The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 18, 1921, Page 4

ae PRR ee NO PAGE 4 SHOOTS HER HUSBAND AS HE SLEEPS! Portland Woman Says She Did It Only to Frighten Him; Man May Live PORTLAND, Ore, June 18—Clar ence E. Peck, alleged to have been ‘wounded by a bullet from a revolver in the hand of his wife as he lay sleeping in bed early today, will live Doctors made this announcement after a thoro examination had been made of the course of the bullet, The lead was found lodged agninst the man’s spine, resulting in paralysis of his whole left side Mrs. Virginia Peck bas confessed fully to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon and is being held in the city jail pending an investi gation by the district attorney's office. She declares in a signed statement that her husband's fre quent absences from home, and the ferious illness of her 12-year-old son faused her to shoot her husband. “I did not shoot to kill,” Mrs Peck declared, “but to frighten Clarence by wounding his arm.” Following the firing of the bullet Mrs. Peck rushed from the house and called a doctor, who found her husband unconscious on the floor Mear the telephone where he had attempted to call the police. The circumstances of her hus Band's neglect were aggravated by her suspicion that Peck was meet ing ancther woman, Mrs. Peck de | clared. Patrolmen answering the call for Police found the neighbors enter. tained little sympathy for Peck, it is gaid, and considerable for Mrs. Peck fwho has become hysterical from worry over her husband's absences and the sickness of her child. ENGLAND CELEBRATES BATTLE OF WATERLOO, FOUGHT 106 YRS. AGO LONDON, June 18.—Today, the 106th anniversary of the battle ‘of Waterloo, is being celebrated in the officers’ of the Guards and other famous regi ments, while the statues of the Duke of Wellington at Hyde ‘Park Corner and the Royal Ex- ebange are garianded. ‘The “Iron Duke's” successor, the | | Present Duke of Wellington, has || to pay “rent” today for his resi- ences at Strathfield Saye and convicted of ctiminal syndicalism @harges by jury in superior court ioc Charies Bevers and G. L. Smith acquitted. Sixteen more men y, Swat trial. isn’t right for one t tired, weak—all worn dom sick enough to be in Are you one of these out and dispirited? Y June is too fine a month erable. You want to be best way to get well is to is making you feel so bad says: kidneys and complaint. When I had an awful pains in the small My kidneys were not came before Doan's Kidney Pills, knocked that pain out regulated my kidneys. spells lett. too." |the engine many folks are always ailing, but sel- Do you suffer daily backache and stab- bing pains—feel old and stiff; worn You should look, then, These Seattle John K. Nolan, painter, 2624 W. 69th St, “The turpentine fumes affected my caused attacks of kidney right, and specks my eyes and confused me. from Bartell's Drug wana nes arte se THE Miss Ev cvs H. McManus of Rye, N. Y., and “Petite,” her prize winning red pincher, were snapped at the recent an- nual show of the Westchester Kennel club, White Plains,|™ N FIREMEN TO STAGE THRILLING CONTEST IN STADIUM ON 4TH When Seattle's fire fighters come dashing into the University Stadium, big Fourth of July crowds are going |to sit up and take notice, And from that point on they are going to’ be treated to an exhibition that will make the ordinary circus |look like @ pink tea at an old ladies’ home. FIRST OF ITS KIND EVER HELD HERE ‘The drill to be put on at the Sta- dium on the night of July 4 will be \the first of its kind ever held in Seattle. A sixstory temporary tower will be erected in the center of the Sta dium. Mere the firemen will show Seattle the kind of work it has to do in a big fire. ‘There will be scaling ladder stunts, work with the life lines and nets, Ten men, chosen for special dex- |terity, will prove that trained fire \tighters caf give cards‘and spades to the ordinary, untrained housefly or chipmunk. FOUR BATTALIONS | TRAIN FOR CONTEST . Four battalions are grooming men for entry in the ladder cortest in the afternoon of the Fourth. Further detaiis of the big street parade nged for the Fourth here are being made public daily. The latest i the appearance of the Sons of the American Revolution, who will march in the blue and buff uni. company and the hook” |and ladder company circling the big loval at top speed, sirens wailing, the forms of ‘76, Floats will show vari Ous scenes of American history. Three thousand dollars will be used to decorate Seattle's streets during the Fourth of July celebra on if the elty council approves a recomméndation made by the streets and gewers committee Friday after noon. The money will be appropri ated from the street department funds. Strike Commission Hears Miners’ Side ‘The state comminsion investigat- ing the Washington coal industry gave a hearing to striking miners at Carbonado Thursday and spent Fri- day tn compiling data for ita find ings, It report probably will be maie shortly after the return of James H. Alport, chairman of the commission, who is now in Washing- ton, D, C. gathering data on the matter. Forests of State to Be Gone in 20 Years Washington's timber will be ex-| hausted in 20 years if steps are not) taken towards reforestation, Dean Hugo Winkenwerder, of the college | of forestry, University of Washing ton, told the American Association of Engineers at its bimonthly meet- ing Friday night. The engineers also discussed the city's new garbage ordinance, 0 always feel out! Yet how ters. a single day. bed? unfortunates? ou shouldn’t! to be so mis- well and the find out what ly. to yoyr kid- help you. Mra, waya pains throu when two. attack I had of my- back. I cout fusing m of my back, The diszy down. Are You as Well as You Should Be? neys. Your kidneys are the blood fil- Without them you could not live that when the kidneys fall behind you suffer constant backache and rheumat- ic pains; that your head aches, you are tired, dizzy, nervous and depressed. .But don’t worry! easier for awhile and hel ened kidneys with Doan’s Doan’s have brought new health and strength’ to thousands. Ask your neighbor! 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HERE’S MORE ABOUT a worker, it grabs 10 per cent of his wage, If he succeeds in getting his earnings increased, he finds that the cost of food, clothes and housing has more than kept pace with the extra money he has earned He pays six times as much for bis daily paper as before the war, It costs him eight times as much as ride in the street ears, His food, coal, gas and rent have gong up from five to eight times. He earns, perhaps $00 to 500 marks per week, and the cheapest suit of clothes is 1,600 marks, Shoes cost from 90 marks up; shirts, 65 marks; socks, 11 marks, His glass of beer, which tastes to him like near-beer, costs 1 mark. Everything he smokes costs more His wife complaing she can't run the household and clothe the children on what he allows her. If he seeks consolation in his news: paper, the chances are that he reads of the frog) taxation the government will have to assess in order to meet the allied demands for reparation payments. GERMANS KNOW THEY'RE LICKED I have heard many people in Washington, London, Paris and Brussels bewall the fact that Foc agreed to an armistice before the a Med armies marched into Berlin. They argued that only in this way could the Germans have been thoro ly convinced that they were beaten jn the war. But after a month in Germany, I think every German knows he was licked. Eyerything the. German reads. hears and sees teminds him of it: Bremen a dead seaport. Allied troops on the Rhine. Rubr steel mills closing. Saxon textile factories ume. Munich's famous gaiety all gone. German money low rated. German army a mere police force. os navy at the bottom of the on part ‘German merchant marine in pos session of the allies. Aled commissions aN over the country, Germany's future mortgaged to the allies. Men lke Walter Rathenau, head of the great electrical trust, or Hugo Stinnes, with his finger in a hun dred industrial ples, or Arthur Von Gwinner, the great banker and ship. | ping magnate, have thelr own thoughts and theories, but the fu ture is so uncertain that they prefer not to discuss things Big business does not know what may happen in Germany itself. It faces not only huge taxes and great increases in its payroll#, but an in creasing difficulty in getting raw materials, not to speak of the diffi- culty of finding markets which will accept German goods. ‘The result of all this pesstmism and depression and even hopeless: neem ix a slowing down in the na- tional life, GERMAN CITIES LACK ACTIVITY ‘The trains are slower and fewer. The street cars run at longer inter- vals. The cities are not as brightly lighted. The gus is not of as high quality. The shops are not as well stocked. You wander into the great depart- SEATTLE GERMANY LOSES HOPE STAR sd ha PAGE. 1 ment stores of Hexen, Hamburs, | Berlin, Dresden and Leipsic and are struck by the comparative emptiness and silence, Only the theatres and movies and réstaurants and beer wardens are filled. And there are many things you miss in this afterthewar Germany You never run into the parades of troops that you used to & You mias the military bands which used {to give dally concerts in the parka You don't see richly dressed woren going around with expensive toy dogs. One thing you do see everywhere i the old gray-green cout of the German soldier, But the men who are wearing them are not soldiers now, They are plaip citizens who are wearing the old army jacket be cause it is made of serviceable cloth and they can’t afford a new coat. One thing is as it was before the war, I don't know bow they man age it, but German cities are still the most spot in the world, The | streets are clean and the parks and open places are in beautiful trim. The lawns are perfect and the pan- sies are a riot of color | Doubtless you wonder how things jo on at all if Germany ts really bankrupt. In business, is bankrupt, its assets are seized and sold for the creditors and the firm ceases to be. But you can’t do that when the government of 65,000,000 people can't meet its debts, You can't sell them out and bundle them out. The 65,000,000 with thelr industry, their productive capacity, their wants still remain, ° And a nation of that size can keep & great many hands busy satisfying Hits own internal needs and trading {with itwelf, USE OF LUXURIES 18 INCRE, NG Germany is today @ land of parw | doxes. Its government ts “busted”—but it fs sustaining tens of thourands of wounded ex-soldiers by pensions and other tens of thousands of unem ployed people by doles. It is a republio—but it has few |oonvineed republicans. | It has been badly beaten—but its |people dream of revenge upon | France. Prices are sky-high—but the use of luxuries like champagne, per fumes and motor cars has tremen. dously increased. Fares have been railway trains, steamboats and street cas were never so crowded jam they are today, People denounce militartam—but |all over Germany you see pictures of old Hindenburg. Tho bope ts dead, hate lives—hate of France, the victor! And Germans think of revenge, talk of the next | war—and blacklist allied goods! OUNG BURGLAR GANG BROKEN UP NEW YORK, June 18—A candy gang of burglara They range in age from 6 to 14, and have been robbing stores within a block of a police sta- tion for weeks. STARTS TOMORROW “LIME HOUSE NIGHT: of the master’s hand. ND BIG WEEK D. W. GRIFFITH'S NEWEST 4ND GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT A DRAMATIC MASTERPIECE Suggested by the characters of THOMAS BURKE’ and “THE SIGN OF THE LAMP”—where the strug- gle of human souls is vividly portrayed by the touch SPECIAL Spectacular head-on collision of locomotives— staged in Portland for the benefit of the Amer- PATHE Matinets .....csesevss bial NEWS Evading: and bondass?. Bon Bese ine. “GINA OF CHINATOWN Dollar when a firm| increared—but | carouse led to the breaking up of aj SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1921. ———— ACCOMPLICE | MURDER SOUGH Italian Says He and 0} Other Slew Publisher Y,, June 18.—A :) 2,000 CHORUS _ GIRLS HUNGRY AUTO UPSETS; 3 ARE INJURED Funds!Are Being Contributed | Occupants Hurled to Ground for Their Relief as Machines Crash CHICAGO, June 18,—- Chicago's! ‘Three persons were injured in an| BUFFALO, N Rialto has been turned into a bread auto smash at 9:16 p, m. at) tlon-wide search was @tarted today the corne! . ond BI line. lag gad of 2rd ave, and FE.) tor Victorio Pisselll, Italian, w First nighters and gallery gazers | 1)” . ic a « y & atore Calla, J today came to tne rescue of 2,000|,. 0" Arthur EB. Burns and Mrs. J | ae Se oe ee " si rt r Opy of Gig Harbor were driving in| Cleveland, 0., as his accomplice in l « sortie girls who are jobless and @ large sedan automobile owned by the murder of Daniel Kaber, wealthy be na lens here Burns when they were struck by an | Lakewood publisher, in 1919. ‘unds were being contributed to alauto driven by Joseph Turner, a| — ¢, relief fund to tide the girls over un. TO whiter, alla a signed © conteasion, ae Ul the show business gets on its feet| jaurny’ machine turned over, | Mitting Pissellt participated in th again ‘The benefit will wind up with a big plenic which is to be staged tomor row | “Some of the tucky girls « |working as maids and clerks,” said Mins Alice Sirwm, pretty ballet dancer, “But most of us cannot find & position at all, face. Burns’ injuries consist of a “Hut we are going to stick to. | broken facia} bone, a broken rib and gether and struggle along and try to @ bad cut in his side. make out. We can't go back to the| Tiirner was taken to Providence old home town and admit that we hospital, his injuries amounting to |were failures. And then, perhaps,!a few scratches on the head and business will pick up pretty soon, | bruises. tee Re | He was immediately discharged Jand arrested on a charge of carry. Craves Jazz at {ins oomaenies we: engl a neve 77; Leaves Fa ing found on him by Private L. 5 rm Prentice of Fort Lawton, who was ters & witness to the accident and who | BEND, Ore, June 18—Desire for | twisted the injured people variety and for a taste for more) A report Saturday indicated the in- Jazzy sent Charles Gil juries of the three are not serious | bert, away from the shelter of #4 all will recover the poor farm at Grant's Pass, Ore., and out on to the highway of ad venture, Is Now in Harbor He reached Bend late yesterday in| Log ANGELES, June 18.—With a a fainting condition, after traveling hole stove in her after compartment, hundreds of miles since March 1, He| the destroyer Dent’ limped into the| Rutledge confessed to the coroner’al] ts being cated for by the sheritts |harbor here yesterday. The speedy | jury that he had agreed with h legaaa Gana’ bichie’ Kee [navy ship was rammed by another | wife to kill the children and th y, pending return to! vessel wile proceeding thru a smoke|commit suicide, but that he lost hi Grant's Pass screen, nerve after setting fire to the hor C fF "WOLVES OF THE NORTH Chedeanls seaiae <2 beautiful Girl and a Dog with two nebures in i Si- Sat starring VA NOVAK Dont fail to throwing the occupants to the street. | murder, according to the police. Hi ‘Turner's car skidded, crashing into| probably will be taken to Cleve! @ street car and throwing Turner | from his machine, Dr, Burns and Mrs. Opy were taken to the University club, where Mrs. Opy was found to be suffering | from shock and lacerations of the today, Calla admitted that he held Kaber while Pisselli stabbed the man 15 20 times. Calla said he and Pisselli ente the murdered man's room whi slept “I grabbed the man and held him he explained, “while Pissellj stabl him with @ short knife.” ‘HELD AS KLE FAMILY OF FIVE |Charge Man Burned wité and Four Children WINNIPEG, sune 18.—Charge murder was filed against Rutledge yesterday. A verdict found that he had set to his house at night, burning tdi jdeath his wife and four children. J now aa - av poe ecn ckree Bere Bi ~ excitement |Damaged Destroyer med LEMME SECONK)D AVENUE, NEAR PIKE eocerpMeess ewo ro t 4 t % 4 . see the rig avalanche ¢ ' . t : fi t ce ‘ ¥ 1 The Girl who i couldn't love “yeh UNIVERSAL SPECIAL ATTRACTION DIRECTED BY NORMAN DAWN BUSTER KEATON The mais of Sorrow A Rare Musical Treat LIBORIUS HAUPTMAN yl me o.: Premier Piano Virtuoso THE HGH SIGN FOUR CONCERTS DAILY At 2:30, 4:20, 7:50, 9:45 >’ PUEBLO FLOOD PICTURES —