The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 4, 1921, Page 1

\DOPE RING’S REVENGE TH EW ie EDITION 4 Weather and Tonight generally Maximum, 5: {iil ate westerly winds. Temperature Last 2 Today noon, 53, Thur fair; moder- day, Hours Minimum, 3, “VOLUME 23 On the Is | TheSeattle Star DN WASH., W sue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Second Clase Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 MAN BURNED WITH TORCH IN ESDAY,.MAY 4, 1921. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE | { SHIP He Wants to Confess: And We'll Let Him. Advised Against It. But Never Mind. will Interest All. IGHT YEARS AGO readers of The Seattle Star picked up their paper one evening and found the startling headline: “Confessions of a Wife!” It's a safe bet that nine out of ten under that head, and kept on read ing it for several years. For it introduced something new ument” detailing the experiences of a married pair. And it proved so immensely popu Jar that soon there were hordes of imitators, all over tne country. Here and there little “syndicates” sprang up, offering married-life se rials to newspapers. Soon it seemed _ & if some wife in every block was the introspective serial, by the war, turned to the or adventureful serial of er nto the eitin y were when the first one wa ted. And there are in exist ence half a dozen imitations of the eee “Confessions of a Bride.” eee 4 UBTLESS there will be as i many imitations of a story which - | fs to appear in these columns within "a few days—a story you have already heard about: ‘Confessions of a Husband.” the first time the trials of a rried couple are to be written jally from the MAN'S point of Doubtless there will be many dif- ferences of opinion over the story that this man teil. Many men un Goubtediy will denounce its publica- tion—several men who have read the first few chapters have advised us publishing it on the ground that it will stir up needless difficul- in many homes. a this view The Star does not c6n- ‘eur. The writer has no such inten- tion; he feeis that he has a right to lay his heart bare before the wor'd, githo he insists, for the time being, ete anonymity. phe Star believes that, while “Con- feasions of a Husband” may anger 4 * few, they will harm no one and will interest and help a great many. Certainly this representative of the male sex is justified in caging: “For eight years I've read about the wife's side of married life; I think it's about time somebody spoke up for the men.” Anyway— ‘The story starts Friday. DRILL CAPTAIN ON DOPE CACHE Capt. &. B. Francis, master of the Blue Funnel liner Tyndareus, and members of his crew were being ques- tioned Wednesday before United States Commissioner A. C. Bowman fn connection with the seizure of $100,000 worth of narcotics aboard the vessel Monday afternoon. A custom's fine of $10,777 was asuessed against Capt. Francis Mon. day. His appeal from this penalty, will be forwarded to the at Washington ing taken, treasury department for final determination. Customs inspectors searching the Miner Eurymachus Wednesday morn ing reported to Collector Roscoe M. Drumheller the finding of a small quantity of smoking opium. Three part tins were found in a pile of bricks on deck. he) NE MART DICKS ARE TRICKED YORK, May 4.—Dominick Gilberto, 22, charged with grand larceny, walked right out of tombs prison to freedom by donning a tin fmiitation of # detect! badge, of them read the story that was/ in journalism—it was a “human doc- | together with the evidence now be-| AGROUN Faculty at U. Not Paid, Tho May 1 Passes), pests STEERING APPARATU _ GOES BAD [With Heavy Cargo Freighter | Hits Reef; Will Be Re- floated; Crew Safe Patience installment and bill collectors nm tho t'ls after the first of onth, be patient embers of the ity ye University en't re pay checks ceived their mor from Olympia, ‘Th anon, given by the comptrolier's office, is that the pay department capital and handling bonus have bee ing t new quarters checks To date no complaint has been Inbound from California for Seat faculty members. made by the tle with a cargo of ore, the W. R. Grace & Co. freighter Santa Alicia ran on the reef at Marrowstone point, In the Strait, a few miles from | Page One, Port Townsend, at high tide, early ‘Column 3. Tuesday morning, Faulty steering gear is given ag the cause of the ac-|} Had the April mowers, cident, | Where ARE those May flowers? The ship, which was one of the! Piorists elect Dr. Walter B, Moore | veasels that attempted to salvage the | president. j burning Japanese Tokuy Maru Mon-| “Build up national market.” Na- @ay night, ts belleved to be in no dan. | tA Eckstein tells Seattle ad men. | | Greece to fight Turkey to finish, | or temsat agg aati repented leave C. D, Liiopoulos, Greek consul ne Her crew of 23 men and her mas. ter, Gapt. George Hammar, Alico Walker tells detective’s for- | tune with cards; fined $20, Justice | iL ot Oakland, are standing by the ship. The Washington Tug and Barge | Court. | Co., at 3 a. m. Tuesday, dispatched| Nation celebrates 32rd anniver-| the tugs Bee and Wasp, with light. | sary of overhead trolley electric cars| ers, to take off the Alicia's cargo. | today | Relieved of the ore, it is believed the) ww. 4. wicks nominated for prest | ship will float my jeot oe She is taking no water, and appar. pss gaan coecnieies ently is not damaged. | She carried 3,000 tons of ore for Puget sound smelters. Calls for assistance were picked up | by the Seattle harbor department ra-| Some kick! C. C. dio station and by the United States $250; federal court; naval radio station, at 2:20 a. m 1 WHR SRanenIne, The weather was clear at the time| Welsh choir concert, tonight, of the accident, This ix not the first | vation Army temple, Sixth ave., trouble that has been experienced tween Union and Pike. with the steering ap tus of the| Installation of office: w board Alicia, according to ipping men. | of control at University of Washing: The vessel was running close 1D |ton Wednesday night. shore at the time of the accident. eee Santa Alicia Aided Ill-Fated Jap Ship! Tonight. 8:30. Apollo Club See ond Annual Concert at New Thought | Auditorium. j well fined | monkeying for Sal be. Communion for beast of Ascen-| sion held at St. John's Episcopal | church Wednesday morning. night, New Washing dinner meeting of Chamber of | Wednesday on; ASTORIA, May 4—The Santa Al-|COMMerce and Commercial club, | icia, reported aground and in dis | World is adopting brotherhood of | tress near Port Townsend, paxsed|™an theory in practice, says Rev the mouth of the Columbia, bound | Ralph Mages, First M. B. church. northward, early yesterday. She| Mayor Caldwell likes music. Boosts was one of the ships which had been sending of Elks’ band to lodge con- | standing by the {ll-fated Tokuyo| vention in Los Angeles July 11 to 14 | Maru, which burned to the water's There are some rea} playwrights edge and sank. “ . 5 at U. Home-grown products will be| y shown at camptis exhibition Friday, | Survivors Tell of | May 27 | - ; ‘ a j. Campfire girls have raised $1,650 ap Liner’s Sinking) toward cstatiiening a permanont| Sixty-five survivors of the Japan-|summer camp, But that's not nes ene steamship Tokuyo Maru, which|!y enough! burned at sea off the northern Ore | Triple open house architecture University art gon coast Monday night, were safe and homie economics de in Seattle today, | partments to exhibit work of year They arrived here at 11 o'clock last | Friday, May 13. night aboard the army transport] E. M. Chandler leaves for New| Buford, which reported the following| York to assume duties as acting na. list of eight dead tional secretary of American Society H. Suzuki, apprent of Civil Engineers, | T. Ohashi, boatswain. orge Hawley Vulean Tron W. Owaki, quartermaster. Works, speaks to Purchasing Agents 8. Imano, oiler. Association on iron and steel indus | EK. Kajiwara, fireman. try; noon; Blano’s : | €. Watanabe, coal passer. | miter meeting for Seabeck sum Sasaki, coal passer. |mer encampment, to be held by ¥ T. Kishimoto, storekeeper. ¥ Alia ver at €:i8 pm. Wes To the bravery and superb nee (eet ee Oa ch catete will manship of Capt. L. Me Keres] a Gave ny te O.8. Ci.caane w Third Officer O. Littchen and Fourth | U"4ers® inspection Thursday and Officer A. Erickson, of the Bufora, | E™i44y at the hands of Col. Mf. M.| belongs the credit for rescuing 22 of “ae ™ fing oo are eit the 65 survivors. | » Peay wager ayaa Bh eee The 22, unable to get into life | eve ton. orle te y are |boats, were picked up by the ci o r, and Lee Melleur, , J. 8. Muleahy and John Gayton, Buford’s boats commanded by |}, slits | Littchen and Erickson great cloud of smoke was cre-| FIRST FIR jated when a tar pot boiled over at] SUBDUED Railroad ave and Madison st Fire first broke out in the Tokuyo| Wednesday. The hot tar was being early Monday morning, apparently| used by Carstens & Co. in the build spontaneously. Capt. Suzuki ordered | ing of a refrigerating plant. Damage (Turn to Page 2, Column 3) was nominal | BY CYNTHIA GREY |pangs of hunger; then it goes out! UPPOSE this family lived in your /in warm sympathy for honest Amer Ss neighborhood: The father of |ican cltizens, who thru no fault of eight small children bedridden by se-| their own, are in such a sad predica vere erysipelas; the mother and one|ment. Then you proceed to help in child down with pneumonia; two| whatever way poesible and attempt children ill with mumps, and the|to interest your friends exd neigh scourge of poverty depriving them of | bors in their plight fuel, clothing, food or proper medical| . When the public would come to lattention. Just suppose they were|know about it, charitably over-zeal under the daily surveillance of your |ous, it heaps 4, clothing and two optics: What would you do? |money enough for perhaps half First in your heart is pity for Ut-|dozen families upon this one. You tle children whose tummies fei the |feel gratif that you were the, BODY ARE NEAR PT. TOWNSEND searen sy KIDNAPERS Detective in Serious Condi- tion Following Effort to Rescue Girl urned with a torch by under world avengers, Thomas J, Killman a White Cross Investigator, lies to day in a gerious condition at his home, 1820 Boren avenue He was attacked at night by three men, who lured him in an auto to « lonely spot near Lake Washin xtripped him and applied a blazing torch to his head and body Killman eves the attack was due to his activities in the White Cros crusade against cotles, GIRL HE WAS TRYING TO AID DISAPPEARS Killman that a white girl whom he wan trying to free from the tches of a tocal dope ring has dis appeared. Ho nearly succeeded in rescuing her, and this attack, as wel an 4 previous one, are believed to be the ring’s revenge. In October, 1919, Killman says, he obtained a position in a Seattle de partment store for a 13-year-old girl whowwns separated from her hue band, A month later she lost her job, and shortly afterward Killman received a letter from her written in Chinatown, in which she appealed for aid in getting away from the vice ring by which she was held. “She took mo thru certain white joints in Chinatown,” said where I met several white g ven to Chinese and Jape. She and another girl said they had tried to get away, but were captured nd brought back after they had gotten as far as White Rock. They sald they had been threatened with jeath if they made another attempt to met away,” CHINAMAN STOOD WITH GUN AT HER ELBOW For nearly a year, Killman says, he was in touch with the girl. The last he heard of her was in October, | 1920. “In making the appointment over the telephone to see me,” the in | vestigator stated, “the girl said a Chinaman stood with a gun pressed | againet her side, theatening to kill her if she told me anything concern. | ne their affairs ‘The girl abruptly disappeared after that last visit, and Killman has been trying to locate her r since, at} the request of her husband, who lives | in Thermopolis, Wyoming. Killman is certain that foul play | haa been used by the ring and that they are after him for revenge. says } Kiliman accepted lift in a seven-paasenger automobile | shortly after he had left the Oxford} a proffered hotel, First ave. and Pine st. at 11:20 p. m. Monday. He was going! to his home after visiting a friend in the hotel, } Instead of stopping at Killman‘s| street, the driver speeded up. There} were two men in the rear seat with Killman, They asked him if he knew Joe Hill and Frank Little. Killman said he did, Hill and Little are 1. W. W | (Killman during the war was a Ls rnment investigator and Jed in the conviction of several I, W. W.'s) “One of the men then pulled {| gun on o Killman 4. ‘and | threatened to kill me if I made a} move, I think I know who he ia.| Then both of them began to beat | me up." After what seemed several hours’ ride the auto stopped in the coun try and Killman, gagged, was laid on the ground and stripped. “Then they lighted a torch of} some kind,” said Killman, “First | they applied it to my head, partly blinding me, Next they burned my bod s. They tried to ‘age 2, Column 3 | f You Cou d SEE These Eight Small an Neighbor “Brown That is « t way to ren-| means of helping out of such a pinch but this ix not the b der aid | In ttle, there is today such a family as described above For the past several months the Social Wel fare League has helped them to overcome their difficulties thru con: | structive social service, Wen the league heard of the family four of | ite members were #o ill and under m ished that it was necessary to vend a trained nurse and a practical) | Casper, HEAD AND ‘Two More Girls Picl Last Test Film Will ‘Two more girls made in The the Star-Universal Film company contest seml- finals — today. The judges named Miss Margaret Wales, 615 Queen Anne ave, and Miss Beatrice Blinn, 1682 Fourth ave. W. At 10 o'clock this morning the judges gathered in the tiny projec- tion room of the Universal exchange and reviewed all test films and “still” pictures made thus far, Mins Wales and Miss Blinn were chosen unanimously, There was de bate over several other contestants whose qualifications for the semi finals are to be further considered Preparations for the last prelimin- ary test film, ants not previously in which all contest filmed to take part, were being completed at te studio this morning. All girls whe have not yet been taken by the moving picture camera are to report for this test Pacific Film Enter 14th ave and KB. Pine st. at 7 o'clock thin evening are at the studio of the prises at Miss Margaret Wales.—Photos by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers.—Miss Beatrice Blinn. DADDY TO 8, HE Oh, You Old Third MISSING WEDS GIRL, 20) Ave. Theatre Fans! 0 Dye Remember Her? Michigan Man Held for Wedding License Perjury Alleged to have deserted his wife and eight children and to have mar-| ried a 20-year-old girl, telling ber that he was unmarried, Theodore E. mechanic, was arrested at Laurelhurst by Detective Chad Rallard, Wednesday afternoon “You know you're wanted in Sagi naw?” queried Ballard, when Cas per answered his knock on the door. “Yes,” he replied. “What for?’ his pseudo bride de- manded. “For perjury and abandonment,” Ballard «aid, | “Why, you never told me you were | married,” the young bride said, “Tell her how many children you have,” Ballard ordered the prisoner. Eight,” he replied. Casper had been living at 4316 36th ave. N. His bride supposed that his name was George P. White. The wire for bis arrest was re ceived from Saginaw, Mich. today. It charges him with abandoning his eight children, deserting bis wife and committing perjury in getting the li to marry the 20-year-old girl. | is alleged to have con conse ‘asper feased. ‘They were married in Saginaw two months ago. The girl is a Saginaw girl | EVERYTHING'S 0. K. NOW; RING RETURNS TO PLANET SATURN PARIS, May 4.—The planet Saturn's missing ring, the ab sence of which has caused a lot of worry in astronomical circle has just been discovered by French scientists. They say that while one can hardly see it, they are sure it's there, so the matter need cause no further anxiety. AYS HORSE HAS WARTS, TUMORS | Eighteen years ago a slip of a |girl crept out of the wings of the Ave. |wrapped a ragged cloak about her |shivering shoulders, cast a look of |unutterable disdain at the man with riding crop and and sneered: tempt me with your gold, Lord Montague Mont- old the hat, “You filthy Third can’t morency!” Wid cheers thundered down from at mark, and even the people in the expensive 30-cent seate in the par- clapped admiringly. the quet “gods” AUBURN GIRL SUICIDE MANY TODAY | little red the the Back.” But in in | the theatrical country. Marjorie ughter of the lady Portland, playing such na- was pany | ture “Sappho.” ling | City. the ave. T. O, Dragland bought him a guar. anteed. gray horse. He paid $ cash, plus $20 for an examination and $11.65 for transportation to Exe jon, Wash, He claims the anima’ has “warts” and “melancholy tu-| mors,” and is worthless. His appeal to the superior court from a justice court's decision dismissing his a was filed Wednesday, His alle grievance ig against Wilflam Mor sen and L, BE, Hodges, nurse to care for them, Proper food and clothing were supplied. The league has spent over $200 on this one family alone and thru proper medical attention, the father’s life }was saved, They are far from be ing on their feet enough to become independent The worst part of it all is this: That family is only one of 2,000, a total of over 7,000 persons, in tle, in need of such help, and the clal Welfare League spent its last vont last week. Now it ls up to us,| the the rope 000 our first responsibility? on Second And if you don't think this young y was well leading in roles At her own “darling and at ave people of families STILL REMEMBER THOSE THRILLS There are people in Seattle who remember well the thrills of "Dad jay” Russell's stock company in the theatre and there are many, rio doubt, who remember the girl with golden hair who played thrilling roles in Queen of | Banker's Daughter” “The OLD SOURDOUGHS Opium Ring.” “The| ATTEND HER SCHOOL and “Shot in As she was without funds for the there are not many persons |here who know that the same little |girl is now one of the most bril- |Hant actres#es of the younger school America, Seattle and this week after Rambeau as 16, company For a number of years she was of the Russell and Drew theatre on Third the Seattle, at ments of civilization. While the older theatre here, off like a boy's, the high silk; ness to a murder, this virtuous re- several days, down in the tented streets. on Third ave.,| Dawson City. atrical fortunes. long trip, school. | dramatic reading. that she is back having Rambeau says, in this | Broadway.” | She went a trueleight years ago. West." At 13 she in a stock com-| is Since The Eyes of Youth,” “Camille” she was in and direct: | Dawson | Seattle. “Seattle is she has | Rambeau grown amazingly, said Wednesday, ‘gods’ at the old Lois theatre and brilliant actress is a “sour-|/dy' Russell's bellow. at rehearsal )identified the body of a baby tak dough"—well, ask the men who|could be heard from the watetfront/from the bay as that of his were on the beach at Nome in|clear out to the big pavilion at|and had told of his wife taking ti ‘gst | Madison park.” child away the morning before With Aer mother, who was a| = body was found. graduate physician, and her grand HEY FISHED; 0) Chiapara said his wife told mother, who was an army nurse, “ p Ea val J she had “put the baby out little Miss Rambeau, ago 9, fol-| WOE FOR THEM }boara,” but retused to say whi }lowed the famous Nome gold rush.| John and Charles Thompson went see = The intention was to establish a} fishing in Cedar river Sunday, it is EE, GIRCUS! HE hospital for the miners, But it} alle ‘They are now held by the was soon discovered that in that| prosecuting attorney for Justice KEPT IT SHOR feverish fight for the yetlow “dust,”!John B, Gordon's court, under $10] We told him to keep it sh men refused to succumb to the ail- bail. He wrote this: = deci to P. 8. We have been generous in the past./those éf you who do not already |We have poured out money to the|know it, the offices of the Social famine stricken people of China, to| Welfare League are 236 Central or of Ireland, of central Eu-|bldg., Third ave. near Columbia st. and of the Near t, That/It would be mighty fine to make But will we neglect our | that $1, $10 or $100 donation right If you wish your Americans, Seattle people, who, are |gift to go 100% for relief mark it " if it is to be used for con our own doors, | away: tomorrew, | “relief”, So sure am I of our united loyalty | structive service, mark it thus. AQ ked for Semi-F inal F; ilm Tryout Be Taken at 7 o’ Clock Tonight © women nursed the few men who were too weak even to join in the mad rush for wealth, the little girl, her hair cut sang sentimental ballads for the miners and peddied doughnuts ber grandmother made. In “The Sign on the Door,” Miss Rambeau's latest play, she is wit- If that scene is not realistic, it {s not the fault of Miss Rambeau's experience, for times, in» those mad Nome the little girl saw men shot Alaska possesses another claim on Miss Rambeau’s love. Some years later, after she had exhaust- ed the possibilities of “stock” in {the far West, she was’ playing in | She determined go to New York and try her the- to she opened a dramatic Grizaled old sourdoughs, jwho had known her as a child in | Nome, took lessons in elocution and “It was a lark for them,” Miss “But it provided the \fought her way to the pinnacle of|money that gave me a chance on profession to New York about then she has starred in “Cheating Cheaters,” “The For- tune Teller,” “The Unknown Wom- an,” and “The Sign on the Door,” |in which she is now appearing in a beautiful city and Miss “but | |somehow I miss the old days here before the ‘regrade,’ when the Ho- tel Denny stood on top of the big | hill just above Bell Town and ‘Dad- »|to our unfortunate neighbor that I whether the league will continue its|am going to write for all of us this lconstructive work or close its doors | answer |against the poor. I forgot to mention, folks, aie Make Search Fears that Irene Arnell, 17, disappeared from Auburn May 2 w a bottle of poison in her had committed suicide were ind! to police and sheriff today. ‘The girl had been taken from a attle home by an Auburn family. They were going to send her back to the home when she vanished. —__ ‘The Auburn marshal notified Sher” iff Matt Starwich of the disappear. ance of the girl Wednesday and sald she was known to have had the poison. a Starwich asked police to join the — search for the missing girl. She was also known as Mrs. She is described as being 5 4 tall, weight 115 pounds, blue é wearing a black plush coat with fur collar, and a red turban. « ; Workers Wanted for _ Ticket sellers are wanted to work for a record attendance at the fit concert and entertainment to Be given in the Arena, May 15, under the auspices of the American for the Children's Orthopedic hi tal fund. A sparkling program has been arranged, with the First Divi- sion Canadian band as one of the chief attractions. Tickets to sell may be obtained from J. A. P. Heme derson, 200 Alaska bullding. Mother Held for Baby Drowning SAN FRANCISCO, May 4.—Mre Mary Chiapara, aged 28, was held in jail here today while police made further investigation of charges that she threw her 10-monthold baby Enrico into the bay and drowned him. 4 She was taken into custody yesterday after her husband aa Cireus comin’, By Three days starting Wednesday, May 18. * Fourth ave. and Lenora st. * The Al G. Barnes 4-ring wild ank mal show. 4 agent This is the shortest press story on record. Going Up! Flour ; Aviates 40 Cents Going up! ” : Flour, 4 Retail grocers have been not 5 by jobbers that it has been advan ‘ 40 cents a barrel. Cow feed is up $1.10 a ton, and s@ is scratch feed. 4 How come? Don’t ask us; don’t even understand Einstela, ah