The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 16, 1921, Page 1

iF Largest Daily Circulation in Seattle by More Than Ten Thousand Copies Tonight weste showers; moderate Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 53. Today noon, 53. and Tuesday, rly winds. Minimum, 48. —_ On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Entered as Second Clase Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, §5 to $9 SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, MAY 16; 1921. FATHER AND S$ KILL ILL EACH OTH COMING Pegsy Hires Bodyguards YOUN *BONUS PAYMENT FALLS DOWN! Ey Weather {ll TH EW f a TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE | WILL TAKE YEAR TOPAY VETERANS —AT THIS RATE A drowning man, we've oft heart| | ‘Win seize a straw with might BACK,” SAYS W.HAYWOOD main; . W. W. Chief Barricaded in Apartment | pi ‘Only Quarter of State’s 60,000 Ex- | Service Men Get Money, and Many Are Out of Work | ‘The State of Washington is falling down flat in paying 60,000 veterans their bonuses. Fs But just the same it looks like you- know where ‘Te clutch one in a steady rain.” eee LOTS OF ETHER UP THERE Aurora Boreali# went on a spree urday night. Astronomers all | | | | theorizing | Tragedy Occurs 15 Miles Some blame sun i But perhaps it's all moon. Convicted | | Wirelesses From Moscow That He'll Return by United Press) 16.—William D. shine. LAKE PRUNES, ALWAYS WITH ust Days may come and days may go. | (Copyright, 1 ‘The sun may shine, then winds may} LONDON. May Blow, Phere may be war, and then come States to serve his 20year sentence jin Leavenworth prison, he declared peace | be Pains, and these may today in an exclusive statement wire ‘There may lessed to the United Press from Mos But always you will hear ‘em tel) | °O*. a MUUGs the plane for 0. Rott The I. W. W. leader, whose disap- * sea pearance brought bitter criticiam from associates who were also under sentence for hampeting the nation’s » he's mighty apt to select | war activities, ancounced he will re turn after the Third Internationa ‘When a man hitches his wagon to Srous eee and other conventions have been held Murry! Send for the Keeper! in Moscow. “I saw four girls shot in Wood-| Haywood’s bondsmen will not suf- Haywood will return to the United | East of Woodland, W Woman Hysterical KALAMA, Wash, May 16—Hamt vey Riker, father, and Fred Riker, son, are dead here today following & savage duel at the Riker ranch| fm the Little Kalama river, 15 miles east of Woodland, Wash, tn the mountains, late yesterday. ] The gun battle was over Myrtle | Riker, wife of the younger of the two ranchers, accorting to the atory | told by the young woman to of-) ficials here today. { ‘The men battled for almost a half hour, according to Mra Riker’s story. Harvey Riker eucceeded in HE STATE OF WASH- INGTON, with its spe- Despite Governor Hart’s administrative code, reputed to be a model of efficiency, it is going to take’ the state one jcomplete year to put 60,000 bonuses in the hands of its ex- service men. E | The armistice will have been signed three years when the jlast bonus warrant is sent out by the state auditor. : | Only one-fourth of the bonuses have been paid. Many vets who filed applications with county auditors om | the first day possible have not received their warrants. CLAUSEN AND TWEEDY SAY THEY CAN'T SEND BONUSES OUT FASTER State Auditor C. W. Clausen and Archie Tweedy, his as sistant, in direct charge of the work, admit they cannot — send the bonuses out faster. Be Forty-five thousand veter-| ‘ans, many of them needy} jand jobless, are waiting for | j park,” megaphoned Hank Klay. » the photegrapher, did it his Uttle old camera.” oil ete ee And we learn also that Labra- Gor is “in” Eastern Canada. Alaska, presumably, is “in” ‘Western Canada. eee LEAVIN'’S Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard fo finish the Sunday dinner wreck; But ail she could find ‘That had been left behind, the gizzard and part of the ‘ may be a typhoid carrier,” says lady Bluebeard. may be a sickness with some. epidemic with her. ore ig too good for you,” told each fighting lad. three years ago or so; t's: “Sorry, boy! Too re oe coming back,” says Haywood He talks like a prima donna after a i tour of the United States. his voice isn't as convincing. eee Then, again, Haywood may have @izcovered that they have better fare at Atlanta and Leavenworth than | ~they furnish at the Washingtonski | hoteiski of Moscow. “ eee © Generally speaking, however, they ‘@on't come back. Ask: James J. Jeffries. Jess Willard. ‘Will Hobenzollern Will Humphrey. see Supreme court today a. @ated the prohibition law. This must be the fourth or fifth time the law thas been declared legal. Seems like “the lady doth protest too much,” as Bill Shakespeare might have said And if Bill were suddenly brought Dack .to life, he probably would 1% the old wheeze: “I see by the papers that the dry law is upheld When does it go into effect?” ose A. professor in the University of finia announces he has found a that Is death to flies. We'd fe him for partiqulars except that ‘we're afraid bis answer will be, “Cut St down and bit the fly with it.” é eee Congress adjourned over a day on account of Uncle Joe Cannon's birth- @sy. Would that the country had Uncle Joes— About 265. . eee NO DOUBT A communication from Vox Pop.: local piano house, in a window’ lnouncement, states that ita prod- uct is a “recognized pier” (sic) In the musical world. No doubt it will sup. ply an appropriate accompaniment Vhat Are the Wild Waves Say- ihe The grandfather of today’s laborer knew poverty. His father knew its cause. He himself knows its rem- edy. cee WAS SHE HELPING IN THE ORCHESTRA? Mrs. Sarah Jenkins has returned from Chicago, where she saw one play three times.—Mattoon (IiL) Journal . ‘They keep telling us the prices of goods are falling down. But piffie! They used to tell us that about Lon. fer logs, he said. eee BY WILLIAM D, HATWOOR +) (Copyright, 1921, by United Presa) MOBCOW, May 16.~(By te the United Prees.)—Here is my a On March third, I retired to home of friends in New York. Three weeks later I arrived in Moscow. I shall remain here for the conven tion of the Third Internationale and other meetings. I will return to the United States without question. If I cannot return before my bond is canceled, the government may have its equivalent of a pound of flesh which friends deposited for my appearance. But my bondamen will not suffer financial loss from the cancellation of the bond. I Was awakened here March 24by the thunderous pealing of church belis and was informed that I was in Moscow, capital of the workers’ re- public. The dream of my life had come truet CHILDREN DON'T TOIL LIVES AWAY Here the children do not toil their lives away, but are sent to school | They do not receive penny meals, but the largest and best food supplies in the state. Their education is pro vided by the best-equipped teachers available. They have comfortable clothing and various amusements. The chijgren here, unlike those of the Eastern and Southern states, are not compelled to toll long hours in lcapitalistowned mills. where their work brings nothing more than a j scanty living. Russian children are learning the country belongs to them and that when they become adults they Will receive the full product of their la- bor. No mill owners, capitalists or masters drive them to reap a profit from their labor. The Russian women, owing to the revolution, are absolutely free—not nationalized, as claimed in the bitt | ew told in the United States. Th |have full equality with the men, a | voice and vote in all councils. | Women are granted a two months’ | vacation before and after childbirth | Every worker taxes a month's va Jeation annually. Usually these are spent in rest) homes, of which there are four thousand in the vicinity of Moscow, converted from the beaut! ful palaces of noblemen. Thruout Russia there are 70,000 rest homes and Watering places used only by the workers, I visited one. Limitations of the wireless prevent a description SAYS THERE IS NO UNEMPLOYMENT Industrially Russia js making won- derful progress, It is the hope pf the world, while the revolution is the greatest historical achievement since the Unite@ States threw off the yoke of the British Russia is the haven of political drefugees now, as the United States was for Russian refugees during the car's regime. There is no such thing as unem ployment; no Wall Street, no gam- blers, no black-robed judges holding the destinies of a nation of people in their grip. I will attend the communist youths’ conference, the congress of marine and transport workers and the world conference of women before return. ing. eee CHICAGO, May 16-—Bonds of “Big Bill’ Haywood and the eight other convicted 1. W. W. le re who failed to surrender at Leaven- worth prison, were forfeited today by or of the circuit court of ap peals. The $5,000 4 $80,000, were from aggregating 1, W. W. bonds to $15,000 each, , | followed her. of the perfection of its organization. | NEV <. May 16.—Peggy Hop- king Joyce—whose third millionaire husband is suing, in Chicago, for di- vorce—is barricaded in a cozy apart ment on Park ave. and guarded night Jand day. “Frankly,” she says, as her heav- [fly chained door is opened an inch, \“I am afraid of two classes of men, | process servers and reporters | “I won't talk, 1 WONT talk! and see my lawyer, William Klein,” and then she begins, to talk coyly, standing at 80 safe a distance from }the chained door that no paper could | be actually served upon her. |. “What is it you want to ask me?” “About your plans,” this reporter i replied. SO MANY PLANS SHE | CAN'T REMEMBER THEM A My plans? 3 ve so many plans that I cannot even remember them. My lawyer, Mr. Klein, tells me every day what my plans are.” Miss Hopkins, as she prefers to be called, had just returned from riding. As she had entered her white en Jameled doorway tWo stalwart guards She had lunched with | Arthur Hammerstein, who at the mo jment is suing to divorce his wife. The guards stood by wAhile the re porter continued “Why have York” “To fee Mr. merstein and some other friends, and to get from thore horrid de. tectives in Chicago,” “You haven't really decided to file a diyorce complaint against Mr. Joyce?” “Ask Mr. Klein about that.” “What is the nature of your com int?” “I'll aceuse him of everything 1 can think of. I may come from Vir |ginia, but no man, let alone Joyce, lis going to get anything out of me.” “When do you expect to file your papers?” “IT'S GOING TO BE SOME CASE’ ‘Ask Mr. ‘ you come pl Klein, My lawyers in They are arranging e it's going to be some cage. ery detail, and sst! The great kidnaping mystery blew up with a bang Monday Charles R. Pie li-yearold son CaJhoun hotel, was late to school one morning last week Go) to New | eral Klein and Mr. Ham-| she answered. | ts Chicago are in the Tribune building. | Mitchell r, Joyee is reported to have said has been art | her, | link the names of Hammerstein and . Peggy Joyce you are a bigamist?” “Isn't that dreadful! figure that out?” “Why. his lawyers assert that your divorce in Texas is fraudulent and null and void.” “Now, what do you think of that one?” she replied sharply. “Well, #0 and see Mr. Kiein.” “But—will you speak about Mr. Hammerstein and yourself?” “No, I won't: you see Arthur.” Arthur Hammerstein * seemed amused at the report he might mafry How does he Joyce ts a charming young woman,” he said. “But she has a husband. I have a wife, I am suing Naturally, any reports which Joyce are embarrassing to botlt of us The reports started When friends saw us together at luncheons I have not asked Mra. Joyce to become my wife, Neither haa she proposed to me. Neither of us has decided what our matrimonial intentions are for the future.” Inheritance Tax Is Ruled Valid WASHINGTON, May 16.—The fed inheritance tax law enacted September 8, 1916, was held valid by the supreme court today. The federal government's method of determining the tax also was sus- ned, In computing the tax the govern ment refused to allow deductions from the amount taxable of the pay: ments that were made by executors of estates to the various states, ; Doctor on Trial for Death of Patient Pr. John Sorensot,, accused of hav. ing caused the death of Mrs. Marie Reimers February 17 by performing an illegal operath went on trial for manslaughter before a jury in Judge Giliiam's court Monday morning. A nurse, Daisy Fromuth, charged with the physician, never ated, Bang! Gr-reat Mystery Blows Up! here it to with Barnes show, which is due Wednesday, He went with Olympia, Sunday, in Tacoma of Rube C, Plerce, chief clerk at the| the circus, he was picked up, arrest ed, and sent home. Reports that he had been kidnaped So instead of braving the teacher’s| and held for ransom were declared, wrath, he decide he would away and join the circus. He did, He joined the Al G. run like Mark Twain's celebrated prema ture death, to be “greatly exagger: ated” freeing himself long enough to draw @ gun. The son, sensing his father’s move, yanked @ rifle from the cabin wall. Both meo fired year ig ly at short range and fel dead tao id young woman fled from the. ranch of death, hysterical, running alone thru the mountains to the! nearest telephone point to summon) officials. | Harvey Riker was 55 years old) and his son 30, Wealthy Man Shot 5 Times; Is Dying NEW YORK, May 16—John H. Reid, wealthy manufacturer of lin gerie, was repotted to be dying @n Fordham hospital today from five bullet wounds geceived yesterday at! the home of Mrs. Hazel Warner, wife of Frederick B. Warner, ac- cording to police reports. ‘The police were said to be seeking a Broadway sporting man and gam bler as the one who did the shoot ing. They were told by George Keri. ger, uncle of Mrs, Warner, that the house was invaded by this man and | that the shooting occurred a few minutes later, In addition to Reid, Keriger and Mm. Warner, two other persons spent Saturday night in the home of | Mrs. Warner, who separated from her husband a year ago. Police | maid these were Miss Lila Wiley sald to be A movie actress, and Frareis T, Boylan, wel, known along | Broadway. Mins Wiley, a distant j relative of Mrs. Warner, and Qeriger have been living at Mrs, Warner's | home, migar New York university. According to Keriger, the five ha |@ party Saturday night. Yesterday morning, he said he was awakened | by @ pounding at the door, and saw |@ man’s fice thru the glass. The | } | } | maid he heard five or and then) the invader fled vinaly he went! upstairs and found Reid lying ‘on the| floor, while Mrs, Warner was try-| ing to staunch his wounds with | towels | |. Mrs, Warner, Miss Wiley and Boy lan disappeared and were sought as witnesses. Wealthy Tourist Killed by Auto LOS ANGELES, Cal. May 16.—T. | J. Holbridge, wealthy tourist from Karisas City, was dead today from! injuries sustained when he Was run over by his own automobile late yes- terday. Holbridge was thrown out of the) car when it struck an obstacle in the road. | The machine skidded, turned com- | | pletely around and ran over him. | ITZ EEPING COOL STILL COSTLY The high cost of keeping cool i&n't coming down. In spite of the rumor that the war tax on ice cream is to be repealed, no definite action will be taken this season, says Willlam T, Beeks, chief deputy collector of internal revenue. | | | Take Four Names Off Slacker List WASHINGTON, May 16. — An nouncement was made by the war \department today that the names | of four men have been removed | from the draft deserter list These are the only names that} have so far been found officially to have been wrongfully included in the lists published, the department eaid, J man apparently entered by i 7 r Inive , yullding, Fourth ave, and Universit pass key and went upstairs pl i JOBLESS YANKS BEGGING WORK City Begins Slowly to Re- spond to Star’s Plea Nine jobless service men were} given employment Monday and four | new names were added to the list of | veterans who want work. ‘These are the first results of The | Star's campaign, started Saturday, to wipe out unemployment among S tle's war veterans. “The phone began ringing the first thing this morning,” said Adjutant Hervey Lindley, of Rainier-Noble Post, American Legion. “We sent out | two painters, two house cleaners, one man and wife for a janitor job, two al heavers and a man to do garden work. We can fill all requests as soon as they are received.” The Rainier-Noble Post headquar- ters, In the basement of the Stuart | ‘was crowded with more than half a hundred veterans Monday, waiting for a call to work. The four new names added to the list of unemployed are Michael Fox, 6610 26th ave. N. W., truckman or laborer; R. L. Guichard, 1717% Broadway, apartment E, stenographer-clerk; Robert H. In- man, 7403 12th ave. 8..W., millwork, and Willis 8. Jamison, 1528 W. 52d st. Inman.is a nurse, but will take any sort of work. Phone requests for men to Adjut ant Lindley, Elliott 479 Seattle 11th City in Postal Receipts Reports for May 1 showed $158, 100,000, in postal savings deposits in ghe United States) according to Chas. {. Perkins, assistant postmaster, Se Attle stands 11th on the list of cities, With $1,638,891 deposited, Prohibition Chief Preacher for Day Donald A. MeDonald, state prohibi tion director, addressed the congre- gation of the Kirkland M. E, church Sunday night on the present status of prohibition enforcement. Prohibi- ion Inspector Sylvester A. Moore was in charge of the services, HOORAY! DOLLAR’S WORTH 64 CENTS! WASHINGTON, May 16—The retail food dollar is worth 18 cents more.than it was in May, 1920, when it reached its record low ‘value of 46 cents, ‘nis ac: cording to the census bureau, ‘The wholesale dollar is now worth 24 cents more than it was then, jin getting applications to us. | eral paid all the bonuses within three months, at the longest. The great state of Washington is going to !um- ber along and take one year to give the war heroes their due. Why? Tom Swale, state commander of the American Legion, doesn't know. Neither does Lindley, adjutant of the state's largest Legion post. Both are trying to find out. AUDITOR “DOESN'T BLAME THE BOYS FOR HOLLERING” The Star went to State Auditor C. W. Clausen to find out. Clausen says: “I don’t blame the boys for holler- ing. Maybe I would too. But I'm paying the bonuses just as fast as I can. A great amount of money must be dispersed and I can't afford to make mistakes. I must be ccreful and slow.” r The Star asked Clausen how many extra employes he had hired to han- die the bonus. “Twenty-eight or thirty,” plied. “Mr, Clausen, wouldn't it be possi ble to double or triple that force? There are thousands of vets “who could do the work and who are now jobless. The law allows you to em ploy as many persons as you wish doesn't it?” “Yes, but—" Here Clausen injected the two IM MENSE blockades that are damming the stream of payments. 1. Every warrant must be sign- ed. Only three men are allowed by state law to sign them. They are signing as many as they can. 2. Every application must be checked wi ith the Veterans’ Wel- fare commission loan list. There is only one list, Only two men can work on the list at the same time. They are working as fast as they can. “But, Mr. Clausen, the average number of warrants mailed per day is 270, With a multiple signature writer one man could sign all the nts in a short time, couldn't he re UY EXPERT FILERS COULD DO IT FASTER “And surety, two men in eight hours can check more than 210 appli cations to discover if the vet has bor- rowed from the welfare commssion. “If the men doing it now can't, surely expert filerg can, If they can't, couldn't another list be made? You are allowed to employ as many persons as you wish.” We have only one multiple sign- er”—Clausen defended his two stum- bling blocks—“and this bonus work is in addition to our regular state work, And 270 @ day is the most we can get out a day, I have told you why, A lot of money is con cerned, I must be careful.” The Star was then referred to Ar- chie Tweedy, in direct charge of the work. He presented his side thus: “One-third of the applications must be returned or the applicant comm nicated with, This causes great de- lay. “Some county auditors were slow And then again, when they sent in sev thousand at know which ones they had received first or which last, As fat as we were concerned, they were all re: ceived the same day, That Js w some men who applied on the same (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) once, we didn’t} YANKS FIRED; JAPS HIRED N. P. kets.Out Ex-Service © Men, Ex-Employe Says Americans, including many ex#er vice men, are being discharged and Japanese employed in their places on. |the Northern Pacific, according to Thomas J. Stone, former brakeman, _ who says he was mred along with a party of 30 white men at Castle Rock. “Twenty-five were laid off at Cen. — tralia, 40 at Kalama, and Japs put in their place,” said Stone today. |‘‘There are 100 Japs working in jobs formerly held by white men in the Seattle yards. -“At Castle Rock, where I was, we were all fired at once, and the Japs came in on a special train gight aft erwards. The citizens Were so wrought up about it that they chased the Japs out of town, but after things quieted down the Japs came back again and went to work. “I'm not kicking so much about jlosing my oWn job as I am about the ex-service men being thrown out of work, They need the work bad.” At the office of the Seattle yard- master Monday Stone's statement was declared false. It would be im- possible, it was said, to employ Japs jin the place of white men as yard: men or trainmen. | Fear Barge and 7 Persons Lost SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., May ‘The barge Mistez, which broke the steamer Byron on | Lake Superior, near White Fist | Point, Saturday when a Ddlizeard swept the lakes, has been given up ag lost, It carried a crew of one woman and six men, Another barge whose tow line sqparated from the steamer Zil- lah at the same time, was picked up Sunday, Six inches of snow fell in the storm. ‘Helen Cox Mahoney Dies Suddenly DAYTON, O., May 16.—-Mrs, Helen Cox Mahoney, wife of Daniel J, Ma- j honey and daughter of former Gov.- James M. Cox, died suddenly at the 16. loose from Mahoney residence at Oakwood, @ suburb of Dayton, today, 4