The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 7, 1921, Page 1

Sia eee w Maximum, 7 ul Ew Weather Tonight and Friday, fair; gentle Temperature Last 24 Hours Today noon, 72. DO YOU KNOW HER? : southerly inds. 2 Mintmum, 56. height ropped dead on Third ave, She lies in the morgue at the County-City building. A dead woman, L But she is still Seattle’s “mystery woman. , dark brown hair, blue eyes, age about 25 to 30. By 10,000 Plurality The Star Is Daily Elected Seattle’s Favorite Paper with a wedding ring on her finger. u DO YOU KNOW HER? She has a full figure, weighs about 175 pounds; 5 ‘feet, 7 inches in black walki 7 ' She wore a black satin dress and jacket, with a blue knitted shawl around her shoulders; black silk black walking pumps, She carried a sma, white vanity bor t her pocket, with 50 cents in dimes. DO YOU KNOW HER? Many people with lost friends or relatives have come to the morgue, fearing the worst. But none knew her. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Bntered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress Marth a1 “VOLUME 2 ¥ eats! Sh. Selah, Folks! Have you no | tleed any great reduction in | taxes yet? ‘The wounds of our world war vet @rans are bound up with red tape oa THE HUN IN OUR MIDST “Babe Ruth is the man who | rapped 54 home huis last year.” | —From our veracious sport page. Seattle professor says there are only 3,790 cuss words in the English language. Doesn't the prof. ever Pl ole? JOSH WISE SAYS Ev'rybody helps make room in game fer th’ lose ba H} eee THE GLORIOUS FOURTH There were 241 booze Tests on | the Fourth of July and 25,000 Se-/ Attleites made the long trek to Van couver, B. C. eee ‘ Some folks think that the ne plus ultra of fireworks is to get all lit up. ee KEEPING THE BABY WARM For sale—combination stove and/ child's bed. — Advertisement in Red Oak (la) Express. oe A Milwaukee woman who has rued for divorce, charges that her hus Dand has given her only one cent in the five years they have been mar. ried. And we'll bet she blew that in &s soon as she got It. oe \ | ‘There ts a rush to the library by “folks who want to understand Els | etein. We confess without any great | shame that we don’t understand Eln- | stein. But we understand Gov. ales eee CHANCE FOR MARY PICK- FORD OR NAZIMOVA Wi ee ee 4 general housework. ine 49. —Advertisement in the Wauke gan (I) Sun. ‘es petri i a | eee “1 do not object to short skirts, but I do object to those who are contina- ally talking about them.”-——The Rev. L. M. Oxar, Briti#h clergyman. The learned doctor is pretty tough | ion us colyumists. We can't talk | fetes: prohibition all the time. eee Princeton Universify reports that only one of its students has died from overstudy in 40 years. But that won't encourage the other stu- dents to try and beat his record. eee ae SATTLE DRAMAS FROM LIFE Scene—Dime store. Dramatis Personae — Tired shop! girl and tiresome shopper, with a few | mengy villagers scattered about. ‘Time—The present. Tired Shop Girl—Ho, hum, hazy (Yagn.) Was they something for | you? | ‘Firesome Shopper (also yawns)}— Kone; I'm just looking around. } FACE | neighbors, Mra. G. | rumors | I'm} ATTLE, WASIH., THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1921. The Seattle Star . Per Year, by Mall, $b to $9 RAND JURY PROBE! DO YOU KNOW HER? It has been two days now since she stockings and TH EW LATE EDITION ( TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE _ BANKER’S WIFE ASKS COURT; SUICIDE Having 20 Gallons of Grapo Blows Off His Head Mark Roetloeg, 40, committed sul- cide at his home, 4627 27th ave. SB, at 8 a. m., Thursday by blowing his head off with a Winchester rifle, Roetloeg was to be tried on lquor charges in police court today. He was also being held for federal prose cution. Roetlorg’s body was found by H. Martin and Mrs. W. Harper, who heard the shot and called John Perry, another Beighbor, to investigate. Patrolman A. H. Ellis broke down the door and found Roetloeg’s body lying on the floor of the kitchen, Roetloeg had tied a string to the trigger of the rifle and pulled it with his toe, blowing the top of his head off. Roetloeg was arrested at his home June 27 by dry squad men who seized 20 gallons of grapo, He had been released on $100 bail. Neigh bors say his wife died six months ago and he had been deapondent since then. The body was taken to! the morgue. : Caruso Denies A oice ect July 7.—Enrico Caruso! informed the United Press today that rumors that his voice had been permanently affected Ly his recent illness were “without foun- dation.” “I am pleased to inform you that I am feeling fine,” the famous tenor wired from his summer home! at Sorrento. “Please do your utmost to refute! that my voice ts affected. | are ‘absolutely without foun- ROME, They dation.” PR irl—Golly, but EN tired. Arse po onal —— erly-looking person, you know. | 7 * Shopper—Where’s the) . Beauty do®sn't count here quite Bi Tiresoms | Shoppe |He will Be Heard oo miuch ap gtacefuiness and a falr , ‘Tired Shop Girl—"Way back in the on Liquor Charge ret raz Saves tho ‘ F. } Final hearing of Andrew Farmer,| 4; a, ; Ry SS ‘ave you a friend or acquaintance A etiresome Shopper—D'you know) cnarged with possession of 200 gal-| who filis the bil? Then have her whether that Hl Vampliro is instru: iong of mash for making moon-|send her photograph to The Star mental or vocal i: a shine, is scheduled for Juiy 13,| TONIGHT! ae en tig a ges either one | before Robert C, McClelland, U. 8.| ‘This in a hurry-up call. MIss| p fee its roach kller | commissioner. COLUMBIA MUST BE CHOSEN BY j Merry - q ; | — SATURDAY NIGHT! Only two days 1 q n-th Britisher Killed to gol So hurry, please, —— me ritisher Kulle y : | The identity of Miss Columbia i F by Jap Burglar |: be announced in The Star on 4 § | YOKOHAMA, July 71—Ronald Hil, | Monday. TRIES SUICIDE Swallows Iodine in Effort to End Life @rleving over the death of her husband, F. L. Aldrich, 1115 33rd ave. N., who was drowned in Lake Sammamish about a year 0, Mrs. Aldrich, 45, swalowed foding early Thursday in an at tempt to end her life. Mrs. Aldrich is in city hospital, whe a desperate attempt to save her was being made, According to her sister, Mrs. Ald rich was painting her side with to dine when she suddenly drank what remained in the bottle. Her hus band was drowned while saving his Uttle daughter from drowning in Lake Sammammish after she had fallen in Mrs. Aldrich three children, 17 to 20, She live. is ranging in is not ex the mother of we from ted to WASHINGTON. — New rend. nought Washington, to pe in New York in September, christened by Harriet J 40, daughter of Repre Summers, of Wall will be ummers, John an § tativ! la. a British citizen, was stabbed and | killed and his mother was seriously wounded by a Japanese burglar who |bréke into their home here last | night. | |New Japan Army Due in Siberia} | HONOLULU, July 1.—The Japa-| |nese language newspaper “Jiji pub: | lished a staternent yesterday to the | effect that a fresh army will re the present Japanese troops Siberia. WOMAN'S BODY "AFLOAT IN LAKE Reports of the finding of the dead | body of an unidentified woman float ing on lake Washington at Slat age. | |S. and fake Washington bivd reached the coroner's office early ‘Thursday afternoon. An investiga tion was immediately begun. | During the forenoon Felix Rosalia |had previously Peported that Rosie Papricelo, a tenant in his house at | Wednesday noon, The woman was | 34 years old, & feet, 155 pounds and | dark complexioned. She wore dark | | clothes: | | Chiet | was opened early | wi She jehief, declared the city is flooded with because narcotics were sold chi Mrs. O. S. Larson, 1614 Seventh ave. W., wife of Tacoma and Seattle banker, who is under two of their seven children. It is for their honor, she say | made the sole “goat” of the Tacoma Scandinavian failure an children in the picture are twins (the photos were not takena | as (left) “Peg o' My Heart” and “Boy Blue.” she is fighting, as she tries to sav da “goat” to any degree at all of the Seattle failure. | t the same time) and are known by all friends of the family | MISS COLUMBIA IS SOUGHT HERE Must Find Her in Two Days’ Time WANTE! Miss Cotumbia. ‘The Star today begins a two-day search for her. Miss Columbia, be it known, will be the chief figure in the big tableau | of all pageant, stadium, July 23 to 30. nations in the “The Wayfarer,” gigantic at Miss Columbia must be a large, tall, graceful woman, a sort of moth- IMPORTANT NOTE: With the photograph to be sent to The Star | should also be nent the name, ad dress, weight and height of the can didate. Mail or bring all Miss Columbia | | photographs to the city editor of The |Star BEFORE SATURDAY NIGHT. Sacramento Wars on Drug Traffic SACRAMENTO, July 7. — The promised war on drug traffic here by of Police Barney McShane today when 18 in police raids. recently was ere arrested ne, who made ne here aper. drug addicts, who ea HARDING WOULD KILL VET BONUS WASHINGTON, July 17. dent Harding today made Presi a per. |sonal attempt to shelve the soldier bonus bill by submitting to senators launched | 2909 King st., has been missing since |0n & visit to the capitol the pro posal that they, vote to recommit the bill to the senate finance com mittee and then take a recess, it was learne on the best authority. Tell Your Swe the | Me- | By Wanda | Short skirta—low shoes—and a fag ankle, What » mess! So the latest thing, of course, fs am ankle reducer. eee | Just yesterday I heard about this |tatest invetion—a rubber affair which laces tightly around the ankles each night, and is removed at sunup. I wondered about it. Had something really been found to re |Meve the wrinkle-producing worries over an unwelcome spread of plump: ness above the pump? I wondered if Seattle people were |interested in the reduction of ankles. | 1 decided it was a big question and started off to find out. see | | | Beauty parlor people, it seemed to | me, should have ideas on ankles, #0 at the Ladies Improvement Shop I first made my appearance “I came to talk about ankles,” I announced, and parked my belong ings on the show case, while the girl at the desk looked me over, begin ning in the vicinity of my feet She made no comment, however, before a voice called down from the balcony, “What's that? Ankles? Just treat them with applications, soak them well, Don't climb—" “But I don't want to be treated, | I shouted toward the balcony, just came in to talk.” eee Mra, A. M. Oalsen looked over the railing—muchly puzzled, "You want to talk? Why? What's matter?” th question that was bothering me. And Mrs. Oalsen waxed enthusias tie, “One thing I can tell you about Seattle ankles,” she said. “They're bad—terribly bad. SOME ING ought to be done, People in Seattle just haven't GOT ankles.” “Of cotrse,” Mra. Oalsen con tinued, “that is partly due to the jfilis, since climbing sometimes weak Jens the sockets and causes a swell ling. I recommend applications,” she jsaid, “I have no faith in mechani cal overnight devices.” oe I wondered what Mrs. Zoe Roston, manager of the beauty department Horrors! Seattle’s Ankles Are Too Fat and Growing Fatter | So I explained all about the ankle/ ment wireless stations along the At- Mrs. Larson declares, is von Kettler lantic coast today broadcasted a! much personally Aapehl: Sof we for any co at “Graves,” might say about it at. | ¥2"Ring to vessels to be on the watch! the tangled affairs as some of * So I went up and called. jfor a mysterious craft that may! the under officers of the bank R. A. ie “Ankles?” she naid, when T askea| furnish 4 clew to the fate of the) whose names so far have not |deputy supervisor of her what shm thought about those of Seattle women, “--well, some are awful, some are lovely. But I be |leve that most are awful.” | Mrs. Boston came out from behind her desk, leaned against the door of | a dressing room, and gazed into} space. | “If people just wouldn't wear extreme French heels,” she sald, | “they wouldn't have to worry | about reducing their ankles. But if they MUST wear them, and skirts continue to be short, they'll have to do something. In five years from now, otherwise, ankles will spread all over the street.” y t aro all that are needed to put the feet in shape.” . J ee When I asked Mra, he! Dabl, | them. “For my part,” she said, “I think | the girls’ ankles are pretty enough, | s0 Why hamper them? And, besides,” | she added, looking up from a show | | agreed with her, “I'm not really worried about the | ankles,” she remarked, easily; “they aren't so bad. All we need is to get away from high heels, then let na- ture do its work.” u io work.” ‘ Pr. Bess Johnston, chiropodis' with Dr, Susie Frazier in the Arca building, was really quite perturbed about the whole issue. Ankles," she said decisively, “have become hideous, If would just wear high shoes in winter and low ones in th (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) Itering Friends in the East That Seattle’s Highest Temperature Yes was anishing ships.” The warning was sent out after a telephoned rep officials at Baltimore that the mys: erlous ci et ic coast anuary It wa et cruiser penitentiary sentence, and ¢ her husband from being PIRATE SHIP ON ATLANTIC SEEN Wireless Warnings Flashed to Seamen WASHINGTON, July 7.—Govern- raft steamer Munalbro 300 miles east of Philadelphia, refu nals and dashed off into the darkness, K. T. Chamberlain, commissioner of na vigatio | story of Capt the most offered of the suspected opera tions of sea marauders off the Atlan The story also gave a new turn to the investigation of the disap. pearance of half a dozen ships off then, tod: fi | Which waa promising, to say the te ol Hatteras in the last few/popularly attributed to him already.| some time to come. Heast, so I asked Mrs. Boston if she | ON'DS Chilberg is now in Seattle awaiting| “When the proper time comes, ey- |Delleved in rubber straps. The craft that approached the |trial on Tacoma indictments in con:|ery depositor will be notified te pre- “Absolytely not! she exclaimed. Munalbro hesitated to attach @ ship/nection with the failure there.| sent his claim, He will lat receive Wpbader teenabin jot her size. It could, howev. \ suc-!Tindeberg fac ! |: aim, He will later | “Proper “exercise and sensible shoes Andeberg faces similar indictments, |exactly what his pro rata share | cessfully attack a ship like thé Car-|put so far has avoided extraditiqn to 0 bss roll Deering, which sailed ashore last with all the cre’ officials said Chamberlain said tt was improba- manager of the Bon Marche Reauty S : : Parlors, what she thought about Se-|PI¢ that @ seaman like Capt. Giles/was sentenced to from three to 10|4 Langley continued, “ | a would “go off on a cock and bull! . 5 night I will begin employ- |attle ankles, she told me she liked ‘ yreara.dn the penitentiary on-paveral |i. stale a story.” He is awaiting more com-| counts, the sentences to run concur. | "8 & Right force. It will be used te plete report on the incident from a Munson line representative who is to come here toda Skippers ‘eal for case of beautifully curled flaxen locks, “I don't believe in re Mysterious Craft Ag rob ps bringing it under Be Lo ducing any part of the body with ap: ysteriou: ra the federal reserve system when Won’ appliances, let alone Seattle ankles,| BALTIMORE, July 7.—Skippers be res veggie had hg in er Prosecutor ont which certainly aren't hard to look} putting out’ from Baltimore today| Sttempt, a step which greatly | H | at” | were on the watch for a “phantom| [proved its standing. |» Do Anything Now } And Mrs, J, J. Witwer, of the Wit?) ship" reported by Capt. Giles, of the| Mr. Larson, she adds, took over I have nothing to say at this | wer Hair Store and Beauty Parlors,| Munson liner Munalbr control of the Tacoma bank at | me," said Prosecuting Attorney stated that department of navigation officials would thoroly in- | vestigate the report made by Capt Giles that the mysterious vessel, with | darkened great speed, suddenly came alongside his steamer at it. | Philadelphia, “looked him over," and) then darted a Capt. Giles’ statement revived the | belief that mysteriously vanished off the Atlan people | tic coast during the last few months, | the | numbering © summer | captured by a pl ¥ lights the terday Was 72 | ay STATE OFFICERS TO BLAME, SAYS. MRS. OLE LARSON Should Have Closed Defunct Tacoma and Seattle Institutions Years Ago Mrs. O. S. Larson, mother of seven Seattle children, today” broke her silence. a Mrs. Larson is the wife of the president of the defunel Scandinavian American bank of Tacoma, who also was, unt last fall, a director of the Seattle Scandinavian, which clo its doors last week. Against the advice of her attorneys, Mrs. Larson came The Star office to protest with all the vehemence of mother protecting the reputation of her brood i h husband’s being made the sole “goat” not only of the coma failure, but also in some measure of the Seattle failun Mrs. Larson, thru The Star, called upon the pro attorney of King county and the superior a grand jury investigation of the’Seattle ban! blame for its failure shall be properly distributed. ‘The tank examiners who per o= Beware o the Sharks for first place in the outpouring of Mra. Larson's wrath as she discussed the long financial history which ts — is Depositors in the d Scandinavian American hang on to your claims! now ending in two liquidations. Don’t let any person . udges to n 's past, so tl The the Seattle bank @ year and a half ago instead of assessing the stock holders a million and permitting the institution to run they would have served the public well, she declares. The Tacoma bank, she asserts, should have been closed years ago and the state bank department was culpable every day it permitted it to continue open since. dafet Lindeberg, San Fran- cisco and Nome capitalist, and heavy stockholder in both banks, If the state examiners had closed where induce you to come to public notice. One of these officers, she asserts, was for many years continuously in the bank's service and, tho on moderate salary, yet has ac quired large interests in numer- ous Seattle businesses and sup- ported in lavish style an expen- sive family. She declares a grand jury investigation would disclose facts which the public ought to know in his connec- tion. J the son issued that warning Th day. Information Ft Langley says, that money sharks afe | lobbying at the door of the bank. in an effort to mulct depositors who come in the hope of getting informas tion concerning the bank's statum, “I am told,” said’ Langley, * th sharks urge assignment C3 | claims to them, promising to. i Chilberg, former president of | orne t wh te eat org, former sident o! “The truth is thi attle Scandinavian, Mrs, Lar-| cellect any more than the Sepaellal says, ought to assume a good) will himself receive in the regular share of the blame for the local fail-| course of the liquidation, and no one ure, but perhaps not so much as is| will be able to collect anything for rt from Munson line has reached him approached — their 1 to answer sig with lights veiled, declared that the iiles of the Munalbro substantial evidence He would be foolish to pay anybody: to appear for him, “We will speed the work of liqule dating the bank's assets as much as | Washington missing, | Mr, Larson fh Seattle under |bond pending appeal of his cases from the Tacoma courts, where he check the assets tabulated by the day men. “In this way we can rush matters, We have no idea when the finish will be reached.” | rently Mrs, Larson says that, fer from being responsible in’ any measure for the Seattle bank's demise, it was Mr. Larson who time when it was experiencing a run) and was losing at the rate of $30,000) a year and brought it up to a point } where it had $7,000,000 deposits and alcolm Douglas Thursday, when »prised of Mrs. Larson's statement The Star, “No evidence has been \d before me and no complaint and. traveling, at|W#S making @ profit of $220,000 a| han a lyear, This was at the time that the | % been made to me. Until some ‘ . Seattle Scandinavian affairs @ade|') # like that develops I shail a point 300 miles off | tate ne 4 necessary the 100 per cent stock as-|#8e nO action. \s ssment. Mr. Larson has steadfastly re | d, ever since the failure of last | to attempt to place the blame on other shoulders, | , might have been we cratt at aw. \ {THEREIN A FEW | __| YY worps SAY MUCH | Beer, 600 quarts; bail, $500 hi final hearing July 14; John son and Albin Matson; U. 8. © missioner McClelland, ay into the night, vessels which have | HE facilities oi”) conveniences in buy- ing, selling and exchang- ing afforded by The Star Classified Ads is well » known to those who have used them.