The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 5, 1922, Page 9

INESDAY. DEATH TRAP CLAIMS ITS OND VICTIM | Part Owner of Apartments Found Crushed at Bot- j tom of Shaft (rushed to death by a hy: drulic freight elevator m the pasement of the Bell apartments af 2% First ave. the body of in Herbert J. Pratt, 50 years old, was found Wednesday by the janitor, Donald D- Murphy. Pratt was half owner of the apart- mente. : fatrimen Gorse Reynolds and ‘ Dench investicuted (he trag- Pratt was at 10:30 y night he was to his partner, Fred Mur. 4. & brother of the janitor ‘an investigation hy the coroner the fact that Pratt was the second victim of the elevator, whieh Gas decured to be a death trap, had walked across the elevator pt to start the elevator by pulling F gen rope but did not jump tack to ki ia time to avoid the descend. elevator, which was used mainly Pratt wee a y relative so far . Mra. J. Hall, APRIT — last sen when wy. The body was taken to the county It ts bellewed that steps will} De taken by the conorer to have the “devator condemned Dorothy Clark, 16, Boston actress, OWNERS REJECT PEACE xs: ots ic +f a the says he sent her. has sued Rawlinson for $200,000, al- Plan to Turn Down Offer OF hicoine misconduct. The actor vigor- ch Government ously denies the charge. 8. NASHUA, N. H., Aprit 5.—Kar! E. Elms, of Boston, and Miss Dorothy Clark, actress of this city, are on their honeymoon today, following « quiet wedding Tuesday. Miss Clark's mother recently brought sult against Herbert Rawtin son, motion picture actor, charging Imisconduct toward her daughter eee BY CARL VICTOR LITTLE tors today planned a flat turn. |the suit is unwarranted of the govertment’s offer to le the miners’ strike. ‘Mine owners in Indiana and Ili-} HERE’S MORE ABOUT have agreed to refuse to accept) it of the United Mine Work- STARTS ON PAGE ONE —ts outshone by Cochran. The millionaire bachelor follows over the continent. In Zurich he 8 PTPae attitude of the operators to the invitation of the house com was learned today from the| official of the organized mine | h He revealed the attitude of outgenerals another suitor Sperators as follows [successive days costly automobiles “We did not understand what right |are delivered at her door. Sacre tus to interfere in this dis-| And in mid-September, in Paris. We have no contract with the they are married. It it whispered ners’ union now, Our old contract | that Ganna has had “spirit messages” oviding for a meeting before Aprii/from her dead husband-—No. 2—and “Lexpired on that date.” |the doctor's ghost has counseled her | A conference of operators will!to marry Cochran. bly be held in Chicago this CHAPTER 4 a to formally consider the invita presr z chicago, 1920, Mme According to their mt at! INTER in Chicago, 1 ‘ttede. a brief, diplomatic refusal will | Ganna Waleska (Cochran) ts a Mesent. It is no secret now that the 2° star with the Chicago grand opera, which everybody knows would We bring about separate agreements |have died long ago If Harold McCor ‘With the workers mick hadn't supported it. 3 cee And on the eve of her premiere in Strikers Ask Aid Zaza there is an uproar 1 | Marinuzel throws up his baton in dis ‘4 i leust and quits the orchestra. Mo of Non-Union Men jf". demands that Waleska be INDIANAPOLIS, April 5—All the| < In the excitement permitted to sing. Ia Breagth of the United Mine Workers | ‘ainka disappears us concentrated today on organiz- a ‘Rg ven-union miners, whose produc CHAPTER threatens success of their strike. | INTER in Paris finds ‘Ta every open shop field. expecially | Cochran and happy. B Wee Virginia, agents of the union| But summer brings thunderclouds re hammering home the doctrines |In July there is a report they have etganized bargaining. separated—and the whisper of a new & long as 29 per cent of the nor-|ghost story, that trit messages’ Bi con) production is mined by non-|from Husband No. 7 tell Ganna she ‘bs men the chances of forcing an |did wrong tn marrying Cochran te wage conference with the Wtators are not bright. eee ‘Werators will devote all their efforts there guest of McCormick and his daugh we. ter. She returns to her home in i H *aris and locks out Cochran. M | May Be Hired Here ** " @=ri—*t the Rite And Gan | gad the 14 coal mines in the | "™'* jewyer, Dudley Field Malone, Hh Ste that have been cloned b o| 2 ts Paria. for [] Bf Bere etrike shall be sapecea-wne And September brings re. od i Me-anion labor is the question to be | CO™mIck to America, saying: 1 do i by members of the Wash.| 20% know that woman a Coal ‘Operators’ aasociation CHAPTER 6 of | ¥ Morning in the Lyon bui OW it is October, and Cochran for. 1 In announcing the meeting, J. H. A O® Miler, commissioner of the amo Samuel Un Untermyer has a lawyer, too termyer. Malone and shoot hot typewritten statements at said the closed mines are in |each other. They had met tn Paris PH orner luntermyer offers Ganna $10,000 « Mo developments were reported by | year for Cochran's freedom. all ad, | ces, Farrimond, president of District| Malone says: “Cochran can't get ece 16, United Mine Workers of|@ divoree; he has no grounds. She can and will—if he acts like a man loor ——___—_—_- with $17,000,000 should act.” ne’ Seattl Untermyer says: “They are trying le Greeters so Sobel fear athge éatenr Financial statement: $10,000 bid 00,000 asked; deadlock CHAPTER 7 IWRTAIN falls on 1921 For Mrs. MeCormick foes and gets a divorce Select Delegate: Sit hotel men have been named by No. 9, Hotel Greeters, to rep te Seattle at the annual conven: odd the Hotel Greeters of Amert-| Pittsburgh, June 0 28. They} M*Claude M. Aitken Moran, | Harold McCormick rt 51 nds, ally into court = Lucas, Martin Pheil, J. W CHAPTER 8 and Ralph Bradley : 4 Spe noone lawyers commute be Do . J tween America and Europe. UBLE DOSE Ganna is in Paris, rehearsing, it i* |said, for a triumphal reentry into z grand opera when she has her free bat |dom. Cochran comes back to New sti¢e York to sign papers in his divorce OF suit. He will sue « Untermyer 29 m4 Ganna has said: “If he wants to { get rid of me he must pay until it + hurt for hia own good. He must \ IN be made to realize that a woman Is 5 carat 25 not a toy to gratify a whim and then | to be cast aside like a house, a yacht or a race horse." J Gls So pends divorce, It ia whispered a ™~ —-—~.-- 4 | that all that Ganna wants is half ot| on re | the great Cochran fortune—Just half! i |New World’s Record rim- | cag Set by Auto Racer hite “os of | DAYTONA BEACH, Fia., April 5 tra al ‘Traveling at a speed of 152.54 miles ‘ : manos?" \an hour, Sig Haugdahl, of Trond Motors hjem, Norway, in his Wisconsin Spe Rae t—Why don't you get out cial racing ear, officially lowered the Rit world's record here today when he What! Are you coming| established marks of 3.56 for 10 miles land 1.56.02 for five miles Her mother | CHICAGO, April §.—Coal mine op | Elms declares he will seek to prove | On two] Conductor | nna and | September in Dieppe; Ganna {x the} sensation. | from | SLAIN YEGGMAN If HERE’S MORE ABOUT || NOTED FUGITIVE) __ JUDGE || STARTS ON PAGE ONE | “Frank Grant” Believed to| <—————__———_——" Have Been Costigan A bait A halfdo: ] injected By Hal Armstrong | | Metief that Frank Grant, the afternoon slain Sequim bank robber, was h “walla of | In reality James Costigan, noted thrown {n | eracksman and fugitive, who [so fir ax definite explanat were | faced a life sentence if captured r included | alive, caused « fingerprint expert | 1. Day and Mrs. Day probably wil! | | to leave Seattle for Port Town- | not tentify before the coroner's jury | | send today | Saturda | Impressions of the dead robber's | Investigators began an attempt | jfingers will be taken in the Port|to learn if intoxicating refreshments \Townsend © for mparixon | Were imbibed at the “death bridge| j with those of Costigan If they are | party {the same a manhunt that began last 3. County Attorney Mumhes’ office |September and included the entire | reetived reports that four cars were Weat in its scope is ended, because | Parked before the Day manaion dur | | Costigan in dead Ng the party | “Grant” wan one of sstigan's| 4 Authorities sought to further! many aliases, Born in Engtand, Cos] @4estion princ ns of the case ag to tigan showed up on the Pacific coast | Why Day went upstairs for the gu many years ago. He was widely |'M*tead of ordering I out tmm Iknown as an expert burglar and) “ately when he came in, Day ex jaafecracker. He was caught four|Plined thiy by saying he was in the| times and served four terma in pent. | >®bit of doing things “methodically,” tentiaries, two in Folsom and two in What be, © of the bullet thar killed Beck? It has not been found Will }San Quentin r he was arrested In nvicted of burglary, and wha aecliadt pve i Gagner cd Fras Army Court jeriminal, with a life sentence con Probe Death Case fronting him, when he dnd an asso. WASHINGTON, April 5 sourt of Inquiry will be inventigate the shooting to death at} Oklah a City of Lieut, Col, Paul} Ward Meck, army flyer of Post field Okla. it was learned ut the wer do | partment ‘This is in accordance with regula such in in An army 1 to clate, James Carrell, another ex-con viet broke jail and escaped, Septem Appoint 4 ho net was Immediately spread for Nis recapture, but he eluded it. A substantial reward failed to bring any word of him to the authorities. | No more secluded place to hide lcoult have been found along the en: | tare eons thine Gis tee Hain onal the event of the death ot an army sula, where Frank Grant and Albert ee noe eee etre po bang ye | Ernest Browning recently disturbed piers wetbiany MR ‘ in es be tak | lthe Northwest by thelr robbery of — een eee ; “ taken by county authorities, The| }the Sequim bank, and wher Grant | | : army court will be appointed by the wan shot by Sheriff Phil Chase last | commandant of Fort Sill, Okla, it week artd killed bona a9 ' ‘The probability that Grant was | Costigan and Costigan was Grant so limpressed Luke 8 May, president of the Northwest Association of Sher iffa and Police, that he dispatched a fingerprint expert to Port Townsend today to ascertain the facts. » requirin an ulry HERE’S MORE ABOUT | PROJECT STARTS ON PAGE ONE | port on the basin ares, you must mid another 100,000, of whom Se attic is bound to get more than | half. Taxes will be reduced thruout the state for the estimated taxable walue of the Columbia basin lands will be increased $1,227,100,000 when the project goes thru. | The expected annual value of Co }lumbia basin crops will be a quarter of a billion dollare—enough to pay the COST of the project every year And MOST of this enormous crop of grain and live stock will be exported }to the Orient—THRU SEATTLE. see In case the forthcoming engineer | ing report of Gen. G. W. Goethals ap | proves the Pend Oreille diversion plan of plactng water on the dewert the IMMEDIATE gain will be prine pally Spokane’s, because that will be the construction center, If the Goethal's report favors the Grand Coulee dam-and-pump plan the immediate benefit will be shared by Seattle, for the construction cen ter will be im the district north of Northern railroad a little half way from here to the Great more than | Spokane Which method te to be | purely an engineering problem. Jengineers have favored the diversion |acheme, giving « system of furnish ling the water entirely by gravity Government engineers have said that | this plan should not be adopted until the possibilities of the water-and | pump scheme are understood. Gen. Goethals was hired to settie finally and forever, WHICH plan is the better of the two. All know that used tx State his report will not be «waved by| |polities or local communities’ de siren. | Neo matter which plan is adopt- ed, Seattle will be ULTIMATELY the largest gainer, for the prod | ucts of the Columb Basin | flowing thru this city to the waiting Orient will make Seattle beyond question the I DING | SEAPORT OF THE PACIFIC | COAST. } | eee | @ thank the editor of The Star, the state's greatest news paper, for giving me the space to explain this Columbia Basin project from what I have tried to make a Seattle point of view And if you, gentle reader, have |} followed my. argument to the end of my rather poor remarks, I thank you, too LEON STAR | MONT, |Did You Lose Your $2.30 in Flames? Fire in ttle in 1921 amounted to $2.30 per person, accord ing to the annual report of the fire Jepartment, made public Wednes by Chief George Mantor. The total loss was only $ altho more than $24,354,239 was en dangered by fires which were extin | guished by the department Expenditures of department {during the year amounted to $1,5 083. Editor, Spokane a.) oasea the Criticises Meier on Muny Line Contract} Declering that purchase contract gave an unfair the street r: vantage to Stone-Webster interests | and that Walter F. Meier, candidate | for mayor, was in the corporation | counsel's office when the contract was passed upon, Charles H. Miller jeandidate for mayor, addresued the lraxpayers’ league at the Good Kats cafeteria at noon Wednesday. |Discharged Employe |Shoots Up Foundry | CHICAGO, April EATTL SUICIDE NOTE TO | BE SHOWN JURY Interest in Kelso Cashier's | Disappearance Grows TACOMA, April 6.—Intereat in the | trial in federal court here in whieh Mr. Maude Stewart of Kelso trying to collect $45,000 insuran ened to be due her on her hue band's policies, today centered on! the scheduled presentation of the letter written by Stewart to hin wife, in which he said that he| would commit suicide / It in expected that the letter will be introduced by Mra, Stewurt’s | attorneys this afternoon. Frank Sardam testified yeater-| day that Stewart had called him on| the telephone from Boble on the evening that he disappeared. This le sald to be the last message from the man before he vanished, Other witnesses testified to the ecomingly strange mental q@ndition of the man prior to his disappear. ance. He disappeared on the night) ff March 17, 1921, following the failure of the Kelso state bank, of which he was cashier Portuguese Airmen Continuing Flight LISBON, April 6.—After a false start yesterday, when engine’ trou ble forced them to postpone the sec ond leg of their flight to Brasil, the Portuguese aviators got away today, at 8:20 a. m They left from the Bay of Gando, instead of from Las Palmas, taxting to thelr starting place to avoid bad | weather, and were to My to the Cape Verde isiands ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—Frank P. Pulver reelected mayor on plat | form which declared in favor of the lone-piece bathing suit The American Tobacco Company honored “111” cigarettes by choosing for their name the address of its Home Office—111 Fifth Avenue, New York. The American public honored the judg- Charles Fal | atedt, a discharged employe of the W. | A. Jones foundry, entered the shop | today and started shooting with two lguns, He killed Chester Borstrand, | a clerk, and wounded four others. | i. J. Powers, superintendent, after | being wounded, obtained a revolver and shot and killed Maistedt. —Which means that if you don't you can get your money back from the dealer. ” ponpNy SE DPE 4 ag eee wre | POOR FISH TO COME INTO OWN AT LAST, MISS BAKER SAYS SHE WILL WED M’CORMICK 2 ARE SLAIN IN CHICAGO, April 5 Mary Lar cence, rent voy ion | A BIME EPIDEMIC | ano cer cucturep Intention of sailing for Europe Pity the poor fist Saturday to marry Allister Mc 2 2 , They have plenty of schools Cormick, whom she left waiting |/Casualties in Chicago Are || mon. herring, whale and the at the church last January on ate like—but not a single university, But society go tur would never marry CHICAGO, April Chie All this is going to be changed aire. rim epidem claimed two more ge r ae ini ‘They pointed to the fact that iver te 3 ioe sa emg geet oe 4 on Mary's return from Califor \ i m, 2 * f - to : States civil servic nia, where she apent the last two be bs band wh Sicamminats months, she was met at the to , J Parlor 12 ia 4 Jur train by Barry Baxter, English |) "10m | nay be had at Room 203, postot. actor. Baxter's name wan men M. fier building. tioned in connection with Mian |) hae : na your Sage Baker's when sho failed to keep |! him with being too friendly with an- | ome ee the wedding date. other woman. Mre. Nicholas Peters, the other woman, jumped between | Driver Flees After |Meinhausen and his wife and was . ° SEEK FIREBUG (ihe tie teed t| ~Wrecking His Auto wife ‘The police were asked Wednesday John Molar, 1015% Pike st., formerly a truck driver for \the Arma & Scott Co. 1268 Occk dental ave., who fled last Saturday after his auto had run wild down Weller et. striking a stone gird AFTER BLAZE} Acting Fire Marshal Robert Laing in investigating a fire believed to have been set by incendiaries whieh destroyed property estimated at $650 at the McDermott Wheel anufac turing company, 521 EB. Northlake ave., early Wednesday morning Fred Irvine, a poticeman, was ar. reated in connection with the investl gation into the murder of a police man and the treasurer of a building and joan association during a holdup ‘THREE SHOT IN to search for railing on Fifth ave, and plun Neighbors are reported to have NEW TONG WAR pacpesdemage J or told Laing that an explosion w | ephrigg heard just before the building broke PORTLAND, April 5.—The Chi Molar was seen running rapidly into flame, and that a column of fire | tong war flamed up here with | from the scene, after he had jumped epurted into the alr 190 feet. |r scale ys Fa ; rnin Sat | before the auto struck the railing. —_ or om "1 fi a The truck was badly damaged and ties ever staged on Portland/ remained hanging 70 fee Lloyd George Stops [iti Gne Chinaman war killes,|Tenmane’ynareine 70 feet over the Engineer Lockout | one ttaliy wounded and anotier onan : no: down by the pollee LONDON, April 5, — Lioyd| *"°' ‘ | : George's intervention in’ the eng. | The fight. broke out without! Forest Protection warning within a block of the police neering crisis has been successful tation, Twenty ox and employers have agreed to sus pend lockout orders against 600,000 workers, it was officially announced today | The British premier followed hin triumph in the house of commons by bringing workers and operators to. | tongs. gether and preventing breakdown in the engineering trades. | Negotiations will be resumed be tween union leaders and executives on Monday Week Support Urged j changed In rapid suceemsion between! Wo individual or organization or the Chinese and the police. The community interested in the develop- shooting i# believed to be an out-/ment of tourist travel in Washing» break of the war between the Hip|ton can afford to tft in getting be Sing and the Bing Kong Bow Leong|hind Forest Protection week, dedg- nated for April 16 to 22 by President Harding, according to W. G. 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