The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 8, 1921, Page 1

~ IRE SHOTS AT On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise At noon September 8 it was 57. Tonight and friday, fair; moderate northwest- VOLUME 23 Lowes’ was 54. Entered as Second Class Matter May a 18) FUGIT BELIEVED IVE at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3. 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 a The Seattle Star SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1921. MRS. DURAND TELLS H OW _ HUSBAND TOR TURED HER SPIED BY GUARDS IN ISLAND UNDERBRUSH ‘There, little blonde, don't cry, They have broken your heart, I know. With your powdered nose lin f ty i. Hy 8 He Fe s | a i - i op HE t 3 ' i .. 8 g H i All right, we'll bite. Is he? NOBODY HOME DISILLUSION Farewell, brides of June! By now the first glamor has departed. Honey, once a cross between # motion pic- turé hero and a plumed knight, is now a lot like other men, inclined to be careless in his dress, and eternal- ly hungry. Dust gathers in the new home much as it does in mamma’s, and the grass needs cutting when the plumed knight gets up the necessary steam. After June the bride becomes just another married woman. AHA! PARIS IS TAKING AMERICAN STYLES, SAY DESIGNERS CHICAGO, Sept. %—Paris is | stealing America’s ideas on styles, designers of women's wear here declared today. The dearest child of the American Fashion Arts league—the skirt measuring 10 inches from the ground—has been adopted by the Parisians and claimed as their own, members of the league declared. Representatives of the league's 2,600 members will meet here next week to decide on new styles and modes for the coming season. Mme. Alla Ripley, president of the league, told the United Press to- day the ankle length effect in gowns will have adherents among the willowy, graceful women, but the “canny ones will strike a hap- py medium and follow. the most graceful outline.” There is a tendency to the princess effect, not closesfittin ‘| but following the lines of the fig. ure, she said. “Sashes will not be so smart on as off, and the straight line silhouette is here to stay.” Reports of Encounter Come From Three Different Farmhouses BULLETIN eede by telephone from three differ. ent ranch houses. The warden at/ once dispatched @ squad of men, ua- | der the direction of Post where the shots were said to have | been fired. Because of the wild nature of the as Roy Gardner's ‘TACOMA, Sept. 8.—The fourth day of the hunt for Roy Gardner, California mail robber, who escaped from the federal penitentiary on Mc- Neil island during a convict baseball 3 ATER i i rocky bank of the island to the shore attracted the attention of a guardina chance for making good his break for liberty are better than ever. The guards thought for atime they had Gardner cornered in a small strip of timbered@and, They say Gardner | has eluded them and that he must be hiding in the densely timbered part of the island. ‘The theory that Gardner was wounded at the time of the escape, | j when Everett Impyn was killed, and | Lewardus Bogart was badly shot thru the left lung while attempting! to escape with him, was definitely | discarded today. Careful check shows that none of the residents has been asked by the bandit for aid of any kind. Unless Gardner had a/ confederate on the island he is thot to be still wearing the prison garb in which he escaped. Reports that Gardner actually es- caped from the prison more than a week ago are being denied by prison | authorities. The rumor still persists, | however, that Gardner got away sev eral days ago and that the news was kept quiet by prison officials Lonely Foner 1 at Impyn’s Grave! M'NEIL ISLAND, Sept, 8. — To | morrow the beating rain will have | obliterated the last visible remainder | of the inglorious life of Everett | Impyn. Today the freshness was fast fad-! ing from the mound of earth in the prison cemetery where his body lies. | | Yesterday they buried him. Two trusties carried the plain pine box out of the prison yard and lowered | it into the grave. A chaplain spoke | a few words, The trusties shoveled in the earth. , | Skagit Reynolds Durand, 17, man- ager of the famous Everett high school championship} football team of last year, testified against his pe fi Wednesday, in the lat- ter’s insanity trial at Everett, .jand who was cross-examined | by his father while on the witness stand. EVIDENCE Give Prosecutors cay tion on Asylums ‘The serond step toward = grand jury probe of Washing: evidence in the pasension of his organization will be laid befere the preper authorities. This puts the matter up to Prose cuting Attorney John Selden, of Pierce counfy, and W. 1. Brickey, county prosecutor, who! Wednesday declared that they are willing to examine any evidence submitted and to ask for a grand \Jury probe if the facts warrant. “While we will not be able to! take official action until our next meeting Tuesday night,” said Pres | ident Hunt, "I am glad to accept the offer of the prosecuting attor- society the evidence that has been brought | to us. this evidence ready, I cannot say. Just how soon we can have shape for presentation. take immediate action and will push thig fight as fast as we can consist: | ently with thoroness,” A vast amount of material bearing alleged inhumane conditions in the! Northern state hospital, at Sedro-| Woolley, and the Western state hos-| pital, at Steilacoom, has been gath ered by the Humanitarian society. ‘SAY MAHONEY BODY ‘PLANTED’ It was reported today to Prose cuting Attorney Malcolm Douglas that the defense of James KE, Mahoney, charged with murdering | his wife will be that the body of the woman found in the trunk rained from Lake Union was one “planted” there by police, and not that of Mrs. Kate Mahoney. Douglas was informed that the brother of Lee Johnston, Mahoney's counsel, had been overheard to out line the defense in conversation with a woman two weeks ago. According | to the information that reached Dovgias, the defense will claim that It} will require @ little time to get it in| But we shall) ‘That was all for the former soldier |the Police halted their efforts to re who had brutally attacked a giri|cover the real trunk in Lake Union | nurse at Catnp Lewis a few months|until they had found the body of a! ago and who had been shot and| Woman of small stature, similar to killed in a vain effort to get away that of Mra. Mahoney, and that they from the prison here, where he had | then put this bedy in a trunk, sunk been sent to spend the rest of hia|it In the lake and recovered it. life in dishonor. Douglas said he had been informed He was held in such low esteem by other prisoners that they refused to attend his funeral. Lawardus Bogart, companion in erime of Impyn, wounded in his at- tempted escape Monday, is reported | improving in the prison hospital previously that the defendant intend- ed to make a strong point of the fact that the diving operations were | suspended for a period and then re sumed, Mahoney goes to trial September 20, |Wite Describes Alleged Wild | | Actions of Doctor on Trial for Insanity insanity and had tried to cure her by leaping out at her from dark cor- ners of their home. The doctor threatened to kill her, she said, if she warned Tom Hart ley, wealthy lumberman, that her wv Was threateping (© shoot Mra. Durand Gectared that her husband was accustomed to pace the floor @ great part of the night, quot | [ing seripture, raving wildly about | [ngs subjects and running his is disordered hair. her husband. But Judge Guy Alston overruled him. SEATTLE NEUROLOGIST TO TAKE STAND Dr. Nicholson, neurologist of Se- atte, wag scheduled to take the stand late this afternoon to give ex- | pert testimony as to Dr. Durand's |condition. Nicholson was an expert Witness when Dr. Durand was tried for insanity here eight years ago, at jWhich time he declared that it was {dangerous to allow the Everett doc- itor te remain at large. The prosecution staged a lenis morning when they called Ar- thur Johnson, county jailer, back to |the stand. Johnson testified that Wednesday night Durand again |stuffed up the crevices in his cell | with paper and smeared the room |with jam, He said that the doctor Kicked thru a partition of the cell, |badly frightening the inmate of the [adjoining cell. | Mrs. Durand, while on the stand, |was dreaeed in a voluminous green | cloak and gave her testimony in a) low, collected volee. She declared | neys on bebalf of the Humanitarian |that she first noticed her husband’s| }latest spell coming on when they were in Seattle at the Butler cab aret on July 4, when the doctor be-| gan to talk incoherently about the | cabaret. SAID HE HAD REVELATION FROM HEAVY Since that time, she said, she had led a life of utter care. “While in San Francisco Dr. Du rand told me that he had just re- |ceiveo a revelation from heaven,” she said. “At another time poured odorono over his eyebro lashes and mouth, stole the bottle and tried to have it tested for prussic acid. He said that the hotel was the devil's house, hana that the people in it were being | (Turn to Last Page, Column 3) New-Born Babe Is Hurled From Train PORTLAND, Sept. 8.—Portland) police officials today are looking for | the mother of a new-born baby who was thrown from Southern Pacific train No, 16, between San Francisco and Portland from a Pullman window at Turner, in Marion county, as the train | flashed thru there early this morn: ing. It was apparently alive when thrown to the roadbed, but the fall crushed the little body terribly. ‘The train left San Francisco Tues- day night at 8:20 and arrived here | this morning 'De Valera Is Again Invited to London LONDON, Sept. 8.—President De plenipotentiaries to meet with a spe. cial committee of the British cabinet and discuss the Irish situation face to face, on or about September 20, in a note sent by the cabinet to Ireland yesterday and made public today. Ireland must remain with the em pire, the British note says: | | |rooen as Mrs. Durand detailed how | § her husband had charged her with | Later on he} ‘The little youngster was hurled) [Valera was invited to bring Irish} Mother Offers to “Loan’ : Kiddies for the Winter} Alvin UNDERSTAND,” said Ernest Clarence, sym- pathetically. He dug a bare toe into the earth. He sells papers, is 10, and knows life’s problems. “So do I.” Eight-year- old Ella Corrine was mak- ing a valiant effort to be brave. she cried. Then, woman-like, Alvin, being 6, couldn’t be expected to realize the seriousness of the situation. And Harold, 4, didn’t un- derstand at all. Many times they had talked it over—Mrs. Margie Lawson, the young, pretty mother, —in their rented lower flat at 10614, Taylor ave. ' Last night she sat down and wrote a letter to The Star. The youngsters had put to bed—Ernest Clarence on the couch covered with the American flag, and the others under the motto that hangs on the wall and reads, “God Bless Our Home.” They had gone to bed hungry, that was the pity of it. : “Dear Editor,” wrote Mrs. Lawson, “I have always tried to lead a straight life. But’ if this continues I won’t be able to much longer. Harold and her four children “My husband went to Yakima, looking for work in the orchards.’ He fell sick, arid is over there now without a cent. The doctor says he won’t be well for a long, . } time. “Rent is due. The landlord is after me for his pay. My children og nometitinns eat and-wear, We have no stove but an oil burner and it is getting. BF tev Re Rr APR Fea It is on a: Ernest Clarence ‘WED ON SUMMIT |Party Braves Blizzard and Stands in 75-Mile Gale PARADISE INN. Mt. Rainier, their ascent, Miss Lenore Allaine, of Auburn, and Edward J. Hamilton, of | Buckley, sealed Mt. Rainier yester- Jat high noon. A h-mile gale toyed with the “Bride of the Mountain's skirts as she solemnly said, “I do,” and | will,” in response to the usual ques tions of Rey. O, J. Stone, Tacoma’s real “sky pilot.” | Hans Subrer, Swiss culde, played the wedding march on his mouth or- gan, as the party stood in a spot of sunlight on the peak—Miss Ailaine, Hamilton, the minister, Miss Loretta Page, the bridesmaid; Glenn Hamil ton, brother of the groom, best man, |and maid-of-honor, who presented the | | bride with the key to the crater. Going up, the party emerged from the blizzard at Camp Comfort, where | they found clear weather to the sum- | mit. Returning to Paradise Inn they found a wedding dinner spread for ‘The tables were covered with silver and other presents for the bride. them, Elihu Root “Sees | WASHINGTON, ‘Sept. 8.—Elihu | Root, after two long conferences with President Harding and Secre- tary of State Hughes here today, de- clined to deny reports that he would become a member of the American delegation at the conference on limi- tation of drmamenta, OF MT. RAINIER Sept. 8.—Braving « raging bligegrd in| | day and were married on the summit; “t| and Miss Alma Wagen, woman guide | Harding, Hughes’ my one “Please, will you help me finda home, or four homes, for my children? I want to give them away for the winter—till we can get back on our feet again. I will help to pay for their clothes and food, as I find I can, if I can find the places for them — with honest,. ilies.” private fam- Can you give one of them a home? Then telephone The Star, ain 0-600. By W. E.Chambers |. CNewspaper man ond staid resident of Kirk- land, whe hae been closely ansocieted with the development of the King county ferey ayetom Gertng the past sight rearei formerly of the t Nee ly waged fol fight against the leasing of the ferry system.) Every day King county loses more than $1,000 of the taxpay- ers’ money. Some say that this loss is due to the ferry system. Others claim that it is a “court: house” ring that is using the county’s water transportation to build up a political machine. Still others are convinced that the grafter has his hand in the deal. | CHARGES MALADMINISTRATION BY THE COMMISSIONERS | It is my purpose to give the facts |as they are and let the reader draw |his own conclusions, 1 charge the |commissioners with maladministra- | tion of their office. I shall show how overhead expense on the ferry system has increased from nothing to the present rate of $27,000 a year within the past three years: I shall tell of money spent seem- |ingly without rhyme or reason in Joverhauling and repair work arbi- | trarily sent toja favored shipbuilding plant, 1 shall point out where political in fluence has held the incompetent on the job, The true story of the proposed | sale of the “$100,000” ferry Washing- ton for $6,000 will be given. | WASTE OF MONEY EVERYWHERE We know why the ferries were not leased as the commissioners fully planned, and it was nat because the bonus demanded was too large. Then comes unprecedented ~in- transportation business in 1901 when the ferry King County of Kent was} placed on the Kirkland-Madison Park | run, This boat was operated by the county for one year and then le@ed to Bartch and Tompkins of Kirkland until 1908, when the Washington was | |completed and assigned to this same route, ‘The commissioners next placed the Vashon Island on the Des Moines Vashon route, The port commission in the meantime had entered t transportation game and was oper ing the West Seattle on Elliott bay | and the Leschi between Bellevue and Leschi park. During the years of separate oper- ation the ferries showed a loss so small that they were in no Wise @ financial burden to the county. In 1917 the port commission ap- proached the county commissioners with a proposition to consolidate the ferry system under the latter, The county board was willing and so the transfer was Tade, Previous to this time, in 1915, the) new ferry Lincoln had been com- pleted and substituted for the Wash- ington on the Kirkland run, The Washington was then tied up at the Anderson yards at Houghton for sev- jeral years, LANNED TO SELL SHINGTON FOR $6,000! tain parties wished to buy the Washington and a scheme was ie- vised whereby the commissioners were to let them have this vessel for $6,000. Due to vehement protests, the price was raised to $16,000 but still failed to soothe the indignant taxpayers and the deal was called off. About this time there was 3 demand originating in Seattle for a ferry between Seattle and Kit- sap county. The Washington was brought forth, overhauled and placed on this run, The chairman of the county commissioners recently referred to the Washington as being a creases in salaries and the employ. jment of unnecessary help—waste of |money everywhere, one grand orgy at the expense of the taxpayers and| “fine $100,000" vessel. The super: with the ferry system as the goat! intendent of transportation a King county entered the water (Turn to Last Page, Column 2) FERRY COST INCREASE SUSP Overhead Expense Out of All Proportion to Higher Pay or Costlier crt Senator Calder Can Show $175,000,000 Yearly WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. zation of 2.75 per cent beer, and imposition of a heavy tax on would aid congress in solving the tax. revision problem, Senator Calder, of New York today. Calder proposed a levy of $5 a bam jee on 2.75 per cent beer, and an ine crease from $2.20 ie an spirituous liquors. He will place his proposal petodye | the senate finance committee, with | figures to show that $175,000,000 an nually can be derived from (eon sources, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon | appeared before the committee in ex. | ecutive session and presented figures showing how the various Proposed | tax plans would work. eee U. S. Is Destroying | Huge Liquor Hoard WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—A hu hoard of fancy wines, whisk: pagne and other valuable liquors: seized from smugglers by federal agents is now being destroyed, Chief Ashworth, of the customs service, said today. ‘The government has failed in ate. " tempts to sell it. Before the govern. | ment win sell this liquor, a permit is pecessary. “There seems to be little market for imported liquor now,” said Ash. worth. “We tried to sell it, but failed, altho we offered some ef the liquor for less than $5 a case.”