The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 3, 1922, Page 1

Anan * alll WEATHER Tonight and Friday, fair; moderate westerly winds Temperature Last M4 Hours Maximum, 75. Minimum, 33. ‘Today noon, 67. DYING; NT STA 0 eo sa ne ean emma metentraiine G On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Postottiog at Seattle, _ VOLUME 24. NO. 137. Held in Prison for 23 FATH to Forget! and Start Life Anew,” Say s| Trial Victim MUSKOGEE, Okla., Aug. of joy-juice. It must be sloe gin. : het pres mm 8.—“Never ‘We wish that copper wou eo Charne: mentall Maat Chie cin oe eos mis ool page—that’s where the dirty work /*fs done! > of his cell when he entered it in 1899. Today he is free, having served nearly 23 years of a/ we pn Say is a toa te jlife sentence for a murder) the girls who bobbed their hair {he did not commit. |r sod then changed thelr minds |" No hate is in his heart.| * ns Like Monte Cristo, he spent} his prison years in educating ; |himself, but unlike Monte | Cristo, he does not plan to | Spend the rest of his life seeking vengeance. me am at peace with the world,” says Tidwell; “I want) to forget the past and _— life anew.” An unlettered farm hand| at 17, when he was convicted} of killing his employer,) James Browp, Adair county | | farmer, he i§ now at 40 an educated man with a trade.| He learned tailoring in At-) lanta federal prison and} plans to follow that trade. | Because the crime occurred in the then Indian territory,| bis trial was in federal court) land the first five years of| his sentence were spent in| the Columbus, Ohio, peniten-| tiary. The last 18 years he has} been at Atlanta, where he} spent every spare minute in) the: prison library, educating | himself and keeping abreast | of developments in the out- side world. Tidwell’s indefatigable ef- forts to establish his inno- cence were rewarded recently | when two sons of the mur-| dered man, who as small | boys identified him as the| murderer in 1899, declared) he was not the man. My goil's de bee's hips— She done me doit: She pressed her lips Against me shott. ee Mayor Brown urges the construc of @ $4,000,000 municipal market. If the market was as successful as /our street car system, doughnuts ‘would cost $1.50. . ee That poison pie that killed six per fons in New York must have been the kind that June brides make. oe PROTECTING TAYLOR “Leatherneck Taylor complains that his name wash't mentioned last week. +. ‘Taylor, as a lot of gobs are in town and they might get wind that there's a ‘disabled’ marine oat here.” — Cushman Hospital Boomerang. -° ‘The city council is planning to bar | fireworks in Seattle. Now if they'll only bar firewater * oe Writer to The Star says that 4%/| /eenta for laundering a collar is exor- nt. He forgets that the laundries have fo have special machinery for mak- ing those saw tooth edges. -* q With Ford production up to par, Another problem Henry faces: He's gotta figure out a way To build a billion parking places. eee Northwestern University of Ap Med Criminology is to open here! shortly. Do your Christmas shop- Hifting early. oe CREMATION NOTE Be that as it may, Geter & Baker are undertakers in dack- sonville, Florida, eee is lease A trombone playing “Misere” on a Just after his re! ' an foggy night is the most dismal thing} Oklahoma woman made a) fn the world—next to a cold fried) deathbed confession that it = Pee es: was her husband who killed Brown. William Allen White, back in Kan- : fag, ia atill fighting for free speech, Five persons connected; but we'll bet he er attended «| with Tidwell’s case have met} oes, ee sudden deaths. Besides the| But that,” ked Kegbett 1 woman who confessed, her Ingiy, as he towed tnige bis | husband~-dropped dead” of ae, eee heart disease. age! peo The attorney who prose- |cuted Tidwell met a similar | end. Suppowe these special deputies get saturated with the strike spirit and fo on a strike themselves what | The judge who sentenced Lae! eee | him was shot to death in a; Today's candidate for the Poison| riot and Tidwell’s mother | Ivy club is the gink who takes your} i rt. last cigaret. died of a broken hea Stop Phone Service as Tribute to Bell NEW YORK, Aug. 2—Telephone service thruout the United States and Canada will stop for one minute as a tribute to Alexander Graham | | Bell at the hour the inventor is bur: | j ied the American Tele; ee dack and Ji went up the hilt To fetch a jug of likker; When little Jill had drunk her fill It took a cop to Ukker eee GEE, TH OFFICE VAMP, SEZ: | How many miles can your ¥ LI'L GEI | baby get out of a gallon of mith? vind Telegraph Co, announced rm A-~e today Annual circus-carnival of Seattle The exact hour has not Been de- to Page ry | termined. ler fara, of Olympia, was named secre INNOCENT—FREED Has No Hate in His The Misses Ericson, t European Swede RECTOR KILLED [RONALD FLAYS BY POISON DOSE’ Error in Drug Brings Death | Fears Public Confidence in to Rev. S. C. Morrison Coroner W. C. Corson was con- ducting an investigation Thurs- day into the death of Rev. 8. Cameron Morrison, rector of the Church of the Epiphany, who sue- cumbed Wednesday to the effects of a dose of barium sulphide, which he took by mistake for barium sulphate. A preliminary inquiry Into the tragedy disclosed the fact Dr. Morri son had been under the « C. P. Bryant, who instructed preparation for an X-ray examination. but did not give him a written pre acription Dr. Morrison called the Kast Mercer pharmacy, 634 15th ave. N., to get the drug. According to W. C. Dix, prescription clerk at the store, the priest asked for barium sulphide, and read the label on the bottle before leaving the establish ment Dr. Morrison took the poison Wed nesday. A tew minutes later his wite beard him cry, “I've been pol soned!’ and found him prostrate on the bathroom floor. Despite heroic efforts to save his life, he died with- in a few hours. The priest, who was 42 yearh old had been in Seattle wince 1917. He was formerly rector of St. John Olympia, He leaves, besides his widow, a son and a daughter, aged 9 and 4, respectively. Troy Elected ky Bar Association TACOMA, Aug. 2.—Following a hot contest for the choice of prest dent, P. M. Troy. of Olympia, ity candidate. chosen president of the Washington State Bar association at the closing meet ing, Wednesday afternoon. Monday at minor report was The vote was 108% to 69, over Geo. | Rumrmens, of Seattle. W. J, Mil tarytreasurer; §. J. Chadwick, W W. Tolman, of Seattle, and Maj. C. 0.! Bates, of Tacoma, were named dele gates to the American Bar asgocia tion “FATHER OF SEVEN,” BE SURE AND READ THIS; IT’S FOR YOU ‘This is to “Father of Seven,” who wrote to Chief Seattle last week, telling how bis children’s pet puppy had been killed by an automobile. Since his letter was published The Star has received offers from two Seattle residents to the dog The names and addresses will be furnished “Father of Seven” if he will call up the city editor of The Star, Main 0600 replace * to illustrate every feature for which "9 fair daughters are famous, are of Dr. | him | to take & dose of barium wulphate in| Juries where one case of inju | ald waid. SEATTL E, WASH., THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 8, 11! Wash, under the Act of Congress March #, 181%, Per Year, by Mall, $6 to OF 1922, Years in sisters of Stockholm, are said by|o tinal vote on Aug. 17, angered and a JURY SYSTEM Courts in Danger BY FE. FP. CHALCRAFT Scoring the present jury aye | tem in Washington, Superior Judge J. T. Ronald, in an tnters | view Thursday, declared that | unless steps are taken to remedy | the evils of legal proceedure the confidence of the people in the state e@irts will soon be a thing | of the past. “I believe that 19 eases of in | Justice result from verdicts of tice | results from a well-reasoned de. | cision of the court,” Judge Ron | “I am not advocating abolition of the jury nystem, but I do advocate | such a change as will afford this branch of the court that ald to jus. | tiee which the ripe experience of al Judge can render.” | “In the first place.” Judge Ronald | |continued, “the jury list should be fe up by a jury commiasion, thus insuring a higher average of intelli gence available for the choosing of jurors. This was done 20 jand must lena injustice resulted | years ago, | Jury verdicts then than now “Again, jurors should serve two months, one-half going out each |month, so that there would always ye at least half of the jurors with some experience. “The results of the present (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) |A. H. GATTIS | PASSES AWAY | Allen Homer Gattis Seattle 16 years, died | paralysia at the home in-law, Mrs. Sarah Smith, 1171 De }troit ave. Portland, according to a| | telegram received by F. B. Lazier, r | corder of Nile temple, in this city. Gattis was in the hotel. business in | Seattle up to three years ago. At the 50, resident of | Wednesday of of his mother time of his death he was employed jin the county auditor's office in this | city. He was a prominent Mason and’ Shriner. Mr. and Mra. Gattis motored to Portland, June 29, on ya | cation | He |n eurvived by hix widow, Raith | E,.Gattis, of Seattle; his mother, Mrs 1M. A, Gattis, of Memphis, Tenn, | four brothers and two sisters, Buria) will be in Portiand Demand Senators’ | Votes Be Probed | WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.--A reso. lution demanding far-reaching inves: tigation Into the votes of ail senators | on the tariff bill and also a drastic! probe into the interests of editors newspapers who print advertiae: | mente of department stores was tn | troduced in the senate today by Sena tor Gooding, Idaho. It was referred to the committee on audit and control for action, TROOPS CLEAR) | naval of! reserve today, POISONED PIE THREE NEW LAKES ARE FOUND IN BIG OLYMPIC PARADISE MONTESANO, Aug. 3.—Three lakes, the two largest with an area of about 35 acres each, were discovered in the fastnesses of the Olymple mountains by Harry Car- ter and Lee Fry, of the Wynooche valley, on ® recent prospecting trip. They brought word of thelr dis- covery to County Engineer H. 8. Shorey, and Shorey has just re- turned from a trip on whieh he verified the discovery and defi nitely located the lakes. They are in an inclosed valley the center of township 23, } a e TURMOIL IN LABOR TIEUP INCREASING Rail Executives| Turn Backs on) White House to| Smash Unions OMANA, Neb., Aug. 3.—A tele- gram was sent by railroad strik- ers to President Harding appeal- Ing to the president to take over the railroads and “do it now.” ee . CHICAGO, Aug. - Widespread violence broke out today following the faiture of ‘President Harding's intervention to bring peace in the railroad shopmen's strike. An employe of the Iilinets Central, Who refused to atrike, was beaten to death in Chicago. Fifteen strikers were under arrest in Jackson, Michigan, following a« riot at the Michigan Central shops. at an elevation of 3,500 Shorey believes that with the exception of Lake Quinault, these are the largest lakes on the south slope of the Olympics, He dea scribes thelr setting as magnifi- cently beautiful, and the valley in whieh they are located as a vert table paradise for game. dack Winslow, county game warden, announced that if he could get volunteers to help him, he would undertake to stock the lakes with trout, The discoverers believe the lakes are without fish, but they found innumerable lin ards In the water. | WASHINGTON. Aug. 3-—-Senator | Lenroot, Wisconsin, lender of the re | publican tariff insurgents, today re. ies to permit fixing of a time for vote on the Fordney-MoCumber sition to a compromise proposal for nonpluased both republican and demo- cratic leaders, wno after Joint confer ences, believed nothing stood in the! way today of acceptance of the pro|' Carl Spradiey was killed and one 1, other injured in an exchange of Lenroot offered to agree to 8 lm! jghots at Van Buren, Ark [tation of debate of 10 minutes on! gerixebreakers were kidnaped in « Jamendments without fixing a definite | aid on shops at Des Moines. ] | day for voting, but said ne would not) sien, women and children stormed go beyond that |the home of a car foreman in Lin coin, Neb. Serious outbreaks were reported at other shop centers. i Anthracite operators were Invited | to eet a date for a conference er OIL HOLDINGS CASPER, Wyo,, Aug. 3.-—Drillers for the Mutual Of Co, packed their and vacated the Teapot wages, ents In the railroad dispute were tools dome lata standstill, Strike leaders at Chi val ¢ following the |C®#°. having accepted President of a detachment of four Unit. | #arding’s proposal, looked to Wash commanded by | arrival ed States marines, Capt. George Shulter. Indications are that no further ef. forts will be made by the workers to enter the reserve, following the order of the federal government for them to vacate After the workers left the field, the detachment of marines returned to | ington for a new move, Carrier exec: Jutives turned their backs on the | White House and pushed steps to break the atrike. Washington dispatches indicated | the administration will make no other effort to intervene In the rail strike at the present a INDIANA COAL | UNDER GUARD BRAZIL, Ind. Aug. 3.—Striking coal miners watched sullenly today nn state troops cuarded Indiana's ef forts to produce coal under martial / law The miners were silently resentful of guns and field equipment | glistening in the sun Strike leaders declared that (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) Casper VICTIMS ILL YORK, Aug. 3.—While de tectives searched the city for the pot |non pie baker who killed six patrons | the none | ist than 100 others fll, several more vic: | threatened to grow. | MILWAUKEE, Aug. Police @aring bandit” who last night held | | Shooting Ends M Man Hunt as } | The robber, | | 7, and relieved | Walter Castor, wanted In connec: her of $1 Thomas Bailey, detective, and as he ran away brother's wife, and then commit. of the Shelbourne restaurant, in the | Broadway district, and made more| tims were taken to hospitals in con. vulsions today, and the death | Bandit, 10, Holds ah Small a MURDERS 2, DIES | and detectives today were searching | the South Side for a “desperate and | up and robbed Miss Evelyn Stein bach Detectives Seek Arrest about 10 years old, in| ieesenien real moving picture style, held up SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3.— Miss Steinbach, aged 7 tion with the murder of Mrs. Keep mum, woman, or T'll return Anna Wilkens, shot and killed and fix you,” the “bandit” threatenea led Ernest Gable, detectiv Mrs. Robert Castor, his Bri ted suicide here today, h Fuimasel . : . Mrs, Robert Castor died from Finding Disfavor} j.r'wounds soon after she was WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. ‘The | shot, British proposal that the allied pow-| ‘The shooting occurred at the Cas fers shall enter into a mutual cancel: |tor home. lation of all war obligations is re | Detectives received information \garded with “high disfavor’ in ad. |that Walter Castor, long sought, and / ministration circles, according to|whom his brother Arthur claimed! treasury officials today |shot and killed Mrs, Wilkens in an n¢ British proposal is merely an jallegedly “framed” holdup in San injection of an unnecessary difficulty | Francisco, May 30, was at his home into an already complicated situa. |here Officers went to the house to ar-| rest Castor, When he saw rounded, tion,” one official gaid, “And It will} in no way affect the negotiations now in progress for the funding of that he was sur. ording to first reports of the allied debt to the United States.” po the affair, he opened fire, killing De- tective Bailey. Man Electrocuted ("iin "next “wountea Detective Gra-| |ble, shooting him thru the eye. | Moving Hay Rick Mfr i gun closing ise when YAKIMA, Aug. 3.—Walter Spok ean suddenly turned the gun on ley wan electrocuted near Outlook |Mre. Robert Castor, wife of his early today while moving @ hay rick. | younger brother, and fatally wound He came in contact With a high-pow- | ed her. ered wire, This ts the second electro He then fired a shot into his own oution in this Mstrict In 18 hours, the | head, dying a few minutes later. other being Lee Kendricks, of Sunny- The Wilkens murder case, sido, Wash, (Tura to Page 7, iaveasad 6) in THE NEWSPAPER WITH A 15,000 CIRCULATION LEAD OVER ITS NEAREST COMPETITOR <—@ 8 HURT IN WRECK! E RACES TO BEAT TRAIN TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE VIOLENCE! BULLETINS ON RIOTING Two Watchmen Shot by Negro Suspects CHEROKEE, lowa, Aug. 3.— One railway watchman is near death today and another is seriously wounded following a cin battle with two negroes in Mlinois Central yards here last night. The waichmen, with drawn revolvers, started to search the negroes who had alighted from a freight train. One of the blacks whipped out = gun and fired. The pair es- caped. \15 Suemietiiasy' in Strike Riot Seized JACKSON, Mich., Aug. 3.— Fifteen rail strike sympathizers were held in jail today as a re- sult of an attack on police at the Michigan Central shops here. ‘The mob, led by women carry- ing exes, red pepper and kitchen tools, overpowered the guard at the shops, but were dispersed by reserves rushed to the scene, Several automobiles were destroyed and many minor in- Juries reported, Railroad Employe Is Beaten to Death CHICAGO, Aug. 3.— Robert Johnson, Ulinois Central em- ploye, was beaten to death here today by four unidentified men. Johnson was on his way to work when the four men ap- proached him. Persons driving by saw the men knock Johnson down and Geat him. When police arrived Johnson was dead. Johnson was employed in the Burnside shops and refused to £0 on strike, police said. 200 Shopmen Get Man Out of Jail | OGD Utah, Aug. 3.—Two hundred striking railroad shop- men early today marched to Police headquarters seeking re- lease of one of their number Who was arrested last night charged with defying the police, The demonstration was peace- able, and after leaders of the strikers had conferred with Chief of Police Allison, the ar- rested inan was released, leaders promising to warn the strikers against violence, intimidation or violation of - 13 Steikubivcaliers Beaten by Raiders DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 3. —Three strikebreakers, missing after the raid on the Chicago Great Western roundhouse last night, were discovered lying be- side a road near North river by police officers early today. The men, stripped of most of their clothing, were in an exhausted condition, One was a negro, They were caught while flee- ing from the roundhouse, they said, and taken to the river in an automobile. Their captors lined them up on the bank and told them to jump. Instead, they fled across an open field, followed by a few shots, none of which took effect. The men were taken to police headquarters and given clothes. Peace Near in Car Strike at Chicago CHICAGO, Aug. 3.—-End of Chi cago's transportation tie-up was seen today as leaders in the trac | tion war met for settlement of the | strike Peace terms extended the strikers today by President Henry A. Blair, of the Chicago surface lines, will be carried to @ mass meeting of the men tonight by their chiefs Both sides predicted an agreement would be reached today or tomor- row FuNbs LOST GUN HIDDEN IN CAKE} PEEKSKILL, N, Y.-An army pistol lost by Col. George many years ago in fhe Philippines, was found by him in a. birthday cake at a banquet here. A friend says he bought the gun from & Fill- _. pine thies Stewart | Breaking Law by Failing to Stop, Look, _Listen burn make stage driver, raced — with a Northern Pacific train te and both ankles, and concussion of the brain; may die. dohn Schinn, Kent, contusions and internal injuries; may die. Mrs, Ed Ciarde, 25, Auburn, — contusions to left ear and hip. . K. Johnson, 58, St. Paul, — bruises and contusions. Mrs. E. K. Johnsen, 52, St Paul, bruises and contusions. E. G, denny, 50, Seattle, left side bruised. dohn Steele, Seattle, contusions to left eur, head and left leg. Mrs. —— Sandberg, Auburn, minor injuries. 3 KE. F. Tucker, Seattle, minor Injuries. Unidentified woman, minor im- Juries. | The wreck occurred at 9:30 a. Just as the North Coast limited |No. 1) was pulling out of Kent. jengineer of the was making only at the time. He proaching, he said, but naturally |supposed that the driver would stop at the crossing as required by state law. The automatic alarm bell at | the crossing was ringing at the time, |the engineer asserted. ‘The stage didn't stop, however. — Reed tried to get across in front of the train, and his machine was struck broadside by the locomo- tive. Despite the low rate of speed at which the train was traveling, the automobile was dragged for 75 feet or more and was practically demolished, the Passengers being strewn along the track as it passed, Most of the injured were taken to ‘the Taylor-Lacy hospital at Auburn, but E. F. Tucker was brought to the Swedish hospital in Seattle. Reed was not seriously enough tn- jJured to require hospital attention {and returned to his home !n Auburn, | Sheriff Matt Starwich dispatched | Deputy W. H. Moore to the scene to jinvestigate as soon as he learned of the accident. The train declared he 10 miles an hour saw the stage ap |Burglars Siphon Hospital Alcohol OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 3.—Burgiate last night sawed bars from a window at Nicholas Senn hospital and siphon+ ed $1,500 worth of pure grain alcohol from barrels inside the building Into bottles on the outside, loaded the bottles onto trucks and escaped, BILLY LANE HONOR PLAYER AT COAST LEAGUE GAME TODAY ‘Thursday was “Billy Lane” day at the Seattle Coast league ball park The popular who was recently little outfielder, elected =the most valuable player in the Pa- |] cific Coast league by Seattle fans in balloting conducted by The Star, was to be the honor player of the day. Mayor Brown was to be master of ceremonies with Stacy Shown, | dean of Seattle fandom. present. ing Lane with a handsome sou- venir of the day. The regular Coast league game between Seattle and Vernon was to get under way at 245 p, m, as usual pon