The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 2, 1920, Page 1

q HEAVIEST VOTE BEING CAST: Weather Occasional rain, to fresh southwesterly w Temperature Last M4 Hours 5S Maximum, Today VOLUME 23 moderate inds, Minim hoon, 51. m, 42. On the I ynthia Grey Cynthia Contest | Going Strong ate. Office Boy Wants Dray | to Haul in Letters of Contestants To be exact, just 101 cont have contributed answers to t set of Cynthia G questions. Frank, The Star office boy, swears that it is 1,001 instead, and has an ounced in loud tones that he is} “agin ali contests.” It is Frank's! @uty to see that all answers arrive mafely on Cynthia's desk ‘The names of the winners and the | Prize-winning answers to the first! set of questions will be published | Wednesday All answers to the second set must | « be in The Star office by this evening, | the results of which wil be pub | lished Thursday; answers to the third and last set must arrive in the Office not later than Wednesday; final announcement will appear in} the Friday issue of The Star. | Some contestants have answered Only one or two questions, They Are not eligible to compete. All 10 Questions must be answered as neat: | ly and as briefly as possible. Sets should be numbered at the top ax “Answers to Second Set.” ete. The contest is open only to women and) tants o first} SEATTLE, WASH., At the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash, nder the Act of Mareh 3, 1879. ssue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The SeattleStar Entered as Second Class Matter May &, 1894, Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 , NOVEMBER 2 2, 1920. SEATTLE H ! He Voted- Because He Was a Good Shot. Lots of People Didn’t Vote, in ’87. Ballots Dropped Into the Bay. Reminiscences of Stringer and Moore. BY HAL ARMSTRONG T WAS ELECTION DAY in ‘#7 John Stringer, now the county sheriff, went to the polls heeled with & wellolled six-shooter, He was a good shot, therefore was permitted to vote. Down in the old First ward the polling booth was in @ room at the Tear end of a waterfront beer hall It was there that Stringer went to Mark ‘er straight,” those days, Before the beer hall door war Massed a crowd of jostling people. In the entrance tteelf, facing the crowd, stood the general manager of the elects “Yea,” said John from far in the rear, “Step around into the alley.” sald the general manager, and John step ped The alley wna four feet wide and led down into a Chinese laundry. A door opened from the laundry Into the rear of the beer hall, Thru this door John passed, Me voted and girl, arid there is no territorial re-| w, Striction—that is, persons residing Outside of Seattle may compete A car loaded with lumber in a) * Northern Pacific freight train going | east went off the track at Lake, six miles this side of Bothell, early Tues | day. cording to the N. P. dispatchers of- fice, but the line was blocked for sev. P. ‘routed its passenger trains around the pelt line on the} east side of Lake Washington. FREIGHTER ON SHORE IN FOG ‘The freighter Eastern Beil, with a | fumber cargo from Stimpson’s mill at Ballard, went ashore in the for fm Dungeness bay at 7:30 a. m. to day, according to word received by the merchants’ exchange here. It was thought there would be no @ifficulty in- floating the ship, as her bow was three feet out of water two hours before high tide and only @ foot and a half at 10:20 a. m. ‘The government tug Snohomish is believed to have gone to the Eastern Beil's rescue and may be attempting | to tow her back to deep water. j The vessel is not thought to have been damaged. There were no pas- gengers aboard. ‘The Eastern Bell, is a U. 8. ship- ping board vessel, about 5,000 ton deadweight. She was built in Japan Dy the federal shipping board and is now operated out of San Francisco. COUPLE HELD FOR ROBBERY: Henry Goldstein, 85, proprietor of @ shooting gallery at.161 Washing ton st. and Mre. J, f. McCarthy, 24, mg Fred W. Peterson's picture in the gallery Monday night. The way police learned of it was because they | iso took his $20 gold piece charm| and wanted to take the change, Fred | complained Tuesd Goldstein and} Mrs. McCarthy were jailed. Why Star Want Ads Are Result Getters DISTRIBUTION is the first factor in any advertising. If you could tell enough peo- ple about a wervice, property or product you had for sale, further advertising would not be advertising ago solved’ this problem. ‘The Star reaches more people in a day than you could talk to in a year. ‘The Star prints a five line ad and distributes it to nearly 65,000 homes. The Star sells many thousands more copies each day than any other Seattle newspaper and reaches about 95 per cent of the English reading homes of Seattle. long | Was a hole In | porter, aside. tains closed after him, his ballot in the elet, | tains and walked out, But it eo happened no bottom tn the ballot the table on box stood, and a hole in | derneath the table. dropped thru the box, thre thru the pier and into the bay, a man behind the booth marked an- other ballot and put ft into another box to Stringer’s credit. Weill, John.” grimed an election official at the end of the day, “did you vote the ticket straight? DRIVER HELD WITHOUT BAIL Ray Lavin of Hoquiam. whose auto collided with that Lampman, at Marginal way held in city jail Tuesday without bail, while two women, injured in| the crash, were in city"hospital, the | seriousness of their injuries unde-| termined. Mrs, Grace Collins, 3055 23rd ave. S. W., who received a fractured skull and brain concussion when thrown | from Lampman’s auto, was still un- conscious Tuesday noon, Mra. Pearl M. Feeney, 5063 26th ave. 8. W., an- other passenger of the Lampman machine, was in city hospital with a fractured skull. Mrs. A. W. Rochon, 4048 2ist.ave. 8. W., the third woman in the Lampman car to be injured, was released from the hospital Mon- day night, was being held without bail, as he| lives In Hoquiam. In case any of the women die, Lavin’s return | might be difficult, iLeut, Carr said, Lampman, who lives at 2623 47th ave. 8. W., and Frank Pease, 2722| 27th ave, 8. W., were also injured, not seriously. ‘The three women and Pease had been picked up by Lamp-| man while he was on his way to| town. | Pullman Porter Is Killed in Crash| DDING, Cal, Nov. 2—One A F. Wesinger, Pullman living at Oakland, waa killed this morning when section one of| Southern’ Pacific train No, 16, en route to Portland, backed into the} second section of the same train on} 4 siding at Coran, near here. Two! passengers, whowe names have not} yet been learned, were slightly hurt.! HOOTING, YES! BUT NO SHOTS FIRED There were no shots fired, but a lot of shooting around the Avon hotel, 606 Second ave. day. Patrolm J. H. Ramsey | id Edgar Barr arrested six men| nd welzed two dice. man, were not present. .|marshal’s office and Mra. I. Doan, | bondamen can be located. | Eleven Chinese sailors were | ashore without leave. “You bet,” said Stringer “You did lke laughed. “You voted show you your ballot” And he did. proudly the other it apli, 1 NERTAIN CITIZENS, dinsatinfied with the result, renewed the ery} for election reforms | One of these attended a primary remembered by Councilman William | Hickman Moore. The “powers” pre- vented their hand-picked slate and| asked the unanimous vote of those present. The reformer arose et the back of the hall. “I protest.” he cried, and sank to the floor with «a moan. Someone had walloped him on the jaw with the butt of a heavy revolver. “Are there any other protests? inquired the chairman. There were none “The ticket ls nominated as she stands,” the chairman added, and the | primary was over. o- LONG ABOUT 1890, Jim Mokt roy was delegated by the reform Party to go to the polling place and/ make it safe for voters, He, went,/ toting Colt, William Hickman Moore ts esta by one Johnny Boyle, a noted gun fighter. “I want that ballet box! yelled Jim, jerking out his sixshooter, “Lat me thru there!” Waving his revolver above his head he parted the crowd and faced Boyle, who demanded: “Get out of here!" “Get out yourself!” ordered Mcki- roy, dropping his kun on a level with Boyle's nose. Boyle “got.” and with armed as sistance guarding him against at- tack, McElroy opened up the ballet box and found some 200 votes had been cast In the names of men who HAT WAS HOW election reform came to Seaftie. It wae the first step towards the quiet that prevailed today at the little greencurtained booths, where women voted as well as men. WOMAN PLAYS HIDE AND SEEK A merry game of hide-and-seek is being played by he United States convicted of booze law violation. Mrs. Doan was scheduled to appear in court Monday to begin a six months’ sentence tn the county jail. She had posted $500 bond as guaran- tee. Now neither Mra. Doan nor her ELEVEN SHOT IN BATTLE ON BOAT NEW ORLEANS, Ia, Nov. 2 whot and two may die as a result of a} | pitched battle today on the after-|leaders by 60,000 and the democrats Lieut. ©. G. Carr of the traffic di-| deck of the British steamer Palm by 16,000, | vision explained Tuesday that Lavin) Leaf, anchored at Good |miles above this city, authorities said telephone Hope, 15 | Federal | reports here| Were that the Chinese were placed ference between the claims of demo. under guard after threats to go Twenty four, | fll crew members, waited until to-| day, when only two guards were on| duty, and attacked with knives and| clubs. Officers went to the guards’ assistance. HE TRIES TO PREVENT GEORGIA WOMEN FROM |; CASTING THEIR VOTE]; ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 2.—De- spite instructions insued by Ordin. || ary Thomas H. Jeffries, of Fulton county, to prevent women from voting in today’s general election || in Georgia, women voted in the || Sixth ward of Atlanta, At 11 o'clock it was estimated that fully 75 women, approximate. || ly 60 of whom were negroes, had |) voted | Ordinary Jeffies, on being in- formed that officials in the Sixth || ward were allowing women to vote, declared that “this was Ir regular,” and announced that the vote in that ward woyld be thrown out. | during the morning hours had been |atate headquarters predicted victory | 95,000, | Was refused the office by Gov, | ban Cantu, incumbent at that time, 5 HEEDED Stand 20 Deep at Many Polling Places; One Kick | on Voting Machine — | Seattlo went to the polls early | Tuesday. | Heeding the warning of County | Auditor Wardall that the voting ma- chines would be unable to cope with | | the demands made on them if people | Waited until late to vote, thousands | were running up @ record-breaking score early In the forenoon, ‘They were standing 15 and 20 deep in line at scores of polling places: shortly after the polls opened. Seattle's heaviest voting record established at 11 a m., according to Wartall’s force of workers who are [handling the election, 250 IN ON PRECINCT AT 11 A. ML Ryen In presidential elections, !t within 20 opened. On Capitol Hill were that votes were being cast atm steady rate of one 4 minute. Good weather prevailing in spite of threatening clouds undoubtedly help- ed to swell the procession. Women voters apparently heeded the re quest that they vote early, for they predominated at many booths Polls in the city opened at § a. m. and will close at & p.m. Those in) the country opened at 9 o'clock and will close at 7 p. m. Banks, city and county offices are closed to public business, In con- formity with the fact that election day ts & legal holiday. Members of the retail burean of the Chamber of Commerce did not open their stores until 10 a. m. to give employes an | opportunity to vote, FAILS IN ATTEMPT TO “VOTE ‘ER STRAIGHT” ‘The first election day complaint came to the sheriff's office at 9:30 a. m. from Precinct 256, where the elec tion booth is located in the th Park Field house. R. O. N 1031 Sullivan st, said he tried to “vote ‘er straight” for the repub- Means and encountered a hitch in the machinery, The county auditor was informed and &@ trouble man sent at ones, Voting machines can’t go wrong or refuse to work, unless a voter tries to cast too many ballots, according to the consoling information given out at the auditors office. eee 35,000 Majority for Harding in Oregon? PORTLAND, Noy, 2-—Wtih clear, brisk autumnal weather reported trom practically all sections of the atate, the early indjeations were the Oregon electorate would poll clone to 900,000 votes out of its total registra tion of 341,872 toda: Both republican and democratic for their national tickets, the G. O. H. Neutral political observers here Presaged that Harding would carry Oregon today by just about the dif cratic and republican headquarters, | Almada Is Governor, of Lower Ca ifornia CALEXICO, Nov. 2%—Baldomers| Almada been dppsithah governor of Lower California, to take effect December 1, upon accession of the Obregon government, according to reports received here from Mexico Ci. Almada was appointed governor of the district some months ago, but! Besta Almada is now Mving in Los An goles, ISHING WAS WORTH WHILE Fishing was a popular sport) round V. A, Fill’ houseboat at 9 Fairview ave., according to Mo toreyele Patrolmen G, F. Reynolds and W. W. Dench, who raided the place early Tuesday, They say they found three sacks of beer tied to the houseboat and cached in water, Hill was arrested, . jemployes to line up with the early TH EW “: ATE EDITION it CENTS IN SEATTLE URRIES TO POLLS BAND MUSIC at The Star’s ELECTION PARTY “Dad” Wagner’s band will be on hand tonight to add “pep” to the election returns at The Star’s building, Seventh ave., between Union and University sts. Direct wire service, an alert local staff, cartéons, rapid screen work—everything has been employed to give you the best time possible. Come and enjoy yourself. Assoonasit gets dark enough, the returns will be flashed on Eastern results. Local balloting continues till8 p.m. We'll have state and city results immediately after that. There are no autos and street cars to interfere with the crowds at The Star building. Comeearly. Stay late, TT was Chicago's “dryest” election day. Where booze flowed freely on past éleetion days, today there when't even o enelh A two and a heif year sentence to a boot legxer yesterday took di! the thrill out of it Cups could have taken a day off. eee Democratic claims that Governor Cox will win “are mere moonshine,” according to J. T. Adama, vive chairman of the republican national committee. eee Uncle Bam put a damper on en (pester of district political bosses Chicago. Ballot box stuffing, “re- beatings and other | yote-cetting dodges Were barred today. United States Affortiey Charies F. Cline an nounced The would send any elec-| tion law Wiolators to prison. ese Pink-whiskered J, “Ham” Lewis, former democratic leader in the United States senate, went the limit in h&® Campaign to win Illinois gubernatorial race. He didn't quit talking util midnight last night, eee Neighbors Cox and Harting of| Kokomo, Ind., aren't going to vote for themselves, William Cox will vote for Senator Harding and Will-| jam Harding will vote for Gover. nor Cox eee Willian Jennings Bryan mystified Kansas | City interviewers who} wanted to know who he would vote for.| Bryan, en route to his home at Lincotn, Neb., said: “Don’t quote mé)as voting thy democratic ticket.” eee Miinola Had the biggest ballot In the history of the state today. Eleven tickets were on the ballot, which measured 28 by 33 inches. The ballot of 1860, which contained the nanje of Abraham Lincoln, was three inghes wide and a foot long. eee ‘Take |the baby to the polls,” was the slogan in Boston. Papa kept tha infant amused when mamma ¥pted and vice versa. eee ‘There such a crush at the polls in New Haven, Conn,, that at several places the lines were a third of a mile long. Fifty per cont of those in line were women. eee brisk at a ‘Third ave. loigar storé offering $100 or any part, even money, that Mart would carry the state for the governorship by 25,000, Retting eee “If I win,” suid a candidate, “I'm going to get drank. And if I lose— I'l get drunk, just the same.” see ‘The weather man early developed a grouch. The Gay was dark and gray and the prophet spake thus: “Tonight and tomorrow rain.” But his grouch didn’t scare the voters. eae ‘The 700 members of the retail trades bureau of the Chamber of Commerce kept their stares clo until 10 @ m,, thus enabling their birds, : eee It's a «ly scheme. We? wonder how many Will be taken insby it? Jitney interests are sqattering posters about the streets pearing the legend: “Tf you want to vote for jitney regulation, vote yes.” The joker comes reads the title of the jitoey initlat- ive measure, If you vote “Yes” on the ballot you vote for the jit bill, which means virtually no regulation what- P eee The federal buflding noon, Mail closed at carriers only worked half a shift. However, postoffice windows were opened during the usual hours. eee Bankers kept their doors closed |and played golluf before and after tickling the voting machine keys. oe Practically every man running for | office in the county ts breaking the | law? Posters scattered on sidewalks and streets all violate city ordinances. eee How would you like to be com- pletely surrounded by alcohal when you vote? That's the experience of people who vote at the polling booth in the city-county building. The booth is on the floor devoted | to King county horticultural exhib- its. The fruits and vegetables are preserved in large containers of ulcohol. Vote eartyt ee Tom Houlahan’s sojourn in the county jail, Where he is spending a few weeks because of booze law vio- lation, was pleasantly interrupted Tuesday by a trip to the polls to ‘vote Tom was « United States Marshal Thomas Wa-| ters. eee “They are ‘voting’ ‘er straight,” like they used to take their whisky ‘on election day,” said one reminis- cent gentleman Tuesday, eee “A heavy vote?” said a well-known member of the federal booze brigade, “Say, there were so many women at! the polls at 8:30 a m, that I couldn't get near the bloomin’ place.” eee W. J. Fisher, $212 Greenwood ave., |Suspects a candidate of entering bis poolroom during the night. Twelve boxes of cigars are among the miss: ing. . eee “Gee, I wish it was over,” was the popular remark by most of the candidates for offic Fifty-six people voted in 20 min. utes early today at the John Hay school, 2010 Fourth ave. N., the poll. ing place for Precinct 82. Kighty- seven voted between 8 and 9 o'clock | at the Seattle Dairy, 2214 N, 56th st., where Precincts 20 and 21 cast bal- lots, * Kadie’ Wong, born in Portland, ticket in Precinct 178, at the county- city building, Eddie proved himself a young Chinese, .4|% real American with his regiment in France. A woman voted a split ticket In 80 seconds in Precinct 178, Five men, next up, required 90 seconds each, ‘The next man stood in the booth 10 seconds, then shouted: “I'm done, Let me out!” in when one) voted a straight | ~MANAS SLAIN: SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Nov, 2.— Following an alleged scuffle over possession of a ballot at Positoes, | Bexar county, 27 miles south of here, early today, before the polls were opened, L. 8. Campbell, 60, was shot and killed, : A. T. Saunders, 72, an old trail driver, said to be presiding judge at | the voting place, was arrested in con- ; nection with the killing and brought |to San Antonio this afternoon. “Beth |men were ranchers, eee } |Several Are Dead in Cuban Election! 0: HAVANA, Cuba, Nov, 2.—Returns in the Cuban national election were | slow im reaching the capital today, |but meager figures from the 3,022 precincts indicated a close race. Coalitionists insisted today's fig- ures would show the election of Dr. | Alfredo Zayah by @ large majority over General Jose Migual Gomez, Uberal. Several deaths were reported to have resulted from election brawls in interior precincts. —_ Coalitionists charged the disturbances to their rivals. Straight Ticket Voted in Tacoma TACOMA, Nov, 2—Tacoma and Pierce county turned out a record: breaking early vote today. At the mpanied by Deputy | end of the first two hours, officials | estimated that from 20 to 40 per cent | of the total votes had been cast in the various precincts, Straight-ticket voting was the rule, they said. Aside from the presidential contest, interest centered mainly on the race between Congressman Albert John- son, republican, and Homer 'T. Bone, farmer-labor candidate for congres. eee Mrs. Cox Says She Is Not a Politician DAYTON, ©., Noy. 2.—‘I'm not a politician; [am simply the governor's | wife. But I do consider it a great privilege to vote for the national Ucket for the first time in this elec- tion.” This was all Mrs, James M. Cox would say here today when asked for | an election day statement. SO EXCITED OVER THE ELECTION HE | TOOK WRONG HAT! | Something akin to consterna- tion showed on the faces of spec- tators when Deputy Sheriff Matt Starwich, candidate for — sheriff, entered the sheriff's office Tues day. Matt didn't look the same. Anxious friends inquired into the health of the aspirant, but Matt hastened to explain he was wearing another man's hat. “T talked with a fellow this morning and when he left my hat went with him.” . Careful examination of the new in the light of remembrance of the old resulted in a majority opinion that the mistake would be rectified very early, IN VOTE ROW === WOMEN OF U.S. ARE ENJOYING Senator Harding Has Slight? Margin in Scant Returns Tabulated Thus Far | NEW YORK, Nov. 2—The heave est vote ever cast in a national tion was being polled, according all reports coming into the Uj Press, First returns were from New ford, Mass, and from Topeka, New Ashford, first to report, Harding 28 votes and Cox 6. years ago New Ashford cast | votes for Hughes and 7 for Wil Eleven out of 38 Topeka p [on the first returns from tabu |show: Harding, 854; Cox, 407, governor, Allen, 684; Davis, 464, Every registered vote in New ford had been cast within two after the polls opened and the was begun The early count in Topeka made possible by the dual board system. Peratiyg ed returns from ass., gave Harding 40! |1916 Hughes received ‘Te-ana’ 107 in Norwell. An unofficial count of the at Wichita Falls, Texas, gave Cox 391; toa For the first time in® history every woman citizen chance to vote for president, ports from the polls were that as many women as men were in early lineups. i Weather conditions thruout » United States were unsettled. In ti East there was a threat of rain; the Middiewest there was rain. some snow; on the Patific Coast. was clear, and the South the weather as generally fair rain in some. places, _ Will H, Hays, chairman of the. Publican national committee, ‘White, chairman of the the situation all over the East early hour to get a line on voters were turning out in counted safely republican or cratic, Telegrams poured in from all of the country from HMeutenants field commanders, Both u and democratic headquarters preparing for a long night, so tI Was not much activity around thel suites until toward mid-morning, eee * BIG OUTPOUR OF VOTERS ON PACIFIC COAST SAN FRANCISCO, Nov, 2. first. hours of election day on jcreasing outpeurings of voters to fulfill early predictions of a record! Vote, Reports from a dozen far ; cities told of lively voting. few cases where long queues..0 voters had fornied around the could be unearthed, almost where thefe was a steadily stream of citizens, both men women, passing in and out of polls during the early hours, Party leaders were making final claims of victory. headquarters stood firm on the that Cox was sure to carry all of | Western states,’ with ‘the jof California, Oregon and ton, where Harding was “fighting chance.” G, 0. P. CLAIMING WESTERN STATES Republican headquarters | conceded Cox a vestige of hope, In’ Montana the balloting was re result of the campaign of the gamated nonpartisan-] candidates, who were nominat the democratic ticket against the re- publican candidates, backed so-called “conservative element.” battle royal for the control of state loffices had developed. af | Arizona, with a hot local fight over the governorship between Simms, democrat, and Campbell, republican incumbent, was early hours, The same was the case in Wash: ington, where the farmer-labor was showing strength, and in vada, where the senatorship race’ tween former Governor Tasker and Charles Henderson was a of interest. . : Pacifie coust brought steadily ‘al By all Western states, with Nevada x | Arizona the only ones in whieh ey ported as particularly spirited as @ — turning out a héavy vote during the — H