The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 6, 1921, Page 5

SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1921. HORDES OF CHILDREN _ ARE KILLED Victims of Cholera Sweep-| ing Russia; Poison Gas Repulses Refugees REVAL, Aug. 6.—The cholera @eath wave is sweeping five new Russian districts, txking 8 heavy toll of lives, The epi demic has invaded Podoglia, Kieff and Smolensk, making 24 Provinces in all now affected. One hundred fifty thousand Yietims were reported to have died in two towns in two months. Fiftytwo thousand were children. A description of terror following death wave was contained in| @ispatctios received here. Gang of Wooters followed the trail of burning Tomes, which were fired by occu Pants when they deserted them. Armed bands entered the homes of} those who might be suspected of Raving food and stole anything they could find. A band of fugitives approach ed Moscow and was refused en- trance. Qne report stated cor: dons of troops with polsen gas surrounded them and drove them back. | Arrangements were being made tefay for departure from Rursla of the new commission headed by Gorky and Kinshuk, president of the co-operative assectation, and Triperovich, iabor leader. They will negotiate relief work abroad NORTHCLIFFE ON S. BATTLESHIP of Navy Extended | at Vancouver, B. C. VANCOUVER, B.C. Aug. 6— courtesy of the United States was extended to Viscount last evening, when he paid the honors of a dis d guest. |e ‘fhe visit to the battleship Ten- was not part of Lord North liffe's program, but Captain Rich- an Leagh, commanding the visiting ‘a issued an invitation Shru Con- i — Ryder. was promptly accepted and the | publisher was carried off to harbor where the Pennessee’s awaited him with a reception 4 {life of Abraham Lincoln— This little girl didn’t know and father of Bruce Barton He speaks j day He is the father of one of Amer ica’s most brilliant editorial writers to | parts of the United States / ation of the American courtesy Dr. William E. in America. MONSTER CONGREGATION HEARS HIS SERMONS Dyke beard sitvered by 38, carpenter years in the ministry of Ged, Dr. condition Saturday. Moore} parton told a representative of The|When I first mw 1 @ fractured hip, broken arm | Star Saturday of his work In talking | enthusiastically, internal injuries. He is mar and lives at 5906 Woodland ave. to the congregation greatest America. . RN [Newspaper Enterprise association, LY¥MPIA—Attorney General | printed in The Star and other papers, holds warrants drawn on are read and loved by millions. road and bridge| No other minister in the world, ‘creating liability of more than | perhaps, can boast of such a congre per cent, where remaining 20 per | gation. But Dr. Barton's set is givi hte 1,500 persons. Oat te rials are known in al sand girls « mons and edi to| most every ‘city and village in the United States. PANTAGES Nighte—7 29 atin GINNING MONDAY MATIN ‘a ALEXANDER PANTAGES presents “Hanky Panky, Jr.” An Elaborate Musical Dance Revue with an ALLSTAR CAST Davis & McCo: Wire & Walker “Original Nonsense” A Thrilling Novelty y Lew Hoffman “At the Hattery” Pantagescope New Comedy Feature HERBERT BETHEW presents Gloria Joy & Co. Personal Appearance of Screenland’s Most Peautiful Child in “HEART STRINGS” Matinece, 25 Cents. Nights, 40 Cents, HIP 1TO!1! LOEWS PALACE CONTINUOUS TOMORROW TO WEDNESDAY ANOTHER BIG DOUBLE VALUE SHOW VAUDEVILLE “INSPIRATION” A MUSICAL ROMANCE GORDON & HEALY In “Wedded Bliss” CHAPMAN & RING “The Hired Man” & © the bird” ALLEN & MOORE A Musical Breeze FEATURE PHOTOPLAY RUTH RENICK and an ALI/STAR CAST in “WHAT'S A WIFE WORTH? A Leaf from a Woman's Soul “Watoh pays “grown-ups” every day. jin The Star daily.—Photo by Price & Carter. 4,000,000 people at He is a leading authority on the/in the wild Tennessee And he is loved by children in all Barton, who is Inj the HSeattie for a 10-day visit, is one Of their famous son. Friday the most Versatile men in public life | Tall, erect, scholarty, with his Van} neatly 40 His daily essays, syndicated by the | have brouftht. Rack home he is pastor of the | First Congregational church of Oak Park, Chicago. His flock antes | fate THE SEATILE STAR Pastor of Four Million ‘People Here |Dr. ce Pickens Chicago Minster, Weiter for The Star, Visiting i in Seattle * * Writing New Volunie About Lincoln | | that she was listening to a man whose editorials are read by He is Dr. William E. Barton, essayist, Lincoln scholar of American Magazine fame. Dr. Bartpn’s editorials appear Dr ts also reading proof | of Clara Barton, | Dr. Barton te the famous father of | Barton Ja famous son Bruce sarton, one offon his “Life the editors of the American Magu-|Founder of the American Red! |xine and « writer of note, was born | Cross,” who Was his cousin and hills, while |friend. ‘The book will be her de- Dr, Barton was on bis first min-|finitive biography istry. When not so oceupied, Dr. Barton Dr. Barton and his wife celebrated | writes his daily easays and his 36th birthday anniversary of) “Parables of Safed the Sage,” which appear in The Star each Saturday. More thah 20 years ago Dr, Barton | OUTOF-DOORS ATTRACTS Visited Seattle. The progress and | HIM AFTERNOONS development of the city has amazed! pr, Barton works on his books and him. g |essays in the morning with his sec “The beauty of the city and of the| retary, The afternoons he devotes [Puget Sound region impressed me{to the outofdoors. He plans Xo ner Imuch of the beautiful bays and mountains of the Puget Sound re- | gion during his stay here | Dr. Barton has recently been elected moderator of the national cowmeil, of the Congregational [OLD CRONTES SIT UP |Church of America, the . highest MOST OF NIGHT |honor In the gift of the denomina “The whole country je in the sag) tion. He is to preach only once in following the war. We must expect | Seattle, at the Plymouth _ church, & pertod of depression the world, Sixth ave. and Dniversity st, Sum over, But we shall rise from that, dey morning and this region cannot but have a “6 presanejon we erama”| Think Dr, Brumfield ught on| Is Now. Highwayman case Beattlc was to talk with Prof. Clark TP. Bissett, of the Uni-| BEND, Ore, Aug. 6.-—It in highly versity of Washington law school.| possible that Dr. R. M. Brumfield, ‘The two scholars spent most of Fri-| Howeburg dentist wanted in connec of|tion with the murter of Dennis day night discussing the life Abraham Lincoln, upon which they | Russell at Roseburg on the night of July 16, 5 one of t two high- are recognized authorities. waymen working in fhe vicinity , ‘on paid h [pret Siaen coneign eae ee be '* scholarship | dared here today He is the foremost authority on} Several persons have seen the jldncoin on the Pacific coast,” he! highwaymen, and members of hiking |said. “His Aibrary is the best known | parties who have been stopped and jt9 me west of the Rocky moun.| searched by the men claim the pe a taller of the two closely resembles |NEW LINCOLN BOOK fap peg salpoanoter SOON ‘The two men robbed a store near Barton himself is the Crescut Wake, yesterday, seainies | oF tae and an automobile, Poses and “The Paternity of At wae ee agri eal sc: 4 coin.” works that — |classics of interpretative “biog or; | {le is now working on a new book! NEW the famous emancipator | from 4 4 1 hope to write three or four mn, 4d from in * of it In Seattle,” he said.| front of @ subway express only |" breath of the Pa and of the} fall upon the third rail and be elec forests will be excellent inspira |trocuted, The taxi driver is held on tion.” a homicide charge, * he exclaimed “and it impresses sae more deeply as I pee the mar velous development that the years tribute to Dr uthor neoln” ham Lin considered | hy are 6 Miss Kath YORK, Aug. taxicab driver, It was just a cigaret—but a man’s fate de- pended upon being able to prove that he did not smoke it—and with the aid of a wom- an’s intuition he played his last card. LAST CARD” Starts today with MAY ALLISON As the Woman. “A MONKEY MOVIE STAR” Is a Universal-Jewel Comedy, featuring Joe Martin, the monkey comedian. It’s a bear! “THE WAYFARER” Seattle’s Passion Pageant, tures, CLEMMER ORCHESTRA Directed by Liborius Hauptman. “THE in motion pic- HERE’S MORE ABOUT DENTIST STARTS OF PAGE ONE hung grotesquely out of the door SUFFERS FROM GUILTY CONSCIENCE He saw Brumfield sit on the body end throw in the gears in a tremen dous hurry, The gears screamed and \BY A NEW MEME STAR 8 They told me when I came | here that I'd find it easy torent | a house, And that rents were down. Wasn't I elated! Now that I have spent two ‘yes eat the belief that “they” is either & constitutional liar or has @ marshmatiow mind. For, emphatically and it is NOT live in Seattle, and if rents are down now, the good Lord pity the folks that paid the old ones! DEMAND FAR positively thy, eany to find a place to} HELP! RENT US A HOUSE! | New Member of The Star Staff Finds Them at a Premium than there are vacant houses, And landlords know it. Consequent they aren't in any wild saghtest” on the price 1 don’t know anything about apartment situation, because Tm interested, at present in aj But | have noted “vacant” signs On” good many apartment buildings | since his college ‘days at | ternity: |officer of the order and has never | which he ordered disbanded the Ku | Klux Klan in North Carolina than | have to order the disbandment of reraped before they meshed, The car moved, sigzagged orauly) a few rod», then #traightened and disap peared in the dark, the exhaust aput tering furlousty Subsequent events are a good Joke on the door, if one may be forgiven for mentioning jokes in this connection. He prided him- self ax an amateur criminologist. He enjoyed, at the Chamber of Commerce and elsewhere, dix cussing academically what HE would do if he chose to pursue life of crime, ‘The trouble with professional criminals, he was wont to say, in his pedantic way, wax that they lacked mentality, If he were to comm a crime, he would plan carefully in advance, not only the act itself, but his movements after the act, preparing in ad- vance for every conceivable con- tngency, so that, if there were a slip in the plan, he would know Instantly and exactly what to do, There would be no blandering, He would cover up his tracks, ot, as ama'eur crimi- are apt to do, that criminals ged scared. And now Dr, Brumfield was him self scared, Walt Bowman had seen | him bundling the body of the sub ntitute corpse into the car. The seene for the “accident” was on the other side of town, on Melrose road, three miles west of Rbseburg. He must take the corpse thru Rosebure. He paused only long enough to shift the corpse from the tront seat to the ton: | neau; then he hurried on It was at this moment that fate sent Harry Poarce in his car along. The harness man and the doctor were well acquainted. weeks trying to lotate the sort of « place I need 1 am more deeply n ever embedded 2 PROMINENT MEN SHOT; WOMEN HELD; 1 GLAD SHE:KILLED HOW TWO WOMEN FELT ABOUT IT NEW YORK, Aug, 6.—Here is how two women—EIls Kinkead’s wife and Olivia Stone, his alleged common law wife—felt after he had been Killed. Tile wife: “I feel too bad to Oh, it is terribe—ter. : “ET am the happiest woman in the world. 1 feel as if 1 could jump from New York to Mexico without diffi- culty.” NEW YORK, Aug. 6.—The | story of how she hunted and hounded Ellis Kinkead, promi nent Cincinnati lawyer, was told today by Miss Olivia Stone, who shot and killed him on a street | corner in Brooklyn late yester- | day She declared she forced him to re sign from the Cincinnati law school, ired detectives to pursue him when he tried to flee from her, that she The Elgin |“showed him up to his friends,” lay | there Six, going like the wind, encountered jin walt for him at his office in New struck @ ma companied Mr lerly jon my last visit to the cottage a) CXCKEDS SUPPLY An @ matter of fact, there more folks hunting for good houses are | past And when I talk about houses 40 not mean shacks. ‘There may plenty of the latter, 1 am digqumae~ now ate priced, medium — dwelling They are Gistinetly few as far as the would-be renter |can determine. DREAMS IN ADS; GUY¥ ON TELEPHONE And such dreams ax the landlords | put in their ade! And such guff ‘ they give you on the telephonef instance, there is the “modern home” at Mount Baker parks lady told me it had hardwood 4 wonderful view of the lake, ing mod LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6—Mrs. Madeline Oberchain was held as & material witness by the police here today, pending Investiga- tion of the mysterious murder | Sleeping porches, a den, ett, last night of John D. Kennedy, |r, $05 @ month wealthy Los Angeles insurance {to mention: That the house had 4 man, ‘dining room. That in the living roomy Mrs. Oberchain, who is a di- lthere was no place where @ Dem could, put a sideboard and no vorcee, was the only witness 0 fro. it piano except a COMer the murder, which occurred on tne front door would slam the steps of Kennedy's cottage That there was no bedroom at Beverly Glen, fashionable sub- urb. {house large enough That the “sleeping porches” We had motored to El Segundo | and the beaches yesterday,” she said. |mere closets, with tiny large enough for one cot aplece” “We returned rather lute and I ac Kennedy to his Bev no more, That there was no no gurage, no way to reach the e Glen cottage, which he main tained for week-end parties, bin except around the house “Mr. Kennedy and I left the ma narrow walk Other “modern” houses turned’) chine and started to mount the bill. | side stairs. Then I remembered that | 4 |to be relics of before-the-fire aaj How do landlords get that MINUTES FROM TOWN—BY AIRPLANE And such ideas of distance! was the pleasant-voiced gent the house out with a beautiful year ago I bad hidden a copper cent under a stone near the foot of the! stairs. “I wanted ‘to see if It was stin|wbo. bad I went back a few steps and | 7 jew, : | h, Just as the match | “Twenty setnates & man in the ‘middle of the road,/York, continued the relentless chase | fared the most terrible crash. Tang | pinging” he told me. waving Wis arma frantically, He em | caped destruction by jumping nimbly | out of the path of the Elgin Six THE MAN WAS ONLY ASKING FOR HELY Dr. Brumfield was now quite sure the entire country-side knew of hin crime, Aa a matter of fact, the man. with the waving arms had tire trou | ble and was asking help. ‘The doctor reached Roseburg with hir cargo. He swept around the corner of Main st. into Mowher st At Mosher and Jackson ste, aj church lawn fete was in progres: ‘The fete was being held on two! lawns, one on one side of the street and the other on the other side. AutomBbiles were parked in the atreet between and people were | for months, indefatigable in her de- termination to confront him and finally met him face to face near his home in Brooklyn. “When I saw him cronsing the) street I approached him and said \‘How do you do, Mr. Ellis Kinkead, you dirty rat She declared “Then an awful chili came over me. I don't know what I did | was ro excited. I felt as if I could |jump from New York to Mexico with- out any difficulty.” Miss Stone told her story after she had been arraigned in a Brooklyn leourt on a charge of homicide and held without bajl for hearing Tues jday | “Don't you regret the shoot- | ing?” she was asked. The wom- parsing to and fro | am emiled snd waved hice hand. acdidents policeman been stationed in the street. As Dr. Brumfield rounded the corner into Mosher st., the special officer rushed at him and waved him away. Tf, up to this point, any doubt lingered in Dr. Brumfield’s mind os to his peril, that doubt was now removed. The policeman escaped death by a hair, and Brumfield, hiv To prevent bad a }morals all gone, plunged on to the scene of the “accident"—a tiny gulch at one side of Melrose road. ‘With the substitute corpse still in the tonnean, the doctor eased ¢ car gently over the brink—-so gegtly that when it encountered a sapling half way down, it simply scratched the bark. The plass in the head ights was not broken by the im pact. Striking the the car turned had planned it ir the bottom of the down. FIRE DID NET DO ITs WORK PROPERLY The doctor then did quite a num- ber of things, but, because he was} in a panic of fright, he forgot to do all the things he had planned. Hix last act at the sceno of tho “accident” was to pince a stick of dynamite in the mouth of the sub stitute corpse and blow its head off. ‘The explosion set fire to the gus tank and the Elgin Six was con sumed. The joke on the doctor is that the explosion and fire did destroy the substitute corpse. had spindling legs, whereas the doctor’s legs are plump and wellmuscied, as many know who have seen him swimming in his faultless bathing suit in the Umpqua, The tors of the substitute were malformed, from wearing the tight, cheap brogs that still encased the feet. The doctor has well-formed feet. The substitute wore no under- clothing. “Russell never wore underclothing. The doctor al- ways did. If » vest of the doctor’s was found in the debris, so was a vest of Russell's. If the doc- tor’s watch was found, so was Russell's cheaper _ timepiece. And letters addressed to Russell, charred but still decipherable. You wifl, therefore, agree with the official view that the ring on the dead man's finger—a signet ring with a shield, undoubtedly the doctor's, and worn by him ever the Uni- versity of Ilinois to prove that he was a member ‘of an exclusive fra you will, I say, agree, 1 am suré, that the ring on the dead man’s finger was not, convincing that the dead man was Dr. Brum field Meanwhile, the doctor? (The fourth Dr. story Mondag.) Says Ku Klux Klan’s Grand Dragon Fake ATLANTA, Ga, Aug. 6.--Major Bruce Craven, who calls himself “grand dragon” of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina, is not an tree at an angie, over, as Brumfield should, and rettied Gulch, upshle what had become of Brumfield been one, Colonel William J. Sim- mons, Grand Wizard of the organi. zation, said yesterday in answer to a statement issued by Craven in Klux Klan in North Carolina “Craven had no more right to order the disbandment of the Ku the Knights of Columbus or any special | “Regret it—no. I'm the hap- piest woman in the world. Ellis Kinkead is now in the place | we ee thunder.” NO TAX REPEAL “TILL NEXT YEAR’ Tentative Decision of Ways and Means Committee WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—No taxes | can be repealed before January 1,/ 1922, republican members of | house ways and means committee | tentatively decided today. j If this plan is finally enacted, it| = wealthy individuals during the cal-| endar year of 1922 would have to pay | the excess profits and bigh surtaxes on §he profits of 1 Previously it profs and reduce the surtaxes as’ of January 1, 1921 “The main reason for the change is the great need for revenue, as shown | outline of the government fiscal sat | uation. If the taxes are not re pealed until next January, more than | these levies. The previous plan wit to make the 5 per cent increase in| the flat corporation income tax also retroactive to January 1 of this year, | may never be enacted. Lone Bandit Keeps Police Force Busy able skill in dodging from one part | of the city to another kept Seattle! police from loafing Friday night. W. G. Gordon, 208 18th ave. Nn. | the bandit appeared at 18th ave, N.| and E. Republican st. and held him | up. Gordon stood with his hands in the air while the bandit rifled his The bandit appeared next at the home of John Loughlin, a fireman, | 522 16th ave. Loughlin was entering | his home when the bandit called to! poked a gun at him and relieved] Loughlin of $30 and his gold wa’ - | But when the footpad appeared at! a grocery store at Terry ave. and} prietor, was counting his cash. Kraft | saw the man and leaped to the tele-| phone. The bandi$ heard Kraft call} for police, and figd. No trace was NEXT TO L, ©. SMITH BLDG. would mean that business and/ was planned to repeal the excess by Secretary of the Treasury Melion’s | $500,000,000 can be obtained from | but under the new program thif tax / A bandit who displayed consider. | was returning home at 11 p. m. when pockéts and got $3. him. Loughlin stopped. The bandit | Stewart st, Ray Kraft, the pro! found of bim. | NOW PLAYING “THE INSIDE OF THE CUP” ALSO A MACK SENNET COMEDY NEWS TOPICS other organization,” Simmons said. hrhat was all. it Tid We. out stairway collapne. “Good night, 1 was dazed. I looked up the | T'suac. he woes back and f 1 could see Mr. Kennedy | wivate airplane. 1 offer a new i hat to any person who can distance in twice 20 minutes public conveyance yet ru | those parts. Madeline,’ he said. “A dark figure faded into the shadows. I thought I would die of error, out there in the hills alone | I'm a desperate man. ‘That's: {with a man dying at my feet and|! am writing thus to you, | readers-who-are-not-profe: dark shapes around .” “4 p-aned cee jlords. I need a house, A Mrs, Oberchain’s coor: 8 reached |10r0e. Prices neighbors some distance Th bpecetsdate ar : t aed iy tills po.{8ant. Not too far from The | in turn called the Beverly’ Hills |tee. “ ” \o office. Just a livable, ‘The police found a fully loaded) house. IF you know of one, mas revolver at Kennedy's feet. It was|mé happy for life; telephone apparently his own weapon, Novex./0000 and ask for the new m planation for its presence could be | the staff. : jestablished other than that Kennedy} Boys, want a bathing suit | possibly fenred the attack which ac-| Turn to page 6 for full details, | 7 j tually - materialized and resulted in| his death Mra. Obenchain obtained her re-| POW) 4, ahaa cent divorce, she 100 Columbia st. For over twenty itted to deputy | sheriffs, because of ber love for the Seattie’s Leading ‘= Dentist Read my article in murdered man. next Saturday's Star. Steas Wedding ii in Pool ane Okla, Aug. ¢.—Wish- ing to keep cool while being mar- ried, Miss Helen Brinsfield, Atlanta, Ga., and Frank Wall, Oklahoma City, stood immersed in a swimming pool during the ceremony. U. S. production of dyes exceed- ed $8,900,000 pounds las$ year, For French pastry look up Boldt's. — Advertisement. OIL PAINTINGS $1.00 Painted in window while wait, CRI 703 Third Avenue. WILLIAM S. HART in the “ARYAN” Last Days SUNDAY AND MONDAY Complete Program CONCERT ORCHESTRA Children 10c Adults 25¢ FIFTH AND PINE PHONE ELLIOTT 2535 ALL NEXT WEEK beginning TOMORROW MATINEE THOMAS WILKES Presents His New Players in “My Lady Friends” A Breezy, Wholesome Farce by EMIL NYITRAY and FRANK MANDEL Its laugh is one thgt lasts from Curtain to Curtain! 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