The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 10, 1923, Page 1

IRST! HE: STAR goes into more homes than does any other paper printed in Wash- ington,into1 3,000 more homes than does the other Seattle evening daily. ° tome Brow | KELS MUST [Home Brew DEATH PEN Howdy, folks! The World Series opeus today, but the game PAY ALTY may have to de called off as it is s0 foggy a lot of Seattle peo- ple can't see the scoreboard. There are just two good bets 1. Bet on New York 2. Don't Al members of the So” club have been cau! give an opinion until af mination of the series. r the te “I-Told-You- | lieved to joned not to Judge Sentences California Murderer to Hang STOCKTON, Cal, Oct Kels of Lodi, Cal., today enced to hang at the state peniten. |tiary for the murder of a man be have been Ed Meserve. | Date for the hanging was not sot. Sentence was pronounced at 10:27 a m. by Judge D. M. Young. Kein stood with eyes lowered, hea: ing the words which condemned him 10,—Alex was sen: | rr | Today’s candidate for the Polson oO tot Mi Was un Ivy club is the gink who allows that di gg Sie tah CO ee “thove there games are fited ay: one court room was packed:ito ca- way. ! eee pacity He Will be kept at Folsom prison untilthe execution, % eee For every woman who believes she understands politics there Is a Rian who thinks he can make mayon- naise dressing. eee After the trip is over a man real- fzes that those “No Hunting” signs Were correct. . Granted Complete We would have written a lot of squibs about thin being Necktie Week, but we were afraid that they would remind Mrs. Homer Brew that | Christmas {s coming. eee A fortune awaits the bootlegger who, with every bottle of moon- shine he sells, gives you a certificate | good for a 50 per cent rebate on} | passed | before midnight. * jevade the iswue raised CABINET GIVEN DICTATORSHIP Stresemann’s Ministry | BY CARL I D. GROAT Vga Sway by. Hugo | any coffin your family may select. one Just a love nest, Cozy for two; Just a love nest, With a cellar for brew! eee No ladies who use perfume wit} Dis tuisiness, Or labor is* going to | Stinnes, who, it now appears, sought | }a virtual industrial dictatorship. Replies from Belgium and France | having unanimously rejected Strese- jmann's proposal for immediate ne. |gotiations, the chancellor must set- th definitely whether his cabinet, be admitted ‘hereafter to ‘the pres.| ‘U8 Germany. enee of Pope Plus, it {s announced. What has the pope got against eet i can ? . Reading in that dinosaur years old, the newspapers eggs, 10,000,000 had been discovered in Asia, Horatius J. Eezema, prominent Seattle restaurant Proprietor, endeavored to obtain 4 supply for his patrons and, failing, shot himself today in a fit of ‘despondency. . Series ix going to come out, We're willing to bet that the kees make the first field goal “We have a booklet if you are to become fall,” Star's Washington bureau. Sounds like “Three Weeks.” pu will A Hollywood girl who would star Couldn't act but deemed it no bar ;\ ALL THE NEWS egal FIT TO PRI. We don't aoe how the World| it a bride this! Keep . it.” says an announcement of ‘vhe| Somebody or other says the réa son there are no divorces in heaven Foundling Gets Home Another Babe Found and Adopted Another doorstep baby had found a home Wednearlay. For the second time in three days a tiny week-old baby wan deserted by its parents—left upon the doorstep of Mrs. H. Lewis, 2317 13th ave. N Snugsling warmly in a wooden [PORT TOWNSEND japple crate filled with comfy baby things, a tiny girl walled at mid- | night, early Tuesday morning. Mra. Lewis opened her door and found it | A note in the box from the mother | read: “We know you are « mother, and wish the baby lyours.” Mrs. Lewis notified the po-| |lice and was given permission to to be| but| keep the foundling. Yan “It's a beautiful baby,” Mra, Lewis said Wednesday, “it's so large and good | Jattle wives to noon’s entertainment by inviting the | j tike a look at the cellar | |callers to *' VOL, Bob Hodge Kill 5. NO, 195, Blast Snuffs Out Life of Man Who Almost Won Twi charge of blasting powder. Newn of th jeath of the man who Oct. 10.—The twice held the office of sheriff In} |freighter Stanley Dollar is rushing King county and who came within} into Ban Francisco from 600 miles an ace of winning an election for the} governorship of the state, arrived In ut at sea with fire in her No. 8 Seattle Oregon employed as foreman of a road con. struetion crew, ce From an immigrant boy who | gained admianion to this country by | fleeing a term of servitude as a ship's boy, to one of the most powerful po- litical factors in the state of Wash ington, That briefly ix the story of the life of Robert Talt Hodge, who was killed at Metolias, Ore, Tuesday by the premature explosion of a v te Sheriff of King County and All but Elected Governor nesday from the smali where Hodge has been SEATTLE, WASH., oat WEDNESD. AY, OCTOBER 10, The Seattle Star | ed in Oregon! STENGEL VESSELS. PERILED. \Freighter Fighting Fire; Kennecott Is Not Located BAN FRANCISCO, hold, according to radio dispatches ; recelved here. Hodge was directing the placing of a charge of explosives in a gravel pit when the accident which caused his death occurred, according to Meager advices of the tragedy DESERTED SHIP AT When a boy of 14 years of age, Robert Tait Hodge arrived in the} Pup und country. He deserted an English ship at Port Townesnd, where he was serving a term of vir. tual slavery as cabin boy, He was bern in Dumbarton, Scotland, March 17, 1875, the 13th of a family of 16 children. The radiogram announcing her} plight was picked up carly last night. In his first meseage Capt R. B, Wilke said he believed the | fire would be controlled before it | could threaten the veanel itself, He | Fefused ald from three vessels in| | the vicinity. The Stanley Dollar ‘ed from San Francisco for Japan last Sat: | urday. She Is of 4,171 tons and carries a crew of 30. passengers aboard. There are no The distress of the Stanley Dollar| climaxed 24 hours of sea mishaps Growing to manhood working in the mines of King county, Hodge became a deputy sheriff at Black Diamond, He serving pray that God may forgive | tracted as. attention. and in 1908, staid Judge Young at the, con- ah '§ Methods in thin campaign wr 4s original ax the various ex- its of his remarkable career, eane a house-to-house canvas seeking votes, won him friends. Hodge abolished the spotia system! nor ont $| of feeding county prisoners, which up to that period had been one of the principal sources of revenues| domestic difficulties was published for King county sheriffs. the voters that tho sheriff's salary, pecind. © with belng responsible ‘for ee 2 then $200 @ month, wan ample for! UL Re Oat Te The cet) | the duties and that if elected, hel ELECTED SHERIFF cabloet te gin. @ictatirlat powers | would turn the feeding of prison-| AGAIN IN 1914 | ers over to the county. ‘tor six months in the bill which | | his election, ite second reading boca EY) cents per day for feeding pris | onera. ie nm no longer The government cai Jong wih from fig exploits there at. ah Robert T. Hodge. Ea new state law progibiting county officials holding office more* than and his cantgaign two terms, cut off hfs firat tenure He then ran for gover- he progressive ticket and was conceded to be, the strongest candidate, A story depicting «hin He told/on the eve of election and this is Prior to] Agnin In 1914 Hodge was elected sheriffs had recelved| sheriff of King county ond served two years. He again ran ‘for gov- ernor in 1916 as a progressive stand ard bearer. Turn to Page 9, Calumn 1.) elected for two terms, | 1908 to 1912, The} Individuals and firms that make a business of selling materials for the making of home brew have come under the ban of the federal prohibition department, office. An active campaign has been inaugurated by the depariment at Washington. tion likely will “get by,” the office intimated, because it ix difficult to prosecute them. The statute provides that federal agents must have evidence that home brew is being sold or carried away before a search ‘warrant can be obtained, tho actual possession of the brow or wine is ‘Home Brew Makers Raid Seattle Grape Supply Fruit Brought in by Carloads; Dry illegal. BY G, LUCILLE BUTLER is here—unmistakeably it is quite the proper caper for Se-| Fall Agents Will Act it was announced Tuesday by the Sieattle Persons who make the stuff for thelr own conwump- se | Journeyed to the southward last | and| spring and purchased great quan- tities of raisin grapes for Meattle, |and, behold, arrives a crude n our freight yards, and th is on. wind up the after Autos of all. descriptions, from | along the Pacific coast as to the fate of th Alaska Steamship company’s miotorship Kennecott, aground ‘on the rocks of one of the Queen Charlotte group of islands, felt In Toeal shipping Wednesday morning with the port from the steamship Cor dova that she had been unable fo find trace of the missing, ves sel. The United States revenue cutter Unalga was also patroling ihe island coasts in search of the Kennecott. The local harbor radio office was Unable to ascertain whether the Ken- necott had floated off at the last | high tide and sunk, or whether she is in some Obscure location and will later be sighted, Wireless messages (rom. the Ken- necott have stated that she is on one of the Queen Charlotte islands, which number 14, but the exact location has not been given. | When the last wireless from the| Kennecott was received the local | station, Tuesday morning, she stated that the tide was receding and that the water in the hold was lowering. This indicates that the hull may haye been shattered, ‘The freighter Bearport is reported ashore at Port Ludlow with a cargo of lumber. She is expected to be floated at high tide. The British steamer which went ashore yesterday at} Meadow Point, near Seattle, was floated last night and proceeded to Seattle under her own power, The Admiral liner Admiral Sebree, en route from Tacoma to San Fran. cinco with passengers and freight, | which lost a propeller 150 miles} north of San Francisco. Sunday was brought into this port rtly after 6 o'clock this -morn-| Sunland, sh ing The tugs Equator and jWent ashore at 2 a. m. Astoria, Ore. | corporation of Dollie C) today near Reports to the radio Amer at 4a. mj} aid the Dollie had been floated, | |but that the Equator was in four] | feet of water and her fate in doubt Ihe tug Tuscarora has been sent | from Astoria to render assistance, | Expect to Float | Grounded Vessel | VICTORIA, B.C, 10, 0) Oct. |my dears, and see my preserves.””|ine ¢riky fvver to the lusiBlous i doe: » he jeargo of coal ts bein, tinted Or a ae sre utternovns apant| imousine, wére there Tuesday Wiel from tho mleamer Redondo, ashore a for long, hot afternoons spt transferring their precious purctinges | S over the range, In the shining and y Li in Lama Passage, with the expec \colorful array of labeled | 4 edonde ha. Oe e [bottles adorning the colar shelves ai aay, father has to fetch Mia} Doe, Redondo has been leaking) ickles, the jellies, the |xince she went aground: yesterday, | |the crocks of pickles, th % Mel fruit home under cover of datk'| hut the crew ha ams She has lovely blue eyes ana | from train to machine—and dombt-| Jars 4nd) iege because mother drives thet@ar tation of floating the vessel today. been able to con- Why Not Make KNOC lt Permanent? (EDITORIAL) YE 5 0 “probe” S, the county officials are now going to the roadhouses. But why was it necessary to,wait until a gin- soaked girl had wantonly killed a citizen? Until she had brought tragedy and scandal upon the community? It’s only a week or two ago since the mayor publicly charged that the roadhouses outside the city limits were being run in a “wide-open” manner. “probing,” Then the county officials, instead of only whitewashed the whole situa- tion, as the mayor did the city vice-bootleg-gam- bling situation upon being similarly attacked. But everybody knew all the time the road- houses were running wild. And any motorist who has driven a paved highway has observed how new roadhouses are going up in every direc- tion, not by ones and twos, but by half-dozens! WHY IS IT THAT NOTHING UNDER A MURDER WILL STIR AN OFFICIAL TO DUTY? If the “probe” that is now talked of be made a real clean-up of an admittedly rotten ¢ondi- tion, AND BE. MADE PERMAN: be shocked on future of. more gin-inspired 1 , we won't nday mornings by news But if the pa Belt Bi official alibi performances, all will be as i as ever in the moonshine resorts along the high- ways within another soaked girls -will be soaked men. week, and, more gin- | ¥ing.« assassinating more gin- Mayor Attacks Douglas on Roadhouse Shooting ‘Brown Declares Prosecutor: Builds Defense; Manslaughter Charged BY JOHN W, NELSON While Mayor Brown was de- ploring the failure of the city council to appropriate $1,000 for the purpose of investigating al- leged vice in the roadhouses of King county, Prosecuting At- torney Malcolm Douglas was maintaining a strict silence on his anti-vice crusade outside the city limits of Seattle. Brown openly charged Douglas with introducing a defense for Winnifred. Gibbons, the 19-y man-killer, who shot and mortally wounded Harry T, Lacelle, Seattie advertising man, at The Grove road: {house early Sunday morning. A charge of manslaughter was filed In| superior court Tuesday by Douglas against the girl “There was no mistake made at The Grove roadhoure last Sunday morning,” Mayor Brown said, “I think that woman went out there and Killed the man she was looking for, In my opinion it is a clear case of | TRUCK DRIVER BEING SOUGHT Mysteriously. ‘ ‘Disappeared | plump. ness; at least he does, anyhow trol the water with the pumps, Last Saturday auburn hair, Yen, of course, we'll| ,, But what of father pad HI er |. Barrels are scarce, foo. Hardwood — Mrs. Lewis' family is| ‘Preserves ovens és rels are as hard to find pa . : BY LELAND “HAN UM | grown, [20x bon crept alowly but surely UP| choice antiques, Dsiven to deapem | Mistake Results in | tng hievmva tie tote re ——_—$—_—__ -—— |through the ages: “| tion, many ar hasing the low. t jcelpts and 0 e | | self on m level with the lordly male—| 1.0% 10 taicadebline eo, ak Loss of Clothing a ase ae within ‘ leas Cruse’ Wife so surely has the saw of equality io the meliowing contents necure.| While Sam Batow wax.abvent ¢rom ( Is Granted Divorce) |where now he, too, haw his doubtful [ern films, ax related by his wife on | in the witness stand, earned her a dl-| |heen at work—even unto the point ‘age the flourishing shops of the Seattle men of all Geseriptions, while | devoting thelr Sundays to viewing | day, the land.ady rented his room to} ‘s becaune you need a lawyer to| LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 10—|momenta over the bubbling stew. facenic delightap ba eniae bh keandanothér: ian ‘by. iilstake. cha, told pbtain @ divorce | Apnerted, “wild “west” tacticn of | pote—hin subsoquont anxietion as (0) 06 1, lesward in thé! hone of plck-| police. When he roturne!, the other} $8.9 [James Cfize, noted director of West. | how his ‘winter delights’ are work: |i) 1, 1 ego two, wuited for the/ fellow hind decimpol with Butow'n noble purpoxe to which It war dedi. | cated. hin room ot the Delmar hotel, Tues: | clothing, shoes and razor, leaving an old threadbare suit in its place, } fhe climbed to auccenn vorce, $175 a week allmony and cus. | bottlers’ supplies—and try to buy % pin 9b i | By means of @ dress Lert ineet Src Stee el ceroad Mabeeis leven ead ieewn| DARD SATISFIED That the censors mistook for a) ‘The wife alleged that Cruze, who|tipon rows of shelves, stocked from | WITH DARK NER | acar lrecently directed “The Covered |floor to ceiling with ‘‘the makin's A hint of fro t I in the alr—tho) age | Waxon,” administered her a brutal Bottles, eappers, malt, barley, gela:|punkin’ ripens 'midit the corn’! Seattle Investments You trugt most of these/beating in public, knocking out u | tine—store rooma stacked high with }stalks. « Pategoric ty hard: to et, honogr reéordsa. They're two-| tooth wicks of sugar—boles of hops, al-)and baby's stummy-aehe must be! | vonight’s Want Ad columns pre faced. most entifely Puya.lup grown, rows} provided for, Many on “kick” 0) } 9) with “business opportun (urn to Vase 9, Column 2 wchdole wid volleyes, ty Wnationallty! Maraighted Luslians he Hho! ity | \ seth ee ‘ of copper boilers, copper stock-pots | brewing in the back Kitchens, Ob-|} ties offered by the deal wid CANDIDATY vor “He poison | Professor Vickner ranging from “tamily”’ wae to large| verve the fewtive tala raising Ned.\1 gneviatize in (hee properties VY CLUn * ough to take a bath in--xtrangely| Not alone doen the fearsome raxy The girl whe knows baw to | Writes Textbooks yeminixcent of some of the stills tlof the burgidr’ timmy draw Dad | 1¢ you are thinking ef investine at enrhimter ar trooir a Prof. B. J. Viekner of the Bean. | saw in the eeunty booze vaultel from bis. midnight slumbers—most | in uw going busives ef any sort a bot can't deen a | dnavinh, deper'ment of the state! Down on’ Wearern ave. grapes are} any old “pep will wend him daeh- | sued to the Want Ad) columns rele af socks, 1 y af spent the summer in acorce at test, indeed wine—or | ing se aoe ells i" Me Now “ee Minngffpolig and Southern Minne: jrvather, if you please, © “juice” rescue, | Dad ts modest withal, 'e ‘ A mode! huchord tone who iw aa! sota Melting a new Awedish gram: |prepes cannof be purchased at crabs not at mother over tho el | Crow With Seattle | Meo te hin wife in private an he ia! marfand Wivtory of Bepndinavien thru the jobbers, No, sree, not}iar wbelf epnce; the darker-—the i in putt Vteybiune to he umed ia Americun /while Gul-eppe and Angelo know! more. aloof hid ornor, the better | block of the datry offices, 1982 Ninth aye., Calvin Bruce, $3, mysteriously dropped from sight Saturday after. noon, leaving a wife and two small children destitute, Friends of Mra, Bruce, who resides at 4411 B, Roy st., feared suicide tho no cause for auch an act can be attributed, Police }were notified of the disappearance | early Wednesday morning and began a search Dropping out of the ken of men, without enemies 40 far as known and without more than a few dollars at most, Hruce, who has resided in Seattle most of his life, apparently deserted his auto and walked out of existence, He was a trusted employe | of the dairy and atthe Pacific dairy where he was formerly employed The car, With the reqeipts from his jday's deliveries, was discovered me time after his disappearance and gave no sign of foul play, accord: ing to Prank Thompson, of ‘the Pas cific dairy, who reported the occur: rence, -old | a jiff Archie Hutehinson, niurder in’ the first degree. I think her defense should be of- fered by someone else than the . Prosecuting | attorney. “These | cases of insanity developing a few minutes before or a few hours “after” murders are old stuff.” DOUGLAS REFUSED TO RELEASE REPORT Douglas refused to release the ré- Port’ of -alienists onthe sanity of || Miss Gibbons, other than to. an nounce that it warranted his filing 4 criminal charge against the girl, “It is quite unlikely I wontd charge an.insane person with mur- der,” he said, Miss Gibbons will before Superior Judge. Everett E. Smith next Friday, Her attorney, John F. Dore, said’ that he has not decided whether to enter a plea at that time or ask for additional time to plead, DOUGLAS NOT TO WORK WITH JURY Douglas refused to make any statement of, his intentions with regard to his vice crusade outside the city limits of Seattle, other than to Intimate that any action he is taking will not be thru the county grand jury, which will meet next month, “IT have never authorized any statements that I was gathering evidence for the ‘consideration of the grand jury," Douglas :aid, Douglas intimated that’ he is con- sidering filing charges direct with- out recourse to grand jury revision. Asked whether he is conducting an investigation of alleged rampant vice and drinking in King county's roadhouses, Douglas said: “I have absolutely nothing to ray at. this time. There is no use in talking, 1 speak for themselves,” Sheriff Starwich, who has the dutyvof regulating roadhouses out- side the limits of the city of Seat- tle, is in Eastern Wa hington on a criminal case, it was announced at his office Tuesday. Undersher- who is in charge of the office during the ab- ~once of the sheriff, said that he did not know just when Starwich would return, 3 Billion Marks Worth One Dollar LONDON, Oct. 10-—At 4:80 this afternoon the German mark was quoted at, 16,000,000,000 to the pound sterling (considerably more than [three billion to the dollar). belleve actions should » i HOME EDITION Il HOMER! Outfielder Breaké Up Tie Score in Ninth Frame With Long Clout YANKEE STADIUM, NEW YORK, Oct. 10. ‘home run to the left field wall ine the ninth inning with two men” out Casey Stengel, veteran out fielder, broke up the first game > of the world’s series. the Giants beating the Yankees, 5 to 4, By Henry L. Farrell - (United Press Staff Co rn YANKEE STADIUM, New:y York, Oct, 10—Scoring four runs in a batting barrage in oe A time, the pe great vie Yanks* afternoon in game of what hax “become N York'sannual World ‘series, ‘With as bright, warm sun the bite’ out’ of’ a. slight breeze hardly” ruffied” the” nat and the ‘American’ league, p on the lowering. center /pole,: weather conditions The.‘four , umpires, led by. Eyans,” the American league arbiter, came’ on = field at. ‘and ordered . all’: "| leave. They, left: a the. of the two ‘teams were | “| the plate to, hear the ) There’ were some empty fhe upper ‘stands -just’ b game started. (The ble: sacked and most’ of the There, as be arraigned | Meu run, one (hi pa errors. SECOND INNING Glente—Yo} ing Went out Du to Me feusel fouled Ste filed to Rath. No: hi eC errors. 5 s Yanks—Ward singled 3 Schang singled to center, stopping: at second.’ Scott. was tagged out on he Kelly. Ward and RY | and Hoyt ‘fanned. sored when ivitt singled to © Dugan on to Kelly, ino errors, Tease bey Lak ea wa " ent ley, Nm Wa on. fand Mag if i ntley: ant *olding reaching second, Rentle; second. Groh Nt over first Maguire and: Bancrot ined when the hail got by Rut me was acored as a three-base hit. Ry | yes, taken ou id J | A hen Frisch base. Young forced Frisch Scott to Wi nd as sal a ton rrisch: Frlach ty tne sah Giants’ Player Is : Dying in Hospita NEW YORK, Oct, 10,+Hay of the New York Giants as went into the world's series with ¢ Yanks today was dampened ports from the Lutheran. hos that Ralph Shinners, substitute 61 fielder, was not expected to live thru the da Shinners is critically. ib, phold-influenza and it was”, the hospital this morning: only a Apa tng by agus