The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 19, 1921, Page 1

PRAIA AR AR ARR ARR AAA RA "A VICTIMS CAUGHT IN | HOME | ) x ¢ {ll SRR PPP PRP PPR RRR PPR RA AAR RRR On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Mntered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffioe at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. ~ VOLUME” 33, Per Year, by Mall, $5 to 9 M Br hZal Pl ahty The Star 22 Pad, lgeted Stalls towrit WEATHER Tonight and Thursday, rain; fresh to strong south- easterly gales ‘Temperature Last 24 Hours Mi Maximum, TWO CENTS IN | SEATTLE Home Brew! Howdy, folks! Col us’ wis dom was shown on his first tri _ He stayed outside the three-mile limit, Darwin be The closest @nimal to man is the bed bux ee HORKORS Tite Sattway strike looks pretty | Serious, says a Contrib, but supposin’ ail the drivers of flivers quit! hanged Peter Witt, Cleveland traction expert, says he is “tickled to death” to come to Seattle. Maybe he will be “tickled to death” to ve. } ' oes I. RB, Y. says that the largest buckle in the world is Arbuckle. eee ry | Home is ot jon to | state authoritively that there is | | nothing to the rumor that city | officials are going te put Pull. | the Cowen Park man cars on run. ' ie ee WRAZ*Z°Z°Z-BERRIES Dear Home Brew: The other day friend wife bawled me out because I turned the Miv off the road and let @ manaic have it all The wife in- sisted I had the right of way. So J am sending you this little pome tn | the hope that some other erring wife | will see it: Here lies the body of William Jay, Whe 00 uintaining his right of a Me was rion, dead rioNt, a he sped SP EES pases’ 20d on Vinee. hbo wrong. CB. CARBURETOR. ee ee mew no than its Seete, whi tent ‘ha! ; jp peace proposals into shape. | |_ eafety Thirst” waid' the olf toper. | HARDING BROUGRT he downed three fingers of | eg | Chairman RM, Barton, Secretary | |G. W. W. Hanger and Ben Hooper, | the public group, who just returned LI’ GEE GEE, TH’ PRAIRIE | | from Washingtoon. carried a mes-| VAMP, SEZ Settlement Program to Be Presented by Officials, Backed by President BY CARL VICTOR LITTLE CHICAGO, Oct. 19.—The United States railroad labor board—now peacemakers with a club—planned a truce between railroad employes and executives today. members, Chairman Barton, of the at 'said President Harding outlined to, (him certain broad proposals, which ee bs board will form into a concret Whence black Proposition for presentation to the tae ag be ot anton heads tomorrow, Bilt—-Oh, 1 went ,to = dance last | “The definite plan of a proposed a railroad peace will not be known un- : gore rym bo the DAMA ine amemubiend of the bend. tare | gone into every phase thoroly,” Bar. cy | ton told the United Press. be! ASK ROADS TO SLASH RATES , - “We know, in a certain broad way, the will of the administration, and will talk matters over with those members of the board representing the carriers and the workers. The members who were not in Washing. | ton will give us the benefit of these observations of events while we | were away.” _ | It was believed the board will pro- | Powe to the rallroads that the public | be given the benefit of the 12 per cent wage cut in July by an immedi. ate slash in freight rates, and that the carriers withdraw for the pres- ‘Girls once h&d almost nothing to wear; now they have to wear almost nothing. rs jazz lyrics, says Life, are written | in e Angig-famephene language. puibinclil chee -sbtinicn, hans he modernized. Sure, make Juliet wear a one-piece bathing suit and have ‘Paul Revere make his famous ride in aad ad “ef “Pursues Wife With Hammer.”— Star headline. Quick, boy, the Croix de Guerre! . . Seattle boy to sue city because he got something in his eye at Green Lake. A lot of men we know have got an eyeful at ™ ee ent their request for an additional nonlin dali 410 per cent reduction in wages. Mei eS a with | "The brotherhoods will be asked to cae 9 apron cali off temporarily their October 30 | strike order, and to use their influ- The modern Sunday sult fs sult) on in forestalling similar orders propenelt, Ba ca from other unions 4 Out of today's executive session of MISHAP | the board will come the complete oe made @ fortune proposition that the board has to of- co fer the chiefs of four big brother. hoods and the Switchmen's union, ‘who were summoned here for a con- ference tomorrow afternoon. By writing a simple thing. “TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS YOR A THOUGHT,” Was what I read, The government has let it be 7 eo oot onan Sige gldlnnaa known that the railroad board will be ' Kendle gen backed to the limit, and that means ‘ eee Emm Movember one, to enforce its mediation decrees will Alackadoodledoo' | be found, This is one of the clubs} the board will hold over both sides of the railroad controversy when it meets with the brotherhoods in an informal capacity tomorrow. If necessary, one board member J read it on November one. The contest closed October two MR. ANON. weg Ay | temorstin” ace puting “oth The act now depends upon the | force of public opinion to enforce its decisions, WILL DEMAND ORDER RESCINDED - ‘These, it was understood today [from reliable sources, are some of | the demands that will be made to |the men by the board: | 1—Immediate suspension of the | strike order of the brotherhoods. Do you teach— Dancing? Mu Languages? see Culture? Public Speaking? Remember that many thou- ore ote Aap Pre li ey 4 t.—Requests to leaders of the rail- a The Genito yeas m sed way department of the American rene mh |Wederation of Labor and other junions to bold up strike decisions for the present. The brotherhoods (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) Yor @ very modest invest- ment you can advertise your wervices each day in this PROPOSAL pointed out, the administration could | Peacemakers With Club Ar Trying to Halt Nation-Wide trike on Railroad Systems e m Almost Became President BY W. H. PORTERFIELD How Hira WASHINGTON, Oct. 19,—It's a gruesome story, but Washington is full of it, so I might as well pass it along. Hiram Johnson, of California, had he decided affirmatively instead of negatively, on a certain proposition, would today be president of the United States rather than senator from California with a campaign for re-election just ahead of him. The story, which is beyond question true in the main, is that during the dead- lock in the republican convention at Chi- cago in the summer of 1920 a committee of leading republicans approached Hiram with this message: “You can’t be nominated for president, senator. “This year a nomination is equivalent to election. Moreover, whoever is nomi- nated by this convention for president will nat only be elected, but, barring will be re-elected as well, “we have in mind who can be nominated and ~ td all ss tions into harmony, is your very dear friend. You know, furthermore, that ‘with him as your running mate, the ma- jority you would roll up would be simply stupendous, and furthermore, you know " that as vice president of the United States, with your friend as president, your office would not be the figurehead job it has mostly been in the past. “Moreover, you know, and he knows, and we all know, that the candidate we have in mind is an old man, that he is not at all well, that the best doctors declare his chances for survival of his term are slight. Senator, we offer you the nomination for vice president of the United States on the ticket with Philander Knox, your friend. And Johnson is said to have replied: “I decline, gentlemen. I do not care to be vice president even with my friend, Senator Knox, at the masthead.” The declination was final and sufficiently positive to be understood, so Knox’s boom was dropped and Warren Gamaliel Harding is tenant of the White House today instead of Hiram Johnson. And Senator Knox has just gone to his fathers. Yes, ’tis a gruesome tale, but since time began the old gentleman with the long whiskers and the scythe has played strange pranks in the story of the race. ‘THREATEN TO ‘DEATH STRUGGLE FIGHT HARD TO KILL DEPUTIES, SAVES HIS LIFE, FREE MINISTER Trouble at Black Diamond Despondent “Mah, Taking} Accused Priest Slayer’s Plea Causes Riot Call Gas, Kicks Out Window to Daughter Told Hiram Johnson Philander C. Knoz 4 j | | | In his last struggle in an at sae aes Threats to kilt deputy sheriffs BY JACK HORNADAY Dia | tempt to commit suicide by mus, " Se ms eeeae clea” cus Herbert Ames, 48, single, gcked a| BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Oct. 19.— | Defense and prosecution attorneys drew lines today for what is expect-| ¢d to be the most’ important skirmish window out of the second flofr of a lodging house at 606 Bighth ave., Wednesday Sheriff Matt Starwich to rush four deputies to the riot zone. The trouble was said to have | started when a group of men |, Fresh sins penn hg Boe vk (he }in the battle to free the Rey. Edwin | ed to have tried to rush the ane, proba: “4 — Pach Con ence, a life, and the falling glass attracted |B. Stephenson, Methodist minister, the attention of the landlady. T. P. Lally, a friend of Ames, broke in the door and found Ames seated in a chair, unconscious, with his feet out the window. Gas was escaping from a cooking plate. Tally told the police Ames had charged With the murder of Father James BE. Coyle, Catholic priest, The story of Stephenson's efforts to reclaim his daughter Ruth, whose marriage to a Porto Rican Catholic Precipitated the slaying of Father } After a struggle with the spectal| deputies, in which many men re ceived minor injuries, a riot call was jeent into the sheriff at Seattle. | Deputies Charles Jarrett, A. KE. Be- |bee, Tom Morgan and Frank Ander. son responded and had no trouble in CAFE ROW CAUSED BY William Short, Labor Head, Says Restaurant Owners Forced Into’ Trouble an interview Wednesday. “Land- instead of down fants are not making mpney, the pockets of the profiteering land. lords. WANTS CAMPAIGN AGAINST LANDLORDS to help restore normal conditions, public campaign against the land. lords who still extort and profiteer. Another factor, Short, said, is the surplusage of restaurants. “If all the eating houses that sprang up during the war were put out of business so, that we had only the normal’ number, there would be enough business to go around and all would make their share of profit,” he stated. While there was no written agree- ment between restaurant owners and members of the culinary crafts’ unions, Short declared, there was an agreement extablished by long cus- tom, which was violated by the Seat- tle Caterers’ association. DIDN'T DEMAND Bi “During the war period.” said Short, “culinary workers could have demanded big wage increases and got them. In fact, there was much agitation for that very thing the union heads said, ‘No, we have an unwritten agreement with the caterers, and we will not violate it for the sake of temporary financial gain.” “This agreement, But established by recently invested’ in a farm near Kirkland and $3,400 cash In oil stock ventures, and had either lost his in- vestment or was worrying over the i i ibility of lowing it. Wife Arraigned for Ame wea takeg, tothe city hos- Killing With Hammer) iti inconscious, He. will prop. PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 19—Mrs.|#bly recover. Alma Wurtheberger, arraigned in me |Japan Sends China P. Se s Cc in that had yet been given. He said) United States court here today on a charge of beating her sleeping hu Note on Shantung Stephenson had called on him a TOKYO, Oot. 19.—Japan today pre.| Humber of times prior to the killing |restoring order, as the fracas had jsubsided when they arrived. Coyle, was told on the witness stand. | “On his knees, Stephenson begged Ruth to give up the Catholic faith and return to him,” said Police Chiet | Shirley, “Detectives had found her | locked ‘up in the home of her Cath- | olic godfather, Fred Bender.” Shirley's testimony went deeper into the minister's trouble than any | band ‘to death with a hammer @ Chemawa recently, pleaded demurrer on the charge. Her attorneys at once prepared to| sented to China a new note ce ee his daughter, who had lett fight the indictment charging Mrs,|the Shantung controversy. . Wurtheberger with the crime in the| The note contained no new conces-|, O% Aamust 1, the day of the Pinitag tates abure, o@l- the drow | | killing, she disappeared again, Shir- sions, but was designed to clear up certain points whieh China had con- sidered vague, American mediation in the con- troyersy between Japan and China over Shantung had met opposition from the conservatives here and was considered improbable, ley said, and Stephenson called him up “He seemed very excted,”” Shirley said, “He told me the Catholics had taken her away and asked me to go with him to a convent to search for her. I told him to see the sheriff.” Questioning of Shirley by defense that the United States hae no juris. diction. The demurrer plea was rqgarded fas a surprise. The case was looked upon as of federal importance, be- cause the alleged murder took place on the Chemawa Indian reservation. column. The quickest and surest way to et pupils is to adver: tige. To buy two pairs of shoes for he S | drill in the cadet corps at the The eattle Star state university seems too much The Paper™ for the for the students who are pro- Want Ads” testing against the orders of the military department. The army failed to provide shoes for the truining corps Main 0600, 6 NPS sia eK ne 2 cm mae mene U. STUDENTS ARE STUNG AGAIN! attorneys indicated they were seek- ing to show that worry over his | daughter's action in leaving the Methodist church -had unbalanced Stephenson's mind! Another development of the day was the defense’s efforts to imply that Father Coyle ana Stephenson had fought before the shooting oc- curred, and to prove this by the min- ister’s condition immediately there- after, ‘This was in support of the self-defense plea, this year, the act being one of the economy measures recently enacted, ‘The men were told to provide their” own shoes and many of them purchased army issue or other heavy shoes for drill, Recently an order has been issued that to insure uniformity all men must wear shoes pur- chased from the quartermaster corps at the university, and that the wearing of other shoes will incur demerits in drill, The price of the quartermas- ter’s shoes is §6.50, when either side desired a change in |wages or working conditions, 20 jdays’ notice would be given the other side, and representatives of both woultl sit down together and en- deavor to come to an agreement. “The Seattle Caterers’ has absolutely violated this agree. ment. Never once have they asked for a conference. They gave us only 24 hours’ notice, and that only by Posting the new wage scale in their (fore to Page 7, Column > EXTRA TRY TO SLAY AMERICA ENVOY WASHINGTON, Oct, 19—An at- jtempt on the life of American Am- | bassador Myron 'T. Herrick in Paris was reported to state department of. fielals here today, A bomb wrapped up like a dry- goods parcel way delivered at the ambassador's residence while he was out, the advices said. It exploded while it was being opened by @ ser- ant, who was injured, association is no possible doubt that Seattle restaurant owners have been forced into their present position by powerful iffluences,” Short said in Jordy forced their rentals up from 100 to 500 per cent during the war period, while the wages of workers in “the culinary crafts were raised only from 26 to 50 per cent. These extortionate rentals are still being charged. Some have even gone up, So if the restau- it is because their profits are going into “The best thing that could be done and to avoid difficult situations lke | the present one, would be to start a Seattle Girl to Be Mrs. Chaplin? || | | | | May Collins Special to The Star. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19.—Will a Seattle girl be the next bride of Charles Chaplin? “A sentimental attraction in Hol- lywood” is reported to be the cause for Chaplin's abrupt termination of his European tour. It is rumored that both May Col- lins and Claire Windsor (Olga Cronk, of Seattle), well known beauties of custom for nearly 20 years, was that{the film world, are particularly in-| fortifications. terested in this announcement, May is brunette and Claire ts blonde. Miss Collins thinks Charlie is the “most interesting man she ever met,” but refused to admit they are en- waged. “I can only say that once—well, everything was very nice, and then it was off, and later things swung back to the good again. And that's the way it was when he went away, she volunteered. Claire Windsor also admits that Charlie is the “most isteresting man” and then goes on to say that | “there's never been anything serious between us—anything really, deeply serious, I mean.” Claire Windsor has secured her final decree of divorcee, Chaplin's decree from Mildred Harris doesn't become final until: November. It was Olga Cronk, or Claire Wind- sor, as she is known in the movie colony, who featured in a sensational search recently when she disappeared in the hills near Hollywood while horseback riding. After searchers had hunted for two days they found her unconscious. She had fallen from her horse, Chaplin evidenced keen interest in the ‘search, and offered a reward. Miss Cronk and her parents former: ly lived tn Seattle, The whole fam. ‘ly, however, is now living in Call- fornia, —— — —— — — —— ————— oo WEIRD DEATH TRAP! KITE I§ “CAUSEOF |Copper “String Contact W: | Live Wire | Hidden Death LOS ANGELES, Cal. Oct. 19 One man is dead, a boy ts in | hospital with two fingers and two others are recovering from | painful injuries here today, follow- jing their separate encounters | night with a weird hidden “de trap” caused by a live wire. | UNIDENTIFTED BOY | 1S RESPONSIBLE The wire wag a fine copper with which an unidentified |ster bad been flying @ kite. a With dusk, the boy had tied kite to a telephone pole and home. The upper end of the came in contact with a high wire carrying 34,000 volts. The end of the wire trailed for hi dreds of feet across lawns in neighborhood, hidden in the: Rheinhold Kleinstuber, 48, from the front door of his hoe touched the fatal string and — dead. Moses Mendall, a neighbor, tempted to rescue him. \A streak of flame leaped from stuber’s body. Mendall, badly ate several feet away. With Presence of mind, he seized a and broke the thread which William's body, saving latter" life. we FALL IN Rl Auto Plunges Thru Near Astoria ASTORIA, Ore., Oct. 1 are believed to be lying t: the wreck of an automobile bottom of the Lewis and CI near here today, and one two women are in local ho the result of the car in were riding plunging thru an- draw at 5 o'clock The names of dead have not been learned. Hag Erwin, San Francisco barber; Pearl Hutchinson, caretaker of ¢ Flavel Tavern here, and ‘woman, believed to be the tress of an Astoria rooming are the injured. The draw had been opened e steamer, and the car, said to been traveling at a high speed, unable to stop. Japan Wants Our Island Forts WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. Japan will bring up the qu «f non-fortification of certain ands, in the Pacific, strategic naval warfare, in the Wi conference on limitation of ments, it was learned today, Japan is expected to propose agreement mainly with the United) States not to fortify further o “ tain islands and possibly to d mantle, to some extent, oxtetiat Pe Rs & is England Is Gripped © by Unemployment ~ LONDON, Oct, 19.--“England & in the grif of the worst unemp ment situation of the century, Premier Lioyd George declared itt commons today. Derangement of trade and fluctuations of exchanges caused by the war, were to blame, he said, WUXTRA! THERE’S A MEDAL FOR THE COP | WHO DID THIS JOB! Wuxtra! Another cop has been | found on @ beat! s As soon as he can be identified the Lake Hlectric & Machine Co, 1256 Westlake ave, N., says it will give him a leather medal, | The concern telephoned The Star two weeks ago that it never seemed to see a policeman in the | neighborhood. Tuesday night one of its windows smashed by would-be thieves and a policeman: boarded it up and notified the pro. prietor. “We are both grateful and sur. | '