The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 19, 1921, Page 1

@ “What is so rare as a day in June?” sang the Poet. @ “A hot July day in Seattle,” replies Weatherman Salisbury. "Ee MDRUG AND ROB EX-SOLDIER ! Tea your owetiering fiends On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise the East that Seattle's highest temperature yesterday was 5 3 Peye can produce motion. i Lowest was it was 58a Tonight and fair; warmer Wednesday; moderate westerly winds S52. At noon jay Wednesday Entered as Second Clase Matter The Seattle Star May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 8, 18' . Per Year, by Mail, $> to $9 TH EW f a m scientist announces that proven a ray from the human It certainly ld top, if she has the right of an eye. . irl who made a parachute Jump ore than 15,000 feet says she never do it again. Sounds kinda “Not another drop.” eee JOSH WISE SAYS y Some live an’ learn, others live ‘an’ yearn. : | eee | And now they're going to recall or Hart. Gosh, why didn’t y do that before he was elected? eee ‘LATEST THING IN SUICIDES “Hearing a shot a few minutes » his wife ran out and found dead. He had tied a string his neck to his foot to pull the "From the Pee-Eye. Ad@itor C. W. Clausen says -that | | | | | i§ ‘world war veteran will receive Bonus by the middie of Septem- Unfortunately, he doesn’t spec. ' | Dear Chief Seattle: Kindly seo | to it that all persons likely to | interviewed by reporters on | Saturday afternoons’ are absent | from the city, and oblige HOME BREW. ‘We lamp in the pubiic prints that Denver man has invented an auto- le to run on water power. We've | n running on water for the past ur years. ‘ eee Syndicate writer says big airships n the future will only come down irom high altitudes about once a . To have the barnacies re a? eee A STRONG GUY “The half-way Christian,” said , Ambrose M. Bailey, Sunday, lcarries God in one hand and the orid in the other.” . . ‘What's become of the small boy ho used to get licked for running ‘off to the old swimmin’ hole? eee ‘There's a place across the bay where the tides deposit all the contraband booze that is dumped rum-funning sloops, and it naned “Dead POME BY A LADY quotings voice, “this is me on the wir I'm sick 0° ‘or an old-fashioned egg, believe me It's true, This hairpin’s enough in the home.” ee A woman doesn't necessarily have 6 be in an auto to knock a man eee Man’s speech restored by tip in in airplane. An airplane is no place or a lady —The Argus. APITAL can do noth- ing which ideas and i! tenacity cannot dupli- te. If you have the dea back it up with a few lines daily in The Star. Classified. Ads. ,Good results will follow. | ATS off to the country bankers! The 120 members of the state guaranty system who met in Seattle on Sunday and who, in less than three hours, agreed unanimously to a lan for creating a new bank to replace the candinavian American, achieved one of the finest, biggest, most constructive pieces of financing ever undertaken in this state. If their plan succeeds—and there is no reason why it won’t—they will have done these im- portant things: a 1. They will have converted the discredited, depleted, down-and-out guaranty system from a complete fail- ure under its first test to an established, workable, sound guaranty system for the member banks, They will ae ssrmnnremmm leave the present fund aC + untouched, and it now is ample to ‘assure 100- cents-on-the-dollar pay- ; ment for depositors of bank now in which might difficulties. any the syst get into to a sign which any small state bank y on its front window with pride. oF ree itt t FES E larger depositors and receive it quicker than they would thru the regular liquidation, and they, too, will 3 + * # In short, those 120 country bankers have grappled with a community and state disaster and, thru deter- mination and intelligence and courage, have turned it into the makings of a constructive triumph. They recognized their moral obligation as handlers of the people’s money and the people’s credit, and with a display of co-operative spirit that will long be notable in the annals of Washington, they voted to subscribe $1,250,000 to make good on their vision and their ideals. That’s why The Star proposes hats off to these men! In August the larger depositors will be asked to agree to the plan, and to defer their claim to 25 per cent of their money. There ought to be no hesitation on their part in doing this, for they will thereby be better off than under the present method of liquidation. Then, when the necessary amount of these deposits is waived and the state bankers have completed their pro rata subscriptions, the new bank will be ready to open October 1, Ralph S. Stacy, one of the most capable bankers in the state, is to be president, on the insistence of the organizers. The Washington State bank has been suggested as the institution’s name—and it is a good one. * + * When it opens on that day, The Star believes as praiseworthy an enterprise wil have been launched as ever saw the light of day in the Pacific Northwest. SPIDER AND HORNET FIGHT DEADLY DUEL A battle to the death between a hornet and a great red spider was witnessed Sunday by Mr. and Mrs, Howard Ewing, 2407 41st ave. N. ‘The battle lasted 15 minutes and is described by Mrs, Ewing, as fol lows: SPIDER ATTEMPTS TO 'SEVER HORNET'S HEAD “We didn’t see which made the time he'd shove against the spider, the spider's grip would tighten. ‘The hornet's head was pulled almost off, it seemed. T DEALS DEATH BLOW, THEN FALLS DEAD “Finally the hornet raced into a r, backed into it, cramped his slender kody and bent double. This brought his stinger a darted it into the spic¢ y. The spider relaxed and dropped onto the sill, dead “The hornet enemy, satisfied lattack. We heard a loud buzsing in our pantry and hurried In to see what was going on. The spider had seized the hornet by the proboscis land was ing all the best of it, trying, it seemed, to sever the hornet’s head. “The battle field was the screen over our pantry window. Up and down the screen they traveled, the hornet trying vainly to bring his stinger into play, the spider hanging ‘on and biting the hornet savagely “phe hornet’s endeavors to push lthe spider off with his feet were futile and served only to make the going worse for the hornet, for every: raced after his himself that the spider was dead, rushed to another corner of the screen and tried to adjust his head back into place with his two front legs, Suddenly, he, too, fell onto the sill, dead, beside the body of the epider. “The battle, or the part we saw of it, lasted 15 minutes, MORTON.—Keller brothers, old prospectors, “sluice” ashes of Charles Lutkens’ burned home and recover several costly Jewels, r i | Bridges. |regular carnival show gua: G. 0.P. MUDDLE Turmoil Within Ranks Upsets Its Cart in Two political events of the last fow days have resulted in upsetting the G. 0. P. apples flivver of the state of Wash ran for governor and the Bull Moose bullmoased, There t, to gin with, the uprising against Gov. Mart. And the demand of the tepub lican editors that he resign or otherwise vacat Only last November tt was that fart polled a 90,000 plurality over Bridges—a record-breaking land. slide And today he is being discussed and cussed by his former friends and supporters with all the vehem- ence and dislike that characterized their remarks last fall about FEDERAL APPOINTMENTS BADLY ADDLED On top of this turmoil has come the announcement that Senators rend Jones have meom mended to the president the ap- pointment of a heed al the various federal offices in state, And the slate is significantly dit ferent from the one which the “or ganization"—meaning National Com- mitteeman Guy Kelly and his ad visers—had agreed upon. Kelly has made sundry trips to Washington to confer with the sen- ators and fo the national party headquarters. While he is main- taining @ high degree of mum-neas since the’ senators’ announcement came out, his friends are not so silent, ‘They are openly saying “liar” and “double-crosser.” And when they say it they look at Sena- tor Jones and they look at Sen- ator Poindexter. Most of the trouble fs over the collectorship of internal revenue, The organization men all down the line had recommended Mark 1. vis of Tacoma. Burns Poe, another Tacoman, is now recommended by the senators. PERKINS FACTOR IN BRINGING ABOUT UPSET One of the chief factors in bring- ing about the upset is said to be 8. A. Perkins, former national com: mitteeman, who was defeated last summer by Kelly after a bitter fight Perkins, so the story runs, has played his cards shrewdly and taken his little revenge by beating Davis. And now every friend of Kelly and of Davis and of the men all over the state who helped them in the cam- paign is wrathy. All of which makes the democrats snicker a bit. And makes the “re- publican newspapers” writhe, And the rest of the citizenry? Well, the rest of the citizenry isn’t greatly heated up over the situation, tho it is finding grand- stand seats rather interesting this summer, ELKS HAVING WEEK OF JOY Entertaining _ "Out-of-Town Guests in Gay Fashion With the West Virginia delegation arriving in the city Tuesday, Seattle Elks ,were preparing for a busy k of entertaining out-of-town guests, The visitors are stopping in Seattle en route to their homes from the national convention held by the Elks in Los Angeles. At Fourth ave. and Lenora st. the Seattle lodge has opened the “Purple Trail,” with new joy devi teed to entertain young and old. Returning Seattle delegates to the convention report that in spite of the fact that their band was elimi naed from taking part in the band contest, by some oversight on the ‘Part of the management of the con- vention, © most enjoyable time was theirs, The Everett band took sec ond place. Philadelphia was first. In some ways the entertainment in Seattle for viniting delegates will be better than the show at Los An- «eles, it is promised. More bands in proportion to the visitors will be here—-and then there's the well known Seattle piri! and a4 ; SEATTLE, WASH,, TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1921. Red Tape Delays Pension for Seattle Shut-In Who Helped Lincoln Win War TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE } 5 1 Mrs. Sarah Kingsbury, a sprightly young lady of 91 summers, who used to take lunch with Abe Lincoln at the White House, and who is going to be The Star’s guest when its party of Shut-Ins see “The Wayfarer.”—Photo by Price & Carter, Star staff photographers. || of the machines, you want me.” what to count on. By Wanda Von Kettler Several times she’s talked with Lincein. She was a nurse in the civil war. She is blessed with a million memories of 91 long years. And yet Mrs. Sara Kingsbory, BOY AND GIRL GONE; MARRIED? tending Dance Dorothy Norman, 18, and Ed Ruckhaber, 17, were acquainted five days, when they attended a dance together, then disappeared, Dorothy, who lives with her grand mother, in Bellingham, was visiting her aunt and uncle, Mr, and Mrs, T. Graham, at Lake Burien, when, last Friday night, Ed Ruesnaber, of that place, asked her to attend t.6 Lake Burien Boosters’ dance. According to the boy's sister, they left the dance hall that night with the crowd. The two were next seen by a Lake Burien citizen, at 3 o'clock in the morning, when they were sald to have been sitting on the bakery steps, which they later left to start on the road toward White Center. They have not been heard of since. According to the boy's mother, and | to the people of Lake Burien, includ- | jing the uncle and aunt of Dorothy, Ed Rueckhaber was a “thoroly good boy,” and had never caused the least | bit of trouble, He had been looking | for work in the berry fields, “Chances ane," suggest Deputy Sheriff Harry Ajax, “that they've stepped off and gotten married, and are holding down jobs somewhere in the berry fields," | We want to the silver-haired and truly re markable ‘grand-old-lady member of Seattle's Sunshine Guild, says that when her “limp” has gone she’s going to get out and dance. “In fact,” she told me Monday aft- ernoon, when I sat beside her wicker chair, “In fact, I tried it just the other day at a birthday party. But being still lame, I'm not very good just, yet.” Now, in spite of the old Jady's spirit and wonderful courage, she is one of Seattle's “‘shut-ins,” and goes out only when someone takes her in acar, Three years ago, Mrs. Kings. bury had the “flu,” and a lameness which settled in her hip as a result has never gone awa “Before that tim “I'd do anything. about three years ago,” with much enthusiasm . she told me, I remember just she began while who tells of boarding school pranks, “Just three years ago when the pld soldiers’ picnic was held in Woodland | park, I decided I'd go. “And on the way out I met an old | man who was going to the same place as I, and we had an awful ar gument on who should take who's | arm. He said that I was more feeble | than he, and I said that he was more feeble than I, and I don’t know just, how it did turn out, but anyway we went together.” Mrs, Kingsbury Is not an old lady —not in the sense of being “old.” She is blessed with all the vanities of youth, .and certainly sense of humor. “Do you know, terday, while w apartment at 115 28th ave,, “that this limping bothers me? It's not only inconvenient, but it isn't graceful.” ‘Then she explained that she didn't like wrinkles, and that she had want- ed. new set of teeth, but the*doctor had told her that her own wero as good as any she could buy, "So I just let him have his wa she said, “~-anything to suit crowd.” Up there in the little apartment Mrs,, Kingsbury lives all alone. Her a she told me yes: ber} blue eyes sparkled like those of a girl | were seated in her} LISTEN, FOLKS, WE WANT YOUR AUTOS FOR SHUT-INS 1E STAR needs at least 25 or 30 autos. The Star and Dr. Frank R. Loope, director-general of the Shut- Ins (folks who because of physical infirmities are unable to get out-ofloors) propose to have all of them see “The Wayfarer” next week in autos to be parked on the rim of the stadium so they won't have to get out Can't do. it, however, unless you folks with cars telephone to The Star, the Shut-In editor, give him your name and address, capacity of your car, and say to him, Come on, folks, Make it snappy, Shut-Ins, call Dr. Loope, Capitol 2267, if you want to go. And please do that now, too. in 0600, ask for be ready when, get you listed now, so we'll know occasional visitors are the children who come in from the street and |members of the Sunshine Guild, Jan organization which brings cheer |to “shutins.” She. has only one jrelative, a brother 81 years old, | (Turn to Page 5, Column 3) FAKE POLL TAX ‘AGENTS AT WORK Sheriff Issues Warning Not to Pay Them Fake poll tax collectors have started operations in West Seat tle, according to Sheriff Matt Starwich Tuesday, % “I would like to have this under- stood,” said Starwich, “that T have detailed no deputies to collect the tax, and before I do I will notify the public thru the press, Any oné try- ing to collect previous to that an- nouncement is a faker.” The sheriff also has announced that those receiving #delinquent warnings who have not alre paid the tax will save considerable time and trouble by going to the county treasurer's office and turning in the money. Approximately $1,200 was taken in Monday at the treasurer's office, while $600 was received by the sher-. iff, According to officials, if this speed of payment continues, very lit: tle outside collection will be neces: | sary, ELL, ANYWAY, IT ‘INALLY ARRIVED Boy, page Mr. Burleson! A letter was received at the may- or's office this morning, addressed to His Honor, Mayor George M. Dil- ling.” Dilling ‘was mayor of Seattle in 19lL GASSED AS HE SLEEPS Money and Dis. charge Papers. John Anderson, walter, yas chloroformed and robbed earty Tuesday by thugs who broke — into his room at the Grand Cem tral hotel, 214 First ave. 8. Anderson had hid hig discharg papers from the army, medal and a wallet containing @ small amount of change beneath the sheets of his bed. ‘The thugs entered his room while he was sleeping and held a sponge saturated with chloroform over his face until he was unconscious. They then rolled Anderson onto the floor while they ransacked the room, tak- ing his money and discharge papers. Detective M. J. Cleary investi gated and arrested four men. JO seph Lang, 28, laborer; George Crawford, 31, logger; Frank Kern+ line, 25, teamster, gnd Harry Le is Victory — Roy, 34, longshoreman, in a room — of the Grand Central hotel. Cleary alleges the men had a vice tory medal and discharge papers. The men are held on open charges im city jail for further: tion, Anderson is a waiter employed by the Millionaires’ club, a ROSS DEFENDS SKAGIT PLANT, - Launches Bitter Attack on Paper Opposing It of the smal] pamphiet in which he de- fended the Gorge creek project, and asked the newspaper: Ys “May I ask who pays for the arti- cles that you print on the Skagit? It is not generally supposed that you are philanthropic enough to be doing it at your own expense, “In putting over the car deal, in which you were exceedingly active, you did not ask for » val- uation, nor did you ask for a de- lay for investigation, The lighting superintendent de clared that'the trustees of the Cham- ber of Commerce, which has gone on record as opposing the Skagit, in- clude the president of the private lighting company, and that only 5 (Turn to Last Page, Column 2) HUSBAND SHOT AND WIFE DEAD Police Believe Woman Re- sponsible VALLEJO, Cal, July 19.—Mrs. George Dudzilks, wife of an em» ploye at the navy yard here, was, found dead in the kitchen of her home with a bullet wound thra her heart, and ber husband was found in an adjoining room with five bullets in his body. .He is not expected to live, Felix, the 17-yearold songet the couple, was so hysterical when he notified the police that he could not give an account of what led to the tragedy, The police de¥eve that the wom. an shot Dudzilks and, then herself. 2 Convicts Missing Following Rioting PITTSBURG, July 19.—Roll call at the Western Pennsylvania penitenti- ary today revealed only two convicts were missing, following rioting of yesterday in which four buildings were destroyed by, fire. Three of the 12 ‘injured have but slight chance for recovery. Fire loss was estimated at $: