The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 26, 1921, Page 1

ay By fpi2? Dlnalll; The dart Dal beled Stalls Paritt Maps 7 pe ARARAAAAARARAAAAARRAD AAD OPP PDL LLP LPP LL PALL PLD PPP ALP OYLE PARDONS STAGG! On the Issue of Antericanism There Can Be No Compromise WEATHER Tonight and strong southerly gale. Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 53, Today noon, 50, = VOLUME 23 Sere oe a eR RR "Pp Sa eR GRRE poe SEs a ope A a RC fone Brew) TRAINMEN'S Wife, Fights for Husband YOUTH WHO HEAD DEFIES \Bravely Saves His H onor SHOT PRIEST “Greetings, folks! Ain't these 3 days heck? eee ry Mellon's recent ruling near beer to beer near one what, Millicent, has become of Arbutkle case? eee Gee GEE, TH PRAIRIE VAMP, SEZ. ‘who Squad Headquarters Moved " Beattle"—Newspaper. against the Seattle apirits? 4 ose Thursday, rain; Minimum, 46. }|Says Workers Are Under No Obligation to Obey Its Edicts BY CARL VICTOR LITTLE COLISEUM, Chicago, Oct. 26 This admission was made today by W. G. Lee, chief of the train under questioning by Ben aD pay Peter Witt, traction €x-| Hooper, vice chairman of the, board, the mayor does re-/at the opening of the conference that Witt |will have to ride on! between brotherhood chiefs and ex- Seattle street cars : They're tatking now of fitting out policemen with bullet-proof Sometimes, you might say, y @ b eee ign on a First ave. restaurant | and Game Oysters.” ee A LIVELY VACATION ‘Miss Marie Nelson is on her vaca- and during that time has had tonsils removed.—Ravenswood Citizen... ig . little girlie, don't you cry, be wearing short skirts by and bye! ome MR. GREY SAYS eae ‘cote ans : ie a chance, : “Guntoting is decteasing in this spaper, No room on the & fun these days. ray Ser SUNSHINE SMILES a air will make you an op- that’s more than can be Of the non and heir. see | There may be « lot of men out of but ail the hired giris are very os we STORM WARNING southwest storm warning Ordered continued Wednes- at all Washington and Ore- MA HeApOrt wtations. The storm ing inward over Britinh Co- and will cause fresh to southwesterly gales today ftepight north of Cape Blanco. sumed, for We | ecutives called to avert the October and the police are making 4 city- wide search for the girl's ansailafit ‘The man made no attempt to - Miss Warren, fleeing a» soon as he Entered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year. by Mail, $5 to $b SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1921. Another! The decision of the Brotherbood of | tor Irvi t.—Photo * By E.P.Chalcraft | Tt takes courage to come out in public and denounce the officers of the law for what one believes to be unjust and wrongful treatment. Courage of the highest order a quired to take a firm. stand and “call” @ branch of the government for the actions of ‘its reprgnenta- re world hee story.\ : Inspector Franx Irvin was arrest. od Sept. 24 by agents of the bureau of investigation, department of jus- tice, who ‘Ulleged complicity in the theft of $40,000 worth of liquor from a government valut In Seattle. At States Commissioner Robert W nd | chareee were dismissed for lack of hae ay evidence This is what happened at the Ir. | vin home, 2627 W. 69th st., in the by Price * 8 * hearing Get.,20 before United! had knocked her down, words of Mrs. Irvin Miss Warren did not sec her a! “Prank was working down at Pier sailant until he was directly upon); that night. It was Saturday, and her, and she was so frightened then |) expected him to be home about 10 that her memory of subsequent) or 11 o'clock. When he hadn't shown events is clouded. up at midnight I began to get un- All she remembera is that theleasy. I put Bileanor, whe is just sldgger struck her @ violent blow on the back of her head with what she believes to have been a black- jack—and the next nt her mother and sister, Mra. P. J. War- ren and Miss Anna Warren, aroused by her screams, were ministering to her. Dr. F, 8. Wiitsie was called in to dress her wounds, which at first were thought to be dangerous. He found that the skull was uninjured Miss Warren, who lives alone with her mother and sister, is a stenographer in the offices of the Portland Cement association in the Seaboard building. French Deputies : Called Traitors PARIS, Oct. 26.—-Charges that the socialist deputies bad “sold them- setves to a foreign government” were made today in the chamber by Deputy Flandrin. An unprecedented uproar fol lowed the accusation and the cham- ber was forced to suspend its session at which the debate on a vote of confidence by Premier Briand was to have been concluded. ‘The speaker suspended the meet- ing and the galleries were cleared, after which the session was re- H.R. MESSER, 48, died in Mil waukee Tuesday while on a business trip. Hi» wife and daughter left for Milwaukee,as soon as they heard the news, Messer was Seattle manager for the Wadhams Oil Co, three, to bed. But I didn't #leep any myself. ® “Then the-department of Justice | called up and said that Frank was on specjg) duty, and would not be home untif’9 Sunday morning. “But he did not come, Late Sun day night a newspaper _ reporter lealiea up and told me Frank was in [the city jail He said he did not know why Frank had been arrested. A few minutes later Mr. Loftus, chief customs inapector, phoned me that hee had just found out that Frank was in jail. “Monday morning early I went down to the city jail, “But they wouldn't let me see my husband, ‘I am his wife, I said, ‘and it is my right to see him and I am going to, “But they said T couldn't, without a permit. I asked them to give him the things I brought. They took them but Frank never got them, “After hunting all over the federal butiding and being referred to first one person and then another, I se- cured a permit from a department of justice agent and got to #ee Frank at 2:30 p. m, “They had fixed his bail at $2,500, anid it was Tuesday afternoon before {1 could get that put up. Then they let bin out, “At the commissioner's hearing on {oetene, 20 the charges were dropped. | There was not the slightest evidence against Frank, Inspector Irvin has been in the customs service in Seattle for the lant three years, He has had an hon- orable record thruout. So convinced were Irvin's fellow workers that he FOUND MAD Tragic Melodrapa of Far North Brought to a Conclusion alleged slayer of Father dohn Hoar, pricst of Point Hope, Alaska, has been found insane at Nome, conctuding another in ene of the northern most vivid tragic Judge Holzeimer of Nome has or Jered the boy to the Morningside hospital, Portland, for quiet, rest and careful treatment in the hope that he will recover. Wives Make Marriages Fail, Claim Women Haven't Breadth of Character of Men, Says Miss Rambeau And if the doctors are able to re) “tore his reason he will be returned © Nome for trial for first degree wurder and, poswibly, the gallows. RATTLE ALIENIST TELLS ABOUT HEARING Returning from Nome on the Vic- torla, Dr. A. P. Cathoun, Seatue alienist, told today the story of the insanity hearing of young McGuire. ‘The Victoria left here today for the “voyage back to Nome, On her next n, wife of United States Eleanor is wondering what & Carter, Star staff photog- * 8 *% was Innocent of ‘the charges that they went down the line to \he ex- tent of $100 for’hin defense. + H No doubt the department of justice | for her son, the charge @f murder | acted in good fgith.in arresting Irvin. | it, in the rds of Mrs. Irvin: think they ought to be mighty sure of their evidence before they smirch the repytation of an honor. able man.” x Conductor Steps in Path of Auto; Skull Broken Albert P. Reavis, « municipal street car conductor, was be- lieved to be dying Wi from injuries inflicted T y | night when he wax struck by an automebile driven, by Arthur Hussell, 6521 16th ave, S. W. ' | Stepping from his car at First ave. 8. and Hanford st. Reavis walked jdireetly in the ‘path of Russell's ma- | chine, He was Uuncofistious when | Picked up by members of the car jerew, who rushed him to the city hospital Reavis, who is suffering from a fractured skull and other severe in- juries, was later removed to Seat- tle General hospital. \Wotnan Struck When | Truck Runs Amuck' | Mine Zella Steel, 1608 Kast Pros-| pect st., is suffering from dangerous | injuries; George Meljan, 2111 Fifth ave. W., is under bail on a charge of driving a truck while drunk, and two automobiles are partially | wrecked a# the result of a series of accidents whieh blocked traffic at Third ave, and Union st.. Tuesday. Mellan's engine stalled at phe cor- ner, but when he alighted (® crank | it, the machine ran away and struck | Miss Steel, two wheels passing over |her. The truck kept on, running into an automobile at the curb. | Mellan then caught up with his vehicle and continued his journey, only to collidg with another motor car half a block farther on. Asks $10,000 for One Little Word A profane name, which Mrs, Hon: ora Ornstein .« alleged to have called | Mrs, Frances Kelley sent Mrs. Kelley | jto a hospital, her health shattered, | «he claims, In a complaint filed in| superlor court Wednesday. The! epithet so preyed upon the mind of | Mrs. Kelley that she was permanent- ly disabled and physically injured, she alleged. Darhages of $10,000 are asked. trip south, the last of the season, she will bring out the Insane youth itione. or tae mother, Mre. J. H. , of Lom Angeles, en route to c&houn said he conferred with District Attorney Hugh O'Neal, with the result that McGuire was’ given a hearing before Judge Holseimer and) a jury of six to test his present men- tal condition, The verdict wax speedily reached. But, in spite of Mrs. McGuire's plea Was not dismissed on account of his | insanity, The theory of territorial author!- tles is that McGuire shot Father Hoar to shield himself from the priest's denunciation und possible ex. pore, The boy, in his loneliness tn the Far-North trading post at Point said to have taken a native The elder McGuire was snperin- tendent of native schools in the Point | Mrs. McGuire and the defense de-| metamorphosis. clare her son was auffering from in rane meloncholia of the wilderness and was 4 maniac when he shot the priest. The shooting occurred on April 21, 1920. McGuire's father was away, visiting « far distant native village. Father Hoar, returning from a trip to a distant post. was approaching the quarters where Young McGuire was living, when the youth threw open the door and fired two loads of buckshot into the priest's chést, na- tive witneswes said. | Young McGuire then re-entered | the cabin, brought out a repeating irifle and is said to have blown off ‘the top of Father Hoar's head with three more shots. Natives say he backed away from the body in the snow and opened fire on a young Indian of whose atten- tions to Annie, a native girl, he is sald to have been jealous. FATHER DELIVERS SON TO TERRITORIAL POLICE ‘When the Elder McGuire returned to Point Hope he took his son south: ward towards Nome and delivered the boy to territorial police, ‘The lad has been in jail in Nome ever since. His mother went to him on. the first fboat North last spring, gnd has been with him, constantly. Annie, the native girl, is re- ported to have married an_In- dian called Rete, since McGuire “ left Point Hope. She was in Nome last month, with half a score of other natives, who had been summoned as witnesses for the territory against McGuire. At the conclusion of the insanity earing, the natives left with their dog teams on their long journey home, 300 miles north, thru the frozen wilderness. RIDGEFIELD. — Local residents are feasting on ripe raspberries and strawberries, gtown outdoors. Hast- ern papers please copy. Marjorie Rambeau BY JAMES W. DEAN | NEW YORK, Oct. 26. ‘Women ‘are to blame for most of the un- happy. misrriakes.”’ Marjorie Rambeau told me that }back in her dressing room at the Plymouth theatre. | “I'm for the women, all the way, j ost they haven't the breadth of char- jacter that men have. They are sus picious of their husbands under cir- cumstance® in which the husbands would be entirely unsuspecting of them.” Then she made me laugh at her characterization of the wife fretting over her husband's night at the club, However, within the hour she had brought tears to eyes of many with her delineation of a wife made un- happy by her husband, She was be- hind the footlights then, as the hero- ine of “Daddy's Gone A-Hunting.” <That play by Zoe Akins is the most humanly enacted domestic ‘tragedy of the current stage season. |. The playwright has made each of |the acts a complete play within | itsetf, " Pp In the play the hushand returns after a year of art study in Paris. has *experienced a complete This change ts [summed up in his own words, “Love's damn little when a man has work to do.” Husband and wife sit down at a table. That scene would have been no more thrilling if knives and forks had been thrown across the tative in- stem@l of cold words. He goes out. Their little daugh- ter comes in and curls up on her mother's lap. "They rock to and fro. “Let's play I'm a little baby. You sing ‘Bye-o’.”" The mother sings. “Bye-o, Baby (Bunting, daddy's — g-gone -— a-hunt- ing.” “Where's daddy gone a-hunting?” “God only knows.” That's the curtain of the first act. The second act ends with the hus- band saying, "God only knows." The wife has left him and the Jittle girl is asking where she has gone. The last act ehds with the other man, the one who was bound to come into the wife's life, saying, “God knows.” The little girl has died, American Consul in Mexico Is Stabbed | WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—-Lloyd Burlingham, American consul at Salina Cruz, Mexico, was stabbed by two unidentified assailants in the American consulate there on the night of October 24, the state -de- partment was officially advised ‘to- day. Two wounds were inflicted in | Burlingham’s left arm, hut neither is serious, according to the depart: ment's information. No evidence has been received by the state department, it was stated, that the attack was a communiet protest, similar to the bombing of Ambassador Herrick's home in Paris, because of the death sentence imposed on two communists in Massachusetts, | bisa ; ; {months of his sentence. The Seattle Star TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE NEWSPAPER MAN IS OUT OF PRISON | George T. Stagg Freed From Term at Walla Walla After Conviction on ;_ OLYMPIA, Oct, 26.—George Stagg, former Tacoma and | Seattle newspaperman, sentenced to a term in prison for |kidnaping his own son, here a year ago, was pardoned today iby Acting Governor Coyle. Stagg came here from the Walla Walla prison last, night, 10 utlaccompanied and in civilian clothes, Stagg had A verdes bad, bom. snenueres eenee oa state prison board, but had been. de by Governor Louis” cf go a he went to California a few weeks ago for ealth. ° Stagg’s pardon was sought constantly and earnestly since his conviction by his former | Stage, who has since remarried atid is living in California. “I didn’t want George to go to the penitentiary. I only wanted to get my. baby. back again. father and it breaks my heart to have him want him pardoned more for the baby’s sak 's mother before she left her home Califomia. Stagg’s friends on several of the in prison. ‘ Northwest also strongly urged his an impetuous act and ‘Wt is believed that Stagg will go first to Nashville, Tenn., to see his mother, afd will then go back to New York; where his job on a bit newspaper awaits him. He bas de- clared that .he will never again molest his former wife or baby, tho his letters are brimful of af- j fection for his son, | Stagg’s petition for pardon came before the state prison board at Walla Walla on September 7. Tho the pardon was unanimously urged by the members of the board, Gov- Henderson, of Tacoma, his attorney. MARRIAGE WAS WAR-TIME ROMANCE e The Stagg kidnaping case a’ tracted nation-wide attention. George Stagg and Edith Cunning- ham, who was also a newspaper reporter, had been married in Ta- coma Febtuary 15, 1918. Stagg, who was then 21 years old, had Just quit his job on a Tacoma a paper and enlisted in the aviat! corps. His bride was only 18 years old. It was a war ro FE On October 11, 1920, Mins erd was arrested when she went to the depot in New York | for her trunks. Tho she was accom- panied by Stagg, he was not ap. na z. wif:, Edith Cunningham : George is the bel % mance that grew in a newspapor office. o Soon after marringe, Stagg was called into service at March Field, California, where ghe remained until the signing of the armistice. Mrs. Stagg visited her yount Prehended. Warrants for both Bete ty Brainerd and Stagg had been issued in Tacoma, Both were charged with kidnaping. The ar- rest in New York was made @ fugitive warrant. on aviator husband at the training camp. The war romance, however, had faded, and it was agreed that jthey separate. On December 30, }1918, in Tacoma, Bobby Stagg was born. A recongiliation took * place after the armistice, and for a few | weeks Mr. and Mrs. Stagg lived together in Seattle, where Stagg |wax employed by ‘The Seattle star.| Urged by Cummins {Another break occurred, however.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Con: and both the young husband and) solidation af: the railroads into @ wife admitted their marriage had/ group system much fewer in num: been unwise. ber than now is the only practical On September 12, 1919, Mrs. Stagg | solution of the railroad problem, ; Was granted a divorce from George | Senator Cummins, Towa, — declared | Stage in the Pierce county su-| today before the senate interstate petior court. George Stagg did not} commerce committee. ' contest the suit. The mother was Hh pustody of the baby. George \Neft.for New: Yerk: sobn after the| "TIS A MARRYING || BUNCH, OH, GIRLS! ‘CAN YOU BEAT IT? |divoree and went to work on a | Newspaper there. BABY STOLEN FROM MOTHER’S HOME Come on, you downtown stores, About a year later, Stagg learned aye offices and city depart- Can any of you equal the rec ord of the municipal railway of- that Erastus Brainerd, former New York and Seattle newspaper editor fice as a prize matrimonial bu- reau? . employed in Washington, D. C., In the last two years exactly 16 by the Seattle Chamber of Com- merce, had suffered a severe ner couples have plunged into the sea | of matrimonial bliss from the ‘vous breakdown, Inasmuch as he was well acquainted with the headquarters of the street car de- | partment. 5 | Brainerd family and had at one All the matrimonees, were em- time worked on the same. news- paper as Betty Brainerd, he volun- teered to assist Miss Brainerd in ployes of the department. The latest to take the fatal step are Fred Miller, mileage clerk, jand bringing her father back to his Nome in Seattle. They arrived in Emma Ritter, stenographer ia’ accounting department. bear tc save the young couple fron: extradition and conviction. Jerome, (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) . Rail Consolidation * Seattle the early part of September. Mganwhile, Stagg’s affection for his little son had become so strong