The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 2, 1923, Page 1

2 TEXANS KIDNAPED! ) One Victim Handcuffed to Tree and Hogged All = Md OL. The N I lewapaper With the ataeat Cireulation in Washington ~The SeattleSta Temperature een ut r Riis" se ay ered a Becond Clase Matter May 2, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattls, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Tear, by Mall, $3.59 25. NO. 215. SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1923, TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE TANKER RAMS | ‘UPRENERS A © y Girl Dies at Howdy, folks! Only 20 moro hours to payday. Stomach, can you hold out that long? A mail plane was stolen from Mad- fson park the other night. It will soon be necessary to keep Sirplanes picketed in the air. see It's difficult to catch alrplane thieves. They can always hide be- je hind a cloud. see “Where do you bank?” we asked| Vic Meyers, the orchestra leader, yesterday. “The Dime Savings Bank,” he re- piled. “I'm the guy that put the dime there.” | a FILM-FLAM “In filming the thrilling climax of Old New « York,” in which | Marion Davies suf-! fers a severe beat- ing at the hands) of a brute flogger (Louis _ Walheim), | Miss Davies res| fused to let. an un- derstudy go on for her, but took the blows herself. —Press agent item. Portland ctharicias decree un-| draped statue on building must be | Temoved. Down there, they won't even let contractors construct build- | ings out of undressed lumber. U1 Gee Gee says that chickens are | the most useful animals in the world. | They can be eaten before they are born and after they are dead, | ee OH, ALL WRITE! Seattle girl tried to commit sul- cide by drinking green Ink. And G. M. K. says the doctor saved her life by feeding her blotting paper. eae Next to a guy who js so unim- portant that he is not even asked to/ sign petitions, the most insignificant man in the world is a baseball player | in the football season. a ee A sure sign that you are intox!- cated is when you commence to drop nickels down the slot of the Madison | cable car and then get mad because | @ car doesn’t come long. | was disgusted at the }of Biloxi, | party decided to stop a few minutes at} | the “This old fakir was working on | King Tut's body will be subjected | to Xray examination immediately | after it is exhumed, it is announced. | Yes, and we bet they'll find that| he ought to have his tonsils out, o- HELPFUL HINT Head of expedition which dis- covered 10,000,000-year-old dino- saur eggs arrived in Seattle last night. If he is hungry, we know a restaurant where he can get some ham to go with those eggs. eee “I am sure that university girls are dressing sensibly and modestly, considering the climate and the kind of life they lead."—Dean Haggett. Ah, yes! The life they lead! snick- ers a college cynic. $ ary “Seattle has a fleet of checkered cabs. The reason they're checkered | 16 so that when a driver has a break- down he can always amuse himself | by playing checkers on the side of the cab, y soe Nationwide movement to fight il. Iiteracy is on. Good idea. very citizen of the United States should be able to read and write. It'll help ‘em enjoy the movies. , “ee YE DIARY (November 1) This evening, being in @ humor of making all things even and clear In the world, I tore up some old papers; among others, » poem whieh, (under the title of “fo There, Sweet Love”) I begun ten years ago at college; and reading it over tonight, I was suddenly seized with on nente nausen, and became very wlck, and thought 1 wiuld die, But after a while better again. Ani so to bed, + University Wreshmen he ed their class numerals, the campus water tower, ‘This {6 what is known as “higher mathematics.” (et ie It’s all over but the wedding bella| when she says; eae, “Why, daring, 1 never DRBAM- BD you cared about me in THIS way!” A. J, 8. | old {Then he Present as Death) Scene Is Enacted A little girl died Thursday afternoon at the Brother | Teaiah tent at Kirkland where she had been taken for treat- ment, A Seattle minister wit- nessed the scene. He calls Isaiah a fakir and says he er’s” “superstitious ceremon- i ’ The girl’s mother said: “It was too late; Brother Isaiah did all he could. as By Leland isan “T'll never get that mental picture out of my mind. To me it was thy Leoet awful sight I could have {dreamed of, + poor, young girl, handsome in life, her white face j upturned to the drizzling, lowering sky—a morbid,- motley crowd of curfous people hovering over her stiffening form—and that old fakir, Brother {saiah, rubbing her. face and body with his oi] in weird tn- Jeantations, while she lay dying, without aid other than that drend- ful ceremony, worse than useless.” Thus did Dr. A. E. Fletcher, pas- tor of the First Methodist Protestant church, Capitol Hill, Friday describe the death of pretty little Miss Nora Selfors, 18, a deaf mute, at the Kirkland auto park Thursday after. noon, where she had been: taken to jreceive treatments from Brother |Isaiahs, self-proclaimed “faith healer” Miss, He described the scene which he witnessed, he sald, when the auto with which he was riding “miracle man's" huge tent. a large woman on the platform when two girls rushed in crying to him to con; that a girl was dying outside. I was at tho side of the tent and got to the sorrowful scene |before this Isaiah did. A crowd quickly gathered. | SAYS SCENE WAS “I was disgusted at the manipula- jtions exercised by the old man on that woman, but I was sickened when I saw how he strove to ‘heal’ that dead girl. The woman on the platform was receiving a treatment —for I don't know what—and that white-learded, fatherly-looking fellow poured off on her back and breasts and then reached under her clothing and rubbed her body, removed her shoes and stockings and anointed and rubbed er fect. It was the most disgust. bition I have ever seen, “But that scene out under the trees in that park. Ough!" shuddered, “it was awful! “Of coure Isaiah came rushing} @ contrast of the two methods of transportation used in the work, Who| camel. Andrews is also a big game hunter of world repute, and he is shown in No, | the | side of two big mountain goats that he killed in the Alti mountains. Proof of Evolution Lies | in China, Says Andrews out with his two assistants. are those young girls he has with; him? Young giggling things! (Told | that they were the “healer’s” aids, he continued.) Well they grouped] about a pienic table on which the girl had been placed. The crowd poured from the tent and crushed (Turn to Page 10, Column 6) VICTIM Nora Selfors, 18-year- oft girl, who died at the Brother Isaiah tent at Kirkland Thursday ‘heal-| | } conceived the GIRL'S MOTHER NOT RESENTFUL Says “Healer” Did All He} Could to Help Child BY JOIN W. NELSON For 15 of the 18 years of her life Nora Selfors, daughter of Mr. and Peter Selfors, 2231 W. 62nd st, suffered from & malignant mal- | srs. had ady that at times gripped her frail body with the fury of demons, and made of her @ plaything for {ts |whime, Because of it the sanguine Hlife that opens to the young was} Walled off behind a shroud of doubt jand pain, And then there came into he A great hope, that gradually & great faith. Stories —strangd | belidyable stories in. this |world-of marvelous cures that were | | performed for the sick and affiteted, | came from Kirkland, where al |"Brother Isaiah,” a self-styled faith | healer, held meetings and dispensed | succor and simple philosophy to mul tituce © heard of these stories with a light of gladnews shining in her life ame un modorn | ( eyes, Bhe seanned every paper that (Turn to Page 10, Column 5) Isaiah’s Tent; “Healer” Scored, Defended Proof of the world’s theory of evolution will come from the sandy wastes of the Gobi ng—the most vulgar public exhi-|desert, according to Roy Chapman Andrews (No, 2) who Thursday night returned to | Seattle from a two-year expedition in China, idea of the expedition and accompanied. Andrews. ng | their Mongol attendants used by Andrews’ expedition is shown in No. 3, and in No, 4 is Famous Archeologist Finds First) Dinosaur Eggs Ever Discovered BY FIELDING LEMMON Out of the wilds of the Gobi des: ert, a barren waste in the interior of Mobgolia, will come the sclentifle proof or disproof of the world's the ories on the evolution of man. And, together with this informa tion, Will come the verification of the history of the world from the age of the earliest dinowaur and other priceloss selentific data that will “wurpass even the wildest dreams of the sclentint,” according 10 Roy thapmun Andrews, world famous archoologiat, Who Thursday night re turned to Seattle from a two years expedition in China, and Friday left for New York city. In the two years that Andrews hoa boen exploring in Mongolia ho has unearthed information that Is Himitions in ite seope and which has gone farther towards filling In the “‘miesing Hints! of the chain of the world's history than anything that Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborne (No. 1) Bowof 8.C.T. Dodd Is Torn Away in| Crash; Armored Plates Ripped LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2. tanker 8. C,.T. Dodd crashed into the battleship New Mexico during jthe night, }the tanker and ripping the heavy jarmor plate of the dreadnaught. The Dodd reached anchorage safe ly by use of collision mats. —The huge Damage 000 Several plates on the New Mex |!co’s bow were smashed and damage | will total about $3,000, | The accident happened at the pemonth of the harbor at San Pedro. eee |Steamer Elizabeth | Crashes; 22 Saved | BANDON, Ore, Nov. 2.—The steamer Elizabeth, which struck on | the north jetty here last night, was floated at 8 o'clock this morning ond is being beld in port here, | awaiting Instructions from the own- | ern in San Francisco, The steamer jlost a rudder and ts leaking, but by Instaliation» of another pump, | may be towed to San.Francisco for | repairs, The fireroom ts free of } water, Nineteen members of the crew and three passengera were aboard the vessel, all of whom were saffly taken off. The Elizabeth is a ship of 363 tons, engaged in the coasting trade. of San Francisco. oe Cutter Racing to Aid Helpless Ship Following a report from the Jap- anese steamship Shinkiku Maru that her tail shaft had broken and she the U. 8, revenue cutter Algonquin, located off the Alaska coast, was ship, according to wireless reports eee Wreckage Washed Ashore on Island VICTORIA, B, C., Nov. 2.—Dis- patehes from Bamfield creek, on the | west coast of Vancouver island, re- ported finding of wreckage washed ashore near the Indian village of Clo-Oose. A quantity of boxed ap. ples, electric light bulbs and a large ship's spar have come ashore, ac- cording to telegrams from the cable station, There were no identifying marks on any of the flotsam. | Clo-Oose is near Carmanah Point light, north of the entrance to Juan de Fuca straits, in the locality known to mariners as “the graveyard of the Pacific.” tearing away the bow of| to the tanker was estimated at $100,-| Sho ja owned by E. & E. P. Kruze, | was drifting helplessly in the Pacific, | | which the supreme court acts. dispatched to the aid of the disabled | received at the Seattle harbor radio. | DREADNAUGHT BIG ISSUE IN ATSAN PEDRO. NEXT SESSION Curbing of Court Certain to Come| Up for Action by) Congress Lowell Mellett, of The Star's Washington, D. C., staff, has Just completed an extensive study of the U. 8. supreme court, In a series of nine arti- cles, already published, he re- viewed the history of that in- stitution’s rise to dominance, In this final summary he tells how the curbing of its arbi- trary powers is certain to be come at once @ red-hot issue— Editor, By Lowell Mellett At no time in American history, | perhaps, has there been such a wide. spread study of the problem of the supreme court as now, There have been, of course, times of fiercer resentment and louder out- cry against the court's arbitrary overruling of the people's purposes. When, by the Dred Scott decision, the supreme court set up the strange doctrines that the people by legisla- tion could not control slavery, four years of clyfl war resulted. When, by the legal tender decision, the court held that the currency authorized by congress, while good enough for the soldiers fighting the country’s battles, was not: good enough for the bankers who were fl- nancing those battles at considerable profit to themselyes, the people were again greatly aroused, They cheered congress. for chang- ing the number of judges and Presi- dent Grant for appointing two new members who, it was known In ad- vance, would join in reversing the court's decision. When, by the In- | come tax decision, the court held, in effect, that there are some incomes in this country too large to be touch- ed by taxation, the people patiently set about amending the constitution so the supreme court could not pos- sibly misinterpret it on that point. GETTING AT THE ROUT OF THE TROUBLE But the resentment of the public tn the cases cited was directely largely against the members of the supreme court. It was not directed so clearly as now against the theory under The people have begun to un- derstand that to obtain insur- ance against the court's abuse of power, they must wipe out this theory. A reason for this may be found in | the fact that in recent years the ten- dency of the court has been to use (Turn to Page 10, Column 6) Ezra Meeker Still in Weak Condition Only slight improvement could he noticed Thursday night and Friday in the condition of Ezra Meeker, 93, pioneer and Oregon Trail blazer, who is {ll with throat and bronchial affec- tion at the home of his grandson ana physician, Dr. C. L. Templeton, 2501 Cascadia ave. Meeker, who has been ill for more than two weeks, is stil) in a serious condition, Mrs. Temple- ton said. Two of the camels and the and the 5 ot auto were built? did it.) wonder why? any other single man has ever dis: covered, | Andrews, with — Prof, Henry Fairchild Osborne, head of the American Museum of Natural His: tory, and the man who 28 years ago | predicted that in China would be} found “the Paleantological Garden of | Hden," have returned to America to finance five more years of work in! the field wh he has opened up. | BRINGS K¢ or DESERT DINOSAUR With him, carefully packed and under bond, Andrews brought the 26 dinosaur eggs that he found inp rock formation In the desert—the |} first ond only dinosaur eggs over! discovered by modern man—and the bones and skulle of prodhistorie ant mals that were found in the vielnity of the rock egm next, "Our diseovertos bre of such a na: (Turn to Page 10, Column 2) together tana, Paul Bunyan Didn’t Build Our Mountains, but Just the Same It’s a Tale Worth Your Time 0 you know how the Olympics and the Cascades (Maybe you think Paul Bunyan Did you ever notice that the Columbia is the only river in Washington or Oregon to flow from the in- terior westward thru the mountains to the sea—and Know the life history of Puget Sound? Or of Rainier, the other volcanoes, and of the great lava plains of the Inland Empire? Answers to these and other fascinating questions ||» have been collected by The Star into a series of inter- || esting articles which bring together for the first time in popular form the geological history of Washington. They have been written by H, M, Sayre, a geology graduate of the Ohio State University. Webb of that institution, he made explorations in 1921 of the great wilderness lying between Lake Superior and Hudson Bay, and in 1922, with Prof. Hills, of Vas- sar, mapped the glaciation of the Bitter Roots in Mon- He is now living in Seattle, where he has been studying the interesting geology of this state. The Star advises its readers to clip his articles, which will appear about two a week for the coming month, for reference, and especially we commend them to the use of geography students in the schools. ‘The first: appears today on page 6. With Prof. BRUTAL ATTACK BY MOB Helpless | Man Is. Stripped, Beaten | | | With Strap | Ordered to Flee DALLAS, Texa: Ku Klux Klan today that any meme) bers of that organization vertices jin the kidnaping af Joe Ws jand Loren Johnson from thelr room” |ing house here last night. | Judge Van Winkle, exalted eye clops of the Klan, said that th | organization had nothing to do jthe flogging, the first reported im the Southwest since the open fare on the K. K. K. was started in Oklahoma by Gov. J. C, Walto A sweeping investigation ordered by the police of the flo ging, and Sheriff Cox offered a ward of $100 for arrest and ¢ tion of members of the party. iff Dan Harston offered . "$200 ward, The whippers gave W' til 2 p. m. today to leave Westbrook was stripped, fh cuffed to a tree and beaten heavy strap while Johnson Johnsen, who his rooming ‘house, from two'mén were abducted, said not been flogged, ‘ but- had — been warned not ed , Westbrook. Westbrook's back. was a welts and he was suffering He sa!4 his kidpapers 4 failure to" support his — with whom he Is not eed ee beating another woman. ‘ both accusations. He told of the whippers were ti home of Mrs, Pauline rooms with Johnson, when turned home. said, they were seized, and placed in an autot there were at least four othe The auto sped away to bottoms just west of the clty. tinuing hie story, Westbrook “They stripped me of my and handcuffed my arms a large tree. They struck mo heavy leather strap many They choked me when T. sere with pain, I think they took beating me,” Westbrook said. they finally quit I was so couldn't talk for several min Westbrook was unbound tree and ordered not to move his assailants had left. He sald he walked 12 blocks th cold rain toa car line an home. WALTON FIGHTS IMPEACHME Endeavors to Prevent 0 : Vote by Senate — BY S. A. BARKER (United Press Staff Corresp OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, —Bitter debate on the demat attorneys for Governor J. C, ton that the most serious tmp ment charges against tho tive be dissolved, marked t session of the Oklahoma state ser ate. Attorneys took up the demu filed to the chief indictments Walton's behalf, point by point indications were that would continue thruout the Agreement was reached to Walton's advisers all the time h desired to debate the issues 4 volved. ‘Walton supporters had little, Or that the maneuvers would chan the attitude of the senate, ») |shown in the preliminary Aggressive moves désigned to case of the governor, whose remo is sought after a stormy admin tion of nine months, were with only one or two suppo votes, The governor personally app as confident as ever uhd clun his determination to’ stay: ine fight until the finish. vay FOUR BANDIT STEAL, $25,0 OTTAWA, Kan, Nov, andits held up the First bank here todey and | escap $25,000 in cash, ane SORE qe ies 10 of the bank to lo 0 they ein} vie Nov. 2—Denial = was issued by high officials of the =