The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 26, 1921, Page 1

4 hx § {il Tonight anc erly ‘oday OUR HALL OF FAME Bob Hesketh now is holding down Our worthy mayor's job; «He shakes hands well, but orator, is Bob. oe ia no In other words, it seems that there Tay have been a plot to kill Mrs. Mahoney for her mahoney oe “It would be fine for poets, It would be nice and sunny, If they could rhyme Mahoney ‘With ordinary) money. eee Gov. Edwards invites Harding to Dempsey-Carpentier battle. Huh! shoukt bother about a 12 affair when he has congress his hands for months. all this ninny-pestered ranker when he hisses GISTERS OF TUTTI FRUTTI, ATTENTION Help Wanted—Facial workers. Ap Grand Central GING New York World. Alieging that the defendant stole a coat belonging to her, valued at Mabel Lawson, a waitress, ap- fn Washington Heights court against Hortense Goldman, old, who gave her address Marlborough hotel. eee Be that as it may, B. B. Bachelor of Syracuse, N. ¥.. has been arrested @ charge at Digpeny. q ar WAY TO GET RESULTS fould Uke acquaintance of good Business man or a young farmer, ike one with car, for pastime and re- | Address C. A., care Star~-Ad- Tatlieement in Peorta (Ill) Journal. eee “Don't think for = minute that ac- forse and actresses kiss every time ‘they make up. i “Wise husbands are preparing their pocketbooks for the summer opening. . ee “And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest @f these is charity,” says a New) Haven paper, and credits it to “Ex change.” “Exchange” has been erib- good stuff from St. Paul (see Ast Corinthians, 13:13). eee BRING YOUR LUNCH Rev. J. Owen, an evangelist, will at the Stone church, July 16th to August ist—Mercyville (la) Banner. EV! so Esteemed Sir: Granting, as poets ‘aver. that life is a game of see-saw, doesn't it seem that the difficulty in he present situation lies in trying to (get both ends down at once.? TOOPER CENT. eee I felt her soft breath on. my cheek, And the gentle touch of her hand. | Wer very presence near me Beemed a breeze on the sand. Bhe deftly sought my lips, My heart sbe did enfold, When «he broke the silence with— Bball the filling be silver or gold?” desert | fhe was a lady dentist. one Some preachers would be a heap more popular if their sermons were only 2s broad as they are long. Say Marine Strike Is ‘Not Settled NEW YORK, May 26.—American steamship owners today denied the mariners strike was drawing to « Close despite the reports that an amicable settlement had been reached | They predicted be fought to a the strike would finish | Formal answers of both factions were being prepared today for a conference to be held in Washing: | ton tomorrow with Secretary Davis! for revision of working rules, warmer Friday; west- Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximym, 55. Minimum, 43. noon, 53. d Friday, fair; winds, TRUNK LID AND HAIR FOUND IN LAKE UNION Weather On the Issue of Americanism Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, FLOATING BODY SEEN IN BAY AT EDMONDS 9 WIFE IN N. Y. HO TH LATE EDITION There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Wash., under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $6 to $9 FAR ON INTO RICH LAND $200,000 Woodland Dike Threatens to Break at Any Moment; 500 on Exodus PORTLAND, Ore, May 26.—An-| tieipating failure of the new $200,000 | Woodland dike at any moment, be tween 400 and 500 farmers in the diking district near St. Helens, Ore, were reported In a general exodus from thelr homes today, One-third of the bulk of the dike, which is seven miles long, was sald to have been carried away by flood waters of the Columtla river, No MERS FL SEATTLE, WASH., THUI You're Right, Mr. Lunan, It IS a Joke! CHAIRMAN CHARLES A. LUNAN of |the Knights of Pythias taxation conference Wednesday night was quite right when he referred to the proposed nine-mill tax cut |by local officials as “a joke.” It IS a joke. Nine mills is but a drop in the bucket. What Seattle needs, to be on a par with FORTY MILLS—nothing less. That sounds impossible, but it isn’t. Local officials must be made to cut ex- penses to the bone—and if they do, they can cut the levy by 15 to 18 mills! They may breaks have yet occurred, however, (Cut it even as much as 20 mills. All cattle have been removed from the lowlands, reports mid. A big dredger has been rushed to day attempting to offset the erosion by throwing additional river sand upon the levee. Ferries transported from Sauvies island, in the Colum bia river, near Portland, within the} past 24 hours. The several hundred ranchers on the big inland have left. | Twenty thousand acres of the island | are already under water The rise of both the Willamette! and Columbia rivers continued una, | bated today Rickenbacker Hops Off Second Time} REDWOOD CITY, Cal, May 26.—} Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker took off | for a second time on hia transcontt- | nental Might shortly after 8:30 a. m.| today. “I won't be back this said as he left. The famous ace, who ix en route | to Washington, D, C., made his first | start at 4:06 a m., but was forced to return on account of for. He then| walted until the fog lifted along the | coast and took off again. Man Is Arrested time,” he Stealing Clothes! Tt two sass negatives for May 26,—James| Printing counterfeit told the police|*¢rve notes were given him by ®itite of Mra. SACRAMENTO, R. Anderson, #4 that he had served a term in the Oregon penitentiary, was arrested today as he was a local clothing cers watched him work for hours, removing articles from store with a suit case store. The offi the Finance Leaders Discuss Exports |", WASHINGTO? of the nation’s fin cussed the revival of export trade| and the entire financial policy of the government toward foreign loans at | a dinner given by President Harding | in the White House last night, it was learned today YOU LIKE TO SAVE, OF COURSE We all do. Here’s a good way to increase your savings very ma- terially. Do all your buying thru the adver- tising columns of The Star. Whatever you need to buy you'll find listed in the ads and at prices which mean worth-while economies. May 26.—a group ncial leaders dis- The best offerings of Seattle's best stores ap- pear regularly in The Star. taking goods from | two | by | | | | | | That would be half the job. The other half must be done by the legis- G- B | the river side of the dike and was to-| lature and the governor. One billion dollars of wealth now escapes taxation BY LAW. 1000 cate! Fhe law must be changed. That wealth hould be on the taxroll, the same as it is n California, Oregon, New York, and else- where. If we depend on local officials alone to give us the 40-mill cut we are entitled to, we are merely kidding ourselves. If we de- pend on the legislature alone, we are equally foolhardy. The buck must not be passed to either one) agency or the other. BOTH AGENCIES MUST BE SET TO WORK. aha: (GIVE BLOOD IN COUNTERFEIT PLANT SEIZED Blood sorted to this afternoon to mave the R. E. Morton, poison if her condition does not im |prove, Dr. G. R. Marshall, Bldg., declared today. Mra, Morton, living at, the Diller hotel, was poisoned Monday. after noon while visiting friends. Her husband found her tn a comatose condition and rushed her to the Co- lumbus Sanitarium. Indications poimted to poisoning. Her condition proved Thursday Held on Charge of transfusion was to be re- $5 federal re-| lifer in the Walla Walla, state penitentiary at is claimed by Hugh C. Hamilton, 34, paroled convict, who is held in Tacoma Thursday federal authorities. With W. L. Butts, 30, who ts held as a witness, Hamilton was arrest ed in Tacoma Wednesday b cret service operative from Seattle assisted by C. D. Osborne and D. Peterson, Tacoma city detectives, | Hamilton was arrested on the! street. When they went to his room in the Avenue hotel the offi cers found Butts in bed. He is said to have admitted purchasing photographic supplies that were found in the room. In addition to the glass plates, five film negatives of $5 reserve notes were discovered together with bleaching material, developer and wilk threads for use in imitating banknote paper. Hamilton was sent to Walla Wal Ja on a charge of grand larceny He claims to have brought the plates from the prison in the false bottom of a small box he carried, | victim, a ne alcoholic had im Alleged to have stolen a diamond [bracelet and lavalliere valued at }$1,000, and pawning them for $80, | Rollo Morris, 30, was held on an open charge by police Thursday Morris is said to have stolen the Jewelry from Mrs. Libby Duncan, 2715 Fourth ave After pawning the trinkets Mor- jris traded the pawn ticket for an automobile, according to police. ‘The lavaliicre is set with diamonds and old ivory, in a setting of select: ed nuggets. Morris, who ts a cripple, painter by trade. Seaver Burglar re at Work Here Again Silk shirts, collars and suits were | the‘loot gained by a dapper burgar|(_.. €©68§6@.ss§s ss >sS who ransacked three ioe Wanted: More Automobiles ! Wednesday night in the Hillcrest the sartorial prowler were Axel etill is a hotel. Those who euffered Swanson, Frank Burns and Sam Berg. The midnight marauder also purloined a safety razor, | Flits Over Border With Load of Mail Hopping off at noon Thursday with a load of mail for the liner Em press of Russia, Eddie Hubbard, air mail pilot, waited for a return load from the Arizona Maru at Victoria, He wae scheduled to arrive back at the Lake Union hangar at 4 p. m, Here's autos, These are wanted for disabled world war veterans, too badly crippled to march in the Memorial another call for 1 about 10 or a dozen, to be Third and Stewart, Monday at 9:30 a, m, Can you be there with your bus? Very well, then telephone to B. ©, Morris, Main 7069, |San Francisco, is a reduction of 40 MILLS.| PRISONER WIRES TO. RSDAY, MAY 26, 1921, —————— | ISBRANDED AS A ‘JOKE’ Extravagances; Would Reduce Expenses First With the Knights of Pythias club rooms packed to the doors with a de. termined and entnumastic throng, 2,000 JOBLESS VETS, WITH GIRLS, PARADE STREETS IN CHICAGO CHICAGO, May 26.—Two thou sand jobless war veterans paraded thru the loop district here today AN A protest against unemploy- ment. Girls tn the parade carried ban- ners reading: “Hire a hero.” WANTED, SOME TEACHER VETS /Call Comes From Kitsap Co.; 20 More Find Jobs FE OREGON FLOOD SusPEct GRIED AGAIN TODAY B | | GRILLED ‘DETECTIVE CHIER Police Get Reports That Maha Plotted Against Bride Before He Went East Today’s developments in the police mystery surroun the disappearance of Mrs, Kate Mahoney, bride, included the reported finding of a weal Ma of a taxpayors of Seattle, thru the repre sentatives of 21 civic and fraternal organizations, demanded Wednesday an immediate and merciless retrench- ment in the cost of operating the city, county and state governments. Joba of almost every sort have been listed in The StarAmerican Legion campaign ty end unemploy- ment among world war veterans in Seattle, but the first call for school teachers was received Thursday by containing wisps of human hair floating in Lake discovery of a body, possibly that of the missing wa in the bay near Edmonds, and reported efforts on the of James E. Mahoney, detained bridegroom, to get in edt munication with Mrs. Mahoney at a New York hotel. POISONING CASE reen | Stealing Diamond! Public officials were scored for neediens expenditure of the people's | Miss Laura C. Curwell, assistant to money, ina pation wis served that|the adjutant of Rainier-Noble post. an aroused public feeling would Frank Givens, clerk of the South sweep from office those who do not}Kitsap Union high school at Port at once get down to business in an/Orchard, writes as follows: honest effort to reduce the tax bur} “I note by The Seattle @tar that den. veterans are registering for all prune, pare, taeeae,|inds of occupations. 1 wish to den bo cry. Gx on te frills. |State that the South Kitsap Union Eliminate duptication of work. Put] igh school | will require several the cost of operating the government teachers about September Ist next, on the most economical basis possi-/4nd tf any such are on your list let | ble, then go before the state logisia-|me know. They must be qualified jture and demand a revision of the E teach in the state of Washing- tax laws, speakers urged, and were ton.” wildly applauded by the crowd. “And we haven't had a teacher The meeting was called by the civic|register yet!" sald Miss Curwell. affairs comittes, Seattle lodge No. 10, | First call for pedagogues! Line Knights of Pythias. A still larger|up to the right. meeting was arranged for June 3, at} Add 20 to 173 and you have close the «ame hall, 1929 Third ave. at|to 200-—come seven! That's the new which time a permanent organization |«rand total of men who have been will be effected. Committees from|connected up with work of some all civie and fraternal and other or |sort or other so far in The Star- ganizations interested in the tax/Legion drive. question are urged to attend, Remember, call Elliott 479 and SAYS REDUCTION OF “Hire a Hero! Here are 24 more FEW MILLS A JOKE ie them that need jobs: i Charles A. Lunan, in calling the| John D. Pryor, 4340 11th ave. N. meeting to order, sounded the senti-|E., men’s furnishings salesman; civil linent of those present when he de-|¢ngineer, junior grade; storekeeper. | clared that there is a greatand grow-| T. Larson, 2809 Alaska st., copper- ing unrest in the souls of the people, |*mith, sheet metal helper. ured by unjust conditions and the| Alfred M. Steen, 1449 23d ave. W., constantly increasing tax burden. | structural iron worker The announcement of certain offi-| George Hartigan, 2305 N clals that they will lower the tax/handy man, laborer. rate a few milly he declared h joke, | Melvin KE, Gallagher, “Certain tax raising, tax spending | truck driver. | organizations are talking of reduc-| Charles Wright, 717 Blanchard st., tions in mili,” sald Lunan, “When building, repair, concrete laborer they talk cents, we'll listen to them!| George W. Martin, Foy station, Al Byers, the first speaker on the| Ford repair or driving. program, charged public officials) T, F, O'Neil, carpenter, | with starting to pase the buck when| Virgil W. Greer, 1161 John the question of tax reduction is put/show card or sign writer, | up to them. salesman. “These officeholders are like an In-| Patrick D, Ryan, 2105% Firstave., dian I used to know in Alaska,” Bey-| baker, second class, Jers said. “When I needed a moose| Roy H. Wakelin, 352 Roy st., ex: |hide and wanted to trade him a bag | pert auto man, jot beans for it*he would say, “I| Fred Bruen, truck driver, laborer. \can't want to trade,’ That's just the} 1. 4, Woolery, 3405 Clairmont ave., |trouble with the men who make our | roofer, drag sawyer, truck driver. taxes. They ‘can’t want to reduce, T. A. Stewart, 6314 Fourth ave. MEACHAM HE E., chauffeur, truck driver. | WAS “GREENHORN” William A, Stuart, 6011 First ave. “But it can be done,” the speaker |N, W., auto mechanic, fruit orchard declared. “Our forces must be con- | work, ) and if we then say ‘re| W they will retrench.” « State Representative George F. Meacham was called by the crowd when he charged the taxpayers with failing to show up at the last session of the legislature at Olympia to fight for passage of a tax revision measure that, he declared, was all ready to be submitted, “Seventy-five per cent of the legis. lators, I believe, were ready to pass that measure,” Meacham said. “And it was a good measure, too, But there was not a single taxpayer on hand to urge its passage, altho it meant his life or death.” Cries of “What was the matter with the 75 per cent?" and “Why didn't you do it, George?” were hurled at him. “I'll tell you why I did nothing,” Meacham said, “I was a greenhorn, It was my first time there. And a man learns more during the last 10 days of his first session—after every. thing is over—than he does in the |50 days preceding.” | BEYERS AGAINST IAL SESSION | ‘© don't need any special’session lof the legislature to cut expenses,” | he declared, “There is ample author- lity given by the laws we now have. | In the last two years public officials have doubled our expenses, without | the ald of the legislature, Can't | they get the old machine into re. 44th st, chauffeur, et., N R. Buchan, 6124 Palatine ave., 1 woodworker, Marvin L. McDonald, ave, 8, truck driver. W. J. Sheehan, automobile man F. Walk, R. F. D, No. 7, electric- ian,. construction work. McDonald, 2215 ers or brick mason’s helper. Fden, 155 Florentine st., dye worker. Hobart Shan, 6409 Latona ave., shipping or receiving clerk, drive auto, C. R. Watling, 5525 11th ave, N. stenographer, typist, clerk, gar- dener, Janitor. James M. Ritchie, grocery clerk. 5250 39th To Appoint Taft as Chief Justice WASHINGTON, May 26.—Presi- dent Harding has decided to appoint William Howard Taft to the high office of chief justice of the United States as successor to the late Rd. ward Douglas White, it was learned here today on the highest authority, The nomination of Taft may go to the senate within a week or ten days. |Oldest Bellringer of England Is Dead LONDON, May 25.—Stated to be the oldest bellringer in the country, verse? John Heathorn died at Guildford in “Salaries in the engineer's office his 98th year, He learned to ring (Turn to Page 4, Column 3) church bells 80 years ago. counter | Fourth ave.,! The trunk lid was found Tuesday Union auxiliary power plant by Mn CA boat resident at 1023 Fair- view ave..N., at—the-foot of Prospect That it may be part of the trunk for which the police) have been dragging the lake) for more than 24 hours in the hope of finding a clue to Mrs. Mahoney, was consid- ered possible today. Mrs. Green announced her discov- ery Thursday morning, after she had read in Wednesday night's Star of the search for the trunk, in connec- tion with the Mahoney case. Mrs. Green says she thought at } first that the hair was fine excelsior. | Mrs, Green raked the hair ashore, she says, and then threw it back in- to the lake. The trunk lid, however, was sal- vaged. There are no marks of iden- tification on it, Mrs. Green says it resembles trunks used years ago, when she was a girl. FOUND LID WHILE GATHERING DRIFTWOOD In front of Mrs. Green's residence are three other houseboats, vacant. Svery morning early she goes out on the floats on which these houses rest nd fishes driftwood out of the lake {*s her fuel. Tuesday morning she found the trunk lid not more than two feet from one of the floats. She was at the point of breaking it up for what little fuel it might produce, then changed her mind and set it to dry. As soon as she saw Wednesday night’s Star it flashed thru her mind that the lid might be from the trunk police were seeking. The lid is that of a medium-sized trunk, and it is badly battered and corroded. The Mahoney trunk is described as @ large trunk, which had been re- painted a tan color. DRAGGING ‘GOES ON DAY AND NIGi Dragging opefations by the police began at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning. Day and night since that hour a po- Uce patrol boat with detectives aboard has been combing the bottom of the east end of the lake above University bridge with grappling hooks in the hope, it is said, of bringing up the mystery trunk From houseboat residents living on the east arm of the lake it was! jlearned today that detectives have been working in that locality for nearly a week, and that nearly every houseboat occupant there has been |interviewed either by Deputy Prose- cutor T. H. Patterson, Detective Capt. Tennant or some of Tennant’s me: From the nature of questions asked by the detectives and meager bits of information dropped by them, people living in the neighborhood have been led to understand; (1) That the trunk clue was first picked up in the office of an express company here or in St. Paul or Du lth, | SHIPPED TRUNK FRO) | EAST TO HOUSEBOA (2) That the express company rec: jords show Mahoney shipped a trunk from one of the two Hastern cities to a houseboat on Lake Union. @) That Mahoney, during the last half of April, rented a small white rowboat from Howard & Sons’ canoe factory, near the east end of the lake. (4) That Mahoney was seen by sev- eral persons rowing in the boat at night, (5) That he had some person in the boat with him, probably a boy, or an object that, at a distance, at night, ; cuted by Mrs, Mahoney of her near the Lak es Or would it require the ices of a spiritualistic medium , ¢ reach her? Police believe her dead may be in a trunk at the b of Lake Unton, But Attorney Lee John counsel for her husband, u arrest here, to her in New York, He she will reply to it—some ti next month, Will she? might be mistaken for a boy, sibly a trunk standing on end. (6) That the rowboat, after week rental period had expired, wa found by its owners submerged the shore of the lake, some dis from the canoe factory, () That a prisoner whom and Patterson brought to the Tuesday was Mahoney, and that object of the visit was to p Mahoney to point out’ the where the trunk was sunk. ROWBOAT TIED UP BY TENNANT’S ORDERS The small white rowboat is have been tied up in the cance tory by Tennant's orders wi Wednesday afternoon, when it waa reelased and put on the rental Ist again, Mahoney, according to his ney, Lee Johnston, has denied edge of any trunk mystery, Thursday morning Mahoney taken from his cell to Tennant’s of. fice, where he was grilled by the de tective chief for an hour, ‘Te! refused to give any hint as to what transpired during that hour, He is still being held on a charge — of alleged forgery for having execu — ed alleged bogus papers granting himself power-of-attorney over hig wife's property. Regarding these papers, Johnston said Thursday that they were exe ont i S free will in the office of B. J. & notary in the Lumber Ex building here, shortly after her max — riage to Mahoney, “The papers were regularly out,” said Johnston, “and are ed in the office of the county audi- tor, where they should be.” : SENDS WIRE TO HER IN NEW YORK Johnston said he had wired Thurs day morning to Mrs. Mahoney, send- ing the telegram addressed to the Im ving hotel, 26 Gramercy Park 8., New York city, “Mahoney and she had planned to meet at the Irving early th June,” Johnstone explained. “I sent the wire to let her know what has hap pened here, She'll get it when she arrives at the Irving. We don't know — where *she is right now, but be am sured we'll get in touch with her if we wire hard enough.” Johnston sald Patterson and Ten nant assured Mahoney this morning that they would not prosecute him on the forgery charge if Mrs, Ma+ honey turns up. Police ‘Thursday were tnvestigat- ing the report that a body was — seen floating a few feet beneath — (ram te Pane 4 evra