The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 19, 1921, Page 1

On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star antered a» Second Class Matter May 2, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879 Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 TH EW LATE EDITION — ” WWE weather ek Tonight and Thursday, oc- casionally rain; fresh 4 southwesterly winds. ot Temperature Last °4 Hours nt. Maximum, Minimum, 37. ie. Today noon, 42. ani ek . eens * SORA TA —— ERE OED oa VOLUME 23 Sj S EATTLE WASH., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1921. MRS. 30 FIRES IN WORCESTER CONTROLLED Suspicions 1921 Eldridge Optimistic. Buy at Present Pric Revive Seattle Spirit. Speak Well of Our City. A ELDRIDGE. of * the Eldridge B is very Optimistic as to the tu 8 s president re. He bases his optimism regarding business for aga. Months’ business conditions, the Fen eral needs moun on a study of the last three of the country and the hand to of merchan is of the pe ity today states EBildridge, “' business m: in Bereral have got their ideas of the @mount of business they should do ertirely too high. The chances are of Incendiary | that we are not going to see a repe Btion of the t ess of 1919 and igi ji . ty sears it ever agin | OFigiN Being Probed; er we decide that the $2,000,000 Loss is going to be some Where between the 1916 and 191 : ae . Jan. 19.--Gov. Channin Volume, and then plan our year broly wan r Business accordingly, the be ster today to investigate reports “ *There is nothing the matter with nese Tithe tek aiibe of thane yas 7 See oe Worcester officials. n Prove it will be because of the ab oes y Bence of the desire and determination) worcrsT Sid. Fen. 08 a f the people to make it better. Destruction of Worcester was threat bs “Tne public is a little out of joint} ened today by one of the most disas fm regard to prices, figuring that |troys fires in New England history they will not buy at present prices Wire Ghiet Avery catinated chevy My opinion is that we must buy and Sell goods of al! kinds @te way if we expect business to be Detter. “There are many conditions recu Mating prices—all of which cannot be would total eration noon that the lon 100,000. He said the moder s was under control at 11 a. m. Nearly 30 fires broke out within a on @ the city hall Knowles building. mile the short a 10-story fter of. Temedied at once. Prices, for the fice structure in the hea of the buat ‘Most part. are based on present and| new district, was discovered in Past cost of material and 4 flames ‘Will be adjusted eventually, I believe, waNy FORC To ‘without doing any great harm to rLEE FROM HOM anyone, if we let supply and demand) Gity and state p eere evi Fegulate them. gating reports that several of the “But above all, I believe the thing | pros were of incendiary origin. ‘hat will restore business to normal Others were started by flying em- for everyone is to get in and try to| pers. Many people were forced to flee @ all business move off, at the! trom their homes ‘Deginning of 1921, on a 1916 or 1917| pire apparatus was brought frem| Dasis. And if employes and employ-| Roston when the flames got beyond ers work together, co-operating (0) control of Worcester's fire fighters. the best of their ability to Produce | Engines also ywere rushed from ll that is possible at the lowest Framingham and Marlboro consistent xpod burinese end-ot Fitermen fought the blaze sorrel brake there eeeeratically temperature hovering around gro. ereate a demand for all classes of Man after man fell from exhaustion, merchandise and material and we! under the weight of his lee-encrusted will soon be past the difficult and garments. | @ancerous crossroad that leads to Ammunition In a sporting goods destruction and will be on the high | store on the ground floor exploded, en. Toad to success. | dangering lives of fireme “Let's all revive the olf Seattie| ieee ® ie Sigua ye tema Spirit. , Let’s all pull together to do|" Phynictans 4 ‘ii: tadertna: the mamy things that are waiting for! severel firemen. ua Beattie people to do. Let us bury : the hatchet of selfishness. Let's all She pate ot NC cr ceaoeration. | $100,000 LOSS migZis make Beastie a better. IN FIRE WHICH \HITS YAKIMA Jet's try to boost our friends and neighbors, instemd of knocking) vaiiyta, Jan. 19—Lomen from| fire which last night practically de-| them. “Let's speak WELL of our city.) tev a business building on Yak- ima ave. tear Front st, are estimated well as of our neighboring cities establish the Golden Rule 85) 2: approximately $100,000. principle ef doing busines. The Golden Rule Clothing store, 8 bane byt ees be able to start OUT | one of the occupants, claims a loas jories and’ mills, develop new in|. seo.009, The Rotary bakery !s| ries, clear our stump land and| tt. nave lost $10,000, and a bar-| pply steady employment for every | bor shop $3,000. J. L. Brown, owner | in in Washington at an average) of 4 ciothing store in the building, | | places hie lom from smoke damage | ‘wage The building was valued | erage | “NOW if the time to sien the) o+ 97 500 work pledge for 1 jat $12,000. . ILL YOU, Mr. Seattle Man, buy $10 worth of the misery in this little girl’s countenance? For $10 you can lay the foundation for a aa “ie: oe Altho the fire is eupposed to have originated in the Golden Rule store, Laring Clothes 4 jsmile on that sorrowful face; $20 will bring Will Help Wives | la faint twinkle to those tragic eyes. You the cause has not been determined. jean bid as high as you like for the sunshine Rale Husbands IN CAR PROBE has been blotted from the lives of mil- CHICAGO, Jan. 19—Before start) Cootinuing its investigation of the | lions of children in Europe. ing a row with the bread winner of) rot railway deal, King county’ me tat the family, just slip off the old kiteh-| - 4 jury was closeted with Prose- T | . HE FAC | is that of Anna. @ apron and put on the most allur-| and thekinmable etstume in the) Culins Attorney Malcolm ou Anna is a Polish child who has. lived wararon- lferson during the entire forenoon |12 years—and is as old as the ages. ‘This was the advice given today! day. No witnesses were} One look into her eyes tells how much Sp howewives by Mra M. Row \they have seen of horror and suffering and Borns, head of a fashionable echool| jt is betieved that the Jury t|death here. J reviewing the mass of docume ae ss + re ¥ vA. woman should be as attractive|nceumuinted during the negotia |, Anna’s home was in Vilna, Poland. To- and alluring as possible before| tions for the purchase of the lines|day she is a ward of the American Relief taking her busband to task,” #h@/and is probably analyzing the re-| Administration, which is trying to save said, “Then she will wirl out.” More advice from Mrs. Burns: Dominate the home. Keep elusiveness, coquetry and the physical attraction of courtship. Show a cash balance on the right sults of Mayor Caldwell's indepen|3 500,000 starving children in central and dent investigation, which have pre-| 0") 47! E sumably been submitted to it. western Europe. = Witnesses w expected to ap-| Only thru the timeliest care was Anna pear to testify Wednesday after-/saved from the slow, tortured road to death noon. {thru starvation which these millions are Side of the ledger. j eet Freud Keep sbreast. with the times. | TACOMANS RUSH | aang. RR ANI ; WRECKED BOOZE RANDMOTHERS 1 TACOMA, Jan. 19.—Police eel RTISTS who have looked at Anna’s pho- WILL GO FLYING | unabte to hold in check the crowd! tograph those unchildlike, sorrow- MAHA, Jan. 19—Mrs, H. H.| Which last night gathered around nl »-plainté ristf ine ae Werte Ana Mra. Draper Smith, Ne.| the wreckage when 4 street car wax |i0® eyes, the mpeg Rabi ues. exceed derailed after colliding with an auto-|in pathetic appe braska grandmothers, who will en-| c 4 l + eed eae ae new precedent in|mobile loaded with 10 gallons ot |Beatrice Cenci, which Nathaniel Hawthorne American politics by flying to Wash- | whisky jcalled “the saddest face in the world.” casem of the bottled goods ‘The police got a gak | remainder, ington with Nebraska's elec toral | Three vote, were making final preparations | Were «mashed for their trip today. Because it was | lon; the crowd th Anna has seen her younger brother turned from a fat, rollicking youngster into a mis- “A simple child That lightly draws its breath , And feels its life in every limb— What should it know of death?” shapen, rickety boy, unable to support him- self on his bent and wobbly legs. She has seen her mother feed the children soup made from the boiled bark of trees. sixgyears on imitation food and then become a hopeless tubercular. She has seen an aunt, crazed by the mis- ery of her children, go mad. Her face is the symbol of eternal childish wonder at the suffering life offers innocent little children, It is the face of Europe's starving children they cannot understand. There are millions of these children in Germany, Latvia and Lithuania. * * . S SATTLE has been asked to save 15,000 of these starving babies. It will cost Seattle $150,000. Thus far only $60,000 has been raised. Anna can’t get much of a smile out of that. For $150,000 Seattle can do its share to- ward making Anna forget the misery she has known. It isn’t much for a big city like this—only $1 each from 150,000 people, or $10 each from 15,000. What do you say, folks? make Anna smile? , M. F. Backus, at the National Bank of Commerce, will accept your smile contribu- Shall Seattle BUMPED impossible to obtain a large plane, | they will travel in separate ma-| chines | OSE; GIRL ws TO TALK OVER After takin LONDON, Jan lost of operation from general taxa tuo, ker’s court. She says the accident occurred March 16, 1420, bine Waited Staton, | Japan Is Awaiting Disarmament Move (MANSLAUGHTER 19.—Japan Is wait H | tal Pool, 9, Ethel Lane, | | The Prices on 16, slipped, she says, on a defective | 3-CENT FARES ing for Great Britain or the United CHARGE FILED Used Cars step leading from the tank and fell | States to take the lead in disarma- on her nose. Wherefore she is #U-| Phe prospect of 3-cent fares on Se aron Hayashi, Japanere am-| Charged with manslaughter, Le will never be lower then they von hey a eae be ss | attle’s municipal car lines will be dis- | ‘or, indicated in an interview | ter Schwald, 23, mail carrier, of 8519 6h wag 39% French's court = “| eussed by the Public Ownership |today. __._ }Pitth ave, N. H., was hold in county Spring will soon he here, = 9 league, at Good Kats cafeteria,, “Within the last few months,” he jai) Wednesday on $1,000 ball. 1 gy egal er ae lag Mie fice AN CAME THRU |rhursday; at 620 p. m. Officersqviti |S “1. Beve.Been dexioged with | senwald was accused of speeding for the summer it will pay > -. Xi" newspaper men asking about dis- ; you to turn to Classified AIR; HIT HER | te etectoa armament, but Iam still waiting for |and reckless driving in a verdict re Page and look over the car Struck by @ m. body, hurled| ‘The g-cent-fare plan is that pro-|some Rritish government official to| turned Tuesday by a coroner's jury that are listed there against her, she claims, when a mo-| nosed several weeks ago by Council he desires to talk on that|Schwald’s auto fatally injured & : torman on a Madrona street car| : | year-old Stuart Pray, jr., 8631 Sunny There is going to be a big || ‘rman on | Millie Della Mar.| man Oliver Erickson, who thinks it baron expressed pleasure that | «ide ave. at Woodlawn ave. and pnenlhelan, | Albin ~ Meinl hin received injuries for which she | Would be possible ultimately to give! his suggestion for a round table of | Mapleleaf Pv Jan. 9 As yet the prices have not wants $2,460 in Judge Otis W, Brin-| the people free rides, paying for the | business men to discuss the problem | Deputy Prosecutor John D. Car gone up on Used Cur seemed to have been well takea in| mody filed the complaint in Justice G Dakon's court Wednesday, She has seen a little cousin fed for nearly | looking mutely upon the misery and horror Poland, Hungary, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, 1S CHARGED DEATH OF DENTON Pretty Defendant Is Smilin and Cheerful; Thinks She’ll Be Cleared 9 Her lite | 1 LOS ANGELES, Jan, 19 | or liberty at stake, Mrw. L. L 7, plump and pretty, was plac trial # tly after 10 a m. today charged with the murder of Jacob Charles Denton, wealthy mining pro: moter, whose body was found buried in the basement of home here on 4 on September 23 last, Altho rain fPll at intervals and threatening clouds hung overhead, a great crowd of men and women stormed the doors of the hall of jus tloe, where the trial is being held and fought for udmittanc Police renerves were premed into service to | handie the throng. Mrs. Peete went to tria and smiling. | SHE IS CONFIDENT | OF EXONERATION “J am confident that this hideous | thing with which I am charged and lof which I am innocent cannot be | sustained, said today At any rate, whe is not worried to the point her appetite and sleep are affected. Attaches of the county jail said she slept well last night and ate a breakfast this morn ing consisting of a eteak, two eg¢s potatoes, toast, coffee and apple confident where + ree HELD IN JAM, SINCE... NTH OF OCTOBER Confined in the county jail since her indictment and arrest on Oc tober 27, Mra. Peete has maintained | the same composure she exhibited | during the weeks of investigation fol- | lowing the discovery of Denton's| body Mra, Peete, cultured and refined, mother of pretty 4yearold Betty | Peete, and Yenant in the Denton home at the time the mining ore dropped from sight, immediately be | came the central figure in the in ‘ventigation made by private detec tives and police. She was, at that! time, living in Denver, and voluntar | ily returned here to aid the authori- tes. | For nearly four weeks she was) questioned by District Attorney | Woolwine and his assistants, while) being held under surveillance in the La Crescenta hotel here. The county grand jury finally voted an indict ment charging her with first degree | murder. | While the defense has not yet re |vealed the extent of its case, it is lexpected to center about the claim that Mra. Peete is the “victim of cir cumstances” and that she is inno J cent. Mra. Peete will be defended by Public Defender J. Wood, recently elected a judge of the superior court District Attorney Woolwine will di rect the prosecution in person, with Chief Deputy Doran assisting. WHAT PROSECUTION WILL ADVANCE Among the unusual ramifications of the case was the circumstance of the accused woman having occupied | the Denton house for several months | after Denton “disappeared.” During that time, according to the state: ments of witnesses before the grand jury, Mrs. T sublet the home; |“loaned” Denton's automobile to a |friend; disposed of a considerable quantity of Denton’s clothing; asked friend to pawn a diamond ring (later identified as having belonged to Denton); bought dresses at a local store in the name of Mrs. J. C. Den-| ton, deceased wife of the dead man;| and cashed several checks on which | the name of Denton had been| forged. These and other circumstan: | | tial evidence will be the backbone of the prosecution's case, it is sald. According to the district attor-| ney's office, the alleged murder was committed for financial gain, It is held that Denton was shot thru the neck in the kitchen of his home, early on the morning of June 2, just before he was to have left for a visit to the Hast H, FORTUNATE MOTORMAN! Motorman on Eastlake car stand- ing at postoffice at 7 a m. Wednes. day fumbles around the front end of the muny refrigerator and remarks “There, I've just found the button that turns on the heat.” “Color” Marriages Prohibited in Bill OLYMPIA, Jan, 19.—The marriage of a White person with “a negro, mu latto or Mongolian” is prohibited in a bill introduced today by Representa. tive Tripple of Seattle. (CHRISTMAS ae STILL HERE Christmas still lingers—with the garbage man, Wagon load of old Christmas trees was seen on Union wh Wednesda, | residential section here, five men sus- |'The men weré captured after their supply of ammunition was ex;| hausted, NEGRO ADMITS | to have been the cause of a bomb ex PEETE IN MURDER TRIAL e's Make Anna Smile! U. S. WILL NEVER BE DRY--“PUSSYFOOT” JOHNSON SO STATES NEW YORK, Jan, 19—The United States will never be dry W. E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson de clared today, following his return from Great Britain. Pussyfoot stated that first Ireland would be dry, then Scotland, then Wales and finally England, but the United States would never be dry be to “legia late 10 commandments into he use it is imporsible people KILLS HIS WIFE AND OTHER MAN Tragedy in Fashionable Gal- veston District GALVESTON, Tex, Jan, 19.—The bodies of Edna Brown, the wife of Francis Brown, of this city, and a man identified as M. 8. Settle, were found shot dead in an automobile standing on @ street in a fashionable residence section of Galveston early today Francis woman stable | Prown, husband of the walked to the home of Con- c Gregory and surren- Jered, according to authorities, The woman was shot thru the heart and the man thru thp head. Both we about 35 years old Mrs Brown was lying In the seat of the car and her companion lay in the road alongside the car. CRACK VAULT AT CENTRALIA -GHNPRALIA, Jan. 19—Dynamit ing the door of the vault at the Bast- ern Railway & Lumber Cos office here this morning, burglars escaped | with money and papers, the total value of which has not been esti mated. Special detectives from Seattle ar rived here to investigate the case, 5 MAIL ROBBERS SEIZED IN FIGHT CHICAGO, Jan. 19.—After a gun battle in the fashionable Hyde Park | pected of the mail pouch robbery at the Union station, early yesterday, are being held for investigation to- day The leader of the alleged bandits _w the police approaching © and shouted a warning to his compan- ions, They ran down an alley in the rear of the exclusive American club and opened firef upon the officers. KILLING NURSE ANNAPOL Md., Jan. 19.— Henry A. Brown, 4 negro, today con- fessed to the killing of Harriet Kava naugh, a nurse at the naval hospital here, according to police. Detectives Bradley and Hammers of Baltimore, were said to hav elicited the confession, after a long grilling of Brown, who was arrested in Baltimore a few hours after Miss Kavanaugh was found Saturday. | { BOMB WRECKS CHICAGO HOME: CHICAGO, Jan. 19.—Encroach- ment of negroes into Hyde Park, fashionable district, is said by police | plosion which wrecked a portion of the residenee of William H, McClel- lan, rea} estate operator, McClellan said he sold negroes af | apartment building, despite protests prominent residents of the fash- able section, MARINE IS UP FOR FORGERY: Charged with forgery in the first | in a complaint filed by* the | euting attorney to Police Jus: tice J. B, Gordon's court Wednesday Paul Laskell, a marine, is under ar rest in his barracks at Bremerton, Laskell, according to Deputy Pros: ecutor C. A. Batchelor, for the name of William Brown t te « a aphed order for $25, November 1 and shortly afterward joined the marines, House Membership Is Retained at 435 WASHINGTON, Jan, 19.- house today voted to keep the m bership of that body at its present Aigure of 435 _ TWO CENTS IN SEA PURSE IS fher and ordered her to throw down re | drawing a gun, chased him into his TTLE SNATCHED | BUT SHE KEEPS IT Still Another Woman Runs Screaming From House. on Meeting Burglars One woman fought off a holdup : ast night, another was caught whem attempted to flee from an arm ed bandit, and a third ran screaming | from her house when she and hee | confronted by two — masked burglars on returning home, Mrs. Sarah Van Buren, 1524 17tH ave., was the woman who frustrated the robbery attempt. She was walk husband were |ing along the sidewalk at 17th ave. and E. Madison st. at 5:20 p. mm” Tuesday, when a young man wearing: a long overcoat sneaked up behind. h 4 snatched her purse, NGS TO HER RSE AND SCREAMS % She clung to it and screamed, but” the robber gave a vicious tug at the purse and then, alarmed at the © fight being put up by Mrs, Van - Buren, fled east on FE, Madison et, Four hours later, at Terry ave and Republican st., Mra. A. Behe | ern, 6624 Fourth ave, N. W., was held up by a gunman. She ran. The” robber chased her, caught up with her money or be shot. Mrs. Echern: dropped her purse and kept on rum ning. The robber picked it up and abandoned the pursuit. She was unable to tell police exact amount of ‘money that purse contained. MARRY _W. CLARK. BATTLES BURGLAR Harry W. Clark, manager of Clark Fuel company, returned to their home 40th st. at 11 p.m that the house was in He remarked to his wife that giars must have called, an As he spoke two masked men flourishing guns, stepped from the darkness of another room Mra the. the, her, threatening to shoot, while partner kept Clark covered. "a Disregarding the menacing weapon of the bandit, Clark clinched with him. During the scuffle that em sued the gun was fired. Clark re ceived a powder burn on the sec ond finger of his right hand He ‘was overpowering the robber the second thug returned and his pistol in Clark's ribs. Clark forced to throw up his hands, The other robper searched Clark, taking $90. They gathered up @ | quantity of jewelry, sollected before the arrival of the Clarks, and ran away Another conflict between a bar. jar and a returning occupant of @ house was reported to the police: Tuesday night. D. R. Johnson, Fifth ave. W., said that at 1 a. my Tuesday a neighbor had returned) home to find a burglar trying to 4 pry open the window of his house, When the burgiar saw the neighbor he spotted him with a flashlight and, house. eee * WATCH CARS FOR ~ MAN WHO : ROBBED WOMAN Detectives and police from Dens more precinct were watching all Ey- erett interurban trains Wednesday in search of a well dressed young robber who robbed a woman of $48 in cur cy and $10 in cash in Everett at am. Everett police notified Seattle au- thorities, saying that they thought the robber was coming here on am interurban car, No further details of the robbery were received here. Would Raise Legal Age of Girls to 21 OLYMPIA, Jan. 19.—Representa- tive Anna K. Colwell, of Snohomish county, today introduced her first’ measures in the legislature. Both related to raising the legal age of girls to 21, At present it is 18. ‘The first measure relates to the mar- riageable age. The other relates to all other legal qualifications, REP. TRIPPLE DIDN’T VOTE AGAINST AERO BASE AT SAND POIN OLYMPIA, Wash. Jan. 19 Representative R. A. Tripple of Seattle was erroneously reported yesterday as voting against the sint air base memorial to In @ statement today, ‘Tripple said: “1 voted FOR the memorial, not against it, What reason on earth would I have to oppose it? In all fairness, my correct vote should be published,”