The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 13, 1921, Page 1

~ + ee By 10,000 Plurality The Star Is Daily Elected Seattle’s Favorite Paper VOMAN Ew @eather Tonight and Tuesday prob- ably showers; moderate southwesterly winds. ‘Temperature Last 24 Hours Minimum, 51. Today noon, 52. Maximum, 7@. See Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1 at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of Congress March &, 18 IN STATION OF INTERURBAN On the Issue of Americanism There ‘Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Per Year, by Mall, §5 to $9 oe x @ (ee EDITION SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1921. G’wan! Bring on Your Traffic! |GRIEVES — TACOMA OPENS {BOYCOTT ON SEATTL WELL, THAT'S DEFINITELY SETT | “The Bon Marche building is otned by the Bon Marche, therefore the new lease, just closed, definitely ) settles the occupancy of the block in ff definitely."—From our contempo: he? rary, Seattle Journal of Com merce. | eee | Roy Haines, Ohio editor, has been appointed national prohibition direc- tor. How times have changed! | ee WILD AND WOOLLY WEST | SEATTLE Raidink the duck yard of A. Gey: @r, 50th ave. S. W. and W. Hines st., in West Seattle, Friday large black bear m With only a few charges of buckshot, in his hide.”"—Afternoon newspaper. eee John PD. Rockefeller earned his first dollar looking after turkeys. | Many a Second ave. youth would have spent it looking after chickens. | eee LAMP THIS “Bernt Wick and daughter, Beat rice, have gone to Bismarck to spend | [| several days visiting.”—Fargo, N. D., Forum. eee JOSH WISE BAYS Th’ man th’t never knows when he is licked gits many 3 good beatin’. eee Sign on Melrose ave. auto repair “Fords recovered while you wait.” That's better than the police can ete hsian: mei “A e 7s) TODAYS WORST "=. ¥F. S. Franklin postcards this one: \& “My favorite chin reaper declares that the reason barbers take such tremendous delight in removing in- growing hairs is because they nick | his razor. Must think we're Poles.” eee OUR SMASHING SERIAL SCENARIO 2 Percy Hall, secret service opera- "tor, is immediately recaptured after “he escapes from the death room of “The Red Horror, the maniaca! bol-| “shevist, who is intent on destroying ‘the National Capitol, He is strapped > to the fuselage of a Liberty airplane, oo wh is then cranked. The control P_ Btick is so fastened that the machine | head upwards. eee ‘The fade-out shows the machine “starting off down the flying field rising gradually until it is a small speck in the sky. The last geen of Hall he is hanging head down from the under-carriage of the | plane, vainly trying to chew thru/ Li the ropes that hold him to the bot “tom of the machine. . (Continued Next Week) eee “Announcement of the granting of | a chapter of Alpha Delta Phi, nation. | men's fraternity.”-—Newspaper. sh! And we always thought that | "Alpha Delta Phi was a women's fra ~ ternity! Rea Oe NO, INDEED! Of course, the “buyers’ strike” didn’t have anything to do with the| recent reduction of prices. ene NO REFLECTIONS ON THE NEW | WASH TON Roy Carruthers, Eastern capitalist, stopping in Seattle at the New Wash- ington, declares that university re- gents should build new hotel at once. WHO’S THIS? _the Todd shipyards, $50,000 HEART - SUIT DISMISSED Action Against Rich Idaho Mrs. Myrtle Schott'’s $50,000 heart im suit HAPS TACOMA HAS A GRIEVANCE STAR REPORTER went to Tacoma today and discovered that Seattle is being “boycotted” by many organizations and institutions there. This was news to him, and probably to nearly everybody in Seattle except the wholesalers who have been officially notified of the boycott. The reason is this: Tacoma claims that in Eastern newspapers, trade publications, film reviews and magazines there is a consistent Seattle “propaganda” to make everything in the Puget Sound country appear as an adjunct ot Seattle, the existence of Tacoma being ignored. This has been carried to such an extent, Tacomans claim, that residents of the neighboring city are referred to as “of Seattle’; that Tacoma schools and parks are referred to as “in Seattle’; that Camp Lewis is lo- cated at the Seattle city limits, and that The Moun- tain not only is called “Mount Rainier” but is made to appear in a park with Seattle as the nearest gate- way. Tacomans think there is a studied purpose in all this—that the city of Seattle and the business men of Seattle generally want to claim everything in Ta- coma as Seattle’s own, completely ignoring the fact that the other city is some miles away and leads a separate existence. Nobody in Seattle who This, of course, is not true. cluding Point Defiance park, the Tacoma thinks straight can expect to gain vestry Aly A in- ‘um, Goy-,. College of ernor Hart as among the city’s at! Yet Tacomans point to a large number of cases in which things such as these have been done. Whatever agency of publicity is cutting these capers ought to be called to task. It is easy to understand how an inexperienced or smart aleck ad writer or publicity man might consider it “clever” to annex a couple of counties—but certainly no person in a posi- tion to pass on this “copy” should send it thru. We know doggone well that the United Press doesn’t send out news stories of Tacoma happenings under a Seattle dateline, making them appear as taking place in Seattle. If there IS any serious agency in this city that is systematically decrying our neighbor’s possessions it? ought to be stopped. The greater likelihood is that there is no such agency; that the repeated affronts to which Tacoma objects are merely the result of care- lessness or lack of knowledge that connects everything in the Puget Sound region with the biggest city thereof, coupled with occasional over-enthusiasm of some individual. Here in Seattle we are prone to locate anything within a 50-mile radius of the national metropolis as “of New York.” The pet peeve of Newark, N. J., 1s that nobody regards it as a city. Yet it has nearly a hundred thousand more people than Seattle. Oakland has the same grudge against San Francisco that Tacoma has against Seattle; Akron has the same grudge against Cleveland, St. Paul against Minneapolis, Ogden against Salt Lake, Council Bluffs against Omaha. The smaller city always takes these things serious- ly; the larger city often does not. No responsible citizen in Seattle wants to rob Ta- coma of any of its heritage. We don’t even give a darn about The Mountain’s name, except that, like most of the rest of the nation, we have the habit of calling it “Rainier.” If there IS anybody here who is trying deliberately to rob Tacoma of her fair name, let us feed him to the dogs. 3 TRIED FOR Rancher Is Dropped coma Case TACOMA, June 13.—The against §$. Knutson,|Panions of Private Edward Soldiers Face Court in Ta- com- Filion, Lewiston, Idaho, rancher,|found guilty b of court by Judge | complicity in wealthy was thrown out the | Timbs, on | | | ‘False Publicity Sent Broad- | « cast, Charge; Business | Swung to Portland | TACOMA, June 13.—A campaign to boycott Seattle business houses, launched last week by druggists, had grown today to notable proportions. | The movement has oven officially | indorsed by numerous commercial or- waninath | Clecusss® subje@t on every street cor- | ner. SEATTLE TRYING TO | “CORNER” PUBLICITY? 1 The reason for this sudden attack is the belief that an organized cam. | palgn is being waged at Seattle to de prive this city of publicity in the East and elsewhere, For instance: | In the Credit Monthly (New York) j the report of the Northwest confer. ence recently held at Seattle is print: jed under a Seattle date line. The article states that Spokane, Portland, Wichita, Great Falls, Butte and Seat- tle were represented by large delegn- ‘tions of credit men, but <a not | mention Tacoma, tho Tacoma won |the banner for having the largest | representation, | In the Japanese Chronicle (Kobe) ‘the visit of the steamer Wenatchee is mentioned as bringing to port a delegation of Seattle business men, ‘among them “Chester Thorne, vice | President of the Seattle Chamber of |Commerce.” .Thorne is a Tacoma | capitalist, chairman of the’ port com- | mission and one of the city’s leading | citizens. In news films and in picture sec tions of Eastern dailies and else- | where, Point Defiance park, the Col- lege of Puget Sound, the speedway and the stadium have been mention- ed frequeptly as “of Seattle.” CAMP LEWIS AT j OUR CITY LIMITS |, 1m Seattle publicity matter Camp | Lewis has been claimed as tho lying virtually at the Seattle city limits, In news stories and in picture cap- tions the scout cruisers Milwaukee, Cincinnati and Omaha were spoken }of as being launched at the Todd yard, Seattle. | In Eastern news items Elmer Dover has been claimed as a Seattle- ite. So also with other leading Ta- comans. In the Raymond & Whitcomb Co.'s 1921 prospectus of its Pacific North | west and Alaska tours Tacoma is not |mentioned even as the gateway to Rainier ional park nor does the name of the city appear on the map. Seattle gets big credit. In a recent Scientific American a member of the state university fac- julty is referred to as “Prof, Bell, of |the University of Seattle.” PERSISTENT PROPAGA: |FOR MANY MONTHS These are typical examples, Ta- comans here today wrathily de clared, of a persistent propaganda jextending back over a number of |months by which Seattle haw sought ‘to deliberately steal Tacoma's pub- licity. It is charged here that this cam paign ig directed by some organized bureau in Seattle, the usual belief being that ft centers in the Seattle ‘DA |Chamber of Commerce. | ‘Tacomans agree that because of the difference in size of the cities it would be natural for such mistakes to occur occasionally, but they de- clare that the steady stream of them now being noted could not conceiv. ably be explained by mere miatakes. Tacomans agree further that this unfair work is doubtless done by some few persons in. Seattle and a jury last week of |that the idea back of ft is not shared killing of Karl by any considerable number of rep- resentative Seattle business men, the retail) , and has become the most | “TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Afraid? Shucks! Not These Kids OVER THE “For-rud, march!” Policeman Clifford Guettel and his “troops” deploying across Pike st. at Summit ave. during the noon traffic rush, and (above) the reason Guettel thinks his beat is best in town.—Photos by Price and Carter, Star staff photographers. * * * Policeman Clifford J. Guettel has no children of his own. Maybe that’s the reason he likes other folks* so well. “Mine's the best beat in Seattle,” he grinned, glancing at his watch. “Just a minute and I'll show you why.” It was 11:29. He was standing on the curb on the southwest corner of Pike st. and Summit ave. where motor traffic goes by with a honk and a rush, unceasing, dangerous, and sometimes deadly. CHILDREN CAUGHT IN DEADLY WEB OF TRAFFIC Half a block up the Summit >>. hill is the Summit wee a little girl, leaving the ran down the hill, ‘iFied to cross Pike st. thru the traffic and was hit by a truck. It happened a second time, and a third, It doesn't happen any more. “Look out—here they come,” sald Guettel, turning and facing towards the school, Down the hill, tiny legs flying, hair blowing in the breeze, shouting in high crescendo, came a dozen chil- dren going home to lunch, A little girl in a whit# frock led them. “Catch me!” she cried. With all her might she leapt high 1 at noon, | | to this school. Promptly at 1 o'clock Carpenter swung off an E. Madison car and tvok his place at the curb, Guettel and he exchanged confidences about an automobile thief who had been annoying dealers recently, then Guet- tel went home, “There'll be another batch of youngsters along right off now,” Carpenter explained. “They let out one class at a time, you see, so they won't all be crossing the street at once, I take 'em across when they go to lunch and again when they come back. Then I'm here again when they go home at night. “No, sir; since the police started taking them across there hasn't been an accident,” he said, proudly. “They're a nice lot of kiddies that go You bet we like ‘em. And they like us, You'll see.” With a yip, shrilly voiced, another dozen came tearing down the hill. They jumped, and in a jiffy Carpen- ter had both arms full. They crossed the street safely, and the big police- man came grinning, enjoying the fun as much as they. Carpenter has two children of his own, Maybe that’s the reason HE likes other folks’ so well. LARSON GETS TERM IN PEN Tacoma Bank President Must Serve Time TACOMA, June 13.—Ole Larson, President of the defunct Scandina- vian-American bank, was given two sentences of from three to ten years lin the state penitentiary, following his conviction on two separate | charges of borrowing $10,000 and $6,- |000° from the bank without proper resolution of the board of directors, The two sentences are to run con- currently. Larson's lawyer told the court |that unless Larson is operated on |immediately he will die within six | months. Notice of appeal to the supreme jcourt was given. Larson's counsel argued that the bank president was not responsible for the bank's collapse, that he had been made the goat. DEATH OF HUSBAND Young Woman Slashes Throat With Razor as | Crowds Look On Grieving over the death of her husband who died two months ago” in Honolulu, Mrs. Anna C, Page, 217 24th ave., walked into the ladies* — wash room at the Tacoma interure ban station Monday morning and committed suicide by slashing her throat with a razor. Altho the station was crowded with morning commuters, Mrs. Page ~ died before help could be given her. 7 Mrs. Page was the wife of H. W. Page, a tea and coffee exporter, Who died in Honolulu on April 2 — Friends of the dead woman dec! that she has been despondent since the death of her husband. Two small children, Robert Ni Page, age 6, and Eisie Page, age 7, have not yet been told of mother's death. They are with their grandmother, Mrs. R Nelson, at 217 24th ave. Mrs, Page purchased a brand razor earlier in the morning fi Guy's drug store. She told the ci that she wanted it for a man f: SPEED MANHUN FOR DESPERAD Pyron Is Retaken: Gardr Still in Woods KELSO, Wash. June 13. man, hunt for Roy Gardner, mail bandit, is speeding up to 4 ithe woods and swamps in the Cas Rock-Kelso region. Followin capture of Norris Pyron, G pal, late yesterday along the tracks near Kelso, it was co expected early today that G could not be far off. ria, es ep ris i pow wet 4 Pyron’s capture was unse! ti It was a bloodless victory for Posseman, W. A. Pratt, of civilian member of one of the alt posse divisions which are working” all thru the wild country. : Pyron stayed Saturday night at the home of F. L. Stocks, near 80, Stocks didn’t know he had shelter to the notorious visitor, since Pyron had modestly retired to the 7] barn, until his son Nelson telephoned ~ to Kelso and notified the authorities “~ that Pyron was following the course — of the Cowlitz river. 3 The direction of Pratt's posse was changed to this supposed trail, and shortly after picked up Pyron’s trail, — following it thru the heavy ti r and up along the tracks. moved forward alone while two his companions stationed themsélves 4s lookouts behind a box car on @ siding. 5 Pratt noticed a movement in’ the tall grass a short distance along the spur, and challenged the waving alfalfa. : HE WELCOMES ¥ HIS CAPTOR “Come out,” he called, “and come ~ with your mittens up. aid “I'm comiig.” wailed a tremulous — votce in the words “Old Black ee made famous. “For God's sake, don’t shoot—I'm not Gardner.” “{ Pyron had a fully loaded .38-calls 7 ber revolver but fight was far from his mind. According to members of ~ the posse, he welcomed the protect: ing arm of the law. He feared Gardner more than he did Marshal Thomas Mulhall. . “I left Gardner just after we beat it,” Pyron tremblingly declared. “I didn’t want to escape but Gard? ner made ne. Then he told me that he'd kill me if I didn’t resist capture,” I didn't want to fight, so I turned — and away from him in the: | da) morale was low until he — Judge William D, Askren replied found himself in the shelter of the that while Larson's conviction may Kelso jail, Then he loosened up and J.T. Ronald Monday morning. Tacoma taxicab driver, But they insist that the business On notion of Attorney William A.|May 8, went to triai today before|men who are not engaged in such Gilmore, representing the defendant, |J¥¢8® Card on a murder charge.|an understanding and who do not | With the assurance that they will) believe in such tactics start a fight |not be executed, They are Sergeant lat home to put an end to the prac- |Geo. W. Sharp; Carl C, Perrin and | tice. | James Sparks. Portland wholesale houses are nant, counsel for the plaintiff. Filion was recommended for a life | benefiting from the agitation. It Judge Ronald held that because | sentence by the jury. Sudden agree- |is easily ascertainable here as a fact the alleged promise to marry was|ment of the defense to accept joint | that already the boycott has resulted Price and Carter Photo-Silhouette. | made wir in three months after Mrs.| trial of the remaining defendants is |in diverting a considerablé business This is introducing— Schott, « had obtained a div |thought to be founded on the belief|in drugs, hardware, trunks, dry Well, anyway, he is one of the|from her tormer husband, the agree.| that only a verdict of guilty can be | goods and other commodities from “Margest men in public life in Seattle,| ment was void, and Knutson, 60,| expected, and that saving the youths | Seattle wholesale houses to Port- and one of the best-natured. He has| could not be held. from the gallows is all that can be | land © @ fighting name. | The law allowed Mrs. Schott's for. | hoped for. DRUGGISTS BOYCOTT Who is it? Look for the answer|mer husband three months within| Nine men and three women were ATTLE HOUSES peomorrow. which to appeal from the divorce de-| picked for the jury early this fore- ‘Fivery downtown = Saturday's sithouette was that-pf\ctee, and within that time no agree-| noon, and testimony was begun. It|already, has stopped buying from } Carl Reiter, manager of the ment on the part of Mrs. Schott for| was expected that the case would | Seattle houses," Everett E. McMil- theatre and raconteur extraordinaire.) another marriage could hold. Igo to the jury tonigh* (Turn to Page 4, Column 5) talked freely. z He told how he had eaten supper in Kelso Saturday night, slipping |” into a restaurant there and slipping |” out again into the brush when he had finished eating. No one recog: ” nized him, He then made his way _ to the Stocks farm, where he hid in the barn. Nelson Stocks said he | recognized Pyron by the scars on his arm, and reported his presence ‘ the direction he had taken, = © Pyron showed by his manner a Gardner's fast company was distaste. | ful to him. He gave the first lucid off the curb, and her running start carried her catapulting into the arms of Policeman Guettel, just as an automobile whizzed by, almost grazing his coat tails. Another and another came, jumped into his arms, hugged him tight, kicking and laughing in keen delight. “All right,” he said, when all had reached the corner, “For'rud, march!” Strung out In a line parallel with the street car tracks his “troops” crossed safely over to the opposite curb, while traffic halted for barely 30 seconds, then roared on again. “Yes,” said Guettel, “I fetch ‘em across to the school every morning Then at 11:30 comes this bunch back. At noon Policeman O. Carpen ter relieves me.” {have been due to a certain technical. Pa ea Sims in Role Jity, nevertheless it was due to failure of Humorist? |:; observe the statutes that the LONDON, June 13,—Admiral W.| smash came. S. Sims will tell Secretary Denby| The judge told him in effect that that he was attempting humor when |if Larson was “the goat,” the 12,000 he referred to Sinn Fein sym- | depositors who entrusted their funds pathizers in the United States as |to him were also “goats,” or victims. “asses with votes,” it was believed | Sixteen of the 24 indictments on here today by persons close to him.| which Larson was held were dis- The admiral is preparing for his | missed. return to the United States to face! areprimand for his speech here, and refused to comment on the exchange of messages with Denby. It is be- ON FUNERALS lieved, however, that he will place Undertakers, florists, ministers |account of the escape. the blame for the controversy on the | and cab drivers petitioned the city] “My guard and I went intd interpretation of certain passages of | council Monday to prohibit funerals | compartment, While we were gone) his speech, which he will probably,|on Sunday. ‘The burial experts also |Gardner told me he and his guard, claim were further gurbled in cable | asked’ that cremation be put under; went into the washroom, where | transmission, [the Sunday ban, | (Turn to Page 4, Column 2 the court granted a non-suit. motion was argued at length by mere and Attorney George RB. Ten ANT BLUEY LAW druggist here Moore