The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 6, 1921, Page 1

| |. A NEW STYLE OF ROCKET By 10,000 Plurality The Star Is Daily Elected Seattle’s Favorite Paper EEK GIRL AS SLAYER OF BOY! WAUKESHA, Wis., July 6.—The body of Robert Traubert, jr., 6, Mil- waukee, was found today in a drifting rowboat on Lake Pewaukee with a small penknife imbedded in his heart. Walter Traubert, a brother, said he saw Robert Monday night in company with a girl H. M. Traubert, DETECTIVES ON TRAIL OF AX ATTACKERS ve Tonight fair; ) x § {ilk Weather and Thursday, warmer moderate westerly winds Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 64, Minimum, 52. Today noon, 64. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star tonight; another brother, said he saw the boy at midnight Monday walking to- ward the lake... Fishermen discovered the body. Seven wounds had been inflicted, two behind the ear and five in the heart. The Traubert brothers were camping at the lake. Authorities are searching for the girl. Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1999, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $> to $9 VOLUME 23 a> Howdy, folks! Have you been stung by a hornet yet? | eee A Seattle restaurant and hotel! Were held up the other night. “Tit- for-tat," said the bold burglars, oe Governor Hart is again hold ing a tax conference If he holds a conference on the bonus situation, veterans might as well give up hope. eee MEET MR. OM-AT “Tarzan learns that Ta-Den lives tm A-Lur, and that he ts a Ho-Don, While Waz-Don tribes, of which Om- At is a member, live in caves and forests. Ta-Den has fled A-Lur be-| cause of a quarrel he had with his/ ‘\ing.”"—From the Synopsis of “Tar- gan the Terrible.” ° “The war knocked the props from P beneath our moral idealism and like | ocket we have shot down the/ 4 ways toward Hell."\—From a| ister's description of the Demp- tourne- || Sunday. | | NO, WE NEVER DID Editor of Home Brew: Didya ever of bottles being made out of whisky? Pipe the following adver- tisement appearing in the Louisville JOSH WISE SAYS No wife ever interrupts her husband when he's talkin’ in his sleep. ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW When we attend the movies, which do regularly, we always wait ixiously for bad news reel or top- feal review. ve don’t have much time to read the newspapers, and we like to keep track of what is go- ing on in the world. While some other features on the average movie show may not hold us entranced, we are always sure of something new. | and we are certain to see the vital) episodes of the world’s news dished | up, hot off the griddle. And the best | “part of it is we are never disap-| pointed. We know exactly what we re going to see. We saw our fa Ebrerite news reel yesterday, and it Fah exactly as follows: Wellesley college ho ys. Canoeing on bay at Copenhagen. Battleship passing under Brooklyn bridse. ej girls rolling tt De Kay arriving from Eu |Gov. Hart and G. O. P. Glad-Hand Fest Held at Capital GUARD ‘LIQUOR =:°') TRIALS OLYMPIA, July 6. — Governor aE | Hart's conference of republican be newspaper omer ty rasinees, 200 Kentuckians of eld here yesterday for rejoicing | Hills Under Ar-| discussion of taxes, passed into his- | rest for Moon-) tory today. it insted three hours af shining 1 and 28 minutes. Three hours and 15 minutes for SANDY HOOK, Ky., July 6.—Na tional guardsmen patrolied the) rejoicing. Thirteen minutes for discussion of streets today when nearly 200 per fons were to be arraigned on charges taxes, EXTRA! GOV. HART REMAINS AWAKE! Contrary to precedent, Governor Hart remained awake thruout the ordeal. One other gentleman slept —audibly. of moonshining. \ About half the commmnity-——where the hill folk have distified their own Mquor..since the days of Daniel Boone—apparently were in sym pathy with the accuned and authori. ties antictpate trouble. (He ts an editor) There are nine republican editors Resentment against the little un- | derstood and less appreciated pro- and publishers in the state—count ‘em—and they were al! present. ‘To offset these there were 10 mem- | hibition law for which “furriners”-—~ all those living outside the moun- tain community—were responsible, Editors Talk Over TH EW LATE EDITION eae cosine EATTLE, WASH., WEDN ESDAY, JULY 6, 1921. Cabinet’s Vacations Disappear Harding Can't Visit Alas- ka; He Will Work Thru Summer WASHINGTON, July United States government 6.— The has de | cided to remain in Washington this summer President Harding, it was learned today, has about given up hope of going to Alaska @ trip he planned to make tf congress adjourned. , A poll of the cabinet today showcd all members plan to stay here. The senate today was on record against a recens. House jeaders said they planned to work on tariff and taxation, cee WASHINGTON, July 6—Picture the president's cabinet! Fat $12,000 salary, big office, free auto, plenty of secretaries, social Prestige, prominence. Nothing to do but to pass ont politicn! ple, amoke fat cigars, make bers of the governor's official “cabl net.” each of whom rejolced optl mistically over the success of the code, admitting that nobody would be able to figure out for a couple of years what its administration is cost. ing the state. It was impressed upon the news| Was increased last night when paper men, however, that each de | Judge A. H. Frisco sentenced 10 men partment ix making a great saving, |'© Jail because they refused to pay and, with the exception of the bank. | $300 fines. ing department, will weather the bi-| Threats against the lives of the ennium without spending all the | Judge and other officials and a re. money allowed by the last legisia- | cent murder in the bootlegger war) ture. accounted for the presence of Ken-| ‘The 10 department heads will have | tucky guardsmen, Uniformed troop-| & lot to answer for if they do not,|¢r#, heavily armed, were stationed pitting 105 on Pennsylvania ave. | as they promised to do, make a say. | thruout the little town and a cordon | ing of 15 to 20 per cent each on their | Protected the dingy courtroom. | appropriations. Sheriff J. N. Green, one of thoee TWO MOVES, ONE threatened, was heading deputies in TOWARDS THE DOOR a search along tho hillsides for aa At the conclusion of the 10 ora-| Maden pe Gaul io tions 11 counting the guvernors , | Greene said as he started out. “Our| ee eee, wor ‘e iaewns, 1oM7 trouble is golng to be to locate ulation be extended to the governor. | ‘Mam—we't Ket them then” se tne | Simultaneously the audience hen no pethso st D tee mebetee | seb sag . MO) Siained. “The church folks got tired tion Was lost in the shuffie. TP tals voitiecsing wadicten wna teal No mention was made of state | started out to run the moonshiners officials’ expensive motor ¢@rs irom the county,” he said. “The bought this spring with state | nurder of Van Sparks, state witness funds, nor of Gov. Hart's Christ- 11. these trials, 40 days ago, made mas cards for which the taxpay- | things worse. We have all been Tne coremnoe and’ Chairman Heb. | ‘hrestened by the bootleggers’ band, berd had a misunderstanding un the | PUt We arent’ scared minority matter of taxation, Heb- berd said: “The governor, I have no doubt, will be able, as he prom ines, to reduce taxes 20 per cent—" “Just a moment,” interrupted the governor. “I don't want to be misunderstood or misquoted on this matter of taxes. I didn’t say I'd reduce taxes 20 per cent. What I sald was that I believed I would be able to show the next legislature a saving of 20 per cent in expefiditures.” And that ended the discussion of tax reduction, ‘GIRL, IN LOVE, TAKES POISON Lucile Garlots, 20, living at the Excelsior apartments, is in Providence hospital in a critical condition as the result of a sul- cide attempt with poison Tues- day evening. Physicians believe she will die. Miss Garlots came out of the bathroom of her apartment, turnec to her aunt, Miss Dorothy Miller, | wanted to do- ic speeches, look wise and draw thelr pay. Now picture it again—as ft is, Sweltering summer—the mercury Congress still in session and Prest- dent Harding and his cabinet tied down vacationers for a summer of tariff and taxation. Congress prob- ably won't adjourn before October. The president had hoped to make an inspection trip to Alaska. It's cool there. let congress adjourn until the tariff and tax measures are out of the way. And those-well, THAT vaca tion’s ended, anyway. He'll make up for it with golf and week-end trips on the yacht Mayflower. Here's what cabinet members and what they will: Secretary of the Treasury Mellon hopes to be able to spend some week War's wen endy at his summer home in South ampton, Long Island, where he rides and golfs, Secretary of State Hughes never cultivated the vacation habit. He's sed a Chevy Chase home and will spend the sumn threshing out But he won't agree to) “I appreciate,” said the governor, Van Siclen apartments, and gasped:| (Turn to Las Page, Column 4) WELL ‘Aged Capitalist Is | Found Dead in | Seattle; Leaves a Young ; Bride tragic end, Moeller, 68-year-old capitalist and real estate man, was found in a well at his home, “Stone Castle,” in 14 feet of water, standing upright. Preliminary investigation by Cor. oner W. H. Corson indicated that Moeller had fallen into the well, but no definite clues have been found to Prove it. The body was found by Moeller’s butler, Joseph Schoner, who investigated when his m er failed to appear after telling pum that he was going to the well. Mra Addie Page Moeller, the young bride of the enpitalist, learned of her husband's death when she returned home after a shopping trip, Moeller married her June 1. He bought “Stone Castle” as a wedding gift for her, and it was there that the wedding took place, Coroner Corson announced that an autopsy would be performed Wednes- |day on Moeller’s body to determine the cause of death, The body was moved from the morgue to Bonney- Watson's undertaking pariors at the request of Mrs. Moeller. ‘LOCAL GIRL IN. AIR ELOPEMENT LOS ANGELES, July 6.—“The | aerial romance” of C. E. Gorham | and Dorothy Brewster, preity Se attle girl, went Into another sen- sational loop-theloop here today. Ten days ago Dorothy and the dashing Gorham were married. Plans were laid for a honeymoon by air. plane. Newspaper photographers, re- porters and movie men held conclave | in front of the hotel. Everybody was happy. The honeymoon was postponed, however, when the hotel management | until Gorham paid his bill. He paid | it, with a check which caused grief. | ‘Then on Monday, Frederick T. Kidd, local automobile dealer, filed |suit for divorce, He filed it agairfst Dorothy, “She is my wife,” he as- serted. Yesterday Gorham succeeded in having the hotel charges against him settled and the case was dismissed in refused to part with the happy couple | Little Siberian, Ward of Amundsen, Sees the Sights * Dislikes Icé Cream } — \* AvanlsIwmwr er! Camilla, little Siberian girl, ward of Captain Roald Amundsen, Arctic explorer, who, with Star girl reporter, saw a big city for the first time yesterday. She was politely bored. *% * * By Wanda Von Kettler AKONITA and Camilla are little Siberian girls with the softest brown eyes and slick black hair and the first American dresses they have ever worn. Cakonita is the four-year-oid adopted child of Capt. Roald Amundsen, famous Arctic explorer, who arrived in Seattle Monday from the Northern seas. Camilla is 12 years old and will be the ward of Capt. Amundsen for the next five years. Little Girls Can’t Speak English I saw the little girls Tuesday afternoon at the home of | Ernest Beyer, on the west shore of Lake Washington. Cakonita, who has not been well since her arrival, was |sitting up in bed and gazing big-eyed at a pair cf tops which spun on the chair beside her. Camilla sat on the edge of the bed, occasionally speaking to the younger girl in a softly bubbling tongue. Camilla, Cakonita and I had not a great deal to say to each other, since they speak only the language of Western Siberia and a smattering of Norwegian, taught them by TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE __ —! Big City Bores HerSEAMAN was also attacked, but not with ax, was able to come to police tion Wednesday to make a report. MAY BE AFTERMATH OF MARINE STRIKE Captain of Detectives Tennant Wednesday that.in his opinion attack was an outgrowth of the re: cent marine strike, % Taylor returned home about 8m | m. to find his wife tied to a chair — and suffering from terrible on the head and arms, inflicted oa the three thugs after Mrs. * had put up a terrific battle. 4 Mrs. Taylor said she was standing on the porch of the houseboat she saw the three men come from the rear door of the home of @ neighbor, Mr. and Mrs. Frank son. They came to her home knocked. She started to open the door, One of them threw the door open and called, “Come on, boys.” STRUCK SEVERAL BLOWS IN FACE Mrs. Taylor was seized by the — three and in the struggle she was struck several blows in the face and stomach. One of the men seized stick and beat her across the arms, They tied her in a chair and pro- jceeded to search the house. One of |them found $20 in her purse, “Hell!” said the tallest man, according to Mrs. Taylor, “We don't want money; what we want is Taylor, the dirty scab!” The men then waited until Taylor returned. When Taylor came tm he was seized and thrown to the floor. He |put up such a stiff battle that one jof the thugs picked up an ax and felled him, WIFE FREES SELF; RUSHES TO NEIGHBOR After the thugs had departed Mra, Taylor managed to free herself and ran to a neighbor's home, where she telephoned to police, Taylor was taken to city hospital. si x Capt. Amundsen. And if I had to gain food by asking Secretary of the navy looking) «+n. constructive criticism of certain nd 1 ad t | asia for bread and milk in either I'd just naturally starve to His skull is fractured and he is through porthole of battleship. newspapers. But the critici#m made “I've taken mercury tablets—sev police court. Living American flag made by Squawtucket school children. Muskrats at play. View of Charleston, N. lane, Launching of freighter Chehopaho- pahopatung at Seattle. Close up af Miss Euphemia Mudge, | who christened boat. Drill of students at Hokum Mili-| tary acodemy. Fire in Bone Collar Button works | at Hoopdale, Ind. Miniature sailboats on lake in Cen-} tral park. Making doughnuts by machinery, etc., etc. I have failed to start “Tarzan the || Terrible,” you still have |! an excellent opportunity. Turn to page 11 of to- day’s Star and\ you will ind a good synopsis and another installment of this thrilling adventure tale. | C., from ‘ | by any chance you by certain other papers ing for that. SAYS TAXES WILL BE SHIFTED “A saving in state expenditures | can’t be shown till the end of the bi-| ennium, Why, we have one depart. | ment alone that is spending moré than all others in taking care of the 6,500 wards of the state. “We hope to shift 60 per cent of the state tax levy. It will be a mat ter of shifting, and I want the other | taxing bodies of the state to join us in making a showing.” It was brought to light by Jack] associate director of business control, that the wards of the state particularly «penitentiary prisoners, reformatory inmates and state train ing school boys, have been put on a “diet” that is costing the state less money that formerly. “At the penitentiary,” he sald, “we have reduced the percapita expense from 57 cents to 50 cents per day, a saving of 7 cents a day. <A similar saving has been made at the state training school and at Monroe. This| has been brought about thru a study ot proper food, The feeding has been improved and the cost reduced. n one institution we are saving 11! (furn to Last Page, Column 3) I care noth | Pace, en of them!” Miss Miller ran into the corridor, where her sereams summoned A. E. Palborn, a neighbor, who forced | large draughts of milk down the girl's throat, probably prolonging her life by his quick action, Miss Garlots was rushed to the} hospital, where physicians endeav- | ored to counteract the effect of the} poison That the suicide attempt was caused by a lover's quarrel was all the explanation that the dying girl would vouchsaf Soldier Bonus Is WASHINGTON, July 6.—Difficul ties appeared in the way of the sol lup today Opponents of the bill base their attack on the hardship ef raising $1,560,000,000 estimated as the mini- mum of the eash bonus. ‘The bonus bill would take effect in July, 1992. The bill gives ex-service men the option of a cash bonus, pald-up life a insurance, an education, a home or «| farm or preference on entry of public Woman Diese Dead; |("" Identity. lo Unknown '25,000 Unemployed Plan on Parade an unknown woman Tuesday ORT, Conn., July 6.—-An who fell unconsq@ous at 1026 Third) ave. Two men who said the woman | army of 25,000 unemployed mobilized | here today for a demonstration in the was @ stranger to them picked her up and took her to a doctor's office. When a city hospital ambulance | streets of this buzzing factory city arrived the woman was dead. Veterans of the war joined hands with ragged “foreigners” to impress on the onlookers the need of thou The woman was about years old, dressed in a black satin suit, and was brown haired, She was | sands of penniless men out of work wearing a wedding ring and carried| Women carrying bables joined with a small vanity bag containing 60| their husbands inthe demonstrations cents, An autopsy was to be per- thru which they hoped to obtain re- formed Wednesday, et from poverty, BRIDC Fought in Senate} dier bonus bill which the senate took | And today Gorham filed suit for annulment of his marriage to Doro- thy, “She is a deceiver,” he said. Yow there is nothing left of the erial” ramance but air. Cupid's cloudbuster” is back in the hangar with engine trouble. . William Brewster; 440 22rd ave. &., father of the bride, declared today that he has heard nothing of his daughter's reported second marriage. Brewster declares that the last time he heard from his daughter she | was living happily in Los Angeles with the husband she married here | last year. Alleged Murderers Are Trailed Here Supposed to be heading for seat | tle, twomlleged murderers are being | searched for by Seattle police. 8! \iff Charles J, MeCoy, of Ma Yuba county, Cal, has wired that | Jack McGill, 30, and Walter Love- | less, 24, are thought to be in this | vicinity, They are wanted for the | murder of John Kopolos, of Marys- ville, June 30, 1921, Kopolos was | killed during a fight. The two men are said to be traveling in a large touring car Geath. I “did” Seattle. We started off at 1 o'clock, with | Camilla clothed in a heavy, dark blue dress, a fur-lined coat that reached) | below her shoe tops, a knitted cap | and tennis shoes, | For some reason, unfathomable, she insisted upon keeping the coat buttoned from top to bottom, regard: | Jess of the heat she must have felt in contrast to the cold of the frozen | North Now, I supposed that a little girl from the Agetic zone would wonder at the masses of people, the automobiles and the hurry and scurry of it all in a clty like Seattle, But not so Camilla, Down Second ave. she walked at my side, with her head held high, and the air of sophistica- tion shining ou’ from her uncon- cerned little self, * She was alarmed at nono of the They Tour City Together In spite of this difference, however, I asked to take Camilla into the city to view the shop windows, visit a movie, and have her picture snapped. And so Camilla and strange things that sped on wheels before her, Only once did she pull from my hand to make a grand rush for shel- ter, A “traffic cop" thrust his arm suddenly into the air just as we at- tempted to cross the street, and Ca- milla dashed back to climb the curb she had left three seconds before. She grinned gloriously over a bowl of goldfish we found In a drug store window. She seemed glad to crawl back into her dress of reindeer skin and to hear the camera click before her, But her real smile registered when, at 3 o'clock, we met Capt. Amundsen in the Central building. . Camilla, the captain told me, be- longs to very good parents in Siberia a nati® mother and Australian fa- ther, who have intrusted her to his care for five years, During this time Turn to Last Page, Column 2) suffering from concussion of the brain, Mrs. Taylor was able to come to police headquarters Wednesday to. make a report. Detectives are work- ing on the case under the supervise fon of Captain Tennant and Lieut, W. B. Kent. Arrests are expected to be made at any hour. DRUNK TAXI MAN RUNS WILD HERE After a wild chase thru the downtown business district, in which he collided with a street car, an automobile and a pedes- trian, at 6:30 a, m. We * Sam Nelson, 25, taxi driver, was arrested at King st. station by Motorcycle Patrolmen Walter Dench and F. H, Holmes. He was charged with reckless driy- dng while drunk. After a hot chase Nelson surren- dat the King st. station, When brought to headquarters he was too drunk, according to police, to give an account of his operations or any injuries he may have caused. Hig car was badly damaged