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

By feral Plaalty The Star 14 Pah, Cbeted Seals tort _~ IFO FOCB~ RA RAR ‘LAWYER FOR JAP ‘PONZI’ BLOCKS ARRES On the Issue of Antericanism “There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879, Per Your, byWfall, $5 to $9 SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1921. WITNESS AGAINST JAP “PO! DODGES i Too Busy, Says Lawyer; Alleged Vix tim of Scheme Tells How. -_ He Was Duped By Robert Bast ien Bermann Delayed by the failure of the company’s attorn answer a question as to the assets and claims of the Cable Directory Co., Maj. Bert C. Ross, deputy pro attoi , continued his investigation Satu: into fairs o! the corporation without filing any mati At the conference held Friday in the prosecu' ney's office between Major Ross and officials of pany, the prosecutor asked only one Tonight and Sunday, fair; moder- ate northeasterly winds, ‘Temperature Last 4 Hours Maximum, 69, Minimum, 48, Today noon, 61. COUNTY OFFICIALS or ROBBER OR one Bre») OPERATING 3CENT FARE EXPERT MAY = FOR MONTHS IS CHARGE COME HERE Peter De Witt of Cleveland Tavited to Seattle by VOLUME 23 ke ae wouldnt be a eee Li’ Gee Gee, th’ Prairie Vamp. sex: “After all, when it comes to flivvers, it's pretty hard t’ beat a baby carriage.” a this series! il ll a Fall Into Trap Deliberately Set by Sheriff on North Highway Accused of wholesale highway alleged te haw been : over 9, parted of four a menthe, twe county of. Jap offers investors 4.000| ficials were arrested and lodged urant. im the county jail Satarday. Dr, Carl 8. Knapp, county sanitary free | inspector, and A. E. Harris, employ: jed im the county treasurer's office, | are alleged to have confessed to Sher- lift Matt Starwich the robbery of F. y the | | Kramer. 4273. Woodland Park ave. | land his fiance, four miles north of . (Turn to Last Page, Column 5) tl ral “Of course,” he explained, “TI can’t answer that question | now. I'll dictate an asnwer)| as soon as possible.” grandmother, Mrs, O. I. |sell her piano for the $90 needed, he ran into a snag, Mrs. Holmes smelled « Saturday morning Col, Hawthorne | called up the youngster’s [announced regretfully that he had| Ralph Douglas, an importer | been much too busy to answer the | porter in the Central buil | question, but that he'd try to make !asked him to investigate: i Douglas immediately went In the meatnime, Rose was inter-| prosecuting attorney's office fogating Leland Brown, who is indi- | he failed to get a reasonable ¢ Fectlygreaponsible for the investiga-| tion from the company. ton. Witnesses Tom ov nollongs who led a nationally. famous fight for a Scent fare. Witt is one of the! best-known experts on street raf opera: Von in the country, ~~ That the 3%-cent trangfer under the proposed | cent carfare ordinance may be eliminated on the short “feed- er” lines was intimated for the first time Friday by Councilman C. B. | Pitagerald, sponsor of the reduced tare bill. Some Seattle husbands leave home because two's a crowd. cee TWO SILLY THINGS The cuckoo clock Is @ silly thing. It clucka the Brown, who, altho only 18 years t clue Time of day. The flapper girt Is @ silly thing. Bhe flirts her Time away. --Mr. Anon. Od King Coal calis for his gold. | eee ANOTHER OF THEM) EXPERTS Some time ago we printed a few extracts from the published works of William Shakespeare, to show) that the former Bard of Avon was an enthusiastic baseball fan. Today ‘we supplement this list with a few quotations to prove that Bill actual- ly predicted what was going to hap- pen in the 1921 world series. | Speaking of Mike McNally stealing | home, Shakespeare said: “It was a| mad, fantastical trick of him to) stealt” Measure,” 11.22.) And here ix what Pitcher Nebf d to Babe Ruth: “If you strike, hyou are no gentleman.” (“Taming of the Shrew,” fi.) While John McGraw was crying, “strike of: Call up all my people!” | oe ic), Manager Huggins vising the Yanks, “Home; you idle creatures! Get you) rcsallus Caesar,” 1.1) (Measure for and the “Wife Put on Dress Leaves.”—Headline, Why leaves? AN EARLY SEPARATION The man who darts ahead of motor | cars should never marry a girl who) darts back | Russia wants to be up and | chewing. Seattle teachers Some “Can schoo! Marry?” asks a subscriber, ean; some can't WHEN IS SHE OUT? Highland Park Press For Sale—Beautiful orange | Angora kitten, house-broken; $5; | | female. Home evenings, 418 | | | Roger Williams ave. 1} ——_——__—@ o- An editor wrote a Vashon island} subscriber named Bill Jeffrey, advis- | ing him that hi« subscription had ex pired. A few days later the editor! received back his own letter, across the bottom of which was scrawled 9 BA." BUT THEY DIDN'T ARREST HER “The bride was lovely in a chic | ‘gray hat, gray slippers and an jexquisite corsage bouquet of i pink roses completing the cos ‘tame."—Los Angeles Evening of persons at, every Te» are two kinds gathering these days —those who have read “Main Street” and those who don’t know what it is ail about. Of course everybody wants to read the book that has made America squirm. But it hasn't been very easy to find “Main Street.” The library long ago stopped trying to meet the demand. Applicants go on a long waiting list. And the book stores all over the land sell out as fast as they get copies. But everybody in Seattle will soon have a chance to read this most talked of “beat seller.” Your friends will be glad to learn that “Main Street” is to appear serially in The Star. “Main Street” is one of the most interesting novels of all time. Sinclair Lewis, the author, has pictured with skillful detail the small town life of America —and he has made, 500,000 people hopping mad and has set another 500,000 tongues wagging in ap- proval. Yowll . want “Main Street.” Call up The Star lation department, 0600, or drop a card to the cireulation manager to ar- range for daily delivery of The Star. to read circu- Main Fitagerald stated that so much dis- cussion had etitered into the proposed charge of 3% centa for transfers that it may be advisable to cut out the charge on lines that n be consid. ered more as “feeders.” such as the | James and Madison cables and the jshort stub lines on 40th ave. and Ray st Councilman Lou Cohen had previ- jously declared that he would not vote | |for the b-cent fare ordinance unless | some provision was made by which | riders on the short James and Madi- son st. lines would not have to pay lextra for tranaters. FOURTH GAME IS _ HALTED BY RAIN | Babe Ruth Is “Out With In- jured Arm POLO GROUNDS, New York, Oct. $.—Rain which fell steadily for more than an hour caused the postpone. | |ment of the fourth game of the} | world series between the New York | Giants and the New York Yanks | here this afternoon The postponed game wili be played jtomorrow on the same schedule, with today’s rain checks being hon | ored at the gates and with the Yanks | stilt in the role of the home team. Babe Ruth, who was in ctvilian clothes today, with an infected arm |in a sling, said he wae not sure he | would be able to play tomorrow, but | hoped he would be back in the neup Ruths left arm was injured in the final game of the Cleveland-Yank | | weries, two weeks ago, He slid into second and tore the flesh from his el bow. LAttle waa thought of the in. | jury until the arm began to swell | | yesterday. It became so painful that | | after Ruth walked in the eighth in- pee he wae replaced by Fewster. ‘31 HELD IN BIG | BOOZE ARRESTS | WASHINGTON, Oct. 8—An_ ex ltensive ring of bootleggers in the | nation’s capital was broken up today with the arrest of 31 men and women | land the confiscation of hundreds of | | gallons of various brands of lquor. | William Butler, negro, held to be the | “master mind” of the organtzation, | had $50,000 in cash on his person when arrested, police said Leland Brown, 18-year-old boy, who indirectly started the investigation into the affairs of the World Cable Directory company.—Photo by Price & Carter, Star staff photographer. JAP PROMOTER PLANS TO TURN | “COMPANY INTO MILITARY CORPS Requires Every Employe to! Salute Him; Hoped to | Start Drill Soon jabatame, Jap Contract Provides for Suicide Pact Some of the employes of the World Cable Directory Co. who contracted to commit hari-kari of they told of the secrets of the cor- poration thought the word meant “something to eat,” but Webster's New International — dic fails to corroborate this Hari-kari—or, more hara-kirl—is Japanese for “stom ach cutting,” according to the dic tionary, which goes on to give the f@owing more detatled defi- nition: “suicide by plorcing the abdo- men, formerly practiced in Japan by the nobles or samurai in case of disgrace, real or fancied, and commanded by the government to certain disgraced officials.” Thomas ¥. » founder of the World Cablo Directory company, not only cherishes plans to pay 4,000 per mt dividends on the stock he Is issuing, but he also intends to turn his company into « military organization of which he is to be the “all-highest.” He has already put this plan into effect to the extent of requiring every employe of t company to arise and salute whenever he enters the room and some of his workers say that he had hoped to start drill ing next week His plan is entirely In keeping | with his incongruously Germanic cent, because it has more of the ear- marks of Potsdam than of Tokyo. Nabatame, it seems, desires to free the world of the burden of paying for armaments, but, at the same time, he thinks the military | too fine a thing to be abandoned flo he proposes to gé@t every | poration to have its own army, he is willing to lead the way proud and ae thiedoaiie on Parents’ Night; Daniel B, Trefethen, chairman of the civic bureau of the Chamber of | told the members at the council luncheon parent of a student “parents’ MOUNDSVILLE, Va, Oct. 8 While Henry Harbor was being ha ed in the penitentiary for wife mur r today, a phonograph played |Commeree, “When You and I Were Young, Mag-| weekly members’ gle.” |yesterday, that every Harbor requested music and chose |university or high school the song, should attend the big |Nabatame Married to Sec- | ond White Wife; Daughter of First Wife Enraged TT as Y, Nabatame, Ponzi’s Japanese rival, is nearly as in- teresting personally as is his cor- poration, the World Cable Di- rectory company. A short, stocky Ortental, he is not to be particularly remarked from any of a hundred other Japanese one |might meet on King st., but that is jonly as regurds his appearance His history makes up for any in. jadequacies in his looks. Altho he says he is he look# much younger, He has lived |in this country for 46 years, 12 of which he purports to have spent in |the American navy. He also asserts that he is one of the few Japanese |who has been admitted to citizenship, having been naturalized in Rhode Island in the late 80's. He has a white wife, a Polly Tay jlor, who married him about three | | weeks ago, after a brief but furious | courtship. He is said to’ have’ married’ an other white woman before and to |have hud a daughter by her. |daughter, incidentally, is said. to Ihave made her appearance in Séits tle a few days ago to ma ainst his second fa y on the University of Washington campus next Thursday at 8 p.m, The assembly will take place in Meany ball, 59 years old, | This | violent | narriage. | old, served in the navy during the war, was enticed recently into buy- ing @ share of stock in the corpora tion, He had only $2, but he was so im- ery . the ieee words ~ the Altho Col. J. M. Hawthorne, attorney for the World Cable Directory company, didn't have time Saturday to answer a single question put to him by the prosecuting attorney's office about the affairs of his corpora- tion, be found leisure to write a three-page statement attacking The Star for its “indefensible” and “positively cruel” exposure of the get-rich-quick scheme. In this statement he paints Thomas Y. Nabatame as “a man of | great resourcefulness and originality, and one who is actuated and con- |trolled by high humanitarian and philanthropic ideals, all of which are a very great eredit to him.” | WILD MENTS DUE TO POOR SH The startling statements which Nabatame made to a representative of The Star, regarding prospective earnings of the stock he is selling, were explained with the simple state. ment that while he “writes well and accurately in English, yet his inabil- ity to pronounce certain words ac. curately has been the cause of some confusion.” Col, Hawthorne also says “many of the employes were obtained from | the Y. M, C. A." ‘This is positively jdenied by J. William Carson, secre. tary of the advisory employment de- partment of the Y. M. C. A, | “1 was approached by one of the officials. of the company,” Carson said, “but T didn’t like the looks of the thing and refused to send anyone Papapercarccienapeetemninnes || BLACK BEARS TAKE | WHOLE APPLE CROP | ROYAL, Wash., Oct. 8.—Black bears have been living in luxury on the big apple orchard on the the old Patmquist place here. Wherefore the harvest will be | “slim pickings” for mere human beings, The bears have strolled in from time to time and eaten all the fruit while {t was green. Carpenters working nearby have not felt inclined to molest them. to their office. some boys living at the ¥. M. c., had been given jobs, but they dié get them thru this office.” Col. Hawthorne's statement lows: Lp heehee Aurion “or RVELO! A. poration for rectory company. y by me on August 12, office of the tary of state Olympia, and on August 15 in office of the auditor of this Ern | he priteipet omnes for the company w organized wee publish the World Cable D which it i@ expected will ¢omt the names and addresses of ev prominent business firm ore tion and professional eos pk. ‘all the important cities of the world. ‘The Directory 5 wil ued in connection with @ cable code Invented by Mr. me, which is sald to in wonders " fal tayention. “Perhaps the remote cause sf = BS notoriety was the inabilit tain people who had tal hed wit Mr. Nabatame to eireee ‘andere ‘ __ fern to Last Foxe, OOO Cotumn 3) Motion Filed Alleging Nan < Evidence Is Found Motion for a new trial for E. Mahoney, condemned to a murder of bis wife, Kate was filed by his attorneys, Lee ston and L. B, Schwellenbach, in superior court Saturday, "The motion is based on the and that new evidence had been covered in his favor, 15, | Johnston said ‘affiduyite jing the ‘alleged new jbe fited later. The motion : argued hext week. AVE