The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 25, 1921, Page 1

“Nothing Succeeds Like Circulation.’ DRAG LAKE FOR TRUNK N MAHONEY MYSTERY On the Issue of Americanism There: Can Be No Compromise b *~ f Weather and Thursday, fair; fresh westerly wr Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 74. Today noon, 50. Tonight all inds, Minimum, 49. Entered as See VOLUME 23 Whisky WAR ts reported on the Grande. They may call ‘em warriors tn Texas, Everywhere else they're only booze fighters. see ‘Wealthy woman of 73. who mar ried man of 3%, if missing. Wasn't Bitting on all six for a long time, we'd say. eee AND GROW PURPLE IN THE . FACE League is orgaftized in California ‘% swat blue laws. Mention blue to pine lenawere and thez tee Ted. Baby chiens wag from | Woodland park into back yard of : | eign office |) peer minister to Vekin, ‘Wiliam T, Becks, local income . Probably wend a check, so he | trunk. ‘@ection of two streets. about. A motor car was rushing at) him from one direction, a motor- cycle from another. a steam truck “was coming from behind and a taxi ead was speedily approaching. Zip-zip! Zing-glug! He looked up and saw directly above him an airship in rapid de ecent. ‘There was but one chance for the poor man. He was standing upon a manhole cover. Quickly seizing it, he lifted the lid and jumped into the | Just in time to be run over by Yan underground train.—Los Angeles ‘Times. ae Some folks believe themselves ac eomplished musicians who have only Jearned to change needles on a pho Bograph. (a What has become of the old-fash- foned bookkeeper who used to chew &@ little tobacco for toothache? ose ‘The in a Muskogee (Okla.) court asked a defendant where he obtained his liquor. Defendant re- fused to tell, whereupon the court as- geosed a fine of $15. ' eee ANTHEMS OF ANGER fain would help to sound his doom, Hew oft my bitter wrath he's etirred— | I mean the weary pest to whom Most every mortal is “a bird.” EB. B. E. OF ai) the folk beneath the skies, &, tnodia I way, of those I know? ‘The bird whom I do most despise Is he who mutters, “Is that so?” TOM N, JERRY. ose One kind of undesirable citizen is the fellow who lives In a flat and tn. pony on taking slide trombone les B JAPANESE MAY QUIT SHANTUNG TOKYO, olonial May 25.—The Japanese conference” has decided favor of the unconditional sur- render of Shantung, according to the newspaper Kokumin The “colonial conference” 1s com posed of Japanese representatives in Asia, members of the cabinet, for officials and . | forcements hurried to the place. the Japa-| <—_=> The Star’s Lead in the Seattle Field Is More Than 10,000 Daily 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 2, 1 The Seattle Star 1 Class Matter May 3. Por Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 Ws ATE EDITION Eg ll , WASH., WED CIVILIANS ARE SLAIN ON STREETS Black and Tan Police and. Sinn Fein Fight Pitched Battle in City | DUBLIN, May 25.—Fighting be | tween Sinn Felners and British | efi the military forces fought around it. It was officially announced that ‘The fighting began after a bold raid on the customs house by the) rebels, who searched and fired the building. © When they left they were met by) & detachment of black and tan police | who opened fire. Rifle and revolv- ers were used by the military forces, the rebels replying with hand gren- | ades. SHOPKEEPERS FLEE STORES ‘The first detachment of black and) tans was held off and heavy rein-| Bullets flew thru nearby streets. Windows were shattered. Shopkeep ers hastily put up their windows and abandoned the stores. Judge Gordon to Try Ferguson Assailant Bert A. Turner, charged with as- sault in the third degree in connec: | tion with an alleged encounter with County Auditor D. EB. Ferguson two} weeks ago, is scheduled to be tried in| | Police Judge Judge John B. Gordon's | court Thursday. The case was orig inally on Justice of the Peace C, C.| Dalton's calendar for Thursday, but | Turner's attorneys filed an affidavit Wednesday that Judge Dalton might | | be prejudiced in the matter, and ob: tained a change of venue, Hearing on Raane | Appeal Case Begins | Hearing on the appeal of Jack Bar- | ton, pool hall proprietor, from the Justice court decision fining him $200 | and costs on a charge of having liq- | |ser unlawfully in his posession, March 18, 1921, was begun in Judge Calvin §. Hall's court before a jury Wednesday morning. Straw Hat Prize Winner Is Named I. Nelson, 319 W. Harrison st. wins the $60 cash prize for the near- est guess as to the number of straw hats sold last week, “Straw Hat week.” He came within two of the actual total. He gucased 1,825; there | were 1,833 sold. James A. Nilson, 2915 29th ave. 8. W., won second prize, a straw hat. ‘The prizes were given by the re tall trades bureau of the Chamber of Commerce. Six theusand guesses were made. They ranged from 78 to 133,000, Wanted: Autos! Seattle Elks want 200 motor cars for the conveyance of G. A R. veterans during Memorial day ceremonies Monday, J. G, Fenton is chairman of the Filks’ committee on transporta- Uon The veterans’ parade will start at 9:20 a. m. Monday i | for | poisoning | pated Wednesday |at Columbus sanitarium. | Physicians SDAY, MAY 25, 1921. MUST BE CUT 40 MILLS! ‘ONIGHT representatives from | ation. In Seattle it is 71.5 on a 50 per various civic and fraternal or- es are to meet at the invita- tion of the Knights of Pythias, at K. P. hall, to take up the taxation ques- tion. It should be borne in mind that tax reductions have been promised as follows: County: City council .........¥ 2 mills A total cut of 9 mills is promised. The conference tonight must re- solve that these reductions, MORE, if humanly possible, shall be made by our officials. Nine mills will help! It will not help enough, but it will It will be a good beginning. it must be regarded in no oth- = li ary hel “knd i er light than as a For 9 mills of: mills will still lane. 62. 62.5 mills would be just about double the present tax rate on property in San ncisco. The tax rate today in San Francis- co is 15.90 mills on a 100 per cent val- uation, or 31.80 on a 50 per cent valu- MRS, SOUTHARD SEAMEN STRIKE END IN DOUBT NEW YORK, May 25.—The ex- ecutive committees of the American | Steamship Owners’ association was considering the new propomals pre- pared by Secretary cf Labor Davis settioment of the seamen's strike. ‘These proposals are understood to include a 15 per cent wage re duction with compromises in work ing conditions. A statement issued by the execu tive committee alleged that “en couragement” which the teaders of the International Seamen's union! feel they have received from Davis | has tended to prolong the strike gotiations had really benefitted the owners, in that they had served to | prevent the seamen from devoting their entire attention to the strike. Union leaders have declared that} If the present negotiations fail, all conferences will be soled off. Japanese. Officers Are Due in Frisco SAN FRANCISCO, May 25,—Nine members of the Japanese house of representatives are expected to ar- rive here today aboard the Shinyo Maru, Members of the Japanese colony have made extensive preparations to entertain the party, which expects to visit several cities in Northern California, as well as Los Angeles. Find No Solution in Poison Mystery | The mystery shrouding the strange of Mrs, Ella EB, Morton of the, Mrs, Morton is She has | Diller hotel was not dissl-| periods of lucidity, but is yet unable | evening. It is believed that whe may recover. Mrs, Morton lapsed into while in the rooms of a declare she symptoms of alcoholic poisoning. The party had not been drinking, accord ing to Mry, Morton's husband, now coma friend. exhibited | ‘to explain what she drank Monday | cisco's, a made. | cent valuation. To bring the Seattle property tax levy as low as San Fran- cut of-40 mills must be But it is not physically possible for local officials to make a 40-mill cut! Local officials can’t, but the state legislature and governor CAN. So the conference tonight will only and | be nibbling cial session bring about our taxation resent 71.5 mills—and misleading cut. strain at a gnat’s to go the whole ness. Unies it is determined to reach for the 40-mill cut, it will only property nee ncisco's. And it won't be if we do not follow unless it pro- way on the tax at the problem. The 40-mill cut can be had. A spe- of the legislature can the necessary changes in m. Our tax levy on be no higher than San trails. The conference tonight must resolve not to be content with a 9-mill cut, or even a 12-mill It must resolve for a 40-mill cut, SION! GREETS DEPUTY HONOLULU, May 25.—Mra. Lydia Southard, held here charged with the péisoning of five men in Idaho and Montana, smiled today at the pros pect of being returned to Idaho to face trial “I am anxious to go back,"| she told Deputy Sheriff V. H. Ormsby, who arrived yesterday from Idaho | to return her “Where do asked “To Twin Falls,” Ormsby answered “Oh, that's fine; I wanted to go | there,” Mrs. Southard replied, with a smile. Mrs, Southard has completely re covered from her recent filness, we go first™ she |The union men replied that the ne-| physicians sald, Paul Vincent Southard, the alleged feminine “biuebeard'’s” fifth hus |band, who is in the navy stationed | here, may not be able to accompany his wife to Twin Falls, owing to the non-arrival of transfer papers. REAL SAVINGS Are told of every day in the ads in The Star. You should profit by these oppor- tunities. No matter what you want to buy you can make a sub- stantial saving by looking it up in the ads. Remember— The best offerings of Seattle’s, best stores appear regular- ly in The Star. and nothing less! It must resolve for TAX REVI- FLOOD WATERS GOING HIGHER. PORTLAND, May 25.—Weary-| eyed engineers here early today be- | lieved they had saved one of the two | Oregon approaches to the Interstate bridge, threatened by the Tlood wa | rivers. | ‘The Union ave. approach to the | bridge had been thoroly diked and | reinforced with sandbags, it was an nounced, following an all-night fight | with the rising flood, The sinking of the pavement, reported yesterday, | had been effectively checked, and a | general washout was not expected today. Meanwhile, the rivers continued to | rise steadily. lat the highest point within the past five years, with no indication that | the crest of the flood was in agate | Alameda Site May Win Out Again WASHINGTON, May 25.—With re | publican insurgents beaten on the important items of Increase, repub- lican leaders in the senate today hoped to put thru their navy bill virtually as the naval affairs com. mittee reported it. They were confident that on an- other roll call the $1,500,000 for the Alameda, Cal., ‘naval base, would be restored. Much work has been done among the insurgent republi jeans to convince them they did wrong in voting against this proj- ect. [Navy Yard Worker Is Killed in Fall BREMERTON, May 26. — John | Moran, 34, boilermaker at the navy | yard, was instantly killed late yester- | |day afternoon when he fell 60 feet | 8. supply | is outfitting | He was | thru a hatch on the U. |ship Neptune, which jhere for a Northern cruise, just leaving work when the accident | occurred. | Practically every bone in Moran's |body is believed to have been broken jby the fall. Moran was not married. He lived in Bremerton, An attempt was be- ing made today to locate relatives, ters of the Willamette and Columbia | ‘The water was today | TTLE IN DUBLIN! OUR TAX LEVY | Total of Ex- -Soldiers Placed by Star-Legion Bureau Now 173 In a constantly swelling stream jobless world war veterans are regis: tering in The Star's campaign to find work for them all. And the citizens of Seattle are re sponding in @ heartwarming man- ner to the appeal of “Hire a Hero.” | Tuto the slogan adopted in the | Bast, and it is urged as an incen- tive to remember the ex-service man when you have a day's ora the Saturday. Mise Laura C. Curwell, assistant to adjutant Hervey Lindley of Rainier Nobe post. American | Legion, reported 40 men sent out to work, and 31 new names added to the list of unemployed veterans. This brings the total number of jobs supplied to 173. Here the latest registrations: | *Wubur V. Warner, 2306 Séth st, |motion picture operator, chauffeur. | Paul R. Hagelbarger, 1530 17th jave., office clerk, estimator. Prosper Saey, ave., moulder. Robert W. Wilson, Jr, 4603 15th aye. N. W., salesman. John A. Ryan, Regina hotel, tele graph operator. F. L. Bowers, Arctic hotel, sales man. B. W. Burtch, 170 lelectrician, saleaman, chauffeur. | Tom Featherstone, 7915 Eighth box factory workman, Dewey Sims, 6024 42nd ave 8, janitor work, night watchman. James D. Carr, 1012 EB. 64th et, marine engineer helper. Swan F. Lycho, 2010 Western ave., craneman, Joseph R, Cantzler, 6516 33rd ave. , laborer. Walter A, Wood, 1428 Palm ave. machinist helper. John A. Lindblade, 2010 Fifth ave. IN. W,, night watchman, oil truck | driver. l, Ng os J. Hoffman, 2120 BH. Fir house painter, apt. house janitor. ar Carlson, 8725 17th ave, N. V laborer, watchman. Wm. Watrous, 1615 stock clerk, garage helper Albert F. Meyers, 1633 Summit ave. plumber and pipefitter, auto repair helper Frank H. Evans, 130 Taylor ave., mechanic, drives any make car. | Vincent Haggerty, 1319 Howell st., laborer. Raymond Roush, 2418 Oak st., ment worker, laborer, trucker. Walter M. Harrison, 855 B. st., furniture and embalming. Lioyd A. Magnussen, 4214 Linden ave., painter, Jos. B. Barr, 9273 Ithaca st, truck driver, Lyle D. Harrington, st., Inborer. Glenn A, Alsbo, 3909 Aurora st., auto mechante. Charles Struad, trap drummer. Dan L, Nugent, 613 22nd ave., cleaner, presser, bushelman. Richard McNulty, 1317 Peart st., waiter, Mack helper, B, H. Prummer, Le Roy apts., waiter, fry cook, 4th license fireman, warehouse worker. Arnold J, Moe, Cove, Wash., elec- trician's helper. " See First Break in British Strike LONDON. May 25.—The first break in the ranks of the striking British miners occurred today when 600 Shropshire miners returned to the pits. peed aol ETC SCE TAX MEETINGS Wednesday, 7:30 p. m—K. P. hall, 1929 Third ave., (repre- , Bentatives of fraternal and civie clubs). 8 p. m.—Emerson school. Thursday, 8 p. m-—B. F, Day school, mass meeting. Friday, 8 p. m.——Dunlap school, 8 p. m.—Seward school, Parent- ‘Teacher association, 18 Queen Anne Findley st. 16th ave. ce | 67th 730 N, 73rd TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE HUSBAND SAYS HIS AGED BRIDE Play in Wealthy Woman Indications at police headquarters this afternoon that a tangible clue had been found by Captain of D tives Charles E. Tennant by which to trace Mrs. Mooers-Mahoney, missing aged and wealthy bride, form of 409 Denny way. While James E. Mahoney, the ex-convict brideg1 was still being held in the city jail on a forgery ch unable to furnish $10,000 bail, Tennant startled those i terested in the case by a statement that he was Lake Union dragged for a trunk. TRUNK DELIVERED TO BOAT ON LAKE MIDDLE OF The trunk, he toa boat on the lake abou! the middle of April. This so about the time Mahoney is said to have returned from his honeymoon to St. Paul, without his bride. What connection the trunk has with the case, Captain Tennant declined to say. When Lee Johnston, attorney for Mahoney, heard of the dragging op- erations on Lake Union, he hastened back to” his client's cell, where he had been confering with Mahoney most of the morning. After talking with Mahoney, he said, “Mahoney denies any knowl edge of a trunk. It has been Ten- nant’s theory from the start that Mrs. Mahoney never left Seatils, and that her husband's honeymoon trip East whs pure fiction. Tennant is working in circles, getting nowhere. SAID HE HAD POSTCARD FROM WIFE “I suppose if he's dragging for a trunk, he expects to find some evi- dence of some kind that will lead to the missing woman. He says the trunk was delivered on a boat in April. Doesn't say where it came from. Mahoney came to my office three weeks ago and told me he had a postcard from his wife, who was then in Havana, Cuba.” P. A. Morris, a well known Seat- tle advertising and publicity man, it was learned, visited Tennant shortly before noon and offered informa- tion, which, he said, he thought might shed some light on the mys tery. Tennant sald, following the confer- ence, that Morris had been unable to tell him anything of value. A few thinutes later Tennant made the an- nouncement that he was having the lake dragged, “Frankly,” know Whether alive or dead.” When informed by The Star that & dispatch had been received from | St, Paul quoting Chief of Detectives Herman Vall, of that city, as say- ing he had been in communication with Tennant on the matter, Ten- nant sald at first: “Vall; I don't know any such man. Never heard of him. Who is he?” MADE NO STATEMENT THAT WOMAN'S DEAD Later he said, “He has made no statement to me that the woman might be dead, I've been checking up on the St. Paul phase of the case, but there’s nothing for pulication.” * Mrs. Mahoney is acid, ‘was sapiens fe Seve Meas Developments — of 24 Hor —Search for missing Jp tictdegrocea: habe toe says she went to Hai 1s being case ought to lead to her ery soon.” Mrs. Mahoney, before marriage, was Mrs. Kate At that time she lived Denny way. Her mother-tntaw, located this morning at that address, not deeply concerned about daughter's disappearance. “She hasn't been here for 30 days. I don’t know where’; is—have no idea,” Mrs. said. “Why don’t you talk to Johnston, my son's lawyer? can tell you all about it Them you'll get the facts straight Z don’t know anything about itt” Mahoney married Mrm Mooers here last Feb. 10. She is 72, He ig 37. i It became known that, on a report Mrs. Mahoney had been seen in Seat- | tle police, detectives had been con- ducting a search here since last Sat. ‘Tennant said, “T don't | UY: The woman had been identified as the former Kate Keeler, whose dames hall and allied activities at Butte, im the late 80s, were celebrated thruout the Northwest. FATHER RAN ROADHOUSE NEAR ANACONDA She was born Kate Scholtz, Her father ran a roadhouse on the road between Butte and Anaconda, After Keeler diec, or went away, she came to Vancouver, Wash. where she married a Dr. Wynant, in the early ‘90s, For 25 years or so she disappeared from the haunts of her old friends. When Mahoney met her, last fall, on to Page 7, Column 5) St. Paul Chief Says Foul Play Sus pected: ST. PAUL, Minn, May 25,—Herman Vall, chief P detectives here, to day said that the nationwide efforts to find Mrs. James BE. Mahoney, | wealthy and aged bride, were due to his suspicion that there might be foul play in the circumstances of her disappearance. The register of the St. wife arrived on April 22, and checked out the next day. was traced to Duluth. nation has not been discovered. There it was rechecked by a man, but the destl- Francis hotel shows that Mahoney and his aged Their baggage A stenographer at the St. Francis recollects writing letters giving Mahoney power-of.attorney over his to be a release to her safety deposit wife's property and what purported vault, They were not signed in her presence and she did not see the woméin, Vall today admitted he had been in communication with Chief of Detect. ives Charles Tennant, in Seattle, where Mahoney was arrested. Arrest of Mahoney in Seattle, Vall said, was at his request, and “merely the natural course to follow in checking up all angles that might lead e @ discovery of Mrs, Mahoney's whereabouts,”