The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 16, 1921, Page 1

“Love is the greatest thing in the world,” cried Kathy. Jill longed for great wealth. How did the world treat these strangely different sisters? She was a stenographer in a great man’s office and finally became a Jeader in society with the world at her feet. Would you have decided “WINDS OF THE WORLD,” by Ruby Ayres, a novel of surpassing power and worth, a story which will clutch at your How did it change hearts? their heart-strings, will appear serially in The Star beginning tomorrow as Jill did when her great moment came to her? SICK SOLDIER FUND IS LOOTED! | Paste this on a posteard and i it to your sweltering friends ho Kast, attle’s highest temperature Au- gust 15 was 66. Lowest was 52, At noon August 16 It was 64. Tonight and rain; moderate south- westerly winds, Driscoll says they are feed- in Texas cracked tee! Alaska sends 3,000 reindeer car. For given the same ie trade that 1 fixing up matches for thernselves tha money there ia in it. And the xo mote fal fact is, the tyros are t who are not fukin: ExKaiser Wilhelm wanted ‘s| 4 in the sun,” and we hope he's} it i the weather in Hol} i is anything like ft is in) hunt, then acid bites Of newiy-found white mule. cee after. on ‘This is the season to say it with ‘Wop hotties. . Note to brides-—The thing that | Wparates a property hitched team Mt horses is the tongue. soe Wars may come and wars may but war taxes go on forever. oe Nobody loves a rag-chewer, A Poth hasn't a friend in the world. eee “Enjoy nature's music” urges § Chieago concern which adver- & musical ventilator to be fn an open window. It lore, nothing to do With snoring, as some might Ene 6 6 “gtk Kiay says it iam ‘Tell alive today some ammunition ny would have his picture @ shotgun a4. eee lal oF not,” mused t irre a a the baler ‘* the matter with it?” tising manager. explained the bose, "The man ‘fined to have three bald spots lop of my head, but since using Of your bair restorer I only have e-« (bre thing nice about us writ- thls column iy that we do have to read it every even- we Age when someone th don't know whether to accapt this de- Tell them that Se Wednesday, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 187%. Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1921. Japs Only Need Apply! Gray-haired White Wife Tells Star Pitiful Story of How the Little Brown Men Are Keeping Bread From Mouths of Starving Ameri- can Families in Seattle By Hal Armstrong She was stately, reserved, and a little gray. There was an air of queenliness, yet of great capability, about her. She smiled warmly at the antics of the office boy. A fine woman, one would take her to be, at the fullness of life, a typical great American mother. She wanted to have a word; to lay her case on the table. COMES TO HOME OF BIG STAR FAMILY WITH HER TROUBLES She was a member of the big Star family, which has 10,000 more fathers dnd mothers and aunts and uncles and nieces and nephews and other relatives than any other newspaper family in Seattle. And, @s such, she came to the home of that big THREE WEEKS’ WORK ONLY SINCE LAST NOVEMBER “He worked in the steel mills at Youngstown for five years, Last November, the mills closed. Since that time he has had threé weeks’ work, odd jobs, spasmodic employment at the mills when they re- for a day or two ata time, and that sort of ie “He is a good workman. He tried hard to find a steady job. But he found none. “I was in business once myself—brok But I am hardly fitted for office work now, it has been so long since then. I went out and hunted for a job. “I went to a big department store. I received a polite, ‘No, we have no opening.’ “There are Japanese employed in that store. I asked if I mightn’t be allowed to replace one of them. I am an American citizen. Curt refusal was my answer. “I went to two big restaurant companies, There was nothing for me there, There, too, I saw Japanese employes. “T went to a railroad office. A woman acquatntance had told me that women were employed to clean Pull- man cars. I asked for that kind of a position. It was good pay, I understood. The gentleman told me, with a smile, that they were employing men for those jobs since the war. “What nationality?’ I asked. ‘Japanese,’ he said. “I went to the homes of our wealthy people, seeking housework. No; they didn’t want me. In most of those homes I found Japanese servants. In one, the lady of the house has a Japanese man servant who helps her dress herself. If such a thing is necessary, I thought, why did she not employ a white man. It would be no less absurd. JAPANESE WORK MORE CHEAPLY; AH, BUT DO THEY? “Nowhere was I able to find a place. Japanese, of course, work cheaply. But, in my travels searching for a job, I found this instance: “There was a woman out on 30th ave. who had wanted her house cleaned quickly for a party. She called in a Japanese man, thinking he would do it more rapidly than an American woman. He finished in two hours. Next day, she had to get an American woman to come and go over his work and clean the rooms he hadn’t even touched. “I found some other things, too, unpleasant, but true, because Japanese are given preference over Ameri- can citizens. : “I found at an employment office a woman in the waiting line. She reached the window and asked for —anything. The girl at the window said, ‘Why, you're dressed too nice. Your clothes are against you. You couldn’t get a job.’ That woman didn’t even have a stove in her house, Her husband had lost his job, and the furniture company had come and cleaned their home of furniture. FAMILY IN GEORGETOWN : LIVES ON OATMEAL THREE MONTHS — “In Georgetown there is a family that lived on oat- meal for three months. They had nothing else to eat until the woman got sick and the neighbors came to eir assistance. " “In another family, in West Seattle, are three little girls. One of the little girls was playing in the yard. ‘Where are your sisters?’ she was (Turn to Last Page, Column 3) STUMP PRISON MATES! “If Mahoney Is Stalling, It’s Best Ever Made,” They Say dames FE. Mahoney's fellow prisoners in “Murderers’ Row” at the county jail gave their opinion Tuesday that the alleged bride slayer is no longer feign- ing, but is actually insane, “At first.” said thetr spokesman, “we thought his antics were the bunk, Then he got us guessing. Now, if he's stalling, the best stall @ man ever made. His jailers, however, maintain the opinion that Mahoney's “queerness” is all sham. REFUSES TO LEAVE BUNK TILL AFTER 9 Due in Judge Otis W. Brinker's court to be arraigned at 1:20 p. m, slept late this morning. ‘He refused to leave his bunk until after 9 o'clock when his mother, Mrs. Nora Mahoney, and his sister, Mrs, Dolores Johnson, with his law+ yer, Lee Johnston, went to the jail to see him. For the first time since his “in- sanity” first began to develop, the Privoner consented to speak with them for five minutes thra the bars. What passed between them ts un- known. Johnston declined to divulge what was said during the brief in- terview. Mahoney looked disheveled when he left his bunk and much thinner than a week ago, Fellow prisoners say he has eaten nothing but an or- ange and an apple since Saturday morning. He has lost, possibly, 25 or 30 pounds of flesh as the result of his “hunger strike. He was shaved for the first time in week by a fellow prisonor, a trusty, Monday night. Just before he retired he was taken to the jail barber shop by Night Jallor William Rarr and Deputy Sheriffs George Bundy and Stewart Campbell, TRUSTY REFUSES “THAT DEAD WOMAN'S MONEY” At the conclusion of the tonsorial operations he offered the barber a doliar, which the trusty declined to take on the grounds that it was “that dead woman's money,” Mrs. Kate Mahoney's, the victim of Se attle’s latest gruesome trunk mur- jder, As he crawled into his bunk after the shave, with all his clothes on, Mahoney seemed eager to go to his arraignment. According to his corridor.mates, however, he did not seem to realize the nature of his call to court, but thought it a socialist meeting. “He said he was going to at tend a meeting of socialists and hear some of the ablest Japan. ese statesmen speak,” said Ma- honey’s closest confidante, a thief, occupying the cell next door, “He said he wanted to be there, but didn’t like the idea of going to the meeting alone, Said he wanted two or three of the boys here to go along.” After Mahoney's interview with his relatives and attorney, Lawyer Johnston said the prisoner had told jhim in effect that he wasn't, going to cor * go, all right,” said a deputy, “if we have to carry him strapped to « board.” Prosecutor Malcolm Douglas said he had been expecting for some time that Mahoney would “throw a fit" in For the third successive night the | prisoner slept in his clothes, He had written a letter Monday after- |noon addressed to the “Black Hand” in which he expressed regret that he was unable to pay the society $50,000 at this time. ed if he cared to plead. |desire to do so, the plea of “guilty” or “not guilty” will be taken. and he will go to trial September 12. Me need not plead. He may stand mute and gamble with fate, If he stands mute the state may elect either to prosecute the murder charge on the ground that his “in- sanity” is a sham, or may have him tried for insanity, In case he Is tried for insanity ana found insane, he cannot be hanged, but may be sentenced to an institu tion “until further orders of the court.” Then, if at any future time he is found sane, ho may be tried for the murder, |the courtroom to impress the court. | When arraigned he was to be ask: | Should he | The Hardings Te * * Marriage Follows Old-Fashioned Courts! * * ‘It = est ie cs i oh eat $10 CITY WAGE CUT TO STAND Budget Committee Refuses to Rescind Actcion Against the bitter protest of city employees the council budget com- mittee at a public hearing Tuesday decided to stand by thetr decision to chop $10 off the monthly salaries of all municipal workers, The saving to the tax levy, it is estimated, will amount to $300,000 @ year. , More than 5,000 employees are af- fected. Seattle street car employees were reclassified. monthly instead of a dally wage. They will receive the same salaries jas policemen and firémen. Under their reclassification an uniformed men the trainmen’s cut in wages will amount to approximately $5 a month paid by the day, The cut in day laborers’ wages, as determined by the budget commit tee, is 25 centa a day. ‘NEGRO KIDNAPS WHITE WOMAN Bride of Soldier Is Sought by Posse ANNISTON, Ala., Aug. 16.—A posse headed by military and police authorities is searching for three ne- groex who last night kidnaped the young wife of Gail Stormer, of Bir- mingham, member of Company Ky ‘ourth infantry, Alabama National Guard, in training at Camp McClel lan here. ° According to the story told author- ities by Stormer, he and his wife were walking about the city when | three negroes jumped from an auto. mobile and kidnaped Mrs. Stormer. | Arrest Two Men as Suspected of robbing | Greeley, 3824 46th ave. S., Sunday of la large amount of clothing, W. A. ‘omgs, 87, and P, Brydges, 21, were rrested Monday night at 4869 Rain- by Detectives Tom Hayden Waechter, Detectives allege Boggs and Brydges had articles of Greeley’s clothing in their possession, They {are held for investigation Tuesday. jier ave Jand C.J Mayor Caldwell Is Mayor Caldwell is suffe | mild attack of grip, it was announced |Tuesday by his etary, H. A. Owen. Altho the mayor's condition is improvimg, it is not known wheth- er he will be able to be at his desk Wednesday, Was Quite Sudden! being placed upon a/ instead of $7.50. They were formerly | ! | Robbery Suspects! Horace] Attacked by Grip); ring from a | *% % eee : BY HAL COCHRANE ARION, O., Aug. 16.—It was an old-fashioned romance that led to the marriage of Marion's hap- plest couple, Dr. and Mrs. George T. Harding. For instance, the doctor did. his courting with horse and bugsy. When the-father of the president of the United States went calling, he— But let the bride and groom speak for themselves, “Well, begins tne doctor, “our Uttle romance—that's what they call it, isn’t it?—{e probably the result of i being so long acquainted.” “You see," explains his bride, “we've known each other for 25 years,” in that length of time,” says the dog- tor, “But, George,” interrupts Mrs. Harding, “it only has been during the past three years that we have |been what you might call close friends, I've been in the doctor's of- | fice for that length of time as a sort lof helper, I saw Dr. Harding every | day.” “Every day including Sunday,” emphasized the, doctor, “When Sundays rolled. around,” jeontinues the doctor, “I just got in the habit of hitehing up the horse and taking a little drive, I don't) jhanker much for automobiles, you! | know; the old sorrel is swift enough | | for me." | “I do love a horse,” says the bride. | “And there's just room for one} |more in my buggy,” the doctor! smiles, “So I'd stop for Alice. Our |favorite drive? Well, I can't say) there was any particular one. We} jhave a lot ef good roads around) Marion.” . | “And then when we didn't go| driving George would just come over | jand sit on the front porch,” puts in| |Mrs. Harding. “And once in awhile |we would dine out together.” “Our marriage was quite sud- den,” confesses the doctor. “Very!” says his bride. “Nobody expected it. In fact, we didn’t expect it ourselves—that is, not exactly. I just happened to be going to Detroit for the \ day and 1 suggested to Alice that she might like to take the trip with me, Then, T popped: “While we're up there we can run over to Canada and get married.’ “She was so completely sur- prised she simply couldn't ob- ject. And away we w waiting to don any finery.” “The only thing we changed was| our plans,” exclaimed Mrs, Harding. “We finally were married in Mon lroe, Mich, instead of in Canada.” Dr. Harding is 76, his bride is 52. (Copyright, 1921) LANNED FINE VACATION, BUT— Ben Rosenthal was packing his trunk, presumably for his vacation, police allege, in his room at 612 Pa-| cific ave., early Tuesday, when mem. | bers of the dry squad walked in and, took the trunk and Rosenthal to the, hoosegow. The trunk contained a gallon jug and three quarts of moon- shine, according to the dry squad, TH EW LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE ll of Their Romance + & & hip, Buggy and Sorrel, in Home Town * GIRL BANDIT AT WORK HERE Aids in Robbery on Queen night. Wharton was entering his home thers named “Folka get. pretty well acquainted |When the two called to him, Whar- pare, soa ton went forward and the man thrust a revolver In his face. He was forced to stand with hands in the air while the girl took his cash and a check for $25, Police have found no trace of the \bandits Tuesday, Girl Thug Helps to Rob Tourists PORT TOWNSEND, Aug. 16. —A_ girl bandit and male com- panion, who held up and robbed three tourists on the Peninsula highway three miles west of Se- quim at 2:30 yesterday afternoon and escaped in a Hudson Six headed east, were being pursued today by posses along the ex- pected route of their Might, The girl did the searching while hel man companion flourished a re- volver. Frank Campbell of Portland, was held up, and two other autos! containing several women ‘passengers | were stopped and searched. Following ‘the holdups, the high-| waywoman and her escort fled thru Sequim just before the marshal at that place received a telephone re. port of the robberies. He flashed the report on east. Death of Man Found in Well Is Mystery DLETON, Ore, Aug. 16-6 Mystery still shrouds the murder of Matt Jepson, found dead in a well near here, after he had begn missing three weeks, The verdict of a coro. ner's jury, which aseribed Jepson’s death to blows from a heavy instru: ment in the hands of a person or persons unknown, cleared up none of | the detaiis of the ma District Attorn turned from a took oharge of the investigation to- day. Tests will be made of the blood found on an ax discovered near a ranch outhouse to ascertain if it is of human origin, 's tragic end. ator, who re. Hubby Told Her to Leave, Wife Claims Charging that her husband, Court- ney Rowland, “demanded” that she leave him last November and has never supplied her with sufficient or proper clothing since thelr marriage in Aberdeen in September, 1918, Bet ty Rowland filed suit for divorce Tuesday and asked that her maiden name, Betty Camby, be restored to her, Mrs, Rowland asks for $25 a month alimony pation yesterday, | CHIEFS Five in Jail Here member, student graduate of Bothell high school, Boylston hotel. afternoon by Deputy Sheri! art Campbell and George Bundy a: Maj. Bert C. Ross, deputy cuting attorney. . Ross took their leged confessions Tuesday and he would charge all five forgery as well as grand larceny./ “This is the first time,” said fs il i i gation and int i i z i 3 “One other official of Rothe! was arrested with the first five, but was released when exonerated by the five confessions.” Until the last legislature, the state indigent soldiers’ funa was adminis- tered only thru G. A. R. and Spanish ‘The last legislature ex- privilege to American war tended the from the CountyCity building. With- in a short time, he said, vouchers taken from this book, and forged woth the names of post officials who were not in on the plot, and bearing the names of fictitious persons as beneficiaries, began to pour into the county auditor's office for endorse- ment. MERE BOY PUTS VOUCHER THRU “Ward Gardner first tried to cash a voucher for $45,” said Ross. “When he preesnted it at the auditor's of. | fice, they recognized him as an em- ploye of the county treasurer and, (Turn to Last Page, Column 2) THREATENS TO MURDER WIFE? \Soldier at Fort Lawton Is Arrested ’ Accused of threatening to kill his wife, W. C. Payton, 27, United States soldier stationed at Fort Worden, |was arrested Monday night at ighth ave. and Olive st, by Patrol mon Ozura. Payton had a loaded .45 army re- volver and was in civilian clothes when arrested. He is said to have admitted the threat to his wife, according to the police. France Will Share in Disarm Session PARIS, Aug. 16.—-France’s official lacceptance of the invitation to par: lticipate in President Harding's pro- posed disarmament conference was | submitted to the American embassy ‘today for transmission to Washing+ ton. 2 The message said that Premier Briand himself will attend the eon ference,