The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 15, 1921, Page 1

Maximum, 52. ex Weather Tonight and fair; moderc Today noon, 51. Satu nda vs erly winds. Temperature Last Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, “VOLUME 23 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Ce Kress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 ¥ DMIT TACOMA MURDER PLOT On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise TH EW OE iil SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, APRIL ‘15, 1921, be CENTS IN SEATTLE. __ P (reeves. The Alibi Golfer. Blaming the Caddie. Prayer to Three Gods. The Cheerless 19th. ‘This le the twenty-eighth of » se- rice of articles In which members of The Star staff tell what disposes them most, and why. BY LOUISE RAYMOND the world that allbis are in vogue | all the year round it is on a golf the day and the hour there is always! fan alibi; that, to the performer, is the one real reason for his not being a Varden or a Ray. ‘There is the partner who would have made the 13 in bogey easily, IF he had only looked at the ball yhen he got in the woods, or a bunk fam or some other place that seems as well as am unnecessary evil 7 chub and because he fanned a couple ef shots it was absolutely not his fault. Or maybe just as one ts making a noble effort, after careful @eliberation, to sink a 12-foot put. “in loud and angry tones yell *FORE,” and bing—your ball rims the cup. ‘Then there ts the player who diaims he really doesn't care about ‘playing a professional game, but just gomes out a couple of times a week get exercise. However, if the fection when a shot goes wrong, one May hear various and sundry re Marks about the game. the ice a ball into the woods and insist for at least 15 min thru which neces iting for every shot from | worst, and before driving you jercury for speed and Ve then dub @ shot, howe ‘aati thoroly disgusted, some kind friend will invariably ask, “Well,| how did it go today?” and to your) reply, “Rotten,” he will be sure to eay, “Too bad; I made an $1," which is far from being conducive to one’s happiness, Be that as ft may, altho we cannot blame anyone for our bad playing, ft is no consola. tion to know that where relief could formerly be found at the 19th hole, the 18th amendment has taken all the joy out of even that, now. Japan Favors Joint Reply to U. S. Note TOKYO, April 15.—The Japanese foreign office favors a joint reply by Japan, France and England to the} American note on the Yap mandate, will not support the position of Japan, according to the newspaper Hochi. The paper said the foreign office takes the view that a complete com Munication system ts an important fruit of the war and therefore will Yonal administration of Yap. U. S. Will Confer on Mexico Affairs WASHINGTON, D. C., April 15.— American embassy in Mexico City, | Bas been ordered to Washington for | Consultation with Secretary of State Hughes and Under Secretary Fletch @F on the Mexican situation, it was| @nnounced at the state department | today, The conference with Summerlin “ill be the first important step in| , framing of a definite Mexican pol-| My by the Harding administration. | ’ risoner Escapes From Deputy Here Earl Doty, being brought here| from Auburn to serve ten days in 5 fail for vagraney, broke awny from Deputy Sheriff ¥. A. MeComber at the interurban station Thursday Right. Police have been asked to| help in apprehending him. HIN HERE TODAY Bob Birnie, with his wife and two chil- ‘of enttle, His father rem 13 he kills an him, Buddy 6, and war ae attack NOW GO ON with STORY (Continued From Yesterday) i (Our Pet KILL THERE IS ANY ONE place in} ours, Acconfing to the weather, | ; | three robbers « [Or there is the player who blames ¢ the caddie for giving him the wrong) THRU STREETS some dub on the next fairway will/ }in the ind happens to be tm the right di-/ entering the club house, tired | ourselves | Rot consider any plan for interna: | George T. Summerlin, charge of the! a For he outfit fails to find water. | y reach m stream at last, the pede, and 600 are trampled to or mire in the quicksand, One of to death, and mother CHICAGO IS YB Four Men Get $638,000;| Bank Robber Killed, 3 Are Captured CHICAGO, April 15—The once we in Chicago fornia. Guy’s drug store offers Wild West broke agnin today. A revolver by brought tle in the streets be tween Cicero State bank officials and robbers, which one bandit was ki ‘a policeman wounded and ured, BANDITS negotiable paper. A wild chase of bandits thru the | city streets by the rifle squad of the police department. of Pol in the protection of the city’s banks. The two messengers left the clear ing house offices at 9 a. m. to carry the checks to outlying banks, They | boarded an Mlinols Central suburban re is the partner who will ltrain at Van Buren st, planning to go first to the Woodlawn Trust com | pany. doing let two or| FOUR BANDITS | BOARD TRAIN ‘The four bandits, who apparently | had followed them from the clear after all is sald, and the 18th | ing house offices, boarded the train reached, and you have played| immediately after the messengers, * When the train reached 20th «t, all the three gods—Valean foF | tour of the bandits pulled revolvers, two covered the five passengers and |the other two covered the mesuen eer. ‘The mtchels containing the checks be done and only hope | Were snatched from the messengers’ | hands. ‘The conductor entered the car and the bandits ordered him to stop the) train immediately’ As the brakes were applied and the wheels of the train groung@ to a stop the bandits leaped from the train, jumped over & fence and hailed a passing taxi. One of the passengers attempted to follow the bandits, but he gave }up the chase when one of them emptied his revolver as he boarded the automobile, The messengers were Eugene Oldenwald, 18, and Edward Sunder macher, 18. Officials of the clearing house said that all checks were signed by the Chicago clearing house | © and could be cashed at any bank un- less officials had been informed of the robbery. Word of the holdup was broadcasted thruout the coun- try and warning issued to banks not | to cash the checks. but fears that England and France| | MONEY RECOVERED The money taken from the Cicero} CICERO BANK suburban bank was recovered. The five men drove up to the bank in an automobile about 9:30 a mjc, j tour bandits entered the bank, cov ered four employes with revolvers, swept all cash in sight into bags and! farted returning to the automobile. | 8. B. Witeska, cashier of the bank, proved his courage when he followed | patrons ia eating up profits of moon |the bandits and started a revolver | « battle before the robbers entered the | prietor In Tacoma }auto. The chauffeur, the machine, started the automobile | Monte: land fled, leaving his pa Witeska’s shots killed one bandit. | He held the other three off until re-| inforcements arrived from the town| Knights a hall police station near by, and the remaining robbers were captured. | mory gaturd y {One policeman was shot but not se| | rlously wounded in the fight, | Shipyard Worker Is Killed in Quarrel) OAKLAND, Cal, April 15.— Paul | of education, a shipyard worker, was shot and killed ipbullding Co.'s) Goldstone, of Alameda, said to be at the Bethlehem st plant here today lice, followed &@ quarrel between Gold stone and Capt, Dan Ferguson, chief ‘of the Bethlehem shipyard guards |made a swift little run across the | let ther eatch me, would you?” lidtehen and caught him on his lean, hard-muscled young shoulders. “You didn’t harm an Indian, did you, lad die “[ guess I killed him, all right, Mother, I had to. He took a shot at me first. It was the day we lost Rattler and the bronks Mother did not say anything for a minute, and Buddy hung bis head see the hurt look lower, dreading to which he felt was in her eyes “I have to pack a gun When I ride anywhere,” he reminded her defen vely. If Injuns take in after me, the gun's #0 1 can shoot. You—you \» “Buddy! Not you?” His mother! woulda’t want mo to just run and!1 just shot back. Ge 3. r not #0 worse. convalescing. Ms — o apta esident university Y men at university, takes office federal court elected president leaves Friday to hold court in Cal batt trade mart win and credentials from solicttorn, wets and drys today, The fight will ching of homes for liquor with- | Tacoma jude. Robbery of two messengers for sr a jude Chicago clearing house, in which four bandits escaped with $638,000 in clash were commenced today by the |drys, whose ranks were bombshell |by a new member from Maryla Representative John Phillip Hill Raltimore ina Roscoe Tor comely girl y to burglary, To be sen Livingstone, aay, Idabo Falla hit by severe snow uring & general drive on banks) von atter one of the mildest win- sity by the underworld, Chief © Fitemorria ordered all financial institutions § — carefully | guarded. Reserves were called out ters in ite history er every afternoon. tacked by Idaho Exhibitors at idaho Falls confer with Gov t of Oregon on Umatilla Rapids Power development. Women’s Commercial Club heard | Petrovitsky on ” Thursday night. Edward Sheeban named asstetant . State supervisor of industrial insuran Dr. Christen Quevil of Tacoma ex that tuber. may ruin his own business if he muc-|a kind o ceeds in legalizing beer and lght|know how I co j wines, He owns a drinking water |trials I have go company in Baltimore, culosia is communicable chemistry students gasned! Fact. Bottle of benzoyl chierste exploded. No fatalities. Former Chief of Police Irving T. Ward. © Found unconscious after auto col liiaion near Camp Lewis, ser, Tacoma, 100 gallons | artested for making it. Tacoma business men urged to help Todd shipyards get more contracts and help men on payroll Sues Mitsui & Co. Chicago Ol] Storage & Ware Federal court rush for jobs in to administer | Kennedy and William Matson are — junder arrest here today following | + iinier erat nae, tot, totrwing| Charges Favoritism ». | Of 21 cases of bon }to have Liquor “experts” on @ Portland dock Victoria, B. C., British Columbia liquor control act. | @ngineers of finance. B, B. Ansley, speaking to Ameri Association Engineers, brought to Portland from Vancouver, | Wash., by launch ay. To tell about ferry service. attorney for evue clubhouse, Friday | Bartels, 18, released in cus , after pleading guilty to taking motor vehicle without per-| known on the screen as * Dodds, former Seattle vate secretary Acquitted of manslaughter, A. B. ker in at once arrested In Tacoma, with driving automobile Mistaking dry law spies for honest wails jailed left sitting in| Supreme court sustains verdict of Centralia bloodshed tional | house tods Hook to dance university pep produc ability to take the rea y awards $50,000 M | rinding Brady not guilty. by his brother, on honorary fraterngies.|U, Commercial Club | aark overcoat,’ message that re Prot. Fred © | Iskum club on| University Y George Horal, |has adopted resolutions indorsing| they discovered a the plan of the sch school architect for the proposed new Roosev ing as “false and misleading propa-| plained to the policemen. “T picked S. comptroller | gan | tion. former president of | |defunct Fire, National bank of Fair The shooting, according to the po-| field, false report to | anybody else.” | sighing over the need. Next moment art beatir hat ndy and sweet and|#he was all mother, “Buddy, never, | pushed him toward the door, She never ride anywhere without your|had an idea of her own, Up the |rifle! And a res Mother wasn't a the dreadful neces | will need you, and he'll take care of | large nich: you're so young—just mother’s baby | you h twinkling “But I'm_father's horse-wrangler,|you and father and the boys, I aup-| He hoisted his saddle on the handl nd loped off to drive | to kill any. | The |pone, if th tat was|out. And you must promise m a to find father and tell him. You} Father would, or| may ps well be packing upi wad don't | the foothills, and that the saddle much as knew there! w BATTLE ON MADGE IS ‘PROHIBITION’ INDUCED TO “AS STARTED! | Representative Hill, of Bal-/Woman Accused of Shoot- matt! timore, Introduces Bill to ing Her Husband Joins Repeal Volstead Act Dr. Matthews’ Church BY CLARENCE DUBOSE WASHINGTON, April 15.—The Madge Anna Sawyer, who goes to trial the second time May 9 for the to bring back beer and light alleged murder of her husband, said will be fought to a finish in today she had joined the First Pres. on " dee! caper chur at the earnest serchara tpdotaecass seams dyeing on of its pastor, Dr. Mark A. Matthews. “At first I declined,” Mra. Sawyer me to a head in the h use An BOON an the tariff and taxation program /eaid “1 told Dr, Matthews I was can be cleared aside. afraid the public would call me Preliminary preparationa for the | hypocrite [times about it. He told me it did God understood and that was all that mattered. So last Sunday I joined |the church. who unexpec tonned repeal the Vi Representative Volstead t iclary committee that will re-jattending services when I married inco- ing to nd didn't like my @ 1! be made | Presbyterian churches, every effort w In came to me. He has been nd faithful friend. 1 don't id have stood the ¢ thru without his fatherly advice. He induced me to “I want to repeal the Volstead law |come to services and has assisted me identally the new congressman | Matthew | prine ipally because it ts an utterty | in other ways | un-American principle of govern “It waa thru bim that Walter Pub | | ment.” he sald. ton, the attorney, connented to be HIIl's Dill proposed that each #tate| my counsel in my coming trial” shall enforce or repudiate prohibl Mra. Sawyer has nearly recovered tion as it pleases, from the effects of her recent oper- HIN said: “The 18th amendment jation for appendicitis—performed the | provides for either state or federal | gay she was to have faced the fury | enforcement. I believe in real law the mecond time enforcement, net farcical heavy expenses. will aequit me this time, My head times I feared I was going mad. And ky Captured then, too, {¢ makes @ difference who PORTLAND, Ore., April 15—J, C. |i your wre.” ded whisky. alleged sen xtored by the two men Shown in City Bids Of $75 for the embossing and engrav- The whisky was nald to have been minutes later b; TAKE FAITH “He talked to me a great many! not matter what the public said, that | | “Thad been baptiad In the Preaby: | | HIN's chaflenge, He ts chairman of | terian church before, but had stopped |the Ju port on the repeal bill. He made it| Howard Sawyer. He waa an BE) clear that while hearings will be full | palian and fal } by him to throttle the “booze bill”| “After I got into this trouble, Dr, evaddon,| Tho she is not entirely well, she! which breeds contempt for all taw. [has undertaken to nell stocks as & Therefore, I advocate repeal of the | means of livelit Volstend law in order that the sev. i ee eral states may deal with their own! «1 fool,” she Prohibition question.” nl raid, “that the jury | | Two Men Arrested; Whi has cleared—1 was so confused dur | ing the first trial that there were! tire DRY LAW URGES CONGRESSMAN ‘Page One, Film Entrants on Screen * # % Appear in Playlets we Florence Lutue StarUniversal movie girl contest- ants produced two pictures yester- jaay—a teatable drama and a do- mestic comedy. And today bale Harold J. Binney looked like t It was after midnight this morn- ing when Director Binney called “Cut! to his cameraman for the lant time, and the first set of test filma in $1,000 contest was con. ctuded. FIRST SCENE LAID IN Jobh H. Neathy made a secret bid | PINE ST, SHOW WINDOW The first scenes for the drama | ing business of the water and UEht| were take: » | in in the Pine st. show department, and was called on a few | windows of the Standard Furniture y & representative of | company's store at noon. Bystand a r the Lowman & Hanford Co,, compet “ 2. ” pe Elmo Lincoln’ Sued | itive bidders, who informed him he! jers blockaded the sidewalk, looking in, and packed the interior of the in Divorce Court couldn't figure straight, according to|1i¢ gtore intent on seeing how it }an accusation by Mayor Caldwell LOS ANGEL 1 of public works tive to the Linkenhelt, giant film actor,/ matter, Caldwell charged favoritiam je ford, Linkenhelt was accused of indis Just because his hat blew off, J G. Boyd lost $140. Royd was “drinking @ little bit,” he told police officers when he came out of the Yakima hotel, Maynard PORTLAND, April —15.—Joseph | blew off Brady, former actor, charged with| Four men volunteered to supply being the “talkative burglar’ who| Boyd with a new hat. They took featured in a recent string of sensa-| him up to @ hotel room. Here they , left the court. | relieved him of $140. man, On top of this some unsympathetic Firady's attorney charged the Port-| copper arrested Boyd for being land police department with attempt. | drunk, ing to “frame” him to cover their in. | criminal into) You Never Can Tell What’s in Ash Can “Unknown man discarding brown checkered coat and putting on a ed * police headquarters Friday morning. oO. K. 8 High School “ When py mot cle policemen The University Commercial Club] reached the scene of the murder, pitalistic Jjunk- rd and the} man with a shiny new Ford putting fur-collared black overcoat, ter than my own,” he ex- t high school, and condemn- atin an ash a issued adverse to its construc-| up this fine new ove: |e ave my guitar for them to smash, “1 know—I know,” she conceded, | will you, mother?" | His mother laughed then and too. You're} creek, in the bank behind a clump “But father |of willows, was a small cave—or a one might call it—where and Colorou would not let you! many household treasures might be hurt if he knew. But—Buddy—! saf: hidden, if one went carefully, ile little!” she w |never let them catch you off your|wading in the creek to hide the | guard, 1 shall be in Laramie before | tracks, Indians really do break | est fresh horse "lin the remu¢ “JIL promise, mother, I'm going | his father v save his cattle that re feeling certain that nuld move swiftly to need back in ES, Cal, April 15—) Friday morning, Lowman & Han.! Judge Walton Wood today had un-! ford had bid $107.85, the mayor de-| | der consideration the divorce suit of | clared in hig communication to the Mra. Sadie Linkenhelt against Otto Imo Lin-| was being shown Lowman & Han-| was done The drama was finished at the Pacific International Filmr-Mnter- prises studio atglith ave. and E. Pine st. where the comedy was produced in the evening. Today the first test films were |put thru thé developing and fixing Joretions with another woman. Be . baths, dried, and made ready with we ens, Teehnlestines, toe previews| Wind Blows Off His | cause attempts by Mrs. Linkenhelt to Hat; Costs Him $140 bring a divorce action were dis | missed. Brady Is Freed of Portland Charge) ive. ‘ina Dearborn st, and his hat! titles, captions and other “readers,” into a complete ree! ready for show ing at the Clemmer theatre Sunday fovie Mad” is the title of the comedy. It portrays a stormy scene that follows the discovery by the husband that the wife is contemplating a screen career, PREPARE SECOND WEEK'S | TESTS AND TRYOUTS With the first test films made, |the contest conductor has turned to preparations for the #econd |week'’s tests and tryouts, None of the girls used in the first week's tests will be called for the second week's. The first girl pickea for the rec: ond week's test was Florence Tut- tle, a Broadway high school girl. The names of other later entries ~—girls who submitted photographs and joined the contest after 2 o'clock last Monday afternoon—will be announced in The Star as they are wanted for next week's tests, with directions as to when 4nd where to appear, Judges of the contest were con sidering today the date for closing the contest. The contest will re- ‘main open approxtmately four weeks, The exact date of closing will be announeed by the judges Saturday, Ww fifth jadge of the. contest. The other judges are Miss Nellie Cor- nish of the Cornish School; Alonzo Victor Lewis, sculptor; George Bourke, of the Universal, and Miss Daisy Henry of The Star. SUNDAY TESTS IF GIRLS CAN'T COME WEEK DAYS Many girls who otherwise would | movin, they cannot leave their employment Cilma, That these girls may have an equal chance to win thee $1,000 con- tract with the Universal Film Co, and go to California for 10 weeks to play in pictures, The Star Bas ranged with the Universal Co. to “shoot” Sunday test films. The first Sunday test films wil be made April 23. Girls who cannot appear In week day tests, but who wish to be placed in Sunday tryouts, should write the word “Sunday” on a@ cor. ner of the entry coupon that ac- companies the photograph they send the contest conductor. CONDITIONS OF THE CONTEST 1—The contest ts open to girls of any age living in King county whe have had no previous stage, screen, cabaret or other t Star, Uni- versal and Clemmer theatre employes are | barred. 2—Girls under 1¢ woo enter the contest must have the written consent of parent [or guardian 3—Contestants must firet eubmit « photograph of themselves for the use of judges in selecting those to appear tn the teat films, 4—From those who appear in the test films the judges will choose the winner, She must accept a 10 weeks’ contract with the Universal Film Co, at Holly- wood, Cal 6—Tho winner will be paid $1,000 and traveling expenses to Loe Ange return, Payment will be rate of & week during the 10 weeks’ engagement. 6—Thp winner will appear tn a Untves sat prodiction. If she “makes good” in this film she will be offered a permanent position with Universal, 7—The Star cannot guarantee the re- turn of any picture submitted in the con- tent, It ts advisable to have @ copy made If the photograph ts valued, (Entry Coupon on Page 21) horses would be wanted at a, mo- ment’s notice, He would corral the remuda first, and then drive in the other horses, that fed scattered in undisturbed possession of a favorite gressy creek bottom. Buddy whooped them All down the ek below the home ranch and let them go just as his father came rid- ing up to the corral, re warduneing, father,” Buddy shouted eagerly. “I dro the horses down, so they'd be handy Them range horses are pretty wild. was two I ldn’t get. “Colorou is going to break out. They've got their war paint all on and they're dancing, I saw them % ve all| Here’s The Star’s New Serial Story: COW COUNTRY, by B. M. Bower my: > I was going after the gloves Colorou's squaw was making for me but I didn’t get ’em, I laid in the brush and watched 'em dance.” He stopped and looked again doubtfully at his father. “You're sure about the paint?” I'm sure.” a, We'll be leav- ing for Big Creck tonight, so run away now and rest yourself.” | “Oh, and can I go?" Ruddy’s votce |was shrill with eagerness, need you, lad, to look after the |horses, It will give me one more hand with the cattle, Now go tell | SOLDIERS Army Nurse, Brutally At. tacked by Germans, In- and Lawardus G. Bogart, Camp | Lewis soldiers, were to be arraigned before United States Commissioner Hammond late today on a charge of criminally assaulting Miss Eleanor Scheyer, civilian nurse, at the army post hospital Monday night. ne Albee, of the McBride stu- dios,) way today announced as the have entered The Star-Universal | picture contest have not jdone so, it is understood, because on week days to appear in test houses Also were wiped out. Six Skeletons of THE DALLES, Ore, April Six skeletons, believed to be those of white men, were unearthed by @m cavation crews working on the Cob umbia river highway, near the Des chutes river, according to word, reaching here today. The skeletons are thought to Be — those of soldiers who lost their lives in combat with Indians during the early wars of the Oregon country, because of the army accourements unearthed in the same area. Ries « Examination in each instanes 4 |Showed the skulls to be crushed, |Some had in addition been bored by bullets, Peter Jay Is Named WASHINGTON, April 15.—Peter Jay, of Rhode Island, has been select ed for minister to Rumania, it was learned today. week on the trail, and to have sup per early.” cook's cabin where Step-and.a-Halt sat leisurely gouging the worst blem- ishes out of soft, old potatoes. He sang dolefully a most optimistic dite ty of the West; Bo “O give me a home where the buffalo | Where the deer and the anetlope Where never is heard a discouraging Stepanda-Halg to make ready for al PLANNED TO SLAY VICTIM! stantly Identifies Them TACOMA, April 15.—Evert Impym Both men have made complete com fessions, military authorities say. | They planned to kill the girl after the attack on her, they told the army | officers. Taken to the scene of the crime they explained all the detaila, | Officers said they had never heard so revolting a story. The accused men were taken be fore Miss Scheyer, who ts in the pital, but is expected to recover the brutal treatment she suffered. She instantly identified them, Major Jason M. Walling tmmedb ately went before Com Hammond and swore to a comp The men are expected to be over without bail to the . grand jury which convenes June 1 Tho their confession is said to L-3.. the hands of the federal autho One Life Lost in Ambassador SANTA BARBARA, Cal, April —At least one life was lost in fire which Wednesday afternoon d stroyed the fourstory wooden Ai bassador hotel. ‘The charred bones of a human ing were found in the ruins late terday. They are believed to those of & man who was seen ning into the blazing hotel He Gil not reappear, firemen said, $300,000 Fire Hits Aloha Lumber P ABERDEEN, April 15. hundred thousand dollars is the ber Co.’s plant at Aloha, Wash, stroyed by fire yesterday. Six kilns, ge ae shingle mill, drying and sheds, barns, blacksmith shop, chine shop, office, store, 13,000, feet of lumber and about shingles were destroyed, The plant's engine and a Soldiers F Envoy to Rumania Buddy walked stiffly away to the roam, i play, word And the sky is not cloudy all day.” “You're going to hear a di: (Turn to Page 9, Column 2)