The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 9, 1921, Page 1

DARA Circulation More Than Ten Thousand Greater Than That of Any Other Seattle Daily PEACE IN SHIP STRIKE TODAY Tonight Today Ew Weather showers; southerly wind ‘Temperature Last Maximum, 56. and Tuesday, moderate M! hoon, 35, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be-No Compromise ’ VOLUME 23 Dear “Wee”: Give Isom White a sportsmanship. Confessions of a Husband|, (Copyright, 1921, The Seattle Star) | I WELCOME TEMPTATION—AND | 4 DODGE IT “Arent Edith and George a lot of fun?” Dot asked at breakfast. “Eétth is certainly live enough,” ound very entho- gone to see them last Edith had practically }/ “lifelong friends, in- FE for later in the week, I would have died then and there rather than hint at my suspicions to Dot. Somehow or other, a man never seems #0 foolish as when he trying to keep away from temp There ts no reason for this, but the world is cynical and most of us would prefer to be suspected of any- thing else rather than virtue. Besides, 1 had only the vaguest kind of suspicions. After all, what had Edith done except to try to be & good hostess and to make herself agreeable? If I had any other thoughts it was my fault and not ae I merely grumbled something to Dot about George being colorless and Edith talking enough to make @ man dizzy. “Isn't that just Uke you!’ she ex- claimed. “I go with all sorts of peo Ple for your sake—look at the Hen dersons—they don't even put on a clean tablecloth when they invite us for dinner! (This wasn't exactly the truth; we had dropped in unexpect edly.) “And now when I find a couple I like—and Edith is perfectly lovely to me—you make a face about it and say they aren't our sort. Why, i we aren't their sort I wish we were!” “All I say ts that if we had to live on an allowance from your father-in-law the way George Slocum to depend on his, we'd have to along on pretty short rations!” It, wags a mighty good retort, be- cause it was common knowledge that George was hardly more than a bookkeeper in his father-in-law's of. fice, and that the old gentleman | gaye his daughter an allowance sev. eral times larger than the salary he paid her husband. I chuckled over this on my way downtown, tho why it should have delighted me s0 much I do not know. Perhaps I would not have liked to confess how pleased I was at my knowledge that Dot would pay little attention to my protests and would | g0 on making “dates” with the Slo-| cums. | When I got to my office I forgot everything except the fearful mess that things were in down there. I| was deep in my work when a stenog rapher. came to my desk and said | | “Mr. Howard, you're wanted on the ‘phone.” “Find out who it is,” I growled. “Mrs. Slocum,” the answer came ‘k in a moment, ‘ell her I'm out.” (To Be © ontin d) Vandeveer Custis, prof, school | business administration, U. of W., to address Municipal league Tuesday Boon, Blancs, N YOUR chance is all he is asking of you. Don't let the dignity of a lieutenant governor. ship, which, in the absence of the gov- ernor, imposes upon you the duties of governor, dwarf your sense of good The state knows you and loves you because you have been game—game on | brim of a drooping straw hat. chance, Wee. A must acience. bear the responsibility LET NOT THIS BOY’S BLOOD BE CONSCIENCE, WEE COYLE the gridiron, game on the track, game on the field of battle. to be game in the governor's chair You are besought to give Isom White, a mere youth facing the gallows, a stay of execution for 30 days. Gov. Hart will be back. If Isom hangs then, his blood will be on Hart's con- If he hangs on May 20, you And it asks you By that time SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, MAY 9, 1921. If this boy must be executed, what harm will be done if a reprieve of 30 days is granted? Give him his chance to battle for his life before Gov. Hart. The “Wee” Coyle of old, we feel, would give him that chance. And Lieut. Gov. William J. Coyle of today ought to do the same. Let not frigid official- dom congeal the warm-bloodedness of good sportsmanship. MADGE ANNA CALM WHEN _-_ EAs OPENS dear,| Faces Second Tr Trial for Mur- der of Husband; Is Clad in Black Nine prospective jurors to deter. mine the Intiocenceor gullt of Madre | | Anna Sawyer, charged with murder “}im the second degree for shooting her husband, Howard I. Sawyer, last May 10, were examined between 10:30 and 11:20 Monday morning without the exercise of a single chal- lenge for cause by prosecution or de fense. ‘The trial opened at 10:20 a. m. te fore Judge Edward C. Mills of Walla Walla, who, as a visiting judge, oc cupied Judge Gilliam's department of | the superior court. The 12 prospective jurors, as call- ed, but whose examination was not complete at 11:10, when Walter Ful- ton, attorney for Mrs. Sawyer, asked for a recens because his client was | included seven women | indisposed, and five men. The case was to have opened at 9:30 before Judge John M. Wilson of Olympia, but Judge Wilson failed to arrive. ‘The courtroom where the trial opened was crowded, but none of Mrs, Sawyer’s relatives nor of her| dead husband was present. Mrs. Sawyer was attended by Mrs. C. Lake, whom she called her “Seattle mother.” Her own mother, Mra. R. Retter, is ill in Vancouver, B. C. Mra. Sawyer was clothed complete. ty in black, her dark, luminous and sorrowful eyes showing beneath the She appeared to be calm. One victory was seored in her favor Saturday afternoon when she was awarded the bulk of the estate of the husband she shot. The award of the estate, appraised at $15,000, but likely to mount into hundreds of thousands if a marine engine invented by Sawyer comes into general use, was gnade by former Superior Court Judge John 8. Jurey, sitting as judge pro tem. Judge Jurey held that the laws of the state of Washington entitle a woman to her husband's estate if he dies without making a will, regard less of whether she killed him. Mrs. Sawyer’s plea at her former trial for the killing was self-defense. She admitted the fatal shooting was done May 10, 1920, on the shore of Lake Union, near the houseboat in which they lived. When she was convicted a new trial was granted by Judge Boyd J. Tallman because of alleged irregularities and a claim of newly discovered evidence by the defense. COW, 24 YEARS OLD, STILL GOOD MILKER ROMNEY, W. Va, May %- Robert Kidwell has a cow 24 years old that is still giving milk. Sev eral years ago her first calf died of old age. The cow is a great pet in the family. Rob Delicatessen; Escape in an Auto After robbing the delicatessen of A. Toresi, 725 Union st., of $38, early Sunday, two bandits eacaped in an auto. During the robbery one of the bandits kept Tores! covered with a gun, while the other stood guard at the door, | Page One, |Column 3. Hey! You fighermen! What luck Sunday? Lake Washington croppie grounds crowded, W. N. G. gets orders for Memorial day parade. Rotary club takes up campaign for Hoy Scout three-year budget. James Buchanau succeeds Rudotph Nittell as manager of Assembly hotel. Wants $2,980 for hurt knee. Fiér- ence Conners sues C. P. TL railway. Chamber Commerce reports plenty of help on farms until harvest sea- son. Saturday Is National Hospital day. Wounded services men to be remem dered. “Weary” Wilkins tells Green Lake school children Monday all about thrift. Army to hold summer military camp to train amateur wireless op- orators, King of Greece has not abdicated, says C. D. Lildopoulos, local Greek | consul. Patrolman R. BE. Van Horne draw: | 30-day suspension for alleged fak: liquor raid. Advance bookings show 31 parties signed up for trip thru Rainier Na- | tonal park. More pressure brought to bear; Ki wanis club urges President Harding to visit Seattle. Drive a car? Gotta get license (pay $1) after June 10, according to new state"law. | Record of burial place of world war | veterans sought by adjutant general. | Call Main 6714. Northwest mills report more than $20,000,000 feet lumber booked for foreign shipment. Cash prizes offered for Fourth of July posters. Information at room 157 Stuart building. Don McDonald, prohi. chief, wants to abate Amherst hotel, 1610 Second ave., under dry act. Membership drive opened by Wom. en's Commercial Club, Call 1582 or Ballard 3080. Christensen's hall, Thursday night Proposed Beacon bill motor bus ser- vice up for discussion. Campfire girls rejoice. Raise $3,380, one-third amount needed to purchase summer camp. Transfer of headquarters state military department to Olympia post- poned till after August 1. Last of survivors of sunken steam: ship Tokuyo Maru left for Japan Sat- urday on Alabama Maru. Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, new minister to China, invited to Seattle by Chamber of Commerce. Rev. J. M. Wilson, former pastor Westminster Presbyterian crurch, re- turns to Seattle after nine-year ab- sence Got away twice; twice recaptured; Abe Toroyoshi, Jap stowaway, de ported in irons Saturday on Alabama Maru. Unlucky owner of 44 quarts of whisky, Edward Wyard, 216 Colum- bia st., was facing liquor charges Monday. Yuen Tong, Chinese consul, Main nephew Goon Dip, bound over to fed- eral grand jury on $200 bail. Dope charges. James Lupton, 25,, was in jail Monday. Patrolman A. J. Hill says he had a londed revolver and an auto tire that Gid not fit his auto. Electric wires placed at side |streams to keep migrating fish in main stream of Yakima river, ac: cording to plans of state fisheries board, He gets a nice trip. Deputy U. 8. Marshal Edwin R. Tobey to take two prisoners East. J, P. Wheeler, to | Balt Lake; W. D. Meeks, alias Miller, | to Chauncey, W. Va. Released on $750 bail, Geo. Tracy, charged with running bar at 1505% Hewitt ave. Everett. Final hearing ‘Thursday before U. 8, Commissioner Robt. C, McClelland | | ‘lthat Forbes had agreed not to take } | entire country to the absolute mini- | for Washington, D. C., WAR RISK MAY SAVE OFFICE TO | BOY FROM STAY HERE? THE NOOSE Forbes Wires He’s Willing|Reprieve to-@8° Asked of to Consider Offer of Acting Governor for Cheaper Rent Doomed Slayer The war risk insurance office will} Louis F. Hart, governor of Wash not be moved from Seattle to Ta-|ington, today left the state to be — gone three weeks—that is, until ‘This was the belief of Seattle men/after the date passes for the exe conducting the fight against the pro cution of Isom White, 19, at Walla posed removal, following receipt by| Walla for murder. the Chamber of Commerce Monday| “Wee” Coyle, Neutenant-governor, of the following telegram from C. lian the sole hope remaining to the Forbes director of war risk insut clubwomen and oth who are try- ance: ing to eave the White boy from the “In reaponse to your wire of Satur | gallows. The death date is May 20. Gay, I will may that economy must} Coyle, leaving Seattle today for be practiced to reduce rents over the |Olympia, said he probably will not grant the boy a stay of sentence. “I know very little of the details of the ease,” said the Heutenant gov ernor just before \eaving for Olym- pia this morning, “except that he killed that man at Everett. It's pretty hard to say just what I will do, but if everything Is regular I hardly think I interfere with the court's ordera.” mum. No steps in the carrying out of such a program will be taken that will jeopardize the service to be ren- dered to disabled exservice men and women. What figure for cheaper rental will Seattle offer? No orders have been imfued to move offices from Seattle. I appreciate your in- terest In this matter and request your co-operation. At Everett, however, Joseph H. “CHARLES R. FORBES.” |Smith, White's attorney, was pre- ‘The telegram was In response to | Paring papers asking that Coyle grant a 30-day reprieve. This would delay the execution ti June 20 and place the respons!- bility again on Governor Hart, who plans to return early in June, Hart has gone to Washington to attend an Irrigation conference, at which governors of 14 western states will be present. a eens offices by the Skinner & Eddy Ship- buildifg Co, during the war, is 75 cents a square foot up to 25,000 square feet, with more facilities in the way of elevator service, heat and light than Tacoma offers. strong wires of protest sent Satur- day afternoon by the Chamber of Commerce, Arthur R. Priest, director of the civic bureau of the Chamber of Commerce, left Seattle Bunday night taking with him several offers of cheaper rent io Seattle, Congresaman Miller wired Monday any action until Priest arrives in} Washington and presents Seattle's offers. These offers covered office space below the figures submitted by Ta- coma. Tacoma’s best offer was $1.67 per square foot, One Seattle offer, that of the Seattle Transfer building, 24 W. Connecticut st, used ag general Setzing several pairs of silken hose, Alfred Walling, 47, was caught in a downtown department store by Pa- trolman R. F. Harrington, By SAX ROHMER ° PART ONE he saw something else. CHAPTER I Stuart stood, quite still, staring at Keppel Stuart, M. D. F. R. 8..|/the table. There was no sound in awoke with a start and discovered/the roorni. He crossed slowly, mov himself to be bathed in cold persp!-|ing the light from right to left. His papers had been overhauled method- feally. The drawers had been re- placed, but he felt assured that all had been examined. One step Into the room he took ration. He glanced at the luminous disc of his watch. The hour-was 2:30. Stuart sat up in bed, slowly and cautiously, looking all about him. A faint clicking sound reached his ears. The clicking was repeated. | “There iy someone downstairs in my study,” muttered Stuart He walked barefooted across to the dressing-table and took up an electric torch which lay there. He walked resolutely to the door. threw it open and cast the beam of light on to the staircase. Softly he began to descend. Before the study door he paused. He threw open the door, directing the torch-ray into the room, Cutting a white lane thru the blackness, {t shone fully upon his writing-table. Papers and books were scattered untidily as he had left them, surrounding a tray full of pipe and cigaret ash, Then, suddenly, fear which exceeded anything he had known. A white casement curtain was drawn across the French windows * © * and outlined upon this moon-bright screen he saw a tall fig- ure, It was that of a cowled man! Even as he looked, the shadow of the cowled man moved—and was gone. Stuart ran across the room, jerked open the curtains and stared out across the moonbathed lawn, its prospect terminated by high privet hedges. There was no one on the lawn; there was no sound, CHAPTER II Dr, Stuart awoke In the morning it the Postoffice at Seattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 8, 18° The Seattle Star Entered as Second Clase Matter May 8, 1) . Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 Entrant Acts | re "naakene Roy st, entered The StarUniversal Film company contest a month re in the hope of winning the $1 contract to play in pictures at nt versal City this summer, then cut her contest chances adrift and went to Los Angeles to enter the movies on her own hook. Miss McClure had been entered in the contest semi-finals by the five judges and seemed in a fair way to be picked for the finals. Unfortunately, when the judges! Jearned she had left the city, they had to drop her from the contest. This was done when she failed to) appear for the semi-final tryouts. Posts $7,500 Bonds for Eddie Cicotte CHICAGO, May 9%.—D. Cassady, Detroit attorney, today appeared in! criminal court and posted $7,500 in| bonds for Ed Cicotte, indicted former | member of the White Sox team. Cleotte, who is charged with con- splracy to “throw” the 1919 world series between the White Sox and Cincinnat) Reds, aia nae, appear, Pickpockets Work Here; 2 Are Robbed Pickpockets were busy Monday, Elsie Hubert, 25 W. Roy st, lost $5.75 in checks, while Mrs, M. Under. hill, 1114 Marion st., was robbed of $2.50, Trousers Burglar at Work on Yesler Way The trousers burglar visited B. M. Varon, 1317% Yesler way, Monday. Jand paused—palsied with a sudden | He took @ pair of trousers, a watch and 4 emal) amount of cash, “THE GOLDEN SCORPION” and tried to recall what had occurred , during the night. No one was stir. ring in the house, and he rose and |put on a bath robe. Bright sunlight was streaming into the room, and he went out on the landing, fast- |ening the cord of his gown as he de- scended the stairs, His study door was locked, with |the key outside. Save for the untidy litter of*papers upon the table, the study was as he had left it on retir- ing. If he could believe the evidence ‘of his senses, nothing had been dis- turbed. Not content with a casual inspec- \tion, he particularly examined those papers which, in his dream adven- ture, he had believed to have been submitted to mysterious inspection. They showed no signs of "having been touched. “Well,” muttered Stuart—“of all the amazihg nightmares!" Keppel Stuart was a dark, good. looking man of about 32, an easy- going bachélor who, whilst not over ambitious, was nevertheless a bril- Nant physician, He had worked for the Liverpool School of Tropical Quits Race, Goes i in Films ENGINEERS Miss Grace McClure, of 416 BE.) Her father, Dr. Royal A..McCture, Th EW 2 ill — CENTS IN SEATTLE 4] on Own 1 Hook AGREE TO Employers, “However, Ob- ject to Working Condi- tions They Demand Altho no éefinite “ffictal had heen taken by the jocal inions, the opinion was freely wresned Monday that events shaping for an early ond of the oing strike that has tied up a! ard vessels thruout the country the last eight days. Hope for an early settlement ‘ased chiefly upon the fact vegotiations between union ind representatives of the shff board were due to be resumed Washington today, coupled wit 3 ‘act that Engineers’ ° pon whi the strike seems c! to depend for success, was ‘ast Saturday to accept the new scale. The offer of the engineers, was called by phone. - “It’s too bad,” he said. “You say She might have won?” Friends of Miss McClure were op- timistic, however, that she will win a high place in the pictures, anyway. She has been in training for some time. It is understood she is to bow small parts for a Los Angeles film company. Already the judges have begun their selections from the 25 girls in the semi-finals, of those to appear in the finals, The judges hope to nar pees the finals down to half a dozen Is. Moral: Don’t Kick an Old Tomato Can BUTTE, Mont, May 9%—When Mrs. Francis Rowe went to the door today to get her morning paper, she fould it weighted down with a rusty tomato can. She tossed the can away. A rattle attracted her attention. She investigated and found two dia- mond rings and a wrist watch inside. The jewelry was stolen from her by two masked burglars a week ago. Grease for Honey Cause of Murder EUGENE, Ore. May 9.—Honey jars containing grease caused Mazeppa L. Smith to shoot and kill Joe Johansen during a quarrel early this morning at the home of the lat- ter near Heceta, in the extreme west- ern end of Lane county. Both men re single and homesteaders, Smith made his confession over the tele- phone to Sheriff F, G. Stickels this morning. son Monday by R. M. Semmes, trict manager for the shipping stated that no new were apparent in ‘Washington morning. SEMMES THINKS MEN READY TO GO BACK “I believe that the men as @ few threats against strike. b the walkout was being conducted. an orderly manner. At the Pacific Steamship co offices it was stated at noon that the announced laying off of employes had not yet been put effect. The company was making effort to sail the steamship City @ Seattle for Alaska Monday night. Altho the action of the radio is a concerted one, it is not at (Turn to Page 11, Column 6) pe Copyright by Robert M. McBride and Co. Medicine and had spent several years in India studying snal » poisons. At about 10 o'clock that night, having been called out to a case, he returned to his house, walking straight into the study as was his custom and casting a light Burberry with a soft hat upon the sofa beside hig stick and bag. Mrs. McGregor, the housekeeper, a gray-haired Scotch lady, attired with scrupulous neatness, was: tend: ing the fire at the moment, and! hearing Stuart come in she turned and glanced at him, He began to unlace his boots as Mrs. McGregor pulled the white casement curtains across the win- dows and then prepared to retire, Her hand upon the door knob, she turned again to Stuart, “The foreign lady called half an hour since, Mr. Keppel.” ~ Stuart desisted from unlacing his boots and looked up with lively dn terest. “Mlle. Dorian! Did she leave any message?" } “She obsairved that she might re peat her veesit later,” replied Mra, McGregor, and after a moment's bes- tation: “She awaited ye're with exemplary patience.” “Really, I am sorry I tained,” declared Stuart, his boot. “How long has she Bone, then?” “Just the now. No more than or three minutes. I trust she is “Worse!” “The lass seemed o'er anxious “So J am given to understate Keppel,” replied the old lady; in a grand luxurious car,” irs. McGregor’ {over to her and rested his upon her shoulderg—“you are a ond mother to me, your care : me feel Ike a boy again; and these gray daya it's good to feel Ii a boy again. Goodnight, Mra. Gregor. Don't think of waiting Tell Mary to show mademoiselie ff here directly she arrives—that ghe really returns. (Turn to na eeu