The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 27, 1921, Page 1

rs ae @ There is a good reason why The Star has 10,000 more circulation than any other Seattle newspaper. Paste this on a postcard and mail it to your sweltering friends in the Kast. Tell them that Se atdle’s highest temperature July 26 was 64, Lowest was 50. At noon July 27 it was 53, Tonight and Thursday fair; moderate westerly winds. > HENRY ALBERS DIES! STORMY CAREER Star’s 150 WIL JOUR IN CA Folks Who Never | Mix With Outer World to Witness t at the could save codles of @ by harnessing the “juice” that ‘across the Canadian border. : eee feason why some husbands’ grows cold is because their feet sect the example. « i ; steel that can be used to fill Probably for saws. TODAY'S WORST Have you seen May? —May who? i E ; i thee onnaise. No; she was dressing ‘wouldn't lettuce. tie shut-in, day after with the phone practically his only phone has been ter- ipanion, The fiflentty busy this week, for on his shoulders has fallen the job of listing | all shut-ins who wished to go on The ‘Star party. has just taken our breath ~ this offer,” he eald today, “and it has put the shut-ins into the seventh heaven of happiness. These unfortunates have been so used to making their own sunshine, treat will be a wonderful event in would think a stunt of this kind was the easiest thing in the (Tyo to Last Page, Column 1) ‘Mr. Guggenbeim Rye: Has been rerrmerescreneente for the past four years. He| mourned by a large number of | “carers, Fein, ims | WORLD MEETING Here,” says Lac cmend ane you » eae s'man bere when Van- |Acting Mayor Wires Plea to ere ee eret Secretary Hughes Over here money talks. Over in G money balks. cee THREE BEERY CHEERS Acting Mayor Robert B. Hesketh today wired to Secretary of State Hughes, urging that the proposed This country is not dry, it never | preliminary disarmament conference been dry, and you won't live|to be held on the Pacific coast early see the day when it will be dry./in the fall be held in Seattle. ile (nd) News-Exami-| “I can assure you that adequate | facilities will be provided for the conference,” he said. “Steamship fa- cilities to Australia and New Zealand are unsurpassed and there is daily connection afforded between Senttle jand Victoria, B. C., where Austra |lian steamers can be boarded. And there ia from Seattle a direct pas wenger service between China and Japan of American and foreign lines.” ‘The Chamber of Commerce at the same time wired to Samuel Hill, who is in Washington seeking @ $100,000 appropriation to pay for the peace arch at Blaine, to personally Cont eee y POME had a little lamb, © Which drank a case of beer; every time that Mary talked, fiat lamb seemed very queer, of that, the little lamb, Hee father shot it dead; Mary takes ber lamb to school Between two bunks of bread. eee By the way, what has become of Gish of cloves that used to dec wate the oldtime bars? aft As Hughes. this} On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Second Class Matter May “If I'd Only Been Pretty!’’ Wails Killer Mrs. Dora Waterman BY K. J. GIBBONS CHICAGO, July 27—-Mra. Dora Waterman says no jury will convict | & pretty woman of murder. She has just been sentenced to 17 Years in the penitentiary for killing her hy Thé foreman of the jury said Mrs. Waterman:s appearance had nothing to do with the verdict. But Mra Waterman says it did, “If I had only been pretty,” she after the verdict was read. Thirtyone women, young and |Déautituly have been acquitted by |Juriea here on charges of having murdered husbands, sweethearts or friends Mrs. Waterman hacked her hus- band to pieces with a hatchet. CITY TO SAVE OVER MILLION ;Pruning Knife Wielded Un- mercifully Seattle will save more than $1,000,000 next year! The budget committee of the elty council announced Wednes- day that approximately $1,106,- 740 has been sliced off depart ment estimates for 1922. A cut of $980,000 Is sufficient to effect a four-mill reduction in the tax levy. ' Sitting in executive seesion, the budget committer late Tuesday after noon cut $100,000 off the street de partment estimate, reduced the [health department estimate for gar |bage collection by $93,200, and sav $70,000 by eliminating the propos fire alarm system included in building department estimate. Cutting one-tenth of a mill off the the department heads have made reduc- tions totaling $494,540 under their estimates for 1921 Approgjmately $500,000 will be |sliced from next year’# expenditures |by the flat cut of $10 a month in city employes’ salaries and a 265-cent per day reduction im the wages of day laborers, Another $300,000 saving will be |made by the salary cut, but this will |not appear in the budget as the | workers are employed in self-support- jing public utilities which do not draw from the tax fund \Indians Pease for Three Days PAGOSO SPRINGS, Colo., duly 27, --The annual sun dance of the Ute | Indian: Ignacio, ended here to- | day. three days nine Indian For urge Seattle's cause before Secretary | braves chanted and danced without legislative committee told President ating or drinking. exclaimed aloud in the court’ room| ‘Found Blazing on Lake, a Owner Nearby appropriations of the park and li-| brary boards will save $49,000, while | 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1921. RUSSIA FEWER So Declares Dr. Wovschin After Survey; Grafting Still Prevalent BY DR. W. A. WOVSCHIN NEW YORK, Juty 27.--Vice and crime are at a remarkable minunum in soviet Russia, Ne! fa & public evil as in other I 40 not mean Rus sans aro chaath angels, In my work of making a long | medical and sanitary survey of cities | and rural districts 1 found the social | evil nomexistent. I found the re-| ported spread of free love entirely | false. I found no crime wave, SAYS ADJUSTMENT | 18 ECONOMIC When the czar ruled before the | Tevolution—and I waa in Russia at |that time, too-tmmorality and lt |centiousners ruled. Petrograd (then | St. Peterbsurg) and Moscow were as “gay” an Paris and Berlin at their! worst. They were filled with women of the streets. | Now prostitution has been abol-| lished. It ts a matter of economic jadjurtment Russia's experience with the social evil gives the le to the belief that girls took the “easy path” because of depravity. | Fine clothes are not a lure. There are not enough fine clothes to go) around. A man can give a woman! [nothing she has not already got. | Neither has any money—and if they had they couldn't buy anything with | it. Each has foed, clothes and a! Place to live-—gained by the ration | system in exchange for honest work Neither could work —and therefore (Turn to Last Page, Column 3) MYSTERY IN BURNING BOAT A blazing launch was found Tues- day night on Lake Washington, near Leschi park, by Capt. O, L. Vanriper, of the harbor patrol. Vanriper also found a launch near the burning boat, in which was a man who gave the name of Snyder, | who claims he owned the blazing | hulk, and had taken it out into the |lake to destroy it. | Capt. Vanriper took the ashore and later released him. Owing to suspicious actions, the | man will be investigated, on a theory | that he may have stolen the craft. The launch burned to the water's edge and sank Can’t Down Demand for Soldier Bonus WASHINGTON, July 27.—-The de mand for a soldier bonus is based on simple justice and “will not and cannot be dowried,” Gilbert Bettman, chairman of the American Legion man Harding today. Shut-In Party at ‘Wayfarer’ Tonight FRANKIE KIOLET NOW TAKING PART IN HER FIRST BIG PHOTOPLAY LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 27. -Frankie Kiolet, winner of The Seattle Star Univerml] motion pic ture actress contest conducted in Seattle a few months ago, made her debut before the camera at Univerml City today. Miss Kiolet bas been at the Universal studio for several weeks, during which time she has made a careful study of acting before the camera, the art of make-up and other easentials nec- essary for the success of a screen’ star. Filming of the first featare tn which Misd Kiolet has a part is now under way. MERCHANTS TO GAMBLE _ RECKLESSLY Monte Carlo to Flourish To- night Without Police Interference “Here's 30 cents,” liam “And don't come back here. This is for visitors only.” “The whole Northwest is coming to Seattle,” declared Frank Doleshey, registration chairman, Wednesday, as out-of-town merchants continued to appear at the ninth Annual North- West Merchants’ convention and Buyers’ Week, being held until Sat- urday night at the Bell st. terminal. Gladdening the hearts of Chair- man Paul T. Kennedy and his co horts from the Seattle Sales Man- agers’ association and the Seattle Chamber of Commerce is the fact that the public is taking advantage of the exhibits, Admission is free, lots of samples are given away, and whistles and knick-knacks aplenty are ready to find their way, gratis, into the pockets of the youngsters. Fiven the band concert each evening is free. The public will be admitted from 3 to 10 pi. m. tonight and to- morrow, and from 9 a. m, to 10 p. m. Friday and Saturday. ‘Tuesday noon the program was a wonder, All the visitors said #0, But with due respect to the orators of the occasion, the fashion show and the pretty Mving models were the hit of the occasion There was a hitching forward of chairs when Chairman Charles Ellis announced “Bathing Sults.” And when eight charming Seat- tle mikses tripped across the stage in the latest one-piece beach attire there was a thun- der of applause. There followed sports suits, negligees, and—oui! oul!—lingerie! . Pink silk predominated, Henry Jones from Eastern Washington gasped a time or two, blinked his eyes, and broke into a glad smile, Of course, with wifie’s re straining hand upon his arm, he was conservative. But he'll be back today and tomorrow! Count on that! Tonight will be Monte Carlo night for the men, and a theatre party for the women. The Seattle Star Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879, Por Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 @ You know what it is. Tt EW LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE SEAMEN WIN IN They’re Off on 3-Month Hike to N.Y. COURT! U. S. Loses Strike Case; Damages and _ Injunction Are Denied In a dechsion by Federal Jodge doremiah Neterer, filed Wednes- day, the government loses the second round in its fight against the seamen’s unions in connec- tion with the walkout on ship ping board vessels, ‘The court granta the motion of six seamen's unigns for dismissal of an \action brough® against them by Dis- | trict Attorney Robert C. Saunders, in which a permanent injunction against the unions was sought and damagea in the sum of $10,000 a day from May 1, the date of the walkout. ‘The firet round was won by the government when a temporary re finn union sneh Yo tAOPrbre ttt the ding union men fo ‘with the | sailing of shipping board vesnels or their crews, and from trespassing on shipping board property. Perm! in was granted for the government to amend. the original complaint or to file a néw one. Dis trict Attorney Saunders was unable to state what action he should take Wednesday. | Six unions and nine individuals | were named defendants in the com- plaint. They are: Marine Engineers’ Beneficial asso- | elation, No. 38, and W. B. Jackling, business manager; D. W. Miller, pres- | ident; W. M. Coombs, recording sec retary, and C. &. Follet, treasurer. | Mawters, Mates & Pilots of the Pa- cific, Seate branch, and P. Mullen, business agent. Marine Firemen, Ollers & Water Tenders’ Union of the Pacific, Seat |tle branch, and John Carney, bysi- |nees agent. Sailors’ Union of the Pacific, Seat Ue branch, and P. V. Gill, secretary. tion of the Pacific, Seattle agency, land John Norkgauer, secretary. Neptune Association of Licensed Mastern & Mates of Ocean & Coast |wise Steam Vessels, Inc., «Seattle jbranch, and Albert Barron, secre: tary. ESCAPE FROM BURNING AUTO A large Studebaker touring car, bearing an Idaho license, was found burned near Seward park, on the Lake Washington boulevard, early Wednesday, after the occupants, two men and & woman, were seen to leap from the flaming auto and es- cape on Lake Washington in a stolen launch, Police are trying to identify the automobile, believed to have been stolen, which was damaged by fire amounting to about $400, People living on the boulevard de- clared that they were awakened by the roar of the flames and the explo- sion of the gas tank of the automo bile and saw the three people des- perately fighting the flames, When neighbors appeared on the scene the three fled to a launch and escaped. EATS WIFE; IT’S A HABIT Amelia Jacob, résiding at the rear of fire station No, 4, filed a com plaint against Moses Jacob Wednes: day morning, charging him with habitual wife-beating. Jacob, his wife jalleges, pretends to be sick and does not work, but beats her up con tinually. Marine Cooks & Stewards’ associa: | G. C. Maddock and wife in their hiking costumes.—Pho- tos by Price and Carter, Star staff photographers. With one hundred dollars as their sdle capital, Mr, and Mra, G. C. Mad- dock, young married couple, left Se- lattle Tuesday on the first lap of a | cross-country hike, with New York |clty as their destination, ‘ | Maddock is 26 and his pretty wife jis just 19. The couple have been jmarried a little over a year. The chief reason for the long trip |is his rundown physical condition, jaccording to Maddock. All of the young couple's heavy baggage has been sent to New York by parcel post and they are carrying only the light necessities for the trip. |The couple expect to reach the | metropolis in three months’ time, “We'll accept no pickups,” Maddock said Tuesday, “We have set our hearts on walking every step of the way and we're going to do it. We're not out to break any records, and we're going to take our time.” The route planned by the young couple is over the Yellowstone Trail, From Livingston, Montana, the |northern entrance of Yellowstone ' National park, to Chicago, the couple Jexpect to encounter some real diffi culties because of the severe heat. A stopover in Detroit, Mich. is planned, Maddock's mother and sis ter reside in the auto city, The couple resided at the Cherry hotel while here. Harding Receives Amnesty Advocates WASHINGTON, July 27.—Repre- |sentatives of the political amnesty jleague and others Working for the release of Eugene V. Debs and other | political prisoners said that Presi. dent Harding expressed sympathy |with their mission during a confer- ence today. Harding, they sald, pointed out that consideration of the subject could not be given until after “cer. |tain events,” | This statement was construed by the visitors as meaning that the po: litical prisoners would not be freed Juntil after the peace proclamation is | promulgated. | Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and the executive committee of the so- | olalist party were in the delegation | VANCOUVER, B. | menacing city trol. C.—Brush fire is gotten under con Stillman has gone to a friend’s summer home for a rest where can the poor public g0?| see “The water came from the dam pool.”—From The Star. it did—why get By Hal Armstrong Star man vacationing in m flivver, @ War as it does an honest ROBE-ON-THESTILLAGUA- ? MISH, July 23.—(By Mail.)— . Twelve miles of the worst bumps and ruts ever traversed by a Ford, and then—Paradise! Here, beside the rushing still aguamish, 11 miles above the falls, we have pitched our camp. | Have you ever observed that It a liar just as mad to be oe “Hard slee!* show'ed the vet- yachteman ag the sloop a young thing, And what a camping site! What water! What coolness! What troes and flowers! What mountains! eee Looking across the canyon, I see, | towering, a great, gray peak, covered on the nopth side with perpetual snow, wild flower garden—tall stalks of | monkshood, I believe they are, some | | royal purple, some waxy white, All about us, on every hand, are bushes laden with the largest, most | luscious blackberries and black-caps | I have ever seen growing wild. | And beyond and all around are |alders, and willows, pines, firs. ce- have never felt the woodsman's ax. At our feet, rushing, cold, turbu- lent and clear, is the river Stilla- quamish, teeming with voracious trout eee I broke the spell this morning. T caught a half dozen beauties and hooked half a dozen more that I was Beside me, not ten feet away, is a dars, and the greenclad bills that unable to land, all before breakfast, But, (my wife wouldn't believe it), sad to relate, four of my best ones I lost. I forgot to bring a creel, You remember how we used to string ‘em on a willow branch when we were kids? Well, I cut me a willow branch and strung my first four on it. | 1 had waded out to a rock in midstream and put my fish in the water and put my foot on the end of the branch, Then I cast out into a riffle, and when T reached down for my branch again it was gone, fish and all, jownstream, © largest I lost must weighed M4 ounces, They were rising for any kind of (Turn to Last Page, Column 2) have Worries PORTLAND, July 27.—Henry ~~ center of the most im- — portant espionage case of the Northwest’s war his- tory, died at his home at Milwaukie, today, from a complication of ills that had ne — him thru ~ recent months of cal and mental pA na : e United court, in the trial Immediately effort was made tave Albers held for = and @ supreme court mandate, manding him to the custody of ‘tute. ed States Attorney Humphreys and the federal court here for “further Proceedings” was received only @ week ago, a: 14TAKENIN CRIME PLOT! Planned Release of Gangster In for Girl Attacks LOS ANGELES, July 27.—A well. planned conspiracy to -obtain the freedom of Ed “Spud” Murphy, for. mer pugilist, by a sensational jail delivery at San Quentin, where he is. serving 50 years for connection with the notorious “Howard street gang. j in the bud with the arrest of 14 men in the past 13 hours, to announcement today by the po- lice department. STARTLING PLANS: ARE ALLEGED The high lights of the startling al- leged disclosures follow: That three men came to Los An geles from San Francisco and of |Sanized a gang here to get funds with which to release Murphy. That the gang planned to hold up a bank messenger at noon today and get the $6,000 which the messenger — carried, That following tlils robbery the general office of a taxicab concern on South Figueroa st. were to be held up. t The statement was made publi¢ today by Detective Sergeants Joe Ritch, Rube Harris, George Smith and R. §. Hamilton and State Officer: | Peoples, who participated in a spec | tacular roundup of the alleged mem bers of the gang in the down-town district. , ONE PRISONER HAS CONFESSED One of the prisoners, an ex-con viet, said by the police to be a “two- time loser,” has confessed and re vealed the entire plot of the San Francisco men. He is said to have revealed all details of the scheme to finance the San Quentin delivery with money stolen in Los Angeles, Those now held in jail following the roundup are: Charles Quinn, 20, newsboy; David O'Connell, 24, sailor; W. August, 2% merchant; A. Jones, 21. ornest Edwards, baker; Frank Elislada, 24, newsboy; Guy O. Bates, 18; Philip Lennox, 29, chauffeur, | Charles H. Kelly, 18, mechanician; |Fred G. Blooman, 23, masiciany George FE. Carr, 21, sailor, / |. Tom ¥. Seeger, Sam Heur, John Doe, who confessed the entire plot, Carr, Seeger and Lennox were booked on charges not directly con- nected with the plot, Detectives are endeavoring to establish their al. leged complicity. According to “John Doe's” story, three of the men whose names are also being guarded were members ‘ of the Howard st. gang, some of whom are now serving prison terms: for mistreating a number of youmg |sirls in @ shuttered shack, ' A oa sters” of San Francisco, was nipped