The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 21, 1922, Page 1

en et ee as Pe calicil eer i Se lg alin adsl bap ciniene-te O OPERATE ON POLITICIAN-CONVICT WEATHER Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 60, Minimum, 52, Today noon, 66. : Tonioht ond rain; moderate winds, mostly southerly, VOLUME 24. NO, 205. Sunday, prodadty The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor Ver Year, by Mati, §5 to 99 The Seattle Star Motered as Heoond Clase Matter May 8, 1999, at the Postoffice at Beattie, W awh. under the Act of Congress March 9, 1879, SEATTLE, WASH., SATU RDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1922. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE ARADO | Yes,“Remarkable” Is the Word! “The record of congress is one of remarkable achievement. “What this world needs is kindness—and optimism.” dy, folks! Today ts Ford day. Here's bumping into you! “Marks Down Again; Dollar Buys et headline. A marked sale? Bina Wallace Hopper, second af De Wolf Hopper, arrived to@ay. Inasmuch as she is a widow, could we not call her | grasshopper? Thanks. see CURTAIN: CURTAIN! Mayor Brown is scheduled to appear on the Moore stage next © week. LM Gee Geo says s 100 per cent tg one who has roughed it the West and bluffed it in the eee Mother's in the kitchen, + Washing out the bottles. Bister’s in the pantry, Taking off the labels. Father's in the cellar, Miring up the hops. Johnny's on the front porch, Watching for the cops. eee Olympic, Seattle's community will be in operation by 1924. we can hardly wait until we ung married couples in Seattle Waiting for the opening of thy hotel before they furnish thet with sheets, pillow cases and © The I. W. W. in Portland are being d as rapidly as they arrive. land, it appears, ts trying to do Pendieton'’s roundup. see “Three o’Clock in the Morning” f# good tune, but not at 3 o'clock In | the morning. a . CAMPUS— “Whether the Varsity emerges ‘om the top or bot- _ tom from Satur- stu- body. It depends upon the en- | @euragement and support they give | the team.”—University of Washing: fon Daily. Today's candidate for the Potson club is the goof who sits next fo you at the Stadium and tells you Te the Washington team is weak. - ee “Ohio Man Has 49 Wives."— 7 Quick, boy, the Croix de . et No, Mathilde, Siki, list, is not related é Greek goddess, ¢ ee @00p LAUD! | “Arthur C. Bannon, Special Grand /gury Prosecutor, Lauds Malcolm * sias.”—Newspaper oe the to French Payche, Henry Ford says he will discharge Ny man in the Ford plant whose th smelis of liquor. have the clove concession at a } Mand just opposite the main gate — Bereenland, Mary had a little lamb, She ate a gland one day Row “Bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla,” Is all that she can say. cee Chorus girl who killed her chum With a hammer ty now on trial for her life. That's What she gets for Knocking a friend oes miGHER CATION fe want « boy whe ean count, Now, what are five, six and three Caddie—Vive, six and three, stopped rouging the enough to add that ce like they were chiro- eee lef Severyns has banned slot ma hines and punch boards in Seattle. About the only chance we are al lowed to take these days is when we Bet married o- Here's hoping that Walter Camp Mames an All-American cheer leader this year, AU off! find of the linet We'd like; —Pr Pollyanna DIE OR SPEND TERM IN CELL Convict, Following Operation, Wil] | Return to Prison | or Go to Grave TACOMA, Oct, 21.—Fate will decide whether Harry Brolaskt, MeNeil island prisoner, who Is in the Tacoma General hospital awaiting » serious operation, will go back to serve the remainder of bis two-year sentence or will return to his home in San Fran- cisco, If Brolaski returns to prison it will mean that the operation has been successful, but if he re- turns to California it will be as | a dead man, to be buried in his ; home town. Brolaski ie | politician and the San Francisce “hootlegger king” jbrought to MeNell island on | April 26 of this year, On hie [arrival, the prison surgeon found he was suffering from cancer. Three days later Brolaski suffered an at- tack which convinced Dr. C. P. Jento that the prisoner must have special treatment. GOES UNATTENDED FOR TREATMENT From that time on until now walls have not a prison for Harry Brolaski. times ® week he has been allowed that he would return to the prison. Permission for these trips was ob- tained from Attorney General Daugh- erty, It is said, Later it was decided that Brolask! must be removed to} the hospital for an operation. Per- missions for this move were also |Sranted. | MOTHER WATCHES AT HiS BEDSIDE | Altho Brolask! is. unguarded by {prison authorities, he has one con- jstant watcher at his bedside, Mra. Mary Helle Brolaski, his mother. |Mrs. Brolaski came to Tacoma some weeks ago, when it was decided that her son's condition was such that he heeded an operation. | Physicians said that he did not have one chance to live if he was not Sperated on, and even then only one chance in 100, Sunday morning Brotaski goes to the operating room, but he refuses jto discuss the matter, His mother also will eny nothing of the impend-| Ing danger, but she {a torn between two grief. If the operation is not | jfor his varsity jook no farther than Lincoln high. Kenneth MeKee, 15-year-old fresh. man, is the candidate, When « 20¢pound intruder entered the MeKee home in the early hours of the morning, Kenneth, using the methods taught him by Linecolns’ foot- ball conch, and armed with a savage determination to capture the fellow, leaped at the thug and held on with bulldog ten acity during a terrific scuffle, and but for his adversary’s su- perior weight, would have made geod the capture. Kenneth’s feat was the outatand- ling feature in connection with a| | wave of crime that swept over Seat- | tle Friday night in which two men | were knocked unconscious in fights | with burglars, two more severely hurt “and two men were robbed b; | bandits, | Kenneth’s sister, Margaret McKee, 16, pretty Lincotn high sophomore, awoke in her room at the McKee | Girl Escapes Kidnaper Brother Battles Thug esident Harding. z 2 Margaret McKee, 16, who} frightened by her screams a would-be kidnaper who ap- peared in her room early Sat- urday morning, and Kenneth McKee, 15, her brother, who gave the 200-pound intruder succesaful it will fall upon her to! nome, 3831 Albion place, to find a|the fight of his life, almost take his body back to Calffornia. If ‘it ts, she must see her son go back to McNeil island prison for two more yea |WALLIE REID IS SICK MAN LOS ANGELES, Cal. Oct. 21 Wallace Reid, film star, has suffered | a nervous collapse and will be off |the screen for at least a month | Reports that he was critically il, however, were denied at the Lasky {atudios, where it was said that Reid |had been given a few weeks’ yaca- |tion to recuperate thoroly | Reid, it was said, is suffering from ja malady peculiar to the movies known as “kleig eyes,” die to the use of blinding “Klelg” lights in the |filming of motion pictures. | BERN: Switzerland. —Swiss gov. lernment budget for 1923 will show | deficlt of 82,000,000 francs, It t# re ported. RASPBERRIES GROWING ON 1922 SHOOT Editor The Star: ving read letters to The Star that rhododendrons and blooming the second I would like to re port that I have a clematis, two years that has blossomed twice this season Also a red raspberry that came up 7s A new vot last spring which h if srown berries at present time. W. M. CROSS, £729 Palatine Ave, one What's the difference between a nature-faker and a civic booat- George Donlan, 1828 24rd and Thomas Svenson, 1915 st, say they're civic ure time this year, |] the | / er? j] ave. Hudson boosters, 1] Donlan say which had been put outside on || the porch to die, has just. bios |] somed and has two perfect blooma, fvensen says he has just har. vested his second crop of red rasp- berries. an Easter ily, jman in her room. She turned on the | light and saw the huge bulk of the marauder as he ducked beneath her | bed, Margaret called for her father, | F. A. McKee, and the prowler ran from her room down the hallway. The man, whom the MckKees suspect of attempting to kidnap | Margaret, ran inte Kenneth’s room, Kenneth awoke and saw him, He waited until the man | had crawled partly thru the wine | dow and then leaped upon him. | Kenneth secured a hold on the| |man's leg and held on for dear life, | ‘The intruder struck at him repeat. | ledly, landing blows upon all parts of the lad’s boty his arms wrapped around the fellow’s | leg while he shouted lustily for help. | At dength the thug broke loose | |when Kenneth was forced to let go | or be pulled bodily from the win. dow. The man fell from the window | to the shed roof, rolled across the shingles clawing desperately for a handhold until he dropped two stories to the ground below. McKee, hearing the sounds of bat- | \Clerks Turn Backs; Thieves Loot Place! | | | ‘Two daring burgiaries | | were re- ported to police Saturday. The O. K. Flag Co, at 725 B. Pike st. was robbed of $40 when looted the unlocked safe employes were momentarily yeouus while absent. &. Piah, of the Eclipse Shoe Ro. patr Shop, 104 Pike at., left his win- tow uniocked. A burglar rifled the | register of § cash, succeeding in holding him un- til police arrived. Photos by Price & Carter Mar Matt Photographers tle upstairs, rushed to his son's aid and entered the root just as the thug released himself. In the méanjime a call, for the police had been sent in and two mo- toreycle patrolmen arrived at the house just after, the fight terminatéd. They pursued the man, but failed to capture him. The intruder had not disturbed any article of value, a fact that leads but Kenneth kept|the McKee family to believe that he | and intended to Kidnap Margaret. He did not once make use of his revolver, however. The fellow entered the McKee home by placing a ladder against a second story window. OIL MELON IS KEPT INTACT WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—The big “melons” of the Standard Ot) companies today received the offi- clal stamp ‘“‘non-taxable.”’ Secretary of the Treasury has written Representative Frear, Wisconsin, stating that in his opin: fon the big oil stock dividends now being isuued, cannot be taxed. Melion bases his opinion on the ruling of the supreme court, which held stock dividends non-taxable un less the person receiving them “cashes in” by selling the new stock and adding to his income. had | Mellon | BL ANDERS OF JAP LAW EVADERS FACING COURT Prosecutions Will Be Made Against the Whites Who: This is the new and perplexing problem faced by the Help Yellows | By Robert B. Bermann Not content with instituting scores of civil cases designed to defeat Japanese in this country who are plotting to hold land in deflance of the state antialien land law, Chief Deputy Prose cutor Ewing D. Colvin is prepar- ing to file criminal Informations against a numer of white men who are conspiring with the Orl- entals in an effort to evade the statute, Acting on instructions from Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm Douglas, Captain Colvin an- nounced Saturday that he had obtained evidence in several cases of this maturo ard that he would hale the criminals to court at the earliest possible mo- ment. ts a gronm misdemeanor, and persona who are convicted are rubject to im prinonment of one year and a fine of |$1,000, or both. | “A @ matter of fact,” Capt. Col- jvin said, “I consider the Ameri- cans who are inyolved in these jevamions far more iniquitous than the Japanese with whom they ‘are |conspiring. For the Japs are only jplotting against the country in | which they are domiciled, while the are betraying their very Colvin, explained that he was not contemplating any against the legal representatives of the accused Japanese, “Most of these atorneys,” he said, “are men of high standing, who are doing simply what the practice of their profession re- quires of them—they are mrere- ly seeing that their clients are given all the privileges to which they are entitled, and are not making any attempt to go be- yond or evade the law. As a matter of fact, many of them have come to me and told me frankly every detail of their cases—showing that they seck nothing that they are not legal- ly entitled to, “There is a class of whites, how: ever,” he continued, “who are delib- erately conniving to defeat the pur poxe of the law—and no mercy should be shown on these men “These are the men who devised the various wily schemes to get |around the statute by transferring land to the minor citizens, born in this country, of Japanese citizens, dummy corporations | “No trick has been too devious | for them to attempt—and I | must confess that they have | invented some extremely clever ones. But I feet confident that we will win eventually and that, in addition to driving the Jap- anese off the land to which they are not entitled, we will be able to send many of the conspirators to jail.” Capt, Colvin has been in. charge enforcement of the anti-nlien | law ever since he went into }the prosecuting attorney's offic and has continued his activiti even since being promoted to chief | deputy. For some time, in addition prosecuting such cases in court, he acted as special investigator for the |office, but of late he has had so many other duties that he hay been unsble to do this work. Since that time, the office has retained an in ivestigator to do nothing else but look up Japanese land frauds. of land Evasion of the antlaten land law | to| Seattle, |\Children Here Lead Intelligence; 3,539 ‘dren? school board as a sequel to 2 leral 70 Near Geniuses Are Attending Schools of Years Above Normal By E. P. Chalcraft What is Seattle going to do with her super-normal chil- 45 grade school pupils who were given the Illinois gen- intelligence tests, results of which were compiled Satur- Tests Reveal Those of Nation in in Grades Are 2 the remarkable showing of |day by Miss Nellie A. Goodhue, superintendent of the child, | study laboratory and clinic. | Miss Goodhue’s figures show that in the grade schools, from the 3B to 8A inclusive, there are 3,589 children whose jintelligence rates two or more general average, for their cla, Of this number, 70 are rated as of very superior ability, or, in other words, bordering on the class of genius. This showing 1» declared to be jone of the most remarkable in the jcountry, and a comparative table reveals the fact that Seattle grade |achool children lead the children of is by one or more years in| intelligence for thelr age. | Names of the Individuals are! withheld for the present, but. an | analysis of the intelligence teat} scores revthix somo” briltiant ex-| amples of children with brains far) lin advance of their chronological | Forty-two of the 70 children who| |are linted as of “very superior” in-/ telligence are girls, But a boy heads | the list, . This lad was in the cighth A when he took the test. Altho only 11 years and 6 months old, his score showed him to possess & 21-year-old brain. A girl of 12 years and 11 months| in the Sth B tested 20% years. Other jexamples of unusually brilliant chil- |dren, chosen at random, are: Girl, jage 9 years 11 months, made 6B, | rating 17 years; girl, 6A, @ sears 10 months, rating 17; boy, age 10 years | 2 months, Sth B, rated age 17; girl, age 11 years 3 months, grade SA, rating 18 years; girl, age 9 years 3| | months, 4th A, rating 16 years; and, two boys, each 11 years 6 months, Jone in the 7th B, rating 17 years, and the other in the 8th B rating | 19% years. | One little girl of 7% yearn In the (Turn to Last Page, Column 6) BRIBE REPORT TO BE PROBED y YORK, Oct. 21.—Statements | attributed to Capt. Robert P, Rosen. | biuth, charged with the murder of | Maj. Alexander P, Cronkhite, at Ta- oma, Wash., to the effect that he had been approached by an agent of the department of justice with the | suggestion of a bribe, will be investi- | gated before a federal grand jury | Monday next, Col. William Hayward, | | United States attorney, announced today. Rosenbluth was quoted as saying that the agent told him it “would be | cheaper to get in touch with the de- partment of justice thru a rich Jew ish friend.” FREED MAN IS ON WAY HERE MINNEAPOLIS, Oct, 21.—George Guyette started back to Seattle to l day, freed of a murder charge voiced by his aged father on his deathbed. | The father, Alfred Guyette, died at | the old soldiers’ home in July, after | indicting his. son. Young Guyette was brought here | to face the charge, Mike Radisch, | now serving a sentence for participa: | tion in the killing of Joseph Bretn: ling, was brought here to face Guy- He declared he was not the | | | et man. Out about $1,000 for expenses and attorney fees, Guyette left for Seat- tle today, By Wanda von Kettler Edna Wallace Hopper, the “flapper at and ineidentafly an actress of {note and the third wife of the much lmarried De Wolf Hopper, arrived in |Seattle Saturday morning from Port lland, where, during the past week, |she has been proving to men and women that a person of 62 is not necessarily old When, Saturday morning at 6 | o'clock, she jumped mown from | the steps of a Pullman coach at the O-W. R. & N. depot, none | who saw her would deny her | | right to the name, Attired In a black duvetyn cape trimmed with natural gray caracul fur, a red felt hat with a red velvet band and streamers, tan silk hose and black patent leather pumps with red heels, she was verily the flapper of the modern day. Even to the bobbed hair, of wal- nut brown shade, and the vanity case, that, like her heels, was red, Miss Hopper jumped from the steps of the Pullman coach with a laugh. ‘Don't tell me," she eaid, ‘that I've Miss Hopper, “Flapper at 62”, Is Here, Red got to pose before the camera so early in the day.” “Absolutely,” she was must.” So Miss Hopper opened the red vanity case and powdered her nose And the flapperish act did not seom out of place, for Miss Hopper does not look 62 One year ago, to be extict, in Sep- tember of 1921, the world-famed star of the legitimate stage, who had then been retired from her profossion 10 years, underwent an operation in Burope, which is sald to have re- told, “you ‘Heels and All turned to her all the youth of her girlhood. She was then requested to make “public appearances” in the theaters of America that others might see the youth of a woman who for sev- leral years before the operation was thought by the world to be a back number. Rack number? Not now! Hdna Wallace Hopper, after completing her personal appearance tour of the states plans to enter the movies! She has already signed a contract for the making of a seven-reel_pie- (Turn to Last Page, Column 5) \ years above the medium, or Offers His Child for One Killed | SAN FRANCISCO, Oct, 21— Frantically striving in vain to re- store a life they are accused of having taken, Charles Backiey and his wife today offered their fair-haired, blue-eyed little girl of 5 to fill the vacant place in the home of Frederick Newton and wife. Two days ago Buckley was ar- rested charged with having killed 4-year-old Marion Newton, when he drove his automobile into = crowd at a safety station. For 36 hours he seemed forget- ful of what he was accused of do- ing. Then, suddenly, both Buck- ley and his wife seemed to sense the tragedy in the Newton home. “We will give them our own child,” Buckley sald, calling an officer to his jail cell. “Yex, we will,” slowly e || Mrs. Buckley. “We'll do it if it |) kills me.” “Would to God I could take Marion Newton's place in the grave and she could be restored,” prayed Buckley, But Marion's place was still |) vacant today and her dolls waited in vain for the touch of a tiny hand. “No child can fill the place of my little Marion,” sobbed Mrs. Newton, ROYALISTS PLOT JAIL DELIVER OCKED HERE Convict Redmond Almost Succeeds in Fourth Break for Liberty Failing by a hair’s breath in his fourth attempt to escape, dames E. Redmond, bank ban- dit, | special guard by Sheriff Matt Starwich of the King county jail Satur- y- Only the quickness of Jailers Lee Roberts and Otto Siefert Prevented Redmond, who bs con- sidered the most dangerous criminal in the jail, from mak- ing good his escape after two months’ patient effort in saw- ing thru three thicknesses of steel, using a threeinch section of a hacksaw. It is believed that one of Red- mond’s motives in his. latest at- tempt to gain freedom wae his de- sire to seek out Eddie Patton, his former pal, who was given his free dom Thursday, Redmond previous- ly had threatened to kil Patton because the latter had turned state's evidence. In the resulting trial Redmond and Willard Holtz were convicted of robbery and were sentenced to from 10 to 20 years.in the state penitentiary, They are being held in jail pending the result of their. appeal to the state supreme court. Redmond cut the steel frame of his cell door so that it would swing open without moving the lock. When Jaller Stefert came into the adjoin- ing room at 6 a. m. Saturday he called “Hello, Jim.” There was no reply and Slefert thought Redmond was still asleep. He called some trusties and had them remove the garbage from the room adjoining Redmond’s cell. They then left. All this time, instead of being asleep, Redmond was concealed. in a wooden bathtub in the outer room. crouched in the doorway which opened into a hall, leading to the outside door of the jail. A few minutes later Jailer Roberts (Turn to Page 7, Column 6) CHIEF FORBIDS GERMAN REVOLT Murder of Chancellor Wirth Reported Planned BY CARL D, GROAT BERLIN, Oct. 21,—Pollee in Ber lin are under orders to be on the alert to crush a new monarchist re- volt, which is being plotted, accord- ing to documents seized by the gov- ernment agents in raids, The plot was to include assassina- tion of Chancellor Wirth, The police came into possession of let showing there were two plots against Wirth. The chancellor men- tioned these designs on his life in a speech to the reichstag, but said he would “carry on” as usual, His per- sonal guard has been strengthened. One of the men planning Wirth’s murder is said to have confessed at Leipzig. He gave the name of Schultz, Another man was arrested in the Rhineland, The chancellor is receiving large numbers of threaten- ing letters, especially from Leipzig. BIND WOMAN; FIRE CHAPEL NEW YORK, Oct, 21.—Two men who attacked, bound and gagged Mrs, Emma Wetzel, caretaker of an Epis. copalian church chapel in Jamaica, then fired the chapel in which she lay helpless, were sought by police today, Mrs. Wetzel wag rescued eerly to- day by Patrolman Ullieh, as the flames caught on her night clothes, Mrs, Wetzel told police she believed the men were after $1,400 her hus- band, who works nights, drew from the bank to buy a home, BENTON HARBOR, Mich.--Mich- igan Indiana border scene of hunt for two lions reported roaming at large. PUNCH BOARDS Death Knell Sounded for Games of Chance Seattle, knell of the games when he recelved a protest Rev. H. I. Chatterton, ex secretary of the Seattle Council of Churches, against the cigar store gambling. He immediately notified the candy manufacturers of the city that they would not be permitted to sell any (Turn to Page 7, Column 3} Good Land Close to Town If you want modern homes, timber lands or farm lands, auto- mobiles or need help, you can find them all in The Star Clas- sified Columns. BIG OPPORT: acres, practically sightly view: is an exception- ally attractive corner, with nearly \-mile of street front- age; good road in front of property; also electricity for power and lights, Fine land for poultry, fruit, berries and gardening. This is a real bar- gain, but must ween to be appreciated. Property located Inglewood Park. Terms $100 » $20 per month. 26-min- ute ride over new Victory way to downtown, Seatt! = es Turn to the Want Ad Columns and see who will show you this ground, —OVER 7 level, with