The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 23, 1921, Page 1

Greetings! Summer is here, but @on't leave your umbrella at home— yet eee Twenty ships disappear off the Atlantic coast. How long has it Deen since all the schooners disap-| Peared off the bars? si eee And now J. I, McPherson, head the Alaska bureau of the Cham- ber of Commerce, has become a “rookie” in the army of the unem Ployed. eee THEY THINK HE'S EASY J. Stanley Joyce, Peggy's husband, has received hundreds of letters from girls all over the United States offering to marry him if he gets a divorce. eee For Sale: One combination gar. Ment that may be worn as either 2} ) pair of stockings or a hair net. q eee gee sae JOSH WISE SAYS iB There's always a little lamp black im th’ politicians’ white wash. 4 eee One “ah Irish policemen tn New York protected Admiral Stms - ren @emonstratora. He can't fay from the Irish. sme" t Li. Dats | id Europe. Now Denby ee 3 ' DOGGONE ROTTEN ‘The frankfurter and bologna mak- @rs in New York have struck. Yes, the business is going to the bow- ‘wows. eee ‘W. E. Priestly told members of China club that Chinese armies stop A fighting when chow call sounds ; Yank soldiers used to begin fighting at the call of chow. eee The politicians have about as much use for a third party as a pair of lovers have, eee Why not change it to “Ruthless Babe"? eee ‘The Girl Next Door says many pic- tures of health are hand painted. eee ‘its to start asking, “What day of he month does the Fourth of July eit fs the time for all would-be ) tall on?” THE HOT WAVE IN ILLINOIS Her attendant was tastefully 4 owned in pale pink satin slippers | | and hat to match, and carried pink | ay carnations. — Streator Free | Press. eee Speaking of safe and sane Fourths, | [ewe wish Uncle Sam would start a [® movement to make 364 more days in t the year safe and sane, eee | 7 ‘The saddest words of tongue or pen: | “The chickens are in the garden| again.” eee } — “Wanted—Boy with wheel over 16 years old,” gurgles a want ad. H Next thing we know someone will be advertising for a hoop skirt. eee THESE LITERARY PUGILISTS | Our idea of the Absolute Zero is| reading Jack Dempsey’s “Own Story” of his fight preparations. If Jack wrote all the stuff he is given credit for, a page from his @iary would read something like 5—Up bright and early and had nt workout on my Underwood. | cles in fine shape. Dashed off $000 words for the Schnitzelfritz) Mewspaper Syndicate. €45—Preakfasted hurriedly, read 4g the while the proofs of my arti- cle for the Boys’ Own Magazine. 10:00—Sparring match with my publisher. ked him for an ad ditional 3 cents per word. 1100—Ten miles of light road work, gathering material for a de scriptive essay on the flora and fauna of New Jersey for the Wo- men’s Home Companion 12:00—Took light sweat bath, read. | ing Immanuel Kant's “Critique of | Pure Reason.” 12:30—Lunched with Damonton| Runonion, a sports writer, who is| composing the history of my life.| ‘Talked three hours with Runonion | on how to hop a fast freight. 2:30—Another two hours of stren- uous training, beating out more newspaper copy. I must let Up on| this work slightly, my left finger is showing signs of becoming calloused. 6:00—I understand that Carpentier | fs only writing 10,000 words a day | iow. Is he afraid of going stale? £:00—To bed, after gictating 3,000 | words én “The Training of a Cham bas jon.” Gee, it must be great to be| ‘just a “ham and" prizefighter and | not have to write more than 6,000| Words a o~ Ew Weather Tonight and Friday, fair; \| ll moderate westerly winds Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 70, 3 Today y noon, 68. | present proof in court that the deeds | appraised v: {emptions th inds. Minimum, 53. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise ntered as Second Cl — Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, HUGE THOUSANDS HERE NOT COLLECTED Inheritance Tax Dodge in State Causes Other Taxes to Mount BY .HAL ARMSTRONG 0 PIA, June 23.—Thou- sands of dollars every year that the state should get—but isn’t getting—are lost thru failure to collect the inheritance tax. Some of it ia being collected. Bat not all. If all was collected other taxes would, or should, be reduced. Speeding up inheritance tax collec: tion is one of the ways the state could, it seems, legitimately derive more revenue and lighten the burden of tho ordinary taxpayer. CAN'T COLLEST TAX ON FUNDS ALLOWED be ‘There's an inheritance tax depart ment here, John W. Thatcher of Seattle is director. The legislature allowed Thatcher $15,000 to spend collecting inheritance taxes for the next two years, He says he should have been al- lowed $30,000, and that He can't col lect the tax—all of it—without that much to pay investigators. For collecting the inheritance tax! is largely a matter of investigation. When a dying man leaves a will it is probated. His estate is valued at) so much. So much of it goes to his wife. So much to his sons and daughters. So much to other more distant relatives. If the estate is large, a large in- herltance tax is due the state from) the heirs. If the estate is small, the inheritance tax is small, sometimes nothing. But sometimes a dying man's will does not mention all his property The inheritance tax department must find this out, and why. Fre-| quently, he, has deeded part of it to} some other person or corporation in anticipation of death. Sometimes he deeds all of it thus And in that case he leaves no will. ‘Then it is up to the inheritance tax department to —probe the case and were made with the deliberate inten tion of defrauding the state by evad ing the inheritance tax. HEWITT ESTATE UNDER INVESTIGATION The state collected in the last two years up to April 1, all told, $703 134.08 inheritance taxes. The 1 biennium should bring in $750,000,| officials claim, But whether this ean be collected for $15,000 is a question One of the large estates under in-| vestigation today is that of Henry Hewitt, late of Tacoma, who passed away reputed to be the wealthiest man in the state of Washington. He left a will naming his widow) and other relatives as heirs. The| ue of the estate, as ap | Pierce county courts, 96.46. Allowing for ex: heirs would pay prac tically no inheritance tax. Yet Hewitt’s fortune, when he died, was reasonably presumed to be worth $10,000,000, Some said it was nearer $20,000,000. It has now been found, upon Investigation, that vast portions of his estate were conveyed to others by deed 15 days before his death. The inheritance tax de- partment hopes to collect a tax | from all of Hewitt's property, thus conveyed. While Washington ts retrencking | her inheritance tax department} ew York and the nearer states of ifornia and Oregon are increasing partinents, gon @ deputy tax collector y of $2,400 a year collected $40,000 taxes during that year. In California several field deputies | proved by the was but $ | have been added to the inheritance | tax commissioner's force and . are said to be paying the state well Hach has charge of @ district and) makes it his business to keep in-| formed as to the wealth of persons| | living in that district. In New York over $22,000,000 Is| said to have been collected in in heritance taxes in the last 12/ mouths i CHILDREN | generosity. lot butter | food allotments ' given | substantial meals into their stom-| | time between 3 and 6 o'clock, regard-| SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1921. T Police Halt Marriage M. SILHOUETTE BIDS ADIEU TO SEATTLE; DID YOU ‘GET’ HIM? Thanking you one and all for kind attention, Monsieur your Silhouette announces that he has* made his last appearance here. How did your guesses pan out? Yesterday's silhouette was that of our acting mayor, The Hon. Robert Bruce Hesketh, SAVED BY RAT FARM ‘Experiments on Rodents Re- sult in Scientific Dieting You may look fit and deceive the world. but you'll decline be fore your day if your diet isn’t right. Pay a little attention to food and be what you seem. And if you don't seem fit, it's easy to fix the matter by @ balanced ration. Experience and experiment have proved it. So the dietictans of the Anti-Tuberculosis league and the home economics department of the University of Washington declare. YOUNGSTERS THRIVE ON MILK DIET Just two days of proper living Is already showing on the 20 young: sters sent by the two organizations to Fred §. Stimson's Hollywood Farm, officials announced enthusiastically yesterday. “There isn't a shadow of a doubt,” said the dietician of the Anti-Tuber- culosig league, “but that the young: sters will thrive on Mr, Stimson's| The value of good diet has long been established. “If the average American would eat only about half as much meat as he does, consume more greens and drink more milk—about a quart a day—he wouldn't hit the toboggan as early in life and would retain his vigor to a ripe old age. His sight would be much better, too, “Have you heard of the rat farm of Prof. BE. N. McCollum of Johns | Hopkins Universit she asked. “With what he calls his ‘cotony | of rats,’ Professor McCullom has experimented for 15 years in food values, His ‘family’ is said to have progressed to something like the 50th generation and his experience proves that the rat that isn't properly fed is like the child suf. fering from malnutrition, while the e receiving t fats necessary amount and other required is a fine specimen of the rodent family. “Before much attention was to diet, lions, tigers and all manner of wild beasts In the zoos and circus menageries suffered from rickets and other diseases re- sulting from improper feeding. ‘The animals died off quickly. ‘Today they are fed scientifically, and, altho4 confined to s they ure as| healthy as their progenitors in the jungle were,” The dietician added that children of the wealthy suffer more in numer- ical proportion from malnutrition than do the offspring of the poor. She explained that this is because rich youngsters feast on sweets | and rich foods, while the poor put | achs. “Til health,” she concluded, longer regarded as stylish, even among the wealthy. In fact, the really bon-ton thing now is to be in fine fettle physically.” Planning Flight Across Continent LOS ANGELES, June 23.—The| big biplane in which Erie Springer and David R. Davis will attempt a non-stop trans-continental flight, was moved from field, Los Angeles, to Riverside, today. The hop will be taken from the latter field tomorrow morning, some “is no Goodyear March field, less of weather conditions, Aviator| Springer told the United Press, } | August 7, 1918, LOSS GIRL LEAD DETECTIVE TO FORGER Teacher Unwittingly Causes Arrest of Man She Was on Way to Marry Detectives broke up the ro mance of a Seattle school teacher when they tore from her em ex-convict and forger, and brought him back to Sa ee to face charges of defrauding several hotels and banks with bogus checks, According to operatives of the William J. Burns International De- tegtive agency, Murdock’s intended honeymoon was to have bean fi- SCHOOLTEACHER IS HEARTBROKEN The schoolteacher, whom he had telephoned from Portland to come and marry him, is said to have been heartbroken when she saw her lover led away by Detectives A. J. Waechter and Tom Hayden of the Seattle police department. Waecher and Hayden, shadowing the girl, learned that she had re- ceived a long distance call from Mur- dock and followed her when she boarded the train for Portland to meet him Wednesday. When the train pulled into the Oregon city Wednesday evening the two detectives watched her leave her seat and get out of the coach and followed her to the Portland hotel. A man stepped from the curb and held out his arms to her. As the two met, the detectives seized the man, disclosed their iden- tity and seryed him with a warrant. The girl, at first astounded, broke into tears when she learned the truth, According to F, 8. Masters, local manager of the Burns agency, and Capt. of Detectives Charles Tennant, the prisoner made a full confession. SENT TO PEN FOR FORGERY February 12, 1917, sentenced to serve five years in Deer . Mont., penitentiary for forg- While working on a road gang, he escaped and went) where he met the \ | is) H hatin Murdock was ery, to Salt Lake City, school teacher, They became engaged last eum- mer. He was then posing as a rep- resentative of Dun’s Mercantile Agency. Last May Murdock came to tle and registe as B. BE. Ed wards, at the Frye hotel, He opened an accownt at the Na tional Bank of Commerce with $100. When he presented his check for $50 Manager Dan Base of the Frye became suspicious and called the bank, Murdock, thru a trick, con- vinced Bass that hig credit was good | for $1,500. 3ass cashed the check and later Sold him $300 in travelers’ checks. Murdock left that night and regia tered at the New Washington as J. R, Tobin, and cashed the travelers’ checks, He left May 31 and went to Portland, where he registered at the Multnomah hotel as BE. BE. Coyne, Thursday evening he called the school teacher in Seattle by long distance. her again, telling her to meet him| at the Portland hotel, where he had registered as J. D. Donovan. The teacher's name is withheld by detectives. | Apartment the fire, room, bles 990 Leatrice Joy Is New Movie Bride LOS ANGELES, June 23.--Movie- lond’s latest bride is Leatrice Joy. She has been missing from the film colony for some days, So has Jack Gilbert, ber “leading man.” They are honeymooning here in California,” ted hogay. ROBABLY WILL PICK LETTUCE NEW YORK, June 23.—Members of the stock exchange who succeeded in having the governors add July 2 to uly 3 and 4 as holidays mentioned garden work, ete., in their petition, Nothing was said about the big fight. |going on, “some: friends admit- Lee prison tery Norris and P. MAHONEY TO BE IN COURT TODAY James E. Mahoney is scheduled to | be arraigned this afternoon to plead | to a forgery charge in Judge King Dykeman's court, wnen bis attorney, Johnston, attempt to force the the evidence on which Captain of | Detectives Tennant and Prosecutor | Douglas had hoped to convict the | r of murder, Search of Lake Union for the mys. trunk believed by the authori- ties to contain the body ey's aged and wealthy bride is still ‘HELD AS FIRE BUG SUSPECT "House Owner May Have Set Place Afire Suspected of being an incendiary, Evan Sarakov, manager of an apart- ment house at 716 Madison st., was arrested by Sergt. J. H. Thomas and Patrolmen G. FE. Namee at 2:30 a. m. Thursday after a fire in the building had damaged an apartment to the extent of $300. Owing to the suspicious nature of the search revealing a bundle of charred kindling wood in a vacant room. Sarakov was found in bed, fully Friday evening he called |clothed, and with a mackinaw on. Suitcases, packed and apparently ready for departure, Me- Investigated, were in the He is held on an open charge for tt is said, to state to show of Mahon Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Yea: —From Captain H. H. Morrison’s marine collection. By IKE great white birds at crimson dawn They sailed away to the open sea; With decks awash with the ocean swells And thrilled with the joy that the sea compels, They lost themselves in mystery— The a ships—where have they gone BOLSHEVIK PLRATES CAPTURE SHIPS, SAY NEW YORK POLICE The Seattle Star by Mall, $5 to $9 oe x § Dare EDITION i WHERE HAVE THEY GONE? * * Leo Lassen gone? NEW YORK, June 23.—Support of the theory that at least a portion of the “vani merchant ents of ment was York polic The pol to have di ished fleet” of a score of vessels had been seized by the kKussian soviet govern- offered today by the New e department. ice “bomb squad” was said iscovered a plot more than @ year ago to start mutinies among the crews of merchant men, seize the ships and take them to Bolshevik ports. This information, it was started, was turned pver to the de- partment of justice at the time. Much of the information was al- leged to hi in which arrested, been deported. ave been obtained in a raid 300 men and women were Many of these have since Strangest Mystery of Sea Unexplained WASHINGTON, fate of the “vanishing ships” June 23.—The today threatened to go down in history as one of the unexplained mysteries of the sea, Officials of the department of com- merc’ admitted that the search for a 20th after all the disappearance boats had p century pirate, undertaken other theories to explain of half a dozen ff Cape Hatteras failed, so far duced no results. “T've heard many tall yarns of the sea,” this case Carroll A, said commissioner of navigation, Chamberlain, “But in the facts are there. The Deering and the Hewitt Eugene T. met some strange fate beyond that of ordinary vessels come to grief.” ‘The Deering was the schooner that sailed on parently, ship and the shoals, abandoned, ap- in calm seas, and with the cargo intact. ‘The Hewitt and her crew dropped completely out of sight al bout the same time, “Of course, we don't say flatly that these ships were victims of pi- racy, but vestigatin, lain said, we have been and are in- i that angle,” Chamber- TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE e* & & HOSE splendid ships—each one a pawn In Romance of the mystic sea, With’men who chance the storm god’s hells For thrill and the joy that the sea compels, Have lost themselves in mystery— The gleaming ships—where have they 8 ARRESTED AS Fight | of spurious tickets for the Dempsey: with grand larceny, counterfeiting. eee Says Carpentier forgery BY MAX BALTHASAR MANHASSET, L. L., said Curley. “It is not secrec; Carpentier wants, causing him throw a barrage around himself, his life, that he does not do in public. ‘secret’ than he has before the news: paper men. ing some new tricks that will be re- vealed only when he faces Dempsey. That is not so, TICKET FORGERS Allege Plot to Swindle Price NEW YORK, June 23.—Eight men were under arrest here today in con- nection with a plot to manufacture and sell thousands of dollars’ worth Carpentier fight. They were charged and Prefers Privacy June 23,— Taking the word of Jack Curley, the one American close to Georges Car- pentier, the latter is showing no more in his “secret” workouts than he has it ho shown on the days that newspaper men are permitted to look him over while going thru his training stunts. “All of this secret stuff talk is non- , but privacy, that to “If, after 15 years in the ring, he is still so inexperienced as to consider it necessary to work in secret, then he has wasted many good years of But he is not doing any- thing in the so-called secret workouts “I see him work every day and he has not shown me anything more in “Talk of secrecy naturally leads to the conclusion that Carpentier is try- FISHER State Purch Agent Says Soon Will Fly Off at Capital A volcanic political upe heaval is due to occur Olympia in a short time— very short time”—acco! to a statement given out Tacoma today by F. Garret Fisher, who resigned “for cer= tain reasons” yesterday as state purchasing agent. Bia: Coupled with Fisher's resigna- dit Fisher, of the Stone-Fisher 9 leading Tacoma merci “Until the time ts ripe I don't “To clear up the contention ti was criticized in office for h transacted certain business for Standard Oil company, I want to aaj absolutely no criticism of my ac was due. OBTAINED CONCESSION FOR CHEAPER GAS “I obtained a concession f company, after two months’ whereby the state was able to chase gasoline 2 cents cheaper the rettail price. “I entered into no contract, the state in no way, and effect saving of $70 a day. “Providing the heads of the ent state departments cared to advantage of concession, could do so, you understand, 7 “It was purely optional whi they patronized the Standard Oil Ca, ~ or not, “There's an inscription over the — entrance of the University of Scot — land at Edinburgh, which says: “"They say what they say; let them say. : “My friends need no explanation, My enemies—‘let them say,’” FOLLOW DISCLOSURES OF FUNDS SQUANDERED Today's developments swiftly fok lowed disclosures at Olympia that state officials are squandering publio money on unessentials if, indeed, they are not privately profiting by such transactions in apparent view lation of the state law. Demands for a special session of the legislature are contained in reso. lutions passed by the Seattle Real Estate association following a speech by Col. George B, Lamping, port commissioner and former state sena- tor, Lamping challenged any member of the legislature to show him where Governor Hart's administrative code has eliminated a single state posi- \tion, reduced state expenses in any way or increased efficiency of the state administration, “On the contrary,” said Col, Lamping, “it is purely a bunk scheme to deceive the people of the state. It has created a po litical machine for the control of the state by Governor Hart and his satellites, be Jones Denies Hart Selling Insurance TACOMA, June °28.—Jesse 8, Jones, former state senator and later a member of the public service commission, of the insurance firm of Hart & Jones, came to the de fense of Governor Hart here today, “It is a fact,” Jones said, “that the firm of Hart & Jones sold $137,000 worth of surety bonds to the state to protect certain officials and em ployes. ‘But these bonds were sold thru personal solicitation, not by Gover nor Hart or thru his influence.” Jones intimated that while the firm name is still Hart & Jones, the governor ts no longer a member beet it; therefore, he could not dei any financial benefit from the sale the bonds, a