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

By 10,000 Plura WRARARAAAARAAADAAAARARA ARRAS EB RARRRARDDDARDRE ARERR BREEDER IIIA DEERE ARERR ERR tet te lity The Star Is Daily Elected Seattle's Favorite Paper Ran AARAnnAnnnnnnnnnannn BANDIT CAPTURED | } 7 dy } “I just love animals!” she cried. g EM = Weather Tonight and Friday, fair; moderate erly {fh Today Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 63. northwest- winds. Minimum, 50. noon, 58. eee On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Second Class Matter May 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 The Seattle Star TH EW C= iil WASH., THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1921. “TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE GARDNER'S St. 12 New ISE” After Sam Greetings, folks! We see by the Papers that Mexico is going to cluim all the islands off the California} coast. } Wish she would take over Vashon island. Then the steamboat fares) might come down. eee liquor stores in Vancouver. in- Six government opened Wednesday More than 70 Seattleites were ured in the rush, eee WHOM! “And t®y are very dear to met" “Pet me a little while!" the young man sighed, | “I'm @ littie hoarsef” said he. ' eee “An interesting display clothes worn by prominent club women of Seattle may be seen in the windows of the Bon Marche."— From newspaper. Anybody can see the same thing by standing on any corner on Sec ond ave. of baby Which reminds us that. Corpora tion Counsel W. F. Meier says the floor walker of the Bon Marche told him thts one: A child was found crying In the aisles of the store because he had fost his mother. “Why didn’t you hang onto her skirts?’ the f. w. asked. “I couldn't reach them,” the child sobbed. 2 ue JOSH WISE SAYS You have ¢’ furnish your own wind when blowin’ yer horn. x— “Jack Knocks One Stiff in Jix Time,” says a headline on the sport, ing page over the story of Dempsey knocking out a sparring partner. We like that headline. It expresses ar own opinion of a sparring part- = Secretary Wallace says the 5-cent loaf is coming back. We don't meet many men bothering about the 5-cent joaf. But a lot of them are worry- ing over the five-month loaf. e- OH, TOUGH, TOUGH! “Visitors to Vancouver, however, can only purchase one quart of whisky or two quarts of champagne a day.”—Newspaper. This much can be said for the California millionaire who drank per- ume for its alcoholic content. He didn't have to chew cloves after wards. eee An Eastern preacher says 35,000 pulpits in the United States are va cant. That's nothing to worry about. | The thing to worry about is the pymber of vacant pews. eee + ——__— — * WHAT WE KNOW = Tt THE SKAGIT | a Cen wireenten bas ere Here lies al that was Mortal of Rupert Daniels; It was just two months ago When he changed his winter flan nels. ove “Why do you approve of the nude in art?” “Oh, I was born that way.” WHO’S THIS? |, —Price and Carter Photo-Lilhoustte. | Introducing Mr But he needs no introduction. He s*the son of his father and the fam- ly has made mercantile history in Seattle. Today's silhouctte is of a | night man who runs a great business es- tablishment, whose slogan is known | | Desperado, Caught at Cen- tralia, Covered With Bandages CENTRALIA, Wash., June 16.—Roy Gardner, elusive | mail bandit, was apprehended Oxford hotel here early today. His head and face were bandaged, but when officers removed the bandages he was easily rec- ognized as the daring mail bandit and admitted his identity. Gardner at first “A. J. Wright” and said his head was bandaged a# a result of an accident with a blow torch in a Tacoma gar age. Officers called the Tacoma garage over long distance telephone and discovered that no man of that name had ever woked there Following this conversation offi- cers who had been grilling the sup posed bandit finally prevailed upon him to admit his identity. He was taken to the Centralia jail. Gardner had been in Centralla for thrée days, according to his own testimony, having arrived here on the same train he had escaped from Friday night of last week near Cas- tle Rock, Wash. Officers did not suspect the man at the Oxford hotel until a woman, Mrs. Howell, voiced her suspicions. and informed the police that the man looked suspicious and should be watched. W. G. 7. U. IN BOOZE RAIDS As a result of a raid on four downtown hotels, in which the W Cc. T. U. joined forces with the federal _ prohibition department, three men and three held in the city jail Thursday while charges of national prohibition law violation are being prepared against them by the United States district attorney's office. For three weeks past Gordon PB. O'Harra, federal prohibition inspec tor now on furlough, has been in the employ of the W. GC. T. U, gathering information. Wednesday he visited four downtown hotels in company with Maj. Mark Y. Croxall, federal prohibition en forcement agent, who made the ar rests. At and in the the Seattle hotel, First ave James st., the sleuths pur 1 a quart of Dewar Scotch y from Frank Holmquist, a bell hop, for $12.50, they state He was arrested as soon as the sale Was made. William Campbell, & roomer at the Canday hotel, 619% First ave., was arrested when he sold O’Harra a pint of moonshine. “I then asked the Japanese pro prietor who was selling the whisky now, and he sent me to Campbell,” O'Harra stated. Lena Peterson and Julia the latter the proprietress place, were arrested at the Vald mar hotel, 1118% Third ave. They also are said to have accommodated the officers with alcoholic refresh ment. At the st. Mary I were arres' put up a st tempt to shine he Croxall. nia, is only the beginning of the crusade against bootieggers in the downtown district,” O'Harra declared Thursday. ADY LOSES HER CIGARET CASE Miss Meryle McCullough, 1603 Terry ave., reported to police Thurs day that a mean thief stole her cigar et case Wednesday night. It hap pened in Leschi park. “They were Milo violets, too,” she whisk, Smith, of th Boyd hotel, 216 Spring rker and R. Krauskopf d after the latter had nuous fight in an at roy a pint of moon had just sold to Maj Urge A. F. of L. Join Trade Union Move gave the name} women are | | | | was r |been able to lay aside during the! turn. Celia Niemark AUSTINTOW? 0., June muel Rzeszewski, 9-year-old Polish chess wonder now visiting in America, had better look to his lau lia Niemark, a little bobbed aired, gingham-dressed farmer girl, years old, goin’ on 7,” living just outside of West Austintown, is right likely to prove a stumbling block in Samuel's victorious ches career. “This little lady,” her dad, Samuel Niemark, will tell you, “just comes by chess naturally Joesn't it out of a book—her remarkab game comes out of her head.” And nobody, it seems, should know better about Celia than her dad, He's t for years. d and Celia’s 22-year-old brother David went to Youngstown, O,, when Samuel Rzeszewski was -play ing in that city, David played him and lost. When Celia heard the fam ily talking about Samuel and his wonderful playing she took her first interest in chess, And now? "Celia keeps somebody of the time “he chess board from her,” says her mother. “They used to beat Celt but not any more. y use the chess book busy most acros The chess book Mrs, Niemark was referring to was given to Celia by Frank B, Patrick, of Urbana, 0., chess champion of Ohio for several years. He had played Celia, and a Prohibition Man Out of Quarantine Federal Prohibition Inspector Sy} vester A. Moore, who has been quar: antined at his home at Kirkland for the past wee to duty Thurmlay, Moore was quarantined had been with Prohibition Director Donald A. Meb ld, when the lat ter developed diphtheria. McDonald ported much improved at his Thursday returned after he horn: ‘Mother of 4 Loses Her All little sup a A Seattle mother children whom she has been porting for seven years, The Star today to carry a m to some other attle woman whoe identity she does not know. The t a plea for the re. turn of a long leather purse which contained every cent of savings this little mother of four had of four brave seven years of her great responsi DENVER, June 16.—A resolution | bility. hruout the Northwest, and who is presented by the Firemen and Oilers’ | hr the front of civic activities. His name will appear here tomor-| row Yesterday's silhouette was that of | Judye Everett Smith of the superior ‘court, | American Federation of Labor to the international trade union movement The measure is under conside tion by the committee on interna Uonal labor relations, |delegation demands affiliation of the| minutes on a The was laid for a shelf in the lavatory of the large department As she went out, the owner behind. When she returned it a short while purse of tores. left it search for one Chess Marve! ~ % oa * + later | my’s Scalp } Weld aaa . jshort time after sent the book thru |the mails. In the inside cover is written “To Celia Niemark, the best lady chess player I have ever met over the board.” | News of Cella’s cleverness at chess | seeped in to the Youngstown Cheas and Checker club, and she was invit to join, Now that club calls her "The Queen of the Ch Board.” And why not? She has beaten practically every member of the club young and old. Asked if she was willing to chal lenge Rzeszewski, Celia appeared a bit too shy to answer, But her broth ert in “You can any girl chess cay that she challenges | player in America right now. Ar she ts eag@r to meet the Polish boy She may not be him this year, but next oll, wait and see.” : Sammy Beat ’Em All in Seattle Contests Sammy Rzeszewski earned the plaudits of Seattle chess fang last week, when, in two matches, he checkmated 27 of the best players on Pacific At the Standard urniture Co. store he took on 12 of them at defeating all in an hour and a half, Tt took him a little longer to check 15 players at the Elks’ club, two days later, Sammy lett for Portland last Thursday. Discharged Worker Kills Self by Gas 45, foundry committed suicide at 11 a, m°'Thurs- day in his room at 1110 Virginia st by turning on the gas. The body was found at 11:30 by his landlady Lying on his body was a picture of a young woman, across which he had written, “Please be kind enough }to. put th with my body.” The picture marked “Dear Irene.” Slag coast Carl Slagle, worker, | away was » lost his job Tuesday. to a Thief ,had found it. It not turned in to the lost-and-found department The was literally pennile The of why this mother jhad all savings in @ pur | which she was carrying cannot be | told he tho she sobbed out the] explanation in The Star editorial and her reason was good, | he ig praying for its re-| nat is all she can do, She woman who found it to! to the editor of The Star] pay suitable re-| was woman tory her | roor ‘Today the it offers asks | bring and | ward But reward—fi r of the purse to a the money the buy hundred will be than than ing power several the contains Sers Fire to HerOil-Soaked Clothes; Dies! TACOMA, June 16,--Sulcide by setting fire to her clothing. That was the horrible death chosen at 8:30 a. m. Thursday by Mrs, Kinkella, wife of Joo Kinkella, farmer, living half mile south Johnson's crowsing. Despondency over fll health ts thought responsible for the act The woman's scarred body was found lying on the bed tn her room soon after the blaze was set. Charles Drake and Will Abernathy, paving company em ployes, found her. The woman had saturated her clothes with coal oil before applying a match. She her head with bed-clothing to protect her face und an outery Before fire to clothes, Kinkella sent her girl of 6 to a short, distance to buy a loaf of bread, husband had just left e for his field when he, the house afire. already put out he arrived, how one ot had covered to preven set her Mrs. 6 and store covered had when di. men fire ever The woman left a note In Aus trian saying that she had been attacked by a yman wha had bound her limbs and set fire to her clothing. The coroner and deputy sheriffs took no stock in the note, however, pointing out that if she had been bouad she could not have written the note, BERRY CROP AS IN PERIL: Hug Surplus Threatens to Become Total Loss Acres of luscious Wash- ington strawberries rotting on a hundred hillsides! Profits of an entire season wiped out by one disastrous week of warm weather! The potential strawberry center of the world delayed years in development by the failure of Seattle merchants and consumers to realize the importance of a great indus-| try. eee are the outstanding facts from a survey of the strawberry situation here ‘Thursday. With the Puget Sound country pro- ducing more berries than ever before in its history and the canneries over. stocked with last’ year's berry producers are facing the total loxs of a large part of this season's These emergent extra now up" fruit, t housewives “do jars of the luscious cheap restaurants slash high prices for the berries, are a few of the remedies proposed by those interested in the advancement of the industry. The vital need of a great canning establishment in this section is em- sized by the failure of the bervy | ket this year. iS MAY BE ON MARKET Prices at present kept at a fair level because the canneries are still a orbing a large percentage of the fruit When t have taken all the fruit called for in their contracts, the surplus berries will be dumped on the market and prices may drop until it will not pay the farmers to harvest their crops. Thursday there were 60,000 pounds of strawberries at the Bell St. dock alone, In a week it is predicted that more than 1,- 000,000 pounds will be piled up in storage. Strawberries grown on Bainbridge, Vashon, Fox and other islands, at Kingston, Bellevue and other ducing centers on Puget Sound, are the finest in the world, according to the experts. Put up in cans or preserved (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) in Delay Selection of Big Fight Referee JERSEY CITY, N, J, June 16 jon of the referee for the Dempsey-Carpentier bout was indefi nitely postponed today by the New y state athletic. commission. Action was deferred at the request of Tex Rickard, the promoter, who informed the commission he “was vi tally interested” in the selection of referee and asked that the matter Se left open until he could be pres: | | ent. RECRUITING FOR THE CIVIL- JAN military training camp to be held at Camp Lewis, beginning July 6, will ontinued one week J. M announced ments should have closed Wednes it bad vanished; some other woman] the gratitude of this woman's heart. | day, supply, | than for years past, and that} their ridiculously | pro- | GERMANY, SEETHING WITH HATRED, PLANS NEW WAR! Motion Pictures, Theatr Germany is in a strange, muddled, cowed, resentful frame of mind. and doing pecullur things ( Germany of 1921 for Star readers. m Seeds of Strife © iMumina: —Editor. BRONNER Here is his first artis BY MILTON es and Public Speakers Sowing the Germany is thinking, saying 3 The Star's European correspondent, Milton Bronner, has been making @ | first-hand study of her moods and her growls, and in so ting articles is going to picture . (Special Dispatch to The Seattle Star) BERLIN, June 16.—The next war! x ou might think that Germany, defeated on the battlefield, burdened by rep> arations, staggering under taxation, would dream of anything but another armed — conflict. But if I can judge by conversations I have had with all sorts and conditions of - people in Germany, there a burning hope for revenge upon France for all the humiliations of the armistice, the peace treaty and the aftermath, which we, to= |gether with Great Britain and Italy, helped bring about by our common victory. ~~ | The Germans don’t say much about us Americans. : |their submarine war DID force us in. Besides, they have millions of kin in Amer= ica who are once more sending them food and money. | They don’t revile the English, because they dream of the day when England | will see in France a nation that is challenging British trade on the continent. | But I found an almost universal hatred of France. It is galling to German pride to see a nation of 38 millions domi- |nating over a nation of over 60 millions. instant. the police. he: tion. |day.” He jHe shackles.” soldiers, lw Jin the Brin ase of Mr. and Mrs. Kubey, suing Capt. year. The Kubeys had and for Capt | the flag. | sunset, Kubeys: The jury decided that no dar should be that the c vided bet nt, and that Capt. Allen turn the flag to the Kut urt By mail, anywhere FLAG CUTTING. Nobody wins, a jury in Judge Otis r’s court decided Thursday Henry Richard Allen! for taking down a flag and sawin down a flagpole in what they claimed | was their yard, November 12, last sked for $3,500 damages to pay for the flag and pole Allen's alleged reme that the Kubeys had no right to fly | They charged he took, the flag down because It was flown after Capt. ANlen had presented a coun- ter claim, asking $11,500 for alleged slander and libel on the part of the ges awarded to either side costs should b en plaintiffs and defend nould re- Take The Sta You on Your Vacation If you are leaving town you need not be without your Star. in Washin | cents a month; outside the state, 75 cents, French occupation of their towns, the French flag flying over their fortresses, Alsace-Lorraine once more a French possession—these are never out of a German’s mind for an On night in Essen I talked to a young officer of I mentioned France and his eyes blazed. Said “The allies led by F¥ance*say-we may not have an army to exceed 100,000 men and that we may not have conscrip- ne They limit us in the matter of schools for military training. ARE THEY FOOLS ENOUGH TO THINK THEY CAN DOWN US THAT WAY? “There are hundreds of thousands of fathers in Germany who have had military training. They can train their boys. |They can also teach their babies to shudder when the word Frenchman is pronounced. We will even up scores some But With France It Is—“Different” I talked to a railway porter in Bremen railway station. d he was an ardent socialist. He didn’t believe in wars. “How about France?” I asked. “Oh, that is different. war. We were tricked into a peace that is making us slaves of France. I would be for a conflict that would break our That would be another kind of On the dead walls of many German cities I have seen posters with a hideous caricature of one of France’s black | During the war these cartoons were used to keep the) (Turn to Page 7, Column GIRL THOUGHT — CASE CLOSES DEADIS FOUND Miss Gladys en, for whom have conducted a coast-wide following police her disappearance 5203 Jith ave has been search from her home at . E, over a week ago, found in Anaheim, Cal., according to a report ived at police head: quarters Thursday In an alleged confession by L. K. Loehr, 21, an electrician, who is id in connection with girl's dis appearance, Loehr is said to have that Miss Aiken is in the Califorma j told detectives | visiting friends city. Gladys Atken left the night of June 10, saying sh was going to the library. Subse- |quently a note was found near the |telephone stating that her body would be found beside that of Mrs. | Kate Mahoney in Lake Union. Loehr is said to have been in- fatuated with the girl, who is only 15 years old. her home on vd lie ton, the paper will follow you for 50 Fill out the coupon and mail to The Star, Seattle, Wash Circulation Manager, The Star, Seattle, Wash. Inclosed find $........- i} | Name Please mail The Star for.... ++. months to Address .icseceeses r With They have a feeling that 207050 DIEIN TRAIN PLUNGE Three Coaches Crash Into ao OMAHA, Neb, June 16—Four known to have been killed and than 25 injured, many probably fae tally, when three coaches of North: western passenger train No. 606, — from Lander, Wyoming, to Omaha, — plunged thru the bridge over the Big Cottonwood creek, two miles east of Crawford, Nebraska, at 11 p.m. - night. Estimates of the aead run 20 to 50. Many persons have not been accounted for, fi The known deaf ure, Frank Bosnard, Lander, Wyoming, © F. M. Stewart, Gordon, Nebraska, salesman. R, C. Scott, Chadron, Nebraska baggageman. woe 4 a C. Scott, Grand Island, Ne — ra a, 7 A partial list of the injured in- | cludes: ¢ L. Hauson, Tomahawk, Wis.; J. W. |Finnegan, Casper, Wy: eo. E. Duckeat, Deny ler, San Francisco, Hampered by the rushing waters of the creek, swollen to the flood stage by high waters that have been destroying thousands of dollars? worth of property thruout the north- western section of the state for the last three days, work of rescue was impossible until early this morning. Relief trains, los physicians, nyrses, rescue volunteers, arrived on the scene of the wreck at daybreak. The dead were removed to Chad- jron, Neb. The injured were rushed to a hospital at Hot Springs, 8. D, The Pullman, smoker and chair car went completely under the water with the bridge at 5 a.m. At that hour the number of dead and ine |Jured still was unknown. The flood aters are so high that it is diffie |cult to reach the survivors, Frankie Kiolet to 4 Start South Tonight. ~ Frankie Kiolet, winner of The Star-Universal beauty contest, leaves tonight for Universal City, where she will start work on her first film pros duction. Miss Kiolet will be accompanied South by her “big sister,” Dora Klo« let, who will act as Frankie's secre ta A large number of the beauty’s friends are planning a rousing sends off when she leaves on the Oregon= Washington “Owl” tonight, at 116. 7 Paid Wife Well, He Says; Seeks Divorce Explaining that he paid his wife, Violetta, $90,000 when they sepa- rated 12 years ago and gave her $300 a month and later inereased it to $400, Her Pierce petitioned the superior court to grant him a die jvorce Thursday. Pierce says there ‘are several children, who are now of age, but he wants to continue paying $400 a month until Ross Pierce, 17, becomes a man. The le were married November 12, in Buffalo, 1882, |Congressmen Row Over Naval Bill WASHINGTON, Pune 16.—House. and senate conferees on the navy bill today broke up in complete disagree- ment, the house conferees withdrawe ling from the conference,