The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 8, 1921, Page 1

Toll your sweltering friends In that tomperature yesterday was 75, and the Bast Tonight fatr; moc weste Temperatur Lowest was it was 60, Top o° the afternoon! Do you remember the days when you could buy a tall, cool one for a jae Pesxy Joyce was awarded $1,350 A month as temporary alimony yes terday. This won't buy Peg hair Tibbons for her pet poodle. It's a doggone shame. . LET GEORGE DO IT King George ts meditating on & settlement between the Irish and the English, press reports declare, George ts a little be hind time. The Irish have been Meditating on a settlement for 700 years. * ° | Army officers must wear Brown belts according to new war Mepartment regulations. Gosh, how d it will be to make ‘em keep "em on! RECOMPENSES OF PUBLIC LIFE Mayor Caldwell fired the three women members of the public I brary board yesterday. “They 5 talked too much,” said Hizzoner. eee President Farding would kill the ‘Veterans’ bonus bill, says a dispatch. } Guess he figures that the veterans fought to make the world safe for democracy. ee The Sims Incident 1s closed. But how long the Sims mouth will be closed is a question eee HASBEENS Now they want Dempsey to fight Johnson. Wasn't Johnson the guy | ‘that ran for president once? eee SHOULD IT RAIN ‘These showers may be very good | For onions and apples — peaches: eaet tel me Sd alk tie ott *{ a fellows white shoes and palm beaches. A REGULAR FELLER “Ta-den is hairless. ‘He has white io ‘and a tail.”"—From the synopsis ‘of “Tarzan the Terrible.” . JOSH WISE SAYS Th hill is always steepest when you're walkin’ up. Cheyenne folk have given Uncle m a cowboy hat. A fine thing cle to wear while throwing the | “are men descended from apes?” feomebody asks, What does he mean | ended"? Why pick on the apes? ‘Has anybody ever heard of an ape paying $50 to me a prize fight? o* ur diz HAS THE wom ae i Rly coneare, my wife) Nina Pickert having left my | bed and board, I will not pay any bills contracted i er. Charlie M. Pek o f “I believe,” said Col. George Har- Seattle's highest Saturday, derate south- rly wine © Last 04 F MM. At neon today On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattle, SEATTL E, WASH. Warh.,, under the Act of Congre FR IDAY, JU i Y 8, 1921. March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $> to $9 = The Seattle Star _TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE _ WOMAN BURIED ALIVE | U Fl nder the Floor of Sanitarium in California COMPTON, Cal. July 8§—The bedy of an unidentified woman about 23 yours Of age “was “recovered” from beneath the floors of thé Comp- ton sanitarium, near Los Angeles, where she had been entombed alive. The woman, thought to be dement- jed, had crawled unobserved under the floor thra an Opening in the brick work while masons were mak- ing repairs. The opening was bricked up sol lidly. The young woman, unable to escape or make her calls for assist- ance heard, died of starvation, ‘The dead woman was said to have been committed to the sanitartum \from Fresno, Cal. Her name could not be ascertained from hospital au- thortties early today, She is supposed to have died short- ly after the masonry repairs were completed three weeks ago. | Hospital authorities had been searching for the ously since her disappearance. The lbrick work was reopened today on the bare chance that she might have lbeen accidentally imprisoned be- | hind {t, FIRES AT RAT, wey, at a dinner to the American polo | ) players in London, “that the great | mass of American people e con ved a notion that in Capt. Mil y have developed the greatest polo | sf | player the world has ever known Bull. ‘The great mass of Amer people haven't the slightest idea of Who Capt. Milburn ts, Sugar Bros. Co., » grocery in Mon Be that as it ma is a wholesa . And L. L. Canine operates a flour gail in Piper City, Ill. Which doesn’t mean that a milier leads a dog's life. ws, THREE w The Janitor on 4 appreciate very much If some one Kind enough to inform him of The Stilimans are lucky, at that ye to hire a publicity tir names in the pa Man to gett pers. OW is the time to buy real estate and acreage in Seattle. Some exceptionally low-priced property is adver the Classified Page The Star today. Real estate values will never be lower in Seattle than they are now. Some real estate owners have cut prices and are offering their property at prices that will make a safe in- yestment for the buyer. Lpok on Classified Page yoday — Numbers 75 to 80. an! Seattle Woman Is Not Seri- ously Injured Mrs. Grace Terlicher, 24, was shot thru the Friday when | at a rat in their bedroom. | Terlichers, who live at E. 75th aken- awing sent his st. and ed by the a bed post, and Tertiche wife volver. Whit |the f her feet le she was returning across the rat made a dive toward She screamed and th the gun to her hushand, who fired, but instead of hitting the rat, shot his wife. She was taken to Minor hospital, where she is said to be not seriously h licher is a teamster, employed by the city Rockefeller Enjoys His 82nd Birthday YORK, July &—John D kefeller celebrated his 82d birth at his estate near Tarry played golf during the ed to enjoy eve for 4 pr und was exy » band concert In the His son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr and the latter's family, were to have dinner with him Elkdom Officials Ready for Session| LOS ANGELES, July 8.—Virtually ali grand lodge officials of Elkdom, with the exception of Grand Exalted Ruler Abbott, are in Los Angeles to day, preparatory to the opening of ssion Monday, ‘The grand exalted ruler is expected to un Francisco today. Other members of the official party arrived in a special train from Toledo, Ohio, yesterday. arrive from woman continu: | HE HITS WIFE: across the rogm to get the re-| he| Is She Miss Columbia’? One of Many Entries Submitted for “Wayfarer” Role Entries Close Saturday Mrs. J. G. Gustke, 1116 Minor ave., for the honor of playing the role of Miss Columbia in “The | Wayfarer.” | Who will be “Miss Columbia” in “The Wayfarer” pageant? Dozens of ttle women, re sponding to the appeal in Thurs- day's Star, entered the race for this great honor. The first entry came in just after Thursday's Star was off the press. | Miss Columbia will be the | chief figure in the big tableau | of all nations | Feauty doesn't count so much as size and gracefulness, tho beauty will, of course, be no handicap. Entries will be recetved up to Saturday night A g00d ar photograph must accompany the entry, With the photograph must nent the name, address, weight and height of the candidate, Mat! or bring photographs to The Star's city editor BEFORE SATURDAY NIGHT. also be be a matronly must eful, large, tall, woman. LOSING SIGHT, | » KILLS HIMSELF Aged Man Swallows Poison at Son’s Home THEY BELIEVE IN RETAINING A GOOD THING IN FAMILY! Robinson & Johes, at Coleman building, have appointed from Washington shipping board Sloan Shipyards corpora rip litigation in fed- Pronso torneys, been to represent the in the tion receiv eral court her adil’ H. I f the firms & | 3. Jones 16 firms is a tired dry goods merchant, com || aon of UL 8 nator Wesley L. mitted suicide early Friday Jones, chairman of the senate morning at the home of bis son, controlling the ship Charles Robinson, 300 W. 78th | st., by swallowing strychnine, | was missed Friday | Edwarg Robertson, committee ping board | | | Robertson morning and found in the basement Hardings Are Now 30 Years Married WASHINGTON, July 8&—P dent and Mrs. Harding today ob. by his son, He had left a note in his room saying that as he was go- jing blind the pain was unbearable and he was going to kill himself. |werved their 30th wedding unniver | Robinson was a great reader and|sary today, No celebration marked |was despondent over his failing eye-| the event ‘sight A little dinner may be given to. The body was taken to the morgue, night to commemorate the event. one of the candidates |’ SEATTLE BUSINESS MAN SPENDS” HORROR _NIGHT IN CITY PRISON eal BRUTAL JAILERS KNOCK 0 PRISONERS WITH BLACKJACKS Grave charges of brutality on the part of Seattle policemen and of almost unbelievably filthy conditions in the city jail are made today thru The Star by a reputable Seattle business man in good standing in the community, who was arrested for a minoroffense and forced to spend the night of the Fourth of July in the jail. This man, who gave the name of “C. Jones,” when booked at the station, had never been arrested before. anything that ha) publicity. He came to The Star with his story, not because of to him, not in a spirit of revenge or with any desire for. sensa- e police are in possession of his true name and his address. Dt Star today prints his own story as he told it. The story speaks for itself. Police Chief Searing, who is responsible for conditions in the department, should find who the offenders mentioned by “C. Jones” are and rid the force of them. At the same |time immediate alterations should be made in c the floor, e senseless, knocked him unconscious, qa qd ventilation is poor, e What ‘C. Jones’ Charges: || That in the city Jail on the night of July 4th, jail guards beat men over thelr beads with blackjacks until they fell unconscious to That one guard hit one prisoner until he became weary of the exertion, when another guard dealt the prisoncr a blow that . That the tank in which he was held is indescribably filthy and That Seatlle citizens are paying to maintain a “crimina] factory.” . That they struck other prisoners on the jaws, knocking them Intense heat thruout the entire United States today caused many hs and prostrations and inflicted severe damage to crops, From one coast to the other, swel tering heat waves were reported, with the season's mercury altitude record shattered and little relief | promised. On the Paelfie coast a trade wind | |brought down the mercury from rec- ordy of 110 in Fresno and 106 in| | Sacramento, Pittsburg reported 10 deaths this week and other parts of Pennsyl lvania nine others. New England has scores of prostrationa nd oat crops in northern states ved serious damage JOnio and Illinois are in the throes lof the year’s worst heat wave. Texas lis experiencing the ottest weather of the summer. Canada was it spared, the mercury registering | close to 100 degrees in many sec tions. New Englanders | Hunt Open Places ROSTON, July 8. blanket of moist New England tod: nds ‘in the heat enveloped | causing thou sted districts to the open phe Many spent night Roston common, The ercury today was 90 on s high mark thi degrees. | . Heat Hurts Crops; No Relief Coming WASHINGTON, July 8—Serious | damage 1s being done to the spring wheat and oat crops by the hot, dry | weather, the weather bureau report |ed today. No relief is in sight, it was indicated by the forecast for the next 6 hours So far damage has been confined to the upper parts of the Northern EAST IS STRICKEN BY HEAT WAVE! A sweltering | states, such as Ohio, Indiana, Mil nois, North and South Dakota, e- Hot? No; Not Here; Maximum Only 75 Hot? | Bless your poor, suffering souls, Easterners and Southerners! | Why don't you move to | country? While you sweltered yesterday, So- attle was enjoying {ts usual cool sum. | mer weather—and Seattle slept un- | der blankets last night! | The highest temperature yester day was only 75. Last night the | thermometer dropped to 57. God's And in the winter the thermometer | never goes to zero here—and not | very often below freezing, Marine Strike May Be Adjusted Today SAN FRANCISCO, July 8.—Belief | ie expressed in marine circ’ that the end of the marine strike, affecting 126 steam schooners, most Jof them engaged in bringing lum ber down the coast to San Fran cisco, will be brought to a close} |nome time today, About 8,000 men|® are affected. Negotiations between the owners and the union chiefs was carried over from yesterday, ana are still] ‘ond expressing the strike is nearly the union chiefs would issue no statement. The owners were afwo silent regarding the terms of the proposed settlement te be |Grand River’s Name Now Made Colorado WASHINGTON, July 8. ate today pass rado river, ing tank measuring not more than 80 by 50 feet | witnessed cases of brutali which I did not believe possible in this civilized com- he said. Jes here |ercised over the c an immediate preliminary investiga- tion, Jones’ night in question was so be The sen-| 5, a bill to change the} without bail, just so the others might name of the Grand river to the Colo-|be more comfortablé, |the jail, so that there will be better ventila- |tion and better sanitation, and that a repeti- |tion of the Fourth of July disgrace shall never + £ * By “C. Jones” A Seattle Business Man Whose. True Identity Is Known to the Police jail. HAVE just spent a night of horror in Seattle’s city Locked up with 241 other prisoners in a foul-smell- I and extreme cruelty a n fact, had some one told me that such conditions existed in Seattle, I probably would have laughed at im. I have seen husky jail guards beat helplessly drunken men over the heads with blackjacks until they crumpled into unconscious heaps on the hard floor. I have seen one guard fell his prisoner with such a savage blow on the jaw the victim was fairly lifted off his feet and slammed agai scious. nst the wall, falling uncon- I have seen one guard—or jailor, whatever he is called —strike a man repeatedly until he became weary, then a second jailor stepped in an d hit the prisoner in the solar plexus such a terrific jolt that it knocked him out. I have lived for a night in the” midst of sickening filth, in a room packed with a hodge podge of humanity, with only four or five windows, and with the ventilation so poor that the close, hot atmosphere we reeked. (Turn to o Fase 4, Cotman 3) Police Chief Searing announced riday that he would make a thoro investigation of — the charges brought by and that if he fou true he would dis “I won't stand for any t The chief was 3 and made calling the night jailers out of d to question them. Following this he announced that charges were “grossly exag- . ‘om all he could learn in the limited time at hand. “I found that there was just one case remotely hinting of vio- lence on the night in question,” he said, “Jailer R. W. Meade caught a man trying to steal mush at breakfast. Meade push- ed him back, «When cam Pp again, Meade slapped him twice on the face and told him to stand back, Aside from that, this man was not mistreated In any way. “The jail was overcrowded on the I admit that. It ly overcrowded that Capt C, Collier released 56 prisoners “Jailers do not carry blackjacks CHIEF SEARING TO PROBE “CHARGE or weapons of any kind, for the simple reason that the prisoners might take them away from the jailers. This is the first complaint of the kind I have ever had, “As to sanitation, the jail Is old. But the sanitation is good, so far as I know. The county grand jury a few months ago investigated the jail and gave it a clean bill of health. It's as good a jail as there is in the country. “It is impossible to run a fall like an hotel, to please everybody.” Searing said that on the night of the Fourth there were only 204 per sons in the entire jail, including the attendants. Jailers investigated, besides Meade, were: G. C. Philbrick and Cyril Brodnix. Under $1;500 Bail on Narcotic Charge K. Hareta, arrested Wednesday at the Hub hotel when federal and po- lice officers found a cache of dope in his room, was bound over to fed- eral grand jury on $1,500 bonds, which he furnished, at a hearing Thursday before U. 8, Commission. er Robt, C. McClelland