goat until all bis finer in| stineta have been demoralized. He has been more misunderstood in his brief and volcanic career than Wm J. Bryan. He hag been tnaulted tn 18 lan guages, consigned to the torrid reg: jons exactly 647 Unies, faced com mitment on insanity charges in 122 cases, and invited out to have bis face punched frull of holes more| times than he can count He has asked astounded ladies what kind of “nightios” they wear, | whether they love their bustands and if they ever intend to marry } in, He has recetved mnch replies as, “Don't get fresh,” and “If I were a) man, I'd look you up and probably | murder you. The Fag thing he has to be thank: ful for is the blemed arrangement whereby, telephone in hand, he re- mains at a mafo distance while| “wwatting” the dear publia. eee ‘With the detached alr of the etr.| cus spicier the 1. Ro leads eff like thin: “This is the Inquiring Report- er of The Daily Blur. Every day we selected “The question fa, ‘Are you against shaking the shimmy? ~ “Whe are you calling?” responds & voice. “Why do you want to know?” “T am the Inquiring Reporter.” “In there any rule against answer ing your question?” “No, but," slam goes the re colver, eee On the 59th attempt the 1. R gets a reply. She says, “Yes,” but re- fuses to be quoted. | Aften five * utes argument, @ur-| \ing which th I. R. is exceastvely polite to the breaking point, the in-| | terview ends in favor of the lady. ee ‘These are some of the answers the longsuffering reporter gets: “Try minding your own business, if you know how.” “Free love? What are you trying | jo, kid somebody?" Nobedy bat a ‘simp’ would listen to you more than two minutes.” “The Steilacoom asylum is the number you want.” “If 1 did my something, you'd never get it right anyway.” “Do you get real money for asking |footish questions like this?" “If you give me a couple of days | to consider this I'll give you a state ment.” “No catchie idea—what fool thing you mean?" t eee ‘The Inquiring Reporter wishes to state that this job will be open to| all applicants at any time, no ques jtions asked and no salary men | tioned. Dude Lewis Kids ‘Chic Hasher; Is' | Utterly Worsted LITCHFIELD, 111, Oct Seat former townsman, Ham , ox-United Ste tle Jim Lew! senator from Hlinois and democratic candidate for governor, is the hero or the victim of a! state whichever way it turns out, store that has enlivened the political campaign. Lewis came to Litchfield to speak At the town hotel noticed a par tioula efficient and attractive waitress.” She Ruby Lyon, a stenographer helping out during the hotel's busy day | Lewis said to her: “Ah, my dear, when T gaze upon your wealth of chestnut hair, which he rays of a beneficent sun have kissed into delicate gold; when I ob serve the little dimple nestling #0 coyly in that shapely chin, 1 rejotee that the committee whose work it was to pick my itinerary should have placed the town.of Litchfield on my Mast.” Ruby answered enator, 1 have been kidded by experts! ‘The republicans are now trying to the | campaign make incident an issue in the |the valley, reports here said. | Russians at Urea, FRIDAY, aah, under the Act of Congress March 9, 197 % Per Your, by Mall, #5 to 99 OCTOBER 920. TWO ‘CENTS IN SEATTLE ANADA TO HANG SCOTT SLAYER JAPS MOVE TO INVADE RIO GRANDE | Warnings Posted They In- tend to Swarm Into Rich Region in Texas SAN BENITO, Texaa, Oct, 29.— Residents of the fertile Rio Grande valley prepared today to fight threat ened Oriental invasion warnings of plans of Japanese colon! zation along the uo Grands ‘The Japanese, fearing passage of the California anthalien land owner ship bill, are taying plana to colonize A re port from the Bl Paso Chamber of Commerce declared 10,000 acres have already been purchased in the valley by California Japanese Tornilio, Texas, near El Paso, is aald to be headquarters for the movement. American Legion powts, farmers and business men have taken up the fight aguinst the threatened immigra- tion, Heal extate men have been warned by Legion posts not to sell land to the Japanesan F. Z% Bishop, land man, has been notified by organiza | tions of citinens to warn Japanese from California not to come, aa it will mean trouble for them. BETTY FAILS TO SURRENDER SEL NEW YORK, Oct. 29 —Altho ate ot Was due to surrender to Washington state authorities at the district at-| | torney’s office ut 3:20 p. m. today, | Mina Betty Brainerd, wanted in| | ‘Tacoma for the alleged kidnaping of the-son of George T. Stage, not appeared at 420 p, m. ‘Tho Washington state authorities were waiting to take her into cus today, armed with the extradition papers signed by Governor Smith yesterday. At the office of Inador Kresel, Miss Brainerd's attorney, it was said that she would surrender shortly, GEE! MIGHT BE A BOMB! HUH? That an auto ining “a suit: cam full of sometMing.” had been standing in front of his home for two days, was reported to the police to day by W. B, Cane, 4245 Holly st Policemen George Reynolds and| w. investi CHINESE AND RUSS BATTLE PEKING, China, Oct. 29.—Repulse of two attacks by a force of 2,000 a city of 20,000 people in the northern district of Mongolia, was reperted today by Gen. Kao Taaiting, commanding the Chinese forces at Urea. Four hundred Chinese and several hundred Russians were killed in bit tor fighting, the general said. ‘STATE OF SIEGE ON IN MOSCOW, LONDON, Oct, 29.—A state © niége has been declared in Moscow dispatché# from Helsingfora to the British f ign office said today. The situation of t soviets is most crit jeal, the dispatches said. BUYER—SELLER A Star Want Ad Is the Shortest Distance Between Two Wants of thousands of quately supplied » of the f The wants pqople ally are the w by STAR CLASSIFIED COLUMNS Do not let unused articles of furniture or clothing, éte,” rf main idle. You will find a udy market for them by ad vertising under Sale—Miscellaneous There are dozens of other cla ifications to care for every por ible need and you should us hem for results and read them profit Phone Main 600 following | had Dench sped on motorcycles to | SEES PLOT | 'Mysterious Food Packages| Left Daily at Seattle Man’s Home Uncertain whether his famfly of five young children ts the target of An unseen enemy or the recipient of gifts from a good Samaritan, Morris Grund, a painter living at 211 16th jave., today carried to police head. | |quarters a package of sandwiches, | cookies and candy left under the| children's bedroom window. Consintently, every day for two montha, Grund told the police, the name sort of package had been found in the same place, Efforts to discov. or the identity of the person who pleaves the package have fafied, he said. None of the family has ever seen the gift bearer. | Grund maid he baa @ “hunch” |sormeons might be trying to polson |nte flock of young*ters, and the mys terious luncheon that was left at the) |window this morning was. turned | over to City Chemist Jacobeon for chemical analynin, Jacobs gave it as bis off-hand optn fon, after looking over each dainty | bit of food, that there was nothing the matter with {t, but said a chee analysis requiring several day» would be made to determine whether the package contained anything in- Grund children, the eldent 16 | ana the 8, thetp : jaaie, bad been forbidden to morsels since the t liipeseae. The packages in| variably were left during the hour | between § and 9 diclock, #he said. | jand would be found when the chil dren left the house for schoo!. | Bo faras Mr. and Mra. Grund Poon they mid. they have no fen in the neighborhood, but fee! that the persistence of the mystery person warrants an investigation. After viniting the city chemist. | Grund went to Captain of Detectives | Charles B. Tennant, who assured him &n effort would be made to appre: hend the person and question him. \U. of W. Man to Talk on Gold in Alaska | “The Gold Mining Situation in Alaska” will be the subject of a leo ture by Dean Milnor Roberts of the Solege of Mines at the university | | before the Gold Congress of the! American Mining convention to be/ held in Denver, November 15-20, |Magazine Takes Rap at Lighting Plant) Seattle's city light plant received |‘ fan unsightly black eye in the Octo- | | ber issue of the Public Service maga- zine, Opponents of municipal owner | ship cited the city plant as a “horri | ble example” of what happened when | people try to run their own utilities. Mayor Caldwell declared Friday | that he would reply to the article OCIETY NOTE _ FOR KIDDIES Boclety Note: “Hootch,” big buck deer who recently arrived here from Wrangell, Alaska, will be at home to | his friends, the kiddies, during the bours of eight to six every day at his quarters at Woodland Park, | ‘Human Race Is Growing Hoofs, Scientist Says' DES MOI lowa, Oct. 29.— | Hoots, insted of feet, will be the herf rations | will band to future genera- tions, if the for tight shoes con tinues, Herbert Ma professor of wophy at Drake uinversity, de tage this and succeeding ge down aded straight for the | Professor Martin said, | ‘undersized shoes are the | “Why generation. so little and question himself. are the little toes of this | Marnn asked then proceeded to answer the “Because the toe is in the process of disappearing, an will some time be Explaining how the to hoofs will come 1 extinet olution from about, Martin suid The weight of the body alone is | forcing the feet of today narrow pointed shoe casings. sit is feet losing the are compressed, corns ioe follow, and the logic will be hoofs. How soon this change in the pu man form will be . Pr into the The} “Biggest Thing i in Movies” | That Is Sésnario Writing PP NIN | \ LOANS i J DR OIP NV OLE” WOW FAO Mise Marion Neff —Photo by Cress-Dale by the expert editors.* As secretary to'Finis Fox of the; Metro scenario staff, Miss Neff had) thing about it ts that anyone who! an active part in the preparation of | has ordinary intelligenee and knows/| movie dramas and knows weil the| and understands people can write) technique of scenario construction. sketches that make big motion pic-| Doing proje@tion work for Naz ture scenarios.” 1 imova and “Fatty” Arbuckle, the po- Miss Neff is a freshman tn the/ sition formerly held by Natalie Tal- College of Liberal Arts at the Uni-/ mage, Miss Neff has studied many versity of Washington, and her | of the screen actors and actresses of home is in California's "Movie Land.”| today and expects to enter the work | When she was a kiddie she played in| some day herself. She has not yet| “fhe Squaw Man” with Dustin Far-| decided whether it will be the work num and since that time she has had|of writing for the ptoducers or engagements % stock company. “doing” the dramas herself. “Most people don't get close! “The $5,000 contest conducted by enough to the movies to know what| The Star and J. Parker Read, Jr. happens to a story after a motion! is a fine opportunity for those who, picture company accepts it. Just a| want to get started in the work to) sketch of the plot and as many de| have their efforts’ looked over by| tails or suggestions as possible are / all that is needed. New drafts and| the the final complete scenario are made Neff. She Says Baby Is Hers, but Alleged Father Denies It ‘Was there a baby, or wasn't there?! Densel, That ix the question in Judge A W. Frater’s court where Mrs. Jove phine Quinton Totman is. producing a 12-month-old youngster, and C. D. Totman is denying it is either theirs or hers, Back in November, 1919, Totman got a divorce, his wife failing to Appear to challenge the proceedings. At that time he stated there were no children born to the marriage. Now comes Mrs, Totman who de. clares a baby girl was born Octo- ber 20, 1919, and that the divorce ~ AP ee) act eee “Sornario writing is about the btx- gest thing in the movies now,” Marion Neff says. “And the best } big prize“ itself,” said Miss) knowing not how moment- ous the wrangle ts to her own des-| tiny, crawls about the court room, | sometimes hing for Totman and| jerying playfully: “Dada; dada; dada” | British Coal Strike Now Seems Settled LONDON, Oct. 29.—British leaders were certain today the coal strike had been settled. The government applauded the set- had to go by default because she|tlement agreement, especially the was too ill to defend it. recognition by owners and miners of | She wants the decree modified| the necessity for a greater output. now so as to provide protection for the little one whom she named Den. wel “If it's her baby it's mine," says Totman, “but it isn't hers,” “No power on earth can change the fact that the baby is my child,” retorts Mrs, Totman. And in _the midet of ft all Nttle T’LL BE SNAPPY! There'll be no idle moments at The Star show election night} in front of its building, Seventh ave., between Union and University sts. There'll be no long | waits. We'll have things going merrily all! ‘the while. You can be sure of that. You are a neg to be with us Tuesday evening, away| ‘| from interference by autos and street cars.) |The best election service in town—take it | The terms make it an object to both | to increase production, MISS JANE BURNS, Portland vocalist, will give a concert in Meany hall, Sunday, November 7, at} 4 p,m, She will repeat the program | presented at the Sunset club last| Wednesday. |step will be, and relatives are }lin may eal PARTY IS ATTACKED BY POLICE Body of Mayor Taken om Boat to Cork While Mourn-~ ers Proceed to Dublin ~ DUBLIN, Oct. 29.—The boty of Terence MacSwiney, former lord mayor of Cork, who died in Brixton! prison, London, after 74 days of hunger-striking, was taken by foree ight from relatives and friend gel ogi Holy Head station, The funeral party, following as announced schedule, was wan to embark for Dublin, where body was to le In state today, BODY STARTED FOR CORK UNDER GUARD OF POLICE After the selzure, the body placed aboard a packet and for Cork, under guard of polica ‘The scene at Holy Head was companied by violence, and members of the funeral party injured. The mourners here at 9 a m today without casket. They co worn and less after @ train and boat trip, presented a woebegone app Following the official setzure Holy Head, relatives refused to company the body thus diverted fi the planned trip to Dublin. boarded the regular mail, Dublin and came here with mourners, Plana for me handled when he attempted to police from seizing the casket, As the mail boat bumped inte ff dock here and the mourners over the gangplank, they were tm by a small group of Dublin men women. They party extended silt greeting, Art O'Brien, of the Irish | termination league, worn by a less night, marshaled the party arranged for their care here. “We may take a special train Cork this afternoon,” he said. “We don't know what the certain how to proceed to regain session of the body.” POLICE OVERPOWEB )NERAL PARTY competent judges and to work for) ry lacSwiney’s casket was from relatives last night as the jered coach containing it rolled the Holy Head station. Peter John MacSwiney and friends of ‘A few moments later the screech ot} a freight crane sounded and the cof~ fin swung high out over the oily water. It wag lowered into the more and at 1 a. m. the packet ed for Cork. ‘ After leaving London, whi MacSwiney demonstration corded every show of authorities and by London o the funeral train ran into less tolers ant sections. out to see the train, flower-strewn coach at the rear, thru the darkness toward the Fifty London police made the trip, and a carload of plain clothes was attached to the train. At the coaches passed thru a gauntlet of police which held back hissing crowd, POLICE GO ABOARD FUNERAL TRAIN The inspector of police aboard the train handed John MacSwiney a Tete ter from Herbert Greenwood, secretary for Ireland, “Lam advised that landing at Dub- lead to a political demon. stration, Therefore, the Irish gov= ernment cannot permit subarea to Dublin,” the letter said. Before reaching Holy Head, a party: of police invaded the funeral coach, where relatives and close friends sate Notice was served that the bedy would be put aboard a special packet, provided by the government to ond at Cork. Peter and John immediately jumpy ed to their feet and attempted tay drive the officers from the . They were aided by others in the car, including the Sinn Fein bedy guard. None was armed and the of; ficers soon overpowered them, Dublin was a city of\sitence for ten minutes today, in honor of Mac i Swiney, At 11:50, just ag religious services were being concluded in the cathedw (Turn to Page 4, Column 1)