The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 14, 1921, Page 1

Weather Tonight and Tuesday, fair; fresh, strong south- westerly winds. Temperature Laat 24 Hours Maximam, 39, Minimum, 31, Today noon, 39, 1 Aileen’s Peeve: VOne of the Worst Cases That Ever Was. | She’s Going to Get Is Out of Her System. Too Many Pollyannas. Editor Makes, Perhaps, a Perilous Promise f ) DEAR BOSS I'm peeved! T’m all broken out with peeves! T'm suffering from the worst case of peeves that has ever d anyone in this peevish world. 'm suffering from peeve suppression, I’m all worked up} ‘about it. Old Freud would know how to treat my case.| - Here I’ve been working in this office for nigh onto two Ss, come next Michae day. In that time I’ve been wed 1,846,963 times. I’ve had all the peeves that afflict iormal folks—flapping window blinds, office boys, spit curls, othpick artists, etc., and then about a million peeves of my own. f i could’ get these peeves outa my system I would feel a ole lot better. Confession is good for the soul—also for disposition. But every time I try to tell somebody about ne of my pet peeves, they move away iegereh sidle up to the city editor and drape my svelte figure over ; ocugian tani le who park th ?, ere oughta be a law against people who park their gum 3 3 der chairs,” I begin indignantly. “If there’s one thing that f gives me a—” ‘The city editor stirs fretfully at his typewriter. _ “Um—er—um—By Jove, I forgot! I’ve got to see what's ome of that story about the three-le; elephant!” And he oe nd runs for the compdsing room. jow wouldn't that make you peeved? nd when I try to break out into print with a nice little ite peeve of my own about people who read all the movie aloud, somehow it never seems to get into print. By golly. boss, we've got too much of this glad stuff! We're little Pollyannas, spreading sunshine everywhere! _A peeve is like an ulcera’ tooth. It won't stop aching mti! it’s pulled out. And that goes for everybody. I'l! bet! ere’s 20 people it here in the office that have been suf- ir faces. __It would be am act of charity to let some of these birds their peeves. It would kinda clear the atmosphere if ink, the telegraph Tsigged we os the office boy, and the matic critic, and the telephone girl and the rest could ou ir trivial troubles to the ozone. Do you follow me? ut if you start on this peevish path, I wanta be the bird fith the first wk. T've been waiting for.11 months to gthinoff my chest—and wha 1 do gosh, what © rlit i in I do this, boss? ‘If I can’t, I’m sure going to be PREVED! : AILEEN CLAIRE. | (Nete from the Bdltor to the City Editor) Ajieen Claire hasn't done any actual work for three weeks, An@ I get the fagnooty) tter. I suggest you let her get it out of her then maybe Mi start to earn her salary X * ia s © 2 s e J gp! Atlee, ta we it, and A invited the rest of 0 ip their peeves if they have any. wear : Wart blame me for the consequences. ee cabins ROVER WALKER |PROTEST.ROPING 11S OUT OF GAME) THIRD AND PIKE i BY LEO H. LASSEN ‘With merchants and pedestrians in WANCOUVER, March 14.—Seat| the vicinity of Third ave. and Pike chances for winning the first ht, staging a miniature insurrection | 3 2 ec, en ~~ pc ny against the blocking of the street by ckey title, bi ere for tonig! 7 given a big’ jok when Mana-| ‘0? .otreet railway department, mu Muldoon announced upon his| cipal car line officials promised 1 that Jack Walker, crack) Monday that immediate steps will be| tle rover, would not be able| taken to relieve the situation. | play because of his injured knee.| The pavement between the car! Riley will be shifted from} tracks at the busy intersection Is be- | wing to rover, and Muzz Mur} ing repaired. The work will require will start at jeff wing. Other-| several weeks Cars have been re the teams will line up 4%! routed around the blocked corner. I. Merchants claimed that an unnec ts emarily large amount of territory acksmen Find Safe, *% »*re4 to traffic, and that the | effect was ruinous to their business. Ti t to Crack! nn ough Nut to Crack... Girls Are Slain Occidental #heet Metal Works.) by Jack the Ripper ; to the back prey ee sorked on it} PERTH AMBOY. N. J., March 14.| alte and thelr eesente witb-|—Sallors’ hangouts, “poison booz Radtiner’ pie tt | dens and other dives of Perth Amboy | 7 jand Staten Island were searched to | day for the “Jack the Ripper” who hel ible for the deaths of | The Hundred Dol- |\tuo"women in this vicinity. lar Punch! His latest victim is Mrs. Henry FE. Wilson, 28, organist in the Simpson | he said - Y Methodist Episcopal church here. ROUND TWO ore ye I didn’t think you'd Decapitated Body ir like that,” plead oxen “Gee, kid. igo up in the if the most grewsome murder mys “fil admit J was sore the Way || tories in the criminal history of Tex you let Chicago Red paste you. |! 4. wan believed to have been discov But say, Kid, I ain't no quitter. || 64 near Rogers, when fishermen I'm going to stick right #lon€ |) found the decapitated and mutilated | Grith youse, see? Only t'ing ¥ou || noay of a young woman floating Partner, so's you can get regu: || ime, oa jar workouts. Youse is all right, |) kid; youse got the punch, youse 3 Camp Lewis Men iknow that.” | Taken for Holdup battered face had healed and the gorenens left his ribs, he had re- flected that it would not be an easy matter to find another up and robbing Albert Jensen of cents here yesterday, were held in the city jail. Police declare that | manager as good as Tim Neely. || nay confoused to | Tim noted the Kid's friendiler |) wie at camp and that he stole a attitude and hurried on to say: pistol for the purpose of committing | “Lookit! 1 got an ad wrote up | line robbery. f i here to put in The Star tonight. —_ —— Tt oughta get us a food has. tla ee Soy Trial «tre! Date Due Thursday | been to punch mroun’, hey, Kid?” ‘The Kid consented to ta CHICAGO gMarch 14.—The date | loutetretched paper and r nec efully written ad Srnased bag? ives partner {|for the triat Of the eight White Sox | ted. by Kid Malond to help || baseball player’ charged with throw. | EMoming champion get in. condi- || ing the 1919 world series to Cincin- | . for hin fight with Pat |\mati will be set on Thursday, Judge Call at Brown's Billiard || William Dever, who will hear the lore and ask for Mr, Neely.” e today, denied the motion of q jeourt. ~ TLE, WASH., MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1921. MADGE SAWYER I MURDER CASE 1S STRICKEN FROM CALENDAR cuoTHES Death Fast. Helped Ireland MacSwiney’s Sister Is Sure TAKEN TO WIL FIGHT POLL TAX. IN COURT Seattle Man Will Attack | Emergency Clause Inserted to Beat Referendum Undiemayed by the discovery that the legislature tacked an emergency | clause on the measure levying a $5/ poll tax on every person in the state Detween 21 and 69. immune from the referendum, Joweph R. Manning announced Monday that he intended to go ahead with fight on the law just the same. TU Planned last week to start a state wide referendum ure, Monday he said he would fight | : ‘ the tax in the state supreme court, it! for years with some ingrown peeve. I can tell it from | necessary. As bis program stood Monday, bh Plans to petition Secretary of State Grant Hinkle for referendum papers. | If Hinkle refuses to imrue them, Man-} ning will then start mandamus pro. | ceedings in the supreme court against ‘This Wilt -call ‘for a ruting in the high court ax to whether there ix an emergency necemmitating Miss Mary MacSwiney, who is in Seattle today, photographed as she holds a picture of her| late brother, Terrence MacSwiney, martyred lord mayor of Cork. enforcement of the law. i] A similar test was made of the gov ernor’s civil code and the supreme court ruled, five to four, emergency did exist. | Manning said Monday that he fails to see where there is any crying ne cessity for the poll tax “The state ix not heing menaced,” | authorities, prayer outside two days before it the late Lord Swiney, of Cork Mayor Terrence Mac interview at Washington me that he had no notion what re. port I was talking about ss dispatch from Dublin privon today 1 |t00 deaf to hear the testimony and ad read the report to which » | bad probabl: ‘erred “e news sta c tk tre waa ce |had probably referred, in the news: | money and hence no occasion for the MacSwiney's emergency clause. The legislature is defeating the very purpose of the | wu. . ° | SO ENC Tim Neely, manager for Kid of Girl Is Found | :eterenaum tow vy tacking on this PEPaione, a figure in local boxing || prron, Tex. March 14.—One of | €mergency clause." Manning said that he ts besieged by | contralto telephone calls and by letters from people offering assistance and money ‘Backs This City in Tax Figh will back Seattle Kid Malone allowed himself to |) racomA, March 14.—Three Camp |fight against the $5 be mollified by degrees. After his |\1 wwig soldiers, charged with holding | law, according to members of the | are leity council today Miss MacSwiney is a pieasant little with a smile as quick as her Her wealth of chestnut Her voice trembles appeared in either cheek AND EXEC PRISONERS ©) when she «f with the dying sy during his death f in the fight. The younger brother nt to prison for 15 years. as, the other in need, Kid, is a good sparring || yyttle river, in a gunny sack, | Spokane that six were to be The only reason my youngest b “He was with a crowd of referendum | we a head poll tax raised such a commotion | said he had a ¢ all our lives |}t Was said he had a gun, 4 tour of this country to urge Amer cognition of the Irish repub: reached the city “unfair and Private Earl Young, one of the trio, | would ald the battle. lanning the holdup | expressed similar sentiments, Ex-nervice men are expected to get | publicly behind the move to forc for part of their bonus by means of} the tax | Autoist on Trial for Manslaughter Pritisn prison, was to marry Art Other members Miss MacSwin asked whether un or ner|| EXTRA SESSION OF 1 the cause of Ir undoubtedly! reported recently that Mrs widow of the in America, hunger strike news of the Hall’s court Mor when first steps were MARRIAGE RE SH PROPAGANDA PRT CALLED * | ‘There was a report that my broth * being secretly fed British home office not a word of truth in it (Turn to Last Page, Column 2) was ridiculous. nd fatally Injured 4, on Maple Leaf | way Briti¢h propaganda was published in American newspa n prosecuting attorneys to postpone | bile which struck ba (To Be Continued) | | the trial until the autumn term of! Stuart 6. Pray read, January 9, 1 Per Year, by Mall, 65 to $9 HAMON’S WIDOW IS WITNESS On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Hntered as Second Clans Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 18 Ts EW LATE [ill WOMAN IS HOSPITAL Suffering With Acute Ap- pendicitis; Was to Have Been Tried Today Madge Anna Sawyers second trint for murder in the second degree in connection with the shoot ing of her husband, Howard 1 Sawyer, May 10, 1920, was ind initely postponed by Judge Mitel Gilliam Monday linens of the defendant which | physicians, 4 nied by the court to investiguie, diagnoned as acute appendicitis, was responsible for the ruling. Would-be spectators who had filled every seat in Judge Giiliam's court since early Monday morning to witness the opening of the new trial received the news at 11 a m. with visible disappointment. They had waited patiently while wyers in the case fitted to and frh with business which seemed to be leading anywhere except to the staging of a murder trial COURT APPOINTS TWO PHYSICIANS Mother Will || See Harding to Save Boy COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, March 14-—-Mrs. Margaret B. Erickson, 60, Sioux Falls, 8. D., is going @ walk to Washington to ask President Harding to par- don ber son, Joe Anderson, a worth. Mrs. Erickson last month com- pleted a countrywide search for the boy, which started shortly after the armistice, and culmi nated in finding him at the prison. This search took the aged mother to practically every army camp in the country and exhausted her funds. She expects to work along the route to Washington for her food and lodging. | CITY STORMED | BY ROTARIANS Two-Day Northwest Con- vention Opens PROGRAM OF ROTARY Monday 6:20 p. m—Banquet at the Hippodrome, kane, Addressee by Dr. Henry for Mrs, Sawyer, bad submitted & ‘ot the Walle Tequest for a continuance - cane, pleading their client's illness. Shortly afterwards they went into Conference with Deputy Prosecutor |T. H. Patterson, representing the state, in the presence of Judge | Gilliam ‘in the latter's chambers. Judge ¢ | Doctors Don M. Palmer and C, B. [Ford to examine Mrs. Sawyer in | her room at the Holland hotel and | report to the court RECOMMEND THAT SHE | GO TO SPITAL, Forty-five minutes later the physt- lolans reported. They said they be lieved Mra. Sawyer was suffering | from acute appendicitis and rec mended that she be rushed at to a hospital | Mrs, Sawyer’s attorneys then |pointed out that an operation would | probably be necessary and there was no way of guessing how long their jclient would be ill Accordingly, Judge Gillam allowed the case to stricken from the court ealendar. | It will now go to the bottom of the court docket and will have to be re-set for trial at some future date | by the presiding judge. Mrx. Sawyer’s former trial resulted lin conviction last June. At that time she pleaded self-defense, temporary emotional insanity and accidental shooting. AT LIBERTY ON $15,000 BAIL, he said she shot at her husband he was leaving the houseboat in m |to frighten him into coming back 1|@fter he had declared he would not |return. ‘The bullet, she said, took to kill She was granted a new trial by Judge Boyd J. Tallman on her show- |ing that a juror in the case had been also on her claim that there w |newly discovered evidence which might result in her acquittal. Mrs. Sawyer has since been at lib. erty, awaiting the trial which was to have begun Monday, on $15,000 | bail |Harding Awaits O. K. |Harvey Appointment WASHINGTON, Maréh 14.—Pres- ident Harding is awaiting assurance from the British government. th Colonel George Harvey will be ac. ceptable as American ambassador |to London before sending Harveyls ation to the senfte, it wap | nomi learned today ‘These assurances have nat been recelved and it practically, cer- tain, therefore, that Harvey's nomt nation will not go to the senate to day CONGRESS WILL BE svorthe whoe|| CONVENED APRIL 11 | "It focused the attention of the whol world, upon the question part éf the world in Japarcand China, during the whole || tra’ session of congre the first question on pryone when they arose WASHINGTON, March 14 sident Harding will call an ex Mondaf April 11, Senator Lodge, republt can sendte leader, announced to day, after a conference at the White House At the presidqnt’s request the senate will continue in lon to morrow, adjourning then, if the pending nominations are cleaned not al} up, liam then appointed | which they. lived because she wanted | | effect in spite of her lack of intention | weet Conference bell at Hi Wedneaday Jettermen the second and third body's Foo! ts of lence and burst into song. ance in the Northwest, ¢ GOES DOWN FRONT AND SIN AGADD “Come on down front and sing it aga yelled some one. Wells grin ned. “Come on! shouted the audi ence. “Go ahead!” urged Wells’ companion in the seat beside him, and Wells went forward while the crowd applauded sang the encore. |promptu program which the Rota ians staged during the intermission “They say tha audience burst forth sty | A followed him in a snappy yell. jthe } Hingham Rotary song. Seattle responded with: h-b-h-h-ht attle! “Rah!” MISS ROBSON ASKS FOR “FUNNY LITTLE CAP” I'd like ing his from his hi to her, other Rotarian hank you, nouted, meet again.” ference e¢los with a final circuit, by 8. B. L. Penr or ic Gen, Bramwell Boot ganizer of the Salvation Army, TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE LL military pfisoner at Fort Leaven- Ser. Seattle, and loternastional Third Jat Hebert H. Timmaens. Tummens and Griffin, attorneys) ® «* m.—Stuals by claim from Yetime. u 1 3 clap. 6:30 p. m.—Informal private dinners at 9 p. m—Informal reception and Nerth- Morning—Pest-conterence geif tourney at Park. During the intermission between No. * starring May Robson, lag the Metropotitan theatre Sunday night, Frank P. Wells, the “Caruso of Rotary,” from Bellingham, arose |from a seat well back in the audi- The orchestra played on until the |song—a delightful Rotarian parody was finished, and Wells sat down while the audience bombarded for an encore. The houne was filled with men and women of Rotary |trom every city and town of import The orchestra struck up the piece again and, in wonderful voice, Wells It was but an incident in an im, 4 “Jake told me to go straight to oa May Robson ain't got any style,” sang a voice, The he's style all the while; she's m with Rotary cap perched on his head, leaped up into his seat. The Spokane delegation Half way back in the left section Bellingham delegation sang the The curtain went up. May Rob son, herself, smiling, bowing, came tf@6wn stage and thanked them for their enthusiasm. of those funny little A man in the front row, snatch ad, tossed it up he got Ferris’ Spokane cap,” an. id Miss Robson “T'll always keep it, and always re. member this night. I hope we may attic will be in the hands of Rotary until Tuesday — evening, {when the annual Northwest con.| nd close confidential adviser, I make ep tion and ball at the Hippodrome. Delegates and visiting ladies are quarte at various downtown hotels, Headquarters are at the | Frye, About 1,500 are atgending the conference. They were addressed at luncheon at the Hippodrome Monday noon by Will M. Cressy, of the Orpheum pres nt of Whitman college, and by world or-!she had been under since her break- SHESAW PRETTY OF GIRL ‘Mrs. Hamon Tells of Visit |, to Her Husband’s Rooms > State’s Case Ended j BY CARL VICTOR LITTIZ, COURTHOUSE, Ardmore, Okla, | March 14.—Jake Hamon’s widow ~ took the stand today to demand vengeance against the girl who shot her husband. * The woman of sorrows, garbed ta widow's weeds, was called to testify. against Clara Smith Hamon, charged with slaying Jake L. Hamon, ¢ This was Mrs. Hamon’s first ap | pearance in court since Friday, whet | she collapsed at the sight of her hu band’s bloody and bullet-riddled cloth- ing. | LED TO STAND BY HER SON £ She was led to the witness ‘stam@ by her son, Jake L, Hamon, jr. Mrs, Hamon plainly showed the strain of the ordeal of the trial. io was ghostly white, her cold tho aoa i had lost their luster, the vrata her face were deeper. Clara watched the woman husband she had lived with walk the stand, Her face was lees, Mrs. Hamon was 8 jot going to her hud the Rando! hotel, “T saw a and one of the very beawtafubd “Mr, Tamon went to Lawton, “The children at Lawton, but “I came back three and a halt years ago with Ittle Olive Bell, “ “On this trip I went to Mr. Hamon's room and talked to him. , “T later went to his rooms abowt 11 o'clock. He had two rooms | “I went to both of them. ‘ay ij Clara Smith throw her hat gloves on the bed and rush out. ‘I saw her beautiful cl fur coats. “I took a revolver out ef her trunk. ' “My husband told me to take the midnight train to Chicago, % “That was about an hour and @. half after I saw Clara Smith from my husband's reom.” é Mrs. Hamon was the last witness for the state. The state rested its case and the defense started presentation of its testimony. a William 1D. Nichola today vealed to the United Press what be tried to tell the jury the other day— the power Jake Hamon wielded im fational politics. > Nichols was the political lieutenant and adviser of Jake Hamon, whose secretary-protege, Clara Smith Ha mon, is on trial for Hamon's murder, HE WILL OBEY DYING REQUEST Nichols, witness for the state, gave the following testimony on Saturday concerning a talk he had with Hamon. just before he died: Warren Harding and get some of his friends taken care of.” ts His story was stopped abruptly im court, but here is the rest of it, he told today: “I am’ going to make good on the dying request of Jake Hamon. I am going to the White House to see President Harding in two weeks. Shakepseare said: ‘The evil men do” lives after them; the good is often in- terred with their bones.’ He was right, judging from most of the testi- mony in this case. However, I want the whole world to know the power+ ful Jake Hamon as T knew him. “Jake Hamon, whose wife is a rela tive of the Hardings, was one of the most powerful men in the republican party. Hamon first favored the nomination of Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, but Wood appointed a political : enemy of Hamon’s as one of his chief lieutenants. Hamon then broke with the general, GOT CABLEGRAMS FROM HARDING F “Jake Hamon did what fo man ever did before—he put Oklahoma in the republican column for the first time in history. “Harding appreciated this ‘fully. While lying on his death bed Hamon received several cablegrams from the president-elect, who was in Panama, “As Hamon’s warm personal friend | this statement; “If Jake Hamon had not been shot he would have been the secretary of the interior instead of Albert B, Fall, of New Mexico. The job was already offered him.” Jake Hamon'’s widow was in court today for the first time sinee she broke down Friday when Hamon's bullet-riddied ~—_ garments. were displayed in court Mrs. Hamon showed the strain (Turn to Last Page, Column 4)