The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 17, 1921, Page 1

AHONEY AND BRUMFIELD 3EFOR ~ Paste this mail it to your sweltering friends in the Bast. attle’s highest temperatare Au- gust 16 was At noon August 17 it was 62. Tonight and Thursday, probably showers; fresh southwe ‘When in rum, do as the rummics * . ° SURE, THIS GUY AIN'T CRAZY “That Mahoney was perfectly ra however, was indicated when Je said that he didn't want ‘to see F any reporters""—From the AM. ‘pewspaper. i eee Johnnie Cottontop says Mahonty as a now stunt that even Houdini, “@e Handcuff King, might — well @vy. He quotes from our worthy @ntemporary, The Star: Mahoney dressed in a dark ee suit, a silk shirt and striped een tie as he entered, hand ‘seffed to Sheriff Matt Star - ‘Maboney may be insane, but he acrobat. eee in Spooner, Wis: “$5 fine for ts papers or refuges on the eee man put the prints thumbs,on his will when he 4 it. Maybe he was & Te for bachelor, no children. if S$. Harrison—Advertisement in Mo (1d.) —— . Albert Brown, Nome boy, never mw a traffic policeman (before to Seattle. He got quite a ‘out of the traffic cop. So do Test of us. ° JOSH WISE SAYS 1A let uy charity ends st home. ° Jes Willard wants nearly half a Year to get into condition for @ fight with Dempsey. And he'll need & whole year after the fight to get | “tate condition. | BERE’S YOUR CHANCE Wanted — vam- : ¢ & Apply at the Neenah Shoc - | — Advertisement in Neenah , i (Wis.) ews. 4 ‘ Sales of “hair tonic” in Seattle Wave amounted to $6,000,000. Tonle | for hair on the teeth. eee Boles Penrose says about all our Mitbassadors do in Europe is to help ih «(Wurists out of jail Let's abolish i How to eliminate earwigs: ¢ a long, greased pole _ And suspend it over a marble | flab in the garden. Rub attar of Toses on the pole. The earwigs will mistake the pole for a rose bush, climb over it, slip and ) ¢rash to the marble slab. They |) Will be crushed to a pitiful, | Shapeless mass—every bone | broken. Don’t be kind-hearted, | 8nd don’t take any chances. | Have the remains carefully ere- Mated and the ashes locked in a fale deposit vault, Any other suggestions? ose | | A RECIPE WORTH WHILE Vern Jetfery, leader of the orches- at the Palace theatre, is confined his home by injuries to hix wrist & bottle of root beer exploded his hand.—Cedar Rapids, Ia, Ga- a lot said about Andy Volstead, pro and con, petty con—put seriously now, what 2 Your honest opinion of a man Would obilierate beer and chew goers bas b RRA on a posteard and Tell them that Se 74. Lowest was 57, sterly winds, <> * Here is On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Second Ch Albert Brown (left), who lived in Nome other day to Seattle, where he sato a street car anda right is “He by Price a The Star office SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1921. STAR OFFICE BOY HAS NEVER BEEN NORTH LAD FROM NOME HAD NEVER SEEN BIG CITY * TOGETHER THEY ‘PAINT THE OLE TOWN.RED’ otos Each Amazed at Woeful Ignorance of Other in Things Commonplace, Such as Dog Teams and Skyscrap- ers and Esquimaux and Traffic Cops By Aileen Claire LBERT BROWN, in all his 14 years on earth, had never rid- den on a street car or in an elevator. Nome. He is an old sourdough. He lived there 14 years. Then Tuesday he arrived in Seattle. It was his firet trip out from the Frozen North. In all his life he had never seen— A street car, A traffic cop, A vaudeville performance, An elevator, A cafeteria. He came down from Alaska to spend the winter in school here. And in the meantime he is “seeing” the sights of the city. He stares at the things that are commonplace to Se attle kids—things like fire wagons and office buildings and policemen They are all new to him and very strange. eee APPY acted as guide. “Guess we oughta get some: thing to eat first,” he sald, as the two boys started from The Star of. fice. “We'll go down to a cafeteria.” “What's a cafeteria?” queried AL bert. Happy looked at him out of dum- founded eyes. “Gee Willikens!” he gasped. “Where've you lived all your life? Don’t you know nothing? A cafeteria is a place where you carry around your own grub. When you get thru eating, you stack your plates and tip your- self,” he added slyly. But Albert didn’t bite. “Gosh!” was all he said Happy led the way into the big glittering cafeteria, His freckles fairly glowed as he showed the new boy how to select the dishes from the long counter. “Better go easy,” he counseled out of the depths of his wisdom, But it was Albert's first experience with a cafeteria, and the long rows} of appetizing dishes bewildered him. | When he finally staggered over to} a table, his tray was piled high with food—more food than four husky} men could eat. And, like the old sourdough who lived on beans and canned food for nine months in the Arctic wilderness and then ordered beans and canned | peaches when he came out to clvil-| ization, most of Albert's selections were the kind that come out of a| can! | “ee | ALKING down Second ave., Al-| bert was fascinated by a traf-| fic cop. “What's that fireman doin’ out there in the middle of the street?" he questioned | Happy laughed. Happy gasped. “Gee, they can ACCUSED: IRONS ‘Brumfield Says He Remembers Nothing of Crime Charged PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. I--"l can remember nothing of what has happened since the Sunday before you charge that 1 murdered Dennis Ruasell until { found myself on the train Boing to Spokane yesterday morning.” Such was the #tatement Dr. RM Brumfield made to examining phys! clans and officers in the insanity ¢x amination room at the county jail shortly after his arrival here early Brumfleld's appearance has changed but tittle. But officers say he certainly does not seem the same man who pitifully held out his hands for the manacies and pleaded to be taken back to Oregon “to face it all” when Sheriff Starmer clatmed his prisoner mm the Calgary jal! las Monday night. : Brumfield and his escort paused only for a moment at the county jail entrance. The elevator which bere him up to the seventh floor appeared “I bet you ain't even seen an auto-/even count the cars up there!” he ex-|again after a five-minute wait and mobile before,” he said. “Yes, I have,” Albert quickly re- “There are three Packards five or six Fords in Nome.” “OTHER WOMAN” IN CRIME CASE May Aid Madalynne Oben- chain-Burch Defense 108 ANGELES, Aug. 17.—The entrance Into the Kennedy murder case of “another woman,” either a married woman or “somebody's sls: ter,” loomed today ‘The defense is proving John Belton Kennedy's life, and investigating what actually took place over some period of time at Kennedy's so-called “love cottages,” one the scene of the tragic murder at Beverly Glen, and the other at Balboa beach. The defense is said te have obtain- ed evidence that Kennedy, using the assumed name of “Mr. Kendall,” vie ited these bungalows a great deal be fore bis death, with “another wom an” as his companion. ‘The defense, working on this in- formation, is said to be building up the theory that either a husband or brother of the “other woman” be came aware of the affair and that it was because of this knowledge that the two “ragged men,” entirely un connected with Madalynne Obenchain or Arthur Burch, appeared and killed Kennedy. Man Is Charged as Bank Robber REDDING, Cal, Aug, 17.—George Lang of Kellogg, Idaho, when called |before a justice of the peace hert to answer to @ charge of receiving stolen goods, was formally charged with the robbery of the Fall Kiver Milla (Cal) bank. The robbery was committed a month ago. The loot amounted to about $2,000. Enormous Supply of Peanuts Burns NORFOLK, Va., Aug. 17.—Several hundred thousand dollars’ worth of peanuts went up in smoke at Smith- field, Va., today, when five peanut warehouses, two pliers on the York river and several other buildings burned. The total loss was $1,000,000, Lightning Cause of Mill Plant Loss KANSAS CITY, Mo. Aug. 17. Fire destroyed the Kelley milling plant early today after bolt of lightning ignited grain dust in a chute between a grain elevator and the mill building. Damage amount- ed to $500,000, But if Happy wad sophisticat- with all the sophistication of a in a» newspaper office, "s stories of life in the Ne found him as naive and innocent as a baby. “Do Esquimaux really eat candies for dinner?” he asked, and, “Did'ya ever shoot a whale?” When Albert told him of the little white polar bears that the hunters sometimes brought into Nome, Happy’s freckeld face glowed with interest. “Gee Willikens,” he said, “it must be great to live in Alaska where you can see all them things!” eee 'O student pilot cver got as much “Kick” out of his first spinning nose dive as did Albert from his elevator ride in the L. C. Smith building. As the cage shot up to the top of jthe huge towet, Albert grasped the grill-work with both hands and hung on convulsively. His face was white when the car stopped with a rush at jthe 42nd floor ‘Gosh! he stammered. eee Happy's face assumed a bored air as he watched his com- panion’s thrilled expression, but when the pretty girl at the cn trance to the tower glanced at his 4 feet 5 inches of swaggering masculinity and sald, “We won't charge the boy anything,” he glared at her bitterly, “How do you get that way?” he muttered fiercely.” “Gee Willikens!” And he continued to mutter dire threats until the elevator finally shot him down to the street level. eee Albert was awe-atruck at the view from the top of the Smith building. }At first he could not realize that the |little black ants darting about the “Gosh” human beings, And he was even |more astonished when informed that jali the people in Nome could live comfortably in the Smith building. Happy was loath to descend until he had tested the truth of another boy's statement that there was a rocking chair in the glass globe at the top of the tower. cee Three mor@ thrills awaited the Alaskan lad. He rode on a street car for the first time, he saw a bob- bed-hair stenographer in abbreviated skirts and he visited a vaudeville house, where he saw a trqupe of aerial gymnasts, It was all very novel and exciting to him and ren- dered him wellnigh speechless, blit to 12-year-old Happy it'was old stuff —old stuff! “Listen,” he said, as the two parted company for the day. “Drop in at the office some time next week and I'll show you a real time. We'll show this ole town something WILD?" And he winked at his sourdough friend until his wise litte freckles fairly crackled apart. | sunshiny canyons below wero really | he was taken up to the eighth floor of the courthouse where the numer ous Insanity tests were put to him. Officers would give no further in- formation regarding the hearing ex: cept the bare statement indicating Brumfield's total loss of memory for & period extending over a month. DENTIST IN SEMI-STUPOR Dr. Brumfield, in a semi-stupor, either real or feigned, was closely guarded by Sheriff W. Sturmer of Roseburg and Deputy Sheriff Percy A. ‘Webb to prevent newepaper re- Porters from questioning him. Manacled to Deputy Webb he was whisked from the 0. R. & N, train on which he arrived from Spokane and Calgary, and taken at once to the county jail. Brumfield replied uncertainly to the single question put to him by newspapermen; “How did you elude the Washington and Oregon authori tes in getting into Canada?” “I don't remember,” replied Brum- field before Sheriff Starmer and Deputy Webb could intervene, While Sheriff Starmer refuses to state positively, it is undouttedly his belief that the Roseburg dentist is suffering from a mental aberration which may have obsessed him prior (Turn to Back Page, Column 2) PROBE JITNEY MAN'S DEATH Fatal Overturning of Auto Being Investigated Coroner W. H. Corson ts probing the death of Harmon Westbloam, 35, |jitney driver, who was fatally in jured Sunday night, when his auto ‘overturned on the road near Hobatt, lat Creamer’s siding, crashing into jthe diteh, and pinning the four oc jcupants beneath it. Westbloom was taken to Provi. dence hospital, where he died Wednesday. According to A. West, jbloom, a brother, the party had left the Hillcrest hotel, 608 Boren ave., where both he and his brother lived, for a ride, They picked up two friends, Osear Johnson and William Lundgren, Harmon Westbloom was driving the car when it struck a stump in the gravel road, It lurched heavily and went over the bank, crashing to the bottom of the declivity, and pin- ning the men beneath it, Westbloom was crushed beneath the engine, but his companions escaped almost un hurt. Westbloom’s neck was broken, Hudson-Essex Co. Cuts Prices Again DETROIT, Mich., Aug, 17.—Offi cials of the Hudson-Essex Motor company announced today a third re duction in prices this year. Reduce ons range from $420 to $705, The Seattle Star a Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1579. Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 the stillness it rather wistfully. and her luck had been that a lynx-eyed conduc-| tor had asked to see her ticket, and informed her! suspiciously that if she| | wanted to go on she mast pay again. | Sometimes she managed to; get a three-halfpenny ride for | a penny, but today was Sun-; day, and a fine Sunday more- over, and all the buses were full. “Oh my friende—come and ‘ave a dip in Jordan!” the fervid Salva- tionist exhorted a handful of strag- glers. “Come and wash off the foul stain of sin, and.be Uke, unto an tnnercint little child” Jill looked at him tnierestedy; she moved a step nearer to the half-hearted little congregation grouped about the harmonium. She did not want to go home yet; some thing in the fresh coolness of the spring evening made No. 6 Acacia Terrace, seem less inviting than usual, something in the soft air beating on her face made her shudder as she thought of the ugly,! badly furnished room where Don/ would be eagerly waiting for her;/ the ugly room which all the will in) the id could not keep fresh and where the chimney smoked if there was an cast wind, and) where—if one were bold enough to) defy smuts, and open the window, there was nothing to hear but shrill voices quarreling, or the monoto nous crying of children. “Come and ‘ave a dip in Jordan,” urged the fervid one again, en- thuslastically, He evidently rather liked the phrase; he repeated it yet @ third time, with a wary eye on ain, “Come away from the fleshpots of the world,” he exhorted her; he seemed to have marked her down for speeial attention. “Come away from the wicked pleasures and de- ceits which the devil sets up as idols in the hearts of the weak, Re- pent before it is too late—turn from the troublesome sea of the world to the quiet peace of the ‘arbo Look at Drummer Burgess—loo! ‘im for an h’example of what repen- tance can do! Look at ‘im, I say! Last Sunday night he was beatin’ his wife—and tonight he beats the drum.” Jill checked a smile; she turned away to hide it, and almost ran into a man standing at her elbow. She drew back with a little apol- omy, her eyes raised indifferently to the man’s face; then a slow won- derment grew in them—her gaze wandered over his tall, immaculately groomed figure interestedly. “I beg your pardon,” she said again. ‘The man raised his hat carelessly. “Please don't apologize. It was my fault—I was so engrossed in our friend yonder.” He smiled faintly as he spoke; not at her, she knew—but at the mem- ory of the Salvationist’s fervid words Ji stood irresolute—she hardly knew why; but the man’s eyes had wandered away from her disinterest | edly, and she moved on again. She crossed to the other side of the road, and stopped; she glanced back at the tall man rather wist fully. He was stil] standing quite on the edge of the little crowd, listening with rather bored interest to what was being said. He was a strange contrast to the men and,women around him, with his smartly cut coat and gray spats, and the soft Homburg hat worn at a rather jaunty angle. An eyeglass dangled against his waistcoat; the stump of a cigar was stuck in a corner of his mouth, As Jill looked at him, he turned and walked down the road—he stooped a little as he walked, as if it were too much of an effort to hold himself erect. Jill turned, too, then, and walked on in the opposite direction; the raucous volee of the Salvationist {ollowed her as she went—repeating his favorite phrase “Come and ‘ave a dip in Jordan.” There were not many people (Turn to Page 9, Column )) E LUNACY BOARDS! TH EW LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE HE raucous voice of a fervid Salvationist broke of the gray DENTIST spring evening, as Jill Ather- |ton climbed down from the top of an omnibus and stood for a moment at the corner of the street, looking after There was still nearly a mile to walk to No. 6, Acacia Terrace, but pennies were scarce, | out tonight, insomuch PART I, CHAPTER I “Winds of The World” BY RUBY M. AYRES Copyright by Bobbs-Merrilt VETS TO MERGE FOR JOB DRIVE Employment departments of the American Legion and Veterans of |Foreign Wars will probably merge for a concerted drive to find jobs for hundreds of unemployed ex-sol- diers and to convince employers that white men, citizens, should be given Positions now held by Japanese in this city. To consider the proposed merger the employment committee of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will meet Thursday night in Roosevelt hall, 1616% Third ave, John T. Egan, chairman, announced Wednesday. “The Legion committee will likely invite the Veterans committee to Join with them; that is the probable Program,” said Egan. “There are 200 ex-service men, a great many with dependent families, in our pest alone that are unemployed.” Charge Railroad Is Evading Law WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—The di- rect charge that the Erie railroad has formed a fictitious corporation to take over its shops at Marion, Ohio, for the purpose of evading the labor provisions of the Esch-Cum- mins law, was made today by Rep- resentative Huddleston, Alabama. During a session of the house in- terstate committee on the railroad bill, Huddigston said many railroads were openly disobeying the law and order of the railroad labor board. Open Sessions in Disarmament Asked WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—The American delegates at the disarma- ment conference are directed to make every effort to secure open sessions in an amendment to the bill appropriating $200,000 for the ex- penses of the conference offered in the senate today by Senator Pat Har- rison of Mississippi, acting demo- cratic leader, : Hightower Falls in Collapse SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17,— Willam Highto » held for the al- leged murder of Father Patrick Hes- lin, collapsed today in his cell at the Redwood City jail. He fell, helpless, in a limp heap on the floor, Authorities ‘believed his nerves were shattered and expected him to make a confession, Report of U. s. Plan in China Stirs Ire TOKYO, Aug. 1.—(Delayed.)—Re- ports that the United States is pro. posing international contro! of China have stirred much feeling here. The reported plan is disproved by both foreigners and Japanese, who term it absurd and impossible, The Japanese press declares that it would drive China from American influence into the arms of Japan, WAPATO.—Len Yap; alias L. H. Lee, Chinese, arrested by 8, E. Bunk. er, federal prohibition agent, on liquor transportation charges, Yap disclaims ownership of liquor, saying he was only agent, Y AWNS AT HIS HEARING Mahoney’s Gaze Is Vacant and Stu- pid; Session May Be Long James Mahoney was brought before « commission of five phy- siclans at 10:15 a. m, Wednesday to be examined on » charge of insanity filed against him Tues- bong by his attorney, Lee Johns- commission, stating that two mem bers of this commission are em- ployes of the state, and repeated hia request for trial by ~ This wag denied. ot honey, while waiting in the criminal office to be summoned to the court- room, made the following statement: “My brother, Jim, knows nothing of the murder of Kate Mahoney. Why, I would like to ask, should the’ brunt of the accusation fall upon our family? Why should not investiga- tions be made in connection with rel- atives of Mrs. Mahoney whom she very much disliked? It is all a ter- rible plot made to involve us, “We do not know,” she continued, “whether or not Mrs..Mahoney was in the trunk. She may have been murdered, but not in the apartment, Nor even in Seattle, and certainly not by my brother, She went East with him April 18. Jim returned the 27th, while she planned on going to New York to visit her sister. Jim was go- ing to join her in time for the prize fight. If she was murdered, we do not know who did it, “It was bad enough,” she added, “to have him marry a woman as old as Mrs, Mahoney, wtihout losing him now on a charge like this.” Mrs, Jolinson was dressed in black clothing. She was very calm. (Turn to Page 8, Column 4) CONFESSES HE CRACKED SAFE Because, he said, he wanted to clear innocent men of the crime, Richard Vega, 21, made an alleged confession to Seattle police Wednes- day that he had cracked the safe of the Southwestern Dairy Co., in Los Angeles, recently, Vega was arrested by Patrolman H. C. Smith at Second ave. and Yes- ler way on suspicion, He said he came to Seattle recently after several safe-cracking operations in California, according to the police. Los Angeles authorities have been notified. Vega will probably be ex- tradited,