The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 23, 1922, Page 1

rain; sowthes Tonight and Tuesday, occasionally moderate to fresh FORECAST rly winds, The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor The Seattle Star Mntered as Second Clase Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Heattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 187%, Per Yeu to NO. 206, VOLUME 24 Howdy, folks! Wouldn't Mayor Brown make a wonderful cheer leader! eee Reggie Fitzhurse, the rollicking collegian, calls the women's dorm! ; tory at the university the “chicken roost.” “Parts Experimenting with Rolling Sidewalks.” This is nothing new We saw rolling sidewalks In Seattle long before prohibition. ryt sat The dittieutty of making a foot- ball hero bring up a scuttle of coal from the basement, : Ben Franklin Got lightning from the skies ; How much the world owes To us middie-aged guys! ee Edna Wallace Hopper, third wife of Dewolf Hopper, says she has just reached 19 years of age. What de layed her? eee Medical science has changed Edna into a flapper; but even the doctors can’t make an old lady remember where she left her spectacies. eee ——______________ LI'L GEE GEE, TH OFFICE | VAMP, SEZ | | There's many » 1922 body on x oe. an 1860 Another gridiron that fs popular these crisp Autumn days ts the one mother fries the waffles on. eee Indiana woman represented two Ufe-sized dolls to her husband and neighbors as children. Some women try the same stunt with chow dogs. oe say tor Lioyd has dl t | | tare dangers than- by the the han- There are 110,569,260 persons tn the United States. Of these only 43 have failed to send manuscripts to i “The funeral services were held last week as it was warm weather and the ceremony could not be delayed for announcement in this paper.”—Jones- 4 town (Cal.) Herald. , oe ‘The K. K. K. offers its afd to run the I. W. W. out of Portland. Let ‘em go to it. We don't care which ig exterminated. eee MORE FROM DOC BROWN none of the ap pointments I desire to make are for the purpose of furthering my po’ Hitieal ambitions, I will publiely state that I shall not seek renomination to the office of mayor after the expira- tion of my present tetm.”—Mayor Brown. . When Doc Brown appears at the Moore theater this week, even the trained seals will have to concede his superiority ag an actor. eee ‘The baseball season is gone, but many of us are still hanging over the old home plate. . Author of “The Daily Dozen” at the University says he puts rain- water on his hair, which is the rea- won he has a clouded brow. cee SHIMMIE SHAKERS’ LOCAL 44 Mayor Brown wants dance hall girls to form a union. Sure, and make it agains, the union rules for an entertainer to give more than 20 shakes per shimmie, o- We're for the cloned shop and the open town. eee The next step will be to unionize saxophone players. Make ‘em a local of the Boller Workers’ union. ee prronm ATION, PLEASE Henry Ford ix planning to es- tablish 400 radio stations thru- out the United States so that he can broadcast his views on poll- ties and business, Perhaps he will also be kind enough to tell us how to start the flivver on a cold morning. eee That aviator who flew 248 miles per hour must have made some of tle motorists Jealous. eee makes Flubdub “What £0 grouchy?” “All this glad stuff by current writ- ers.” One half of the world doesn't know how the other half lives, but it is not the fhult of the goustps, eee here. ed LABOR URGED NOT T0 VOTE PARTY LINES Union Men Asked and Support Only “Fair” Men BY C, © LYON WASHINGTON, Oct 23. The American Federation of Labor wants | every union man in America to go to the polls November 1, disregard | dest Interests. | Samuel Gompers, president, Frank | Morrison, secretary, and Jamey O'Connell, momber of the national committees of the federation, constt. tute an executive committees whose business it will be between now and / jection day to advise union labor as to which candidates are “fair’ and which “unfair.” ber of congress seeking re-election , and Gompers has asked that his rec- jord be read at every meeting of unions during the following weeks, “so the members will be continually informed until election day of the position taken on tabor matters by their legislators. GOMPERS OUTLINES THE SITUATION A statement addressed to organ ized labor of America by Gompers and his executive committee states that “the reactionaries are running | mad in demanding legislation most abhorrent to the people of a free country,” and sets out as the legis lative program of the reactionaries the following “Compulsory labor, which means that ‘wage earners must work for wages, hours and under any condl- tions that may be determined by tho government court or board. “Giving furiadiction to federal courts over matters strictly within the jurisdiction of state courts, “The enactment of legisiation in support of the nation-wide injunction issued despite the constitution and laws by a newly.appointed federal Judge tn Chicago. “Establishment of a sales tax, which would relieve the weill-todo/ from taxation and place the burden on those least able to bear it. “Granting millions in ship sub- sidies to political friends, while re- fusing to compensate soldiers and sailors who offered the supreme sac- rifice. “The destruction of the direct pri mary system, so that candidates for public office will be selected by boss. ruled conventions.” FRELINGHUYSEN IS ATTACKED A sample of the “report” that Gompers’ committee is sending out is the one on Senator Joseph S. Frelinghuysen. “Your attention is called to the |fact that Senator Frelinghuysen ts 100 percent AGAINST labor. He, | therefore, bears the questionable dis- |tinction of being the only man in lelther house of congress who, since }1906, has not cast a single vote in | favor of legislation for the advance ment of the wage-earners on which a record vote was kept.” Unton labor is being asked to sup- port Hrookheart, republican, for nen- ator in lowa, Keller, republican, for congress in Minnesota, and Frazier, republican, for senator in North Da kota. The Old Guard, it is declared, is out to “knife” all three. 'HOLD ARMY MAN AS RUM RUNNER Aviator, Mechanic and 15 Sacks of Whisky Nabbed authorities of an alleged to smuggle a cargo of booze from Mexico over the border. Fitteen sacks of whisky were confiscated. Authorities refused to} ke known the namo of the al 4 army officer, DR. ABBOTT NEW YORK, Oct. 23-—-The Rev. Dr. Lymann Abbott, famous editor and churchman, is dead. Dr. Abbott, editor of the Outlook and successor of Henry Ward Beecher as pastor of the Plymouth Congregational church, passed away at his home yesterday after an Illness of several months, Dr. Abbott, who was one of the best known ministers and literary men in the country, would have been 87 years old in December. He was one of the closest friends of the late Theodore Roosevelt. SOMERSET, Ky.— David Jones, mountaineer, digging pit for saw. mill, unearths pot of ancient English Road closed for repairs, Detour| «old pieces, estimated worth $48,0004 in American gold, to Study Record} party lines, and vote for his own! The voting record of every mem-| has been sent back to his district, | LAREDO, Texas, Oct. 23.--An army officer, his mechanic and army airplane were reported held) here today following frustration by| attempt | DIES AT 87) | Peggy Beal, who went on trial Monday for slaying F. Warren Anderson, known as \“the perfect t lover.” PEGGY BEAL ON TRIAL FOR LIFE | Says She Killed Educator to Save Other Girls BY J. F. BEAMAN KANSAS CITY, Get, 23, — Pretty Peggy Beal went into court here to- day to begin her unique fight for |freedom for the murder of F. War ren Anderson, educational director. formeriy of Indianapolis, last June. ‘Tho littie bobbed haired béauty will |rely on the claim that she killed to save other women from the wiles of | the “perfect lover” after shown her a list of 60 other broken hearts In many cities. Against the array of witnenses for the prosecution, Peggy expected alone to carry the burden of the defense. She declared she would bare the story of her life, ‘The accused woman sald she woyld tell about the promine of marriage from Anderson which brought her to Kansas City where he learned the “perfect lover” already had a wife and that Mra, Heal was only one of 50 other girls who had been “pawns.” “I have had the heart of every one of them,” Anderson told her, accord- j'ox to Perry. "He said he aid not know how many more girls would be added to that Hat—eald life was but a game of hearts to him.’* The prosecution will attempt to show the shooting was premeditated. The stats only necks a conviction on & second degree murder charge, how- ever vict a pretty woman of first degree murder,” Cameron Orr, county prose- cutor, explained. / CROWDS WATCH MRS. PHILLIPS 108 ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 23 | Mrs. Clara Phillips displayed none of |the symptoms of fear and agitation |that were reported to have gripped her last night, when selection of the jJury which will bear her trial for |the alleged murder of Mra. Alberta Meadows was resumed today. She appeared rather indifferent than anguished as the monotonous jroutine of the court begun, and took }little interest either In the proceed jeourtroom and the corridors outside. With 11 jurors passed for cause, the case reopened at 10 o'clock with the examination of the 12th pros. peetive juror. iWOMAN POIS ;ON CASE PROBED PORTLAND, Oct. 23.—Police to- day sought a relative by marriage of Mra. C. A. Pettibone, of Portland, for investigation and possible prose cution in connection with the alleged | poisoning of Mrs. Pettibone. Mra Pettibone was found suffering from poison late yesterday and extreme efforts were necessary to save her life The man sought, who resides in San Fra ia naid to havo left the Pettibone house in haste when |the woman became ill, saying: “This |\« the last time I'll ever see you." cleo, An army dirigible caught a mass of twisted metal. Result: That's today. dirigible Roma, blew up at Hampton Roads, and 11 maimed for life. Result: “Authorities order Turn back a year. England, Back on in he had] “You can't get a Jury that will con- | }ingw or the crowds that packed the| Antonio, injuring eight passengers. t 1 of the largest and newest of the army’s airships is SAYS HI RK CAUSED DEATH OF 14 “Torch Maniac” Is) Jailed When He Describes Horror} in Tenement W YORK, man who sald “toreh maniac” who set fire to a Lexington ave, spartment house and caused 14 deaths early Sunday, was under arrest at Bayonne, N. J. today, New York police were informed, After the “confession,” the man, who described himself as Albert F. Molnar, changed hia mind and de nied he had any knowledge of the origin of the fire. In hia first story he sald he war a member of a gang of incendiaries land dope fiends who had headquar Oct, —A he was the tors In the basement of a negro |chureh not far from the scene of the fire He mid he and other members of the gang set fire to the chureh “Just to see it burn.” Tenements were being guarded today following the horror. Authorities have no doubt that the fire was of incendiary origin, The finding of the charred tron skeleton of a baby carriage on the first foor Jed to the conclusion, It was believed the maniac placed off paper In the carriage and then threw a match In it. The maniac ts held responsible for the lone of 21 lives in the last month jin fires started in the identical man- ner as this one, ‘AUTO HITS BOY; DRIVER ASLEEP? |Lumberman “Charged With Driving While Drunk TACOMA, Oct. 23.—Frank Me: Cleary, 34 years old, lumberman of McCleary, Wash., last night crashed }a high-powered automobile into the | nido of a smaller car driven by Rev. | Henry Victor Morgan, of this city, injuring Murray, T-yearold, son of | Rev. and Mrs. Morgan, seriously. The boy was taken to the Sst | Joneph's hospital from the scene of the accident, suffering from a@ [hemorrhage of the brain and from a deep cut in his neck. It was necessary to take six stitches In the | wound. McCleary was taken to the city Jail where friends of hip and an |attorney from Olympia arrived sev- eral hours later, deposited $700 ball jand gained his release. He was jcharged on the jail books with driv. ing an automobile while intoxicated Search of his car brought forth | quart of whisky, according to D, |W. Penn, arresting officer McCleary declarea that he had |mone to sleep while driving, accord, jing to Officer Penn : |BROKER, HIT BY CAR, IS DYING} Struck by a Phinney ave. street car while crossing t tracks at Westiake ave. N. and Highland drive, Sunday night, George M. Chapman, 45, of the Washington hotel, an Oakland, Cal, broker, was hurled 20 feet and perhaps fatally injured. Chapman had been riding with| John R. Maclean, 1226 Westlake! ave, N., and had just stepped from | the auto, after telling MacLean good when he stepped in front of | | night, the street car, At the Seattle General hospital nial | condition 1s believed to be critical Mrs. Dan Johnaon, housekeeper at| the Carnation stock farm, at Carna- |tion, Wash,, and her won Stanley, 8,| were neverely injured in a collision between two automobiles near Ked-! mond Sunday night. Mrs, Johnson! | was badly cut by glass from the! | windshield, The Army’s “Triple Investigations’ fire and burned in San All that remains “Authorities order triple investigation.” February 21, the army bought from Italy for $2,000,000, with a loss of 34 lives, ed triple investigation.” The giant dirigible ZR-1, built for the United States, burned over Hull harbor, England. 17 injured, cost in money, $2,000,000, exploded and Loss 62. lives, ATTL, E, WASH., ‘MONDAY, OCTOBE iB 23, 1922 Two CENTS IN SEATTLE peal TOM AVE. TO »/ % Zz a thn Sketched at the scene of the murder by HARDING MIXES |County Line Now IN TEXAS FIGHT) ‘™Portant Point mune in Murder Probe Commends G. 0. P. for Aid BY EDWARD THIERRY Given Democrats NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct. DALLAS, Tex, Oct. 22.—Presitent 23.--Where did the double murder of Rev. BE. W, Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Harding today entered the Texas senatorial muddle Mills take place? Which county—Middlesez or Som- A letter frém the chief executive |erset? to KR. B. Creager, state republican These questions will be uppermost chairman, was made public in which’ Harding commended Texas repub. |!" bringing to trial the murderers of licans for coming to the aid of inde. | the church rector and choir singer. pendent democrats in a concentrated | The bodies were found in Somerset fight “against all grouping of classes |County, a few steps across the and attending dictation, which is con. | boundary line of Middlesex county. trary to American ideals.” |The line runs from Raritan river Creager recently returned from |*0Uth along a tiny brook that crosses Washington, where he conferred | @@ston ave. on the outskirts of New with beading republicans concerning | Brunswick. It bisects the deserted the candidacy of George E. B. Peddy, | PDillips farm near De Russy’s lane, 20-year-old lawyer, who was chosen | %"4 where the brook disappeared and by anti.Ku Klux Klan democrats and | the dry bed ends, it is merely an ‘opted by the Texas G. O, P. to|!™Maginary line thru the thickets. oppose Earle B. Mayfield, demo. Were the victims shot down at the cratic nominees. Mayfield, it was be- | *Pot under the crabapple tree in Som: STAR WANT ADS ARE lieved, was backed by the “invisible |erset county where their bodies were empire” in the primary battios found? An entanglement of litigation now | ,,1f "0. were the slayers ee holds the name of each of the sena-| Middlesex? Were the shots fi torial aspirants off the official | “cross the county line? If so, legal ballot. [complications may follow. = | One bullet pierced head and probably killed him instant- WILKINS GOES |): three butiets struck Mrs. tits in the head, but did not pierce her ON THE STAND skull, This, thinks Detective George w D. Totten, of Somerset, may prove 8AN FRANCISCO, Oct. 23.—Henry | that Rev. Hall was shot first at close Wilkins, accused of the murder of | range and Mra. Mills at longer range, his wife, Anna, took the witness| perhaps while she was running in an stand in his own defense when to-| effort to escape. day's session of the trial opened. The bullets must have killed her Wilkins, the state alleged, paid Ar-| instantly, yet her throat was cut, thur and Walter Castor to stage an| Was it before or after the shooting? alleged “fake holdup" on Memorial | Probably afterward, thinks Detective day, in the course of which his wife | red David, of Middlesex. ‘was shot to death | This mutilation, according to the Wilkins, the prosecution claimed, | theory of Miss Florence North, law- desired to get his wife out of the! yerdetectiv way because of an alleged infatua-|16.yeurold Charlotte Mills, daughter tion for Miss Helen Lange, younger | of the murdered woman, was in sister of Mrs. Wilkins | fiendish jealousy over the choir sing- a ers voice Another supposition ts that the | victims may have been slain in or near the deserted house, 10 yards away; or in the barn; or in the neigh- |borhood of Buccleugh park. Were they then carried in automobiles and |1aid out under the crabapple tree? This would support the story of |Fred McCabe and his wife, Mrs. BRINGING | Katherine McCabe. ‘The former is |bridgetender at the Landing lane | bridge across the canal and river, a quarter-mile from the spot where the bodies were found, They agree that at 11:40 the night of the crime they |heard A woman's screams—three “Roreams,tho last a piteous wall, a ACTIVE RETURNS Three dirjgible disasters, costing 96 lives, 36 in- jured, and about $5,000,000, equals three “triple in- vestigations.” After each disaster, we learned that it could have been avoided if helium gas had been used. Yet we are building two more dirigibles at the cost of $2,000,- 000 each, which, we will probably fill with inflam- mable gas, because the army and navy haven't enough helium to inflate them. “Triple investigations” don’t mean anything. Are we getting anywhere with our dirigibles? Are we learning anything? Is helium what our official press agents claim it is? If so, it is more than waste to use the cheaper, inflammable gas and so destroy both airships and Result: “Officials ordered triple investigation.” lives. It is a crime, 4 \ od ae Ns es betes reaes etn pte teyetripentem AE MNT I FOI RRL ORR TOI TITTY PTE IEE RE IIE SM a Yarriey Wu $LON Sal Paine ae om Y kobe gues BOUNDARY heath “RS the rector’s| working as the friend of | PIE og nl vos e372 wi | } ] y, E. R. Higgins, N. E. A. Service artist. HALL RELATIVE IS FACING QUIZ Henry Stevens and Wife Are Questioned BY GERALD P. OVERTON NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct. 23.—Detectives were dispatched from here to Lavalette, N. J. to quiz ‘Henry Stevens, brother of Mrs. Ed- ward W. Hall, and his wife in con- nection with the Hall-Mills murder mystery. Alleged discrepancies in stories said to have been told by Stevens and his wife concerning the former's movements on the night of Septem- ber 14, when the Rev. Edward W. Hall and Mra. Eleanor Mills were murdered, prompted authorities to make this move, it was announced. Wilbur A, Mott, former prosecutor of Essex county, was appointed spe- cial prosecutor in charge of the Mills-Hall murder probe by Attorney |General McCran, according to word received here today. Attorney General McCran an- nounced that he had appointed Wil- bur A. Mott, former prosecutor of Essex county, to take charge of the investigation into the death of the Rev. Edward W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, his choir leader. few minutes apart, The first screams came from over the hill in Middlesex county. The |last came from Somerset. And a woman neighbor in George st., near Landing lane, says che saw two automobiles whizz around the corner from the direction of the de- serted farm. Another woman in the Home for Incurables, in Easton ave., across from the farm, says she heard sobs, VU. S. ¢ Grand Jury Is in Session Again For the first time since July 3 the federal grand jury went into session Monday morning. Among the cases expected to be investigated during the week is that of “Duke” Howard Ty- son McCrabb, charged with violation of the Mann act, It was expected the jury would make its first report Tuesday morn- ing. \Kittitas Farmers Lose Water Case WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.-—The West Side Irrigating company, com- posed of farmers of Kittitas county, Washington, today in the supreme court lost its sult to prevent state officials from reducing the volume of water which the company ts divert. ing from the Yakima river, ‘The suit was dismissed for want of Jurisdic- tion, [Footprints Cause Arrest of Youth Accused of participating in the re- cent $1,500 robbery of the King Bros. clothing store, Fred Willit, 19, was brought back to Seattle Sunday from Yakima and held in the county jail. He will face trial with Sam Lynch. Both were traced by footprints left in the store, American Gunboats Reach Turk Capital CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 23,— The 12 American destroyers which left Norfolk October 2 for the Near East arrived here at 8 a. m. Sunday. The vessels are here for the protec- tion of American interests, | reductions were viewed as imminent. gressman H. Z. Osborne, of Califor- trouble. Longshoreman Falls way. General hospital. _) SEATTLE BUYS | MILK 2 AND 3 CENTS LOWER! Battle on Between Dairies; Further — | Cuts Regarded as” | Probable With the dairies of the city em: ~ | gaged In a bitter price war, i | housewives were able to buy milk |Monday at a cheaper rate than they have pald for months, and further Nobody seems to know f ue eeocia' milk-vending corporation in which, they say, is trying to put little fellows out of business. This was denied by the however. Their story was that had heard that a reduction ing contemplated by some other dairies and i money and that if of them put it. “Hand tt lot of us would have to go war lasts very long.’ Meanwhile, the buying public enjoying itself intmensely. It novel sensation for the common ple to come out at the long end the horn—and they were having. fine time. FIRE WRECKS SUBMART SAN PEDRO, Cal., Oct. American submarine R-4, attached the local submarine base, has afire since midnight in the harbor, — and was still burning shortly before noon. The fire originated in the battery — compartment. The battery compart- — ment has been bulkheaded to keep the flames from spreading. Naval of- ficers estimate the loss at $70,000, providing the fire doesn't spread. Only three men were aboard at the time the fire started and these escaped. : FRENCH SUB FEARED LOST PARIS, Oct. 23.—Grave fears were expressed today for the safety of the French submarine boat Roland Mor ilette, 270 tons, carrying a crew of 28, ‘The submarine, returning from the Near Bast, was last seen off Brest Friday night. It was feared that the Mortlette may have been wrecked or forced out on the high seas by a storm, Congressman Home From Tropics, Il SAN PEDRO, Cal., Oct. 23.—Con- nia, arrived here today aboard the steamer Ecuador from a trip into the tropics, seriously {ll from heart 30 Feet; Badly Hurt Struck by a plece of cargo while loading the steamer Nebraska at the Union Pacific dock Sunday, Frank Chienpondt, 44, longshoreman, fell 30 feet {nto the hold thru a hateh- He sustained several broken bones and was taken to the Seattle Snowball and Lily Blossom West Seattle rises to report that ft, too, is enjoying ex- traordinary fall weather, Mrs. George Finstead, 6043 40th S. W., says that a snow- ball bush In her yard is now carrying five big blossoms, and that an Easter Ily is in the midst of a second blooming, with two perfect flowers.