The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 9, 1923, Page 1

¢ *S dorous enough, bi WEATHER Fair tonight prodadly fog winds, mostly easterly. ‘Temperature Maximum, 50, Today and Saturday; in a.m, Gentle Last 24 Hours Minimum, 40, noon, 42, The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington Entered an Second Class Matter May 3, At tho Postottice t Beattie, Wash., under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $3.60 The SeattleStar | s! UM sports| thede hunters who slaughter wild ducks from airplanes with repeating shotguns. “Washington wants no more of them. The mere fact that a justice court at South Bend failed to convict S. T. Brewster, a hotel man there, should not discourage the out the practice. authorities from stamping Brewster’s acquittal came, The Star is informed, when the state could not prove that the ducks which were killed and left dead and crippled in the swamps, were slain by Brewster from the airplane, His comrades on this blood-spilling expedition were J. J. Davis, Tia Juana race track man, and Jack Clement, aviator. These fugitives in The Star they w two are now reported as The South Bend prosecutor tells be tried if they can be brought before the Pacific county court. They ought to be. Using airplanes to chase the fast-vanishing remnant of our wild water fowl into oblivion is not sports- manship. Home Brew Howdy, folks! And how are all of you? Goood! see Wonder what a bride thinks when she finds she can't produce ham and eggs with a can-opener? eee Seattle man inherits $150,000, Hooray! That will be just enough for coal for thé winter! see Hollywood director says a movie star’s wardrobe should include at Teast 50 suits. Including a divorce sult? . . HERE, PU: HERE, PUSS! The Tacoma Cat club will hold its annual show December 6, it is an- nounced. We're going to enter Li'l Gee Gee. een Another entry that we'd like to make is the “kitty” that was out at Jawn Nelson's house last night. eee Seattle also has several cat clubs only they don’t call ’em that. see ‘ President Coolidge is given to wild outbursts of silence. He {s so op. posed to noise that it {s rumored a law will be passed in Washington prohibiting Potomac clams from making s0 much racket, ° It will soon ise time for posts to start writing their spring lyrics. eee The reopening of King Tut's tomb has been postponed on account of labor trouble. No doubt, the Tomb-Openers’ union is demanding higher wages. * ae ‘There’s no use talking, football ts a wonderful sport. How could’ we build stadiums without it? . uaech GEE GEE, | VAMP, S | When a man bi | cotton stockings, th’ | “For your wife, sir?” When he buys a pair of silig ones, the | clerk says, “Shali £ put them in | a gift box, alr?” clerk says, . Today's Fable there wa viewed by used to be Ones upon a time a man who, when inter. porter didn't spaperman mys Secretary Mellon has a German po: lice dog that smokes cigarets. But that’s nothing. Seattle has chickens that smoke cigaret. YE DIARY (November 8) This evening at « fe was but a short drive trom Kirki and the conch did rattle along thru the fog, and the judge did say, “We'll soon lid drive some more, icker, and the hours did pase, and the 5 cougin.of minutes more, gen tors did drop off my right foot, » the night grew colder, and by and by we passe’ Ellensburg, and my left ear did Wrenk off and fall tinkling to the road, and more hours passed Judge did say, “We're almost ti by and by we pamed Boise, I the fog grew thicker, and ju were about to enter the city Butte, we reached Lake Sam A. d York man 1s still trying to form a “white collar” union, Telwit him! Our latnd high enough now! President Cooll that he death when he had th Is so quiet it mortified to hiccoughs. is mala Stokes Iman D isn’t in the as 8 He yacht ame never had the Mode Father again Son 4 upon ws Father and Ho Ir from us shooting n to Page 9, Column 4) It is brutishness. WALTON AIDE of Governor’s Men, He Says OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. Nov. 9.—Aldrich Blake, closest adviser to J. ©, Walton during the suspended governor's fight with the Ku Klux Klan, gave | damaging testimony against his former chief In the executive's impeachment trial today. While “Gov. Jack” jarm, Blake told of the employment of men for the governor's personal | se riments of the state. aid he knew of five men yrolls who gave their to personal service for Wal arious di } Blake on the sta! | time ton. | Blake went into alleged hiring of Jemployes in various depart ments, who had little work to do, He said that on one oct ision he “fired” es of the state artment whea (he gov. absent from the city. Res ef clerk waid he only had | work enough for one-third of ht employes,” Blake said. Blake also told of J. being on the state payro “Harper's chet duties were to act te W. Harper coming * the friends of the gover itness said 1 he knew paid from by the Denn: joner, find was that several men were the ated Fre comm. propri catch Kk slature to missin but not the Mrs, Walton smilin, and chatted to acqu ne ntances closest at of hi he governor gave to the teatimony ubordinates. ed and spurred cowboy Hon” perched on their rowd the galler hionably gowned dence, senate former with fi the the floor, was woman her red velvet hat gave a te to the otherwise sombre Mrs. and ich. of sur on: was cross-examined, enport, health com under Walton, took the His testimony was ith the payment alleged to have private chauf misstoner witness stand. covernor’ the state. been the feur, by Move Right In Here 1 that being bu: another bargain red to the home columr elling this property State Paid Wages! sat smoking | }his corncob pipe, with Mra. Walton | sitting cloesly, holding tightly to his | , Who were on the payroll of | fund ap-| state | DIVORCEE NOW ‘PACES BATTLE “WITH POVERTY Mrs. Burckhardt Says Ex-Husband| Has Not Paid Her) His Alimony By John W Bound by chains of poverty that chafo her vory soul, beau- tiful Louise Burckhardt, divorced wife of Frederick Otte Burek- hardt, the ex-millionaire can neryman, Is beating her heart out against the bars of her enforeed confinement In her” onceelegant Queen Anne hill home. Hounded by bilt collectors, haunt: ed by the spectre of poverty which | hovers over the pretty dwelling, Jand grieved at the snubs of former | friends, Mrs, Burckhardt Friday de- | jclared that her former husband has | jdriven her to the end of her rope| the | by neglecting pay $160) | monthly alimony and support money | }awnrded her at the conclusion of | a1 divorce trial. During an interview, Mra, Burck- harat frequently paused to wipe tears from her eyes as she told of | the sorrows her 10-year-old son suf. | fers at the hands of former play-) mates who now snub him. | ad T WOOD FIRE BURNED ON HEARTH |. ‘The toure, located at 1802 Fourth aye, W.,is a home-like, two-ntory | jstructure, set in a well-kept shrub: bery-bordered lawn, But it is sadly }in need of paint, both Inside and | outside. A bright wood fire burned in the large fireplace and dispelled }the ctrl of the handsomely furnish- ed living room. | "I called his office and they re. }funed to talk to me," she sald. “But we must have coal—everything ts vered C. O. D., and $150 is not much mone: to main mn a home ka, this, The Nill collectors hound jme'to pay bills that the court or. dered him to pe months ago. “While he e lives at a hotel and sends powers bt the dozen to his frien the friends that have taken | iny place in his heart. Why, only the other day the Burekhardts reor ganized and recapitalized at $4,000,- 000. When him 21 years ago he onl everything a [her nensatio: hardt js bitter against e laws, which she says have dd her of her rightful share he community wealth of the fam: She in deeply interested in a proposed state law being fostered by | Seattle women to more equitably di-| vide community property, sho sald “to protect other may some day be placed in my position.” “| (Turn to Page 9, Column 1) | | | (GRIEVING MAN S ENDS HIS LIFE Grief over the death of his wife ears ago caused Frank Bur 40 r, to commit sul / night in His roo nen Ww BY LELAND HANNUM ATTLE'E waterfront and Ric! 8. Second ave. "Cappy Dollar, pioneer Pac and shipping ma two the famous character cr ated ain The Star | ppy Ricks,” or rather C ar, at 81, fw in Seattle with preparing fc to start Saturday, when ils on the President Jackson, of ental line for a section of his Chin tour of the rest of be ter's dead be wan found dled in bed, > the room mei: mornin, flow m two open jets on the Burm according to roomers, ha mo had been drink! pénding all his money chase liquor, When his body wa found he had not a cent’ in his| pocket and owed moncy for his room rent He ¥ employed by the Puget} Sound Sheet Metal Works end had jorously from out shaggy white worked for them one month, Woroner | his head surmounted Corson took charge of the| tutt been griey 1Or i eke’ ir and later ‘They will and daughter, Miss Dickson of San Francisco, Dorothy Sharp. Ricks’ s heay itp: to pur. | world ‘a and | chum, “Cappy incarnate brows, hair white snowy hinning 1 hort his be | fairly juttl fair-skinned chin. Youth Attacked by [humorous ana ni Coyote With Rabies O..) et spirited voic the BEND, Ore., Nov. 9.—Attacked by | the real proof that “Capp: a coyote sufferin ¢ from |alive, not alone in books Kenneth Edward of Fort Rock,| papers, but in real flesh wrestled with th und held | WALKS WITH TREAD it until his father with a{OF A YOUNG MAN club. Forest of the} Captain Dollar, her pleliharddcrcttr lg fear 4] ana lumber king erlou ot in Cen-|jeads the proc that nttitude Jelse, make jthrong of ay friends who accompanied him to Seattle office the TL. ¢ building Friday morning. " five ot in h real rable and ne 4 animal Killed it ervice men forest rabies veteran piteh jon, Perhaps which, mere than him stand out in ociates,, underiin outbreak tral Run Started on Bank in Wichita WICHITA, Kan Cli maxing failure of approximately 190 rs Hote lit etera ror in Kansa the last! o¢ ther apparently within of them who exuded hi pirit or physteal build ht, medium-built: form in Ne 9. party banka within , two year was at Fourth . run National bank here the block money. {jamming building and lin for a out their alive Hi the ending More than currenc as rushed cit ira 2 par wn paunch nor uftucted bh in lothful tread of other There ani checked depositors. |the panicky wis no “Mutt Peastey” the | ks" ¢ coast lumber | by Peter B. Kyne, appearing in a series ptain his round-the-werld he the five 1 offices the necompanied by Margaret her his light blue eyes twinkling hum: eye by “Cappy a ard ¢ out from a firm, broad, now indexes, Ricks" 1) the und his Smith not a one 20 years wasn't a much. either led ty and he exhib'ted no office nor the ’ nor SEATTLE, WASH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1923, 4 | subservient * but there was a “C; much in evidence (| Friday morning. It was Capt. Robert] lttie incident, related by Dollar, with a tw It jin a room fn. the | hotel. A light ing desk, bearded = man respondence joining—his door ‘and the pillow, she Is it, Robert “It's 5 o'clock I am yery busy “Father (this getting on wasafter 11 d’cloc | you went .to bed.” I'vo nev dation’ or “a re captain, it "becatise I one. Never ‘on can't have Tn wife you're we Come neve take never cause REST M WORK MBANS Here's a Ont In the British camps with the on the Seattle we longshoremen and corres back to pondence with by then a crut lar, who accomp: where, during wh cumnavigate the means work and to me," asesrt And that what Ricks” an of tery And jews burned where a snowy haired and bent raising alled, back to bed, telling umple , hy Here's Capt. Robert Dollar, veteran coast shipping and lumbering magnate, preparing in| Seattle for a’round-the-world business trip with his wife. tion character of “Cappy Ricks” says he’s too busy for a vacation and doesn't need a rest, janyway. And his appearance doesn't belie his assertion a bit either. At 81. this original for the fic-| administering an oath of loyalty to Original Cappy Ricks Visits Seattle —Vhoto » Price & Carter, Star Staft Photographers py Ricks And He’s Just as Snappy and Virile as) the Famous Fiction Character nner” in the party, very | And perhaps this inkle in his other: Fri New at a wri over the be it Captain | eye, ate and original of |demonatrates his characteristics and| habits as well as a was 6 o'clock morning Washington | vor- ad. turned toward the her head “What tir Mrs. Dollar emphatically)) banks, t Orso every Why tt Ik last yeb taken a it," remarked of the -inelde ave need from ne of his “rest Columbia lumbermen. rfront with wharf worke office with a and constant isiness a with Mrs, anies him ich, the will of But Ang glo! work m keeps une spirit vital day, is night when r Out the] pile in jociates. Dol every play| Kyne's fiction original isn't quite the traseible old by think optimistic charact ing and smile conversi and time most of the (Turn to P from the si a twinkle usiness tory eristic tion There’: to his be and there in bis But every » 9 Column 4) \ eye once | where head you'd n | an authority the world ove OVERALLS WERE ‘AID TO FORGER Swindler’s Work Crude, but Psychology Good BY SEABURN BROWN Because there is an expression of native honesty, in the overalls, din- ner pail and greasy hands of the Ameritan workingman that instant ly inspires confidence, forger whose technique that not one of the dozens of checks, to 1 total of more than $1,200, he has don Seattle business men dur the past month, * escaped de tection when presented at the gotten away” with his to date, according to in formation announced Friday by EB vard Ridgway, chief criminal inves. utor at the local office of the ndard Detective corporation, Mu- tual Life building “The is one of the that has come to my way sald, “In the a so crude swindlin, case strangest aha order, to from the nu Prous ¢ boolroom and butcher shop proprietors who have been vietimiz And yet, the fact that the check forged is so apparent to an experienced eye surptising that he had (Turn to Page 22, Column 7) that the |Famous Japanese Quake Expert Dies TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 9.—Dr. Fusa Omorl, famous authority on uakes and all forms of seismic disturbance, died here today, follow a breakdown resulting from the the Japanese earthquake und from overwork follow Uhat disaster Omori, who was ing Dr recognized . was well known in the United States, and par ticularly along the Pacific co he made extensive studie Pacific earthquake zone, of the “TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE BAVARIAN UPRISING Two Leaders Flee to Building March on Berlin Blows Up; Attack by Loyalists Results in Arrest BERLIN, Nov. 9—Gen. Eric Ludend and Adolph Hitler, leaders of the Bava putsch, in which they planned to start march upon Berlin, were captured by troops, who stormed the building in whieh they had taken refuge after the collapse of the mon- archist uprising. Hitler, according to the dispatch from’ “Munich, was wounded. . e This afternoon, the Munich message said, the com- mandant of the army sent an ultimatum to the build- ing in which Hitler and Ludendorff were barricaded; qd, demanding they surrender within an hour. : The monarchists refused. i= The commandant then ordered two battalions to storm the building and capture of the two chieftains followed. Von Poehner, one of the —— monarchist leaders, was ar- LLOYD GEORGE IN HOT FIG rested early in the day, an official statement announced, Greeted as Conquering on Return From Ai and deeiared that the at- tempted coup d’etat had end- ed in complete failure, the army remaining loyal to the BY WEBB MILLER (United Press Staff Co: SOUTHAMPTON, England, ‘Now, ~-Lloyd George jumped into the legal Bavarian government. Monarchists had seized power in dle of the British political battle be fore the White Star liner Bayaria during the night and had on which he returned from Am declared . Ludendorff dictator. A march on Berlin was planned, but was made fast to the dock today. In a general interview he later action of loyal troops upset the scheme and ended the revolt. ingly attacked Premier protection policy. Upon advices of the attempted coup, President Ebert immediately issued a proclamation to the nation declaring that all followers of | Ludendorff and Hitler would be considered traitors to the German reich. First advices to the ministry of de- fense today reported ‘Von Kahr, for mer premier of Bavaria, and a close Ifriend of Ludendorff, had declined | the offer of the Hitlerites to proclaim | him dictator of all Germany. Gen. Von Lossow, whose action in hesitatingly," he declared. After his short absence in he returned today to deliver a bro side that rivalled the blasts of Bis palmlest. days. BALDWIN’S |the state to the reichswebr under |POLICY CONDEMNED him when he refused to be recalled| ‘Baldwin's’ protection policy |by the central government, precipi-|°Ped while Lloyd George was a | tated the -breach between Bavaria | Baldwin proposes to put taritts” certain classes of | and the rest of Germatny, also refused from outside the British empire {te serve, it was said, let th ds fi eS Berlin remained ‘quiet early to-|/¢t those goods from the 4 arly to-lin at preferential rates. day. The cordon of t | te oe rout oops With) “premier Baldwin's’ tanks posted about government buildings were removed early In the|™ent 1s Incredible,"* said morning. Heavy armed green po-| S¢orse- lies were on duty. “It is unutterable folly and an: Mahy” shone’ ‘opens sult to the intelligence of the n business as ugual, to feed starving industries: with Hitler's move came at a meeting] Mildewed straw of last centut jin Munich, where Premier Von| “The policy 1s without a grail | Knilling and some other ministers] Statesmanship.” [of the Bavarian government were] WARMLY GREETED present ON HIS RETURN Hitler entered with his men and| » Lioyd'George semed to have amid cheers took over the meeting.|the sort of battle he has He announced he would march on|loved. Fresh from his invigo Berlin. |trip to America, rested by the He proclaimed Dr. Von Kahr na-| plete change from his long war i tional dictator, General Ludendorff) ties and peace efforts and feeling milltary commander, Von Lossow| after his sea trip, he was in fine minister of war, Von Zentner head) tle for an clection fight. ‘ of the federal police, while he him-|' He was warmly greeted by former relf was to be director of national] members of his cabinet, ‘Thomas polley. MacNamara and Sir Alfred Mond, aa” Hilter then drew further wild ap-|weli as the former chief whip plause when he announced’ the|Lioyd George's coalition partys. Charles A. McCurdy. ; Park Board Member S ays, Playfields Need Guards ' Mrs. Mary E. Wilkins Asserts Board Is With out Money to Protect Children’s Morals BY @. LUCILLE BUTLER “What is your personal opin: ion aby 1 asked for early ms the park department, and are police the same as the public parks, that it is impossible at present { keep a man on each playfield, She. further stated that a mo toward playficld protection |sweeping the East, and that both |the East and Europe, public parks | pervision of these places where jand playfields were fenced, and th the youngsters congregate?" jgates. locked at di Summing up | ‘As far as Mrs, Harris’ statement) the situation, Mrs. Wilkins said; that the playfields were unlighted} “Three things are necessary tows and unsupervised at night goes, Mrs.jard bettering the conditions of ours Harris was right,” said Mrs, Wilkins, | playfields—better Ughting, more sis hey do need lig ehting they do need | pervision, and co-operatoin of moth? supervising, and that is what we lers and fathers in seeing that their working for, but we have not the/ehildren are not roaming the streets money, and until w n get it, eith afte by special appropriation of the city|§ council or by means of a bond issue, we cannot remedy the situation.” Mrs, Wilkins explained that piayfields are under jurisdiction of y are menacing the ‘morals of our children, and what do you think about the lighting and su- ) PLAYFIELDS BEGUN Mrs, Wilkins intimated that | &/ the | survey of parks and playfields was (Turn to Page