The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 18, 1921, Page 1

* Ew Weather Tonight and Tuesday, fair; moderate southwest- erly winds, Temperature Last 34 Hours Maximum, 63. Minimum, 46. Today noon, 49, On the I Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 18 sue of Americanism There Can Be No Comprom The Seattle Star at the Postoffice at Seattte, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 AMERICAN “DREYFUS CASE” — IN THE CRONKHITE MYSTERY? TH LATE EDITION VOLUME 2 <=> Getting Up at 5:15. Why the Furry? Those Early Editions. It’s a Gay Life. ‘This te the thirticth of a series Ct mest, and % BY RUTH E. MOULTON M* CHOICE F Jetting up week at $435 mornings—week after year after year, TR admit it ty not quite so peevin: at this season of the yeer—after one is up—for it is daylight, and Lake eerie st neces | MANDATES | pever more beautiful than at sunrise | And Mt. Rainler—no wonder the Indians worshiped it. But tn the { winter—starting out in the dark and the rain—often a 40-mile wind— #0 as to be at the office at 7—and for American View in Island of Yap Controversy Is Blunt- ly Rejected by Nippon whet? ‘To help get out a paper at 9 o'clock BY A. L. BRADFORD WASHINGTON, April 18 that wouki be far more interesting ati Why the hurry to announce “An-| other Bootiegger Excapes.” or “Big | Mail Robbery in the East"? Yet over} half a bundred unfortunates must miss their morning sleep on account Japan's of it. There's another edition at 10./ rm determination not to surrender . Lett \e " oo Let the readers walt for) 1, istand of Yap is stated emphati-| Then, too, being neither a Napoleon | “Ally in a series of five notes between nor an Edison, I should have eight; the United States and Japan, made hours’ sleep. You can figure for) public today by the state department. | Five Notes in Japan Dispute Are Published WASHINGTON, April 18—The state department today made public correspondence between the United States and Japan rela tive to the latter's mandate over the istand of Yap. The correspondence consisted of five notes, totaling 20 type written pages, ax follows November 9, 1920—Secretary of State Colby sent a note to Ja pan, setting forth the American government's contention that Yap should be internationatized as a cable landing station, He declared that on four occasions in 191%—-April 21, April 30, May 1 and May 6—President Wilson and Secretary of State Lansing served notice to the supreme council that the island should not be Included in the Pacific territory to be awarded to Japan as a man ‘SI JAPS HURL DEFI TO U.S. | AUTO TIPS; 1 KILLED, 5 BADLY HURT Turns Completé Somersault | on Highway; Injured | Will Recover One man whs killed and five other Passengers were injured when an au tomobile turned turtle Sunday even ing, on the North Trunk highway, | about five miles from Edmonds, The | car was coming toward Seattle, and jthe accident occurred om @ straight | piece of road. Lawrence Murphy, 71, grocer, 5919 ATTLE, WASH, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1921, yourselves what nice long evenings 1 are left for concerts, lectures and the Ike. ‘The correspondence covering 4 | datory. Latona ave, died as he was being period of nearly six months, lays bare November 19—Japan denied || ushed to the hospital. Oh, yes: {t's a gny life. If Tam al- for the first time the whole secret ne |] the American claims and declared ‘The injured are: lowed to choose, during my next stay | gotiations over the Island of Yap. upon the earth I'm going to be a| which has created one of the most/ banker—or perhaps not work at all. serious international issues ot the But for the present—the this pro- | day. test may bring no change in office AMERICAN PROTEST I shall continue (quoting from | 1S DEFIED le by Dr. BE. J, Brown) “to go| The correspondence today reveals ‘work to get the money to get the/for the first time that not only has food to get the strength to go to| Japan defied the American protest | it would not consent to “revers- ing the decision of the supreme council,” alleged te have been December 6--Acting Secretary of State Davis set ap arguments to sustain the American position. February 26, 1921—The Japa hese government, in a tone bor- dering on sarcasm, answered Lewin Hurwits, driver ef the car, 1330 Righth ave, Mra, Lawrence Murphy, 6919 La swtermad ii - tona broken Miss Anna Hurwits, 205 19th ave. body bruises, cute and shock, Miss Sytvia Berman, 305 19th ave. Mins Genevieve Hurwitz, 305 19th bruises and shock. All of the injured will recover, hgew- work,” etc., ete., etc. [ againet the mandate over Yap, but) INNGUNMAN SAYS ‘GUILTY Man Wounded | by Intended Victim Admits Charge Tacoma when he commanded the lat ter to hold up his hands at the Mo-| tor Inn early in the morning of Jan. 26, pleaded guilty to attempted Tobbery before Judge Walter M.| French Monday morning. tinued his plea of not guilty and allowed the case to proceed. Sen tence was deferred pending the out come of the brother's trial. Roy A. Miller, said to have been implicated in the attempted robbery, who was recently caught when hi whereabouts had been determined after a letter to bis sweetheart in England had been intercepted, has not yet been brought to trial. Lighter Colors in Painting Are Urged Attention, spades, paint brushes and brooms! Mobilization for duty this week has been ordered by the mayor of this city and countersigned by the Cham- ber of Commerce. Fvery available clean-up imple: ment in the city has been directed to find its way into human hands to be known by Home and City Saturday Beautiful.” Paints of lighter color than those formerly used are advised to affiliate with the brushes. ngineer Will Speak to Municipal League Carl E, Magnusson, recently pointed dean of the University Washington engineering school, will address the Municipal league Tues day noon, at Blanes on the sub. fete of “Trunk Transmission Lines and Water Power Development in the Puget Sound District.” ‘A special Invitation iy extended to the engineering profession to attend the meeting, which is also to the gen eral public. Thru Light Well He Lightly Lifts $50 Andy Swanson, of the Old Home soft drink parlor, reported to the po lice Monday that a light-fingered gentleman had entered. the establish ment thru light well and light lifted $50 in coin of the realm, Auto Truck Smash Victim Improves FA Wass, injured when truck in which he was riding crashed into a telephone pole Friday night, was reported slightly improved » the city hospital Mon¢ He is be Heved to have sustained internal in juries, ot see 1 auto , * gle ge eek oe wan | with the contention of the Japanese questions in the American gov- ernment’s arguments, and reiter. ated ite stand that it would not agree to revocation of mandate, April 6—Seeretary of State Hughes informed Japan that the United States must have a voice in dispomai of the former German colonies, Page One, ‘Column 3. Plisters. Canoeing yesterday. Mur-r-r-ky overhead today That frisky feelin'—steam roller skids, For sale: 800,000 Ibs. oysters; state fisheries board. | ¥. W. GC. A. finds homes for 261 | girls last month. Makes the life lees hard. Drill pay for 146th F. A. received. Housewarming for new $325,000 jam plant, Puyallup, this week. that It also rejected summarily a pro- posal by the United States that “even if Yap should be assigned under man date to Japan all other powers should ve free and unhampered access to) the island for the landing and opera- tion of cables.” * ‘The last Japanese note to the Unit- ed States in the correspondence ts dated last February 26, and is re- garded as of an almost sarcastic tone. The last note of the series, the Hughes Mandate note, handed to the Japanese foreign office on April 5, is similar to that to Great Britain, which was made public except for [the opening paragraph. This para- ph follows: “The government of the United States finds itself unable to agree Dital authorities declared Monday. Lewip Hurwitz was conscious Mon- day. He in at the Lakeside hospital, where it was said his skull was not fractured was first reported. At the Virginia Mason hospital it wag indicated that the injured wom- nh would probably be sent home this evening. They were severely bruised and cut, but are out of danger. The only member of the party who esacaped unhurt was Mra, Ted Smith, of Honolulu, daughter of Mra, Mur- phy, who was shot from the machine but was hardly bruised. The Misses Hurwits are nieces of Lewis Hurwitz, Witnesses of the accident declared that the car xigzagmed at the bottom of a hill and turned over, end for end. It in believed that the car skidded | when the emergency brdke was! locked suddenly rf government that in order to maintain | the position of the government of the | United States with respect to the Woman Autoist Is Killed by Train After stopping her automobile while a Great Northern train went by at Thomas, four miles north of . | Island of Yap. it is necessary for thin | government ‘to prove not merely the fact that the particular line of views” was stated at the meetings of the su preme council (referring to the reser- | vations made by President Wilson at | the peace conference against the/ . award to Japan). But also the au-| Y. M. C. A. Sunday club closed for| Kent, Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Sarah preme council ‘decided in favor of | Season with program Sunday after-| Lewin, 42, proprietress of the St noon. Elmo Hotel at Auburn, drove 4i- those views.’ If it is meant that the | United States could be bound without r etly In front of a Northern Pa Leathernecks get new chief. Maj.| its consent by the action of the #u-|J. C. Regan, in charge marine re-|cific flyer on another track and |preme council, the contention 1s cruiting. received injuries of which she died) ' deemed by this government to be in-/| half an hour later, Amos Hiatt elected president bust 1 She was alone when the accident | Her automobile was de Death occurred shortly been rushed to the| | admissible and, on the other hand the | United States has never assented to the mandate purporting to embrace | ness administration students. council, by happened. molished. Miss Adella M.latter she had To tour Japan; |the Island of Yap.” | Parker, professor economics, Broad | NOTES nae a. | way high bag yay ra nee te cana | ALLIED POWERS | G. A. RL wants action on Sand Her hotel has | She had no children been used as headquarters by rail-| road men. ‘The American notes in the batch of correspondence made public today are understood to have been sent not} only to Japan but all the other prin- | Point air base site. to congress. Municipal league to hear Carl FE. Magnusson, dean engineering, U. of Sends resolution eee | cipal allied powers. | W., Tuesday. Two Arrested s ‘The first note was one from Secre-| straw hats in evidence Sunday *. tary of State Colby, dated November | put better keep the old umbrella Reckless Drivers 9, in which it was pointed out that | parked handy When Sheriff Matt Starwich took the question of the disposition of Yap| No breakfast for someone. Po|the road home to Auburn Saturday | |by the supreme council had come up| tice find gas stove at Fifth ave.|night he noticed what he claims in the communications conference | and Denny way. were two cases of reckless driving here. Colby sald it was the under-| Chief W. H. Searing recommends|in which an accident was narrowly standing of this government that Yap) police matrons be on job in all] averted. He promptly arrested was not included in the award of May | public dance halls. Theo Hedlund and H. B. Grung, 7, 1919, by the supreme council of the Ninety bottles of Scotch In West| charging the former with reckless former Germ islands north of th) geattie cotta B. Larson and N./ driving and the latter with ex- equator to J and that the ques-| Anderson arrested. cessive speeding. Each gave ball tion of Yap was reserved until a ft-|° gmash! Ban Fizz! Street car) of $25 Monday morning. ture date so that an agreement could | nits chemical truck Monday at Sec | be reached for Its internationalization | ong ave, and Lenora st. tn a cable station. |""attention, om Angetest Pians|97 Dead; 150 Hurt JAPAN 18 “UNABLE” under way for $1,000,000 worth of . 10 CONSENT new buildings in Seattle in Storm Area The Japanese reply, dated Novem-| Prof, Clarke Bissett, U. of W., to| MEMPHIS, Tenn. April 18.— ber 18, stated that the “Japanese | address Custer camp, Sons of Veter.| Ninety-seven deaths and 150 injuries government would not be able tolans, armory, Tuesday night. was the total toll, compiled today, lconsent to any proposition which,| Outside competition for fishermen;|of the storms Friday and Sunday jre ng the decision of the su-| Pacific Northwest association has|in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, preme council, would exclude the! queries from Eastern states and Eng-|Atkansas and Texas. island of Yap from the territory | land. bani (ola committed to their charge.” | Dr. Russell F. Thrapp, pastor Firat] TEXARKANA, Ack. April 18.— The next note is a long account| Christian church, says Edison can| Relief work in the Texas-Arkansas | lot that American position sent by|never invent machine to talk with | tornado area was well under way to | Acting Secretary of State Norman | dead |day, with the Red Crows and Ameri iy on December 6. ‘This ‘said| Address on “Gen. U. 8. Grant” by|can Legionnaires taking a leading “there would appear to be no dif-| J, W. Stauffer; Young Men's Repub: | part | Iterence of opinion with regard to|lican club, Thursday noon, Wolf's| Weeks will be necessary to com ithe reservations made by the presi-| cafeteria. pletely clear the debris in some areas, dent and Mr. Lansing with respect] Repairs at Third and Pike complet: |inclufing Hempstead county, Arkan to the Island of Yap during the var-| ed, Madrona, Mt er, 23rd ave, E. gas, where nearly two score whites fous discussions of the supreme| Madison and EB. Cherry cars resume |and negroes were reported dead and council and the council of foreign | old routing. other scores injured. Much work also | ministers at the peace conference.”| Wellesley grads plan ovation for|remains to be done in Miller county, \" the note cites four separate|Zella Russell, who plays in ‘“The| where 18 are dead and scores injured. | dates April 21, 1919; April 30, 1919;| Sweetheart Shop” at the Metropoli Burial of the dead was practically (Turn to Page 7, Columa 5) tan Tucsday evening. completed today, Eg i TWO CENTS I N SEATTLE New Test Film in Star Contest Tuesday Entrants to Assemble at Crystal Pool CANDIGATES FOR STARGOM Keggue Muared kiumer, 4222 Dayton ave one of the beauties to appear in this week's test films. * * & BY HAL ARMSTRONG My landlady broke it to me gently when she came from church to collect the rent—she is going to enter her daughter in The Star-Universal moving picture contest. And—I can see tt looming—tf daughter doesn’t win $1,000 contract to go to Universal City end play 10 weeks in super-pictures, up goes my rent! No line of reasdnip. sent, nothing would have sothing to say In “There are," I assured her, “five judges, some of whom I don't even have a speaking acquaintance with, who will decide the winner. I am only the con- LANDLADY HANDS HIM A BENIGN SMILE “Yes, of course. You run the contest.” benignly, meaningly, and added: “My daughter is really a wonderful girl; all out friends and neighbors think #0. She looks like Theda Bara and acts as as Mary Pickford. Some ways she reminds’ me of Katherine MacDonald. She has & profile that takes something grand in snapshots. I thought you could work up her front view with erayons so it will do for closeup photographs, but you won't need to touch the profile. You can have her posed in the side view scenes es much as possible,” I suspect daughter has a large mole on one cheek. I pray the contest judges will be kind to me. I can't afford more rent. There are certain joys in being the conductor. As I sit punching my balky Underwood a hundred fasci- nating eyes peep out at me’ from a stack of photo- graphs, a hundred rosebud mouths smile up and tan- talize me. TOMORROW'S FILMING AT THE CRYSTAL POOL Tomorrow I shall go to the Crystal Pool and regale myself with beauty. Forty-two girls have been chosen to report there for the second week's test films. They are to be at the pool at 1 p. m. tomorrow, Tuesday; or, if it rains, they are to come at 1 o'clock Wednes- day. Their names are: Ruth Listman, 3064 64th a’ Henrietta 2 Florence Tuttle, 1 4 Jeasie Fox, 2045 Fairmont. Beatrice Blinn. Cleo Carr, 117 22nd ave. Loulse Lough, 207 N. 60th Mildred Filmer, 6222 Dayton. Badie MeMiI Martha Gill, Isabell Ani % 4 Margaret , 3810 Morgan, Claudia Rogers, 294 Aurora Buckner, She smiled hy, 10427 aret Wales, 615 Qu Rollins, 2337 Mi een Anne. a y, 6611 y Vennigerhots, 1527 88th. 5801 Fauptieroy ave, 36th Boren, ny Summit. Leone Rose Loin Thompson, Elsie Hilebard, M. ©, Short, 1062 Mable Scott, 1 Dorthalia Par Koystone. Louise Pettijohn, 24 B. 65th. Hisie Marum, 1521 Seventh ave. 141 4116 Midvale. 0 86th. 9 66 “Cut>outs” from last week's test films (top to ‘bottom, left to right): Clemmer theatre usher displaying contest announcement. Helene Carol Sturgeon and Ruth Franklin in Volunteer park. Edith Lee. Emily Martin choking “his wife” after the maid, Pearl Harrison, has announced that her mistress is thinking of going into the movies. Estelle Ringwood. Miss Ringwood, Inez Dotson and Honore Marie Bailey strolling thru park. Allies to Plan Force Against Germany LONDON, April 18.—The allies probably will meet this month to plan means of forcing Germany to observe the peace terms, Premier Lioyd George informed commons to day ‘The premier said the place of| meeting has not been chosen. Too Much of a Good Beth Langle: Freda Hulen. Alice MoRae, , 2328 Woodlawn. ¥, College st. ph 8. And, judging from their photographs, they are beau ties, every one. They will report at the Pool, at 2021 Second ave., at 1 tomorrow if it doesn’t rain, and at the same hour Wednesday if it rains on Tuesday, for their first appearance before the cameras. Seu. They must all bring bathing suits that have them. Others will be fur- ing ™ ag vO a pagan (ey scape ABOUT 15 OF THE WASHINGTON, April 18.—The |42 TO BE CHOSEN house today a@opted the resolution! ‘The contest judges will be there | by Representative Kahn, California, | toveotect about 15 girls out of the | providing for an investigation of the ‘4 ” Ab. * 1 the | Grover Cleveland Bergdoll attair, In- | 42 for “bathing shots.” All of the 1 repared rk until cluding Bergdoll’s escape, The com. |¢2 SCvMl Be Prepared to work unti Mitteo also was instructed to take ac. Shout # P. m. if necessary. tion to bring Bergdoll back from Ger, The public may watch the filming many, of pictures out-of-doors, but only the judges, cameramen and director will be permitted to accompany the beau F > Tom Has Hash; His _ | ties ana tne contest conductor inside Thing; He’s Jugged Frying Pan's G the pool. Three gallons of grapo and 16) rying Fan's Gone) tundreds of contestants, relatives Attorney Tom Page, Lyon build and friends went to the Clemmer ing, had hash for dinner Sunday | theatre Sunday to see the first test Somebody stole his wife's "new alu-| pictures on the screen. These were minum frying pan out of his automo- | taken in front of The Star office, in bile Saturday night (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) quarts of whisky looked like an in-| fringement of the prohibition law to Sergt. W. B. Carr and Officer R. Bridges, so they arrested D, McK Yale apartments, Monday, ANOTHER PROBE OF DEATH IS. ORDERED! Capt. Rosenbiuth’s Lawyet ' Charges Attempts to In- fluence Witnesses liaplouate of the death of Mag NEW YORK, April 18—A new — Alexander P. Cronkhite and subse |quent arrests have been ordered by Attorney General Daugherty at the request of Ugited States Senatag | Calder, it was announced here today by counsel for former Captain é ‘ert Rosenbluth, chargea with | gating the killing of Cronkhite. According to Jonan J. Gol attorney for Rosenbluth, the |tion has a parallel in the Dreyfus case in France. The law yer contends that governmen¢ im ~~ |vestigators have attempted to im © fluence witnesses and censor state” |ments favorable to Rosenbluth order to strengthen the case the statement of Sergt. : Pothier that the killing wag done carry out Rosenbluth’s orders. said. ¢ * lo killed himself my opinion. The autopsy that. I was standing nine feet and did not see how it happened. tice agents, who had to arrest body or lose their jobs. Senator Calder and Herbert er have asked the attorney to make an investigation, fl “If Rosenbluth is guilty he to be-punished,” said the “If innocent the dey tice should let the world know of eee No Motive Shown, | day that he would take no action whatever in the of Capt. Rosenbluth and R. Pothier, Cronkhite, until he has received ditional data from the federal thorities. From the evidence now on including the purported con of Pothier, there is absolutely ing to show a real motive for the leged murder of the army Selden said, “Anyone reading the con may judge for himself,” said Selden intimated that the so far gathered has fallen flat #0 as warranting a first degree mi prosecution is concerned. ‘ Pothier is alleged to have confessed “Capt. Rosenbluth approached mq” four or five days before the shooting: “On the next day or next m ' he came to me again and asked if I remembered what he had to me about firing a pistol. i answered, ‘Yes.’ He then asked me © if I had any idea what it was i and I answered, ‘No.’ He then at ‘lL want to get Major Cronkhite.” asked what he meant, and he ‘I want to kill him.’ “LT asked him what his reasons were, and he said, ‘Because we want to get him out of the way.’ “Rosenbluth said he had looked over the maps and found a good locas tion ‘for the killing. He said whem — we got to the right place he would tell me. 3 “Re sure,’ he said, ‘that you Bit him in a good place, so he won't have a chance to say anything.’ Point to a spot even with his heart, said, ‘It wouldn't be a bad idea ta get him about here.’ “He said he would be somewhere around when the shot was fired and would yell for a doctor and say the major had shot himself accidentally while practicing with his revolver. I wasn't to say anything, unless asked, “I joined Major Cronkhite on the maneuver grounds, and when about two feet from him loaded my revolk ver with three shells. I fired one shot into the open field, and as the jor was turning around in my direction I fired my second shot at’ him, hitting him in the right breast, “As Cronkhite fell I heard another shot from behind, and Capt. Rosem bluth came rushing upon the scene, He picked up the body and placed it | parallel with the road. Then he toolg 7 the major’s revolver and shot a hole thru_a tobacco can and said; ‘Do not jforgét about this being target prac tice and that the major shot himself accidentally. 1 think he's dead’ *