The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 30, 1921, Page 1

LATEST AND BEST OF THE FAMOUS TARZAN STORIES! WILL START IN THE STAR SATURDAY, JULY THE SECOND! BOOKKEEPER OF SEATTLE FIRM IS ARRESTED IN. i war r EM Weather Tonight and Friday, prob- ably rain; weste Maximum, ll « Temperature Last 24 Hours ot Today noon, 63. moderate rly winds, Minimum, 59. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Pntered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 VOLUME 23 SEATTLE, WASIL., THURSDAY, JUN | 9! Fellow Sufferers! Are you going p swimming Sunday? Neither are eee It begins to look as tho Perry Foyce has killed the goose that laid the pear! —. ° In a day or oa “Dempery and Car. pentier will go thru wi called the “drying out process.” ‘y ‘ve all been going thru it ever since prohibi- tion, After the civil war the price of Jumped to eight cents a dozen sugar to three cents a pound. if a young_wom- she fould fowadays, she runs in the rolls down her stockings. _, Virginia Lee, famous New York orus girl, says she has promised 1 men she will marry them. Come Virginia, and tell us the names Ot ‘the lucky 10, ‘That Mexican section hand In Ev- erett, who drank a quart of wood dicohol and worked 10 hours next day, probably eats ple for break fast. ee eee Before marriage a man converses n gurgles; after marriage, in grunts. 4 IN WILDEST AMERICA ‘Three of the young girts of this city pulled off some stunt tast Friday tvening by going auto riding with two of our young men end did not arr home votil 10 ck at night, cial ‘ing the inteness of their arri to blow outs of tires, there be: 12 holes bursting open according to their recor feault of the trip was th diee have been sitting down ly on account of their mother Vike a board ase warmer for their fonduct. She should have taken a good zed club Bight ride Villa Grove (iL) News y “I saw sctorn the other day. He was treating his wife in a way Ij) wouldn't treat my dog.” “Great Scott! What was he do ” "Kissing her.” . Lots of girls remind us of bush league pitchers. They have speed, but no control * BY JOVE! No doubt Apollo kicked as loud as nybody when he visited the tailor soe Star corespondent Jobn D. as “a little thin man wear- ing long, white, gy trousers, @ white shirt with sleeves rolled up, tennia shoes and a large white cap pulled down over his white hair.” “His” hair? Where do you get that “his?” The Half a dozen scientists are going | to Baffin Land this summer to look for the egg of « blue goose. They'd better go to Washington locate the egg of a lame duck. ' * . SOME MORE GOOD STUFF BY CONRAD Dear Patrons and Friends: I am sincerely sorry to disappoint you this week, I took suddenly sick at the livery stable office this morning m., 30 the doctor said I had tter go home, God being willing. will see you Monday. Raymond $ Conrad, Bowland, Ky—Danville ') Advocate, Pal v1 “THIEVES GET. and took & workout on the | lots of | 1 describes | and try to| Pugilist May Be Se- lected to Enforce! Law at the Navy) Yard Town BREMERTON, June 30.—While affidavits were being prepared teday on which to base new charges of graft against Police Chief Frank Reynolds, the city council was on the eve of ap pointing a new chief and Mayor E H. Bowdoin issued an order forbidding acceptance of bail money from prisoners by police men, 4 It was the alleged acceptance of money. only part of which bas been accounted for, that led to the downfall of Chief Reynolds. PUGILIST MAY BE ‘EW POLICE CHIEF The two candidates for appoint- Ment as chief are said to be Young Hector, a well known pugilist. and J. G. Horne, a deputy sheriff. B. J. Briggs, law partner of Prose- cuting Attorney Ray Greenwood, notified Police Judge James W, Carr that he would file today two affidavits sworn to by Joe Mungo and his wife, Virgie Mungo. ‘These affidavits state in substance that on June 17 Chief Reynolds ar- rested the Mungos for selling liquor and other unlawful practices and that he accepted $150 from each as bail money. Tho Mungos were unable to fur: mish all the money in coin and they gave four rings in Meu of $50. KEPT FOURTH RING HIMSELF 1S CHARGE According to the affidavits, Rey- nolds influenced the Mungos to for. feit their bail, returned three of the| four rings and kept the fourth for| himself, A third affidavit has been pre pared by Peter Bi and has} been turned over to the prosecuting | attorney. The affidavit says that Biteman was arrested at the same time as the Mungos and gave Rey (Turn to Last Page, Colamn 1) $2,300 HAUL | POP ne be $2,300 in jewel- | ry, eash and papers were taken | by apartment house thieves in two daring burglaries Wednes- day night. Ruth Heil, who lives at 114 Fifth N., was robbed of personal pa-| valued at $1,600; two diamond | valued at $200 pair of di mond cuff links valued at about $20; @ diamond lavalliere, value $125; a moonstone ring, valued at about $20, and cash amounting to $20, when thief ransacked her apartment, early | Thur Her ave. pers rin: aunt, who was with her, at 4:30, finding a strange man room | asked him what The man excused hims | he was in the | Thieves who entered the room of re 114 Fifth a be Neved to be the men r the robbery of Miss He lias slept, they took $5 yaluable diamond rings, \euff links, and left five watches in a bureau dra lias reported the loss Thursd | lie awoke in the She he wanted If by saying wrong apartment D. »pliss, 5 in cash, diamond | valuable | er. Top- y to po- Taft Aunolilesent Is Expected Today WASHINGTON, June 30.-+-Wil liam Howard Taft has been chosen for Chief Justice of the United States court, Final decis ion to name him was reached to: day, it was learned on highest au: | thority | Decision hag been reached to an- nounce the Taft appointment for-| mally at 4p. m, today, President Harding will make the announce: ment supreme w |2 years old and @ wee boy of 1 YE 30, 1921. Champion of Eugenics Law| She’d Make Lovers Get O. K. FORD IN BIG NEW SPHERE May Purchase U.S. Nitrate Plant and| Make It Profit- able Enterprise BY ALBERT APPLE (Copyright, 1921, by Beattie Star.) DETROIT, June 30.— Henry Ford is preparing to complete the economic cycle of his industrial empire by buying the government’s $100,000,000 nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals, Ala. This plete, idle, ren’ rae ‘ay + ye of $15,000, it and put it = oper-| i ation. Ford plans to transform this white elephant into a paying proposition in the same way in which his wiz ardy changed the D., T. & L, railroad from a $200,000 a month loser to a money-maker. Ford's first step in setting up an independgnt industrial empire was to establish his own “parts” factory The Seattle Star $10,000 EMBEZTLEMENT Excitement Over Glove Battle Is Increasing Daily Sport Fans Everywhere Ai Are Eagerly Await- ing International Clash Between Carpen- tier and Dempsey ey Saturday The attention of the world is riveted today on Jersey City. No sporting event in his-| tory ever evoked the interest aroused by the Demp Carpentier fight. How it has stirred the people every where was revealed today in the following cablegrams3 to the United Press: eee LONDON, June 30.—John Bull to- day believed Georges Carpentier has an even chance of tearing ~ the heavyweight crown from Jack here for his auto and tractor plants. | His second step was to purchase out-| right bis sources of raw materials. | Hs third step was to buy the D,, T. & |. railroad to transport much of ‘| these m@terials to his factories, Miss Rose Rothenberg EW YORK, June 30.—You are about to be married. k for a Heense, Th every person must obtain a bill of health from a physician ap pointed by the board of health. Otherwise, no license. “It is for better to wreck the lives of couples in love, but suf- fering with dis than them to marry and bying he capped children into the world," | she | “Some couples will be selfish ugh to evade the law, I sup- but a eugenics law will cer- help to prevent the di axe which threatens to de orate the human race, You says, certificate,” That will be the situation met by sweethearts in New York if the eugenics bill passes the legis- lature. Mies Rose Rothenberg, asaist- ant district attorney, is working for the measure “L'll see that it's enforced, too, if It passes,” she says, The proposed bill provides that ‘SADIE’ ON THE RACK Whole Family Gives Her Once Over ‘Ten daye ago » sweat gist gradu. ate from the university, Mise her way into the vi |month. While she talked to me in father of the family milk for his youngest kitchen. A trained |inurse had been gone from their home about a week, and someone was! | needed to help with the kiddies im- mediately Now I ask you—Job or no job for me—could I have done it? Could L have gone into bungalow on Boyer ave. | walked out at the end of three hours? Nope, I haven't quite lost my soul. So I slid out, played just as doorway | the iiving room a th offapr tag int prep: she is telling of Periences’ last week in various Heat- tle homes. eee BY WANDA VON KETTLER HAD held two jobs as a house-| maid in the past three days. 1| needed to” “hire at least once more before the close of the week, proceeded to study the “Female Help | ” column. It was perhaps 5 o'clock when 1| called the house-| wife on B. Mercer and if still dea without having dis any particular enthusiasm. two girls appeared at the and applied for the job. “ee | art: | st asked 7 o'clock, #0 T st. The family, who was to decide upon me, was atill consuming food, #0 1 was led to the Joor of the dining*room by the lady | of the house. “This,” famil But It was nearly - ed for Mercer help. “Oh,” she re- ] plied, “you want| the place? Then you'd better come out about 7 o'clock, when my uily’s all home talk it] she explained, “is my might have said, | This, dear household, is the only living jiastioutus in captivity.” It would have had the same effect, Six pairs of eyes turned upon me, six forks went down to the table and remained th six voices murmured faint, inaudible somethings about the creature in the doorway. No footlights wer before me, but th should hav ‘or once in my life Twas the center of attraction, Included in the “family” were| (urn to Last Page, Column 4) over.” Interesting! 1 was to be looked | over by the fam ily en masse, and decided upon, oe | | Before however, I ed the home little mother on Boyer ave. She had one baby girl then, visit of al Miss Von Kettler Wow he is making his fourth step| windows show Dempsey —negotiating for the purchase of the | great nitrate plant. Why? To pro- vide cheaper nitrates for farm fer. tilizer; thua to improve the farms and | can't land increase the farm market for trac tors and automobiles, i RAISE WAGES HER LINES CUT Ford will buy more railroads later on. On July 1, when other railroads are to cut Wages of unskilled labor 12 per cent, average of 40 per cent on his rail- 1, establishing a minimum wage of $6 a day, Soon Ford's River Rouge plant will begin making type that he exp the cost of motive power. In the last three months, the D. T. & I. has cut its running time eent on freight shipments ight trains will soon be put on} ne schedule basis, same passenger trains, so that a shipper will know the exact hour a shipment will be de- livered, Beginning July 1, Ford's railroad | employes will have every Sunday off. No passenger or freight traing will be run on the D,, T. & I. on Sundays, except milk trains. “We are trying to put this railroad on a factory basis," Ford says, “We're going to work the railroad six days a week, with eight-hour shifts, and rest on the seventh day,” Since Ford took over the 462-mile D, T. & L, the number of its ployes has been reduced from 2,7 to This has been done by changing methods, so that there are » one-and-a-half-man jobs, ‘There are no titled officials on the Ford road. LL ROLLING STOCK LIGHTER On July 1, when $6 will be minimum eight-hour daily wage for unskilled labor on the D., T. & L, pay will be graduated according to skill, work and responsibility, onuses for demonstrated efficten cy will be paid on the usual Ford plan Overtime will will discourage much as possible Ford plans to baild Ughter freight and coaches, ag well as lighter | come the be paid, overtime but Ford work cars engines. Ford will raise wages an} Dempney's head. Interest in the fight of July 2 crept lant is still incom-|°v¢t England like a slow fever. Dis playing only slight symptoms of in- terest @ week ago, the British isles neethed today with speculation ast} the outcome. Betting, at firet atag- nant, Increased as the hour for the fight drew nearer. The general pubhe hefe favors Carpentier to win, altho its money does not say so very loudly. Carpentier’s exhibitions here have left the impression that he is the boxing marvel of the age. “He could knock out two British | [boxers in the same ring,” followers | of the game declared Dempsey was looked upon as an unknown quantity. His record of }auick victories impressed the sport- ing fraternity but little. Pictures in| the newspapers here and in the shop to be a hug » heavily muscled man. “Dangerous if he lands,” conceded one follower of the sport, “but he on Carpentier. Beckett was the same sort. If he hit a man that man dropped. But he didn’t Carpentier.” eee Dempsey Favorite in Rome Betting June 30.—Jack Dempsey | o-1 favorite here today to Georges Carpentier next ROM. was a 2 win from comotives of a newla hoxing event. # to cut in half | races and enjoy staking the i | 48 | cent |statés that | “We propose stopping this hauling | of dead weight in the form of unnee essarily heavy rolling stock,” the ord engineers explain A stecl tu is stronger than a solid rod. It's durability and strength, not weight, that counts, “In addition toMighter weight ears, we're going to limit tonnage hauled by our trains, » way to get sy The Nickel Plate hag proved beet? | person, while Ja bigger Saturday. The betting was unprecedented for Italians like the r money, | they are “off” the| But this match might be 2 SUSPECTS IN ROBBERY HELD Frank Lefooski and: Theodore Wirniski were arrested Thurs- day as suspects in the robbery of Nels Anderson and Julius Playfeldt between Maple Valley and Hobart Wednesday and con- fessed to Sheriff Matt Starwic as to their part in when brought to the cou ‘Three men Wedne home of Anderson Kk $12 d beat Anderson, with a gun. ‘Thurs but ordinarily prize ring. and three watch 65, over the head Lefooski up and Wirniskt were picked near Maple valley by Deputies Campbell, Brewer, Bundy and Sheriff Starwich. had $40, one-third of the money taken the day before, on his Wirniski carried a gun, which was still clogged with blood on the inside of the hammer. ‘The men told of plans to “pull” “job” at Ravensdale later in the day, but were apprehended They are suspected by police of fici highway robberies. he knows the |of the third man in the case Pp“ constructive, ac- tive thought into your brain and work it out thru The Star Clas- sified ads. There are a thousand ways presented there any day fo turn an honest dollar. ————— Sheriff identity Each | mount of s to be implicated in several re- | 1 | staged.t for one of the seven hills of | Rome, so keen is the gossip, so in- |sistent the backers of one or the other fighter. While Dempsey was a favorite, there were large sections of the bet- ting population faithful to Carpen- Itler, No picture of the ferocious champion with the siege gun left and right could alter the opinion of the French champion held by some. Much of this Carpentier feeling admittedly was stirred by racial pride. Georges is a Latin. The Italians want a Latin to win, eee Georges Careful, Declares His Wife PARIS, June %0.—“Georges is neither pessimistic nor optimistic,” Madame Georges Carpentier told the United Press today. “He writes me every day. He has igh respect.for his opponent's ski. eae believes M. Dempsey is the strongest adversary he ever encoun- | tered. “Georges never believes he is vic- torious until his opponent is down |and out.” eee | JAPANESE PICK | DEMPSEY TO WIN TOKYO, June 30.—Jack Dempsey wil] win next Saturday, according to popular belief here. A large American contingent and hundreds of Japanese who have at- |tended school in the United States |have so impressed others with Demp- |wey’s ability that Carpentier money gets™big odds, Little of it was of- | fered. . |MANILA GIVES ODDS |ON JACK DEMPSEY | MANILA, P. 1, June 30—Jack Dempsey today commanded odds of 3 to 1 here for his fight with Georges Carpentier. Soldiers and a large American population have absorbed the small amounts bet on Carpen- tier. Altho returns from the fight will |not reach Manila until after 3 a. m. ‘Sunday arrangements were made for all-night parties to await the cable grams. | FAVOR CARPENTIER IN SOUTH AFRICA | CAPETOWN, South Africa, 30.—Somewhat disturbed by cables | stating that New York odds are 3 to !1 on Dempsey to win his fight with | Carpentier next Saturday, Britishers | French to lay their money on the enchman today. Cables will bring fairly complete | returns of the fight late in the eve- ning. RIO DE JANEIRO, June 30.—No event in recent years has brought such a demand for information as the Dempsey-Carpentier fight. Brazil, a Latin country, is backing Carpen tier almost to a man, altho America) money placed on Dempsey cannot get odds Papers which never before trou- bled themselves with sporting news have been compelled by popular in- terest to devote columns to the forth:| ming fight. Pictures of the two pugilists have made their figures familiar to all Braziliang eee BUENOS Al DIVIDED IN OPINION BUENOS AIRES, June 30.—Senti | ment here was almost evenly divided | today between Carpentier and Demp-| sey. | Large British and American col- onies led the dispute over, the, abili- s of the two fighters? Argentinians gave their full sympathy to Carpen- tier, but on the strength ,of New York cables demauded odds from Dempsey backers, | Newspaper are arranging the most) | complete service ever ordered for an {event of this sort. | ee | SYD) S ARE | . SW, June 90.—Fa miliarity with American boxers who haye fought here frequently today catised odds to favor Jack Dempsey lin his fight with Carpentier. June) faces and) TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE _ CHARGE for the F. T. Crowe Co., Seattle, dealers in building material, was being returned to Seattle Thurs day, following his arrest in Van-_ of the company’s funds, The alleged shortage was ed when the monthly nen the company’s files was made. Robinson, it is claimed, was tempting to enter Washington ff British Columbia with a woman a not to be his wife. He was tj to return In time to cover his wn itis ribeye eee Kt Canadian pies hovers a objected to his traveling about tl province with the woman, and rested him. ¥ While he was held there, the age was discovered here, and charge of embezzlement was against him, Robinson is accused of forging # counter signature of checks payable to himself and transt \the money of the company to own banking account. 3D ARREST IN BALL SWI The third alleged gambler to be arrested in > weeks, E. L. Moore, 26, window cleaner, held on a charge of forg- ery in the city jail, is alleged to” have confessed Thursday to de tectives his gambling in which he swindied hundreds of Seattle men with a fake lotta: game. Moore's system was to peddle lot. tery tickets in pool halls at 50 cents © each, betting on two teams in the — Natiowlal, Américan and Comat leagues, the victim placing his bets on two teams to make the highest |score of the day in their respective. leagues. A large amount of tickets | wefe seized by Detectives R. R. Here — |bert and B. Yoris Tuesday night: Moore was originally arrested for — passing worthless checks in a fake advertising scheme. He will be tried on a charge of first degree forgery, FOREIGNERS IN HANKOW FLEEING HANKOW, China, June 30.—The © [foreign population of Hankow was | jMeeing for safety today, fearing ” impending mutinies of Chinese troops. One thousand Japanese troops” were reported planning to remain in |the city. Other foreign concess! |fiowever, were being evacuated, Taking advantage of the situation created by the presence of two Bo¥- ernments in China, various provine cial governors are reported putting armies in the field for the purpose of looting Reports here indicated thousands Were killed in mutinies recently, PLAN TOSELL WOODEN FLEET HINGTON, June 30.— The United States shipping board hag de- | cided definitely to dispose of the 287 wooden ships of the emergency fleet corporation, it was announced today, | Bids will be opened July 30, ‘The fleet is now riding in the James river, in Lake Union at Seat. tle and New York bay, Robert H. Montgomery, New York, has been*appointed to make a survey of the shipping board finances, it was announced.