The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 12, 1921, Page 1

READ ‘MAIN STREET” SS Iifll — sg atreme Tonight and ? d. Temperature Last 24 Houry Maximum Minimum, Today noon, 37 49. Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the F wtoffice at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of Congress Mar On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star ch 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 “TN THE STAR VOLUME Ey SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1921. Howdy, folks! Have you start- ed “Main Street” yet? So have we, only one difference tween Main st. Gopher Prairte Minn., and Broadway, New York— Broadway is on the Atlantic sea-| There's be GO THE LIMIT, CONSTANCE Mother, mother, may | go shop? Yes, my darling daughter. Shop as much as ever you like, But don't exceed a quarter. . bh de) TODA HOM iil EDITION me AY | Ill TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE ~ A fortune awaits the person who invents a noiseless soup, remarks H. C. Hughes, overall magnate. | | WE. ANYWAY, THEY WILL} MEET | “knights of Pythian of the SINCLAIR LEWIS Kittitas-Yakima district —_ will meet next March in Yakima, and a ee, TAKE 7TH henceforth twice yearly instead of — semi-annually,”— urg | 3 amr a | This is America—a towr. of a few thousand, in a region of Seattle man tries to swim across) Wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. Eiliott bay. Strange how Americans’ The town is, in our tale, called “Gopher Prairie, Minne- hod were eee cota.” But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets} everywhere. The story would be the same in Washington or| Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very| carey would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina 13, RECOMMENDED TO THE KU KLUX KLAN: The Bimbo | who says, “Weill, 1 guess New | oT. Main Street is the climaz of civilization. That this Ford Peter Witt. Cleveland tracti | car might stand in front of the Bon Ton Store, Hannibal in-! pert, coming to peshivorny pai tate te vaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters. What tron molder, But that’s nothing. Ole Jenson, the grocer, says to Ezra Strowbody, the banker, a ve i Abs gga experts used to ts the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles ene cia ae of the sea; whatsoever Ezra does not know and sanction,} Dear Home Brew: 1 was married that thing is heresy, worthless for knowing and wicked to Do you think I was right in) performed by H. M. K. It's all wrong, wrong. You should tive art of the Rosebud Movie Palace there is a Message, a been married by the olen” humor, strictly moral. 2 to | Victory, | Double’ | for Winning Run Our railway station is the final aspiration of architecture. | : Sam Clark’s annual hardware turnover is the envy of the BY HENRY L. FARRELL four counties which constitute God’s Country. In the sensi-| POLO GROUNDS, New York, Oct. md | 12.—Big Frank Snyder joined the | soclety of the dintinguished this aft- ernoon, when he batted the eee Such-is-our comfortable tradition and sure faith. Would | Yor. Gtants to a tor vittory The melancholy days are here, The saddest of the year; The heavies are too heavy, The light too light, se fear. oe “Seattle has) one of the most! efficient tele! phone services | in the Unixd bye lia portray Main Street, or distress the citizens by speculating | orld series. bem on ot In the seventh inning 40,000 fans. whether ao ie not patter Polihat |eitting under heavy clouds that} | threatened rain momentarily. CHAPTER I (1) On a hill by the Mississippi where Chippew: |camped two generations ago, a | kame and a four to three count in B. Thayer, pree against the cornflower blue of Northern sky. She | the series to the Giants Telephone and'saw no Indians now; she saw flourmills and_ the) ,,/ni Bourn (the lone | moun) blinking windows of skyscrapers in Minneapolis and Jor tne glory by pitching « brilliant Wet, anyway. tne tallor business St. Paul. Nor was she ‘thinking of squaws and port-|fume the: completely, subdued the owe ages, and the Yankee* fur-traders whose shadows |eetting away, however, and in the were all about her. She was meditating upon wal- | son! jpning the Yanks got to him nut fudge, the plays of Brieux, the reasons Why! Pipp doupiea and McNally scored heels run over, and the fact that the chemistry in- structor had stared at the new coiffure which con- cealed her ears. A breeze which had crossed a thousand miles of |wheat-lands bellied her taffeta skirt in a line so) graceful, so full of animation and moving beauty, that the heart of a chance watcher on the lower road tightened to wistfulness over her quality of suspended freedom. She lifted her arms, she leaned back \against the wind, her skirt dipped and flared, a lock blew wild. A girl on a hilltop; credulous, plastic, young; drinking the air as she longed to drink life. | The eternal aching comedy of expectant youth. : | It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from | Blodgett college. The days of pioneering, of lassies In sunbonnets, land bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are deader now than Camelot; and a rebellious girl is |the spirit of that bewildered empire called the Amer- ican Middle-west. + * * Ue and «ive the game to the Nation. i: league champions. ponded by . A lot of men have quit smok- ing because it’s too effeminate, commenis the Pacific Legion. then thru for the afternoon Jn the seventh inning the Amer- fean league champions had a fine opportunity to score. With two down Frank Baker singled and went to third on another single by Schang, Carl Mays, usually a good hitter, failed in the pinch on a feeble infield out. The Giants scored their first run in the fourth, when Young singled, stole second and scored on “Irish” Meusel’s hit ‘The eighth game of the series to- morrow is expected to find Art Nebf the Giant southpaw and Waite Hoyt, the Brooklyn kid, opposing each other on the mound. The lineup, Yankees PRAIRIE MP, SEZ French dressing is better on 4s than on girls. . . ttle drug stores advertise gray restorer—but who wants gray & patient at Yates’ sani- an institution for mental seized Dr. Yates and teacup full of poison down erlock, larium her detectives, forced th of to who is a ¢ made me take « lot and now you've got “this,” Sherlock, powerful man, w ef; 3b; Fewster. rf; KR. Meusel 2b; McNally, Peck Pipp, Schang, sa; Ib; Miller, Adam was the first and only man Ward, to fall:for “the only girl in the M aa world.’ Friseh, 3b; Meusel, If; Dougias, p. Burns, ef; Bancroft, Young, rf; Kelly, 1b Rawlings, 2b; Snyde Umpires—Quigley behind pl {Chill at first; Rigler at second; Morlarity at third. Play started at 2 p. m. FIRST INNING Yankees—Fewster flied to young. Peck doubled off the left field wall Miller out, Friach to Kelly, Peck go- R. Meusel out, Douglas ¢ hit, no errors rns flied to R. Meusel to center for a double to. Miller, Baneroft Young out, Mays to ‘one hit rors, as . . rs PLEASE PASS THE BULL However that may be, Villa & Villa are tailors at 317 E. Pine st *e “Tacoma Outstripping Seat- tle,” says a Tacoma headline. It will be a cold winter for the Tacoma girls. (11) Blodgett college is on the edge of Minneapolis. It is a bulwark of sound religion. It is still combating the recent heresies of Voltaire, Darwin, and Robert a | Ingersoll. Pious families in Minnesota, Iowa, Wis- “"*\consin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and| “heeora | Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the | Kasey ola »“paity |universities. But it secretes friendly girls, young |Pivp. Sehang forced MoNany. tan- Psr'daie—One combination earment ehat|men who sing, and one lady instructress who really | tawiings. “One ‘ran, two hits, no va |likes Milton and Carlyle. So the four years which | Saeuing ate’ |Carol spent at Blodgett were not altogether wasted. avy vork Pally! The gmaliness of the school, the fewness of rivals, | rat | per’ mitted her to experiment with her perilous ve n one. | tility. She played tennis, gave chafing-dish parties, | “.c'\took a graduate seminar in the drama, went “wos vet tor wm-|ing,” and joined a half dozen societies for the prac. | wm." tice of the arts or the tense stalking of a thing called | os 4 General Culture. ite x In her class there were two or three prettier girls, \{iit‘os trom his bunk, turned over NE A jbut none more eager. She was noticeable equally in |ana went to sleep, Wednesday. ‘The Jewelry Salesman _| the classroom grind and at dances, tho out of the 300 {starwich, 1c) Lag gc 2 a Robbed of $50,000 students of Blodgett, scores recited more accurately | ea wisn. ’ BT he aici aioe. 128! and dozens Bostoned more smoothly. Every cell of | ,ayer'ana's pencil, a few hours later York, was bound, xuged, d-sneed |her body was alive—thin wrists, quince-blossom skin, |Manoney refused to take any interest and wabhoes of 13 trays of runs, 40° | ingenue ees, black hair. in them. He was still asleep at noon, tytwe men in his room at the Mary.| The other girls in her dormitory marveled at the land hotel here today. Kauttman| slightness of her body when they saw her in sheer said his losses would be nearly $60,- | 000. (Continued on Page 6) WHEN CUSTOMERS WRITE THEIR OWN WANT ADS ‘Wanged—Man who can run car and wife ‘American Medical Jogrnai Wanted——Bartender capable mince pies.—Dallas News Wanted—-Bookkeeper and manager. Meriden, ‘rinch flied reaching third. Pipp. No run sk of to left Ward sacrifi Kelly. McNally singled right. scorin, n—Kelly fanned lly to Pipp. Rawli to Page 7, Column 2) MAHONEY GETS TABLE; SLEEPS When given a aes upon which |to write his life story, James 1 Inga or @ hair Wanted — Fifty wages paid, Plenty for automobiles. News t—Furnished room i both ways and we phi Commercial Appea Gentleman who ean fur dozen eggs to my one p Object, matrimony. Wanted halt ham, Star ‘Wanted Minister of the to fing chotr Country in According to his jailers, the only re mark Mahoney has made for Yays was that “The newspapers have eon victed me, If it wasn't for them I would be free," | ‘| Snyder Is Hero of him with a single. The Yanks were | ! New j he not betray himself an alien cynic whe should otherwise - “Yanks in the seventh game of the clam: | |ored for a run that would break the | informed eee ROSEBURG, Ore., Oct Mar- shaling the first battalion of his regt- of witneanes, District Atto founer prepared to aswail the first | stronghold of Dr, Richard M. Brum. | field's Innocence when court opened | today, Neuner sounded the keynote of tne| state's Campaign yesterday, when he the court: “The crime, | carefully designed and carefully car- | | | | miding of & | | * ling, identified as Brumfield’s, a sil | {like skin, and a box of feminine ap: Snyder re | ried out, was the product of a master | smashing a double to! mind, and the state is entitled to al as genter which sent Rawlings over the | verdict that will carry with it the irl stood in relief | Pite with the run that gave the} death penalty.” | STATE TO PRESENT CAREFUL EVIDENCE } Neuneér made noisecret of hig de-| termination to show that Brumfield | did not turn murderer overnight, | The state's cane will comprise, Neu-| ner has jared, a careful pyra- lence which will prove Brumfield started to plan the mur. der months before he slew Russell | with three rifle bullets, beheaded the corpse with dynamite to destroy ite identity, and attempted to burn it under the wreck of his own sporty | red roadster, A few unimportant witnesses were called lute yesterday. These test- fied simply to the fact that there was a murder, bearing out the charges in the indictment. Dexter F attorney for the | defense, wag in conference with his | colleagues until a late hour last) night * & \Noemend Man Is Calm During Trial Is Dr. R. M. Brumfield, Oregon dentist on trial for his life, insane? Fred Boalt, Star’s correspondent at the trial, says no. Look agree with Boalt. at this picture of Brumfield (No. 4) and see if you Note the wide, staring eyes. His statement to the court | tures here show (1) the courthouse at Roseburg, Ore., where Other pic- yesterday that the defense wil! not| the dentist is being tried; (2) Joseph Hammersley, path- rely solely upon a plea of insanity has given rise to the belief that Brumfield’s @ surprise with which to combat cer: tain sensational charges which the| state will seek to prove. Rice emphatically told the court | yesterday that Brumfield’s three | separate attacks of insanity, the sub- mission of evidence tending to prove that hair-trigger nerves and amnesia are traits of the Brumfield family, and the citing of instances in the past life of the accused man, flus- trating his chronic suffering from | amnesia, will be only incidental to the actual refutation of the dapper dentist's complicity in the murder of | Denni« Russell Brumfield never batted.an eye yes terday when the gruesome murder | properties were exhibited to the court and identified by Coroner M. F. Ritter, They consisted of a gold ver belt buckle adorned with a “B, charred clothing, a bit of scalp with gray hair clinging to the parchment parel said to have been shipped by the dentist to Seattle two days prior to the alleged murder Mrs. Brumfield, however, was be ginning to show signs of breaking. Her smile was wan and her eyes showed that she had been weeping heavily. Two Bandits Rob Tacoma Oil Station TACOMA, Oct. 12.—A search was | under way today for the two bandits, one of whom is believed to have been wounded, who held up and robbed the Standard Oil service’ sta- tion on Sixth ave. here last night. William C. Detwiler, in charge of the station, fired the shot which is believed to have wounded one of the footpads. His automatic jammed after the second = shot The man wounded lost his own gun when he fell, The robbers secured $30 from | the cash drawer, | that the blood on Attorney George Neuner. ‘Brumfield Defense | ologist, Oregon Medical college; (3) Dr. F. R. Menne, path- defenders have planned | Ologist, Oregon Medical college, who will testify for the state the highway, where Dennis Russell 3 thought to have been killed, was human blood; (5) District} * Hints Weak Spot in Prosecutor’s Chain By Fred L. Boalt ROSEBURG, Ore., Oct, 12.—Has the Brumfield defense an ace in the ? It would seem so, for Dexter ©, of counsel for the defense, said} in his opening statement to the jury: “If yOu @ave gained the impres: sion, fi when you were qualifying for service, that the defense is to be insanity, and | y*insanity, then let me disabuse your minds of that notion now. It is not our only defense.” He turned dramatically and, pointing at the defendant, said: “Dr. Richard M. Brumfield did not murder Dennis Russell, and sthe state will not be able to prove that he did, to your entire satis- faction, beyond a reasonable doubt.” Then he sat down, ANITY DEFENS! NOTORIOU! SLY WEAK The case of the defense, if it relies on insanity, is notoriously and pat- ently weak. ‘To meet this defense it is known the state has a formidable array of alienists who, answering hypothetical questions, will swear that no variety of insanity to be found in any text book in the world would inspire the acts attributed to Brumfield, ; t\ the questions put to you} The state's case is admittedly cir. cumstantial, District Attorney Neu- ner calls Brumfield’s plan the plan of a “master mind,” yet he blundered in | its execution so often and so grievous. ly that he left a trail behind him easy to follow. | Briefly sketched, the state's case is this: Brumfield's office calendar shows | that he so arranged appointments at his dental offices that he wound up his business on July 13. On that day a mysterious woman entered a store | and bought a silk skirt, The state | woman, but it does know that, while she was purchasing the skirt, Brum- field entered the store, spoke to the woman in passing, and went on into @ rear room to get a packing case. It was this box which was shipped by Brumfield from Myr- tle Point to Seattle, on that sane day. And in this box were found, with the skirt bought by the mys- terious woman, lingerie and.other articles, which, the state will , were bought by Mrs. Brumfield. That night the “automobile acci- | dent” was staged. ‘The details of that fiasco are well known—-the journey of the Elgin Six with red disc wheels (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) does not know the identity of that | SEATTLE MAY GET GREAT GARY STEEL MILLS State Demands Death for "Brumfield Little doubt exists in Wall st. Judge Gary and his associates ar contemplating the establishment | | great smelting plants upon the Pa cific coast, and that Puget sound being considered as the most tageous location for the erection the plants. 4 PURCHASES MOUNTAIN OF IRON ORE Judge Gary recently made an spection trip of the west Mexico, where a mountain of iron ore, estimated to about a billion ten> is being by American capital, This large iron uwantain is i as the Las Truchas mine, and ¢@ munications from Mexico City clare that Judge Gary and his ciates in the United States Steel | Poration have purchased the mendous deposits. If the mine is to be advante ly worked, it will be ne smelt the ore on the Pacific [but as the only large dep cheap coal are found in the N west and Alaska, it is believed great smelting plants will be | lished in the vicinity of Seattle, |PUGET SOUND LOGICAL PLACE FOR SMELTER Coal and tron ore are the two sential ingredients of steel, it pointed out, and if cheap ore Mexico can be joined with cheap from Alaska, not only the Wi coast but the entire Orient can” supplied with steel. Puget sound, with its unpai harbor facilities, is the logical to establish the proposed smelters, — ‘Today more than 800 miners employed at the Las Truchas mine and concessions are about to granted by the Mexican govern |so that the neighboring harbor ¢ ‘be equipped with full docking ties, Full preparations are under way to exploit the billion-ton mountain of ore, one of the largest deposits in | the world. Cost of shipping the ore to Penn # sylvania, either by rail or by boat (Turn to Page 1 Column 2) Big Naval Launch ‘ Mysteriously Lost BREMERTON, Oct. 12.—Hn route to the navy yard here from the South, a 112-foot Herreshoff launch was mysteriously lost off Cape Finty} tery, it is announced by the cont? |mandant’'s office. No one was om | board. be The ship was in tow of the U, S; 8. Nitro, and sank in a quiet sea, The towing line parted. No cause is assigned for the accident, The boat, which was was built during the war as a sub chaser. It was on its way to the Keyport torpedo station to be used. in carrying the personnel between Bremerton and 6 Rave: General Pershing Will Visit t Landed LONDON, Oct. 12.—Gen, will come to London and with the congressional medal of or the grave of Britain's unl warrior on Monday, October was announced today. th Re