The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 14, 1922, Page 1

AHONEY APPEALS TO HIGHEST COURT! Edition VOLUME Entered as Second Clase Matter NO. 173. Seattle’s May 9, 1899, Se ‘SEATTLE, WASH, Favorite New At the Postoffics at Beattie, Wash bes bss 38333 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, paper by 15,000 Plurality tt The Seattle Star under the Act of Congress March 4, ser. 1922. ee Sisssbstasset stesso iiss so siissss MOTHER GIVES BLOOD THAT SON MAY HAVE EDUCATION Dumbbells Here’s Pa Whooza Dumbbell’s Wife Ma Shurza Dumbbell Today's best is the girl friend of Elva Patterson, Norris Safe & Lock Co., who thinks— ‘The passion play was written by Elinor Glyn. A barroom is a 7. “Twin Springs” is part of = flivver. A person with » retiring dis- position is always sleepy. A julep is part of a Hebrew's ——______—_—_—_¥ ana Hilber, 627 Findlay st queries. apropos of nothing at all, “Will Mra, Axtell if Potn dexter is Lamping Griffiths?” e There's a postoftice clerk who re rks that he needs the dollar \then cites his fellow-worker who be eves General delivery ts an army officer. Dead letters are bandied by “grave yard shift.” A person registers to vote in the registry division. The superintendent of mails is in charge of the men clerks, oe Alfred MeClurken, Richmond Beach, nominates the dumbbell who imagines Rex Beach is a summer resort. oe Oswald D. Campbell, 1802 Baker (Turn to Page 11, Column 2) > ANOTHER ONE IN COWEN PARK Many people are buying homes in and around Cowen Park. Are e looking for one? NEW BUNGALOW LOT, $ Southeast corner 19th and FE. 65th, 6 large rooms and dining al- cove: concrete basement; fur- nace; fireplace; dandy kitchen; linen closet; oak floors near ftaverina sche high, ‘Terma r month ansensment an first p CORNER view: Rloonevelt $60 ent: i good $500 including Will nent cant The classified section gives fur- ther information as to where you can find this home. [CLARA SKARIN | ‘COURT TUESDAY | Expected to Plead Unwritten Law {| Clara Skarin will be arraigned be- jfore Judge Austin E. Griffiths next | parties stood for thé same thing, we | |week, probably Tuesday, to answer to a charge of first degree murder This announcement, made Thurs day, was taken to indicate that the state has nearly completed its inves tigation of the case. Miss Skarin's plea will probably be | based upon the “unwritten law.” | White admitting that she shot Ferdt nand Hochbrunn in his home here last October, she will contend that [her deed was justifiable—that she |fired in defense of her honor Desperate efforts have been made to break down her story, but with jout success. / eee \JOHN F. DORE | I$ RETAINED 4) | Jonn F. Dore, Seattle attorney, will defend Clara Skarin when she ts tried in the King county superior court on a charge of first degree murder for her confessed here of her aged grand-uncle, nand Hochbrunn Dore had no comment to make on his probable defense Thursday A new information, the one filed before Justice Peace C. C. Dalton, ta scheduled to be filed in supertor court this week This will contain the same charge, that of first degree murder WEATHER Tonight and Friday, moderate westerly winds, Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 62. Minimum, Today noon, Ferdi testimon rseding of the fair ; 52. shooting |“ “A parent's only at death,” says Mrs. eago. And she is giving may get an education. [| youthink? The Star wou obligation to his or her child ends Henry Luther, of Chi- her blood that her son s she right? What do ld like to know. Write to Cynthia Grey and tell her what you think about a parent’s obligatio BY ROY GIBBONS HICAGO, Sept. 14.—In or der to give her son, Al bert, 14, an education which she did not have herself, Mrs. Henry Luther is selling her blood at $35 a pint to pay for hiy high school tuition. During the past three years she hag submitted to 14 trans. fusion operations, and her right arm, scarred from inet- sions where surgeons opened her veins, is scheduled to be bared 10 times more— “Because Albert ts going back to school again, and he'll need more money,” Mrs. Lu ther says. MINTOSTAY,” NE SAYS DUNCAN Denies Report of Withdrawal Favor of Dill } James A. Duncan, farmer- | Inbor nominee for United States senator, denied reports Thursday that he would withdraw from the race in favor of C. C, Dill, the democratic candidate. “There's absolutely nothing to {t,” | Duncan asserted. “They're all just} It} wild rumors—or else propaganda, the democratic and the farmer-labor might get together. As @ matter of fact. the democratic and republican parties represent ex jactly the same aystem—so if there’ any getting together it'll have to be [between Dill and Poindexter. The |farmerlabor party stands for some. | thing entirely different—and we will But they don't lay I'm In the race to stay.” | Duncan's announcement was hailed with joy in the Poin- dexter camp—as, altho Duncan's candidacy is not taken seriously In itself, he is expected to poll | 35,000 or even 40,000 votes— | which would otherwise go to Dill. Organized labor's stand has not yet been officially announced | “1 can't say anything yet.” Will jam R. Short, president of the State Federation of Labor, said Thursday Not until we've had some confer ences.” However, Labor And, if Bill with ft, it Duncan. BLIMP STARTS LONG FLIGHT WASHI ‘TON, Sept “4 ‘The army dirig’ which left Lang ley field, Virginia, early today on the first transcontinental flight of its kind ever attempted, arrived at Akron, Ohio, before noon, the war department was advised today | A telegram, from Major commanding the C-2, said the blimp | woulda i e I field, Belleville, two things are sure support Poindexter Short has anything to do certainly won't support can't our case before the electorate. Strauss, | this afternoon for Scott| n. Since she began selling her more ‘than 13 quarts have rained from her body Into the veins of people whom she has never ween be- fore nor afterward It is all I have to offer him,” Mrs, Luther says, speaking of her son “And it is my duty—only my duty to him. “Life is not too much te surrender if the child, thru such sacrifice on the parent's part, will have the way made easier. “It it takes every drop of blood In my heart, I'm going to give him an education.” NEW WARIS blood, been EUROPE FEAR Turk Hordes May!| in| -LaunelrStruggle Against World RAMBOUILLET, France, Sept. 14—France today moved to avert a new world war, threat- ened by Turkish hostilities in Asia Minor, ‘The cabinet council met here at President Millerand’s summer home and decided unanimously upon a policy to “reestablish | durable peace in the Near East.” ‘The reparations crits, with a Ger | man payment to Belgium due tomor. row, was also discussed. | eee | LONDON, Sept. 14.—Another great | war with Moslem hordes, backed by millions of bolshevikes in arms against Europe, seemed but to awalt its Sara Jevo today Farther advance of the victo- | rlous forces of Mustapha Kemal | towards Constantinople, goal of | the Turkish nationalists, may be | the signal for declaration of war | by Great Britain. Russia has en- | tered the conflict with open sup- | port of the Turl | The Dardanelle Near East, fought for centuries, promise to be the touchstone of a fresh world con flagration, if the Turks pursue their | ambitions without regard for allied ultimaturns In two brief weeks the situation in the Near East has changed from a petty war of national aspirations in Asia Minor to the actual verge of a great conflict involving war-weary nations of Europe in a clash with the ambitious millions of the world The threat of war, admitted here today to be very real, stole upon Europe vu: . Great gateway of the | to find ultimatums flying, troops | being rushed to block the path of the Turks headed for the Straits councils of war under way It is reported that the Turks have | ed their advance upon Constan British gun: enforcing the treaty of | Turk out of | schooner, Sevres that forced the But intervention of soviet the freedom fded tre a Kem urope Russia, which demands of the Dardanel mendous weig al’s threat to r has to Musts ake the Pi TWO CE H| States for a writ of error. over which nations have Jem | | Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 NTS IN SEA TTLE WIFESLAYER TO CONTINUE LEGAL FIGHT Supreme Court to Pass on Plea| for Error Writ; Sentence Friday dames E. Mahoney, convicted wifemurderer, who in scheduled to hear his hanging date set Fri. day, for the see time, will appeal his case to the highest court of the land. Lee Mahoney's attorney, said ‘Thursday that ax soon as the new death date is fixed he will pett- tion the supreme court of the United | If this Johnston | petition is granted, | will then submit of Mahoney court deny Johnston sald, he nis appeal in behalf | Should the supreme} the petition for writ of | Mahoney's last resource to em | joape the gallows will be gone. A new death warrant for Mahone jwas being prepared. This will ” | error L° UIS JOSEPH VANCE’S latest tale of the master cracksman of the world will appear in The Star, beginning next Monday. Reformed now, this pic- |nerved on him and the date for his |turesque figure pits his talents against a band of international thieves who have stolen the jewels of the woman he loves and have directed suspicion against him, lnenging will be Judge J. T. morning Mahoney originally wan sentenced to be hanged last January, His at jtorney appealed to the state supreme court, and the remititur, denying the | appeal, wan recetved this week by | Cone Se Clerk George Grant. Before the United States su- prams Court tan contider ap peal it must be shown a federal question is Involved, so that the court may have juris- diction. Johnston said he will attempt to show that Mahoney has been denied some constitu- tional right. Mahoney will be taken to the state penitentiary at Walla Walla by Sher. iff Matt Starwich personally, Star wich waid Thursday. The sheriff, in view of Mahoney's long confinement | in the King county fall, will serve! him « special dinner on the day he| lia to leave. | Mahoney, after a long and sensa-| tional investigation and trial, was joonvicted last fall of murdering his} elderly bride, Kate Mahoney. The evidence was large circumstantial ‘SHIPS ASHORE | "IN HEAVY GALE | Vessels Are | Lost Tampico Harbor TAMPICO, Sept. 14.—The Yuea- orted to be the Ward tne} and the Dan-/ United States shipping board} from New Orleans, are ound a point near the on | trance Tampico harbor ay a | result of a heavy northerner Both vessels were reported a |total loss, altho no loss of life was reported | Tankers are standing by BRITISH BOOZE | SHIP SEIZED!) NEW YORK 14.—The arm. ed vessel Taylor, of the government's “dry” navy into port toe y the British fishing schooner M jardner and put her! under heavy guard of federal of | fieers. 1 Customa officers declared they | lcaptured the Gardner well within |the threemile limit and that they | wet Ronald by Superior at 9:30 Friday Near | jtan, re veasel of that name, ville, steamer an at of | Sept } | i brought | two-masted M are known to|found 96 cases of liquor aboard her. | M. Betts, declared he of the} stopped dry chaser 25 miles out vensel revealed $40, | | 000 in gold in the safe, while Jenser had $16,000 in gold notes on his person Capt. ©. skippe w |hy_ the Search of the a pase: and wold | \Winner "Doubtful; {Judge You will devour hi his s story. T JUSTICE IN HARD RACE Other Election Results Same With the relative standings of the candidates for republican nomination to the United States senate unchanged Thursday, in- terest turned to the close con- test for third man on the six- yearterm for the state supreme bench, Returns from 1,853 precincts of the 2,446 in the state showed that Justices Mackintosh and Fullerton were safely in the lead with 87,000 and 77,059 votes re- spectively, Justice Emmett F ker, present chief justice, with 70443 votes; W. D. Lane, with 69,603, and Superior Judge Bruce Blake, with 68,816 votes. were closely bunched for third place. For the two-year term William H.| Pemberton had 69,369 votes and Jus. | tice Chester R. Hovey 52,383 | Tabulation of the returns from 1,917 precincts showed Superior} Austin FE. Griffiths leading Mrs. Frances C. Axtell by a narrow margin for third place in the repub- lican nomination for senate. Miles Poindexter was credited with 74,1 Lamping, 47,044; Judge € 4; Mrs. Axtelly 19,383; George H nson, 0, and Lee Tittle, Analysis of the senatorial r turns showed that Poindexter, for the first time in his career, « county, .and that he ted by « plurality a majority vote. It is estimated, as the bulk of the re- ome in, that Poindexter will poll a 44 per cent vote, Congressman’ John F. Miller, for reelection, continues to lead Counetl- man Philip’ Tindall, of Seattle, by a safe margin, 0% No changes of ‘importance were foreseen in the standing. of candi dates for the rephbtican nomination to King county offic as only about | 600 votes were represented in the two} county precincts yet to be tabulated, Returns from 436 of the 438 pre. cincts, totaled by County Auditor D. (Turn to Page 11,’Column 5) 19, Ste UT: [Cruelty Will Be Charged in Hart Divorce Hero of Film” Plays En- dows Baby With $100,000 LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 14.—Divorce proceedings charg- ing “extreme cruelty” will be filed against William 8. Hart, two-gun screen hero, according to the announcement of Milton Cohen, attorney for Mrs. Wini- fred Westover Hart, from whom Hart was separated last May. Cohen today. would not reveal the details of the complaint and would” make no definite an- nouncement as to when the suit, said,to be in preparation, was to be filed. Bill Hart, Jr., aged something like «two weeks, . has . been» en- dowed “with a regular » movie star's income despite “his tender years, 1t was made*public today that Bill, Sr., by terms of an agree- ment .for separation from his wife, formerly Winifred, West- over, had set aside a -trust-fund of : $100,000 :for the’ benéfit of Bill, Jr. ‘To young Bill will go the income. from the fund and it will be his when he becomes of age. In addition @ trust fund of $103,000 has been created for the -mother, . plus. a regular. in- come of $1,200 per month. Bill, Sr., yielded’ either to a* smouldering spark of) .melo- drama in his breast) or to some other {mpulse last night and called upon his son'at the home of Mrs, Hart's. mother. “Reconciliation /is, impossible,” was Hart's declaration after) the rather cool meeting with” bts wifé-and mother-in-law, “But the boy—say, he's. a) real’ man, He's ag-strong as I am, Minister Arrested on Charge of Girl SIDNEY, ‘Ohio, ‘Sept. '14.—Rev, L. W. Irwin, stepfather of the" 10-year. old Hardin, Ohio, girl who puzzled sientists a month and a half ago by giving birth to a seveh-pound. hey, today was‘ under arrest on a charge of contributing to the girl's: delin- quency If You Were an Editor, How Would You Handle the Skarin Story? Editor The Star: terested in whatever city As an organization of women in- pertains to the and the best in literature, art and entertainment welfare of our for our young people, we earnestly protest against the featuring in the pages of your daily paper the reports and pictures connected with the Skarin murder case; and respectfully ask you to confine reports to a small amount of space, cutting out headlines and all sensa- tionalism, MRS. Corresponding Secretary, Clubs. The Star is in receipt Respectfully yours J. M. CUNNINGHAM, Seattle Federation of Women's of the above letter, * which raises some interesting questions. One of these questions is, What do YOU, the great mass of newspaper readers of Seattle and Northwest Washington, want printed about the Skarin case? The Star will welcome letters on all sides of this mat- ter. you decide, as far as is pra cies shall be. * In the last ten days a gr This newspaper is for you and it is only fair that acticable, what its news poli- * * eat deal has been printed by all Seattle newspapers about the Clara Skarin case. One newspaper, influenc further, as it thought, the ed, perhaps, by a desire to political fortunes of a pros- ecutor, has been publishing maliciously biased articles holding the woman up as deress, The Star has not joined a guilty, black-hearted mur- in this hue and cry. Clara Skarin we are bound to consider innocent of crime until a jury has found her guilty. . We have printed the pros- ecutor’s statements for exactly what they are—accusa- tions, and not proved facts or political propaganda, And her statements ‘as the of an accused person. We have printed 1 the available new eliminating, of course, distressing details naturally guarded comment from all sides, bout the mur- der scene and libelous innuendoes against persons not directly concerned. So much for that. * But to'retfirn to the main clubwomen, What should a be in regard to the Skarin What facts about the trial do YOU want? the news condensed into a paragraph a d * point raised by the Seattle Seattle paper’s news policy case as it now progresses? Do you wish Or do you wish to read the various stories as the witnesses nar- rate them? The Star is genuinely anxious to know, How would you edit this story if you were handling it on The Star’s copy desk? tell your views. » Write the editor a letter and 60 RAILROADS SIGN Union Shopmen to. Start Work Soon — on Peace Lines BY CHARLES R. LYNCH separat. ed by the striking employes. Similar agreements will be of- fered to every raliroad, and it is expected that within a week @ majority of the roads will ac , cept the peace proposal. Peace terms on the 60 roads af. fected by the Jewell compromise will be signed within three days. The Chicago & Northwestern sign- ed /today and the shopmen return to work immediately. E Pfactically all of the strikers will © be at work within a few days, as the railroads who accept the agreement will. employ greatly enlarged forces to get their equipment back in shape. The men returned to work on the wage scale fixed by the United States raflroad labor board. The question of seniority was not men- tioned in the agreement. “Iwill, algn today and expect my men to get to. work immediately,” W. H. Finley, president! of the bia cago & Northwestern, declared. Other, railroads, will sign soon as, the agreement can » be rushed to, them.” ‘The ‘agreements will be signed>in+ dividually. All of the strikers on the roads af. fected will be put back to work with+ in 30 days. Men now employed will be.re- tained if they desire. Union leaders declared that they had the “whip hand” over the railroads not included. in the * agreement, “We will force the so-called. ‘die- hard’ lines to sign. within a, short time,” Jewell stated. ‘This’ agree- ment means the end of the strike," Union leaders declared there would be. a general exodus’ of workers’ on the “die hard’ roads. * +The + Pennsylvania, Burlington and. Union Pacific are expected ‘to fight to/the end. They, claim to have ‘had | great. success with the new ‘unions: established on each road, \ A bombshell was thrown into thé (Turn to Page 11, Column 4) oes WILL DEBATE IMPEACHMENT, Charge Against Daugherty, to Be Aired WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.— The house judiciary committee today waa called to meet Saturday to consider presentative Keller's impeachment ges against Attorney General ugherty. Keller will be asked to appear be fore the committee, Representative Volstead, chairman, announaetl