The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 18, 1921, Page 1

Tonight and Tuesday fair, gentle westerly winds. Forecast Alki beach Is wondering bay got its “permanent eee all, a name means nothing. Stilimans had a country home Chicago police have found a still that they say is worth $25,000, It just have had a dxénk in it. eee Quoting our police reporter: “The n burst in and found four poker with a $68 pot.” says the kettle isn't as black hey wood alcohol. And kick off while they're stewed. » eee GIVING THEIR SERVANTS A a TREAT on pe president of the , brought about 20 United States across the Hudson in his hat's nice. Bot it will take ny 4 nugeet d many a sack Hy TE ri i$ . A chap I love (And I'm some lar) Is he who. hollers “Cab for hire! ee j | Mike—Phwat's your favorite band ? ‘piece | } ‘ ose from all parts of the state. On that | "Lawyers carry brief cases. Why | day i page train will arrive, \ Y y y inging a delegation of prominent | |, cada paz! om ‘gee Bilis from Chicago. ———————————— By Thursday all of the 21 lodges h ENGINEER OR M. D.? of Elks in the state will be on hand, ‘| «col. Henry Smith, distin. | |and most of the big delegations trom hed eye specialist, removed racts free of charge at the city hospital Saturday.”—News- per. Pepring on your Niagaras, Bri- dal Veils and Snoqualmies, folks. Which brings to even a good-sized riffle hs e eetie who sits by| ~* our scientific find the spasm that it must take a ot of weeps to make a cataract or PRISON FOUGHT | — Hundreds of Shots Fired as Guards HAS Battle Convicts in ‘i Pennsylvania | PITTSBURG, July 18. — While flames crackled in the prison build- ‘tings and dense clouds of smoke rolled over the scene, 1,000 convicts, including 30 women, fought desper- jately with guards in the Western | Pennsylvania penitentiary today. | Guards fired point blank into mobs jet prisoners who came at them. armed with pleces of furniture and other weapons. Scores were report ed wounded. Six frame structures | within the walls were destroyed by fire. WANTED CIGARETS AND FACE POWDER A policeman on guard at the prison stated that siz to eight convicts had been killed. There was no confirma. ton of thi report. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Becond Clase Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Shut. The Seattle Star ‘Wash., under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, §> to $9 @ The shipping board has decided to sell 287 wooden ships. We bite. To whom? @ Older than its mother—vinegar. TATE REPUBLICAN EDITORS PROBE ENDS IN WHITEWASH TDEMAND HART QUIT JAILERS ARE CLEARED Tt ED LATE EDITION SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, JULY 18, 1921. Ins to See The Wayfarer Bed-Ridden Chief of Optimists and The Star Are Going to Put It Across ‘The riot was started tn the prison fame: Beary by 200 convicts just here from the Eastern cigarets for the men and face pow- der for the women. Several prisoners rushed at the guards. They ripped furniture to bits and used table lege and chairs az bludgeons. Others grabbed forks, knives and tin plates from the tables. The air wag filled with flying mis- siles. The fighting spread from the din- ing room umti) the whole penitenti- ary was involved. Guards on the with their rifles the convicts milling ‘around in the yards. CONVICTS SCREAM LIKE MADMEN Other guards armed with rifles and revolvers opened fire on the convicts as they rushed them again and again in an effort to capture the gates and effect a general jail delivery. The fires were started. one after the other in rapid succession, and soon the air was heavy with smoke, in the midst of which the hand to) hand fighting raged on. Hundreds of prisoners, clad in their gray and black-striped garments, pawed fran- tically like caged maniacs at the bars jthru broken windows and screamed {Turn to Last Page, Column 2) ELKS FLOCKING INTO THIS CITY To Frolic Here Following Los Angeles Session The eyes of Elkdom will be centered on Seattle this week. Thousands of Brothet Bills re- turning from the big national convention at Los Angeles and the 17th annual Washington State Elks’ association will flock here during the next few days. Monday and Tuesday the advance guard of homeward-bound Seattle ites who have been attending the convention in Seattle will return, while on Wednesday the first big influx of Elks is due to arrive here the East and South rived. Officers of the grand lodge, head- ed by William W. Mountain, the newly-elected grand exalted ruler, will be here Friday for the monster picnic when 50,000 boys of Seattle will be entertained by the big broth ers of Elkdom at Woodland park. In connection with this picnic, 18 bands, representing different lodges, will have ar-| Here’s Seattle's optimist. Dr. Frank R. Loope, king of the shut-ins and director- general of the Sunshine guild, as he lies always smiling, but completely paralyzed with the exception of his arms. Photo snapped this morning by The Star's photograp: company of New Jer-|wajis ran up and down, threatening | Carter, * R. FRANK R. LOOPE into a mirror that he at an angle so that he could see his interviewer. many years, flat on his * * & R. LOOPE is a member of the Sunshine gulld, a society of shutins, and in his spare time publishes a tiny periodical called Sunshine Smiles. That's why they call him the editor. They could call him general. For, day after day, he lies on his back with his telephone tn his hand and talks across the city to other members of the Sunshine guild, sending them cheer, chatting over the news, getting acquainted. And, day after day, thru the same telephone, he directs the movements of many kindly women, housewives who devote a day a week to visiting the shut-ins. “Yes, Mra, says, pleasantly calling day. No, Ballard today, please. Mra. Somebody Else is in Ballard district. If you don’t mind, will you go to West Seattle?” And he does a hundred other tasks. Sometimes, very seldom, he gets out. When he does, it is on some exceptional occasion, such as the parade we had on Fourth of July, which he viewed with his mirror lying in an ambulance. eee So-and.So,” he ‘this is your don't go to F. W. Strang, of the ad firm of Strang & Prosser (there's a regu. lar human for you) came to The Star. “Dr. Loope,” he said, “wants to see the ‘Wayfarer.’ Yes?” s Charged With Embezzling $10,000 AUSTIN, Minn, July 18,—R. K Thompson, said to have embezzled | more than $150,000 from the Hormel | Packing company here, was arrested today. A charge of embezzlement of $10,000 was placed against him by H. H. Cory, manager of the | will stage a big band concert. Oakdale farm, appointed by Jay C. Hormel as trustee, He lay, as he has lain for many, hack, in the * ‘8, Price & eo 8 * * * & lay smiling airy front bedroom upstairs at 2335 was holding Boylston ave. N, i He is paralyzed. “I wonder,” he said, “I just wonder. How I would like to see the Wayfarer! * * Wanted: Autos for Shut-Ins Automobiles are needed to carry Seattle's shutdins to and from the Stadium for Wednes- day night's performance of “The Wayfarer.” Wit) you offer yours? Thank you! Phone The Star, Main 0600, and ask for the Shut-In editor. “Do you suppose Dr. Loope and The Star could put it over?” “Absolutely!” : oe. there you have it—Dr. Start Flight From SAN BERNARDINO, Cal, July 16 Clarence O. Prest and L, M. Bach, aviators, left here at 9:15 a. m, to- day, on a proposed fight from Tia Juana, Mexico, to Siberia, After “hopping off” at Tin Juana, they plan to stop at Las Vegas, Nev. From that point they will head north | thru Edmonton, Canada, and thence to Nome. ‘The aviators are flying in a plane of their own manufacture, made at Venice, Cal, They hope to be the first to fly across Bering straits to Siberia, Tr your home is filled with, to you, useless paraphernalia that may be useful to someone else, dig it out and let || the 68,000 readers of Star Want Ads This is business. | The || know. What a wonderful thing it would be if all we shut-ins could see it!” * * & Loope and The Star invite every shutin in the city to see the.. “Wayfarer’ pageant on Masonic night, Wednesday. If you are a anut-in and would care to go, if you can be carried on a cot or in an automobile, phone Dr. Loope. His number Capital 2267, ee | Shut-ins’ automobiles will be parked on the rim of the Stadium bowl, where they can witness the | Speetacie and hear the music without leaving their cots. = ‘The Star and Dr. Loope invite every Seattlo shut-in to be their guests that night. Texas Girls Choose Alaska Over Europe Growing preference in the South Mexico to Siberia |*"4 © for Alaska's scenery over that of Switzerland and Norway was evidenced Monday by the presence in this city of a group of pretty Texas school teachers who boarded the Admiral line steamship Spokane bound for the North. ‘The young women were chaper oned by a party of Texas business men and their wives. Their trip, ac- cording to Frank Reedy, formerly of the University of Texas and “tutor” on the expedition, is in the nature of a post-graduate finishing touch to a course in nature stutly begun at Yellowstone park, MAYOR | RIOTERS Will View Pageant From Autos DROPS CASES! Police Deny the Charges, So What Else Is There to Do, He Asks Mayor Hugh M. Caldwell today exonerated the Seattle ce force of charges of) rutality to prisoners jailed) during the Fourth of July celebration. Caldwell’s report, which came after several days of personal investigation, was based upon the theory that insufficient evidence was presented: upon which to discipline the accused police officers. ‘The report states that all of the Witnenses were in stages of intoxica- tion and that the evidence was vague and at Umes contradictory, Odin A, Varang, “C. Jones" and Frank Dwyer in sworn affidavits Glared that they or others they saw were manhandled, beaten with biack- Jacks and cast into a filthy receiv: ing cell on the night of the Fourth of July. “Jones” declared that he had seen four men black-jacked the night of the Fourth, Varang declared that he had received a vicious slice that eut his upper lip for nearly a quar. ter of an inch when he was arrested the same evening by Officer Hogan. Dwyer charged that he had been manhandled at the booking office at the central station and had been robbed of $15. . ‘The mayor's report on the charges cites the evidence of the eight leemen concerned, in) which (thi deny everything with startling urfan- imity. The policemen, It is shown in Caldwell’s report, flatly denied every assertion of brutality made by the | prisoners. “I have spent several days in probing these brutality charges,” Mayor Caldwell said, “because I will not permit such conditions to exist under my administra- tion. It is to be regretted that more witnesses could not be se- cured. I wanted to go to the bottom of the matter, On the face of the testimony there has not been sufficient evidence (Turn to Page 11, Column 6) JOYRIDERS IN FLAMING AUTO: Blazing Car Is Seen Racing Along Highway Flaming “like a meteor” and an auto was reported to have sped up the Bothell highway near Lavilla |station at 9:30 p. m. Sunday, and later to have been found destroyed by fire, tion phoned the report into the laheriff's office, and deputies were [dispatched to investigate the spot No signs of the men and women |previously seen in the car were found, The license number, burned and charred, was recognized as that of A. J, Wilson's car, reported stolen to the police Friday night. carrying two men and two women, | Mrs, J. Rockaway of Uavilla sta-| TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Local Skipper Gets Cup From Great Britain WASHINGTON, July 18.—A note was received at the state de- partment from the British embas- sy today, transmitting a silver cup awarded by the British gov- ernment to Capt. Omar J. Humphrey, formerly of shipping board vessel West Modus. Humphrey's home is in Seat- Ue, Wash, Capt. Humphrey was awarded the cup for “humanity and kind. ness” in saving 600 passengers of the British steamship Fazilka, which was wrecked on October 31, 1919, on the Great Nicobar island. The 600 passengers were trans- ferred to the West Modus without long. ee Capt, Humphrey’s home is at 605 Boylston ave He left New York June 30, for Java, as master of the West Calum. | NEW BANK WILL OPEN IN SEATTLE Assume Liability of the “~ Scandinavian | longing to the system would get ind organize Nability of American bank, getting 100 per cent recovery for the depositors. The meeting was called by Gov- ernor rt, as head of the guaranty fund rd. It was held in the rooms of the Seattle clearing house association on the 14th floor of the | Alaska building. All members of the |board, including Governor Hart, E. L, Farnsworth, state director of tax- ation and examination; John P. Duke, supervisor of banking; R. L. Rutter of Spokane, Howard Lucas of Yakima, and H. W. McPhail of Raymond, were present. At a preliminary meeting Satur- day, the members of the board dis- cussed the best method of fully pro- tecting the depositors of the Scan- dinavian American bank, and the matter was turned over to a commiy tee of bankers, as follows: F. W. Shults, of Wenatchee; C. W. Bfidg- ham, Elma; Conner Malott, Spokane; Cc, Paul Ublmann, Centralia; R. Lee Barnes, Ellensburg. They had an extended conference with Ralph Stacy, president of the bank, and brought back a report to the guaranty board to provide for the protection of the depositors, GUARANTEE BOARD GIVES APPROVAL The guaranty fund board, with Gov. Hart presiding, gave its unani- | mous approval of the proposal, which was concurred in by Duke and Farns- worth, With this backing, the report was submitted to the members of the | guaranty fund at the conference Sun- day, The meeting had been called ten days previously by Gov, Hart, and since that time the most vital question among bankers belonging to the guaranty system has been relat- ing to the method of proving absolutely the sol- vency of the guaranty fund, and as- suring full payment to the deposit- ors. The meeting was attended by rep- | establishment of some START RECALL DRIVE! planned by republican editors of the state. é Smouldering fires of dis- head of the Republican Editors’ sociation, and J. C, Kaynor, pu er of the Bilensburg Record. WILL CONFER WITH STATE CHAIRMAN HEBBERD The two are expected to jwith Chairman T. C. Hebberd, the state central committee, at That the republicans must upon themselves to clean house have the task successfully plished by the farmer-iabor or psa a NA at the next election i the burden of the editors’ If this thing goes oo te years the republiéan party will be- swept out of power and in four years Bob Bridges will be elected gover. nor,” declared Editor Sefrit, He de manded immediate action. i Editor Kaynor followed Sefrit in’ the demand for concerted action by jthe editors. He said the situation in’ the state from \the republican! standpoint is “very, very serious.” | Kaynor was asked to repeat spe. jclfic charges involving the governor.’ | He replied by referring to newspa- [per articles published in city ang county papers, criticising the chief executive. ‘ “Do you know what would follow the impeachment or resignation of | Hart?" Kaynor was asked, “Yes, elevation of Lieut. Gov. W. J, (Wee) Coyle to the governorship.” It waa pointed out that the na- (Turn to Last Page, Column 1) Report French General Slain PARIS, July 18.—A wave of anti- | German feeling passed over Paris to- |day when it was reported that Gen- eral Lerond had been assassinated in Upper Silesia, There was no official confirmation jof the report. The war department got in touch with the general's head@> quarters by wire to learn the origi of the rumor. “Blast that pen! “I came down here just an hour and 20 minutes ago to write this [letter to my daughter at Berkele and if any of her sorority | see this letter——they'll wonder | whether IT am a ditch digger or a | horny-handed logger.” The harassed business man ner- vously pushed his natty straw a little farther back on his head, He pulled his last reserve envelope from his pocket. was consigned with 47 of its broth ers to the waste basket. Gripping | office pens he made another attempt @ white envelopa, ‘The result was a daub, | He gave it up, What had an hour before been a sunny disposition was now a wither: an untried member of that battalion | fully stamped and sealed. sisters | of spitting, bucking, scratching post-| envelopes had to be addressed cor-| seeping thru a jagged hole into what to write plain, “Mary Brown,” across | (Turn to Page 11, Column 5) Bullet-Headed Postoffice Pen Stirs His Wrath ‘The ruined one, ing macistrom of ire. | In rushed a man with half a hun- | dred nice blue envelopes, all care- Those | rectly with the first stab, He blithely picked up a bullet | headed, stub-nosed ink dispenser from the drab-looking army on the atrractive glass ledge and started the attack. How The Star Feels on the Skagit Project—See Page 6 ee x e a “Splat? “D—mn"" In the center of the baby blue expanse was a pool of Carter's pride might have been a Gov, Hart mes | sage to reduce taxes, “Hotels have sheet inspectors, why can't the postoffice take a day off and inspect these pens?" he wailed. “Postmaster Hays sure must be @ hound for economy.”