The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 15, 1921, Page 1

¢ Seattle undertakers often rush in where fools didn’t fear to tread. @ Some blushing June brides are still blushing—over a hot stove. as Kills Mrs. Clarence L. Reames * * & * * es 8 & Man With $7 Tell your sweltering friends In the East that Seattle's highest temperature y Lowest was 1s was 59, Tonight fair; mo weste esterday was 61. 53. At noon today and Saturday, derate north- rly winds, * * * 000 in * Closed Bank Eats Pois On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star *% on % Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Poastoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, §> to §9 me of these days a group of bns are going to start a run on U. 8. treasury, eee W. B. H. informs us that Mr. tackstraw runs a livery stable in re, Mont., acroag the street from to the guy it can beat Jack Dempsey. That's Carpentier got $200,000 for to beat him. eee nt Robbers Hold Up Bank on Second Ave."-—Head- Seattle is getting to be a regu ropelis. Jess Willard says he has been lead- ing the simple life since the Toledo | | fight. So has Jack Johnson. eee THE ABSENT TREATMENT? | “Girt treated for rheumatism by distance phone.”"—Headline. eos “Well,” postcards M. R. M. z may be all right. Wait till we get '” + F eee Little Geetiee, the prairie vamp, that the one-piece bathing suits girls ‘bear are wearing at Alki point watehing. Be for yesterday, asking for the ody of little Snow Frost, the only CHEE “A Seattle firm when It sends out @ bill past due stamps it entually—Why Not Now?” | CHANCE FOR A SICK MAN Having recovered my health, 1 now wish to sell my lot in choice section of Mountain View cemetery,—Tacoma Tribune. eee A Hartford, Conn., minister says women with bobbed hair are on their way to perdition. Where, then, is the man bound who wears his hair cut ur? ‘And how about the fellow who has ' e clippers run over his head? eee HIGHER EDUCATION “ahere wili be a very interesting apd instructive 4 bate next rhage fight in the Franklin hall, Ohio unl ety, on a subject that no one Bon: fail to hear discussed. The ot im, “Resolved, that an organ § Bicser is more beneficial to a com- A nity than an umbrella mender.” ) fe suffirmative will be upheld by rs, Gowash and Thomas and the 'f Segutive by Guylinger and Shellen- r.—Ada (O.) Record. eee ‘We Jamp in the newspapers that an Efsjish woman, comparatively ‘unknown, who has been startling Paria by the way she spends her money, is coming over to this coun try. This lady, it is sald, has an in come of $80,000,000 a year. Try your | arithmetic on that income, children, ‘ami tell us if you believe she has it, soe THE WEATHER MUST BE A BIT WARM IN HICKSVILLE A couple of week@ ago we cast @ ghadow over the character of the} dog family by comparing a certain individual in this town to a dog. We hereby apologize to the entire race ‘of dogy; big, little, long or short; good or bad; black, white or yellow. We were wrong. dog that has no principle, no sense honor, is @ killer of chickens and ns and is “yellow,” we are go- Mo name him—but what we start- ‘ef out to say was, that the afore. said individual says he is going to “ick” us if we don't “lay off’ him. Now what do you know about that? , mMicksville (0) Tribune, OREGON MAN IS ‘Decapitated Body | Found in Blazing Car Identified as Dentist’s Laborer| ROSEBURG, Ore, July 15.—War- | |rant for the Arrest of Dr. R. M | | Brumfield, dentist here, on the! charge of murder, and a reward of $200 for his apprehension, have been / posted by Sheriff Stamer, of Douglas | county. | Stamer bases his warrant on the) theory that Brumfield may have been responsible for the death of a man | | whose charred body wag discovered late yesterday beneath a Saming au: | tomobile on the highway near Dil-| lard. The body has been identified | as that of Dennis Russell, a laborer. | TRYING TO CLEAR UP MYSTERY Stamer believes Brumfield, while possibly not directly to blame for | the death of Russell, still is in powses- | 13, to obtain his aid in blasung stumps at the Bramfield farm. Dynamite was found in the car when the flames were extinulshed, and it is believed that some of the l explosive may have been set off, de- capitating Russell and setting fire to the car, IDENTIFICATION 18 CONFUSING The automobile belonged to Dr. Brumfield. Many of the effects strewn about the piace where the car was found were identified as be- longing to the dentist, but the body found under the ear, charred by the gasoline flames and with the head gone, was identified ag that of Rus- sell, Altho friends of both men identi- fied the body as that of Russell, the |mix in identification was incre when Mrs. Brumfield declared the body that of her husband. Brum- field's {ignet ring was discovered on) \the haftd of the burned man. The | feet of the corpse were clad in Bram. | tefa's shoes, But the clothing wow declared to be Russell's. | CAR HITS TREE AND TURNS OVER Marks on the highway show that the car plunged into a tree, turned over a culvert and dropped to the bottom of a shallow ravine. Sheriff Stamer, who is out in the hills conducting a search for Brum- field, does not charge Brumfield di-| borer. Brumfield is known to have been [insured for $26,000, $10,000 accident insurance and $16,000 life insurance. Two of his houses burned down late. ly. He had recently purchased a! new farm near Melrose, seven miles from here. MAN SLUGGED BY THUGS MISSING |Hit With Lead Pipe in Hotel} Room Thugs broke into the room of Isaac Dias, Okeh hotel, 2112 Rail- road ave. 8., at 3:30 Friday morm ing and slugged Dias over the | head with a lead pipe wrapped in | # handkerchief, | Dias was awakened by who attempted to rob hirn. led from his bed and grappled with |them, but was knocked senseless. | | Roomers, hearing the struggle, broke into the room to find the thugs flee jing thru a window Dias was seriously injured, but left the hotel at 6:0, saying he was jafraid the robbers would come back He has not been seen since, | Dias is thought to have a large |amount of money on his person. He | | refused to go to the hospital, altho| the men, He leap- | the se De are holding the lead pipe | and handkerchief it was wrapped in as evidence rectly with the murder of the la-) lof the | bank, robbing him of $25,000, at Sec-}to bring the north and south Irish E. A. BATWELL, vice president Seattle Press club, wires congratu lations to William H, Taft, appointed to United States supreme bench, May Prohibit Freeing Bonds of Faxation WASHINGTON, July 15.—Ag a meahs of dimming the govern ment revenue leaks, the further fasuance of tax-free securities in the United States would be pro hibited under a constitutional amendment to be introduced to day by Senator Smoot of Utah, The measure strikes at the real center of the revenue problems of the nation, in the epinion of many senators and leading economists. There are today upward of $34,- 000,000,000 in tax exempt secur. ities In the United States, Of this amount $24,000,000,000 repre sents the federal debt and be: tween $8,000,000,000 and $10,000.- 000,000 the state, county and local debt. It {9 estimated that the govern ment is losing thru these exemp tions about $600,000,000 a year, And it is feared that unless the tax free system is stopped the revenue sources will be cut to a point where it will be Impossible to collect enough taxes to run the government. It is al#o contended that business and agriculture suf- fer for lack of capital because they cannot compete with non taxable securities. Public utilities, including the raftroads, seeking new money for their credits, are foreed to com pete with the taxfree securities. DEXTER HORTON 80 desired, less than a dozen took advantage of the opportunity, Vice President W. H. Parsons declared. “The widespread publicity given to the resources of the bank put an ef- fective stop to the vicious propa- ganda circulated by rumor mong ors,” Parsons said. That the accounts of the bank's stabiitty and integrity publixhed in The Star, together with The Star editorials, warning the public of the malignant nature of the attacks on the Dexter Horton, were large factor in stopping the “run,” was the assertion of Parsons. “The Star's publication of the facts concerning the Dexter Hor- ton brought home to the people the strength and reliability of the bank and was one of the prime reasons why the ‘run’ was of such short duration,” Parsons said. Bank officials are still investignt- ing the sources of the unfounded rumors against the bank. That the rumors were the work of an organ ized band of men is believed possible, Despite the criminal da of lies concerning its stabili y, the Dexter Horton bank has in- eredsed its cash deposits by over $1,000,000 in the past two weeks, officials of the institution an- nounced Friday. The campaign of slander against the bank was started as early as July 1, bank officials declared, The prop aganda was pushed with skill_and energy. Detectives are now Busy tracing down the guilty persons. Hundreds of thousands of dollars were offered to the bank by other financial institutions on the Pacific coast, The unsolicited offers were made in a spirit of confidence, not of assistance, . . Auto bandits who Thursday held up Leland Bigbee, bank messenger Northwest Trust and State ond ave, and Spring st., are believed by police to be men operating from Chic A copy of a code telegram to Chi- tago is in the hands of police, The | sender is known ta have been in the | elt, hal for three months, studying the ts of bank messengers When the man was ready, police belive he sent the telegram, summon ing his companions from Chicago. No trace of the four bandits had been found Friday Seattle and surrounding towns thru all the Northwest are being combed for traces of the quartet, Higbee was taking the money from If ever we find a| weakened from a severe laceration of | the Federal Reserve bank, at Second ave. and Spring st., to the Northwest Trust and State bank when the ban dite drew up alongside, One man jumped out, pushed a gun against his head, and took the baie from him The bandits then sped up Pike st, They were seon four times after the | robbery. SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1921. SENDS QUERY Wants U. S. to Tell | More About Plan | to Discuss Far Eastern Affairs \ ee | BY A. L. BRADFORD | WASHINGTON, July 15,—Japan has asked the United States for an amplification of the proposed discus | ston of Pacific problems in the forth- coming dixarmament conference in | Washington, it was learned authori | tatively today, | It was understood that the Japan. [eee inquiry was made in the reply) [received yesterday, agreeing to par A 4efinite understanding first will be sought with Japan before Presi- dent Harting issues the formal invi- tation for the conference. Mean- time the powers will be sounded out as to an agreeable date for the con- ference. COULD REJECT WHOLE IDEA The American government fully realizes, it was stated on high au- thority, t Japan or any other power is perfectly within its sov- ereign rights to reject the idea for the disarmament conference or any phase of it, Whether the disarma- ment conference restricted to a dis- cussion of armaments will be called if Japan refuses to take up the Pa cifie situation, in not yet decided. “Playing for time” was the explana- tion put forward in an authoritative quarter today for the vagueness of Japan's reply to the American pro- poxal for a conference to discuss dis- armament and Far Hastern affairs. |All other nations accepted flatly but (Turn to Page 2, Column 4) Premier Talks With De Valera and Craig LONDON, July — 15.—Premier Lloyd George conferred today with Kamon De Valera and with Sir James Craig, prime minister of Ut ster, in the second day of the Irish | peace negotiations. He met De Valera this morning. Craig conferred with him in the afternoon. No statement was i sued at the conclusion of the meet ing. Lloyd George and the Ulster leader were closeted for two hours and fifteen minutes. It was as sumed they discussed matters bear. ing on the Irish settlement, which had already been gone over by Lioyd George and De Valera. Lloyd George appeared to be atternpting leaders together on a basis of set- tlement which would be agreeable to both. \One Parade re Another Iks for 108 ANGELES, Cal, July 15.— The life of an Elk in Los Angeles there are more than 50,000 of them here to attend the B. P.O. B. nation- Al convention—is just one parude af- | ter another. ‘Two of the largest parades ever seen in Los Angeles were staged yes- terday. ‘Two more are billed for to- day. The first, the “massed band” parade, in which 1,200 musicians will mareh, is scheduled to start at 9:30 am. Half an hour later the “floral and allegorical pageant,” elaborately dee- orated floats entered by various mov. ing picture studios, will fall in line behind the massed bands and march [thru the business section of the city, WRECK STORY? Fire Truck Rams Auto; Occupants Badly Hurt, but Nothing’s Said Can the news of a major acci- dent, in which » city-owned ve hicle crashed Into a private car, injuring the occupants so severe ly that they had to be taken to W. 8 Kirkpatrick, president of the Kirkpatrick Advertising service, of Portland, says yes. Kirkpatrick and |hin wife are confined in Minor hos- pital ¥. serious injuries sustained when Benttle fire truck crashed into their auto at Dallas ave. and 14th ave, 8. last Saturday evening. FIRE DEPARTMENT DIDN'T REPORT IT Fire Chief George Mantor admits lahed wag writ got his tip tion he chanced to overhear in a city to About 630 p. m, Saturday Kirk- patrick, accompanied by his wife, Dr. and Mrs. D. V, Trueblood, 1726 16th crons the intersection at Dallas ave. « fire truck suddenly crashed into them from the right side. Kirkpatrick's was carried 50 feet up Dallas ave. to POLICE PROBE NEARS FINISH Caldwell Sifts Charges of Brutality Probing charges of manhand- ling by police officers and filthy Jail conditions, Mayor Hugh M. Caldwell continued his personal investigation into police brutal- ity cases Friday. He expected to close his Investigation Friday afternoon, A well-known business man of the city, a resident of Seattle for 30 years, was closeted with the mayor for nearly an hour Friday, while he told of being falsely arrested by Pa- trolman B. H. Willams, “I had returned from a fishing trip and was tired out,” this man declared, “I way to meet a man at 2 o'clock and fell asleep at the wheel of my machine, ‘The policeman placed me under arrest, and when I tried to explain, declared that I was ‘a d Mas’ Police officers involved were put thru a@ grilling cross-examination by Caldwell, whom Dwyer accuses of beating and last December. afternoon,” Mayor Caldwell elured, they have been mistreated at the city jail.” plain about police bratality, Friday praised Mayor Caldwell and Chief | robbing him when he was arrested) are effeminate enough 2 Years T Sandwich TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Returns to Seattle Home Mildred Tunla, sought for a year and @ half in a score of cities by. police, relatives and dozens of oulja board devotees and spirit fakirs, has Her mother, Mrs. James {nee Smith), of 3208 19th ave. |S. notified The Star today that her daughter had suddenly reappeared to contradict and set at naught the prediction of the oulja and spirits that she had been kidnaped, beaten and probably killed. “My daughter,” said Mrs, Harri son, “came home well and healthy |to find that she had a new daddy (1 have married since she went away), and we have had a wonderful |reunion, Mildred and grandma and I are all so happy that it has turn- Jed out all right. | “Those terrible anonymous letters that I received; they were all wrong. Mildred has been in good hands and jis all right, All those horrible things that the fakirs said had happened, that she was being held a prisoner in Ta }coma, and all of that, they weren't | no. HAS BEEN IN CONVENT IN FRISCO “Mildred hag been all the time in |the convent of the Franciscan Sis- |ters in San Francisco. She became jone of them. She didn't write me because she was afraid I'd come and get her. | “But the other day she went to \the Mother Superior and said she didn't believe ehe was cut out for that vocation. She took off her robes and said she was coming home. he had been treated with every kindness and well looked after, She went there of ber gare = ned before she | e i who came'to me after bad taken a boat for Tacoma that . This led searchers off her | trait. Heartless, Mythical ‘Cassidy’ Wrings His Poor When I made my second at- tempt to divorce the imagin- ary husband, Casper Cassidy, I was holding down a chair in a law office on the ninth floor of the White building. But I wasn’t talking to the man who be- longed to that office. Rather, the very blond young man who oc- i mcupied the Aisa von Kettler ch air across from me was “at home” on the fifth floor of the Stuart building, and was stationed in the White building only as a “sub” for one of the lawyers who had escaped on his sum- mer vacation. I have explained all’ this for the Friday afternoon Mayor Caldwell|sake of two people—the man who will accompany Frank Dwyer to po-|vacationed and lice headquarters to identify officers | subbed. the man who Masculine as they may be, all men to raise a fuss about being taken for somebody “I hope to wind up my Investiga-|eise, And I'd hate to have the Bar tion of the brutality charges this! association of Seattle down on me de-| just because I'd shuffled its mem- “I would like to hear from} bers and dealt them out without the more of the men who claim that) proper clues to their labels. Be that as it may, I told my trouble that afternoon to the blond “C. Jones,” the first man to com-| young man from the Stuart building, e ee “Now, I don’t want to pry Into Searing for their evident sincere in-| your affairs,” he*told me when I tention to sift the charges to the| hesitated over the faults of Casper, bottom and to hunt out the officers| but I really have to know the facts guilty of cruel treatment of pris-|in order to help you." oners That seemed reasonable enough ifie’s Heart! to me, so I poured forth my grief, after deciding that “Stella,” the un- known creature about whom Casper | had whispered sweet nothings in his | sleep, would serve once again as the cause of friend husband's and my disagreement, I explained again that Casper had dismissed himself three months ago from our household, and added that my husband had attempted only once to find me since we had shipped our trunks to separate lodgings. “Huh,” said the blond young man from the Stuart building, “if that's all, he evklently doesn’t want you any more.” Now that hurt my ings. (Turn to Page 2, Column 5) MISSING NURSE FOUND IN B.C. own Marion Kilpatrick, nurse at the Imonary hospital at Riv- erside, who has been reported missing from the hospital since Sunday morning, was found Fri- day in Saanich, B. C., according to word received at the King county sheriff's office, Miss Kilpatrick was wandering about the streets of Saanich, it is said, when found by Chief of Police Brogan, who notified Seattle officials immediately. She is physically run down, is the report, Chief Brogan stated that she has been placed under physician's care in Saanich, and if allowed to rest a few days her condition will result in nothing serious. The nurse left the Pulmonary hos- pital Swnday morning for a “walk,” and seemingly was the victim of se vere mental strain, rather than sus: pected kidnapers. ’Twasn’t Coffee He Wished; Only Said It “Give me a cup of coffee, quick!" demanded the light-haired, ruddy- complexioned, well-dressed man who entered Ronald station cafe and soft Wandering About Streets of} NIPPON HUSH Girl Missing for DOUBL TRAGEDY IN CYT Former U. S. At torney Finds Wifé Dead; Man All, Kills Self dk oan ota a at the Seattle Golf and prenpoors within: attorney, found Mrs. Reames, 2 a m Friday, lying in kitchen of their beautiful home at 1317 First ave, N., Gag fumes flooded the There was a note for her band on the table. his prosecution of former ram 'C. Gil ‘and other pro during the world war, a and able lawyer, is a broken man, “It isn't much of a story,” he as he leaned heavily on the n of the fireplace in the living of his stricken home. “Just story of a girl's 20-year fight ag: sickness. The fight is over now.” | HUSBAND AND a COMPANION FIND WIFE a Reames entered his kit " day accompanied by George peony another lawyer, whom he had spent — ‘pent a holiday at They had smelled the fumes of cooking gas but were shoc what they saw. Mrs. the daughter of Judge William M Colvig, of Medford, Ore., lay on the floor. She had been dead for hours, “She had been getting oup. per,” sald her husband, in ex- planation, Friday. “The note left was just for me. There nothing in it for the was just between ourselves,” Many friends of the grief s' a lawyer visited him, offering . fort and assistance, after the and coroner had left. ‘The body was taken to Bonney-Watson’s and pre pared for transportation to father’s home in Medford, Reames notifrea the famity, father, two sisters and two brot at Medford, and another brother, a cartoonist on the San Francisco Bulletin, that he would be in Med- ford with the body at noon tomor- row. BEAUTIFUL, SIGHTLY HOME JUST FINISHED Judge Colvig visited his daughter here about a week ago in the home. where she died, a house the lawyer but recently finished on a site #6 lected by his wife on West Queen Anne hill overlooking a wide sweep of Elliott Bay, Anderson, the bank crash victim, chose a room in the Albany hotel, 916% Third ave., in which to end his grief over his financial loss, Early this morning the proprietor, J, Nelson, opened Anderson's door and found him with part of his dead- ly sandwich yet uneaten. Anderson was untfarried. He leaves a mother in Viriklund, Norw His body lies in the county morgue. eee Girl Who Swallowed Poison July 5, Dies Lucile Hodson, 21, who swallowed bichloride of mercury tablets July 5, in her rooms if the Chelsea apart ments, after a quarrel with her sweetheart, died at 10:30 a, m, Friday in Providence hospital, Her mothe and father were with her when she died, At the time she attempted suicide, Miss Hodson gave her name as Lue © cile Garlots, She swallowed the poly son in her bathroom while an aunt waited for her to go to a theatre. She suddenly rushed out, saying she had taken poison, % The body is at the Home Undertak- ing Co. drink parlor Friday night. And five minutes later the man was gone and Ed Hamon, proprietor of the cafe, was lacking $65, For Hamon had looked into the barrel of a gum,