The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 5, 1921, Page 1

+t Ws ~~ h SS = {ilk President Audings taber Lay HE STAR, thru the Newspaper Enterprise Asso- ciation, requested President Harding to send to the peo- ple of Seattle a Labor Day mes- sage. The president has complied with e accompanying telegram. t ¥ po up. The rise of butter affects ‘THE CORPSE WAS KINDA MIXED UP Many friends and relatives attend ed the funeral of McClellan Ditseh, ten-year-old auto victim, which was defeated Peru yesterday 6 to 1 at Risse cemetery. — Goshen Daily Weather Tonight and Tuesday, fair and warmer; moderate northeasterly winds, Forecast On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3. 1879, Per Year, by Matl, $6 to $9 SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1921. EDITION Tr EW f HE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, Sept. 5.—It makes no undue demand on optimism to extend a cheerful and confident greeting to the American people on Labor Day of this year. Condi- tions are improving and there is every indication that they will continue to do so. For this the largest measure of credit is due to the American people themselves. They have recognized that they must get back to hard work and useful production and with their wonted good sense have accepted the situation. The administration has undertaken to give every possible encourage- ment and assistance and will continue, without wearying, to seek out and apply +f the measures calculated to help a people so generously willing to help themselves. (Copyright 1081 by Wewapaper Enterprise) THAN EVER, PRICES UP but Cost Aithe gatry herds In the State of Washington are producing more milk than ever before, Seattle distributors | beclouded. destroying the living ers, and on breaking their Undaunted, President Wm. Short, Reviewin REFORM Is | Declares of and an un- contest and well-organized fhting standards of the work- only defense—the organized trades union ‘movement of America. PROPOSED AT ASYLUM Legislative Bill Would Pre- vent ‘Railroading’ and Open Wards A DiI that would give every person’ dawns with the skies ominously | charged with insanity a right to trial by jury before commitment to an asylum will be introduced at the next session of the state legisiature. John Burton Hunt, president of the Humanitarian society, is author the bill. Evidence uncovered by the Hu- manitarian society is said to have iaclosed that under the present sys. tem of handling alleged insanity) cases, many rationa! persons have been committed to state insane hos- pitals, IMPARTIAL HEARING SELDOM HELD The person accused seldom gets a fair and impartail hearing, it is! state labor movement, in line with the experiences | claimed. He is taken into « priva' Tmust soon be raised. the distributors are paying three cents a gallon more than at the old price. ‘Then, too, the distributors cite but |for unwarranted wage reduc- prices. Butter, they claim, has|tions has been waged against our movement on every side. Strikes have been found necessary in most industries, and have been reluctantly en- tered into by the workers, in order to protect their wage standards against conscience- less reductions. In most cases, where reasonable wage reductions were proven neces pen to by the workers, but in many cases the demand for wage re- the price of milk, they say. Dairymen and distributors met Saturday afternoon to decide the IN MURDER CASE Want Blonde and Brunette| in Wealthy Man’s Death NEW YORK, Sept. 5—A blonde woman and a dark-haired Belgian girl were sought by police today in connection with the murder of George Day, wealthy manufacturer. union shop. Practically The blonde was with Day shortly|!abor troubles that ha’ before he waa shot to death in her | Within our state have been precipitat- home late Saturday night. Day| ed by the employer on that issue, broke an engagement with the Bel-} The trades union movement has gian girl to take the blonde to din-| successfully combatted every effort ner. to establish the open shop. Wage That there had been 20 or more] Modifications, where proven neces- other women in Day's life was shown | sary, have been agreed to, but no by his many photographs of beauti- surrender of the right of collective ful girls, Each was inscribed with| bargaining and maintenance of the has been «0 avaricious and unrea sonable that strikes were necegsary in order to force a more reasonable attitude on the part of the employer. In most instances, the demand for wage reductions has been coupled with a demand for the open or non- those reductions have been| duction on the part of the employer | sentiments of love, union shop has been surrendered, and and the so-called SEATTLE LABOR ENJOYS BIG DAY LABOR DAY PROGRAM Old-fashioned labor day picnic |) and lunch at Woodland park. | Sports tournament and picnic at South Park. Speed motorcycle races at the Tacoma speedway. Newsboys’ picnic at Silver lake. All day celebration at Hall's lake by King county Masons. Mr. and Mrs. Beattie, with all the Uttle Seatties, celebrated Labor day Monday at basket picnics, sports tournaments and family outings. Following a custom of several years’ standing, the Central Labor council held no parade. There was No set program of oratory. Instead, the councll invited all ite members, their farillies and friends to an old- fashioned picnic at Woodland park. ‘There was coffee and doughnuts and ice cream and peanuts, and the orkera loafed under the trees and mwwam in the lake and played with the kiddies. FREAK RA‘ ‘lof the rest of the nation, has been confronted with a cam-|°h#mber with alienists, who int paign for the so-called American plan open shop, or, more precisely, the non-union shop. A drive; sane, commitment papers are made view him and make their decision. If they say the defendant ts in- out and handed to the judge, who signs them as a mere matter of rou- | tine, without ever having seen the | accused person, A case is cited by President Hunt. NEIGHBORS GOSSIP; FARMER ACCUSED “In the records of our society ts} the case of a man who lived near Se attie,” Hunt says. “He lived alone. | By diligent work, covering a consid erable period of time, he acquired some land, built him a little home and started a chicken ranch. He had just become nicety established when someone began to steal his chickens. He lost a good many. So he got a shotgun and began to ait up nights, iting for the thieves, just as you or I would have done. “But the neighbors began to talk (Tarn to Page 6, Column 2) THREE DIE IN PLANE CRASH One Injured, One Missing in Tragedy CHARLESTON, W. Va., Sept. 5. He Gives Shoes So 11 Kids Can the Central building, is gathering clothes for 8,000 school children. It. wants warm clothing, new or used, and shoes. MIDDLEWEIGHT CROWN IS UP! Wilson and Downey Await Gong ARENA, JERSEY CITY, N. J., Sept. §.—Tex Rickard's big pine pile of boards glared under a boiling sun, the same metal-posted ring was in the same place and the same thou- sands of cops and firemen were at their same posts. These trimmings were the only resembiances between July 2 and September 5. The middleweight championship bout between Johnny Wilson and Bryan Downey was like the Demp- sey Carpentier fight only in that it was held in the same place The gates were opened at 1:15 The crowd that rushed in was al most lost in the huge bow!, It hardly {made an impression on the boards, The $2 seats were filled on the sunny. side. . Fight for Nation’s Speed Honors Today SPEEDWAY, UNIONTOWN, Pa., Sept. 6.—-America’s monarch of the speedway will be crowned here today Eleven of the country's most dar. ing racing pilots faced the starter in the huge wooden saucer to compete for $40,000 In prizes. 200 Guardémen Help Fight Fires ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 5.—Forest fires, which threatened the villages of Solona and White Pine, just east | of Mille Lacs, were believed under | SURGEON NOT SANE, | SAYS WIFE Noted Everett Doctor to Face Lunacy Jury on Tuesday EVERETT. Sept. 5.—(Special to The Star)—When Dr, E. A. Durand, one of the most prominent surgeons in the Northwest, appears before a jury Tuesday morning to battle charges of insanity preferred against him by his wife, one of the most sensational cases in the history of Everett will reach its climax. The entire city is divided today Into two factions, those who believe that Durand ts being “railroaded” to the asylum and those who believe he really threatened to kill his wife and two sons. Durand is held in the county jail here. He is provided with « special room and a special gua: He has hired half a dozen prominent Seattle lawyers, all of whom he has dis- charged within 24 hours. MANY PROMINENT ‘WITNESSES Many of the best-known cler, men, doctors and city officials in Everett will appear as witnesses in the case. Durand was arrested three weeks ago on his return from California. His wife charged that he had threat- \ened to kill her and to put their two | sons out of the way. Durand ts known | Northwest as a briiiant surgeon. His éccentricities in the operating room have gained *him a peculiar reputation. | WIFE'S FIRST CHARGE PROVES FAILURE Bight years ago Durand faced similar charges, also preferred by his wife, and successfully acquitted him- self. The case cost the county $20,- 000. It was charged at this trial that Durand, suddenly maddened at his mother-in-law, forced her out of his house at midnight and marched her to the depot in her night- ° Durand’s two sons are popular members of the younger set in Ever- ett. The youngest was manager last year of the championship high school football team. thruout the Women Trampled in Berlin Radical Riot BERLIN, Sept. 5.—Clashes be- TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE _ BELIEV PLANNE ae a Five Detroit Is Wrec ed by Gas DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 6.- | Were killed today when a th brick building on Mullet. st. wrecked by a gas explosion. dows for blocks around were tered, Five men were arrested, one whom conducted a grocery store im the pullding. Police claimed building was biown: up purposely, order to collect insurance, The dead were all asleep in stairs rooms. A gas meter in the cellar had disconnected, and the pipe from the main to the eéilar up with a plug, police degiared.. TI plug had been removed, flooding Dullding with gas, ‘The dead: “Blanche McDonald, 28; C Burroughs, 43; Joseph Vinto, Sa ee ne GUNMEN MOT ONT 1,200 Passengers Into Panic NEW YORK, Sept. 5.—Infi because a subway train door and interfered with their n train early today, three started a fight in which one fe waa mortally wounded, a ekull fractured and 1,200 p ‘thrown into a panic; Two of the gunmen were beaten by « crowd after they” slugged a woman, shot a man” went to their defense and another man insensible with butts. A third held off the cro two revolvers and escaped by a matic slide down an elevated Police reserves were called get the captured gunmen to the tion and protect them from crowd. ‘ The trouble started when a \thru which Filipio Garretel |Louts Gardelo wished to lgave ti jtrain and they were asked to go ward to another door. Swearing shouldering other passengers, started up the car. The con asked them to make less noise, one of the gunmen struck a‘ missed and hit a woman in the ft knocking her down, The condu felled the gunman, be co CHARGE WOMAN ~ KIDNAPS Gi Police Seeking Pro Society Star PITTSBURG, Pa., Sept. 5.. today were looking for Mrs. cedes Holmes, for whom they @ warrant charging abduction. She ts charged with holdiny 18 year-old Bery! Plumb, daughter of @ wealthy oil operator of Los An CES AND ‘Three were killed, ofe injured and BASEBALL ENTERTAIN lasing as 4 result of a ‘The sport program included most |crash of an army airplane near Sum. ‘The “Big Five" packers announce , 47, s found across the | none will be. vo cyta affecting 200,000 employes. | D8”: hep f 200 5 ground floor stairs of his home in| THE, [CAL for $ ransom. Miss Plumb disappeared control today. Two hundred Nation. | tween yadicals and reactionaries fear- al Guardsmen from St. Paul were | ed by the German government last And at the same time, you notice, they cut the price of ham and bacon and beef. ile. THEY CAN'T GO TOO FAR FOR US. in sprinkling the streets. eee Be that as it may, Eddie Civil isa prizefighter in sauet. Ky. . We lamp a movie in Seattle with the title, “Take It From Me.” Every body does. gegen ‘The Havana, Cuba, race track has decided to give larger purses at the meeting next winter. Mebby if they ike the purses large enough the ‘9 will try to win a few, see Now that disarmament is in the air, why not start on the fall hunt- ers who mista guides for deer? eee ‘What hag become of the old-fash- foned drugstore that used to have orange and green lights in the win an exclusive residential district. The) WIN! IN FIGHT murderer apparently had hidden in] ‘The theatrical crafts, during the the darkened hallway downstairs and | past year, successfully weathered the fired at Day. Blood spots showed | open shop battle in the cities of Beat- that Day had pursued his assatlant tie, Tacoma, Yakima and Spokane, tho mortally wounded. and renewed their agreements with Neighbors said the shot that killed|the moving picture syndicates, re Day was fired shortly before mid-| taining the union shop and mutually night, and that they heard whet/ satisfactory wages and union condi- sounded like two people scurrying] tions. The bak: unions of the state away. have also won their fight or a strenuous battle, The buflding trades unions of the state been sub- Search for Missing ° Jected to a sort of guerilla warfare on Boys Proves Futile) tne joint issue of wage reductions A county-wide search for Raiph| #74 tha open non-union shop in most Northern, Ieyearold. high school | of the cities and Industrial centers, | boy, had failed to reveal the slightest |DUt they, too, have successfully clue to his whereabouts, Monday,| Weathered the storm, and, while in Thursday, Ralph left his home ‘at|™Ost cases reasonable wage reduc: | 4948 Farrar ot. telling his parents | tions were agreed to, it always occur- [that he was going downtown to buy|Ted when the main issue—the non- some shirts at an army atore. aalee eds had been withdrawn by Search for Karl Wililamson, 17,| the employer. 716 WW. 66th #t, who disappenred| ‘The miners employed in the com- Aug. 26, has also failed, Karl left}™Mercial coal mines of our state are his home to go to’ work and hae ‘not | engaged in a@ terrific struggle now been found. His parents live in Cali. With the mine owners over the open fornia, and it is thought he may have| non-union shop Issue, The question left to nee:them, He was an office|ot wages has from the beginning boy dor Davis & Co.,.807 2nd aves _ Gurn to Fage 5, Column 2) of the freak races and a baseball game between the Ballard Eagles and the Three Brothers Dye Works team at noon. f White collar workers, as well as the men in blue denim, rested. Only street car men, firemen and police men, newspaper workers and other unlucky. tollere stayed on duty dur- ing the day, Seattle newsies began their cele bration Sunday at Silver lake to “carry on” until late Monday night. SOUTH PARK HAS 4UBILEE At South Park residents held a jubilee of their own with a« tennis tournament, baseball games and dancing. South Park married men crossed bats with their brothers of Georgetown in a titanic struggle for baseball honors. More than 16,000 Masons of King county attended a big pienic held at} Hall's lake under the aunpices of An- gora grotto, Mystic Order of Veiled Proj * of the Enchanted Realm. Speedy motorcycle races lured many to Tacoma, Famous stars of motorbykedom burned the track in eflorts to lower world’s records. merville, Saturday night, according to reports reaching army head- quarters here today, plane was reported to have fallen during a storm in the moun tains while en route to Langley field. The report reaching here said the plane was discovered today and that {t was believed that the missing air man has gone for help, Hardings Now Going Back to Washington WABHINGTON, & 5.—Unable to land at Atlantic Ci jue to rough seas, President and Mrs. Harding and thelr guests on the Mayflower, were on their way back to Washington to- day, it was announced at the White House. Harding wanted to spend Labor day, ig Atlantic City, but this was conditioned on the weather. Word at the White House this tmorning state that it was felt an attempt to land the party would be dangerous, and it was decided to put back to Washington, helping fight the flames, Police Re-Painted His Rosy Outlook Lite looked rosy to Ben Rosenthal, tatlor, Sunday night, until Fate in the shape of blue coated “onsifers interfered with his alleged “win Rosenthal is now decorating charged with gambling. J. A. Miller, bollermaker, and Tom | O'Connell, engineer, were taken in custody with Rosenthal, The bones ¢ held as evidence. He Drank, He Says, and Lost Valuables M. Larson, logger, shipped a full cargo of contraband whisky, he told police Monday, with the result that he woke up in jail minus his gold |watch and chain. Larson maid he jhad been making the rounds of the bootleggers’ Joints and did not find out he had heen robbed until this morning when he was released from 4 |instantly killed and week, occurred today. At Pankow, where a former Lehie infantry regiment was celebrating, communists broke up the gathering and canes, beer glasses and crockery were broken over heads in a general melee. ‘The police fired upon the rioters and several were wounded. Some women were trampled upon by the crowd. Train Hits Auto; Three Are Killed COLVILLE, Wash, Sept. 5.—Al- bert C, Pittman, awed 42, a farmer, 12 miles east of here, and Mrs. L. E. Gensel, age 40, a farmer's wife, were Mrs. Pittman, aged 41, died in a hospital, as a re sult of the automobile in which they were riding being struck by a Great Northern. passenger train at noon yesterday at Palmer siding, four miles north of Colville Trreive 1,000-foot piers are being build for ocean liners in New York har or, weeks ago from the Schenly where she had been stopping her fath She turned up Sa’ ’ in morals court. Mrs. Holmes, prominent soctatty, is said to have worked into the con+ fidence of the family while in the West recently and the family cons sented to allow the girl to visit her here. Mrs. Holmes claims the $1,200 is duo her for taking charge of the — child, q Girl Is Slain in Spokane; Man SPOKANE, Sept. 5.—Her and arm cut with a knife’: Williams, age 24, is dead, a Henry, age 27, is being held by folice charged with muirder. Henry claims that the girl was slain ace cidentally when she attempted to top a deaperate Ueht betweehs him: self and another,man in a downto | hotel, ‘ ‘ Boe ites AEM «EF: ‘The Methodist Episcopal church the United’ States "has a of nearly 4,500,000, *