The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 3, 1921, Page 7

NDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1921, THE SEATTLE STAR PAGR 7 ENTERED IN PUYALLUP FAIR RACES MCORMICK PASTOR FACES e OWNERS Millionaire Announces Mari- tal Estrangement; Wife Is John D.’s Daughter CHICAGO, Oct. 3,.—Harold F. M Cormick and his wife, the daughter of John D. Rockefeller, have separ ated, !t was announced at the million Aire’s Lake Forest home today MeCormick, who is head of the In ternational Harvester company, in 0 statement issued to the United Presa, thru his secretary, definitely confirmed rumors that have been afloat ever since Mrs. McCormick ex Ned elf in Switzerland eight years ago. “Mr. and Mrs. McCormick are liv ing apart.” said the statement. “It ts not known whether or not there wil! be divorce proceedings. No steps toward legal action have been ta! Mr, McCormick has nothing fur to give out,” the statement cluded, The secretary to John D, Rocke feller’s son-in-law then smiled and said: “I do not know where Mr. Me Cormick ts now know all day.” Mrs, McCormick, tn her last public statement, made yesterday, denied there had been a break with her husband. “Such tatk is absurd,” “We are very happy, indeed.” Muriel, the pretty 19-yearold daughter of the wealthy and socially prominent family, is understood to be with her mother. BE McCormick, since she arrived here yesterday, has dented herself to several former close frien Come With Message for Publicity Men Willlam A. Thomson, of New York @irector of the bureau of advertising con she sald of the American Newspaper Publish. | ers’ association, and William F. Rog ers, of the Boston Transcript, are said to be on their way to Seattle with a message for every Western advertiser and newspaper man. A luncheon in honor of the visitors will be held at the Hotel Washington An mex on Friday, at 12:15 p.m. All in terested are invited to attend. WASHINGTO: = George sibel: | shipping board employe, and M Catherine Dean, 25, die tn fire tha destroys famous old Nationa! hotel, on Pennsylvania ave. Daddy, Boldt’s Butterhorns are de- Hefous.— Advertisement. Pr Aco nga Se | bs 2} the ealth value of perfect- ee bese tory tested iG Drink Perhaps I will not| MecDougal — | Hearing LAKEPORT, Oct 3 Not since the last county fair has Lake port seen the crowds which were on hand today for the opening of the trial of the Rey. John A. Spencer for the alleged murder of his wife Maude Spencer, formerly of Dayton Ohto. Spencer's trial will open at 10 a. m today Difficulty In securing a jury expected, owing to the wide Interest In the case nd the fact the county ts eplit Into factions as to Scores of p were here to a news paper men, lawyers and others, This town, which normally numbers its leas than 1,000, Cal, hat ople from the outside inhabitants at overfiowing Rev. Spencer was specifically is charged with having thrown his wife! overboard from a canoe one moon ght night while they were enjoying @ vacation at Lakeport favorite summer resort lake. Bpencer claims that overboard from the canoe Was not in the boat Charges that Spencer was unduly familiar with Mrs. B. B. Barbe he was in charge of the Fulton, Cal Presbyterian church, enter into the case. 'Tax Reducers’ Work Gets Commendation Morrow Chapter of Union Dames of the Civil War G, A. R,, at a meet ing held Monday, indorsed the action of the Tax Reduction count! in all ite work so far. According to a reso lution adopted, the members “thank the council for tts work and bid it to continue on the same lines until thelr methods meet with success in reducing state, county, city, port commission and school taxes.” which fs a on Clear his wite while he |Pair Charged With Making Booze Stills Arrested by federal prohibition agents, Sam Aronin and Herman Aronin are held Monday for the action of the federal grand jury. The m were accorded hearing Satur before Robert W. McClelland, United States commissioner. They are charged with manufacturing liquor stills Vital Statistics BIRTHS Wiliam, Seattle, Thomas A., 4237 32n: W,, girl w thber, Frederick E., Elmer A. 917. 3fh4 ave, girl g. Georne, $203 Havent ave trl ave. 7 Harrison st.. Fred ie 1702 Roxbury st HMarol4, 625 Holden st {) Barl, 1212 BH. Marrt- Bath st. P we ye Lowase, 410 N. You. J, Bryn B. Teos Eg HL Thomas Republican st. girl MARRIAGE LICENSES Name and Residence. Ward, Richard P., Seattle ... Bartlett, Anna B, Ottumwa, Idaho eeseneees . Charley D.. marae poet | DIVORCES GRANT: | Chandler, Blanche from William C. DEATHS if, Mary. i. 5623 Keystone Marie Enckmann, for single-engine, one-man hydro- airplanes set by William R. Davis, Jr., who ascends to 11,500 feet. |. OAKLAND.—New altitude record { i LIVERPOOL.—Body of “Peter Grosscup, former U. 8. jurist, who | died en route to Liverpool on steam ship Caronia, to be returned to New York for burial. Men’s itn Inside the Door veliiiieiaiiniiones $1 Best quality Trimmed with silk frogs. Garments full cut. Sizes A, SALE TUESDAY 624 Men’sAmoskeag Flannelette Pajamas 85 “1921” cloth. B, C, D. ence of the pastor.) felt! while} MANY IN CITY) Crowds Rush to Attend the| Total Is 45. 5 Per Cent a 80,048 Occupied Houses | (Special to The Star) | WASHINGTON Oct 3.—There Are 80,048 occupied homes tn Seattle, to an official bulletin of jepartment, released to. | day, of whic ‘ by occupants, ar according the census cent are owned of which owned homes 49.5 per cent are mortgaged. | The average value of the mort-| «aged home In $3 and the a $1 aking © total estimated mortgage debt on the homes of the of $30,000,000. The prevatiing interest per and 66 homes, valued at more than $25,000 were found to be but of the 15,714 mort mes, however 9 per cent 00 and rate tp 7 cent morte ) caged } were va jonly 2 y J at less than cent above $10,000 HERE’S MORE ABOUT MAHONEY STARTS ON PAGE ONE jwaid the judge, calmly, and turned to the jury and thanked them for jthelr patience during the long trial The passageway to the Jury room was cleared, The jury filed out. It had taken them a little more than four hours to reach thelr verdict and decide the penalty, They had taken 12 ballots. They were tired, jand looked it “Let's go, Mahoney,” Star. wich sald. The prisoner reached for his hat and in a moment more was gone. The cluster of deputies had to step lively to keep up with him. He had been called a coward. Today he grinned at Harry Ajax “I win, don’t I?” he asked “You do,” sald Ajax, handing a cigar thru the bars to the prisoner, who bit off the end, lighted it and puffed. The rest of this story is four women, Mrs, Nora Mahoney, mother; Mra. “Dolly” Johnson, sister; Mra. Kate Stewart and Carrie Hewett, the two nieces murdered Kate Mahoney. Dolly” Johnsen, a sbe had ‘come to” in the Judge's chambers, tottered unsteadily to the street. with some assistance, with the fear in her heart of being arrested. Carrie Hewett and Kate Stewart went home and collapsed under the long strain, Mrs, Stewart spent most of, Sunday confined to her bed But Mrs. Nora Mahoney did not break. She was the stoic of the trial. Expressionless thruout the trial, she was just as emotionless when she lifted her daughter from the judge's couch, steadied her on her feet, helped her down the stairs and remarked: “No, we don't want a taxi cab, She'll brace up when she gets into the air.” *|Won’t Save Mahoney to Go Insane Now Suppose that James E. Mahoney should “go crazy” again, now that he has been sentenced to hang- about the the Mrs. of “lwhat disposition would be made of his case? Existing decisions on the subject decree that he should be sent to an asylum for the criminal insane, but— According to one of the five allen: ists who decided that Mahoney was sane before he was brought to trial, the prisonér should still be hanged, even if he were found to be “really and truly” Insane this time. The alienist’s name cannot be used for ethical reasons—but he is one| Berg and Bassett are undergraduy 190 citizens, which hold Sheriff Bu- “lof the leading members of the cam- mission which passed on Mahoney's sanity. “If Mahoney should go crazy now," the said today, “it should have no bearing on the cane, Because he could not become a maniac except by his own efforte—and this should §.j} automatically bar him from any spe-| was discovered that all the posters ctal consideration. “If a man drinks whisky until he is mentally abnormal and then com- mits a crime, the law holds that he is just as guilty as if he had been sober. What is the difference be- tween drinking whisky until one is drunk and brooding or staying awake until one is crazy? “The courts would have to pass on the question, of course, because it has never been brought up before— but I believe that their decision would be that Mahoney must hang.” Alleged Spy Sysem in Mills Described NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—The alleged spy system employed by steel com panies in their mills was described in a supplementary report on the 1919 |steel strike by the commission of in- lquiry of the inter-church world movement, made public today The report quoted hundreds of documents on “under cover men” in the steel strike and stated that “widespread systems of espionage are an integral part of the anti-union policy of great industrial corpora tions.” KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS EUGENE, Ore., Oct. 3.—John Lind-| say, manager of the electric light and | power plant at Creswell, is lying un- | conscious and tn a eritical condition in @ local hospital as the result of |injuries sustained when his car was| struck by @ Southern Pacific freight | train late Saturday night at the | Creswell crossing. | Full course dinner, 750, at Boldt's. Served 5 to 8 p. m- ~Advertinement, Three horses that will compete in the races at the Western Washington fair, which opened Monday at Puyallup. Top, Eureka; center, Victor J.; bottom, Prairie (who won three derbies at Y akima.) HERE’S MORE ABOUT FEES STARTS ON, PAGE ONE the high fees, “Most of those who were dis- missed for scholastic reasons,” she declared, “could have afford. ed to pay the increased fees.” The committee on which Miss Charter Is working comprises, in ad- dition to her, Gunnar Berg, chair. man; Leslie J. Marchand, Samuel Bassett and Lucille Greenwood. ates and Marchand and Miss Green- wood are graduate students. ‘The committee held @ meeting fast and is preparing to holt another on the campus, in spite of vetled opposition which it is find ing, Just before the last meeting It advertising the gathering had been mysteriously torn down. Not to be daunted, the students had 4,000 dodgers struck off and distributed them by hand. Urges Cultivation of Foreign Marts According to Axel H. Oxholm, chief of the lumber division of the department of commerce, who 1s touring the Pacific coast in the inter- est of upbullding foreign markets, the salvation of Western markets Nes in the Orient and South Ameri- ca. Europe, too, he declares, will be | a valuable market for box lumber | m= and manufactured lumber products, | provided that Western dealers coop.| erate in the exploitation of the for-| eign parts, Nothing worth while, | states Oxholm, can be accomplished | without the co-operation of all the dealers. This cultivation of foreign mar- kets, it is said, will provide a solu tion for the seasonal slumps in the | local lumber industry, | DUCK HUNTER KILLED ROSE LAKE, Idaho, Oct. 3.— John Bee, age 20, is dead as the re sult of a wound receive? when hunting ducks Sunday, Bee was row- ling a boat when his shotgun fell from a seat, sending a charge of shot Into his chest. OIL STATION ROBBED Two auto bandits, driving a large touring car, held up and robbed the Shell ofl station at Third ave. and Lenora st. Sunday night. They es- caped with about $20 in neh, “HUMAN FLY” KILLED SAND POINT, Idaho, Oct. 3. Falling 20 feet from the wall of a two. | story building here, Jack Hughes, ago 28, of Detroit, known as the “human fly,” met his death Sunday MRS. EMMA L. JOSENHANS, 62, a resident of Seattle 30 years, died | at her home at 4524 W, Othello st. | Bunday after an illness of several LEAVENWORTH, Wash.—-N, B. (Daddy) Day, 60, killed when auto plunges over embankment one mile east of Dryden, POSSE AND KU KLUX BATTLE, Texas Town Divided as Re-| sult of Fight WACO, Texan, Oct. 3.—Lorena, the ttle town near here which was the acene of the battle between members | of the Ku Klux Klan and a posse led by Sheriff Bob Buchanan, was split! into opposing camps today, In the teeth of the resolution of chanan to blame for the riot of Sat- urday night in which 10 persons were Injured, County Attorney F. B. Tirey announced that a grand jury investigation would be held as soon an ponsible. Four of those who were shot or stabbed when the sheriff attempted to atop the scheduled parade of the Klan were in a serious condition to- day, They * Sheriff Buchanan, Louls Crow, Policeman Edward How. ard and Carl West. COMMUNITY FUND DRIVE The Seattle community fund cam- paign will be launched November 19, with W. L, Rhodes as campaign manager. Tho goal is estimated at $750,000, but is not yet definitely an- nounced. A careful analysin of the cost of money-raising resulted in the re. | duction from the usual 15 per cent| to as low as one and onehalt per | cmt. |EDITOR KILLS WOMAN; SUICIDE Murders Waitress, Gun on Himself “She played too recklessly with evorything » man holds most dear in life.” That was the note written by M Turns | Ponzio just before he shot Mrs, Geor- gia Mattice to death and then killed himself. Their bodies were found Saturday night In the Navarre hotel. Ponzio was editor of Il Corrter di Seattle, an Italian publication, and Mrs. Mattice was a waitress. Mrs. Mattice’s brother, Frank Kerr, arrived from New Westmin- ster, B, C., Sunday to take charge of his sister's body, but Ponzio’s body is still at the morgue. Man Wanted Here Freed in Spokane When W. J. Wallace, special King county deputy sheriff, ar. vested F. W. Nelson in Spokane Friday on a charge of obtaining = signature under false pretensos in Seattle, a woman friend of Nel- son's offered Wallace $1,500 bail to be taken in place of Nelscn. The bail was accepted, and Nelson will not come here until his trial is ‘ wet. FREDERICK exceptional savings on most in demand for smart Autumn costuming. 40-INCH CANTON CREPE, 40-INCH CREPE DE CHIN 35-INCH GRECIAN SATIN, Special, $2.25 Yard. 40-INCH SATIN-FACED Yard. 40-INCH CHARMEUSE SATIN, Special, $1.95 Yard. 40-INCH PRINCESS CHARMEUSE, Yard. 35-INCH GLACE ART TAFFETA, Special, Yard. 40-INCH BLACK SATIN, Special, $2.15 Yard. 36-INCH DUVETYN, Special, $4.95 Yard. 89-INCH BLACK CHIFFON VELVET, Special, $3.75 Yard. FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET Fashionable Silks at Special Prices ‘HE Fabrics in these special price groups bring & NELSON just the Silks and Velvets Special, $2.95 Yard. E, Special, $1.75 Yard. CANTON, Special $3.25 Special, $2.2: $1.95 —FIRST FLOOR en FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET | DOWNSTAIRS | SPECIAL New Rain Capes for Schoolgirls $1.95 Buide girls are well-protected from blustery weather in these all-enveloping Rain Capes of rubber- ized sateen, in the style pictured, with standing collar fitting closely at throat and hood half-lined with plaid. Choice of navy and red—sizes 6 to 14 years. Special $1.95. pe § —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE — 650Y ardsof White Nainsooial Special 18c Yard excellent quality of nainsook, free from dressing and especially suited to undergarment u inches wide, special 18¢ yard. 500 Yards of Standard Devonshire Clo Special 35¢ Yard ENGTHS from two to ten yards of this stand ,quality Devonshire cloth—plain and striped fects—to sell Tuesday at 35¢ yard. —THE DOWNSTAIRS Women’s Outing Flanne Pajamas Special 95c ‘HE sketch shows of the pi sibly-styled sleeping gs ments in ee = bread y ‘wo-piece style—all aus tripe cating nel, wi orange. cerized ds. Special, Tuesday, —THE DOWNSTAIRS Particularly Good Value in Men’s Silk Sox At 95c Pair Ex wear ig insured in these Sox by the ized cotton top, toe and heel. They areof = novelty stitch—Black, Navy, Dark-gray | jovan. Sizes 914 to 11144—95¢ pair. —THE DOWNSTAIRS Willow Clothes Baskets Exceptionally Low-Priced cg neg: and sturdy baskets of closely- willow, reinforced at edge and bottom. In 25-inch size, 65¢. In 27-inch size, 85¢. In sizes 29 and 31 inches long, $1.25. In 83-inch size, $1.35. Other Baskets at Very Low Prices An odd lot, including Covered Lunch Hampers, Open Market Baskets and Waste Bas- kets, at exceptionally low prices. —THE DOWNSTAIRS HILLY, fogg3 ageing. and ev aoe pomingars of the need of extra heat. | The Hot-Bla