The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 26, 1921, Page 1

@ There is a good reason why The Star has 10,000 more circulation than any other Seattle newspaper. Paste this on a postcard and your > atie's highest 25 was 64. erly ‘Tell them that So Lowest was d4y noon July 26 it was 59, ; Tonight and Weghesday fair; moderate West- @ You know what it is. Salaries Slashed $600,000! On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise sweltering friends temperaure daly At winds, Entered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1 wi | 7 Gs! SETINGS! What do you @f “The Wayfarer”? So do eee the way, what has become of Joyce? eee fs the day that put the _ 40SH WISE SAYS ig in life has its ase |) except a Van Dyke beard. te the action of the city coun ty on the Skagit propost- are still wondering if the ig an ice cream sundae or a ig sexton in the village ceme Zambrota, Minn.? ‘THIS THUS? dmgies on the stand— i iii : i i r i | 8 [ i bedroom rings the march right in here and explain you're 1s home at this hour oe “That dress- just 5 peat send me my new suit.’ I have written to her Bathing Beauty: “You have inclosed a stamped and d envelope for it."—Rutgers TALK ISNT CHEAP | Did anyone comment on tne | you handled your new mo | i man made a brief ae He said, ‘Twenty-five and | ” “To make an impression, strive to @ heavyweight,” says Mr. H. lay. oe BARGAIN RATES Dy 4 at Interurban Station) ‘Old Lady—When does the car leave Everett? At one-fifty, madam. Old Lady—Make it one forty-nine Tit take it. NEITHER HAVE WE Have you ever noticed that > there's more room in your pockets ) @ow that there's no longer any | wee in carrying around a cork- oe prohibitionists could prevail thé bootleggers to drink sdéime own brand, it would soon end sging-—and the bootleggers. eee ‘An ex-sea captain, expostulating his pretty dgughter, exclaimed: is a fine time to be coming after motoring with that lub- daddy,” explained his daugh- . “we were becalmed. The wind 4 down in one of the tires and we} d to wait for it to spring up again.” eee ‘We are taxed for making money,| having money, for borrowin oney, for matrimony, alimony and | pony. Only the man who steals | gets off without the tux, oe H. C. H. says there's many a slip t the hip and the lip. ill Want Tax Bill Before House Rests! INGTON, July 26.— Presi. ding is opposed to having | ; | ctadii And this gigantic mass of earth, filled in every pore with |. ES SAVED BY | TRICK OF FATE! People Asleep When Mountain Runs Away, Escape by Slisn Margin ‘eaterday The Star told the hitherto i ile itr iy fs a By the Editor Literally and truly, the mountain leaped out and buried Edgewick, King county mill town. I do not mean that a bluff merely fell forward onto a village crouched-at its feet. EDGEWICK WAS TWO ore _— THE SPOT WHERE THE MOUNTAIN This overwhelming of a brisk industrial community with two or three hundred persons dependent upon it for live- lihood, is without parallel, as far as I can learn, in the history of disasters. The story is reminiscent of the Johns- town flood, of the Pompeiian ash burial and of various ee destructions, but also it is different from them VAST SECTION OF MORAINE Se ey ater mice ere what hay ly it in the qualmie and turned it leaped forth from high up The vast gap which is left is shaped much like a sta- dium, In size it is perhaps as big as the entire University of Washington bow! with the entire Tacoma stadium piled on top—and of much the shape these two would be. It was) set i oe. hill in = the same position as the Tacoma} in its . water until it was virtually the consistency of mud, shot! out like a rotons antediluvian monster. e water came | trom the pool after the latter had been raised to its engineers who have measured the hole that was left tell me that ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED OUSAND CUBIC YARDS of material hurled forth - agg midnight blacknéss to wreak its fury on Edge- wick. That, Seattleites, is a quarter million more cubic yards of dirt than was moved in the Denny regrade, celebrated engineering achievement. A curve in'the face of the ridge at that point caused this mountain in motion to jump at an acute le instead of a right angle. The result was that the first impact hit a knoll on the slope a few hundred yards off. This knoil turned it sharply back into the direction of Edgewick and cown the tiny valley of Boxley creek. KICKS ASIDE LOGGING RAILROAD LIKE A MUSHROOM The onrushing earth-river roared on and struck the log- ging railroad, kicking it aside like a mushroom, and hit the main line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway a side-swipe at a point where the right-of-way traversed a fill. The héavy tracks went out with a rush, and for 12 days all traffic was detoured over the Northern Pacific. As an illustration of the unbelievable force of the mud deluge, it is narrated that, when the Milwaukee railroad came to clear its right-of-way and rebuild its track, it found on the roadbed, several city blocks from its orig- inal resting place, a boulder as large as a big room, a rock that weighed 425,000 pounds. Then the grinding mass reached the mill pond of the North Bend Lumber’ company, 13 acres in extent, and 10 feet deep. It filled it and the entire little valley level full in one rush. It took out the dam and either carried away or buried the entire stock of logs. In the few minutes that these momentous events re- quired, the lives of the people sleeping in the houses just (Turn to Page 4, Column 2) WORLD POWERS MAY MEET HERE The Seattle Chamber of Com-| Ed I. Keen, United Press corre merce, late Tuesday, will forward|spondent, cabling from London 9, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of Con, SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1921. The Seattle Star i@ March 3, 1879, Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 TH EW EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATELE HAT OCCURS WHEN MOUNTAIN RUNS (WHAT OCCURS WHEN MOUNTA vs 2020 SOVIET NATION | FAMINE SWEPT Tragic Land, Miliukoff Says ‘Twe sterics on conditions in Rawia—one an interview with Peal Miltaket!, former Hussian statesman, now in Paris; the other writ- ten by Dr. W. A. Wevechin, of New York, whe has returned from sovietiand. Me ts « former captain in the medical corps of the army and is» diagnosticinn ef infectious diseases of the New York ety health department. He made a nine months’ medical curves of Resin BY EDWIN HULLINGER i PARIS, July 26.—Famine is depopulating Russia by thou- sands daily, according to Paul Miliukoff, leader of Russian constitutionalist democrats, here. Miliukoff told the United Press today that private infore mation showed one portion of Russia, larger than France — and Germany combined, was being converted into a huge cemetery. In that one section, lying along the Volga, 25,- 000,000 persons are starving, he declared. Only quick action by relief commissions can prevent the mortality totals from reaching stagger res, he said. Miliukoff pictured many th ing death, Most of the animals have been.killed and used for food, he asserted. Fields have been combed for the last grain. A merciless sun is beating down, taking away even the hope of fair crops this fall. The vast Russian steppes, once swarming with Asiatic invaders, are | These pictures were taken a few days following the disaster which wiped out the village of Edgewick, when a mountain ran away. i Top picture shows a home carried half a mile by the rampaging mass of dirt. A stove and bed were lifted from the first floor and gently deposited in the attic, F. C. Weise, with his wife and three Note the clothing hanging, undisturbed, from the rafters. . This house was once located accommodatingly torn away the side of the house. children, lived there. Second picture shows home of I. Polson, oiler at the mill. after the flood had 450 feet from the mill. It was carried a half mile away by the flood. Notice the auto in his parlor. It was swept from his garage and hurled into the house, some distance away. Lower picture shows ruins of Y. M. C. A. social hall. It, too, was ewept half a mile from its original site and buried as seen here. a mt ca COUNCIL VOTES DRASTI REDUCTION IN ‘The city council, gittingvas a bud, Tuesday afternoon the budget com- get committee, Tuesday morning de- | mittee was scheduled to consider the cided to slice $600,000 from the sal-| question of reduction in the number aries of all city employes. More of city employes, C, B, Fitzgerald, than 5,000 employes will be affected. | chairman of the finance committee, The committee also decided to cut | announced. to Secretary of State Hughes ata} on sailing echedules between here | Seattle fs the logical point for the proposed meeting of allied nations this fall, when disarmament and | Pacific questions are to be discussed. It is understood Hughes is con sidering what Pacific Coast city | would be the most convenient point to reach from nations on the Pa- cific. The chamber will also set forth the fact that Senttle is the nearest | point to the Orient. Seattle is bidding for the meeting | against various other eities of the| Pacific Coast Pasadena, Los Angeles, San Fran. | house take a vacation until the x bill is passed, it was stated fol-| cisco and Portland all wired to Hughes Tuesday, inviting the dis-| Tuesday, said that British dominion premiers favored a West coast city jand Australia, tending to prove that | for the important world meeting. It has also been suggested, he cabled, that the date be moved up from November to September or Oc- tober. Capsized Sailboat Is Found on Sound Capsized and with all sails spread, @ small boat painted green wan found j oft Point Wilson at 10 p. m. Monday by Captain J. E. Pearson of the fish- ing schooner Maryuete, Captain Pearson believes the oceu- pants of the boat were drowned when the boat capsized in a squall, The boat was towed to the Yesler @ visit to the White House armament delegates to meet in their) wey pler Tuesday morning by the by Representative Mondell, respective cities harbor patrol, one-tenth of a mill from the tax| That unnecessary workers, partic: levies of the park and library boards, | ularily in the utilities department, will effecting a total saving of $49,000. | be weeded out, was promised by Fitz o budget committee met behind | s¢rald, who painted out that many des éaaee with the determined in. | Of the duties of the utilities depart. tention of making drastic cits in,or-| Ment have been taken over by the der to reduce taxes, The slice in’the | State public service commission, pay of the city employes will affect |no DROP MEN all of them alike, In October, 1919,| IN HARBOR WORK all clty employes were granted a8 8) An effort wift also be mado, Fitz war measure @ $20 flat increase In| gerald said, to reduce the number of monthly wages, The council will cut/men in the. harbor department. this raise by one-half, which means | Workers not absolutely needed will that each employe will receive $10 | be weeded, out of all departments, lemx a month than during the last | according to members of the budget year, ccmmittee, REDUCE PAY In reducing the tax levy of the OF LABORERS library boand from 1.1 mills to 1 mill Day laborers were granted an in-/and the park board from 1 mill to crease under the war legislation of |.9 mill a saving of $49,000 will be 60 cents a day, This increase will be|made, The counell, however, will reduced 60 per cent, effecting a say-|take over the payment of $7,500 for ing of 25 cents a day on this type of jmusic in Seattle parks during 1922. labor, Va reduction in the number of city BUDGET! hall employes will slice the city tax llevy by $300,000, while a further [saving of $300,000 will be made in the self-supporting municipal utill- a. ‘ALL READY FOR SHUT-IN PARTY Come and get your tickets! You good folk who offered your |automobiles to bring gladness to the hearts of Shut-ins (persons confined |by lingering Mines) to “The Way- |farer” Wednesday night, come and get your tlokets on Wednesday AFTERNOON only up to 4 p. m, Don't come in the ing. First get your assignment of Shut- |ins from Dr, Loope, director general lof the party. Call him at Capitol |2967. He is a Shut-in himself. He will be to tell you what to do. Then Shut-in editor of The Star at @ditor's desk. Tell him wii Mare and what your again covered with moving hordes, he said. These Russians were tum in the hope of finding food. ts ‘Wagons and carte; some covered with dingy canopies of sacking Protect the starving ones within, creak along hot and dusty roads @aravans, the plodding figures whichy lead the bony horses being led by the mirage of food. Conflicting reports travel like. lightning thru the weary bands peamen {hat feed to being Getibwind’is indie ang long Hass ovley . toward the southeast. : |. Another rumor comes that great supplies of food now are available fm cow and the stumbling drivers turn their rickety animals to the and west. Hundreds daily cross the frontiers into countries scarcely A ta care for thelr own people, ‘Death is an hourly occurrence in these caravans of misery. ‘who fall.are buried by the roadside. a Os ee ‘ and hunger, look on with apathy as their children jaid in graves. Millukoff's reports said that only one-fifth of the usual wheat was planted this year and most of that was ruined by the great IN RUSSIA APPALLING BY DR. W. A. WOVSCHIN In the past two years there NEW YORK, July 26.—Insects are | been four great epidemics in ‘soviet Russia's greatest enemy. Its|Russia—I mean European | people have suffeted more from ver- | from the-Ukraine to the Ural |min than from the trade blockade. | tains. These scourges were typhus, — | I saw appalling health conditions cholera, typhoid and dysentery, lin cities and villages «during my | Typhus and dysentery also scqurged nine months’ stay in Runsia, | Siberia. Soap not exist there. Epl-| TYPHUS EPIDEMIC demics were ‘h scourges Insufficient sanitation, Inek of clothing, poor housing and scarcity of food—at least for civilians—wrecked Russia physically. | SOLDIERS, CHILDREN |ARE WELL FED , Soldiers and children are well fed. ,000. ‘Others are sacrificed to their well|¢€rage mortality was 10 per cent— | being. poh ‘the smattaitty: bie teed : Gradually health conditions are | ¥ m: y improving. Hygienic methods are (Turn to Last Page, Column 4) Sas ct Coici’™ DOPERG TRY TO KILL POLICEMAN lsupplies are limited, but hospital fa- cilities a>») being increased rapidly. ‘Scores of Shots Fired in Night Battle Hospitals are being built in Rus» sia faster than in New York, In the czar’s time Moscow, a city of a mil- lion and a half speople, had 21 hos- pitals, Now it has 71 hospitals! Scores of shots were fired Monday night in an attempt to kill a mem- jber of the narcotic squad, during one of the most spectacular dope raids in Seattle's history. ‘The national “disense” of Russia lis poor transportation. Money is During the battle a woman nuried a blazing bundle of optum down onto valueless, so fodd—produce—is the medium of exchange. Therefore poor the officer, from a second-story win- dow, railroad transportation means an un- As a result of the raid two per- equal and inadequate distribution of food, keeping urtan Russia sick while rural Russia is compgratively sons are in the city jail and police jare searching for a bullet-riddied au- |tomobile and its occupants, who es well. RAILROAD SYSTEM ‘caped thru a deadly barrage of bul- lets, . BREEDER OF DISEASE Patrolmen N. P. Anderson and R. The broken-down railroad system is also the chief breeder of disease, Trains and passengers are full of lice and other vermin. F. Baerman trailed a car, the occu pants of which were under suspi- cion, from West Seattle to a house At 1543 Sheldon ave., where three I saw a passenger taken off a train to be deloused. His clothes men in the car hailed Domingo Echamisz, 34. were shaken into a receptacle. The result was a half tumblerful of lice! State Wants Death Penalty for Woman PORTLAND, July 26.—Mrs, Ann Louise Agee, the “stoical grim wid- ow,” as she has been “dubbed by courthouse attaches, charged with cutting her husband's throat with @ ‘azor as he lay sleeping on the nigh lof June 11, began her second day \tight for Ife in Judge Morrow's court here today. Late yesterday the task of choos: ing the panel of jurors wags com- pleted. During the process of select: ing 12 men agreeable to both the {defense and the prosecution, it de- veloped that the state is opening a vigorous campaign for the death pen- alty. Chocolate was first used in Eng: land about 1660, assignment has been, You will be given a ticket that will allow you and your glad passen- gers to enter uninterrupted the spe cial parking place reserved for you at the Stadium, It is alleged they were buying opium from him when the officers approached. The men leaped back in the auto |mobile and opened fire, Echamis hanging on the running board, The patrolmen returned the fire and while Anderson was standing beneath the window of the house a blazing bundle of opium was hurled at him, Anderson dodged the missile and ran upstairs where he says he found Mrs. Mary Echamiz stuffing opium into a stove. He then arrested her, Meanwhile the ayto had escaped. Echamtz had fallen from the auto and was captured. One hundred and sixty-one tael cans of opium and five bottles’ of cocaine were found hidden in a mat- treas. Mrs. Echamiz was later released to ~ care for her home. She hag no chib dren, ‘ }’ ‘Deaths Reach Staggering Figures in © hungry, lying in filthy huts, await | a