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

Seattle’s Most Vital Problem Today (EDITORIAL) ‘L.iis is an earnest plea, right from the heart, addressed to the business leaders and principal employers. public and private, of this state. \ It is on the subject of JOBS. \ As viewed from any one of the larger cities of, Washington today, the coming winter looks ominous. Unemployment seems likely to in- crease. Already the situation is serious. But The Star does not believe it really needs to grow worse. With crops as abundant as this state is now harvesting and with business con- ditions clearing as they are, it is YOUR fault, business leaders, if there is destitution and suf- fering here this winter. The gist of the whole problem is JOBS. If . everybody who needs to work has a job there will be no sérious want, no serious suffering. In this marvelous state of ours there is abund- ant work for everybody to do—that is clear. And a little statesmanlike intelligence will bring the men and the jobs together. The Star calls on you, business leaders, to drop for the moment all lesser tasks and unite in an intensive study and a prompt solution of this great immediate need. True, it is a nation-wide, a world-wide trou- ble we share. But we locally CAN solve it this . winter for ourselves if we just exert a united »pull all together to that end. ARE YOU EM- PLOYERS BIG ENOUGH FOR THE TASK? THOUSANDS ARE - FLOOD VICTIMS 100 Reported Dead; 42 Bodies Recovered in Texas Tragedy SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 16. —Forty-two dead by police, 100 of more dead, thow sands homeless and millions of dol- lars property damage stood at noon today as the toll in San Antonio of South Central Texas’ night of storm horror. ‘With definite reports as to casual ties still lacking from other parts of the territory hit by the storm that Ralph Hammer, special investis®: | swept down iy, terribly and al: for the prosecuting attorney's of- , told Sheriff Matt Starwich that | Mew witiout Wivtre known te be was going fishing. linto hundreds of thousands, San An “Tl bring you back @ pleture Of | tonic, fumed as the Alamo City, Jeli the fish I catch,” he told Matt. | raced itself to meet the results of ye “But I can’t eat pictures, COMr |its midnight disaster. plained Matt ean Every agency was devoted to re an t fief work as stories of suffering, death and destruction increased. ‘ JOSH WISE SAYS: , | | Mayor Black called a meeting of citi ‘Th’ big _ ain't found in th’ | |zens at the city hall to consider re- rer | lief work. Army field kitchens were set up to feed the hungry and home | Sheriff West charged with sellin 25 galions of moonshine to Ever leas by Major John Hines. i titizen. Unfair to union bootleggers? j one At noon today the water had re ceded almost to the normal river guage. This was attributable to the jthe 090 airplanes and 40,000 motors | Antonio river, has its origin in the for which the American public | northern part of the city. ked President Henry ’ 2 § “il women Bridges tan Shortly before noon police sald 42 gone We — Rue | bodies had been recovered. know, Reports of heavy casualties in San | but mebby they're stowed away | anionic, where water from the San in the wooden ships out on Lake | Antonio river and Olmos creek swept Union. thru the southern residence district and the heart of the down town dis- Congressmen are so busy fighting trict, leaving ruin and wreckage, for beer they have forgotten all| flew thick and fast. ‘gbout bread. Police Commissioner Wright h * | asked that strict military control be Uncle Warren Harding, wh alled| granted from the commander of the the disarmament conference, ys 8th army corps area, We'll always have war. The dia. i,| Property damage will run tnto the q _. ig to be a great deal like the| millions, it waa estimated by city A wers winning a game. It don't| officials, an entirnate at 9 o'clock anything. placing the losses of the elty and} ° * residents at $10,000,000. Other | A WIDE VARIETY OF sources of information, however, de ; REFRESHMENTS clared this estimate excessive, Yn the yard, PUNCH was served From over South Texas, reports guests as they arrived, Misses|came of great property damage to p Herrington and Dolly | railroads, highways, residences and ECKELS presiding. Little Betsy | buildings that were hit by the deluge INES received the cards as guests |of water. The cotton crop suffered ved, Mrs. T. T. Covington and | heavily. Mrs. Geo. Goodloe assisted in enter. | faining and in the dining | room | Misses Carolyn RICE, Sara Chenault, Duncan Foster, Evelyn and Virginia ' f Hisle looked after the hospitalities. — | | North Gallaud News, clipped by | Hoyt Shoe Co. | “ey Es Eixclted contrib rushes into of. | LOS ANGELES, sept. 10—Four| fice with new name for a sum | bandits held up and robbed postoffice | mer cottage: “A Few Drops | station “C,” Fifth and Los Angeles | Inn.” sts, of several thousands of dollars’ | ave worth of registered mail and escaped | Our special agent at the CAnadian | in @ shower of bullets at 5:20 a. m. to | Doundary reports that they have | 4y. placed two mottoes on the new peace| Henry D. Hiteman, a bystander, Jportal at Blaine. As you drive up {Was shot thru the neck as the bam rom the American side dit car turned into Sixth st, anl you are} teseted with “Give Me Liberty or | disappeared. | S Me Death,” and when you re-| Eight clerks and letter carriers urn you see the Dantesque admoni-| were held at bay by revolvers, | tion, “Who Enters Here Leaves| While two of the bandits slashed | open the mail sacks and seized| Hootch Behind.” eee great bunches of registered letters. First flea: Been ob a vaca One of the bandits fired at Rus-! tion? sel) Cook, a clerk, when he attempt- Second fica; No, on » tramp. ed to run for « revolver, | | | i ati ae There is a reason why The Star\has 10,000 more circulation than any other Seattle newspaper; you know what that reason is. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Rnterea VOLUME 23. _ i : i 5 A is al if unless they Ballantyne if my children be disminsed Monday. I state regard the fees “I represent several fathers and mothers tn my neighborhood who were also astounded to find at the ‘They will nee the fight thru.” WOULD WORK INJUSTICE ON POOR Ballantyne {s superintendent of the Lumbermen’s Printing Co. here He lives at 4223 12th ave. N. EB. His children are Ancrum end Flor- ence Ballantyne. The former, the gon, was checked in his effort to take woodwork and botany, altho the fatter subject is required for entrance to Washington State col- lege, where he intends to go. Florence found a stumbling block to taking courses in cooking and dremmumaking. “These are subjects which the children of the poor expecially will wish to take and the principle of the fee system bas peen attached to them, while the/ so-called cul tural subjects are not under the fee system,” sail the father. Ballantyne’s first attempt to get an answer to his question as to whether his children would be dis. missed Monday was met by a state- ment from the board's attorney that he needed more facts before giving an opinion, altho he stated that if fees were being charged which were not justified by wear and tear on school property they would probably be illegal. Cari E. Croson sought to con vince Ballantyne that the school (Turn to Last Page, Column 8) Chas. Chaplin Hailed Hero by London Throng LONDON, Sept. 10,—Charlie Chaplin has arrived. Never in English history has a conquering hero received the spontaneous wildly enthusiastic reception that was extended to Charlie when he stepped from the boat at Waterloo station today and drove to his suite at the Ritz As this {a cabled Chartle ts bar- ricaded from his frantic admirers, who are held off by @ special squad of 60 policemen detailed to defehd the Ritz from the friendly assatit, He appears constantly on the little balcony outside his sulte and waves and speaks to the cheering thousands who have made traffic thru Piceudilly im possible, There were more than 6,000 people in the throng that met the boat train and fully twice that number have already passed be- neath Charlie's windows, Second Clam Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattin, Wash., under the Act of Congress March $, 1879. The Seattle Star Per Your, by Mall, $6 to $9 TH LATE EDITION px ¢ lt SEATTLE, WASH. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1921. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE UNJUST SCHOOL FEES ATTACKED! Ill Wait for Him as.Long as He Lives,” Says Dolly Gardner Mrs. Dolly Gardner, wife of Bandit Roy Gardner Missing Bandit’s Pretty Little Wife, in San Francisco, Is Racked by Doubts and Fears Special to The Star. AN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10.— “Oh, have they caught Roy? “Is he dead? Do you think he got away? “Tell met must know!" Féurs and doubts are tortur- ing ¢ brain and racking the soul “Sf blue-cyed, blond-haired, fairtaced little Dolly Gardner, wife of the romantic, daredevil bandit, Roy Gardner, who es caped from the MeNeil Island federal prison Monday afternoon. She met the reporter with a rapid fire of questions. “Y'd rather Roy were killed than that he killed anyone in trying to regain his Wberty. I hope he hasn't a gun,” she said. “No, I'm not going to Tacoma as I planned. Not now, anyway. If Roy is caught and taken back to MeNell, maybe I'll go then. But, I'll wait for him as long as he lives. “Roy should have waited and tried for’ a pardon,” she sobbed. Then she straightened de- fiantly and dried her tears. “Now that he ts out, I hope they never catch him.” Is Roy Garaner “queer” as the result of a skull injury he suf- fered several years ago during & mine strike in Arizona? Are his daring breaks for Ib erty and his robberies the prod uct of a deranged and twisted mind? Was he drowned while trying the channel from Mo- to the mainland? If his body be washed Quick! Please! I no, will ashore? Or will it be carried into some lonely bay and never found? Or washed out to sea by the tides? Or has Roy Gardner sped for some remote corner of the world, by never to be heard of again? These are questions Mrs. Dolly Gardner cannot keep from ask- ing. It is the Inck of real definite and authentic news of her hus band's whereabouts that is stif- lng her. Yet, her eyes are bright and her hand is steady. She does not often give evidence of the turbulent emotions that surge within her. “They are nunting him like a wild animal on that island of hor ror,” she said. “But is there any use? Is he there? I'm sure he is not. “Is he hungry? Is he hurt? “He worked fast with pliers, didn’t he?’ Her beamed with admiration, “He didn’t wricve me he was going to try to escape. I was afraid the federal authorities would think so, but I guess they know better now. Roy wrote reff ularly. I heard from shim a week ago. (Another letter is due, but I subpose that will be held up. “They go to astonishing lengths watching me. When Roy was being hunted before, I recetved a letter from a friend in Arizona. A féderal agent went to Arizona to meet that man and question him. He didn't know anythjng, tho, “There was nothing In Roy’s letters to indicate his plans. Do you think he would be such a fool as to write that he was go- ing to escape when that every letter was censored? The last letter said he was con- tented. “No, I wouldn’t think of making the letters public. I might have to show them to the feedral authorities, but nobody elsq 1d going to see them, They those eyes he knew , were from Roy to me, for ma and 1 am going th keep them to myself. “Roy would make good if given an opportunity. There never was a better man to his wife. If they would only let him go straight! If his wonderful spirit were directed along right lines, what couldn't he accomplish? “When we lived in Fresno the heat affected Roy. You know, he has a silver plate in his head, where his skull was frac- tured. He used to complain that his head felt tight, “I don’t like to speak of fn- sanity, because pecale will say T am trying to make excuses for Rey's actions, trying to stir up sympathy, But insanity runs in his family. . “There was the time when he fought Schaeffer. He was so confident he would win. And he was knocked out in the first round. For three days he was under a spell. He can’t. remem. ber anything that happened during that time, “If Roy is captured, will all his privileges be taken from him? “Won't they let him write to me? Oh, I am so anxious to see: him. I could give him some good advice. I wish I knew, Ol, anything!" 4 On a little ranch near Dry Creek little 4-year-old Jean hugs to her baby breast a great, big dolla doll sent to her by her dad, dys away,” says Jean, and ‘her blue eyes open wide when she speaks his name. “Have you seen my daddy? I want my daddy right now..Why doesn't he come home.” 6 es CAN'T ESCAPE FROM ISLAND} we An Open Letter to Bandit Roy Gardne ROY GARDNER, Train iT 5? E { F Hy Hit Ht! Woodsmen 2 on Gardner Tr He sent three skilled woodmen into the 12 square miles of forest and dense underbrush to look for trails or signs of the missing ban- dit’s whereabouta. Maloney still insists that Gardner has not left the island, tho that belief is not shared by many of the manhunters, The woodsmen are James B. Mo Donald, a forest ranger, Louie Son- ny, Centralia policerhan and for- mer forester, and H. B. Ogle, Lewis county deputy sheriff. Sonny is the officer who captured Gardner at Centralia, after the ban- dit's break from guards on the train en route to Tacoma, McDonald is said to be one of the cleverest man-trackers in the state. Around the island there was a feel- ing of tenseness last night, as it was thought that Gardner, who is still on the island, would surely make an attempt to get away. Charges that some residents of the island would be willing to aid and shelter Gardner and that they may have done so, were made by prison guards Friday. Hints were made that; at least one ranch house on the island might be raided soon. In joining the man-hunt, Officer Sonny of Centralia declared that he did not believe Gardner was on the island, but that he had volunteered to help Warden Maloney. Pp. J. MeMurray, apecial agent for the Northern Pacific railroad, who joined the man-hunt two days ago, | was etill on the island Friday. He predicted that Gardner would make a vicious fignt if cornered. He scoffed at. the idea that Gardner van, American distance swimmer, of Lowell, Mass., who set out from Do- ver, England, yesterday afternoon at 652 on his fifth attempt to swim thé English channel, was reported to be making good progress early today. Ku Klux Klan Not to Be Probed Here No investigation of the Ku Klux Klan in Seattle is contemplated, it was stated Saturday by Robert C. Saunders, United States district at- torney, Orders for euch an invest gation would have to come from Washington, Saunders said. WEATHER Paste this on a postcard and mail it to your friends in the Tell them thas Seattle’ temperature September 9 was 65, Lowest was 50, At noon Septem- ber 10 it was 62. Tongght and Sunday, fair; recderate northeast- erly winds,