The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 30, 1922, Page 1

Aen F i WEATHER Tonight and Thursday, prodadly showers; moderate south- erly winds. FORECAST ui VOLUME 2 - NO. 160. <a ome | ATER GRAVE 2 HOLDS AUTOS Missouri Howdy, folks! Seon be thax te roll out the old red fiannals, wot! Being Dragged by Searchers KANSAS crry, | Mo., Aug. 30. —Insurance companies today took « hand in investigating the “bandits’ graveyard” of automo “Oregon Man Waits 40 Years for) Bride.” — Headline Well, many «4 married man epends most of his life }waiting for a woman. oe Hi Johnson is leading In Califor) nia. That's all there fs, there ain't no Moore. One car, an expensive roadster, was hauled from the river by windiasses late yesterday. Little Homer Brew, Jr, tuned tn ‘2 Malcoim’s address by mistake, no harm was done as the kiddie ght it was a Bed-Time Story. second machine today, it was indicat | ed at the office of Sheriff William J | Wright, jr. of Wyandotte county. Meanwhile, search for another ma Lives of candidates al remind ue | We can brave the people's frown | | And, departing, leave behind ua | Posters plastered over all the town, | eee hoping they never kill the eee) a be: pany started an investigation of the eee apparent wanton destruction of auto mobiles today, According to A. B. Engtand, representative of the under. writers, auto thefts and deliberate wrecks have cost local insurance companies thourands of dollars since the first of the year. A. Shreveman, a farmer Itving “Sir, would you give me $$ to bury | near the river at Nearman, Inform saxophone player?” ed Sheriff Wright that’ he and his “Here's $30. Bury six of them.” [famfty had heard a series of revolver ng sichl shots on a recent Sunday night at| Jazz wae discovered by Purp with « tin can tied to his tail, chasing an alley cat over an tron) root. posed dead men ta now being made. Shreveman said he had frequently noticed Ughts of automobiles in a! lonely clearing. He had not invest! ones the mysterious activities, he| LIL GEE GEE, nr orrice F VAMP, SEZ onan girls are so pretty that | when they get into a street car | the advertising is a total loss. total tens. | : . ‘We're for all these lady candidates. | They never pass out campaign cl- gars. ‘DEATH IN CRASH Auto Plunges Ov Over Bank on} Bothell Road instant eee Many « married man watches the traffic cop baw! out his wife for cut- ting the corner and wonders how he a cee Narrowly escaping death COLLEGE DAYS The University will open next month and a lot of fathers are Preparing to work their sons’ way thru school. - over an embankment at Both |5:20 a. m. Wednesday, George Conse 24, driver, Rehan hotel, was pinned beneath the car, land painful iajurixy to his chest, hip land arma. Cease wan under the car for half an hour before a passing autoist| stopped upon hearing his cries and freed him. He was taken to the city hospital. Cease had just taken pas- sengers to Everett and was return ing to Seattle, he said, when the) brakes of the ing the turn at Bothell, making the lerash uneveldatio, . A lot of towns around Seattle re- fuse to grow. They're content to re- Wain eight-still villages. eee If an alitgator pear is worth 49) ‘cents, says J. L. P., a good sound cu- eumber is worth $3.55. ee Do you remember ‘way back when (84 Of the health hints during the| “an AND BODIES! River “Graveyard” Is An attempt will be made to raise a) belief of Under a. “that a yellow |the spot where search for the sup-| ‘DRIVER ESCAPES, when hls for-hire automobile crashed | at} sustaining severe | car locked upon round. | ‘PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC - NORTHWEST HAVE ELECTED THE STAR THEIR FAVORITE SEATTLE NEWSPAPER — BY 15,000 PLURALITY BRIDE VANISHES!) IDNAPING IS FEARED BY FRANTIC HUSBAND | On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Kotered as Hecond Class Ma jor May 9. 1899 under the Act of Congress March 3, The Seattle Star At the Posteffioe at Seattin Wash, 1879, Por Year, by Mall, $6 to #9 SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 19 20 22. THUNDER STORM VISITS THIS CITY AT || EARLY MORNING HOUR |] Perhaps some of you didn’t |] hear tt, but most of you did : Seattle experienced what is nald to be one of the heaviest lightning and thunderstorms in ite history Wednesday, The display of ele mental pyrotechnics began at 4:25 & m. and lasted 60 minutes, fol |] lowed by a slight rain. | The storm resulted from the low barometric conditions caused by the hét spel! in Central Wash ington epreading to the coast and thruout the state. Northern Ore fon and Southwest Idaho also re. ported the presence of the storm Wednesday The wet signal ta still fying from the weather bureau tower, |] and warning is given that show ers and unsettled weather will prevail Wednesday and Thursday. |/ we DOUGLAS HITS MILK COMBINE} Deciaring that conspiracy charges he filed against the Seattle milk! shippers’ association and which will | J in superior court next line with his constant in behalf of the public | Prosecuting Attorney Maicolm Doug: | |las, candidate for re-election, spoke| from the K. F. C. radio broadcasting | station Tuesday night. “Everyone who uses milk will be interested in my contention,” said & grocery store be allowed to seit milk as lowed to dictate what that price shall be. “As long LF, will be ind oe “talden” RAIL GUARD IS MURDERE AUGUSTA, Ga, Aug. 30 —One| Southern railway guard was killed land another seriously wounded wan | they were ambushed near the Ham. | | burg yards, in South Carolina, across | the river from here, today. ! I. M. Feaster, 34, was instantly | | killed and Reed Booth, 22, may die of | his wounds Feaster’s body was slashed with a knife after he had been shot down, | land Booth was badly beaten after he| Avan wounded. | A search has been begun by police for the assailants. ‘FIEND § SLAYS | THREE VICTIMS death with an fron bar here today. | | Police found the mutilited bodies of Mr. and Mrs, Frank Burns and} Mrs. Mary Nola at the Burns home. | Frank Armstrong, who accompan. fed Mrs. Nola to the Burns home at an early hour today, also was a vic tim of the fiendish attack. His tn juries are of a serious nature, but physicians say he will live. } Police and sheriff's deputies Inst! |tuted an immediate search for Frank | Nola, husband of Mary Nola, 'HERRIN PROBE | HELD SECRE | name the leaders of the mob which led to the “death march” of the 19 |non-union miners. Great secrecy shrouded the inves. | | tigation, and even the names of wit-| nesses were withheld. One witness, who appeared before MINE RESCUE | complete, | Friend W jthe republican nomination for gov- | deapite @immer was; “Don't Use Alcoholic Drinks’ oe HOLD THIS AGAINST THE BOY Humes, who ts running county engineer, is a son of Mayor Tom Humes, who - bailed = ont Bal Jail. TMs higtieaie. hlstortoas event hortly after the Walla Walla gang licked the heck outa the Bt. gang in the woods south of Lescht Park, and the cops roped ts the bunch. eee ‘Tofay's candidate for the Polson club ix the gink who wears a Beach sult with a brown derby. ee TRAVELOGUE: Deve Homer: bea. hci Absolute knowledge have I none, but ‘BY aunt's » that Ne’ hed a letter, Just Week. written tn the finest Greek. | Timbucktoo, of Pt It straight © man in } from = x of fouth American about somebody in Borneo. | heard of a man who claimed to Train Jumps Track, Engineer Is Killed) WAUKESHA, Wis., Aug. 30—One mar was killed and hundreds of pas- sengers were imperiled today when Northwestern train No, 610 was derailed near here. ‘The engineer was pinned beneath the engine and killed. raliroad A STAR “WANT, AD” Will Help You Find a Good USED CAR passenger the grand jury yesterday, was said to face contempt proceedings because | of his refusal to answer the jury's jauestions. — TWO DEAD IN BEER BATTLE CHICAGO, Aus. were killed and three wounded, one probably fatally, in a battle between |bootleg pirates and guards of three beer trucks early today The pirate gang ambushed the ltrucks in a dark grove on the out skirts of the city. Cox ‘Urges Aid to Central Europeans LONDON, Aug. 30.—“Let us hope lthat our service to central Europe | will be that of a physician and not Jan undertaker,” James M, Cox said in a staternent he issued here today | “There {s some measure of rons surance {in the statement from | Washington,” he continued, “that \the administration has ihterested it jself in the economic affairs of cen tral Europe, even tho Herbert Hoover will not be sent here.” Cox, who has studied conditions in Burope, ta to sail for America Saturday. “Pt mda AR Pe fe a NAP Np do yest apsepiesit ae ‘BOY ON BIKE 0—Two men) 5 SQUAD NEARS TRAPPED MEN Speeding Work to! Reveal Tomb of| Victims Feared Already Lifeless BY ROBERT A. DONALDSON AT THE ARGONAUT GOLD MINE, Jackson, Cal, Aug. 30. —Vicked crews fought feverish ly thru solid earth and rock to- day to dig out 43 entombed comrades who are feared al- ready to have perished, cut off by fire in the depths of the | Argonaut gold mine, ‘The race against death for the lives of the trapped men will end Thursday. Early tomorrow, it ts estimated, picks of the tolling res cuers will break thru the final wall between the living tomb and the Kennedy mine adjacent, and the/ Victims, dead or alive, can be reached. Seven hundred feet ef rock and earth separated the workers from the entombed miners yesterday. “te Sant, Woh [RU a6 ploeng tk eee tweety tet working in relnya, to be & M®/ ‘milk combine’ should not be al.|they had cut away 400 feet of « hag thru which the 43 men Fifty feet of entid granite Red Cross workers, caring for the families of the men, already have completed preparaions to receive the 2 Pa gy The fire continuued to rage prac | eally unabated today. SEN. JOHNSON LEADING RACE Seems Winner in California| Primary BAN FRAN S180, Aug. %.— Senator Hiram Johnson, running | | againat Charles C. Moore for the re-| publican nomination for the United | St. fenate in California, in creased bis lead as early morning returna from yesterday's primary election began rolling tn. Figures covering all but 12 of/ the 68 counties of the state, none at 845 a. m. showed this/ renult | hnson, 123,367, Moore, 89,888. Retilrns to the same hour showed | Governor William D, Stephens had} jumped Into the lead again over Richardson, running for | an ernor, by 622 votes The vote stood: Stephens, 000; Richardson, 103,478 Returns coming in from Fremno, | Sacramento and San Bernardino counties, a slight gain by Stephens! in Lom Angeles, gave him his lead, Richardson's lead in new] the narrow margin of 104,- Lom Angeles vote, showed Woolwine leading Jones for the democratic nomination for governor two to one. These figures stood Jones, 7,136; Wodlwine, 14,355. HURT BY AUTO} Eleven-year-old Glen Dean, son of | Mr. and Mrs. 0. V. Dean, was recov- | ering at his home Wednesday from injuries received, when the bicycle on which he was riding, was struck by an auto driven by W. . MeLeod, 241 12th ave. N. BE. Tuesday. Glen was giving a ride to Ford Baxter, 10, 4815 6th ave, N. B, on the crossbar of the bicycle at Bast lake and Fuhrman ave, when Mo- Leod, in turning onto Fuhrman ave struck the front wheel of the bic: Glen's head struck the auto, inflict ing an ugly sealp wound. Ford waa thrown clear of the auto . MeLeod rushed the Dean boy to| Dr. ©. BE. Hemingway, 1323 45th, who closed the gash in the boy's head with three atitches, \« A PURELY ALTRUISTIC || SUGGESTION ON HATS |! ‘The retail trade bureau of the chamber of commerce announces must that “the well-dressed man” discard his straw hat ‘Thursday || night and buy a hard or soft felt hat. Preferably both, | Oh, no! Nobody tn the retafl trade bureau sells hats, Singer ‘Here Pushes Scheme 2 eee : * By Philip J. Sinnott Some have retirement forced upon them; some retire volun- tarily—and some are not allowed to retire. Ka Andrews, veteran comedian with the American Light Opera company, is in the latter class, He's tried repeatediy to leave the operatic stage and raise pears, but to no a And now that be is in the harness again, Ed, in addition to playing a big part in the success of this company, has found time to write a novel erit- jes declare good. has also helped formulate plans for giv- ing Seattle a season of splendid grand opera at nominal prices. Elder Andrews, who preached the gospel in a little Minnesota town In the late ‘70's and early '80’a, had only one regret. There was not one tenor voles to be found among his big famt- |ly of children. But all were musical, however, the choir. Paying the ministertal and church expenses was ® constant problem The usual soctals were given. And at these, as attractions, “Elder An drews' children” would sing. Soon their fame spr to other towns. Surmmers saw them on tour. and they soon comprised And, finally, camo the light opera idea. ‘The family formed the An drews’ Light Opera company, which in the late eighties and early nineties, won wide fame. ‘That's where Eider Andrews pined | MARION, IIL, Aug. 30.—Tho spe-| Alameda county returns. | They had to go out of the family for leial grand jury investigating the| Scattering returns, which Ineluded|a tenor. But every other princtpal massacre at Herrin was expected to/#ll but six fan Francisco precincts | role was played by an Andrews hear witnesses today who would| complete, and only a fraction of the| Fifteen years ago, the musical comedy craze swept light opera out of public favor. “The old comlo opera stare made | an effort to adjust themselves to this type of production, but It was use lone,” says Andrews, "It called for a different form of expression, action and humor than the finished, studied artistry of light opera, and ike Hop: per, Danforth and others, I gave up the stage rather than try to continue in this newer class of amusement.” With his brother, George Andrews, famous for his baritone roles in opera, the comedian bought a pear orchard in South- orn Oregon. For 10 years he tried to give himself over to the serious business of trying to make two boxes of pears grow where but one grew the preced- ing years. In the end, he had to give up. Fd Andrews ts a good fellow: the highest sense of the word. And while he sought to forget the stage, he was the ace-in-the-hole of every |community on the Pacific Coast at tempting to produce opera, In most ages they ran into unforseen diffi jculties—nnd Ed Andrews being a |good fellow, had to stop smudging his orchard, run the show and most likely play a part. Public demand for the plotless musical comedy became surfeited, ‘The producers then rushed the revue | Revivale | lof light opera were also started as type of show to the front. experiments. fancy at once, They caught popular De Wolf Hopper and jother old stars were dragged from re- tirement (Turn to Page Andrews was drafted, too, Column 1) ‘| insurgents under General Mezta, but! Plans Pacific Coast Opera| | adopted a Seattle girl. ter, is shown below. fora thoro training in opera Here is Ed Andrews, famous light opera star, who has just Victoria Memo, the adopted daugh- Her singing has attracted attention | here, and Andrews has arranged to send her East next year HOM EDITION x Two CENTS: IN ‘SEATTLE _ OLYMPIA | GIRL IS}; MISSING Seattle Police Aid in Search for Young Woman Married Only Seven Weeks; Leaves Note to Husband Half-crazed by the fear that his bride of seven weeks has been kidnaped and murdered—or worse—W. C. Polmateer, 24, was in Seattle Wednesday, urging the police on to fresh efforts in their search for Agnes R. Polmateer, 20, who mysteriously disappeared from her home near Olympia on August 14. The young wife, who is pretty and Rh pres 2 vanished as if into thin air. Leaving a note addressed to her husband, ~ telling him that she was going to town to do some shop; ing, she went to the Tacoma bus station in Olympia—and) appeared. Not a single trace of her has been found since that time. Nene of the bus drivers remember car- a i i i f ? & a af. Tow—not even the most trifling ar- gument. I'm certain—dead certain— _ that Agnes would never have = me. She's been kidnaped—that'’s there is to it.” his step-daughter-in-law to town day she disappeared. As he was a hurry to get back to.bis forma Ma i “She was tn the best of when I left her,” says Nystrom, know she didn't have anything seri- ous on her mind. She was chatter- ing along just like she always all the way into town. That night, expecting nothing wrong, Polmateer went into Olympia — to meet his bride. He waited until the last bus arrived, at 1120—but she didn’t appear. After a sleepless night, Polmateer reported the mystery to the police and a coast-wide search hag been in progress ever since—but without me sult. Polmateer, in the meantime, hag been conducting a search of his own. After canvassing ‘every hotel in Se attle and Tacoma, he began wander ing the streets of the two cities im the hope of encountering his missing bride—and has been at it ever since, tic singing. MEXICO REBEL WAR IS NEAR » MEXICO CITY, Aug. 30. pects of civil war flared up in nt toe |1eo today when the secretary of war | dispatched federat troops under Gen- eral Amaro after the rebel band commanded by Francisco Murguia. Murgula, according to word re- ceived ‘here, crossed the border with his force near Brownsville, Texas, and is now hiding in the mountains in the state of Coahuila, ‘The war department intelligence service reported that the rebel lead- jer had planned to cast his lot with the latter was killed a few oe ago, SLAYER HELD FOR INQUIRY PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 80,— Recommendation that Nick Doltes, charged with the murder of George |Grammatt! last Saturday night, be | bound over to the grand jury on a charge of first degree murder, was | made by the coroner's jury Tuesday night. Evidence from several per. sons fndicated that Doltes had, without sufficient provocation, shot Grammatti on his entrance into the room occupied by Doltes and Mra, Grammati in the Everett hotel, a passing and fell into the clutches of Kkkd- napers, This, however, her husband te ITALY MONEY AIDS AUSTRIA ROME, Aug. 30.—Italy came to the rescue of bankrupt Austria today. It was understood in political cir cles that the Italian cabinet had granted Austria a loan of 70,000,000 |lire, Twenty million will be paid im- mediately, it was said, and the re- | mainder in September. The loan followed pleas of Dr. |Setpel, Austrian foreign minister, that his natior faced the menace of bolshevism unless aid in feeding the inhabitants was forthcomin Decision Reached on Capt. Bartlett Upon reaching a decision Tuesday evening in the case of Capt. BE. P. Bartlett, charged with negligence in connection with the partial wrecking of the palatial liner, H. F. Alexan: |der, of the Admiral line, upon Cake Rock recently, the U. 8. Steamboat Inspection service, represented by |Captains Harry C, Lord and Donald |S. Ames, submitted findings in the trial of last week to Capt. William Fisher, supervisor of the board, Wednesday. The decision was not made public, Fisher will pass upon the report and then forward it to Secretary Herbert Hoover at Washington, where it will - receive final action. loath to believe. “I can't tmagine her accepting @ ride from a stranger,” he declares, “It must have happened some other way.” rs, Polmateer is 5 feet 3 inches tall, weighs about 140 pounds, and has blue eyes and dark brown hair, When last seen she had on a pink organdie dress, a brown sweater and brown shoes and stockings. SEIZURES PLAN IS ELIMINATED WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Logisla- tion authorising President Harding to operate the anthracite mines and railroads should an occasion of dire necessity arise, was left out of the legislative program for the remaine der of the senate session today. MORE YANKEES UP TO RHINE? PARIS, Aug. 30.—American troops in the army of occupation on the Rhine will be increased to 3,000, an unconfirmed report by Le Journal from Mayence said today. The cause for the reported increase in United States forces was not given,