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Ly ovr See Fe MAAS AT ts M4 2.2 Oe By 10,000 Plurality The Star Is Daily Elected Seattle’s | EM Weather Tonight cloudy; Wednes- day, fair; moderate southwesterly winds. Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 73. Minimum Today noon, 60, Entered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, pJAP CONFESSES MURDER On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star , under the Act of Congress Mareh 8, 1619. Per Year, by Mail, & to $9 avorite Paper ae ~ SEATTL iE, WASH., , TU ISDAY, JU NE 7 Greetings, folks! Didja see the 12-year-old chass wiz knock Seat- tle sharks for a goal? The ex- citemen; was intense. One of the local marvels almost moved in 33 minutes and 17 seconds, equaling the championship ree- ord for speed in the entire Sam- mamish yalley. eee ADAM'S ADVANTAGES Whatever troubles Adam hh. He had no cause for wrath; He didn’t need to fix up blinds So Eve could take a bath Whatever troubles Adam had, To grind he had no axes; They didn’t load upon his home, The burden of the taxes, Whatever troubles Adam had, He had no cause to fret; "No picture puzzies then to solve, Nor any silhouette. eee You don’t haye to be beautiful to Become a soloistein “The Wayfarer,” Mt is announced today. Yes, look at Caruso, and warble Lkewise. } ese Henry Albers won't go to prison after all. Give the U. S. supreme court the benefit of the doubt. ~May- tag Jearned jurists thought prison too good for ‘him. eee ‘a job in some of our restat St Ss with ig gangs oS Pais A PRAYER Lam searing Ue end of life's Let me look o'er the path I have trod Ana now. 1 played ‘tale every inch of ‘ the w: Ast sit ig the fireside and nod. Let me, ten, Hold no barren regrets for the past. Let me feel that my name is respected by men, And let them be friends to the last. When the locks time has left me are poanty and xray, And my teeth have long since censed | to mouit, Let me sit by ihe fire in a dignified way, And not try to act like @ colt . THAT WALKING STECK © - (Attica, Ind., Tribune) A cane was found by one of our citizens and left at this office for | idehtification and reclamation. It/is not much of a cane, but still, view- ing the stick from a psychological side glance, it must have done serv- for vy wieMy.cfub, such ag a strong-man would use. Tt ‘¢ not a very long} cane; therefore, it must have be longed to a man with long arms. siditly stooped, with the habit of | walking’ in deep meditation, with face © cast downward. Therefore this walk ing stick must have belonged to a professional man—a doctor or a law. | yer, perhaps. Judeing from the color | of tie cane the owner must be} @ark-complexioned, gray-hatred and) > eyes dither gray or brown. At a clos@r look at this stick the eonclu sion is reached that the former owner must have held some puliic *, {School for “Women Workers in In Ice to some citizen of Attic many years. It iy not a hes office for quite a number of ye Demandmg a breakfast, an uniden- man flashed a giant razor on @ Peattle family this morning. He htn't to have any difficulty ie hen years number three score) AUTOS CLAIM They rl Go to Bryn Mawr TAX IT wo ‘Working Girls Picked PLOT Above, Hazel Fingere; below, Letta Mae Perkins Miss Hazel Fingere and Miss Letta; Mae Perkins will attend exclusive Bryn Mawr college this summer. They fre the winners of the Bryn Mawr /seholarsitp for the summer as it shows it had been shifted from |dustry,” June 15 to Best 10. the right to the left hand an in calculable number of times on oc casions when the owner met up with, fellow citizens with franchises se ex. ercise. Mf the owner of this w: stick will call at this office, coneets the property and pay for this noti at 5 certs a giad to turn tt see We lamped the following in the ast week | Muskogee (Okia.) Phoenix am opera singer sang ‘Salome’ en Closed in 28 treads and 22 of them) | BY CHARLES EDWARD HOGUE | were perspiration.” see Mrs. Newlywed—Oh, mister, that ham we got yesterday was no Butcher—Impossible! Why it was just cured. Mra. Newlywed—Well, it must have had a relapse. oe 6 We read In the paper the other day where some hich brdw vaid that young as she looks young as long as he and the md keeps looking. Thompson’s Power ia Chicago Hit CHICAGO, June 7.—-The political organization of Mayor William Hale Thompson was de election, when co circuit court Jud by approximate Eleven democrats and 10 repubit cans were the successful candi running in the democratic column The city hall candidates were tick @ted on the “republican” ballot 000. we would be very | eane over to him. ted at Monday's) have not been determine alition ticket for 8 was victorious tes, among 28 appli ce This Assists Girl Detective’ in Making Purchase and Nabbing Peddler (Fourth of » series of narratives of her m adventures, written exclasively for Star by the girl White Cross werke: who has been leading the drive agwinst Meattle dope gangsters.) BY CLAIRE DULAC ‘NFORMATION had to White Cross headquarters that | there was a big Greek ring handling | dope wholesale in Seattle and that A Pete, alias Gregory, was the leader | Perry Smith were charge after a public fight at Third | trickled thru} cuihiamadbenms ‘t, so I knocked off and he grabbed my Mr. Smith furnished $20 batl for herself and Was released. her husband in jail to think it over, hataitties were due to autos running Later she returned and bailed aim I determined to get A. Pete. About this time a poor devil of an addict staggered Into the arms of one of our government operatives, and begging for dope. “vein shot.” words, he “shot” the stuff with a hypo needle into the big vein in his isa roads und bridges. He was a vic-| ‘The police did not Jearn the ad-|OF WARNING SIGNALS dress of Smith's home. Mrs. Emmanuel Seitz, 22, treated at city rni y M tion, Up to a few years affo any doc- tor in the land would have taken oath that it was Impossible to Inject ,dope into the véins directly without But the dope fiend Seitz, it Is alleged, was drunk, and In a jealous rage struck ‘bis’ wife with a hand grenade of the type used lit the world war. The woman was taken to city how pital by Patrolman R. C. Moulton, where it was found she was suffer- ad-jing from a spgained ankle |dict the name of a taxi driver who | bruises on the head and breast. | Pas a “visiting lst of hop joints and 1 went down town and got into his taxt, “Take me to Pete's,” was a long chance, but it worked. \Mexican Maniac Without a word he drove off. » took me to a cigar store xt Prefontaine place I recognized him at once, tts alwaye beet, 1 have found, to get directly down to business with | out stammering or delay “Could I get about 25 ounces of C by tomorrow?" suffering death. \Giseovered that by so doing kick” was instantaneous and that {death did not often result. I learned from our “vein shot” Seitz is said to be a war veteran. jtsnes fails to see them. Police Tuesday had found no trace} Murders American GUADALAJARA, Mexico, June one of the most | widely known men in Mexico, was shot and prob- ably mortally wounded by a maniac . according to ad-| uperintendent Durango division of the Mexi- can Central railroad, attacked by an man interned in a private car, ac- cording to meager information here, battle which followed He agreed to meet me at noon in a restaurant at Ninth the next day, that I was going to land, a of the really big dealers in narcotics, I knew he wouldn't have the stuff | , with him the next day at noon. This! was shot twice thru the head. | meeting would be for the purpose of é feeling me out. |#alers like to look before they leap. ‘That evening on 8 and I left satisfied | ELL, WELL! HUGH HAS A BIRTHDAY It's a secret, and all that sort > really doesn't look orf ave. I was laid upon my I turned quickly “Don't be seairt,” driver who had tak |fontaine Place "| hours before members of Gar-) ment Workers’ local No, 17. rinned the tax! me to the Pre store a few) “It ain't the law- I want to talk some Announcement was made Monday |afternoon by Miss Clara Taylor. dustrial secretary of the Nocthwest- field committee | thru 40 summers and about the same number of winters. who is in the East at present, was 40 years old Tuesday. I entered his car. We drove out : CHINESE REBELS DESTROY TOWN Port of Ichang Is Looted | Highwayman Leaps on Run- ning Board in Park and Partially Burned HANKOW, China, June 7.—Muti | nous Chinese troops have looted and artially burned Ichang, treaty port ie miles northwest of here, for the | second time in six months, according to official reports reaching Hankow. arrive today Consular reports indicate attempts to check the troops in reported opium stnuggling operations caused the uprising. The offices of the Robert Dollat peteamship and trading interests, Ar- nold Bros. the Bank of China’ and| other foreign firms, were looted The custom house and Japanese consulate were damaged, Casualties but are expected to i a the November mutiny at ne, when 60 were killed and $2,000,000 in property de. stroyed, OLYMPIA.—-Dr. James Le nts for stete I dentistry, ses to pract Jof the business district before hej Then he inquired: WHO’S THIS? AUTO DRIVER IS ROBBED OF $30 Find out where he keeps his plant and me and a couple of friends will go out and knock It We'll split what we get four -you @ quarter, d my two friends a quarter each." | ‘ “That's not my T deal square or not at all This double-crossing never gets you | First thing you kno fellow enlls the law down on| me a quarter was driving his automobile down the | winding road thru Woodland park to ,» When a high “The Greek must have $5,000 wort of the stuff somewhere. half and me and my friends wilt Load | |the other half,” I didn't want to lose his friendship. He might prove of So I fold him I'd think it over Jand call him up, and he drove me back to town, jand his friends were “on the vd from the shelter of the trees }and pushed a black revolver under | Hane’s nose, American, British and Japanese | | gunboats have been dispatched to! | Ichang, took Kane's pocket: and tan off | containing $30, appearing in the f where they are expected to) down the road, value by and} dup was a small man with Kane runs an au- tomobile repatr shop at 614 19th ave. assuring me Price & Carter Photo-Sithouette, We take pleasure im introducing this evening— A gentleman long in the public eye, |personally and as a speaker known ‘to thousands in the city, and a man “knock him over.” | whose profile you should have little difficulty in recognizing, a, a watch of | fety, a gold chain and numerous articles of jewelry when was entered by burglars early Tuesday. bea of alothes a eam stead, when I saw lI’ete at the restan- rant the next noon I cemented our | acquaintance and satisfied Pete that I was playing square by telling him of the scheme He agreed to deliver 26 ounces of |dope to me that evening at the price I was to come to Concrete Postoffice Robbed of $3 Cash’: The postoffice at Concrete, was robbed of silhouette published yesterday in a taxl,|was that of--ah, you guessed it?— of $46 an ounce and Judkins st. ash in tha sum of Watch for tomorrow's silhouette, et me at the foot/and the name of the man pictured (Turn to Last Page, Column 1) lleading down the hill at that point, report received by Postofftice Inspec-|and he would m ~ 'FWO CE TS IN § VICTIMS AS ETY SIGNALS LIE UNUSED! MAN, WIFE IN FIGHT ON STREET Disagree on Breakfast; Vet- | eran Hurls Grenade STARTLING STATISTICS IN REPORT No Effort to Check Numbe of Injured in County’s Auto Crashes Alarming figures compiled today | by Dr. Willis H. Corson, coroner, | show that aute accidents in King} county since the first of the year have resulted in a toll of 28 persons | killed. No record whatever has been kept lof the much greater @umber of per. |sofis maimed. According to the coroner's chart, three of the 28 met death at grade crossings where autos were hit by trffins, and one quarter of all the NO UNIFORM SYSTEM A cursory survey of some of the Most heavily traveled Begin! rouds a hy the county to light: M1) That the kas no uni system Of signals to warn mo- toriets approaching dangerous curves and bridges. (2) ‘That there are at least half a dozen different kinds of signals and warning boards in use. (8) That these are so alike in de. sign to the countless advertising Placards and signboards that abound along much-travgied highways that the motorist ts confused and some (4) That they are especially hard to distinguish at night. (5) That at.some grade crossings there are no warning boards or sig- nals whatever, (6) That at many bad curves there are signals at~ one approach and :|none at the other, That the county has purchased a number of safety signal devices that show a red target in daylight and reflect a red flare from the auto's headlights at night, but that many of these signals have never been put up and are stored out of sight {n the basement of the County: city building. “This automatic signal is a fine thing,” sald Deputy Coroner H. E. MacDonald today,’“and is the best means of warning motorists that the county could buy. It has proved highly satisfactory on the roads where it is in use, and ts different from any of the advertising sign- boards tacked up along the road. When the headlight strikes the re- fector and the red flares up the autoist slows down. But the signal doesn't do any good stored in the basement,” No kind of signal would, of course, prevent the most frequent fatal acci. dent—the killing of pedestrians by autos. The coroner's records place the number of such deaths in the county since January 1 at 16, Former Roadhouse Man Under Arrest Frank Rosie, famed for his former proprietorship of several roadhouse: in Sunnydale, Black Diamond and other place's, has been arrested in Tacoma at the request of Sheriff Matt Starwich here. Rosle is charged with removing mortgaged property, an automobile, from this city, with. out permission. Price of Ford Cars Cut $15 to $50 Each Effective Tuesday, prices of Ford motor cars are reduced from $15 to $50 per car. Ford chassis lists at $360, a reduc tion of $15; the roadster ts $370, a reduction of $25 touring cars, $415, a reduction of ,$25; coupes, $695, a reduction of $50; sedan, $760, a re- duction of $35, and truck chassis, $496, a reduction of $35. Want Customs Fine | of $450 Remitted Officials of the N. Y. K. com jpany, _ opératots of the Oriental liner Kashima Maru, have applied for remittance of a customs fine of $450, assessed when five pounds of cocaine were discovered hidden) on the boat, | VERY LATES! JAP CONTRACTOR SURRENDERS AS SLAYER OF COUNTRYMAN Declaring, according to county and police officials, that he is the man who killed M. Hamma, Japanese, at 507 Main st., on March 14, Moye Yamamoto, 35, Japanese contractor, surrendered himself to Sheriff Matt Starwich Tuesday afternoon. He was turned over to Captain of Detectives Charles Tennant, who booked him at the city jail on an “open” charges Yamamoto’s surrender was arranged by Gordon and Nolte, attorney of Tacoma, who stated that they had been retained as counsel for the accused man. Hamma was struck~on the back of the head and killed in a fight. His assailant fled. Suspicion) pointed to Yamamoto, who could not be found. Yam- mamoto is said to - have been sentenced to from one to sixteen years in Monroe reformatory in Septem- ber, 1912, upon conviction of assault in the second” degree. He was later transferred to the state peni- tentiary at Walla Walla, from where he was released some time ago. Yamamoto was being grilled by detectives this afternoon. * * LEW CODY INJURED WHEN AUTO GOBS OVER BLUFF When a tourthg car plunged off a high cliff on e highway between Bremerton and Seabeck, across the sound from here, late last night, Lew Cody, motion picture star) with the other passengers in the auto, — was injured. None was injured seriously. The car ~ turned a complete somersault before it hung up on trees part way down the bluff. Had it gone all the way down it is probable that all the occupants ~ of the car would have been killed. W. F. Lindekugel, © of Bremerton, was showing Cody and his manager, Joseph Brown, some of the roads leading out of | be Brémerton. There were eight in the car, ingluding’ | two women. Besides the three named there were F, Marshall Taylor, Bremerton theatre man, And Taylor. Ira Chapman. and epee Rechte Cameron, AMERICAN LEAGUE R. H. ¢ Boston’. .......2001 Richmond,’ Pximer, Burwell and mavebe: Bush, Russell Ruel. Cleveland ........000100001—2 65 At New York ....30051000*%—9 8 Coveleskie, Odenwaid,- Morton Nynamaker; Shawkey Shang. Detroit .......000000011 ee At Washington .1010000001—3 8 Leonard, Sutherland and Ainsmith, Bassler; Zachary Gharrity. ‘ Chicago Phiiagetpbia a meron on account of sy. * NATIONAL LEAGUE R. H. New York .......000000000—0 5 At Cincinnati ....00310200*%—6 18 Watson, Oeschger and O'Neil); Zinn and Schmidt Boston .......26:.2000038221—10 15 At Pittsburg .....104000200—7 13 Benton, Nehf and Snyder; Marquard and Hargrave, Philadelphia ......000221001—6 9 At Chicago .......80041000*%—8 12 Hubbell, Baumgartner = oe ; Freeman and Daly, ASKS COURT TO HELP HIM SEE BALL GAMES James L. Finnessey asked the superior court this afternoon to-help him see the baseball games, alleging that he has been | excluded from the ball park. Me obtained from Judge King ~ Dykeman an order directing the Seattle ballgelub, W. Mi. Klep: per and James R. Boldt to show cause Friday morning why they should not be restrained from ruling him out of the park, In | connection with the matter Finnessey also filed sult asking $25,- — 000 damages, claiming he has been humittated by reason of his — exclusion fromthe games. Attorney John EB, Murphy is counsel ~ for Finnessey. r * e *% MEUSEL GETS 10TH HOMER CHICAGO, June 7.—Meusel of the Phillies forged ahead of Kelly of the Giants when he whanged out his 10th homer in the fifth inning against the Cubs today. No one was on base Freeman was pitching. Kelly has soaked nine circuit swats, LASKER SEES HARDING WASHINGTON, June 7.—The chairman of the U. 8. ship- ping board was still unsettled late today after a long confer — ence between A. D. Lasker and President Harding. Lasker, after leaving the White House, declared that he had not yet made up his mind about taking the post, and that he would talk further with the president tonight. FLOOD THREATENS DENVER DENVER, Colo., June 7.—Reports from watchmen in the Platte river flooded area here at noon said the river was rising rapidly and that a widespread inundation of the city’s lowlands is feared. arly today the Platte was stationary, but fresh rains have sent it up again. Joe Richter, 40, was drowned in the swollen stream this morning when he attempted to ¢ross I. * & *% PUEBLO DEATH TOTAL IS 47 PUEBLO, Colo, June 7.—With the bodies of seyen more — dead recovered today from the mud-covered flood district of Pueblo, the list of total known dead was brought to 47 this afjernoon, Of these Pueblo morgues contain 40, including two the nine persons reported, drowned on the Kendall farm at) Baxter, south of here, * * MAY RECOGNIZE MEXICO WASHINGTON, June 7%,—A decision was reached today at the meeting of President Hanting and his cabinet on the ques: tion of recognition of the Mexienn governmet, {ft was an nounced following the ae esi HARD TO GET MURDER JURY TACOMA, June 7.—Twenty-five talismgn were examined today in an attempt to get a jury to try Edward F, Filion, Camp Lewis soldier, charged jointly with three other soldiers, with the “A murder of Karl A. Timbs, Tacoma taxiéab driver, . ig q