The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 5, 1921, Page 7

JUNTERMYER SAYS HELL SEND 1,000 BUILDING GRAFTERS TO PRISON! Goes to Europe for Brief Rest, but Will Keep on Trail of Ring; 46 Are Already Jailed BY E. M. THIERRY ee ggg Sha % we pt NEW YORK, July 5.—“T'll land a thousand more building! New Orleans, Pittsburg reported || grafters in jail as soon as I return from Europe!” two dene, Beores ok Cspar cities That's the promise of Samuel Untermyer, special counsel Lemar wkicvaine wcreae for the Lockwood investigating committee, who has taken “time out” for a short vacation overseas, Untermyer is devoting his life, mainly, to two things— jcleaning up the national building graft, and growing beauti- ful flowers. He always wears a home-grown orchid in his | buttonhole. The graft pot he has left boiling in New York has alrea ady | | put 46 building grafters behind the bars. And any others who venture out of hiding or, UNTERMYER More Than 56 Die Yesterday in Accidents America has passed her safest sanest Fourth of July, it was tnd cated in réports gathered today by the United Pre parts of the country Deuths were from drowning for t part, Explosion of fire caused fow casualtios. ton led the cas In and JAP KILLS | GIRL OF 5 WITH AUTO Orags Tot 10 Feet Under Wheels in Woodland Park; Is Arrested “FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET from cities in & The July Garment Clearance Now Progressing Second Floor and Downstairs Store EXTREMELY LOW PRICES PREVAIL the mos crackers Chicago and Bi walty let with 12 deaths each Chicago five were drowned the rest killed in automobile dents In Milwaukee 11 were dead, being drowned Nine were Sarah Berman, S-yearsold laughter of Lewis Berman, 204 Holden Was almost instantly killed struck in Woodland park at 5:30 p. m. Sunday” by a heavy touring riven by 8, Sunohara, 32, Jap cloth ing merchant, 1121 Jackson st ‘The girl was picked up by Dr. 0 A. Anderson, 806 Cobb bidg., and Mel Wille Evans of Auburn, and rushed to Lakeside hospital in Anderson's car ere she was pronounced dead from & compound fracture of the skull, The girl was struck when she ran Out in the road in pursult of a toy Dalloon, being hit by the fender of Sunohara’s car, run over and drag ed for 10 feet beneath the wheels before Sunohara’s machine was eT | six at. jrowned in New when A Typical Value From the SEMI-ANNUAL FURNITURE SALE bile accidents San Franet reported Jead and nine injured. three |} IN OL PLANT temporary good behavior, in jthe delusion that Untermyer “42 Injured as Steel Stills;is loafing on the job, while) Sunohara, who was driving the car in company with his wife and jb *Ee.any, near here, Sunday, friend, T. Nakamura, was arrests] by Park Policeman F. Callahan, and! booked on an open charge He was released Tuesday on his Personal recognizance by Deputy Coroner Frank Koepfi, who is in Vestigating the case, Sunohara claimed he was driving at a rate of 10 miles an hour, but Witnesses to the accident declare he/| was driving faster. Sarah was playing with her seven brothers and sisters in the park. Sunohara declared he was unable to avoid striking her and swerved to the right in an effort to mias her. Witnesses declare that he did not. eee Six Injured When Automobile Upsets Six persons were injured when the auto in which they were riding over: turned Monday night at 19th ave. and E. Union st. ‘The car was driven by Ray Fort- ano, of Bremerton. Three children were severely in- Jured, one perhaps fatally. They are M. Isr 302 25th ave.; Grace Cars. ton, 155 23rd ava, and Regina Bea- matur, 3 Sth ave. They were taken to Providence hospital. Foriano and the other two occu: pants of the car, Isaac Foriano and Jack Beanatur, were struck by flying glass from the broken windshield. Carcless driving is said to have caus- ed the accident. ) FUNERALS FOR ‘AMERICAN DEAD “| Bodies of First 3 Killed |. With Those Brought Home FNEW YORK, July 5.—The first ree American soldiers killed on ch soll in the world war will be among those for whom funeral serv- lets will be held at army piers, Ho “boken, Sunday afternoon, The soldiers were Corporal James| D. Gresham, of Evansville, Ind.; Pri- vate Thos. F. Enright. of Pittsburg. Pa. and Private Merie D. Hay, of Glidden, Ia, All were members of the 16th infantry, First diviston. ‘They were killed during a trench raid by a German patrol, the night, of November 3, 1917, ‘The services will ne held over the aye es nl seg ese in by _ the steamer Somme today and 6,324 which arrived on the Wheaton a few days ago. AT TAMMANY DONS ROBES Boy, a long black robe and another | set of Blackstone! Patrick M. Tammany was appoint- 4 police judge pro tem. Tuesday. He will thunder out the sudicial 10 days” during the brief absence of Judge John B, Gordon. other of Senator Jones Passes Away DECATUR, It, July 6.—Mrs. Phoebe McKay Guthrie, mother of Senator Wesley L. Jones, died at She was 86 years old. KAMLOOPS, B. C.—Next annual) session Provincial Elks’ lodge to bel dirt bank gave way held in Vernon. "$10 or | Scatter Flames WHITING, July 6.— Two huge steel stills used for production Ind [of gasoline at the Standard O11 com |pany’s plant here burst, |Maming off and gas over « radius of | seattering 200 yards and taking a toll of nine dead and 42 injured, yesterday. The property damage was placed at ap proximately $2,000,600, ‘The blast was caused by a leak In jone of the gas tanks. The leak bis vacating, will draw his ire via jcable, he says. HE TAKES His WORK WITH HIM He is the sort of man who takes work with him wherever In Europe, followed by a half dozen secretaries, armed with docu ments and cable blanks, he plana to freshen himself physically for the big fight which has only begun Untermyer’s chief work has been in New York and Buffalo, but he 008. has revealed the inner workings of| a ring that i national-——etrangling caught fire and almost instantane. | ullding and imposing the penalty ously the brick walls enclosing the! of high rents. stills crumbled. A eheet of burning oll and gas spread, blanketlike, over the grounds, Of 60 men working near by, only a few escaped injury Six of those who were killed were working close to the still, They died almost instantly, their bodies burned beyond recognition. eee Girl, 8, Dies From Firecracker Burns SANTA MONICA, Cal, July 6.— Mildred Rudkins, 8, died during the night from burns inflicted by the pre mature explosion my ha aia |Denver’s 4th Kills One, Injures Seven DENVER, Colo., July 5.—One man is dead and seven others injured as the result of exploding fireworks yes. terday. ‘The death was caused by heart failure, brought on by the firecrackers ben tara nearby. 3 Dead, 9 More Hurt in Frisco’s Fourth SAN FRANCISCO, July 5.—Nine children had been added to the list of Fourth of July injured today, as @ result of yesterday's celebration. They were all suffering from burfs from exploding fireworks. Three deaths have been recorded during the last 10 days, attributable to fireworks. eee Twelve Injured in Truck Plunge CANON CITY, Colo, July 5.— Twelve persons were injured, several jeritically, near here yesterday when an auto truck in which they were riding dashed down a mountain and | turned over. Three Killed in Portland Crashes PORTLAND, Ore, July 6--Four accidents marred Portland's tranquil |day of independence, all of them directly caused, it is believed, by the great throngs of motor vehicles which crowded the highways in and abge! the city. fm the outskirts of the city two pienic trucks collided and several ebildren suffered minor injuries. On the lower bighway Henry Riebe, 32, rode his motorcycle head- long into an automobile which had taken the wrong side of the road. He died of a fractured skull. Mrs. Eliza D. Cramer died of nervous shock following the crash in which the automobile she occu pled collided with: a street car. Mrs. Edna Albertson was killed pear Tillamook, and several mem bers of her family injured, when a beneath the automobile they were driving. WHEN you add price and upkeep cost together and divide them by the number of years and miles run you appre- ciate the wonderful value of the Chevrolet “ Four-Ninety.” Chevrolet Motor Company Retail Store Third Ave. at Blanchard Street Elliott 4056 } up He has made many enemies—bdut he seems to thrive on them. Figu ratively, he sits at Graystone, his home on the road to Sing Sing, and watches the procession going to jail Two powerful forces are now lined up with the Nemesis of building grafters. Untermyer has the co operation of Attorney General Daugherty and has succeeded in getting the American Federation of Labor to condemn the offending members of the Building Trades Council. HAS SUPPORT OF UNION LABOR That he has the support of union tabor is demonstrated by the fact that he has been selected as arbi trator for the building trades in Westchester, Erie and Rochester counties. “Yen, it's an expensive crusade, ways Untermyer, “but it won't take jong—maybe a year.” That's another thing he ifen't Pron to talk about-—the fact that he has paid out thousands of dollars from his own pocket in prosecution of the “ring.” He refuses to take a penny compensation, He has given up bis own legal work-and be is among the half doxen bighest paid lawyers in New York—to cure the butiding sore. His inquiry, thus far, has brought | nearly 500 indictments against indi.) videaly and firms, sent Robert P, Brindell, buflding trades “czar,” to Sing Sing, jailed many more, collect ed $167,500 In fines, and smashed a dozen building material combines, And all this didn’t “just happen.” He studied his field for 15 years be fore he struck—and then he got re sulta, Nearly 500 witnesses have been examined in New York ‘and Buffalo and 10,000 pages of testimony have been taken. Governors of states all over the country, and prosecuting attorneys have asked for transcripts of testimony. Everywhere Uter- myer is regarded as the one man who can dig out the rotten core of buliding ills and successfully solve the housing problem. NATIONAL CLEANUP 18 PROMISED The federal government recently took action and indictments, na- tional ifr scope, are expected. A con gressional appropriation of a quar ter million dollars will probably be! required for the country-wide whole sale cleanup, directed at 20 national combines capitalized at $2,000,000, 000. And this man who “treats” ‘em rough"——what does he look like? Small and thin! Sparse gray hair, brushed straight back from a high brow, Bristling mustache that turns at the ends. Snapping eyes. Dapper and natty of dress. Very human and easy going, in private life, is Utermyer~-but a serapper, all around, when he gets “in the ee ity LET POLITICAL BOUNDAR |Congress Won’t Make Move to Reapportion WASHINGTON, will be no reapportionment in the present congress, President Harding hag confided to house leaders that he aoes not want anything done along that line now. The reapportionment, in keeping with the 1920 census, would reduce the electoral vote of the ably republican, and would increase ctoral votey in states which have not always been so loyal While President Harding did not | base his opposition to reapportion ment on any such selfish reason, he was frank to admit that he did not fee the justice of penalizing repub- lican communities, But he does feel that, with the vexed problema now confronting con greas, members of that body should | to meet all] | questions squarely and fairly and go their present constituencies | have the opportunity before next year on the records they have made, without having their personal fortunes clouded by rearrangements | of political boundaries Nora Norris, 17, far w daughter, killed when auto mioge girikes telephone pole, he | IES BE July 6.—There | . Middle | Western states, which have been re-| ‘ONE SHOT IN MARINE RIOT ‘Seaman, With Bullet Thru Lungs, May Die , In renewed ‘outbreaks of marine rioting over the ship strike, one man was shot thru the back during = fight at Yes ler way and Post st. Monday night. Clarence Kane, 28, seaman. ts in Providence hospital in critical con. dition, with a bullet thru the lungs. His asallant, Ovcar Bekum, firo- | man on the steamship Victoria, was | Brrested and is being held in city jail for investigation a. to await the outcome of Kane's injuries. If Kane dies, it w understood that | Bekum will be charged, with man slaughter, ‘The shooting occurred, according |to Bekum, when Kane and three jother sailorn attacked him as he was leaving the ship. During the melee, Bekum i alleged to have pulied the gun and shot Kane. Rekum admitted to Captain Hedges of the police that he fired once, claiming he shot in the air. After the shooting, Kane war brought to city hospital and later taken to Providence hospital. HART CONFERS WITH EDITORS |Republicans Only Invited to Meeting Special to The Star. OLYMPIA, July 8. — Governor Hart's great conference for rejoicing was due to start at 1 p. m. here to- day. Only republican editors were invited. According to Chartes Hebberd, re publican state chairman, the cause for rejoicing is “the progress made in the organization and operation of the code administration.” It is also for the purpose, it Is said, of “considering plans and poll cles for further development and methods of reduction of taxation thruout the state, local and gen- The previous tax conference called by the governor some weeks ago was considered to have proved something of a fizzle Some of the editors invited to to day's gathering made so bold as to! predict “a remedy from without the party” might be prescribed for the governor unless something was forthcoming from within the party shortly to relieve conditions revealed in recent press dispatches, [' WAS HOT AND HOTTER NEW YORK.-It was hot. Mem- bers of two ball teams, following the game, plunged into the Harlem river minus bathing suits. Life-aavers holding a dance in a nearby station objected, Five went to a hospital ORK MADE HIM PEEVISH NEW YORK —Timothy Monohan in jail still insisted “there are two, days when a man shouldn't work March 17 and July 4." He found Henry Rittersvich painting his home and pulled him off a ladder, 40 Velvet Rugs, 27x54, 4-piece Ivory Enamel Suite Semi-Annual Sale Price A Full-size Bed venience. DOWNSTAIRS STORE- 80 Small Rugs at Special Prices MPORTANT savings are offered on these scatter- size Rugs—in floral, patterns of blue, tan, brown and mulberry. tapestry and conventional special $1.95 each. 24 Axminster Rugs, 27x54, special $2.95 each. 16 Axminster Rugs, 36x63, special $4.75 each. 40 Pairs of Curtains Special $1.65 Pair Ruffled Voile Curtains and Hemstitched Scrim, plain, pair. 279 A very low price for wide, special 25¢ yard. tured Wednesday, special 97 YARDS OF ECRU SCRIM, with 1 border, 36 inches wide, dresses, aprons, children’ Stripe, check and plaid patterns in the offering, in a good assortment of colorings; 27 inches wide. or with lace insertion and edge, special $1.65 Yards Curtain Marquisette Special 25¢ Yard serviceable Curtain Marqui- sette, plain and hemstitched, in ecru only; 36 inches g-inch tape special 25¢ yard. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORB 1,500 Yards of Ginghams Special 15c Yard An opportunity to buy advantageously for house s frocks and boys’ blouses. Fea- 15¢ yard. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Dresser $84.00 SIMPLE straight-line Suite, as pictured, finished in ivory enamel, and consisting of Chiffonier —semi-annual Sale Price—$84.00. 2 Note: It is required that delivery of all furniture pur- chased in this sale shall be accepted by our customers dur- ing the month of July,at FREDERICK & NELSON’S con- Toilet Table —Fourth Fleer — 500 Yards New Silk Foulards Special $1.27 Yard HE prettiest and most serviceable frock in the summer wardrobe is apt to be a Foulard—and> these offer particularly pleasing colorings and pate terns at a special price. For coat and jacket linings one also makes good ; use of these supple silks. Light, and dark colorings to choose ‘from, patterned: | with coin spots, delicate eonventional motifs and floral designs—40 inches wide, special $1.27 yard. 38-inch All-Silk Crepe de Chine Special Q5¢ Yard A light weight, especially well-suited to cool sum- — mer frocks, blouses and panel-facings—featuring coral, rust, navy, brown, honeydew and mais—special 95¢ yard. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE 1,400 Yards Unbleached Muslin Special 15c Yard For bed sheets, for fancy work, for women’s and children’s wear, for window curtains and for a multi- tude of other uses in the home, these smooth-finish Unbleached Sheeting Muslins, 40 inches wide, special 15¢ yard. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORB 1,700 Yards of Canton Flannel at 15c Yard Slightly discolored on selvage, hence the very low price. For women’s and ‘children’s gowns and infants’ wear, these soft cottons, with fleece finish on one side, 27 inches wide. Unusually low-priced at 15¢ yard. THE DOWNSTAIRS STORB RESTAURANT, HOTEL HELD UP, Masked Bandits Hold Night Clerk at Bay, Get $340 — In two dartng holdups, Monday night, bandits robbed the Lonsdale hotel and the Maritime restaurant, 2016 First ave., of $380. Three men held up the night clerk at the Lonsdale hotel and robbed the safe 0€ $40 cash and $300 in Liberty bonds. ‘The bandits escaped. The second hold-up was staged by a single bandit who used an auto to make his escape. Driving up to the restaurant, he rushed in and lined [PACIFIC FLEET MORE POWERFUL It Surpasses | Atlantic Fleet, Admiral Declares “SAN FRANCISCO, July 5.—"The Pacific fleet will be more powerful than the parent Atlantic fleet, both in tonnage and in gunpower,” it is declared by Admiral BE. W. Eberle, |new commander of the fleet. Ad miral Eberle will officially take over his new duties Wednesday, when his flag is unfurled from the flagship New Mexico, the wall and robbed the tilt of $49. He then ran outside, leaped in the waiting car with the engine running the proprietor and the guesty against | and escaped. 3 REHEARSALS OF WAYYFARER’ Children, Those in Leadiag Roles and Chorus to Work ‘Three rehearsals for The Way- farer were scheduled for Thursday. At 10 a m,, in the Sunday school room of Plymouth Congregational church, the 500 children taking part in the nativity scene assembled. Leaders assigned to important parts were to rehearse at 2 p. m. in The Wayfarer headquarters, 84 Unt versity st. ‘Tuesday night the 10th weekly re- Kentucky Elks Are Entertained Heng Forty-nine Kentucky Elks, en route to the grand lodge reunion to — be held in Los Angeles, are entertained by their Seattle brethren Tuesday, They are from Louisville — 3 MANILA, P. I, July 6.—Mantlats power supply was cut off by a heavy typhoon, which considerable property damage | The city was in darkness for a few car lines were para» a | lyzed. ious hours and the | hearsal of the great chorus ts to be held in the First M. EB, church, Mail orders for tickets to ‘Wayfarer will be filled, comm July 11, it is announced by L, Webster ,manager, and the office will be opened in the July ~