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CALL MAIN 6211— OOD SAYS: | = 2 OLUME 23 Peeves: The Oil Can. ‘(Keroseneless). he Hearty Backstop. ayers to Mercury. F Pet ALL the nanny nabbers that have crossed my young path the can has ‘em all cheated. the harmiess residence of ker- but the bird who tries to get with the bunk. or, to put it . bull, accompanied by the slap on the back—he's the of of! can that has got my tied up in a knot. He'll stop me on the street and I'l! the sad story of why his boxer ‘t win his last fight. perhaps he'll sena a letter stat im oly terms just why his mitt should be given a bout on the smoker card. “Maybe it's an alibi from some base- manager for his team's losing « d s0 on right down the line this exists. 'a the menace of my young life. time I see one of these Mext- athletes tn the offing I ask of to lend speed to my feet. parent! Deliver me from Bird with his hearty slap on the and the rest of my goat pos will be like drops within the FEW JERSEY TO p- GET BIG-FIGHT and Carpentier | Will Battle on July 2 | HENRY L. FARRELL “YORK, April 9.--New Jer will be the site of the match Jack Dempsey and Georges for the world’s heavy- boxing championship on ¥ 2%, Tex Rickard, the promot this afternoon. said the match would either at Jersey City, or Atlantic City and said it the choice between these places 4 be definitely made in a few or as soon as negotiations the state boxing commission completed. fight will be for 12 rtpunds no decision, to conform with state law. BUILD ARENA An arena along the same lines that at Toledo, where Dempsey the title from Jess Willard, il be built to seat 59,000 people. ‘will cost $100,000. ‘The prices of seats will range $5 to $50, It was pointed that this was lower than the which prevailed for the Wil- Dempsey and Jeffries-Johnson The seats will go on sale 1, at Madison Square Garden the city in which the fight will held. GHTERS TAKE NTAGES ‘The principals will divide 60 per of the receipts, Dempsey get- 4 and Carpentier 26 per cent. 4 declared that all arrange- are satisfactory to Dempsey Carpentier. Jack Kearns, the mpion’s manager, corroborated for Dempsey. eee Dempsey, who ts now appearing vaudeville at the local Pantages will complete his engage- yent here Sunday night and will PE dave for New York Monday morn- 7 at 9:45, according to the man. art pric « 4. JERSEY CITY, N. J., April 9.— “As long as the bout is conducted In an orderly manner, according to the boxing law, it will be a good thing for New Jersey, and it has “my approval,” Governor Edward 1. Edwards told the United Press to- ‘day when notified that Tex Rickard had selected New Jersey grounds for the Dempsey-Carpentier fight Slave-Slayer Found Guilty COURTHOUSE, Covington, Ga., “April 9.—John 8. Williams today was found guilty of the murder of negro peons on his plantation in Jasper county. The jury recommended mercy, ) This automatically fixes the sen- e at life imprisonment. Weather Tonight fair; fresh easterly winds, Maximum, 70, Today noon, 70, Sunday rain; Last 34 Hours Minimum, 51. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star | Entered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 9, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 BERAELE| WINS RACE CREW LOSES. BY 5 FEET! Southerners Nose Out Win- ners in Neck-and-Neck Race at Oakland OAKLAND, Cal, APHT 9.—Call- fornia’s varsity crew won over the University of Washington by five) feet in today's race. After rowing for two and one- half miles, neck and neck, the! California varsity crew picked up| @ half length that brought them | victory over Washington on the Oakland estuary today. This is the first time since 1908 bce @ Bruin crew has defeated The two crews topped the water together and sprinted for a dozen strokes, then dropped back te a 32 strok At the two flag both crews increased their stroke to 38. They were rowing 44 at the finish. In the preliminary races the Cal {fornia second varsity beat the South End Rowing club of San Francisco. In the freshman race the second freshman crew of California won from Alameda high school. Mother and Son Want a New Name Mrs. Margaret M. Jones and her son, Virgil, petitioned the superior court Saturday to change their eur. name to Gable. Mrs. Jones said she had been divorced from her husband and because he had fied the jurisdiction of the state she didn’t want his name. 5 to 10-Year Term for Two in Robbery Calvin Lunceford and Nelson Shu- man, convicted of robbing William D, Streets of a $500 Canadian Vic- jtory bond February 27, 1921, were sent to the state penitentiary for 6 to 10 years by Judge A. W. Frater Saturday. A motion for a new trial, presented by Attorney E. L. Kien. jstra, was denied. Woman ‘Legionnaire Speaks at Armory Mra. Jennie Neely, of Spokane, vice president of the State Women’s auxiliary of the American Legion, spoke on Legion betterment plans before the ladies of Seattle post, No. 18, at the Armory Friday night. Aileen Seeks the Extinct Species; Or, Why Is a Commuter? BY AILEEN CLAIRE HE. ‘firet spring commuter—that was my quarry. I had only a hazy idea of where I could bag a good specimen, so I boarded a street car and went out to Lake Washington. What I wanted was a plump spring commuter, com- muting homeward across the lake to his plump commuter wife and all his litde commuters. It was late afternoon, at the mya- tle hour when all good commuters hurry back to their nests. The first specimen I spied was fat, breathless and worried, In his arms jury returned its verdict at|he carried a huge pile of groceries, 950 a. m. today. It had deliberated over the case since 2:51 yesterday. Judge Hutcheson immediately sen fenced Williams to tife imprison ment. His attorneys moved for a Dew trial Williams’ stotcal expression did ‘Pot change, but Mrs, Williams broke and sobbed aloud. Dangling from his right pocket, a tidbit for one of his young, was a Raggedy Ann doll. He appeared to belong to the lower species of the commuter family. “Tell m I queried politely, “something of the habits and pecu- Narities of the commuter. Is it true Woman Leper, Starving, May Go to Capital DENVER, | April 9.—Uniess given immediate relief by the United States public health serv- jee, Mra, Velma King, 26, a leper, threatens to walk from her iso- lated cabin near Hugo, Colo, to Washington, to make a personal appeal for sid. Her father, Charles John, declared the gov: ernment had promised several weeks ago, to remove hia duagh- ter to a leper colony in Louisiana. Meantime, the young woman is go near her lonely hut. Page One, Column 3. Bright. And fair. Straw hat season near. Last call for the auto show. 2920 pay for Battery A, C. A. C., received. Masons hold formal shrine ball at Masonic temple Ask $30,000, for new Auburn armory, Raise $45,000. Seven second loules in field artil- lery trade gold bars for silver. Northwest Products committee to visit Carnation condensary at Mon- roe. Prof. Carl EB. Magnusson appoint. ed dean, college of engineering, U. or W. Safety week has reverse English for cops. Three of them injured by auton this week. For theft of motorcycle, Leo Mo- | Gourty, 19, arrested on second degree burglary charge. City raived Northinke ave. 15 feet higher than J. D. Morris’ house, Jury gives Morris $700. Soldiers not stationed on federal land lable for poll tax, says Prosecu: tor Malcolm Douglas. County Commissioner Thomas Dob- son's condition improved, following second operation Friday. Otho Lenhart Shrader, council |sleuth and statistician, appeared | Saturday with spring haircut. Judge Gilliam rules jury must try 22,606.59 suitof National City bank against Seattle National bank. Funeral of Rickenbacker Tetra- zinni, pet robin of ayors office, solemnized, with great ceremony. Jacob Schmidt, arrested at Lakota Beach by the sheriff Apfil 6, fined $100 for having 12 quarts of liquor. Mike Hilda and Castro Alverson fined $250 each for having nine sacks of liquor. Ed Gunderson, arrested with them, released. H. C. Hughes, steam@hip magnate, starts out to wear first straw hat of the season, Loses nerve. Appears with same old derby. and only makes his appearance with the first warm weather of spring? Has he specially constructed legs for catching boats and trains?” | | | | The little fat man moved away un- easily “| guess you got the wrong guy, lady,” he mumbled. “I run a grocery |store In Kirkland. I ain’t seen a commuter in ten years.” ‘The next man I tackled was at the that he sleeps all winter like a bear | Everett Interurban station. He pos SEATTL STRIKE WAR UNDER WAY ' Burning, Looting and Attacks Reported; Government Fails to Halt Trouble in connection with the miners’ strike. An airdrome af Newcastle was dis- mmantied and equipment destroyed. Telegraph poles and wire were felled near Shields. Extensive incendinrism occurred last night in Northumberland. Hay stacks used for feeding pit ponies in the Bedlington colliery were burned and numerous stacks of wheat, bar- ley and date were destroyed in other districts. Sporadic gutbreaks of looting oo- curred in some parts of the striking area. Government Tries to Avert Disaster BY ED L. KEEN LONDON, April 9—With Great Britain tottering on the verge of the greatest industrial strike in history, the government continued its efforts today to avert the plunge into the abysa. Premier Lioyd George fecetved a special deputation of the “triple allt. ance” in secret conference, The meeting adjourned shortly before noon, and, while the labor leaders re- fused to discunn what had transpired, all bore @ serious mien and indicated that no progress had been made to- ward halting the general strike of railway and transport workers, called for midnight Tuesday in sup: port of the miners’ strike, Immediately after the conference with the labor — representatives, Lioyd-George cailed into consulta- tion the Marquis of Londonderry, vice president of the air council, and Sir H. M. Trenchard, air mar |ehal. The country’s alr forces were included in the military mobiliza. tion order and are expected to be utilized for communication with re mote districts and transportation of food. What was regarded as a very sig- nificant incident was the fact that King George and Queen Mary to- day moved from Windsor Castle to Buckingham Palace, in London. The fact that the “triple alll nce” lea: consented to meet the Premier after yesterday's general strike decision—which would call} (Turn to Last Page, Column 2) sessed all-the earmarks of a blooded, pedigreed commuter. His shoes were covered with the black loam of early spring gardening and his face wore the harried expression of a man who has forgotten what his wife asked him to bring home for dinner. I sidled up to him cautiously. Your genuine commuter is a timid, nervous l animal, easily frightened by the noise | and bustle of the city. “Do you think Virginia turnips will grow well this spring?” I began. “And what kind of disinfectant do | you use for the Alabama chinch bug?” | I stared at him expectantly. His | face remained blank. “I’ve been having rotten luck with my asparagus,” I continued, gayly. “Of course, when one is new to country life, one makes mistakes so easily.” I sighed dolefully. He let his eyes roam curiously from my orange spats to my new Easter straw. “Say, Miss, what're you tryin’ to] | WASH., SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1921. Call up the Metropolitan theatre and order seats for Monday night. There'll be vaudeville, jazz, and min- strels—and ALL the proceeds will go to disabled war veterans who are still in the hospitals of this state. BAR ALL ALIENS WHO CAN’T BE ASSIMILATED TH LATE EDITION ~—~ ) x ¢ i TWO CENTS IN SAYS SEATTLE SITS BY “OCEAN OF DESTINY” SAWYER TRIAL |JOHNH.PERRY STORRS GOES TO SET FORMAY 9 Madge Anna Sawyer's second trial for mutger in the second degree for shooting her hushand, Howard 1, Sawyer, May 10, 1920, was set for May 9 by Presiding Judge King Dykeman in the superior court Sat- urlay morning. Mrs. Sawyer’s second trial was to have been held March 14 but was indefinitely continued because of her illness, which prevented her appearance In the courtroom after all other interested parties had ap- peared. She underwent an opera- tion for appendicitis on that day and is reported now to be well on the way to recovery. Mrs. Sawyer was once convicted on the charge of second degree mur- der but a motion for a new trial was granted because of alleged newly discovered evidence and because one of the members of the jury ts said to have been nearly deaf. + At the time of the tragedy she was a bride of a few weeks, living with her husband In a houseboat She said at her previous trial that she fired at her husband, who was leaving her, to frighten him into coming back. The killing was claimed to be accidental, A plea of temporary emotional insanity was also entered, sell me? he exploded finally. “T don’t want no books on farming. My wife's got one of them No-Shrinko washing machines. And I ni use none of them patent medicines. I moved down the street disconso- | lately. The spring commuter, 1 be-| gan. to see, was a purely mythical | creature, like the Dodo or the unt-| corn, He lived only in the tmagina- | tion of the colyum writer and the comic artist At the foot of Madison st. I watted for my car. Then it was that I saw Morris Micken. L.froze to my tracks, Hig gait was literally terrifying. | Neyer have I seen such a leisurely | stride. | Normally an active, energetic man, Micken was moving at the speed of a rheumatic caterpillar. He stopped three times in 20 feet to light his pipe. He peused two min- utes in front of a ahip chandlery window. He stopped three minutes to read“ the headlines in the pink \ BUYS THE P-| PEN UNGUARDE SEATTLE Steamer Wenatchee Departs. With Distinguished Pass- engers for Orient Maj. Gen, Leonard Mf. Wood safled today aboard the steamship Wenat- chee on her maiden voyage to the Orient, leaving behing him this mes- sage: “we don’t want any people in this country who cannot become assimi- lated.” Fifteen hundred to 2,000 people heard the general speak at Pier B, the fe’ mayor. left of the ‘red’ element “We want to stand order. We do not John H. Perry, of New York, to] WALLA WALLA, WWash., April 9./this country who cai —Coming voluntarily from Seattle, |similated. We want h day announced that he had bought control of the Seattle Post-[ntel gence: He was elected president of the company and chairman of the board, the other directors being Charles H. Lilly, L, J. Cjarke, Ken- neth Mackintosh and W. V. Tanner. Perry is president of the American Press association and chairman. of the board of the Publishers’ Auto- caster Service Co. He ts a former Seattleite, having once been deputy prosecuting attorney of King county. Human Blood Stains in Auto at Edmonds Sheriff Matt Starwich, who has been assisting Snohomish county of- ficials in unraveling the mystery surrounding a blood-stained auto- mobile found In Edmonds March 8, reported Friday..that a physician had found the stains to have been made by human blood. So far as could be learned, no further infor- mation has been gathered. OLYMPIA.—Ten national guards men and 47 state, federal forest ser- vice men, and lumbérmen will patrol devastated timber region on Olympic peninsula, according to Gov. Hart, edition of The Star. Tar oozing out of a barrel was a mountain torrent compared to his sluggish progress, “Why the rush?” I queried. “Why strain yourself dashing along like this?” “Oh, hello,” he drawled, coming to a slow stop. “It's ‘High Jinks’ night at the club, but I can’t ge Got to go home to the wife, you know. What you doing downtown?" “Looking for @ commuter,” I ‘and accompanied only by his moth- er, Douglas Storra arrived here to- day and surrendered himerlf at the . Those who come must realise they cannot be Americans and half something “We want 100 per cent An Penitentiary to begin serving a five- jfsm, year sentence on a charge of seduc-|GOLDEN RULE FOR ton. Storrs several days ago lost his (CAPITAL AND LABOR “We have a lot of serious fight in the state supremo céurt|iems to overcome. In dealing against his conviction, Anyone bas been working tn a Seat- u rage confictton. In voluntarily surrendering at the penitentiary Storrs said he neither confessed guilt nor admitted the jus: | tn: Uce of his sentence. His conviction came tn connection with the trial of 18-year-old Ruth Garrison for the murder of Storr's wife, whom she poisoned because she had. become infatuated with him and wanted him free to marry her. Confirms $200 Fine of Pool Hall Man Presiding Judge King Dykeman Saturday congirmed the judgment of Justice of the Peace C. C. Dalton in fining John Prkut, Cumberland pool hall proprietor, $200 on a charge of having lquor. answered. “But there ain't no sech animal. They'fe extinct. Like Bock beer and bustles and business. “You're right,” he replied. “The j tribe of commuters has died out. They ain't no more, | He gazed idly at a window dresser wrestling with @ wax model in a {clothing establishment. Suddenly a {shrill whistle sounded from the dl- rection of the Galbraith Dock. The |sound galvanized Micken into action, | “Gosh, that was the steamer Bain- bridge,” he cried hoarsely, “It's just |Teceived in France when: pulling out from the dock. And.it's the last bont across the bay tonight.” He took a deep breath, “Oh, well, he sighed, “I guess I'll have to stay in with the boys tonight, anyway. Heavens knows, 1 tried to catch that bg Hey, there! where are you go- “Back to the office,” I shouted over my shoulder. of the spring season? labor and capital we must the golden rule. We want sul since appealing from his/congitions for the laboring wages big enough to live on raise a family, “Lincoln said wealth was a good ing because it stimulated labor. “We want you to back a good navy as well as a. merchant marine; a good army—the best in the world, but not the biggest, — “We don't want any autocracy in this country, neither of labor or of capital, but @ real democracy. One language, that ts, the language of the constitution of the United States; one flag, the flag of our country; one loyalty, the undivided loyalty to the Union—that's what we want. LGA “We want to get into the hearts of the people the spirit and principla, of the American Legion. - “Good-bye, and good luck to all of you. CAPTAIN DEAN'S HAPPIEST MAN ON DOCK ‘The happiest man that stood on the dock when the Wenatchee pulled out was Captain J. R. Dean, of 117 John st., who fought with General Wood In B troop, Fourth cavalry, im Arizona during th® Geronimo cam paign in 1881 to 1887. “The general thinks a lot of me,” said Cap¥in Dean, who was charge of the colors at the dock. “He and I slept togethe: drank whisky toget! Indians. together,” General Wood has aged noticeably since he was last in Seattle, He walks with a limp, due to a wound) a gun ex a ploded. ‘(WOOD PUTS REPORTER ON GRILL BY LINTON WELLS. I have been interviewed on “I've just found | Philippine question by Major the first real simon-pur' commuter!eral Leonard Wood. 1 started owt (Turn to Page 2, Column