The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 13, 1921, Page 1

Weather Rain tonight and Thurs- “ day; colder tonight; mod. S. W. winds, Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 50, Minimum, 40. oday noon, 47, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffi Entered as Second Cla “VOLUME 23 << SEATTLE, WASH., WEDN at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to §9 PT “2 CAMP LEWIS SOLDIERS FACE DEATH! om x & ESDAY, APRIL 13, 1921. _ EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Our Pet Peeves: Second One’s Packed. Third One's Empty. ‘This te the twenty-sixth of o series ef articles tn which members of The Star staff tell what displeases them | most, BY MILTON MALAKOFF PEEVED at a number. No. 11. Until recently one number was as good as any other to me. Even 15 didn’t fease me because I'm not su ses PRESDENT WILL HELP Perstitious—that way. But now Maybe you've guessed what I'm| @riving at. It's No. 11, the East) Cherry street car. That's what I'm/| Peeved about. THATS WHAT I'M PE ABOUT. I wish all in the audience concurring tn these sentiments would rise. ve the of opm t @© to Eighth and Pike to catch my car. I begin to read the paper. car. 1 rush out It's a back of that, another. Th I go back to my post. Parks pass me going north with my paper. I get nervous. twitch. I see cars (plural, printer). I @ash out. Foiled again, A No. 9 and two Ifa $:55—Twenty minutes have passed and so have eight No. 12s, four No. $s, three No, 9s, 14 No, 16s, and 22} Cowen Park and seven East Union| fits. Goose egg No. 11. €00—I commence to walk. At Boren a car overtakes me. Yep, an other 12. Gee, how I wish I lived on! that line. And the funny thing is they're all half empty when they I eve al accursed the Dass me. 6:10, at Melrose—Only one other § and 9 have passed me. Do my eyes fail me? It’s an 11. Johnny-on-the- spot, I flag it It comes near, it * #28 ofttyttt a S & i f isn't enough and that it will supply only 10,000 beds. ‘1m. ‘The other car is I wait for it to pass. . “Here in what I told and then/| Including the —. it has exactly | wrote President Harding: | two persons on board! “"No permanent or continuing| hospital building program has been} provided by the government. The! result? The disabled are scattered No Hope for 19 Men on Lost fhip over a thousand private hospitals! PORT ARTHUR, Tex. April 13.—| w.thout government supervision. In Hope for the rescue of 19 men of the| these hospitals there are 10,247 beds crew of the steamship Col. Bowie,| which are flimey and inflammable. | feported sunk yesterday, was prac} “We believe the money necemary tically abandoned today, for a continuing hospital building A radio, message to port authori-| program to continue at least three ties said it was impossible to send rescue ships, because no deck officers were saved to give the location of the ship when it sunk. The ship cleared Port bound for Tampico, April 5. Three men of the crew were saved. | the location and type of hospitals to | be constructed should be placed in the hands of a committee of eminent | | medical men working with the sur. | }geon general of the public health | service, and that thie committee! should be selected from the divisions | of general medicine, surgery, tuber- culosig and neuro-psychiatry, “"The adoption of such a policy Arthur, Finds Stolen Ring : on Her Doorstep! When Mrs. F. M. Sutcliffe an-| W0Uld permit of a aclentific plan be- | 7 ying i | ing worked out and would immedi. | : Swered the doorbell of her home, at! areiy insure that the needs be met as 2026 ‘Tenth ave. N, Wedneslay| they arise’ ; Morning, no one was there. But an 4 * RGES CONSOLIDATION ; envelope was lying at her feet. § OF AGENCIES Picked it up, pened it and found vithin t.c $909 diamond ring that had been stolen from the hous March 30. “Next, I told the president about | consolidating the burean of | way risk insurance, the public healtuaMevice | . ‘ he rehabilitation section’ of the! Mrs. Sctoliffs tala tt on the win-|2"4 ¢ dow sill that day, When phe re.| 0rd for vocational training. Said I: | membere} where rhe had put it and| "After unbiased study of the alt 0 peat gp Ad coedl | uation, we believe the conditions af- | se ee < |fecting the compensation, care, ‘Conscience is the only ez..tana " t ~ ct 2, | treatment and training of disabled Gon,” Detective Lieut, W. E, Justus a men can never be satisfactorily ac-| complished until these bureaus have years should be appropriated, and |” Movie Tonight at Met to Aid Orphan Kids If you want to see a bang-up good movie, and at the help an institution which in turn y helps thousands of jens children, go to the Met litan theatre tonight at 1:30. "a motion pleture produced the Coeur d’Ale ng ry, Idaho, will own at popular pr Mitche Lewis the every horn rop Fool's Gold. tn | | Harding Is Shocked by Treatment of Wounded Men; Promises Relief BY WHIT HADLEY NEW YORK, April 11.—"I am ¢o nk to cut the red tape which strangles our disabled Amert can soldiers, or I will shock the civ teed world with the scanda] that I will expose.” This is the assertion of rw | Galbraith, jr, national ¢ mander of the American Legiom I had asked him what the Legion would doin the immediate future «to remedy neglect of America’s war-wounded. SAYS HARDING GREATLY SHOCKED “In my recent four-hour confer ence with President Harding.” he continued, “I told him the exact sit uation, and he was greatly shocked He gave me his band, and he said, ‘Colonel, this is, indeed, dreadful. 1 will stand back of you to the very Umit’ (The president, tn hin meamage to congress yesterday, approved recom. mendations for combining all soldier to walk all the way irelief agencies under one director Keneral and the immediate extension at Broadway and Pike—I stop/and utilization of government hos rest. Unheralded and unsung. | pital facilities for relief of wounded 11 turns the corner. It's a one | veterana dinky; it's packed. The motor-/ 1 told President Harding that the opens the gate to let two off, | treatment of our wounded, helploas 20 others besides myself pile in} anq mentally affected soldiers had squeezed. At Madison the! now become a national stench, I are opened and seven more ¢M| promised him I would write him and . I'm choked. At James, we pick) state frankly what the situation was. 17 more. I'm exhausted. I have done so, here on, the car stops about) “we need $20,000,000 a year for y block to deposit its patrons. At| four years. get my first whiff of air. At) “we need 48.347 howpital beds, stick my head out of the win- “For this year $15,600,000 waa ap- A two-man No. 11 is following! propriated. We will prove that thi half block distant. Except for the stops, we're sailing joothly now. I get off at 10 feet behind. on. and stare Morence The pic hrilia, includ. nh, and an ab atre has been donated eda co to the Wash tren's Home society years of its exintence the noc has found homes for 3.800 children and has cared for 50,000. Page One, Column 3. Battle royal Sun and clouds. Our money on Old Bol Married. James R. Brewster, Be attle tobacconist. Denies moonshine charge. C. C Caswell, federal court. Chamber of Commerce oppones daylight saving plan at prosent om, Drama club starts. Auspicer community service. University club building. Savings bank burgiar breaks lose again. A. W. Gidden, 137 E. 67th st, is victim. Auto backfires. Crank breaks arm of George M. Francis, 1315 E. Terrace st. Adresses Rotary club Wednewiny reon. Frank i. Cooper, superinten- dent city sohcois. Two heavy-eet gunmen rob Jens Neilson, 1326 Sixth ave, of $57 at Sixth ave, and Spring st, ety To return from South America this fail. Prof. Chas, KE. Weaver, geology depanmeat, U. of W Purse snatchers victimize Mra. N. F. Long, 3221 34th ave. 8. as she gets off Renton car at Fourth ave. and Pine st. Formal reception and Tuesday night for the Rev. ey J. Hawkins, new pastor outh church, inner Chaun- Ply> Butler hotel Business men plan big international commercial Lima, Peru, July 28. Webber, 61, of 5736 Keystone pl, suffering from wrenched knee, Struck by James nt cable car at Second ave. and James Wednesday noon. Lun heon. fe exposition Mra. A. R » a W. B. Graff, accused of entering a building at 120 Prefontaine st., March 20, 1921, to steal, on trial on a charge of burglary in the second degree Feigning drunkenness, a thief broke the window of a store at N. S4th st. and Greenwood ave. then stole a .20-30 caliber shotgun from the display case, according to a re | port made to police Wednesday, Lured by the strong odor of al- cohol, dry squad officers found a large 20-gallon still in the basement of 821 Washington st. Tuesday afternoon. The basement had been occupied by a Japanese solely for dis- tilling purposes. Two hundred gal lons of mash were poured out and the still set 4 HURT IN MOONSHINE EXPLOSION Father in Hospital, Mother and Two Girls Hurled From Beds CHICA . April 13.—Exxplosion of & moonshine still wrecked a two. story building here today and broke many windows in the vicinity. Daniel Samuels, saloon. keeper, was in his basement when the still exploded. Firemen rescued him from the debris and he wan rushed to a pital His wife and two daugh ™ were thrownfout of bed by the ot blast, Federal Janitor Guilty of Theft Sam Owens, former negro janitor in the postoffice building, was found guilty by a jury in United States district court Wednesday on charges of theft from the government. Owens was arrested by secret serv. foe operatives under Capt. Thomas B. Foster, who found in Owen's possession revolvers, a U. 8 man shal's badge and other loot stolen from government offices. Owens was to be sentenced Wet neaday afternoon by Judge Neterer. |Reply From Panama Is Unsatisfactory WASHINGTON, April 13.—The re ply of Panama to the last Hughes’ note on the boundary question be tween that country and Costa Rica, was received at the state department today. Panama's anewer ts regarded by this government as “most unsat- infactory” It was learned, The note reiterates Panama's re a basis for settling the boundary controverry. This award was up held by Secretary of State Hughes. Wilhelm Sorrows Over Wife’s Death DOORN, April 12.—Former Kaiser Witheim, grief stricken at the ‘ath of the former empress, was unable to complete funeral arrangements today. Withetm inaieted on arranging the services himself but refused to net the hour. Clergymen and others arriving for the private funeral In Doorn chapel did not know whether it would be Thursday, as firet planned, or delayed until Sun day. Woman Frightened by PSil Tax Agent Flashing hie star, a poll tax cok lector frightened Mrs, A. Robinson, of 26th ave. W., 80 badly Wednesday afternoon that she phoned for the polices. Mra. Robinson said that she was not objecting to paying the tax, but that the collector evidently thought #0, a8 he started to show his creden- tlala, Police referred the whole affair to County Assessor Frank W. Hull, in charge of the tax collection, fural to accept the White award as) BABY MARRIAGE-THEN NURSERY-AGE DIVORC IT'S FUNNY IF YOU FEEL THAT WAY M. Ross, 16, Tells Why He’s in Jail; “Another Woman” in It BY FRED L BOALT PORTLAND, Ore, April 1 } Youth works fast nowadays. Mrs. Lacile Ross, 16, is suing |Homer L. Roms, 16, for divorce, al- |leging an affair with Mre. Thelma Ford, 17 Mr. Roes, who, I understand, ts a sophisticated man about town, is in the county jail, bis arrest having been caused by Mr. Ford, a middie aged gentleman of 19, who charges that the philandering Mr, Ross alien- ated hin wife's affections WHAT HE TOLD THELMA | FROM THE FIRST From his cell Mr. Roses tesuce to the press a formal statement, to the effect that “they have nothing on him." The statement concludes: “I told Thelma when we first met |I couldn't afford to get mixed up [with a married woman. We we: | nothing but friends, and if my wife had not been kicking up this fuss about the divorce L would not have been arrested.” It offends the dignity of Mr. Ross that he, who has seen so much life, must ‘be tried In the Juvenile court, and that the divorce cannot pro jeeed until a guardian ad litem can |be appointed over him, as he is not |of legal axe. CAME HOME AGAIN POPPED THE QUESTION Tam bound to say Mra. Ross does fot seem broken-hearted over the shipwreck of her marital adventure. She speaks emilingly, iodulgently, of ber husband's philanderings, One would be justified in suspect ing that these children first met at & naughty dance or a wicked movie show, for such thing» contribute to juvenile delinquency, we are. told. The fact is, they met at the Cal yary Baptist -chorch. They had known each other just three days when Mr. Ross asked Lucile, who i the foster-daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Wean, 562 W. Eighth st, to marry him. She did not at once surrender. Pursued by ennul, Mr. Ross went to California where, no doubt, he {found further philandering. Returning, he popped the ques. tion and was promptly accepted. 1S ALL THIS FUNNY? WELL, THAT DEPENDS Now all this may be funny or not, as you look at it. The amaz- ing thing, to my mind, fs that the girl's mother went with Mr. Ross and her daughter to the court- house for the marriage license! In my days boys of 16, if they were normal, were just boys. They could wash their hands and faces, but never could they find the soiled leorners behind the ears, It was |the “awkward age” when a boy was all arms and legs. He blushed easily and was ashamed to be seen with girls. It was about then his first love affair began—a tremendous delu- (Turn to page 5, column 4) sureease from boredom by} PENALTY FOR GIRL ATTACK! Civilian Nurse at Army Hos« pital May Die From Injuries TACOMA, April 13.—Death wil be the penalty Lawrence Bogart and Everett Emepyn, two Camp ~ | soldiers, will pay if they are |ea on the charge of assaulting ae | Eleanor Scheyer, a civilian nurse a the camp hospital, in Green park, adjoining the cantonment, Fibs se The two soldiers are held in d tary confinement at the army today. Assistant U. 8. District |torney Boyle announced this morte jing that he expects to file Pg 8. against them before the U. missioner tomorrow. Lives Wild Life She Writes “B. M. Bower” Is a Woman Pa a S. LAW IS DEATH He said the only penalty for crime under federal law is death. Two army intelligence officers an operative from the bureau of vestigation of the department of jum ~ tice are working on the case now The federal grand jury, which scheduled to meet here in June, investigate the charges. yer, accompanied John Clifford, a soldier, were ULD you think a woman could write stories about the old West, about cowboys, cattle and |chaparral better than a man could? Well, a woman does, That woman is Mra. Bertha M. Sinclair, known to | thousands of readers as B, M. Bower, during its stormiest days and soon ropes | Stas cosareiae to the United Btates | aiers’ the “The Gringoes” and “Star | been struggle. Close of the Desert” appeared. is a Mf over them at Then came a break between Bower |camp, but they” will be |who wrote that stirring romance of |and his wife, and a divorce was se-|to the county Jail on the fil |the West, “Cow Country,” which | cured, Later she married Bertrand | federal charges here, jruns serially in The Star beginning | William Sinclair, also an author, Who |DEATH PENALTY today. | Writes stories of the North. Among |jg Mrs, Bower has lived in the West |the best known of. his stories is | with the cowboys since ste was a|“Poor Man's Rock,” which appeared child. serially a few months ago in The She was born in Minnesota and | Str. received an elementary school edu.| Mrs. Sinclair has four children. cation there. She was the youngest | The oldest is 25 and the youngest packs. They appeared to a peace court-martial law and the of seven children. 14. Two are in Australia and two | WROTE FOR MAGAZINES are in Nevada at the Alpicacho AT AGE OF 14 mines, of which Mrs. Bower is the When she had reached the age of | WO 14 she was writing short stories and], It was at these mines last fall articles for the magazines, under the | at “Cow Country” was written. The story is based on facts, as are all of her stories, and was written in three months during her spare moments while she directed the work at the mines, Big Loan for Cuba ‘Planned in New York| Fetsr: 00.000, to tide Cuba over her tinan-| Winlock Boy Is Shot by Playm name of Bertha M. Muzzy, her maiden name. At the age of 18 she taught school in Minnesota, then went to Montana with her father and taught school in the foothills, about 40 miles from Great Falis, She married Bower at 19 and gave up teaching school, spending most of her time with literary work and on ranches. Six years er appeared “Chip of the Flying U,” a Western tale that immediately took the country by storm and established the fact that she could write the best Western stories on the market. At the ad- vice of her publishers, Mrs. Bower dropped the “Mrs.” and became B. M. Bower, who is known wher- ever the English language is read. 000.000, to tide Cuba over her finan- mated in New York today, The money will be devoted to mar-] WINLOCK, Wash. April 13. Large shipments of sugar will be|E. Veness, one or the North sent to the United States as security |most prominent lumber men, is in having lost some of their value be-/sult of being accidentally shot in <ause of conditions here, head by a playmate late r Here’s ro ; been CONSOLIDATED UNDER Modified Anti-Jap +o EXECUTIVE HEAD. : "‘An the matter now stands, a Measure in Nebraska | j.4;. pies for compensation under LINCOLN, Neb, April 13.—The| the war risk act of October 6, 1917 Nebraska senate yesterday adopted! “The bureau being centralized in BY B. M. BOWER @ substitute anti-Japanese land bill| Washington is unable to give the| (Copyright, 1921, by Little, Brown which will compel aliens owning land| man assistance in filling out his & Company) to sell it unless they become citizens | ¢laim, and this occasions endless cor CHAPTER I within five years. | respondence and red tape. Ignorant |An Ambitious Man Child Was Buddy | men and clever politicians defeat his| On @ hot afternoon when the dust cause generally cloud kicked up by 8,000 hoofs Real Estate | If he is examined by a doctor|formed the only blot on the hard | acting for the bureau, the doctor has} blue above the Staked Plains, an ox Investments in Seattle are the || no authority to determine the de-|stumbled and fell under his yoke, y surest paying investments of || gree of disability of the helpless suf-|4nd refused to scramble up when i any. ferer, and only a rating is given on|the negro driver shouted and prod. 1 A city of the size of Seattle |/a general average, according to a|ded him with a gad. in all history has been || fixed table, derived from the experi “Call your mast ara,” directed known to decrease in popula || ence had by the bureau, Despite his|a quiet woman-voice weary with ton sufferings and “needs, it usually|the h and two restless child e Every Indication points to the || takes three months to give him a|“Don't beat the poor brute. He é helief that ttle will in the || rating. There are now 91,000 cases|can't go any farther and carry the next few years double its popu- || on file, of which 10,000 are over nine | yoke.” lation. | months old Ezra stepped upon the wagon . The best thing on to]| “‘In the consolidation of these bu-|tongue where he might squint into} i own is a part of the reaus it is absolutely essential that|the dustcloud and decide which ; Look on Classified in || the bureau of war risk insurance be| horseman alongside the herd was The Star for the best bargains || decentralized and authorized to estab-| Robert Birnie, Across the river of in Real Estate and 4 ge. lish FOURTEEN REGIONAL OF-|grimy backs, a horse threw up its FICKS, and as many suboffices as|head with a peculiar motion, Tha t) may be necessary in order that the| was the colt, Rattler, chafing against Thea Paper With the || ore i oven suc veopcroniiy |the sow pede Bare enereee tes Circulation jand seek out and assist the manjsignal tnat called the nearest riders | where be may be in need; that these|to the wagon that held the boss’ (Turn to Last Page, Colump 3) | family. The Star’s New Serial ‘COW COUNTRY’, by B. M. Bowel Bob Birnie and another man came trotting back. A youngster peered over his mother's shoulder in the forward opening of the prairie schooner “Ooh, Duleiet! We gonna git a wile cow again!* Dulcie wag asleep and did not an swer, and the woman in the slat sun bonnet pushed back her eldest, “Stay in the wagon, Buddy. Mustn't get down amongst the oxen, Lie down and take a nap with sister.” He crawled back, and his mother forward to watch the ap- | leane :| proach of her husband and the cow- |boy. This was the second time in the past two days that an ox had fallen exhausted, With the food so poor and the water so searce, it seemed as tho the heavy wagon, loaded with a few household idols too dear to leave behind, a camp out- fit and the necessary clothing and | bedding for a woman and two chil dren, was going to be a real handi- ap on the drive. “Robert, if we had another wagon, I could drive it and make the load less for th four oxen,” she sug- | gested when her husband came up. “Can't make a wagon and an extra yoke of oxen out of this cactus patch, Lassie.” Bob Birnie grinned go0d-humoredly, He took the cup of water she drew from a keg and proffered—water was precious on the Staked Plains. Then, giving her hand a squeeze, he rode back to scan the herd for an an- ima} well-conditioned enough to sup- j plant the worn-out ox. “Aren't you thirsty, Frank Davis?” she called to the cowboy, who had dismounted to tighten his forward elneh, ‘The cowboy came forward, leading hig horse. His face was aglow with heat and his eyes showed gratitude. “How's the kids makin’ out, Mis’ Frank inquired, politely © asleep at last, thank she answered, glancing back, “Buddy has a hard time of it He's all man in his disposition, and |all baby in size, He's been teasing to walk.” Frank rode away. The fallen ox was unyoked by Ezra, and the raw recruit yoked in. Mrs, Birnie glanced again at the huddle of pink |in the nest of quilts behind # chest goodness, LR cial crisis, is expected to be consum- keting the sugar crop. geno Veness, 10-year-old son of for the loan, warehouse ‘certificates | Serious condition here today as @ re sight, but he knew that the brown cloud on his narrowed horizon was the dust over the herd. In the dis tanee he saw the “drag” moving laz- ily along after the dust-cloud, with barefooted negroes driving the cattle. EXmphatically Buddy was not lost. When he pounced at last upon the toad he disturbed a colony of red ants on moving day, The close ranks of them caught and held Bua attention, He tucked the toad ins.de his underwaist and ignored its wrig- gling while he squatted in the sun shine and watched the ants. The ants led him to a tiny hole. A rattlesnake buzzed warning and roused within him a fighting spirit. Rattlesnakes he knew as the com: mon enemy of men and cattle. He chose a rock as large as he could lift and heave from him, and threw it at the buzzing, « coil. He did not wait to see what hap- pened, but picked up another rock, @ terrific buzzing sounding from the coll. He threw another and another with all the force of his healthy lit- tle muscles. Fort a #yearold he aimed well; several of the rocks landed on the coil, The snake wriggied feebly under the rocks and tried to crat away. Buddy had another rock his hands and in his eyes the righteous conquest, He tl rock high as he could u it down on the battered head of rattler. After a few minutes it slack, the tail wriggling aimlessty, Then, sure the snake was dead, took jt by the tail and went to what the ants were doing, Buddy was fascinated, everything else, When some warned him that time was passi F: he stood up and saw that the F hung just above the of worts, Buddy looked for the dust cloud the herd, and was surprised to ft smaller than he had ever seen and farther away. He was not afraid, but he hungry and thought his would wonder where he was. knew that old Step-and.a-Half, lame cook, was stirring things in Dutch ovens over the camp fire, Buddy could almost smell the beang: (Turn to Page 9, Column 3) of drawers In the wagon. “Not s'eepy,” Buddy stated em- phatically, and crawled past sister And lifted a flap of the canvas cover. The last button popped off his pink apron. Buddy stopped long enough to pull the apron off and throw it beside sister before he crawled under the canvas flap and walked down the spokes of the rear wheel, He did not mean to get in the way of the wild cow, but he did want action for his |restless legs, So Buddy went away from the wagon and down into a shallow dry wash where the wild cow would not come, and played, The first. thing he saw was a scorpion, and he threw rocks at it until it scuttled under a ledge out of sight. The next thing he saw that Interested him was a horned toad; @ hawn-toe, he called it, after Ezra’s manner of speaking. He took after this hawn-toe, that crawled into various hiding places only to be routed out with a sharp stick, After a while Buddy, still in pur- jsult of the horned toad, emerged upon the level where the herd had passed. The wagon was nowhere in ft s a Fe Fe lost bi