The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 4, 1921, Page 1

The Star Goes Into 10,000 More Homes Than Does Any in the Bast, attle’s highes gus) 3 was 70. {i{k VOLUME 28 At noon August 4 it was 51, Tonight and Friday, fair; moderate westerly winds, Paste this on a postcard and mail it to your sweltering friends Tell them that Se t temperature Aw Lowest wag 61, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1599, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 Other Seattle Newspaper Tt EW LATE ITION il SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1921. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE ITNEYS MAY BE REPRIE Star Man Probes Baffling Oregon Murder Mystery Dp mMm—Sees parent arrive on jitney and inform neigh- #31—Asks parent tf he has pht home any candy, toys, fruit, lure, briew-brac or food iy food. -4235—Fights terrific battle with . his sidekick, using and taking a wallop on the ear. Swears violently. ‘Taken to bathroom by fe parent, who washes tongue castile soap,, this being the for using the by the male parent. aguinst castile soap Palm Olive in future. straight | language | Dentist a ‘Dr. Jeky! _ and Hyde? ‘Debonair Town. Favorite as’ Suave as Ever Just Be- fore Alleged Killing | FIRST OF FIVE ARTICLES! BY FRED L. BOALT ROSEBURG, Ore, Aug. 4.— The metamorphosis of Dr, Rich- ard Brumfield occurred a few minutes after 6:30 o'clock on the evening of July 15. It wns at 6:30 that the doctor ar rived at the Rose Kandy Kitchen, ate a dish of ice cream with evident | | | | | | friends, He was, at that moment, the Dr. Brumfield that Roseburg had known and respected for years—a com manding figure of a man, tall and | waited MOTHER REFUSES TO GIVE SON WEDDING PRESENT; MURDERED BOONEVILLE, Ind, Aug, 4— Formal charges of murdering his mother were to be filed today Deffendoll, 22 years r’s body was found in the woods near Hellman late yesterday with the head blown off by @ shotgun. William Deffenden, 17, told an thorities his brother killed their mother because she wouldn't give him the household furniture as Dollie’s fiance demanded. Daltie and Miss Nellie Shop- taugh were planning to be mar ried, William maid, but the girl eald her home had to be furnished before the ceremony. COMES HOME TO DIE PORTLAND, Aug. 4.—Gottleibt and Julia Schmidtka had been mar ried 50 years, Four months ago they quarreled, Gottieidt left. Yenterday he was found dead un relish, and chatted pleasantly with | dér the rose bushes in the back yard | Of his old home, where his wife still She found him so. “He was coming home to me. . He needed me,” the old woman sobbed. Seattle Te Karle no Kelly Are Pra Taxes May Go Higher, Is Warning Reduction Impossible, Mel-| lon Tells House Ways and Means Committee REQUIRE MORE WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—The Present high taxes must be im creased approximately $266,000, 000 « year if the government ts to meet all its expenditures dur- ing the present fiscal year, Seo retary Mellon today informed the house ways and means commit- tee, which is endeavoring to re duce taxes, Melion frankly stated that on the Present basis of estimated expend: | } | MAY | | well set-up, clothed in impeccable, al- most foppish, habilaments, and on the right side of WAS COOL AND SERENE, AS USUAL Altho the evening was sultry, the to hitch pet pup to | “But he died before I could see him.” |tures for the current year reduction ODD ANI CAU if the present tax is impossible. Should the tariff bill be delayed pant BERKELEY, Cal, Aug. 4—A Ut-|January 1, an additional $70,000,000 tle animal at first thought to be the |!" internal taxes would be necessary, “missing link” ts captive here, It|"* said doctor seemed, as usual, cool and| aa a face like a man, tail like a| Mellon gave the committee = com- serene. He thanked the waitress | @uirrel, bands resembling those of plete review of the difficujt fiscal for serving him. He | Duman, and jabbers a distinctive jin-|#tuation facing the government He . | Dunctitiously dabbed his high, white forehead with §25—Undressed, dried and put to | §:40—Silence again. '§:42—Asks for pup. | 643—Asks for toy train. | S44—Asks for disreputable doll h he calls Jim.” $46—Asks for bread and peanut ter... AG—Asks for girl friend to im and read to him. & square of snowy linen. He eat upon his bead a straw hat of fine and costly texture. He nodded to acquaintances as he sauntered to the door. He stepped into his waiting | automobile—a snappy Elgin Six with | ted dise wheels—and drove away. | At about 9 o'clock he killed a man, | aecording to a skillfully conceived but bungtingty executed plan. IN SHORT TIME, DR. JEKYL BECAME MR. HYDE: It was, then, soime time between | 6:30 and 9 o'clock that the meta- morphosis occurred that changed Dr. Brumfield from a respected leader in Roseburg society to a killer, It is to that metamorphosis, so sudden {Turn to Page 7, Column 5) SCHOONER AND CREW ARRESTED Wine-Laden Vessel Taken by Guard Cutter Capture of the wine-tad@en schoon- er Tacoma, of Los Angeles, and the arrest of her crew by coast guard officers was reported here at noon Thursday, A ring of booze runners that hag been employing four or five | boats to bring California wine into Seattle ts believed broken. The Tacoma is being towed to Se | jattle by the coast guard cutter Guard mo. It is about @ foot tall and dark brown. of California scientists will be asked to define its specten, ’ PHOTOS MYSTERIOUS SUPERIOR, Wis, Aug. 4—The body of Arthur A. McDonald, 40, was found hanging before a blue and red painted cross in the parlor of his home here. Beside the body were two mystert- ous photographs of himsecif in his posture of death, taken three days ago. WOMEN BEAT EDITOR HONOLULU, T. H., Aug. 4.—The offies of the Korean Times was wrecked during the night by a mob of Korean men and women. The women beat the editor. The men wrecked the furniture, presses and machinery, “COPS” IN HOLD-UP Firing twice into the alr as they approached, two chugbike bandits, posing as speed cops, held up the Everett-Seattle motor stage near Bothell Wednesday night. After examining the car closely, they fled, Driver John Salisbury re ported Thursday PRISONERS FREED? WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. — The state department today recetved a lcable from its representative in Riga stating that the bolshevik mission there had received unofficial infor. entimated the of the various pew tazes which suggested, in- cluding the levies on automobiles, bank checks, increased portage and higher rates on tobacco and cigareta. His figures reeval tho big slump in government ré®cipts during the last year, Last year the revenues amounted to §5,625,000,000, Mellon ‘sald, Or $1,000,007,000 fn excess of the revenues estimated to be neces sary for 1922. The slump in govern- ment receipts, however, is estimated At $1,400,000.000. |U. 8. STILL SPENDING $10,000,000 A DAY Mellon revealed the expenditures in July were greater than the same month last year and stated that un- leas more rigid economy was prac |ticed hin estimates would be exceed- jed. The government is still spending More than $10,000,000 a day. “Oordinary expenses for July, 1," he said, “amounted to about | $322,000,000 as against $307,000,000 for July, 1920, while the current |deficit for July, 1921, was about $118,-| 000,000 as against $76,000,000 for) July, 1920." Mellon dectared that his program for revenue revision with the assist: ance of the new tariff bill would year a8 against an estimated need = * ‘Of $4,200,000,000. He wns of the opin-| WhO 1 to fill Caruso’s shoes? fon that $360,000,000 out of the $4, |_, Will It be Theo Karle, unquestion- 550,009,000 grand total expenditures |“0!Y the foremost concert tenor in America today? Or will it be Patrick Kelly, this city’s latest ‘wonder of the musical stage? can be obtained from salvage of war | |materials. A new tax increase was» jxuggested by Mellon today. It was |the doubling of the present docu |mentary stamp taxes, saying $30, Se ee sete tenes, 100,000 could be obtained in. this ROW, after Cafuso, will be one of | manner. |these two Seattle songsters, is im- protable not in the least. | Theo Karle and (inset) Patrick Kelly, Seattle’s, two raise $4,092,500,000 for the current | Prospective world’s greatest tenors. 5AI—Asks for quilding blocks. wa of the capture was received mation that the American prisoners | in Russia had been released. “Karle was the musical sensation A8—Aske for Yin of water. Wants more water. up and get it. kitchen. Gets up and goes 691—Discovered on lawn using) Those to sluce down dry lingerie on Reighbor’s line. Explains that the “hose slipped. 602—“Ob, why did you spank him ) go hard? He's just a little feller and | he didn’t mean anything wrong and —" Well, you know how It goes. |) €607—Given candy peace offering ‘by male parent, with whispered ad- monition to keep it a secret trom fe- (male parent. Immediately yells: “Oh, thank you, daddy, for the lovely | candy.” 607%—Male parent feels guilty as the devil 699-—Put to bed again $:10—Protests that he has forgot- to kiss male parent goodnight. GAl—Kisers male parent good it and is advised to wipe candy from mouth. 15—Gets last, final XXX three | star complete night extra drink of “Water. T—"The Ill cherub” “Yeah, he looks peaceful enough | when he’s axlee . in disgrace | “My dear,” sa! § geon’s wife, “I shall goat this year.” 5 “AM right,” sald the great man, #1 look over my list and find some "ne who can afford an operation for pperidicitis.”” eee “Your husband says he leads a dog's life,” said one woman. “Yes, it’s quite similar,” an ramered the other. “He comes m with muddy feet, makes him self comfortable by the fire, growls a few times and waits to be fed.” need a new fur eee Life is too short’ for most of the against him. Brousles was released ‘more than four inches of water when Told to} eminent sur-| at coast guard headquarters by wire less from Gunner F. C. Green, mas ter of the Guard. The seizure is be lieved to have been made in the vi-| einity of Friday Harbor. Federal prohibition agents stated Thursday their opinion that the Ta coma’ was one of several vessels known to be supplying Seattle with California wines. FIST FIGHT THIEF? | Michael McCarty, 32, {s held on} an open charge in city jail accused | of robbing Gus Gustafson, 36, quantity of small change and valu able papers in a fist fight at First ave. and ttery st. Wednesds night. Gustafson said he was at-| tacked by three men, one of whom was McC A complaint will be filed against McCarty in federal court, it was stated. | ~ _ —s | 13, ASKS DIVORCE NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Aug. 4.—A 13-year-old bride in her divorce com-| p here today charged | lthat her husband, Floyd Moore, car- ried photographs of other girls in! his pockets. They have been married since last May COLLAR PRICE DOWN Old Hi Cost of Living received an- | other body blow this morning, when | Seattle retall clothing dealers and| haberdaghers announced a 5-cent cut | on collars, to 20 cents apiece. The} announcement follows the cut of 2% cents by the manufacturgra, | | | | | , | HE RAN WHEN ASKED | Alex Firousles, 38, waiter, made the mistake of running when dry squad men asked him what he had| He was arrested and a| on his hip. pint of grapo is held as evidence on $500 bond, PAT GETS HEAT ON Arrested Tuesday night at Seventh ave, and Weller st., while drinking a can of canned heat, Patrick Reardon. 29, was found sweeping the floors of the city jail Thursday morning by his wife, who thought he had been kidnaped. PEDDLER DIES RICH PITTSBURG, Aug. 4.—Isaac Kaut. mann, 70, died here a few days ago. Born in Germany, he came here pen- niless and began peddling, In 50 years he owned one of America’s largest department stores, BYNG ON HIS WAY LONDON, Aug. 4.—Lord Byng left London today for Canada to be come governor general of the domin ton. He departed for Liverpool where he was to board the Empress | of France for th N. Y. SEES SNAKES NEW YORK, Aug. 4.—New York ers forgot it was “dry” when a six foot rattler slid from a telephone booth in a railway terminal. Tenants are afraid they'll win $100 offered for his return. WANT BRIGHT IDEA Don't forget it-August 9. Gov. Hart's tax reduction committe meets at 10:20 a, m. that day, at 51 Hinckley block secret wants su to cut taxes. ¢ voyage to Quebec. stion on how LIKE SATU. EMPORIA, Kan., Avg. 4,—Bath tubs were full today. Commissioner Dyer revoked the rule of bathing in RDAY! @ heavy rain fell, of 1915-16 in New York,” says the Musical Courter. © performed in “The Waxyfarer” in New York for two years and | ang every night for six weeks in jhigh D flat in Rossini's “Cajus son of John| Animam.” Klock, struct by a jitney near his| The New York Sun dectared it home, 124 N. 79th st., Sunday, while|to be the “most wonderful exhi- playing in the street, died in Provi-| bition of consistent singing ever dence hospital at 4:45 a, m. Thursday | heard in New York.” without regaining consciousness. He sang for Harrison Wilde, a no- Don Hossman, 136 N. 79th st, driv. | ted musician and critic, in Chicago, er, will probably be tried by a coro-|in 1915, Wilde refused to hear him ner’s jury Friday morning. at first, but after considerable per: . oe suasion assented, +Ag Karle finished, |Another Boy Struck | i's, xcisimed and Seriously Hurt “Young man, you're great!" © It was a rare compliment. Wilde, Jack Heva, 10, was perhaps fatally | § jinjured at noon Thursday, when he | Stepped from the curb at Fremont PROBE KILLING ave. and Ewing st, into the path of| OF TAXI DRIVER }an auto driven by R. W. Cunning SPOKANE, Aug. 4—Does James | ham, 18, 5437 Latona ave, Jack's skull was fractured and his |O'Brien, desperado, wounded in wit. | Reay shoulder-blade broken. Cunningham [fight with Sheriff George B. | rushed him to Lakeside hosiptal, Deputy Sheriff J. W. Dill | neased the accident, He arrested | Cunningham, t Mount Vernon, Wash., when his Jack way living at the Ryther | partner, Jack L. Swiggett, was killed cae elhass ned petty Pr ~ way Pe last week, know the circumstances | 8ee his mother, Mrs, Mary Heva, who| 08, Lae Slate lives at 936 W. 6lat st attending the murder of Lee Slater, | ' oe taxi driver, here several weeks ago?! Police Chief Weir has asked ed |Mount Vernon authorities to make a| |thoro investigation of O'Brien's re-| : 16-Month-Old Baby Hurled by Crash Hurled thru the air, but practi lo t activtt following word from | ally unhurt when he fell to the | Sheriff R that O’Brien Gaplayed | jsidewalk, baby George Wendell, 16|unusual nervousness for the first |months old, escaped serious injury|time when Slater's death was men Wednesday afternoon when the auto!tioned to him. O'Brien is known to in which he sitting was rammed |haye been in the vicinity of Spokane jat Fifth ave. and Pike st. by an auto when Slater mysteriou disap: | jdriven by Robert Cameron, 1540| peared, leaving his taxi parked in a| | Westlake ave, fashionable section of the city, | Slater's body, bound hand and foot, | JITNEY VICTIM DIES OF HURT Trygve Klock, 4, | several days later, nors Exalted * * * % * ed as America’s Greatest May Fill Caruso’s Shoes @irector of the Apollo club in Chica- 0, begged the singer to perform for the club, He did so—five times, And | | won Chicago's plaudits. Prof. Clifford W. Kantner, 306 | Spring st., one of Seattle's leading teachers of voice, knew Karle when he began taking lessons here in 1910 under Rrof, Edwin J, Myer. “I consider Karle /the greatest concert artist in the United States,” said Kantner, “I believe We is held in like esteem by every critic in Se. jattle, if not in America. He has not jyet ventured into the operatic field." Kelly, on the other hand, has, and proving his @uperiority as a ‘ts | tenor. ‘ | Kelly was a student under Kant ner’s instruction for two years and is now under five-year contract with the San Carlo Opera company in |New York. He was heard here when the opera company played this city a few years ago. “Here ts a tenor with a ringing lyric voice destined for a big career,” says the New York Sun, criticising Kelly who {s to fill Caruso’s shoes? anted $400 for a $150 Car; Arrested Keenan Cheadle was arrested Wednesgay morning on a charge of making false proof of law. Keenan, it is said, represented the price he| paid for an,automobile to be $500, to| the Northern Insurance company. | When the auto was stolen last week | he demanded $400 insurance Upon investigation it was found| that Keenan had paid $150 for the car. WIDOW GETS $15,000 An order disposing of the estate of Howard I. Sawyer, murdered Se. attle inventor, was filed in superior court Thursday, ‘The order places the estate, valued at $15,000, entirely in the hands of Madge Anna Sawyer, the widow, re cently acquitted of killing her hus: band. Two hundred and thirteen firms Curtain Is Rung Down on Caruso World’s Beloved Tenor Passes From Stage as Thousands Mourn MONSTER FUNERAL BY CAMILLO CIANFARRA (United Press Staff Correspondent) NAPLES, Aug. 4.—Enrico Ca- ruso passed from the stage to day. Despite the solemnity of the funeral services and the grief which all Naples displayed, the feeling persisted that Caruso merely had finished a part and that he was retiring while the plaudits of the audience echoed. Part of this feeling was due to the magnificence of the funeral plans, The national and city governments VEDI BUSSES. Folk; 18 Drivers Nabbed in Day © Jitneurs to apply for an order putting them under the restrain. suit. Whether the court order pt the city from interfering with the co-operated to see that the highest/ ney men was referred in honor was paid Caruso, King Vic | to Counsel tor Emmanuel personally saw to it| Meier for a ruling, that the famous Church of San Fran-| Maj, Carl Reeves cesco dj Paloa should be the scene of | day morning the last ceremonies. Representa-| official fives of the city of Naples and of oth- | decision, er countries, paid a final tribute, to arrest Gra! and al] the streets around tt, Ca- solemn mase of requiem. , Music which would have delighted the great tenor during his life Poured from a choir of 400 voices and from an orchestra. One of Caruso’s closest friends, another tenor, de Lucca, s@mg dur ing the services. Several times his voice faltered, but he finixbed while many in the great building sobbed. Thousands who had failed to gain admission’ to the church were packed about the wide areaway which leads to the entrance. The program for the funeral pro- vided that the body should be taken to the cemetery this after- Roon to be laid in the family vault Until the hour of removal to the church, the great tenor’s body lay in the hotel room where he breathed his last. Caruso lay as he probably would if he had prepared the plans himself, Immaculate in was as fastidious in his final ap- pearance as he had been in life, His face, composed, lighted by per- fumed candles, still showed the faint smile with which he had faged death. Music for the church services was provided by the great orchestra of the San Carlos theatre, whose instru- ments often had been the foil for \-Caruso’s great voice. MARVEL AT FORTITUDE OF HIS WIDOW ALLOWED FOR 20 If it ts The exact effect of Justice ton’s crder will not be known the legal department rules om car lines tramped angrily to . ‘from work Wednesday evening and ~ Thursday morning. It is expected that the home 4 ers of the section will demand the city council grant permits. sufficient number of jitneys to the district, Approximately two-thirds of One of the marvels of “Neapolitans was the fortitude of the widow. |“i¥’s Jitneys were put out of |ness Wednesday, and 18 drivers were’ Plainly grief-stricken, she calmly su. | perintended details of the funeral |and discussed the singer's business affairs with his agents, The widow has announced that she wit] make her home in Italy hereaft- er, retaining the great villa near here for her residence, Her daugh- | ter, Gloria, will be reared as an Ital- ian | Mrs. Caruso will return to Amert- ca soon after the funeral, to close the estate there and superintend. the removal of the tenor's art collections, Caruso, long before death, had se- lected the former under secretary, Porzio, as his executor. Porzio had a long conference with the widow | today, approving her plans for re- turning to America. \ California Priest Murdered, Is Belief SAN FRANCISOO, Aug. 4.—Belief that the Rev. Father Patrick Heslin, of the Holy Angels’ church, Colma, Cal, has been murdered, was ex-/ pressed today by Constable Landini, of Daly City. Landini immediately formed a posse and began a search of the hills around Colma and Daly City for some trace of the missing priest, Ku Klux Klan, White Robed, Holds Parade} CONROE, Texas, Aug. 4—Two/ hundred white-robed members of the Ku Klux Klan, led by a horse- man carrying the Stars and Stripes) and another bearing the fiery cross of the order, paraded here late last {arrested for running in violation of jthe council edict. The only busses running are the 65 protected by im |junction proceedings in the McGloth- jern suit, who have until August 20 to file a petition for a rehearing of ee their case. ° : ° Des Moines Rides to & 5 Work on Tires Today BY HERBERT LITTLE United Press Staff Correspondent oo MOINES, Ia, Aug. 4.— — ‘treet cars were a in Des Moines today. ga / Seventy-two busses, big omni- bus bodies on three-ton truck chassis, were covering every street car line in the city. Perhaps it was because people — didn’t jam the cars at the usual rush — hours, but rather arose early and — (Turn to Page 7, Column 6) POOR OLD KING, BACK IN WILDS, KNOWS NOT MUSA HAS DESERTED! OAKLAND, Calg Aug, 4.—Poor old King Bogo of the Swahilis! Far off in Zulu he probably is perfectly happy and doesn't know he hag been deserted by | Musa Byram, But he has. Musa appeared before Naturall- zation Clerk J. J. Kingston and today he has on file his applica. tion for citizenship and a promise to renounce forever all loyalty to King Bogo, Musa came to America from night | The impressive ceremony was! given an atmosphere of warning by | engaged in making coal tar products Fewer babies are born in June |was taken from the river above here | last year, und 82 in producing dyes bootlegging must than in any other month, alone, banners stating that gambling and} Sop and that “we | want no mulatto children.” his Swahili home with Dr. L, F, Herrick, of Oakland, when he was” aged 15. He now blacks shoes and makes them shine as brightly as his own black nose,