The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 17, 1922, Page 1

fed and occas weather ; Temperature Last 84 Hours Maximum, 50, Today VOLUME 24. NO. 201, Tonight and Wednesday, unset. gentle nally threatening easterly winds. Minimum, 47. noon, 48. Se Smile week has gone, Gosh, ain't it fun to snart again? . . We smiled so continually last week that our tonsils are al! sunburned. eee And we celebrated Better Home week so strenuously that our wife euys she doesn't want to see us around the house again until) Jan- vary 1 eee MUSICAL NOTE Geraldine Farrar, whom many will remember having seen in the movies, appeared here last night in the yellies. . . Reggie Fitshurse, the rollicking collegian, says everyones can't besa football hero—somebody has to carry the water bucket. . oe Wouldn't it be awful ff, at a cru cial moment, the cheer leader should get stage fright and be unable to lead a cheer? eee ‘The saddest words of tongue or pen— The words that cause the sorrow, ite those of Mister Salisbury, “Rain agein tomorrow.” eee WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM MASSACRE CONTINUES ALONG BAINBRIDGE ISLAND FRONT STOP MUSTAPHA MCMICKEN PASHA ORDERS WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER OF DEFENSELESS COUNTRY CLUB COMMA PLEAS- ANT BEACH COMMA FLETCH- ER'S BAY AND PORT MADISON STOP ALLIED COMMANDERS CHARGE MUSHROOMS ARE RE TALIATING BY SMOTHERING STEAKS IN NEUTRAL ZONE STOP. eee ‘With alt the fashions changing, no wife wants her husband to keep her fn the style to which she has been accustomed. IN THE DAY'S NEWS Seattle man fell downstairs and fractured his skull, But that’s nothipg. An- other man only took » wee drop ang was blinded. Federal prohibition agents from ‘Washington are on hand at New Or Jeans to seo that American Legion conventionists don’t break the pro- hibition laws. The booze sleuths, however, were mot with the boys at Belleau Wood or Cantigny. Do you wonder that the French are beefing about the Turkish arm!- Monsieur Bouillon? ENTERTAINING CLEMEN- CEAU | If the Tiger of France includes | Seattle in his American itiner- | ary we will take him down to the eclty hall and introduce him | to the Bull of Seattle. e——__—- * { | { —* Mr. Phineas Archibald Yober Was most unexcitingly sober. He drank just enough Of the “real bonded stuff” To die the thirteenth of October. eee Paddy, The Star's new office boy, arrived at work this morning for the first time. “Say, boss,” quoth he, “ain't there o place outside where I can park aee If the Allies really want to punish the exKaiser why don’t they send him a copy of his memoirs as a wedding present? eee IT’S NOT VERY CLEAR TO U! Ss, YE’ Pitsburg is golig to pour oil on the Ohio river this winter to pre- vent fogs, It won't work. We pour oil and every other kind of filth on Lake Washington and Lake Union and Elliott Bay, but we have fogs just the same. eee Plans are under minate the Rainier ain lon. How ing up ther ee way to exter- National park about the mam- + . Ex-King Constantine says he is go ing to rettle down in Paris. We doubt it. We never heard of any Man settling down in that town, see IT’S THE (THREE-MILE) Limit! The British say they are going to pay no attention to President Harding's three-miie liquor limit. You can't blame ‘em. Nobody se does, stice when their representative was | Mrs. G. B. Holmes Who Has Just Arrived In Seattle After A Nightmare Experience In Siberia, Where Japs Have Assumed Absolute Control And Are Keeping The White Population In A Constant ' Reign Of / Terror. Mrs. Holmes’ Life Was Threatened Repeatedly, But She Doesn't Seem To Have Lost Any Of Her Good Looks, Does She? Her Husband Is Shown At The Right 40 KIDDIES AND | | WANDA ON TRIP’ By Wanda von Kettler Tuesday, 10:15 a, m—Forty of us—and we're all ready to go. Forty youngsters from the Ry- ther home, plus one or two oth- er individuals who are “just go- ing along,” are gathered at the Colman dock, waiting to embark upon the good ship Seattle and to sali for Bremerton, The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor Mntered as Beoond Class Matter May 3, 1499, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 8, SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1922. Brutal Assailant of Local Woman Goes Unpunished by Jap Officials, , Seattle Couple Relate BY ROBERT B. BERMANN How a Seattle woman, Mrs. Robert Pierson, was wanton- ly assaulted by a Japanese before the horrified eyes of her 7-year-old daughter; how the Japanese officials absolutely refused to take any action against the woman's assailant, and how the Orientals instituted a reign of terror against the American and European colony of the community be- Today we are the guests of the ma-| cause of their demands that the criminal be punished— whose head- and the Puget ©. Before our rine recruiting corps, quarters is in Seatt! {Sound Navigation these are only a few of the high spots in the story brought | here Tuesday by Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Holmes, who have | arrival at the dock, we were favored | just returned from Cape Kamchatka, Siberia, where Holmes brought us from our home in its cabs. have never before been in a navy yard. | We shall be met, upon our arrival at Bremerton, by trucks from the ma- rine barracks. These will carry us to the yard, where we shall be enter tained at luncheon by the gobs and shown the sights, We think we're going to have an awful lot to say about it when we wet back. dust now, however, we can wait to say nothing more. Sergt. R. A, York, of the recruiting sta- tion, who ix in charge of the party, is yelling at us to get on board, Otherwise, he says, we will be left behind, And we wouldn’t be left behind for all the bananag in the world. |Pike Street Store 4 | Damaged by Fire Great damage was done to the stock of & grocery store at 726 Pike st., owned by the Groceteria Co., when fire broke out in the rear of the | place Monday night. The origin of | the blaze is unknown, The origin of ment officials were investigating Tuesday. Denver Gets One ; More Cut in Gas DENVER, Oct. 17,—Effective to- day the retail price of gasoline is 23 cents a gallon here, a reduction of three cents witha a week, the Continental Oll company announced. REGISTER BY’5 OR YOU’LL BE BARRED FROM THE VOTING | Registration books close at & p. |] m. Tuesday, and unless you have registered you .will not be permit. ted to vote in the general election next month. Residents, of the city are ineligible to vote unless they have registered this year. If persons living outside the city have registered since January 1, 1920, they need not do #o again, "Tio to thenavy yard we are going: by the Seattle Taxicab Co, which) was superintendent of a salmon factory. The outrages reached their climax in a nightmare voyage |in a Japanese |time and again. sault on Mrs. Pierson, which | horrors. “The whole thing was un- speakable,” Holmes said Tues- day, “but it was typical of Jap- anese rule on the Kamchatka peninsula, I say rule advisedly —for, in spite of the propaganda that is being sent out by thru consular and other sources, no attempt has been made to withdraw their forces from Si- beria, They may have ordered out @ battalion or a regiment here and there—but the Japan- ese colonies are still there, with cruisers to protect "On the Kamchatka peninsula, for instance, the Japanese rule is as ab solute ag it 9 in Tokyo and neither |the natives nor foreigners havé been lable to get any justice. The Pier: Jnon case, however, was the most flagrant that came to my attention, “It occurred last August. Pierson —who, by the way, is a former em- | ploye of the National Grocery Co, in |Seattle—is superintendent of a bie warehouse at the mouth of the Kamchatka river, owned by the Olat |Bwenson Co., Seattle traders. He had been compelled to go up the river about 150 miles on a trading trip, leaving his wife and daughter alone in thelr home with their China boy. “On the night in question, all the other members of the foreign colony were on the other side of the village | | | | | and Mrs. Pierson was putting her child to bed. “Suddenly she heard someone |moving about outside and then there was a rap on the door, She knew that the caller would have spoken if he had been a friend, so |she made no respomse, The knock jing continued, and finally the intru- der kicked thru the lower panels, reached his arm In and unlocked the door from the inside. Mrs. Pierson picked up @ chalr and struck at the | Now, what we are to see today we| for the six remaining members of the foreign colony, Mr. do not know, because most of us| and Mrs. Holmes among them. They were forced to escape steamer, on which they were the only white people, and they were constantly menaced by the Oriental \officials aboard, who threatened to throw them overboard, | The Holmeses, however, were most aroused by the as- they described as one of the most horrible crimes that they encountered in a land of jarm, but without effect, and the next moment she was confronted by & leering Japanese fisherman, whe |came toward her with outstretched a ‘She put up an herole battle, but the beast was too strong for her. Her China boy came in, but even the two of them together were no match for the lust- crazed Jap. The China boy struck the Jap over the head with a dish, inflicting a deop gush, but then was forced to flee, leaving his mistress fight- ing desperately in the arms of the beast. “The China boy rushed out for as- |nistance, but he could not make the |whites understand him at first, on account of his excitement, and min- the scene. A Russian named Stovski |was the first man to take in the sit- jinto the Pierson home and clubbed |the Jap into insenslbility, trussed him up. “Stovaki hadn't arrived a minute too soon. Mrs, Pierson's clothes had been torn to ribbons in the fight and she was utterly exhausted. I shud der to think of what might have hap- | pened if ald had come a few mo | ments later, The little girl was in a hysterical condition, “The foreigners trussed up the Jap and made an immediate demand up: on the Japanese authorities that he be punished, The request wag treat. | ed lightly. “The man was drunk,’ we wore told, ‘He wasn't responsible. ko we can't do anything to him.’ And |they were about to release him, | when John Denby, brother of A. G. Denby, a big trader, took matters tn- |to his own hands. “That was the bravest thing I've ever seen in my life. There were 1,500 Japs In camp and only (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) utes elapsed before any hep reached | uation and he immediately dashed | and) J apanese Attacks Seattle Girl |DRIGBIE IS LOST IN FIRE ATULS. CAMP Eight Passengers Escape Death in Flames; Four Are Injured SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Oct. 17. —The army's newest dirigible, the giant ©2, was completely destroyed by fire here today. The “blimp,” returning from a cross-country flight to Arcadia, Cal, caught fire and was burn- ed as it was being towed away from the hangar for an exhi- bition flight over the city. Maj, 1. A. Btraves, commander of the ship, was seared by the flames before he could clamber from the burning cockpit Sergt. A. B. Al bright of the (2 crew, was sertously injured in the fire, and Capt. N. M. Walker, aide to Maj. Gen. Hines, commander of the Eighth Carps area, and Manuel Cardenas, news- paperman, alao were Injured. A strong+gust of wind from the north blew the mammoth airship against the door of the hangar, rip- ping the big envelopes as the balloon wan starting the fight. Both motors were running, and as the gasoline tank exploded the big gas bag burst into Names. Ten minutes Inter only mans remained of the pride of the army's avia- tion section. Elght passengers had narrow escapes as the fire broke out and quickly consumed the flimsy Maj. J. L. Thompeon and Capt. J. Montague of the military Intelligence department of the Eighth corpe wore among the passengers. Others were newspapermen of San Antonio and Houston, ‘The balloon here Saturday on ite return to Field, Va. Severe storms were encountered between fan Diego, Cal, and Ei Paso, Tex., and Maj. Strauss had an- pounced he would delay here a week for repaira, eee WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.-The dir- igible C2, which was destroyed by It was completed shortly after the army's big Italian-butit airship, the Roma, was destroyed with a loss of 34 lives at Norfolk early this year. ‘The C-2 had a gan capactty of 172,- 000 cuble feet was capable of making @ speed of 60 miles an hour. eee |Army Flier Crushed When Plane Crashes SAN ANTONIO, Tex. Oct. 17— First Lieut. Walter A. Ball, army aviator, was crushed to death when his plane crashed today in a field near here, iLieut. Maughan Sets Another New Record MOUNT CLEM Mich, Oct. 17.—Lieut. R. L. Maughan, U, 8. A. pilot and winner of the Pulitzer trophy race Saturday, set a new world’s speed record here late yes terday by covering @ onekilometer course at the rate of 248.5 miles per hour, Missing Aviators Reach Home Safely HOOD RIVER, Ore, Oct. 17.-—- Charles 8. Woodruff, photographer, and W. R. Graham, aviator, missing since Friday afternoon and believed to have crashed while taking airplane photographs of Mount Hood, reached here safely late yesterday. They had been forced to land on a bald butte 150 miles from Mount Hood Friday afternoon, because of |an overheated motor, They had sub- | sisted on food given them by a sheep herder. Something New Something Different “SWAP COLUMN” | The classified section will tell you more about it. fire at San Antonio, an, today, was the army's best and fhrgest/ “blimp.” The Seattle Star Yor Your, by Mall, $6 to 99 Auditorium in | | eT’ must promptly provide its torium, ing designed for rough a’ to listen to the soft, lilting donna. fortably seated, uncouth was designed. available. mass meetings require. i@ future. ON THRIFT ROAD Tem thousand three hundred and of their x * Ten three hundred and fifty persons started on the road to | Thrift! That's the net result of The Star's Thrift campaign that closed Mon- day afternoon. Clerks are still tabulating figures even a greater number when all the j mall is opened, Financial men everywhere are loud in their praise of The Star's effort to provide a practical way for people to acquire the savings | habit. The Pot of Gold attracted widespread attention thruout the | state and many accounts were open- ed by mail, m nddtion to the great number that came direct from Se- attle, A lot of folks have decided the way to save systematically and mako their money work for them ts some other way besides the tin-can route. Friday, Saturday and Monday were lobby of the Seattle National bank, where deposits were made, was filled, almost to overflowing at times, People did not have long to wait, however, as the immensé volume of business was handled (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) BRINGS NEWS OF CAPT, AMUNDSEN Bringing the last word that wil be received the civilized world from Capt. id Amund- sen before he embarks on his deathdaring attempt to fly “over the top of the world” next summer, R. W. Hendee, speci- men collector for the Colorado Museum of Natural History, ar- rived in Seattle Tuesday aboard the revenue cutter Bear. Just before boarding the Bear, jFlendee visited Wainwright, Alaska, |where Amundsen is spending the |winter with his aviator, Oskar Om- idahl. Amundsen, he says, is at his best in the frozen village, which is only a few miles south of Point Barrow, “the top of the continent,” and is actually enjoying himself, de- and it ts likely the total will reach) the banner days of the drive, The) PASTOR-CONVICT BREAKS JAIL! NE VITAL | CIVIC NEED} Seattle Must Build a Community Early Future (EDITORIAL) 1E Geraldine Farrar concert Monday night was another convincing demonstration that Seattle elf with a mumicipal audi- Five thousand eager listeners crowded into a build- thletic events and bazaars lyrics of the famous prima The place was atrociously lighted, none too com- as a setting for such an event. This was not the fault of the building, because the building admirably serves the needs for which it It was not the fault of the managers of the concert, for they had chosen the best there was It was simply the fault of the whole community which, in the rush of other matters, has failed to erect the sort of structure that popular concerts, conventions, lectures, political gatherings and other | Seattle is a growing, progressing, culture-loving city and it must remedy this shortcoming in the early Maybe the present moment is too early to \@ begin actual plans for a real community auditorium. |@ But it is not a minute too soon for focusing serious thought upon the problem. ,|10,350 SET OUT (WILKINS, WOOD ARE ACQUITTED W. A. (Weary) Wilkins, owner of the Pacific bindery, and County Pu chasing Agent Charles Wood, jointly indicted by the last grand jury for alleged grand larceny, were ac- quitted Tuesday when Superior Judge W. D. Askren directed a ver- dict of not guilty, in their favor. Judge Askren's decision abruptly terminated trial of the case, a few moments after the state rested shortly before noon. Deputy Prosecuting Attorneys Bert C, Ross and T. H. Patterson strenuously resisted th® motion for a directed verdict, which was made by Ivan Hyland and Wiimon Tuck- er, defense counsel. Patterson and Ross sought to have the case reopened and to have cer- tain evidence, which Judge Askren ruled out Monday admitted. This evidence was in regard to the num- ber of justice court civil dockets which had been delivered by Wilkins apite the fact that he has only three | white companions. The Bear, which is commanded by Capt, 8. C, Cochran, has just com- pleted a 1,200-mile trip along all the accessible sea paths of the Arctic, Nothing outside of our routine experiences,” Captain Cochran an. |nounced when the cutter tied up at the Bell st. terminal, But then, one |must remember that the ordinary |“routine” of the Bear, known thru- out the Arctic as “The Law Ship,” |contains more adventures than the ordinary vessel experiences in a life- time “We narrowly escaped being jam- med in the ice several times,” Coch. ran said. ‘The ice is worse than it has been for several years. How- ever, we were able to follow our route and visited every place we usu- ally a0, Very few cases were brought to us for settlement-—and no crim- inal cases." Among the 11 pasengers on the} Bear were Inspector BE, N. Wood, of | | who has been stationed on Herschell island for the last three and a half to the county. The indictment charged that Wil- kins received $1,200 with the assist- ance of Wood, for 40 of these books, which were said never to have been delivered. A sharp tilt between Tucker and deputy, prosecuting attorneys took place when Tucker questioned some of the practices in effect in the prosecuting attorney's office. State's witnesses, Tuesday morn. ing, Included inty Commissioners Lou C. Smith and Tom Dobson; Wil- Nam J. Brown, a member of the grand jury that returned the indict- ment against Wilkins and Wood, and L. G, Horr, the grand jury fore- man. The two latter witnesses testified as to what the defendants had said in the grand jury room. Wilkins was jointly embraced by his wife and daughter when the court issued the directed verdict. ‘OMAN HITS TAXI DRIVER WITH PIE CINCINNATI, Oct. 17.—When a year, his wife and their 5-year-old son, Donald, After spending a few days in Seattle, Wood will report for duty at Edmonton, Alta, the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, tax! driver insulted Mrs, Rachel Reynolds, she smashed him in the TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE “loverpowered by the prisoners, who, * ns 3 CRIMINALS | BATTLE WAY ~ FROM PRISON ‘Guards Beaten by ~ Desperate Trio © in Los Angeles ~ County Jail LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 17. | —Two hundred and fifty police | and sheriffs today were in pur- sult of three of the most dew perate criminals of the county, who staged s spectacular jal break early today. ‘The escaped prisoners are: Herbert Wilson, 38, ex-mintstet and reputed millionaire bandit, ume” der life sentence for the murder fof a pal. ks Cuado Spingola, 23, alias “The Mouse,” charged with an $80,000 robbery of the Standard Ofl com- pany. ai Adam Blazyk, 23, alias Ward, um [der life sentence for the murder ey |his aged landlady. Having secured arms, the pris- oners beat a turnkey over the head with a revolver and forced — their way out. They held up W. C. Storey, Parcel post delivery man, an@ escaped in his car. They were sald to have fied in the diree tion of Arcadia, With two other prisoners, the per prisoner leaped from one of jail “tanks,” beat Jailer Condon sensible and, overpowering other jailers, fied to the street, Wilson, formerly a minister Oregon and now said to be one of most daring robbers on the coast, according to police, had planned his escape. The Los underworld, authorities recently convicted of the mur- — der. a During this murder trial, Wil and former associates were quote as boasting that the notorious dit would never pay the penalty, at every session of the court armed guards stood at the doors and sur rounded the prisoner as he came went. i Several attempts to smuggle arms to Wilson have been reported, the most recent implicating Arthur Burch, who sent a turnkey for. box of candy, which contained loaded revolver, jailers discovered, — The today occurred | at 7 o'clock when Jailer Condin went to the tank with the keys, Wilson, the moment the and Adam Ward, murderer, and Guido Spingoll, bank robber, es- caped with Wilson. Jailers Purrier and Glaze were / obtaining the jail keys, locked the |doors as they left. ‘BREMERTON HAS ‘DOUBLE TRAGEDY BREMERTON, Oct. 17.—Mrs. Car rie McElihenny, 40, Bremerton wait- ress and wife of a shipyard worker, and BE. J. Rowley, 50, a local tailor, are dead as the result of a double tragedy that ocourred at 10 o'clock this morning in Rowley’'s tailor shop. Rowley’s body was lifeless when found by City Attorney H. BE. Gare land, The woman was still alive, but |died two hours later at the city hos- pital. Mystery surrounds the trag- edy. No motive has been discovered, |but police think Rowley shot the woman and then himself. First word of the shooting came when Garland answered a telephone summons from Rowley. Garland was in his office at the time. He was alarmed at the tone of Rowley’s voice, Rowley urged him to hurry at once to his shop, a block away. Hastily making his, way to the tat lor's place of business, Garland found Rowley's body on the floor, leaning against a wall, dead. The woman was lying on the floor, Both were in the room where Rowley re ceived business callers. A gun was Inear Rowley's body, Police said it was Rowley's. Rowley, who has a wife and six children living near Waterman, across the bay, is widely known, Mrs, McEheny borea good reputa- tion, it is said, She had been @ friend of the Rowley family fer years. Their acquaintanees insist they were not intimate and believe the affair is not the outgrowth of a love affair, Rowley’s manner Monday leads to the belief that he may have become suddenly insane, He told Gorman that some day he was going to where he “would never come back.” No one heard the shots, altho Row- face with a@ hot huckleberry ple she was taking home to the children ley'’s shop is in a district surrounded by various places of business,