The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 6, 1922, Page 1

Seattleite, Are You a Civic Slacker? Are you a civic slacker? Are you too lazy to fight for your conviction: Now is the time to register, to become qual- ified to vote on some of the most important issues ever presented to the people of Seattle. Several charter amendments are before the ple, the 3-cent fare measure is to be decided, the Montlake-Stadium bond issue must be passed upon, the voters must select the right man for mayor, and clear-thinking, courageous men for the council. Are you going to do your part? Then reg- ister now. The books are open in the county- a building daily from 8:30 to 5 o'clock. They 1 close March 28. : Do your duty by your Home Town! Victim Tel Home Brew Greetings, folks! One thing we like to give up for Lent is the rest of this winter weather. cee Mayor Caldwell cables that he is bringing home a came!—but we don't know whether it is a dromedary or @ cigaret. We cal jon't blame Hl for buying amel somebody bis goat long ano THIS IS NO DESERT A camel can go without a drink for seven days, bot it will hardly be necessary in Seattle. eee A camel is the only thing in the World that can smell! as bad as some ©f the deals put over by the city| hall gang. eee WHY. JAMES! Now: that have had a “G6 Dews- town Werk. aud & “Go to the have one good "Go to Hell Week eaii4t » year'—J. M. & eee Our income ter is coming duc, Hooray! Hooray! Sad shy should anyone feel Duc? \Rey've cut our wages straight in to, ¥ hat means they've cut our tares,) too. Hooray! D Hooray! ae a “Our men receive $5.75 for a 12-! They | | | four days out of the seven. On the other three days they can golf,’ fish, vend A families, or do any- thing they wisb."—D. H. Patterson, Mrs Dorothy Atwood, a million dollars. society widow, Alfred E. Lindsay separated herself and other victims from VOLUME 24. Entered as Second Class Matter May “h. 189) On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star t the Pontoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, By Mail, $5 to $9 8 ls How Lindsay who tells manager Crescent Boxboard plant, at) Port Angeles, Wash. Judge W. H. Moore says he ts fl | Ing for the city council of hie own| free will. Tut, tut, COV. LEN SMALL Meri ee ar paces! GOES ON TRIAL : | Accused of Conspiracy to Embezzle. State Funds WAUKEGAN, ni, March ¢ | Governor Len Small faced trial tu jday on charges of conspiracy to 3 r ¥ —gt|embezzie state funds. INCOME TAX FACTS j Judge! Are you sure the! “After Princess Mary was are | the band played ‘God Save the King.’ "—Newspaper. | Very appropriate. He'll have to Support a son-in-law now. . . Small, tne prosecution alleged, — conspired to juggle milligms fa state : outcome of the Income depends funds in order to “pocket” the outge for the upkeep. jinterest that should shave been e, if that |turned into the exchequer of Ill} * clearer than Dot 7 Prev esss o It ly alleged that Small conspired tax blanks: with Lieutenant Governor Freu o:7 oe Sterling and Verne Curtis, Grant) Swiss marrying John D.'s grand-| Park state bank, of which Curtis é daughter is certainly a bell ringer. cash Millions were taken from the state John Kray of Chehalis says that | treasury, the prosecution will, seek r Mf Mrs. Kathryn Miracle is elect@d |, prove, and loaned to the Grant j to the city council it will be @ mir-| iene gtate bank, of which Curtis aclette. is head, at 2 per cent interest, | John gets the grand prize of two! Asi cccomting to the indictment cakes of yeast and a bale of hops. Jinn loaned the money. to Chicago HEALTH NOTE |packers at from 5 to &% per cent “Food of excellent quality, |The differe interest was (9 plus a clean, inviting interior, be kept b: three, aceording to rllegatio’ em reported for jury will make your meal enjoyable here.” —Advertisement for Meves cafeteria. Leforge, Small’ For that clean inviting in- red Mortimer. terior, we suggest a couple of 1 it, would i liver pills. | to choose a ljury and the trial would per : haps last nearly two months. DEFINITION OF A NEWSPAPER CUT IS ASKED [RAILWAY WAGE. | Administration Fights | Save Treaty | ! 6 WASHINGTON, March senate today without debat By the Ad Manager: An oasis of edvertisi surrow by @ desert) CHICAGO, Ma ‘ Der and by By the Cit or An oasis Of | cont cut in of more than 1 a desert of ad-| 999,000 men was considered today by the United State railroad labor an board, A house + rits in the cellar! ‘Phe hoard at the same time heard {s haunted—t es claims by shop crafts that they were “4 entitled to a 12 per cent increase. | Be that as it may, C. R. Berry | 41) classes of railroad men are af of Seattle is editor of the Fruit- | crea by the petition for n wage cut, land Magazine. | except and train #ervice men fags | They are tiating directly with I never met a motor cop the employers (1 always was a fleet one For this I lenow, out on the road, I'd rather beat than meet one | Hexies wow: WEATHER Harry W. Carroll, the Beau Brummel of the city hall, says Tonight and Tuesday. swallow-tall coats are coming so cold tonight southerly Sounds reason g the things men hip pockets, back into sty able, consider’ carry in the ‘Temperature Last 1 Hours Maximum, 46. Today noon, 44 Lent is also what books are 6 & reecthtion Introduced. ty ux How Lindsay, uncouth and uncultared, succeeded in pape ss. boar ct allhge-waieiad lynn. ob wooing a million from these women, of all ages, tastes Pichia: tasediabadmates tok Lannion and social positions, is the puzzle of psychologists. His Ishii agreement between the United! methods are revealed, however , in the accompanying States and Japan relating to Japan’s exclusive interview which Mrs. Atwood has given status in the ‘One 4 | Ruth Abeling. WASHINGTON, March 6,—The ad ministration began to f oday tor| aeenansnes ns < the fourpower Pacific treaty | | Convinced that a « of dem-| in the senate mean to destroy the f Itc administration lead. | e ers set Out to show the senate and| | jection, Within the next few days, it will PORT ANGELES, March 6— parently meet the approval of the| be pointed out in senate speeches) pioneers and other settlers of |iumber barons,” sald J. M. Clapp, | that rejection of this treaty would) Western Clallam county de /of Seattic, engineer for the settlers, mean | elared here today that the big | Trhey took almost tnmediate steps 1—-Instant revival of the Anglo | jumber interests have launched [to block it and to keep the country panese militery alliance separies a scheme to drive thei irom | bottied up. by this country as a menace their homes and seize their val “They began cireilating a coun | 2—Destruction of all hope of| wable timber lands, ter petition. This petition is to! naval limitation as the United! pyyat factions were expected {to lestablish a Port of Port Angeles States could not agree to limit it©| meet at the courthouse here this! making the pagt inchide the entire vy if und and Japan were | afternoon for a final clash (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) jallied under an agreement that! Phe beginning of “the war” dates } would call for mit their naval| back many years, when the lumber j f war }companies are said to have first enough senators | deciined to buy the timber belonging lteday to beat the treaty, counting |to settlers for anything like a rea-| A GOOD those who admit they do not know,| sonable price whether it is a good thing for the] The settlers hung on, and by ut Untied Biates or not. They do not| meet trusaiiiy were able each year|| WAY LO START the secrecy surrounding nego their taxes. Then, in January, || eae moe tating of th treaty hurricane swept the € am Hughes, returning this week fron: | timber over an area of a million acres sate his vacation, may be permitted by was blown down ; 3 1 ell t C ‘onfronted with the necessity © ‘ tet President Mardi to tell what h Confronted / mee ay is to read the advertising thinks proper about the way ic/|setting out this down timber Jone was evolved. tt altogether within a short tim columns of the Monday re they sought other means of disposing b d H of it than by giving it to the “lum-||} Star carefully and thoroly. rv ber barons” for almost nothing ad i ‘ ° ay ‘Confined Pe Bed “Lact month the Western Clallam || Furniture is strongly fea- etth ed a petition here for a ° “ cts saga garetts, > \eapeen Meroe aeeee tablish the|| tured today, and you will LONDON, March 6,—Ambassador | specif) election to . he} © ane, Harvey was at home today con. | ¥ of Quillayute at the moutl!) find opportunities for sub- ld to bed ith ehill, The Lon. of the Quillayute river 1 f i : re ‘ak palpate all reference} Plans for the port include Bi, stantial savings on things to his reported impending resigna-|epending of $2,500,000 for making Lan i f tion evrotected harbor, and the build: | you may want to buy for ing of lumber mills. a pe] the home. It’s a habit ni Wn This done, the settlers wou! > j 7, R20! IS CAUSED able to drive their logs down the|! that pays big dividends J ) J i ute and Its tributary stream# nt ” BY KNEE ROUGE |cniiayure ax » Ac timber on|| read the ads The Star TERRE HAUTE, In., March 6—A|cleaning up the down thy diyplay winde advertisement of |the million storm-hit acres, and later |} ¢oaay and every day. rouge for knees” on living modely|cutting their timber still standin . ‘ caused @ traffic jam here, “This plan, however, did not ap how} A-POWER PACT FACES ATTACK’ to The dop* Wooed Millions From Women MERELY HAD A DOMINATING WAY} Alleged Swindler ‘Uncouth, Boorish, | But Wealthy Widow Handed Over Her Money for Investment HE COULD WEEP IF NEED AROSE) BY RUTH ABELING (Copyright, 192%, by Newspaper Enterprise Amociation Service) EW YORK, March 6.—-How did Alfred E. Lindsay, mer strikebreaker once indicted for white slavery, win and hold the confidence of wealthy and intelligent women, to the point of getting control of their fortunes estimated, Itogether, around a million dollars? x This question I asked Mrs. Dorothy Atwood, New York| society woman, in her beautiful apartment just off River-! jside Drive. Mrs, Atwood) ¢re¢ ‘Now here it adi al ely 4 | trusted Lindsay with $70,000. 28..." " e282 roug' | And lost it. Her reply was: tis voles was not pleasant. “With dominance.” He was not suave, not finished, bat he instantly began talking Mrs. Atwood ts a Mexican, anburn-| 254 held the center of interest. | haired and petite. She has traveled) t4, was clever enough not te urope and speaks four lm) tik about himself, but about im- suases. “Alfred Lindmy abeotutety domin- | portant people. “An wo became better acquainted happened Ld be,” continued Mra. At omnes el “He waa not a cultured man. His [English wan bad. His figure was j ungainly, He was buge, awkward. he dominated! It amounted lalmost to defiance | .,“When I met him at the home of | Mrs, Lillian Duke, from whom he is jaaid to have obtained several hun | |~ (in connection with bis eusitiem. Nat lurally, when he had been welt intro duced and offered to invest money for mé, I felt it was safe to trust him. woman's moods. He knew.” raid Mre. Atwood. (Turn to Pag Cotamn 3) WOMEN TRICKED BY LINDSAY Women induced by Alfred E. Lindsay to give him more than a million dollars for investment will be the principal witnesses against him at his trial in New York on a charge of swindling. He is under $50,000 bond. His victims and the amounts which they are reported to have entrusted to him include: Mrs, Lillian N. Duke... Mrs. Dorothy Atwood. . Mrs, Helen Burnett... | Mrs. Adelaide V. Rice | Mrs. Charlotte Nilsson Miss Margaret Bogert. Mrs. W. H. Arnold 5,000 70,000 11,900 for-| | “He was clever enough to study a “in an almost uncanny | way, with an almost paychic conse, | 3ATTLE . WASH., MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1922. WOMAN TRIED AS SLAYER! \Mrs. Osborn, With Feminine Law- ors, Faces Court By Hal Armstrong Wih » woman lawyer to de fend her, with five women on the jary and with a woman as her war witness—who, incidentally, is under arrest for running « bootleggery—Mrs. Ivy Osborn went fo trial for the second time tn Judge Mitchell Gilliam’s court charged wih man slaughter. Mrs. Osborn fs acensed of causing | | the death of a baby waif, Helen Ma-|of persons are injured as the result | rie Wilson, who had been left in her | of traffic accidents over the week- It im maid that Mrs, Osborn | end. eharge. beat the child #0 cruelly last October 3 that the baby died a few days later. | N. trial, a few|¢ral hospital from injuries suffered ‘months ago, resulted in a disagree | Saturday that. At this trial she] stage overturned at Lander st. and! was convinced, “after carefully Mrs. Osborn's first ment of.the jury. “sterner” sex. “I got & woman lewyer thin | time,” Mrs, Osborn said, “and [ | Stink the verdict will be for ae- quittal. | “You can't tell your troubles to ' = man, My woman lawyer seemed to understand when I | told my story fo her. | HER LAWYER'S FIRST CRIMINAL CAS Miss Susan Hohmann, counsel for the defense, criminal case. “She in a lovely woma: reat confidence in hei Osborn, ' nd T have} said Mrs. First in News—First in Circulation (by 11,727 copies a day)—Call Main 0600 to Order The Star at Your Home--50 Cents a Month—Why Pay More? Gov. Hart’s Asylum Probe Is Denounced as Whitewash BRUTAL MURDER Of Woman Immate Concealed by Investigators, Is Charge yer, Women Jur-' ‘3 DEAD, 20 HURT | | Week-End Traffic Mishaps | ated any company with which he) me talked of these tmportant people) was represented by an attorney of FE. is appearing in her firs | street car on the W | The jury, which was accepted anal * sworn view 1230 a. m., will be taken to pises where the alleged irred. This was a house }beat on Lake Union, in which Mrs The hotiseboat is now occupied by | three university students, | Saturday federal dry agents swooped down upon the house boat next door ,occupied by Mrs. §. Ly Savelle, who was a sar wit- ness for Mrs. Osborn at her for- mer trial, | Mrs. Savelle is said to have been entertaining a chowd of university boys. The raid broke up the alleged drinking party, TWO MEN TELL OF BEATING When Mrs. Osbornewas administer. ing her alleged beating to the baby two mén in a boat were said to have been rowing past the Osborn house boat. It was night. The window blind was raised, there was a light in the room, and Norman Storm, one of thé men in the boat, said he ob. served Mrs, Osborn hold the baby up in one hand, etrike it several hard blows in the face and then, throw jit violently from her. several days about the head. later, from injuries tify i for the state by Deputy Pros jecutor Juck Carmody before noon | They testified that the baby's death was caused by.a hemorrhage jon the brain and shock pro! due to external violence Miss Hohmann proved a clever | crom#-examiner. She drew from each | doctor an admission that the baby head might have been injured falling against a door casing. | | ‘The ctilld died in the city hospital, | Five physicians were called to tee | | Several of the doctors said Mrs Osborn had told them before the! baby's death that the bruise on the child's head was caused when her husband stumbled with the infant in his arms striking her head 4 | (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) Noted Author Dies i in Fire’, 2 oa ‘9 Days for Filing | , March 6 for John |Fieming Wilson, author and war! h » Who died of burns sustained | yesterday, were held in abeyance t ay pending thé arrival of Wilson's parents from Hemet, Cul Wilson sustained fatal injuries in @ sanitarium at Venice, when a dressing gown which he was werring caught fire from a ater He was being treated at the sani tarlum for a general: breakdown tr heath as a result of shrapnel | wounds and gassing received when | he was overseas with the Seventh Canadians, |New Offer Is Made Wi om) TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE PROBE MISCHA ELMAN WILL LOOK OVER ENGLISH GIRLS FOR HIS WIFE LONDON, March 6.—Twenty years wandering around the world in search of the ideal wife has brqght Mischa Elman, famous musician, to London, and on Wednesday at Queens hall he will select an English woman for his bride. Elman will receive applicants at a coftcert, but will interview Prospective brides at his hotel. “I vowed I wouldn't marry for 20 years.” Elman maid. “The end of the time is drawing nigh. “The English woman is in- comparable. She is all natural. I could not lone my heart to an artificial woman, such as the Woman ‘Objects to. American. “I do not look for a beanti- ful face. My wife must have | Passing U Facts | that will P & soul be stirred by music, but not possessed thereby. She must not interfere with my ort” Upon Steilacoom Death Case ARGING that the commit- tee which recently investi- | gated conditions at state institu- tions for the insane was grossly | inaccurate in its Mrs. | Myrtle de Montis, of Gig Harber, | has written to Gov. Louls F, Hart, protesting against the whitewashing of asylum officials. Her letter, altho written weeks ago, was not made public by Gev. Hart, a copy of it coming into the hands of The Star thru other sources. In her letter Mrs. de Montis takes: particular exception to the way in John McNichol, 74, 4038 12th ave.| which the “investigators” glomed BE, died Monday at Seattle Gen-jever the death of Mrs. Leone C. Peek, of Mabton, at Steilacoom. ‘The committee reported \ | i Claim Many Victims ‘Three mon are dead ané/a/ecere when an Auburn-Sesttle A dozen occu- | sidering all the evidence realty ee | that Mrs. Peck had come to pee thing had béen pry Investigate the case in a proper manner, TO Marginal wey. pants were hurt. dienest A. Hardwick, 36, 1124 Lake | view bivd.. died at the city rel Sunday two hours after being hit by an automobile at 12th ave, and Mad.) SED ison st. The motorist speeded away | ESTIM after the accident, and is being| TAS® T aig sought. L. H. Greenside, 217 Fed-} As a matter of fact, according te eral ave., who was with Hardwick at! Mrs. de Montis, the committee re 4 the time, was also struck, but not|fused to accept testimony on the fatally injured. case, and there is every evidence that An unidentified man was killed| (h® woman was murdered by am at; t > iree ° Saturday. night te Al asatlgerve | “Their (the committee's) finding | ‘The body is at the) Concerning the death of Mrs. Peck,” | | Mrs. de Montis writes, “contain #0 numerous, grievous and palpable er rors, it renders their decision values less * * ©. These mistakes are. also quite inexcusable, as I placed at the disposal of this committee com« plete, authentic and original docu- ments of thiscase * © * JT asked them to call me bofore them, further. | to explain any points they would not junderstand. They did not do this. They did not call in the members of the family * * *. ‘They did not cause the body to be exhumed.” The portion of the committee's re | Port to which Mrs. de Montis partic: ulary objects is as follows: thd * We have learned that upon the death of Mrs. Leone G.” | Peck, which occurred at Steilacoom some time during * * * “April, way trestle. Morsve. F Nogers, 3000 College! in a critical condition at tie General hospital ax the result an automobile collision at 19th and Harrison st. Sunday nig’ parents, Dr. and Mrs. C. . and Mrs. E. 8, Sherman, 135 of ave. | His in the city hospital. The accident occurred when the Rogers machine collided with a car} | driven by H. «E. Mitchell, 6350 28th ave. 8. The Rogers car was hurled jinto a telephone pole, turning over and pinning down its occupants, for Muscle Shoals | WASHINGTON, March 6.--A new 1916, the coroner of Pierce county offer for the government plant at! Was immediately notified and made ® Muscle Shoals, Alabama, will be|thoro investigation. submitted to Secretary of War ALLEGED PROBE 4 Weeks by a group business men | BY PROSECUTOR thru Thomas Hampton, Georgia,| ‘That thereafter the circumstances the house military affairs commit.|of the death were investigated by tee was told by J. E. Levering, the prosecuting attorney of Pierce Los Angeles, | county; that the circumstances of This offer will save the govern.| her death were later investigated by ment $20,000,000 more than sthe|@ special committee appointed by the Henry Ford offer and $15,000,000/ State legislature during the session more than the Frederick E. Eng-|0f 1917, which committee referred strom offer, he shid. the further investigation to the state j board of control; and were not able Fall and Wallace \ttpon ‘nay’ perpen or persons eal Nearing Quarrel! nected with the institution at Steila- | coom An aaa pt: lake °| “That there was the strongest cen- rst serious friction in Presiden sure made that the de: rob: Harding’s cabinet has arisen Qetween | ; Saath Soe resulted from the unintentional care Secretary of the Interior Fall and | iessness of one attendant who is not ary of Agriculture Wallace. 1 now in that institution, There is not dispute centers around the testimony offered before this com- governmental policy for development | nites which would tend in the slight of Alaska and the proposed transfer | enh est way to show that the death of of the forestry service from the de. | Mrs. Peck ras produced by any treat: partment of agriculture to the de j ment 4 voor 6 ont the Pent ae ent of the interior masses Mrs. » both Fall and Wallace today | (Biggest lie of all,” i co comment on the situation, | Montis tersely comments af h is so serious, according to| this point.) “All the evidence that under a governmental reorganization ple information, that one or the this com: ities mag, eal | mittee was able to secure,” the report 2 |continues, “tended clearly to estab jlish the fact that Mrs. Peck injured herself by jumping and falling agains a radiator in a fit of violence or an attack of acute insanity. The attendant in charge of her may not have had her securely fastened; but | this committee was unable to find | any evidence that the death of Mrs, | Peck was brought about by any | violence, abuse or {it treatment of | Mrs. Peck by any officer or attendant in the institution.” TAKES UP CASE Income Tax Returns Only nine days remain in which oome tax returns may be filed without penoity. All returns must be in by March 16; according to C. 1, Huey, deputy collector in charge of the Seattl office, Belated returns are subject to not more than $1,000; | fine and 25 per cent additional tax, IN DETAIL EIGHBORS IRATE [SORT eg N AT PRIVATE Z00 Bo iw Sata bteb.' te Stata beer r Mrs, Peck did not die in DENVER. — Neighbors protested . eet’ Mk Ls A, eee ae Ape, 1916, She was not admit. They testified she kept 500 guinea! ted to Steilacoom until June 15, 40 chickens, two dogs and a| 1916 at her home, The combined | The coroner of Pierce and odor was too much, they| county was not ‘immediately no declared, | (Turn to Page 7, Column @ i