The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 23, 1921, Page 1

a * § @eather and Thursday, probably rain; moder- ate easterly winds. Tonight Tomperature Maxtnum, 56, Today noon, Our Pet Peeves: | I Dislikes Speeders. |But Taxes Worse. TBspecially Poll Taz. ‘avors the Recall. fe the eighth of » series of articies members of The Star staff tell a why. > em } BY EARL A. CARR | [YS the editor to me: “Loose your literary faculties and write your pet peeve, will you? And I said: “1 naven’t any PET) T am in a continuous round Peeves these days, and you're one | them.” | “Well, you needn't be pervonal— your peeve at me and tell the | } Bo here I am. | I'm peeved at nine out of ten of truck drivers that insist on PP running around the highways adja Gent to Seattie without the least dim [Micker of light on their big death Te peeved at these big higWway | busses that tear along like pgernauts, never less than 20 miles hour (I've timed them up to 45 in-| the city limita), hogzing all the | Foad and rightof way, | But I have let these peeves and F slip by, because I am*mad all q way thru at taxes in general, " this poll tax in particular " ¥ have thought for years that) tax system was the bunk. Now I it is. I've about cothe to the jusion that it is better to be an/ . Nonproducing bum than to try de an honest, useful citizen. 3 time an ambitious young fellow tries to improve his lot in fe he is penalized by taxes. When he a little piece of land to beat sure the can't dodge it. He ts work he has property. the way to right things is to a can (recall) on the dog that’s re Now I feet better, Mr. Editor, and) ff this is what you wanted, Wel come! About to Hang, He ¥ Demands War Bonus SALEM. Ore., March 23.—Society to hang Jack Rathie, but firet be | 4 # must pay bim his bonus 2% months’ war service. “I want my money for my moth- .” he explained, simply. ‘i a es murder of Sheriff Till Taylor, of | Pendicton. He has written’ the) Washington state auditor for the bo- Bus which is due him from that! state, ; ; BY RUBY M.AYRES ada ~~ BEGIN HERE TODAY ' British miilionaire, L ‘ing his aan Seoptea von, Christoph ort-| x afterward Marie. herself to be » accepts oph! The pair geaside resort on their honer-| Marie overhears her husband» “Feathers” Dak remark that ried tor money. Chris iw at ie be Mrs. Heriot, and Marie, hurt negiected. goes awimming. Bhe is with ceampe and sinks, “Feath saves hi OW GO ON WITH sTORY From Our Last Issue) > He went without his lunch because he could not bear the battery of eyes “which he knew would be upon him all the time. CHAPTER V. Marie's narrow escape from death | @i4 her one Rood turn—it nealed her friendship with Feathers, and in the Gays that followed she owed almost everything to him. Chris did his best. He really | thought he was playing the part of) a model husband; he loaded her with eweets which she could not eat and presents which she did not want He was in and out of her room| c5oaselessly—a little too ceaselessly, thought the doctor, who soon discov. ered that her husband's presence did | not have @ very soothing effect upon his patient. Chris told Marie what the doctor had said. “I am not to worry you—I am in and out of your room too often.” She smiled faintly. “I suppose the Betor knows bes So now she made every effort to [get well and «trong. She made too | Much effort, the doctor told her, —_ | “There's plenty of time,” he said. why be in such a hurry?” And at last, in desperation, she told him: “Doctor, it must be awful) ‘a A Bach las she was writing and caught sight |round of golf with her this after. Last 1 Hours Minimum, 42, HIS SLEEP Somnambulist | Plunges From Diller Hotel; Expected to Recover Found unconscious in the alley back of the Diller hotel, First ave. dnd University st, at 6 a. m. Wed nesday, James Deal, 53. mill worker, | was brought to city hospital | Deal fell from the window of his room on the fourth floor of the} hotel. Motorcycle Patrolman Fred | Mills said that Dea! apparently had fallen from the window, while walk: | ing in his sleep. | Deal received a bad gash on the| head and severe bruises. He prot ably will recover. He was unable to jexplain coherently how the acckient | happened. When Deal was found he had a silver watch and $190 in his pocket. | He was wearing no hat or coat and had not teen drinking. Only the/ wires strung slong the alley saved him from certain death, Mills sald They broke bis fall considerably and were torn down. Deal's room showed no signa of dis. order, He had teen dressed, on the bed. Hie coat and umbrella were in the room. The door waa locked and bolted from the In| ,| side. The tight was stil! burning when Mills broke Inte the room. Lost Tot Was Just P Waiting for Daddy While her father, aided by police, frantically scoured the financial district for her Tuesday afternoon, *+yenrol Eleanor Berocy was wait ing in a doorway for her “daddy.” The girl divappeared while W. C. Berney back was turned In the Western Union office, 113 Cherry | at. He found her an hour later | Berney lives at 103 Columbia st. Cardinal Gibbons Is Critically Ill} BALTIMORE, March 23--Cardi nal Gibbons is critically fll, and his death may come at any time, it was) said at bis residence today. It was said there had been no change in his | condition over night. The cardinal's condition became alarming Sunday night, and since that time constant | watch has been kept at hin bedside Runs Wild, Fires | Gun; Is Arrested! After Mrs. Lenchner, 1912 Jack that a man was running wild in| the neighborhood, firing a gun, Pa-| trolman F. EB. Hago arrestai Fred Perrose, 26, laborer, and booked him on a drunk and disorderly charge. elor Husb On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Yeat, by Matl, §5 to $9 Warmer. Shirtaleevon, Postoffice needs nome ink that will write, Old Indian skeleton found at Alki Point. Leaded” dice sharps fleece cletr deaiera Easter bonnet. Turned tn to rail way Loat and Found department Maj. Clift Andrus, regular army, to instruct W. N. G, artillery corp ¥. W. C, A. opens courses in board ing house and institutional manage ment. “Fish.” Prof. Kincaid’s mubject be fore Bar association, Blanc’s cafe, to night Auto owhers; 1971 license fee due; pay now and avold hocking car with polion, Girt seen on Second ave. Wedner day with dress almost to ber ankles ankles U" alumni! plan annual banquet campus commons, evening of ‘n over, boyn Can't get in corps without the three R's now, Northwest towns hold out latch ‘tring to Secretary of Interior A B. Fan. Alaskan sourdoughs predict of! rush to Far North greater than ‘38 wold rush. Worral “Vlleon and William Waldo Masonic Seattic man, mentioned as U. 8. mar shall, Alaska. Able to sit up. Report from bed wide of Alex Myers. president of Cheasty's haberdashery. City counctimen and members of beard of public works inspect Cedar Palla power plant Wednesday. Mra Sweetman, arch enemy of Bill Whitney, political princeling, to write new book on local politics. J.C. Lindsey, elected delegate na- tional convention industrial relations committee, St. Louis, May 3 and 4. Government sald he had 20 gal jons wine in woodshed. John Valsu no. But federal jury acquits him Charles Paddock, temperance #0 clety 25 years ago. Excused from jury in‘ three booze canes, Fedora! court. Kick registered by Chamber of Commerce against proposal to move atate geological survey office to Pullman Discuss port (not wine) at public meeting at Chamber of Commerce by George F Rathie is under conviction for the |son st. had reported Tuesday night m. tonight 20 Chinamen in cramped, unventila basement under store at 702 King t, Won Wing, 64, paid $10 in po lice court Wednesday and Because bunks, in slept Copyright, 1921, by W.J. Watt & Co. for Chris—having to walt about here | just because of me. It can't be| much of a holiday for him.” She said the same thing to Feath ers when he looked in that evening for a few seconds. “Dull! Chris!” he said, echoing her words bluntly. ot he. Don't you worry, Mra. Lawless, Chris knows how to look after himself.” He did not tell her that between his spasmodic visits to her Chris was thoroly enjoying himaelf. She persuaded Dr. Carey to allow | her downstairs the following day and Chris carried her out into the garden and propped her up in a deck | chair with eushions and rugs CHAPTER VI At the end of the week Dr, Carey ceased hiy visits. “You won't me any more,” he assured Marte. She wan feeling quite herself | again, tho she got tired easily. She had written to Aunt Madge, making light of her accident, and sxsuring | her that there was no need to worry. | Chris came and stood behind her| need | of the first ‘sentence. “Mrs, Heriot wants me to play a| noon,” he said, after a moment. “Do you miad?” “Of course not. Please go. 1 shall be all right; I am going to take my book down on the sands.” They played @ round of golf, and! Mra. Heriot beat him. She was a widow with @ large in come, and a spiteful nature. Bhe did not actualiy wish to remarry, be | cause if she did so she would lone} the money left her by her husband, | but all the sume, she did not like to eo her men friends monopolized and married by other women She liked Chris for the same rea son that he liked her. They had many tastes in common and seldom bored one another. “You know,” she said abruptly, was ever so surprised to hear that| you were married?” “Were you?” Chris tilted his hat further over hin eyes. “Most people were, I think. Poor old Feathers was | absolutely disgusted.” “It was very sudden, wasn't she pursued. “Quite romantic, from all accounts.” Chris rose to his feet and yawned He knew that he was being pumped He left Mrs, Heriot in the lounge and went straight up to his wife's room. She was not there, but a book which he knew she had been reading was lying open on her drens ing table and a little pair of white shoes stood neatly together on rug, He cast a furtive look at himself in her mirror, He did not look much like a married man, he thought, and laughed as he took ,up the book which Marie had been reading. It was a book of poems, and Chris made a little grimace. He had never read a poem in. his life, but his eyes fell now on some of the lines which had been faintly underscored with a had world #0 bitter When Tam but twenty-five He had still got the book in his hand when the door opened and Marie came in, She caught her breath when she saw her husband. “You, Christ’ “Yes, 1 thought you were in.” He turned round, holding out the book. “Are you reading this?” “Yeu.” She tried to take It from him, but he; avoided her, “Did you underline that verre?” Ho saw the color flicker into her (urn t6 Page 9, Column 2) Nicholson, engineer, § p.| ed | the, DNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1921 HUSBANDS WARNED BY REPORTER | Beware of Wives Shopping for Easter Bonnets, He Says BY HAL ARMSTRONG “Dear,” said milady, fondly patting | my cheek, “I'm coming downtown to | have lunch with you today.” Uh-huh.” 1 commented, weakty. jow comer” | She dropped her eyes, (Not Iiteral- ly, of course, but ax Chobert W. Ram- bers w dmnay) And added, naivety: “You know, dear, Kaster'’s Sum day.” "Oh, yea. That's 20." | OH, HUSBANDS! DOESN'T THIS SOUND FAMILIAR? I'm going to look for a hat this jafterncon. I do want you to like it. 80 I'm going to let you come slong and help me buy it You know your taste ls so—ah, artistic.” She kinsed me. She amiled. Iwas the dearest husband. 1 fell “Now,” I said, as she dabbled | her fingers in the fingerbowl, “junt | what kind of a bat do you want?” “Oh, aiily, you wouldn't know if 1 told you” She laughed “Well, I'm prétty busy thir after. noon,” I reminded her. “Thie ain't acation. I thought if you'd | [tell me what kind of a hat you were thinking of getting I could probably steer you to ¢ right | store, firet thing. Save a lot of time that way” “Very well. I want to get a hen- ha rust flop straw hat.” “Oh, yen.” thoughtfully. £0 to & department store.” HE MEETS CHARMING | YOUNG CLERK | She regarded me with a hint of lamusement tn her eyes, We went to a department store. “I want,” I maid to the charming lyoung clerk with the cashmere “Better stockings, “a Henry Rust flop hat.” Milady tugged at my coat ve The charming young clerk with the cashmere stockings smiled win nome ly "You'll find,” she said, “the men’s | hats down | “Never mind him,” cut In mMady, ruthlemly. “I see he doeen’t under stond, JT want a hat. Let me see! some of your grays.” She contemplated the cashmere | hosiery coldly, Then appraised me | with calculating eye. | “No, I don't believe I want a gray.” she concluded, tossing a $37 82 creation down on a chair. She started away, I followed [FLIRTING WITH CLERKS | PEEVES HIS WIFE ‘Hee here,” she anid, severely. “T do winh when you go into thene stores with me, you'd refrain from filrting with these—thene ¢ ka You cheapen me. 1 don't like it. “I thought.” I reminded her | meekly, “that you were going to buy Ja hat.” j “Ont She turned and hurried into an elevator. I tagged along “I've made up my mind,” she tn formed me, “that I'm going to pick out a new suit firet, and then get the hat and shoes to match.” “But [ve gotta get back | office" “All right, then,” crossly. “That's just you. I might have known, You go around admiring all thewo—these chickens, as you call them. 1 cali them little cats. But you aren't enough of a gentleman to want your wife to look like anything. I'm going | home, that's where I'm going.” “Aw, now" CAPTIVE AGAIN STRUG TO BE FREE “Don't. Can't you see all these | people jooking at us? You are al (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) to the os BY AIL N CLAIRE | | A CROSS the bay, on a point that used to be known as Dead Man's | Point, but which is now referred to |foggy nights on Puget sound, when! as Yeomalt, there liver an old beach: | |comber who was once # famous “bucko mate” on San Francisco Hell Packets | Monday night there floated up on the rocky beach below his shanty a huge keg, upon which was burned the label of a famous Scoteh bever age Now, the strong current eaused by Puget sound's 1%-foot tide variation sweeps many things across Dead Man's Point—including the bodies of drowned men, old tin cans and de veased cows—and most of the jet sam is deposited along the, beach at ‘high tide. Consequently the old man felt little eurprise at the appearance Jof the big brown keg, and stowed It carefully away at the back of his shack. ‘That the barrel of Scotch had been dumped overboard by some rum-run ning sloop, closely pursued by a rev- 4 | ident | tenant Colonel Clarence O, Sherrill TH LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE PERIL LURKS IN SEATTLE SHOPS! STAR BABY EXPERT WHO ADVISES MOTHERS Thousands of mothers in the Pacific Northwest are following the advice of Mrs. Maz West, The Seattle Star’s expert on child care, who formerly was with the child welfare bureau of Mrs. West's department appears twice a week. It will be found today on page 8. Questions accompanied by stamped and self-addressed envelopes are answered personally by Mrs, West. Only the most interesting questions and answers the United States government. appear in the paper. Electric Trains in Collision; Many Hurt PORTLAND, in in the hospital March 23.-One man here today and several others are maid to be suffer ing from minor injurtes, following a/ inion between two subur- | trains Inst night. head-on c ban eleotric The injured man nductor. 99th at. and Woodst Mount Scott line, is &, R. Conroy, The smash occurred at) ock ave., on the A defective block signal is held re sponaible. Lt. Col. She: rrill Is Harding Aide WASHINGTON, March Harding has as his military aide. Prep: designated Lick Lineman Sues City for $10,000 Damages) $10,000 against Suit for brought telephone by Mike lineman, the city, R. Plastino, former soldier, Bootlegger Fined; Deputy Is Fired Paul St. Clair, in connection with whose bootleeging operations Patrol |man Edgar Barr and Special Deputy Sheriff Phil Yolt accused each other of trying to acquire St. Clair's Nquor in return for failure to prosecute |him, pleaded guilty to having Hquor junlawfully in his possession Wed nesday and was fined $150 by Justion of the Peace C)C. Dalton Temporary dismisnal of Yolt as a special deputy sheriff, following the inquiry, Was made permanent by Sheriff Matt Starwich after the cotrt proc ings Police lidentify Man Killed by Car The man killed by a Lake Bu rien street car Tuesday night on the approach to the West Water. way bridge, is believed to have been “Shoestrings” Johnson, 64, who lived jin a houseboat on the waterway for injuries in an alleged street car|Johnson was well known to police. accident, was being Tallman's court ° lout. cargoes are shove the arm of the law furtive craft acroxs the internat 1 Making a beard in Judge Wednesday, overboard on is extended for swift steal onal border. Tuesday morning, a full realization of bis frightful pre upon hig cans sell it licament flowed in pusnens |not use the Whisky and he could not | man's religion had deserted him, and it wax with difficulty that he could | He could He died of a fractured skull two hours after the car etruck him. nue launch, he had not the slightest seas, he had been converted to the He knew that many strange | way of the righteous and had ab. |Jured the devil and all his works, Among the chief works of the devil that he had placed behind him, was Rum, His new-found religious the to his old cronies of He could not v's soul with | stuff, give ‘it the beach, or to sell it. [rightfully blast anoth Liquor of Hell, | This was the way he felt at nine o'clock Tuesday morning. But by noon, after his mind had dwelt on | the golden treasure trove standing at |the rear of the shanty, his tongue was hanging, like a dry rag, from his parched Ups. Thirty years of sampling everything from Hudson Bay rum to saki, had developed an eple thirst in the old beachcomber. At three o'clock most of the old ‘Three months before he had “got| keep away from the keg of liquor, religion.” After 30 years of hard Living in every port of the seven } “If L kin lust till sunset,” be mut tered, 1 will beat the devil” renee | as the old man awakened on/ would not allow him to drink Family Escapes as Fire Destroys Home Barely escaping with their lives, when their home at 2030% 43rd ave. N,, caught fire from an overheated stove at 2:30 a. m, Wednesday, Roy | Weigel, his wife and two small chil dren shivered in the early morning air and watched firemen endeavor to save the home. The house, valued with its con- tents at $750, was a total loss. Both the children were ili, and tt was with great difficulty that Wei. gel and his wife rescued them, ac- cording to firemen. » Smoke aroused the sleeping fam- ily. The loss was partially covered by insurance, Pastor Forfeits $5 Bail in Court Charged with impersonating a public officer, the Rev. Mr. U. G. Murphy, Japophile, forfeited $5 bail in police court Tuesday afternoon. The Rev. Mr. Murphy was accured by Casper Rick, of the health de. partment, with trying to “boas” stall keepers in the Pike Place public market, The sun dropped over the placid waters of Rolling Bay, the giant firs of Bainbridge Island cast their shad- jows athwart the little lagoon on Dead Man's Point and the gnarled old sea dog wrestled with his thirst, As the sunset gun across the bay at Fort Lawton, boomed out its sa- lute to the dying day, the old man's |mind was made up. He would smash jthe cask of whisky and end forever its ghastly temptation. He seized an ax and almost ran to the rear of the shanty. The keg was still there, its staves ooging a wolden liquid that brought back ornare acnsabnsnenssssan dita anenaeaiaasl SLACKER BERGDOLL ARREST IS” U. S. Note to Germany Also Demands Release of Two — Imprisoned Americans BY A. L. BRADFORD ? WASHINGTON, March 23—The United States has demanded of Gew many the surrender of Grover Cleve |iand Bergdoll, wealthy Philadelphia. es draft dodger, and the release from — |cently attempted to capture Berge |donl, it was learned today on authority. The Americans, who have sentenced on a charge of ai kidnaping are Carl Neuff, an sergeant, and Frank Zimmer, a partment of justice operative, Correspondence has been going for some time to secure currender. Since this country no official relations with |no formal note has been sent, the United States has, made |and strong demands Yor Surrender, while more informal resentations have been made to cure release of Neuf and ao a With receipt of the news of with United States military forces: were sentenced today to serve terms in a German prison. They were convicted in a German court on the evidence of German wits nesses of attempting to kidnap Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, American slacker. Carl Neaf and Franz Zimmer, the detectives, were charged with . ly assuming thé power of police ficers. Neaf was sentenced to months’ imprisonment on the ada tional charge that he shot and wound> ed a German girl in Bergdoll's car. Zimmer was given six months. Bergdoll himself was a witness, told a halting story and so od contradicted himself that the ing judge finally warned him of the strictness of the German perjury laws. While the American draft was on the stand the hostility of crowd toward the two detectives wag shown by its remarks. Hisses frequent and officers of the made little effort to quell the demom> strations. Bergdoll ts not satisfied with the a ed to his German friends that he would put the Americans “where the dogs wouldn't bark at them for five years. Neuf and Zimmer escaped too lightly, according to Bergdoll. “Sul,” said the deserter, “we've shown those guys they can't pull that stuff in this country.” Bergdoll’s limousine, chauffeured by a waxed-mustached, square-head- ed German ex-sergeant, was the ob- ject of a mild ovation as it rolled thru the quiet streets of this Baden town. Bergdoll has capitalized his popularity by getting appointed @ district food administrator. memories of wild debauches im Southern Seas, As he raised the ax overhead, @ jon of the many glorious drunks he could have on the keg of Scotch. stayed his hand. ij he almost whimpered. “I dad near ruined a perfectly good barrel of likker. I guess the church can wait. I'm still a young man, I~ I feel I need a drink” He breathed a deep sigh of relief, and having disposed summarily ef the voice of conscience, set about re moving the lid of the cask, s0 he could sample the fiery fluid, With the cutting edge of the tool, he pried open the lid, a vision of gallons and gallons of potent and |amber liquor floating before his eyes, way before his efforts, he leaped forward and peered into the barrel. |Then he gasped, paled and sat down heavily. The cask contined 10 gallons ef superfine pickles, prison of two Americans who re penal sentences imposed. He boast As the tough wood finally gave |