The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 20, 1921, Page 1

By feral Planalety The Siar 24 Dah Chelled Seats Part CAPACITY! On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise AVY YARD Tonight an erate nort Tomperat: Maximum, 57 Today noon, 54, VOLUME 23 * Bon Jour, folks! First it was “Karponteshay,” then “Milly Legieg” and now comes “Mar- “Seattle's Smart Set to Take Up Cockroach Racing.” — Newspaper. They're bugs. i ee Peter Witt, traction expert, Is try. ing to find out how to make the, Equip the municipal raitway pay. cars with bars, Pete. eee .-——. aocitiniahiniemrn i LiL’ G GEE GE GEE, TH ae ee i} VAMP, SEZ “|| Many a Seattle man has put away 2 bottle of whisky apiess | | th’ day when prohibition goes | | into effect. ‘To err is human; to keep it up is foolish. Latest edict is that university students must buy two pairs of SUNSHINE THOUGHT ‘This is normalcy; we are kicking abnormalcy. Men's Shoes. One of the department stores offers the public “Pink Ladies’ Undies.” A well known hotet advertises @ “Pree ‘Tenrist Information Bureau. Aad ane furniture desler on Pike te aa Mter wea bo Babies’ Cribe.” niaddl bi. aftie. dame, xp, Seattle seems to be ae es " eee ¢ pleAstire to a single heart kind act ts better than headbowings in prayer.— i | What hath man wrought That he should grin All the time? ~—MR. ANON. eee Rome farmers are threatening to *Burn their corn because of low prices. ‘Why not drink it? ° We don't need an army. Let our bootleggers sell to the enemy. see How the waiter hovers When you start to cat; Fires plates and covers, Leans against your seat. ; Ere the coin is slipped him, He has many fears; But after you hape tipped him Then he disappears. Ee ncaa catia S| ‘ontractors’ Plan. Stimulate Building. National Campaign. Meet in Seattle. A step which promises to be of far-reaching importance in helping to relieve the unemploy- ment situation in Seattle will be taken October 31, when the As- sociated General Contractors of Seattle will meet to map out a program for stimulating building activity. The contractors will plan ways movement, growing out of the unemployment conference called recently at Washington, » by President Harding. “Construction is the “ni to the present situation,” Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, declared in a letter to W. 0. Yinston, president of the Asso- ed General Contractors of America, following the unem- ployment conference. The conference developed the fact that every 200 men employ- @d in actual construction set to, work from 500 to 700 men in’ other basic industries such as lumber, cement, Th sjoometerneaten d Friday fair, Awesterly winds, ure Last 24 Hours 7 Minimum, 52. Mod- WORK AHEAD Yard Crowded to Capacity; Ships Won’t Be Sent to Frisco. “No change made in Bremerton re- pair schedule,” reads the message, “Bremerton yards will be worked at maximum capacity for the next 12 months, In fact, yard in now #0 crowded that drydock is being used for berthing. Ships ordered docked | at San Francisco in December could Knickers for TO BE RUN AT + under the Act of Congress March 3, 1 Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $% The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wa SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1921. All America! This Girl Starts Crusade not possibly be accommodated at Bremerton.” ‘The word came to the chamber as @ result of a dispatch from San Fran- cisco to the effect that battleships had “been ordered to drydock at the California port preparatory to winter maneuvers. The chamber immedi- ately took up the matter to find out UNIONS TO HEAR | HARDING'S PLAN |erothernoed Ge Chiefs Assem-| ble in Chicago BY CARL VICTOR LITTLE CHICAGO, Oct. 20.—Chiefs of the Powerful raliroad brotherhoods, who have called a strike for October 30, came to Chicago today to hear President Harding’s peace plans. The “big five," whose 500,000 members carry strike orders in their pockets, were summoned here from Cleveland where ‘they were holding ‘a “war council,” to appear before the United States railroad board. BELIEVE TRUCE WILL BE RESULT Out of Me conference, it is be lieved, will come a truce in the) fight between workers and execu- tives and this will be followed close- ly by permanent peace. The members of the raifroad board | have certain definite proposals to} present to the brotherhood heads | when the meeting is called at 2p. m. These proposals were whipped into shape by ali board members upon the return of the three of the pub- lic group from Washington, where conferences with President Harding and administration leaders were held. Brotherhoodchiefs only agreed to the conference after railroad board members promised that there would |b: no publicity in the proceedings. PENNSYLVANIA ROAD | DEFIES U. 8. BOARD The Pennsylvania railroad again | defied the power of the United States railroad labor board today, ) Just as the board wag prepared to enter into negotiations with the | union heads in an attempt to avert | the October 30 strike. Representatives of the Pennsylva | nia, summoned to show why the road | | should not be declared in violation of jthe board's orders, declared the nc- tion of the labor body in ordering elections of representatives to nego- | tate with officials on working rules was unlawful and illegal. | Judge C. E. Heiserman, attorney | for the Pennsylvania, presented the | road's case. The road had not followed out the | orders of the board to arrange for | the election and would not permit the choice of labor organizers to rep- resent the men at the negotiations. | ‘The attorney spent less than 10 minutes in presenting the road's case. He declared the board's order tended to encourage the following: 1. Closed shop, 2. Sympathetic strikes, 3. Ligitation of output, N. P. Good, representing the labor | department of the American Federa: | tion of Labor, told the board that it! it did not make the Pennsylvania | obey its rules, the 500,000 members }of the Shop Workers’ union would be called out on atrike. Daylight Bandits Rob Mail Carrier LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 20— Daylight bandits held up a mail col- lector in the heart of the congested district here today. ‘The bandits seized the mail sack and escaped in an automobile, {Increased to 25 to 35 days. |merchants in dry goods and other! |ber of commerce, Miss Marion Larson AUKEGAN, Uh, Oct. 200, ‘Thousands Of folks, al! over’ the country, are agreed that knicketbécketa are thé only thing for girts at work. This is indicated by the flood of letters that have poured in upon Miss Marion Larson of > who, a month Td beets their champion. Her . picture wee printed in hundreds of newspapers. Since then letters have come in every mail, Many indorse her stand, while others propose marriage SEATTLE PREPARED FOR R. R. WALKOUT By E. P. Chalcraft And IF the railroad strike comes, what then? Suppose every transcontinental railroad system in the country sud- denly becomes idle thru the with drawal of union labor, and not a wheel turns on the great transporta- tion arteries from the East, Middle West and South. What of Seattle? Careful analysis of the threatened situation dispels any vision of food and fuel famines, or serious short- ages in other necessaries. WHAT SEATTLE HAS TO WORK WITH Of course, the strike may not occur. But IF it does, Seattle will still have: Coastwise, inter-costal and for- cigh ship service. The Canadian Pacific transcon- tinental railway. The efficient motor-bus and | truck service that covers West- ern Washington. The state short-line railroads. There are, according to the port) commission table, seven steamship | lines, with a combined fleet of more} than 40 vessels, carrying goods be- tween Seattle and Atlantic coast! ports, Sailings every 14 days to) bi-monthly. Where it takes by rail from 14 to; 18 days to receive good from the Atlantic coast, by water the time ts The cost is much Many local | of water transportation cheaper than by rail imperishable lines, regularly order their goods via one of the steamship | lines. Some, in view of possible rail) tie-up, have ordered all their coming shipments to be sent by « water. |Coastwise and foreign steamship} lines would, of course, continue their services. CANAD! PACIFIC Is BIG HELP Another respect in which Seattle is fortunate is in haying available | the Canadian Pacific rail®ay, In} normal times, according to the cham: | this tends to be a! detriment to Seattle, ay some mer-| nts are tempted to patronize the! sadian Pacific rather than Ameri This ix because, due to difterence between! Canadian cur wave money on C can lines, the exchange United States and rency, they can freight charges. IF the strike comes, the Cana- dian Pacific will prove a very great advantage. Goods can be shipped to Vancouver, B, C., then to Seattle by boat, | Lacal transportation, in event of a general railroad strike, would be} well taken care of, ‘The Seattle! Auto Stage line aloge, operating | from the auto stage depot at First ave. and Marion st., has 23 stage routes, covering Western Washing- ton from British Columbia to the Oregon border lines. Hundreds of other trucks and stages could be Pressed into service. NO COAL FAMINE LOOMS FOR CITY Forecasts of a coal famine in Seattle, should the railway trainmen strike, were dispelled Thursday by B. C. Ward, preydent of the Pa- cific Coast railroad, @ «hort line that brings the coal from Western Wazh- ington mines. “As stated in press dispatches, said Ward, “the short lines of the country are not involved in the Present controversy, which in based | upon the reduction in wages of em- ployes of the trunk lines, made by virtue of a decision of the railroad labor board last summer “That reduction did not apply to employes of short lines, inasmuch as | thelr wages had not been previously | advanced to as high a basis ag that | of the trunk line employes. “There will be no interruption to the movement of coal from mines located on the Pacific Coast railroad, or to any of its operations.” TO MARKET FRUIT CROP WITHOUT Loss Local steamship companies have already taken steps to place refrig- erator ships at the disposal of Wash. ington’s farmers, so that their record fruit crop may be marketed in the East without loss—should the rail- road strike come. Representatives have been sent to the great fruit cen- ters to dixert shipments to Seattle. There are ample facilities here to store the crop until it can be sent to the Eastern markets, Packers state that fresh and cured meats are plentiful heré, and that there are large numbers of live stock in the Puget Sound region, Wholesalers who deal in food Products declared Thursday that dealers are carrying normal stocks, and pointed out that the city could easily replenish its store of foodstuffs by water, should the necessity arixe, While other sections of the coun. | try might be seriously inconvenienced in event of a general railroad strike, business in Seattle and Western | Washington, it would seem, will go on much as usual—IF the strike comes. Freight Rate Cuts Are Again Promised WASHINGTON, Oct, 20.—Impor. tant freight rate reductions will be announced in the near future by the interstate commerce commission, was reiterated today by a high gov ernment official, These cuts, exclusively forecast by the United Press yesterday, will | be ordered into effect on short no-| tce. ELYRIA, 0., Oct, 20.—Every boy in Wlyria under 15 will be permitted to fish for the 60 catfish and six bass | in the city park fountain Saturday. it} BRUMFIELD DOOMED TO DIE ON GALLOWS His Wife Collapses as She Hears His Fate, But She Wil’ Get $20,000 Life Insurance After He Is Executed--- Court Room Is Like Social Function as Morbid Throng Awaits Verdict of the Jury. PRISONER TAKES BLOW WITHOUT A QUI By Fred L. Boalt COURTHOUSE, Roseburg, Ore., Oct. 20.—Richard Melvin Brumfield is guilty of m in the first degree. He slew William Dennis Russell, the substitute corpse, with prem tation and malice aforethought. He must pay for his crime with his life. jury at midnight Wednesday. I have covered many murder trials in my time, but never one like this one. I have seen condemned m before now, but never one like Brumfield. The jury retired at 7:45 but the spectators stayed on. had waited long for the wh moment in the drama and would not be denied. Wh Sout taay Wir not break atmosphere of a social function. chatted and laughed quietly. taters formed in little groups, were not Beside the dentist sat his wi Brumfield enough chairs to go around, ‘took on I ind his As time dragged on, friends seeking friends. ee so many of the tators sat on drygoods boxes. The women seimchad ‘oy on sons in the room. Brumfield stept well after convio- tion. He asked for his own Bible before retiring. suicide plot, withheld the Book. Gossipers tn the streets every where say, “He got what he de serves.” Brumriel4 will be sentenced Satur. day and will be rushed to Salem and placed in the death cell. Mrs. Brumfield will get $26,000 In- surance after her husband is \ hanged. Once a woman friend came and |spoke to Mrs. Brumfield and she went with this woman to @ group ip the rear of the courtroom. She ltalked and laughed with them and left them with a pleasant nod to return to her hushand’s side. After an bour of this, Brumfield was taken away to the jail and |his wife and her friends disap- | Beared. The crowd waited. ACCUSED MARCHES KE SOLDIER Every hour that the jury stayed cut improved Brumfield’s chances. We began to speculate. Three hours, we said, would mean second de gree, perhaps, or possible first with a recommendation for clemency. Longer might mean a hung jury. At 11:24 the jury sent word that it had reached a verdict. Judge Bingham was sent for, The attor- neys were on hand. Brumfield, fol- lowed by his guards, walked into the room. Brumfield’s head was high. He marched like a soldier, His wife came smiling. Brum- field rose and drew back a chair for her. His black, piercing eyes were bright, his hands steady. And the flush of neck and cheeks were rud- dy with perfect health. The jury filed into the box. reached a verdict?” “We have.” This from William Clingenfelt, | farmer. ‘The document was banded to the judge and by him to the clerk of the court “Mr. Clerk, read the verdict.” BRUMFIELD DID NOT EVEN WINK For more than a week T had watebed that jury. It was made up of rinchers, for the most pare | backwoodsmen, solid, rugged men, with granite Taces—stern men, but gruff. jury duty seriously. As the clerk read the verdict 1 watched Brumfield. Find New Born Babe City police and Coroner ve | Corn Wednesday baby under the board sidewalk at | Denny way and Westlake ave, The tiny body, wrapped in newspapers, was found by boys playing in the street. Residents near by notified police, who turned the babe over to the coroner, Officlals, fearing | Good | “Gentlemen of the jury, have you) ;, the kind of men who tako|%- Dead Beneath Walk) in are investigating the finding! night of a new born| Brumfield “Guilty.” I swear to you, the muscles of his face did not tighten. not even wink, Save for the eyes, it was a face of wood. There was | no emotion in it at all; no exterior hint of the storm that must have been raging in his mind. He Bh a it on the chin” without a quiver. 1 have seem game men before, but the gamest of them had winced when they The gamest of them had swaggered or grinned or indulged in bragga docio to hide their fear. There was no braggadocio hsb i to Last peck can id Column 2) ‘BOY OF 9 HELD | in Reported Dying TACOMA, Oct. 20.—Herbert Cole man, 9-year-old son of Jeff Coleman, of Randle, Lynn Peters, also 9 years of age, and perhaps fatally wounding him: ‘The Lynn boy is in a dying condi. tion in the Eatonville hospital, with a gunshot wound in the abdomen. children witnessed the shooting. Ac- cording to the dying boy, Herbert had threatened him, following a quarrel. After school, a number of the pu- H One of the Coleman girls to play. ard,” ‘only fooling” to use a gun, when he threatened | on the porch of the Coleman house, | Herbert rushed out, carrying a shot- gun, and fired a 12-gauge charge at Lynn, Both families are prominent in Lewis county, Loses $1, 000 Suit Plea for $1,000 damages was de | nied by a jury Wednesday in Judge | J Ronald's court in the case of Edmeonda Hughes, suing the Navy Yard steamship line. Mrs, Hughes said she had been injured when a gangplank crushed her j foot. Mrs, Gets $1,000 Verdict as Result of Crash Thomas Habernal was awarded amages of $1,000 against Roy Venn, in Judge Boyd J. Tallman’s jeourt Thursday. Habernal asked $3,000 damages for injuries he says he received when struck by Venn's auto at First ave, and Columbia at. last spring, He did) “took it on the chin.” | FOR SHOOTING Another Lad , Same Age, Is : the bee 6e chocolates; the men strolled into the hall to smoke cigarets, |- returning again to the same informal: parties. and his wife chatted on, seemingly the most indifferent per- | | Against S. S. Line | xounaea like an awful wild one, but | appeared to have slept well. | demns me," is accused of shooting | | the verdict. ee ROSEBURG, Po Oct. 20.— “As sure as there ts a God in heaven IT am innocent of this crime tor which I have been con- victed.” Thus did Dr. Richard M. Brum- field, convicted last night of the murder of Dennis Russell, an- nounce to the world his belief in his own innocence, This is the first time Dr. Brumfield has insisted upon his innocence in a sane and rational manner, save, perhaps, the formal plea of “not guilty” which he entered to the charge of first degree murder, “In the eyes of God 1 am in- nocent, but I am not afraid to meet death,” he said. Brumfield awakened from a sound sleep at 8 o'clock this morning. He face was colored with health and he came as near smiling as he ever does as he rubbed his tousled head and regarded his questioners. DECLARES INNOCENT He sat rubbing his eyes and dis. cussing the sentence which may mean death for him more calmly than Jeven his jailers or his interrogators. “Even if the whole world con- he declared with a yawn, ‘in the eyes of God I am innocent, I am not afraid to meet death.” Brumfield was asked if the verdict pas a surprise, ‘Weill, 1 will tell you. Iam just as ‘innocent of that crime as anyone A number of the Randle school | could pe. But I wasn't surprised at I wasn't able to help my lawyers much and the evidence was damning as could be.” He paused and then looked at his questioners with all the sleep gone | pils went over to the Coleman house | from his eyes. “But just as sure as there ts a invited Lynn to “come over in our! Goq in heaven, I am innocent,” he and said that her brother was said, his voice husky with emotion, | “If I had thought for one minute | that IT was responsible for the man’s While the children were playing! geath T would have said so. DOES NOT SEEM AT ALL NERVOUS “IL say now I am innocent and I will always say so. I am not afraid to die for this thing, but that doesn't make me guilty.” The convicted dentist paused again and continued in a more natural voice: “I know the story I told SHIP MISSING, 21 ON BOARD SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20.—The steamer Nushagak, of the Alaska Packers’ fleet, was ordered to put to| to. search } sea from here tomorrow, the North Pacific for the ship Santa | Clara, reported missing, with 31 men aboard. The Santa Clara wag the last of the Alaska Packers’ fleet to leave Karluk, Alaska, its base, She sailed from there September 4. The steamer Chilkat was reported ag having left Port Angeles yester- day to search for the Santa Clara, His | So found 1 a as much of an 303 y us who had watched the trial as +2 defendant himself, J 1 AM NOT AFRAID-T DIE”, SAYS DENTIS they were the facts as far at know.” ‘ Brumfield appeared not at all. vous. He said he felt fine for a sore throat. “Are you ready for asked Sheriff Starmer during in the conversation “Just as you say,” was field's calm reply. “What I be able to see Mrs. Brum! “I am afraid she won't be come down today. She was sick last night.” LOYAL WIFE TRIES TO CHEER HIM But Mrs, Brumfield came in 9 o'clock. As Brumfield gazed jher weary countenance with ghost of a smile trying to {thru the clouds of her despair, jeyes filled with tears. The victed murderer's voice failed {and for the first time in the terrible two weeks he broke down and wept Mrs. Brumfield pleaded with het mate in a soft voice to “cheer the fight isn’t over yet.” But when the little woman left the Jail she gave vent to her She, too, broke down and piteously. Brumfield’s two brothers, = tet today for Indiana, called to see “Richard.” Their few parting words found Brumfield speechless. The ata left the jail with hanging, MRS, JOHNSON PLEADS FRIDAY Stringer and Hanley to Be ; Arraigned at Same Time Mrs. Dolores Johnson, sister of James E. Mahoney, convicted wife | murderer, will be taken before” | Judge Everett Smith Friday to pleas to a charge of forging the name of | Mahoney's aged bride to a power-of — attorney, giving Mahoney contrel of his wife's property. é ‘John Stringer, former sheriff of King county, will be arraigned atitne same time on a charge of grand ceny in connection with the alleged withholding of $5,962.94 of funds paid the county by the federal gov- ernment for upkeep of prisoners in the county jail. Dr, E. T. Hanley will be arraigned Friday on an assault charge. Han ley is charged with having stabbed Nevin Gray and O. Gaspar, of Spike- ton, after Hanley's car had colli with Gray’s machine, near Bnum claw, Sunday night. 7 ry oe me x State Closes Case in Southard Trial © TWIN FALLS, Idaho, Oct. 20—-_ The state closed its case today in the trial of Mrs. Lyda Southard, ak leged “bluebeardess.” Herman 8. Harms, state cheraist, of Utah, was recalled on redirect ex: aniination, He testified to finding arsenic in the body of each of Mrs, Southard’s husbands,