The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 10, 1921, Page 1

Paste this on a postcard and mail it to your sweltering friends in the Bast, Tell chem that Se attle’s highest tomperature Aw gust 9 was 66, Lowest was 34 At noon August 10 it was 59, Tonight and Thursday, fair; moderate west- erly winds, NOT GUILTY"--MA On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Enteredas Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at ttle, VOLUME 23 A> SEATTLE | FISHERMEN By First news of the drowning GAVE HIM THE RASPBERRY We note that as soon as the lake} fave up its morsel, Mr. Mahoney's niece visited the jail and sipped | 419 Davey Place, and Thomas newspaper and two quarts of rasp- berries to her uncle. eee % Mahoney says reporters are damn fools. Well! cee! Shut-Ins ' on Voyage See Sound Dr. Loope and Party Guests A WORD FROM JOSH WISE Marking time is all right, but to get anywhere you have to step right out and keep stepping. Gente treme] of Joshua Green, Hime DELIGHTFUL DAY PASSED Sunshine Smiles — what are they? Something mighty good, folks, that Dr. Frank R. Loope, Seattle's best-known shutin, director of The Star's Wayfarer party and indefatigabi apostle of good by. (However, if we get a chance get away there is going to be “@ vacant colyum for a few weeks) . Some folks burn their bridges be- hind them and some burn theirs be fore them. | eee cheer, is going to dispense thru CONNECTION OBVIOUS the columns of The Star. Headline—Powdering the Each Thursday, beginning to morrow, will appear a corner for shut-ins, under the caption Sun- shine Smiles. For shut-ins, but everyone will want to read it. Sunshine Smiles will be filled with Dr. Loope’s philosophy, bu- mor and good cheer, Read Sunstine Smiles. Then smile ‘em! | Three ———— for a nickel. : is the cane Imagine your first boat ride in 12 years! Could you crowd into a brief five hours all that you'd missed in between? That is what Dr. Frank R. Loope, director-general of the shut-ins of Se attle, tried to/ accomplish ‘Tuesday when he was taken to Tacoma and back as the guest of Joshua Green, Seattle marine millionaire. The party, which was under the auspices of the sick committee of Nile Temple Shrine, included also A A. Adams, 312 10th ave, N., who has been a shut-in for more than a year. Joshua Green is himself confined | to his home at 1204 Minor ave. Only | recently hé.came from the hospital, | Yet, as owner of the Seattle-Tacoma | . She} steamship line, he made possible for others a pleasure that he could not tonight ae ee eo ee eee twice for ice water. tail monkey. Blanche ‘em again. eee A bottle plant at Bellaire, O., has resuméd operations after months of | / idleness, The hooch season is just _ around the corner. o- Nurse—Why, Bobby, you selfish little boy! Why didn’t you give your | sister a piece of your apple? | Bobby—I gave her the seeds. | ean plant ‘em and have a whole or t | chard. enjoy. eee ter Rip|, A dig auto furnished by Bert But- t Hank Klay says no wonder RiP | terworth called for the travelers, tak Van Winkle slept 20 years. He start-) i. them down to the steamship Ta ed the evening by watching @ chess) coms, which left at 11 a. m. : > gaa te a0 FIRST BOAT TRIP ; IN 12 YEARS 7 | The following ogg hea dro “Ot course the trip meant a little 1 — = 2 ww univer: |inore to me than it does’ to most folks,” Dr, Loope said. “Yes, a good deal more, The last boat ride I had was 12 years ago—and that was to Tacoma, too.” Everybody went out of thelr way to make the trip a memorable one for the two shut-ins—as if it were not an epoch-making one anyhow! “Capt, Dunbar was mighty goo said Dr. Loope. “We went by the Went waterway and returned by the sity: The alimentary canal is locat- ed in the northern part of Indi- nthe of the skeleton— something to hitch the meat to. 'A blizzard is the inside of a ne circle is = rongh straight Iine with a hole in the middle. Sixty gallons make a hedge {\ hog. Ei ot to see! is |Hast waterway, so we got to q The a, of Englaod more than usual, Capt, Dunbar —— aos is a pass giv. | Pointed out the towns en route and A ee road to ite em. |¢xDlained how they got their names | —_ |and what they meant—everything of | portion im te ountains. “OR. COURSE iat panting boy at the foot of the | | Sas pat the end of his lle? “Dead!” calmly replied the boy. interest he told us.” Dr, Loope cannot sit up. Lying | flat on his back, he views the world mirror with a long handle, he day was perfect,” he smiled | today. “And they wheeled my cot all around the hurricane deck, #0 1| saw all parts of that section of the | vensel. | “On the return, Capt: Dunbar | swung the boat around to give us a full view of Tacoma, and I am gure he ran closer to ‘the shore just for] ouf"®™Refit, for the passengers were | delighted. SIX DESTROYERS COME INTO VIEW “As we came back, six destroyers were steaming into Bremerton in for- mation, So perfectly did they main tain their positions that it looked as thought some one would] if the vessels were held in place by | the joke about Taft adding | chains, “AS we neared Seattle, the ws! COUNT YOUR BLESSING Montpelier, 0., comes to the front with # chicken dinner for 35 cents, Moundsville, W. Va., reports ft has a barber who has reduced shaves to a dime. A Newcastle, Ind., res‘aarant announces it will serve bread free with meals hereafter, ‘All's well in Normalcyland, eee we sprini meisht to the bench, dred yards from the schoone J. ~ SEATTLE, WASH., WE Wa ES. under the Act of Congress Marc The Seattle Star h 2, 1879, Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 TH LATE EDITION ee DAY, AUGUST 10, 1921. LOST AT SEA! CAPSIZED DORY TELLS OF DEATHS Tragedy on Pacific Leaves Widows; and Fatherless Children Here of two Seattle fishermen, on August 1,in the Hecate straits; reached here Thursday when the gas schooner Liberty arrived in port. The drowned men were John A. Anderson, 39 years old, Thompson, 40, of Ballard. “Their death occurred when thelr fishing dory capsized, several hun- H. Endal reported, “throwing them into the era. “They wore heavy oilskins and heavy boots and could not swim or keep themselves above water, be- cause of a heavy tide, BOTH LEAVE FAMILIES HERB “No one aboard the schooner sa the boat capsize,” the captain said. “We picked up the dory Moating up side. down.” ‘The Liberty ts a halibut and had been fishing in the Hecat: straits for several wecks, The straits are north of Vancouver island. child. for several years, It was their first trip on hfs ship. BOY SLUGGED ON WAY HOME Unknown Assailant Escapes --Police Hunt Fails While returning home along lonely path thru the woods near his 6, son of J. D. Harrigan, 110 was slugged and knocked unconscious by an unknown asaall- ant. The boy was unaware, he eaid, that anyone was following him. The man suddenly stepped from the dense brush and dealt him a blow on the back of the head, presumably with a blackjack. Leaving his victim lying in the path, the man fled. The boy's father found him several minutes later, No attempt to rob him was made. Mo- torcycle Patrolman R. R. Moulton, after scouring the neighborhood, was unable to locate the slugger. Asks Open Session Upon Disarmament WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Open sessions of the disarmament confer. ence were demanded in the senate to- day by Senator Johnson, California. “The first test of the success of the great disarmament conference to be held here will come on the ques | tion of open sessions,” declared John son, Bill Against Grain Gambling Is Passed WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—With | out a record vote the senate late yes- terday passed the Capper-Tincher anti-grain gambling bill, which places grain exchanges under the control of the secretary of agriculture, shone down upon it in wonderful fashion, The Smith building stood up So clear and tall—" Carefully the happy voyageurs were lifted into the Butterworth au- to, and for an hour after the boat landed, at 3 p. m., they were driven about the Capito! Hill district just for good measure to the day's com. plement of joy. Today three men are filled with new happiness—the giver and those who received, BIG CHICAGO STORE ORDERS GIRLS NOT TO BOB THEIR HAIR CHICAGO, Aug. 10.—Order’ that sales girls at Marshall Field & Co.'s store must not wear bobbed hair were issued by offi- clals of the concern yesterday. Girls who now have their hair bobbed were told that they could remain on thelr jobs provided they wore a net over their hair until It grew out, ” Capt. | | Fortune tellars, mediums and crys According to Capt, Endal, beth| GIRL LAUGHS; FEET men had been renidents of Seattle | SHUFFLE; DOOR SLAMS Wanda Off | on Trail of Mr. Cohen Missing Son and Father Are Sought With Help of Fortune Tellers PROMISE DARK HUSBAND By Wanda von Kettler Lewis Cohen, who disappeared with his father from Seattle in | 1904, according to The Star's Bureau | of Missing Relatives, is now in Call fornia, in Chicago, in Siberia and very near Seattle | Meanwhile I, between now and | the New Year, will be married to a dark man with an olive complex. |ton, receive a bid to enter the movies and accept, take up some sort of an agency—selling books, beans or buns—something, anyway, that begins with a B, and remain in my prosent state of single biexs- edness, merely meeting the blonde youth with spectacles who will some day beeome the better half. Ien't it a meas? But it's all fate, tal gazers have told me so during the last two days. ‘The first friend J asked to tell “Madame,” inclined to be buxom and with dark locks turning gray, met mo at the door in a kitchen apron, and permitted me to remain in the waiting room while she fin- ished reading the palm of an earlier arrival. I had fust settled myself in this waiting room and was comfortably surveying the gas range, the sink, and the lettuce and tomato salad on the table when I heard gentle mur murs escaping from the next room. “Yes,” the madame's voice drifted (Turn to Page 2, Column 7) “| CORONER PROBES {home Tuesday night, Thomas Harri DEATH OF BABE Three-Day-Old Infant Found Here Strangled Mystery shrouds the finding of a body of an unidentified baby on a garbage dump at 29th ave. and Mad- ison st. Sunday, Coroner William H. Corson, after an extensive investiga tion, said Wednesday he was unabl to determine the cause of denth. The body was found by BE. Hud |dlewton, 312 21st ave., in charge of the dump. It was wrapped in a | newspaper. It was that of a girl, evidently about three days old. It apparently |had been choked to death, No trace of the parents have yet jbeen found, ERRING PASTOR BLAMES WOMAN Says Wrongdoing Her Fault as Much as His PORTLAND, Aug. 10.—The Rev. ' | |the AFTER BEING GRILLED Mrs. Nora Mahoney, mother of*James E. Mahoney, and Mrs. Delores Johnson, sister of the alleged slayer, after their grilling Tuesday afternoon leaving Capt. Charles Tennant’s officé with City Detective Jack Landis. fused at first to face the camera. gon, the sister of Mahoney.—Photos by The Star's staff photographers, Price & Carter. Mrs. Johnson re- Mrs. Dolores John- COURT PROMIS Accused Man’s Attorney Denies | Made Statements Claimed by State Prosceutor Douglas at noon today filed a formal charge of first Gtgree murder against James E. Mahoney. It charges that on April © 16 he beat his wife to death with a certain blunt instrument. The state will have 60 witnesses. “James E. Mahoney will plead not guilty,” said Attorne Lee Johnston, Mahoney’s counsel, Wednesday. “We ‘ going to make a bitter fight for his life.” : “Mahoney flatly denies the statements attributed to hin by Prosecutor Douglas and Captain Tennant after Tuesday's grilling. The only statement he made to them was i he would meet them in court.” Johnston branded as a fabrication a report that he base his defense of Mahoney on the claim that the bady found in a trunk in Lake Union was not that of Mrs. honey. “That point will probably be contested, but.I ean say until I know the charges against Mahoney,” Johnsto fight for his life came as a Five Afte ) ‘ Reward i Trank surprise to many who had expected him to confess. This Police Department oki Diver H. J. Bell for. decision was oney’s an- swer to Tennant’s proposal $2,000 Offer EXPRESSMAN CANDID that the prisoner sleep over the idea of confessing the murder of his wife to save his mother and sister from arrest and prosecution. Captain Tennant remained at his home Wednesday, resting from the ordeal of grilling the accused man yesterday. He did not appear at headquarters until afternoon. Douglas and Deputy Prosecutor T. H. fe ie Patterson were busy preparing the| Five possibl or ‘th formal charge of first degree murder | $2,000 sahonsh omedaee res bes against Mahoney Wednesday morn: had put im their appearance ing and marshaling the evidence/ day. against him. “H. J. Bell, the police “ Crowds of people continued/set it,” said Captain of D Wednesday to flock to the morgue to | Tennant and other members of look at the body of Mrs. Mahoney. | police department. r | People from all walks of life, old{ The expressman who first men, young men and women were nt the information that numbered among them. The per- was in Lake Union, and whe centage of men far outnumbered t name Tennant refuses until the. women, however, According to the | to disclose, is backed for the Tews coroner, interest in the Mahoney | by Mrs. Scott White and Mrs. EB.) case is almost unparalleled. Wheat, of 1604 43rd ave. N. | DEATH APARTMENT Others who desire th SEARCHED BY POLICE who may lay claim to it, are: Meanwhile, police were busy| Mrs. J. E. Barnett, 3218 searching the apartment of the |#Vej Jack a and Martin Camman, ei Mahoneys, where the murder is said to have taken place on the|tus Audrey. Camman ‘pulled #1 night of April 16. The search ts| trunk out of the water after Divs for the hammer with which Ma-| Bell had loosened it from the honey is alleged to have slain his | Dbottom, and it was sighted by wife. Tennant said several days | Barnett and the Richards might be required to search the|!t bobbed to the surface body of Mrs. Mahoney inside. premises thoroly, but he would do so in hopes of finding the dnstru- 4 | may mean & tong, hard battle. Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm th i ‘3 ing Mahoney said: “I figure I've put the kaiser off the map!” “Yes,” he added, between the bars ADMIT ROBBING SEATTLE BANK) SEATTLE TRIAL Two Bandits, ‘Arrested in Convicted Head of Tacoma Kansas City, Confess KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 10.— Alleged by police to have confessed |son, former president of the defunct | that they robbed bank messengers | Scandinavian American bank of Ta-| coma, recently sentenced to six to} ; |ten years on charges connected with in Seattle of $25,000 last July 34, two men, giving tne names of E Patton, allas Frank Nichols, and Louis Gordon, alias Louts Laz ward gangsters for extradition to Seattle In their possession was found $4,400 of the currency stolen from Seattle bank The two suspects were arrested Freda R. Royston, Salem, Ore., Meth-| yesterday with two other men and jail here under charges of violating the Mann act with a young woman, yesterday when two members of his congregation furnished $2,000 bail, In an interview gtanted the United Press shortly after his incarceration, Royston expounded the theory that in a cag such as his, when a man of long good standing is lured from ‘the straight and narrow path by a woman, ag he sald occurred in his case, some of the blame should be placed upon the weman Miss Edwards is 19, Royston ts 33, and has a wife and one child. VANCOUVER, Wash.—Practically the entire fasue of $130,000 of Vancou | ver dock bonds will be taken by local | business firms, Mayor Kiggins states. SPOKANE, -— Lumbermen from Washington, Oregon. Idaho and Mon- tana attend sessions of Western Pine Manufacturers’ association 4 odist preacher, held in the county |three women, Miss Frankie Hdwards, was released | believed to be their accomplices, These five are Lehman, alias John J, Fox; John Ne McLaren, alias John J, Mur phy; Elva Ducker, San Francisco tress; Myrtle Moore, Kansas City telephone girl, and Milo Moore, Bill- ings, Mont. waitress, According to the confession al- leged to have been obtained from Patton and@Gordon, they went to Tacoma immediately after the hold. up and thence to Portland, Ore., there purchasing an automobile and driving acress the country to Kansas City, picking up the other members of the party en route, The arrest was made here on In- formation furnished by the Burne Detective agency of Seattle, whose loperatives are said to have fdllowed the trail half way across the conti- nent.» The four men are sald to be |members of the “Powell st. gang” of Sen Francisco, Louis Gordon, alias Lazarus, is declared to have escaped wheg™ three members of tho gang ‘LARSON WANTS Bank Asks Rehearing TACOMA, Aug. 10.—Ole 8. Lar |the failure of that institution, petl jUoned the Pierce case in Seattle. Larson's motion for a new tria | Tacoma, that thy desired their hearing superior court of King county. The matter wag taken under ad visement. |BEGS HOME IN JAIL |be taken back that seems like home, he 4 weré lynched in California severa months ago. armed, Fourteen suitcases contain ing mostly expensive women's wear. ling apparel were found, The cur Elva Ducker, papers from Seattle. - county superior arus, are held here today with other |court Tuesday for a rehearing of his | | was accompanied by the request for | @ change of venue on the ground |that a fair trial could not be had in| | His attorneys stated specifically | in SAN RAFAEL, Cal, Aug. 10.—| After eight years in n Quentin penitentiary, Leo Ri who has/ served his term, pleaded yesterday to It's the only place All four men are said to have been rency was in a money belt worn by | Altho Gordon and Patton are said to have exonerated the others, ail} seven are held awaiting extradition | ment with which she was killed. “FEELING FINE,” * SAYS PRISONER Declaring that persons with - te interests are responsible for | | tation to stop the Skagit project, C of his cell, “it seems to me I'm get: ting a lot more attention than Wil helm ever got. I also hear I've had a collapse, It's a funny thing, it seems to me, that a man can't lie down on his cot and take his natural sleep without being heralded ag ‘col- lapsing.’ Mahoney showed no signs of being “proken.” He consumed a hearty (Turn to Page Lou ‘Turned a Tarzan; Began Loving Rough LONG BEACH, N, Y., Aug. 10. -—“Tellegen turned Tarzan. He i started to love her rough, That caused the trouble.” This was the laconic summing up by an intimate friend of both principals in the Tellegen-Farrar domestic shipwreck which is now in the Westchester county courts, The final smashup came on a day late in July’ when the famous donna visited Tellegen at his fish- ing shack her according, to the story. It was their second meeting, say the friends, in ten months, and Tellegen forgot the platonic role which friends allege he had played for five years with his beautiful wife. The little fishing shack, the friends explain, where Bernhardt's actor-lover had sought seclusjon, echoed and reechoed with She sounds of high voices. Then Far. rar, flushed and angry, was seen to hurry from the house, enter her car arid start at breakneck speed for New York, “We passed the’ afternoon to- gether,” Tellegen is said to have told his friends. “What happened be told by me,” At the county jail, Tuesday morn- | interclub council committee a led to investigate the city's power plant reported Wednesday that “no cogent reason has been advanced why the project should be stopped.” “Immediate sale exists, for t power,” the committee asserts, om adds that “the project will be a finat — cial success.” After quoting the results of sew eral interviews, the committee says: | “We were advised by Mr, Quinn, | chief engineer of the electric com- | pany, and by every other authority | jto whow we have talked, that there |is no question but that the Skagit | river project is a sound engineering | venture.” | It fs pointed out that the dam ts composed of a series of eight items, ]or successive steps, and that. work | may be arrested at the conclusion of {each for further investigation, but: | not in the midst of operations at the | Gorge creek plant. | “To abandon work at the present | time, or even to delay it, would tend to injure the city's title to the: sil jand the water right Interest | bonds is going on at $800 @ day, © | “Cessation of work on this particu. | lar unit would ‘show an extreme lack | of business ability,” the report says, | FUNERAL SERVICES for Col, duard P. Edsen will be helt from jthe First Presbyterian church at 2 |p. m. Friday, h 1 | | | i} HE STAR CLASSI- FIED ADS_ have opened a definite field of publicity for the “little man,” driving straight to his needs and proffer- ing ‘concrete service. obi mediums serve so well.