The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 5, 1919, Page 10

10 i 1 Launch Attack on Dope Ring Drug “fiends” increased 200 per cent in Se- attle in the last year. There are more than 18,000 here now. Seattle is the Pacific coast vue theadquarters of a gigantic “drug ring” which | ‘is operated from Salt Lake City. Because of Seattle’s proximity to the Canadian border, drugs jof all kinds are being assiduously peddled to addicts, high and low, in Seattle in spite of the ,efforts of police, sheriff and federal officers to ‘break up the traffic. The drug traffic extends over the entire city—including in its fangs not jonly the so-called underworld habitues, but ‘reaching out into the residence districts. This iis the declaration of police officers who have “now struggling to break its power. lice department, there is no limit to the district em- by drug dealers. “Naturally, the largest numbers of drug addicts {will be found in the lower end of town,” said Sergt. Steen Tuesday, “but there are many in the North End, jin the exclusive residence district. “Recently we found a man who was employed at ithe nm Anne high school, and who was said to be | peddling dope to the students. We have had a few : hose names are well known in Seattle. And we ” : men w! pick up three or four drug fiends every day on the _ streets. The police blotter in the booking office of police verifies this statement. ese, according to the police, are the worst of- fenders, yet they are given the lightest sentences when d in the federal courts. Last week one, Ah Fook, s arrested. Under the cigar counter in his restau- fant was three-quarters of a pound of cocaine, or mow.” At the prices paid by drug addicts, it is val- ned at about $5,000. | ‘THROW DRUGS FROM WINDOW TO CUSTOMER 4 Secret methods of disposing of the drug are varied. “dealers” carry the drug in from one to six-grain in slender tins or aluminum tubes held in the Others carry it in the lining of their coats. A orite method with the Chinese is to receive the payment the drug on the street, go to their room and then throw drug to the street below or lower it on a string. J. O. Neal, patrolman in the Chinese district, explains: guilty man.” Any negro who is a non-user will report Instantly to police a negro used of the narcotic. So will a Chinese. Use Cards in New York ;=wering many questions, are given “A negro drug addict.” declares | drug cards. They take the cards to Steen, “uses optum. He does a physician and get prescriptions. use morphine. There are plenty | Then they ta ards and prescrip Regrocs in Seattle who ‘hit the * but only about half a dozen Use other drugs.” | Prohibition is a big factor in the traffic. Heavy drinkers have turned te drugs. In New York City, drug addicts, after applying at the state bureau of drug and narcotic control, and an- iGovernment Holds '28 Boys From “U” _ Big Food Surplus | District Go Camping WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—Surplus| Twenty-eight boys of the Univer food held by the war department fag ate th lye gar “lh ms ‘cas island, under the leadership o} My 19, was valued at $132,137,000,| wr Rennie, director of the district Was announced today. | community Y. M. C. A‘, for a 10 days’ Bacon totalled $35,518,492 outing. The boys will participate in Other subsistence ite organized sports and athletic con Corned beef, $26,483,638; roast beef, | testa, 806,458; fresh frozen beef, $16,-| d beef hash, $10, :| Sapa “$5 ger ear Mrs. F. E. Ward Is toes, $5,509,967; baked beans, Buried Tuesday 646; canned swe 107,004; fresh pork, mulated sugar, $147,94 eral of Mrs. Flora B. Ward |} $1,262,495; fresh fro ed Sunday morning, was 136,964; miscellaneous, $ ld from the home, at 651 Emer son st., Tuesd Mrs. Ward is the wife of E. B. d, Fremont news paper man. Besides her husband, she is survived by a daug Etta Ward, and a son, | TACOMA CAR MEN Do | NOT ASK FOR RAISE | TACOMA, Aug. 5—Street |men of Tacoma have signed a ne n the local t In Seattle it coats a moderate user of drugs from $2 to $10 a day. The responsibility for many robberies is laid at the doors of these drug fiends, who must get the money for their drug or submit to horrible tortures of mind and body. @ car | wage agreement w tion comp for not dema purdensom an. increased fare wreing The already Necessity is the mother of a good imany alleged poema, METROPOLITAN — Monday, Aug. 11 Matinees Wednesday and Saturday Seat Sale Thursday—Mail Orders Now HENRY MILLER PRESENTS RUTH CHATTERTON in the fascinating comedy THE MERRIE MONTH OF MAY By George Scarborough turday Mat., Lower Floor, $2.00; Balcony, and $1.00; Gallery, T5e and 50e, WEDNESDAY MAT.—Lower Floor, $1.50; Balcony, $1; Gal., 50c, ‘been fighting the “drug ring” here, and who are), According to Police Sergt. William Steen, of the : asked increases a is |e THE SEATTLE STAR ESDAY, AUGUS 18,000 “DRUG FIENDS” IN SEATTLE LAWLER BOMB WILSON STUDIES COAL FAMINE MEN TRAILED FOOD PROBLEM NEW PROBLEM Deputies Comb Country for Fiends Who Wrecked Home ANGELES, Cal, Au parate | atl heriff'« deput re today al 1 an effort to brir he persons responsible for and announced t letermin the wherea bh man Sheriff ©. Cline rushed depu ato 1 alley when he c > men, widely known , of Idaho, a number of entered their efforts on th: f that the party waa im and hoarding. 1 in a reeent ct t fought uid to believe. these artifi | with great bitterness, and in which | cM nditions can be Broken down Lawler was an attorney. They pre |' and that thelr dict arrests may be made today “ible for much of At the hospital today, reports were | ¢ eat and dissutiafaction that beth Lawler and his wife are al of the wheat gwuer resting ag comfortably as could be antee is scheduled to be d unned by xpe h neonate ultur unitte Physicians said Lawler is showing | *hortly, with se agricul: | ferful coura which, they de clare, is @ great factor in his favor RAIL SHOPMEN | VOTE ON STRIKE: | j|Leaders Await Word From President Wilson By RALPH F. COUCH | | United Press Correspondent | WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—First re- jturns were expected today at the American Federation of Labor offices on the strike vote now being taken by $00,000 rallroad shopmen | Altho the complete poll will not jbe tabulated until August 24, under | the «trike vote order of the American | Federation of Labor railway depart | ment, returns probably will be com- Ing in all this week, officials sald. | Leaders of the six big shop unions} |today moved to curb those who, they say, have stampeded thousands of |workers into unauthorized local | until the complete vote is returned. | President Bert M. Jewell of the A. F. of L. railway department today | jawalted word from the White House. | Jewell late yesterday led a delega Ition which told President Wilson his 'plan for solving the question of Wage demands is “entirely inade quate." | Officials of the unions believe the next move is up to the president | He, they suggest, can urge congress |to pase appropriation bille giving the rail administration more money with which to meet wage demands, not only for the shopmen, but for the |trainmen and conductors who have raging 40 and 35 per cent, respectively. The shopmen's | demand is for an increase averaging approximately 25 per cent President J. J. Forrester, of the | Brotherhood of Railway and Steam ship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Ex- press and Station Employes, accom panied by seven other offict brotherhood, was scheduled te with Director General Hines. 250,000 Railway Men Already Out WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—(United Press.)—Conferences here today were expected to go far toward clearing up the strike of railway shopmen thru Union re de en alr $9,000 of them in industrt district A first attempt was to be a series of conferences between six chairmen of grand lodges of the railway depart- ment of the American Federation of | Labor and railway executives. A sec ond was to be thru the United States department of justice. President Hawver of the grand lodge asserted the union central) council is acting without orders and| in disobedience to the will of the| whole 1 confer country af hicago H. Aishton » far has not been said he expected a irector R declare ted He dy return of the strikers | ‘TWIN CITY RAIL MEN ARE READY TO STRIKE, ST, PAUL, Minn, Aug Be- tween 8,000 and 10,000 shopmen in| the Twin Cities, and about 25,000] employed by railroads thruout the Northwest were to strike today according to union officials. Three thousand St, Paul shopmen voted alr unanimously last night to{ strike. The action was taken despite ef forts of union officials to get the men to await the nation strike for of negotiations wide to bring immediate wage tn # or tmme¢ reduction of living costs is blamed. for the strike call |SPOKANE RAILWAY MEN VOTE TO JOIN WALKOUT SPOKANE, Aug. 6 afts workers Railroad shop ure in favor of rike. At ing last night, voted overwhelmingly to quit The walkout is scheduled for 10 a m. tomorrow. A formal in each union ig being taken vote Some people can even see the sil | ver lining to a cloud of adversity if it is hovering over President and Advisers Urge Speedy Relief Action « x“ Continued From Page One a * profitlimiting functions of the f \dministration and the war u tries board, now inoperative for lack of funds abled the tute the laws which er mt Ul are on the - tra omminsion, it ald " on figures on uding flour, eann ther f These figu' riment in price « during the war, and will form f any action growing out of the present agitation, according to officia The pre hopes dati aident, it learned, went definite re ns within a few days # may be asked from existing legislation was to pre ommen New red tr eaident, accord ng to hin ad believes, they al conditions are agsra combinations, profiteering tural states ap; ing Oh ely differ rman Gronna, Ne Dakota favors repeal on the ground that th farmer will then get higher prices for wheat Farmers Would Lose? Senators Norris, Nebraska; Capper Kansas, and other members of the ommittee, declare the farmer will lose if the government minimum price is removed Charges that the government Minelf, thru the United States Grain corporation, which is mar. keting the nation’s wheat crop, is guilty of profiteering in grains and thus responsible for boosting the cost of living, were to be made to the house today by Representative MeCulloch, Ohio. The grain corporation, thru its complete control of the market, has increased the wheat price as high as 30 cen bushel above the $2.76 guaranteed price and the transactions have resulted in a profit of nearty $21,000,000 to the government, he declared. “Mr, Barnes, in his letters to me, apparently boasts of his profit as a good business achievement,” naid MeCulloch. He arks, ‘Don't you “Then if they are seen they run into a room with|strikes. A committee now is taking) think {t is a good business to make A H i : action to stop further local strikes /a profit on your turnover? and ap-| “4 3 5 or 20 other Chinese. No one in the world can pick out | patentiy In out to make s rent |Favors Direct Line himself Wasn't So Intended “His action is as far from what congress intended as anything could be. We id not only intend that no profit should be made, but appro- priated $1,000,000,000 to re-nell the wheat to the people at lower prices, the government to absorb the loss. ‘The profit, Mr. Barnes admits, ts In addition to all the expenses of the jon, which are very large.” 9 house today will be asked to order an investigation of high sugar | Prices, with submission of the reso | Senators Trying to Settle Question Before Autumn nY L. CC. MARTIN (United Pr tuff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug ur of a coal famin ided itself te r complications fa sad and high cort of li enate agriculture ec » take up the food ques t " They 4 such a direct be it must, if po autumn n in Ohio and Weet Vir sring on the cont anible, be ein informed me," said Porm r that w cannot get cars oO an wrote that the re out put of his mines for this year had be ted for, that he ha ple abor, but that he is unable to change a the He predicted a strong m for nationalization of both | railroads, such as has deve tngland BILLINGSLEY TO ~ RETURN TO CITY | | Extradition ‘Papers Sent to | Toledo for Fugitive Sheriff John writ of ex Stringer despatched n Tuerday to the tien tor Logan Billingsley, whe has been captured |there, and in at liberty on $750 bail | Billingsley escaped from the ty wtockade at the Willows on 7, and at that time was bell to have made his way immediately to Toledo in company with his |brother Fred. Stringer was notified Monday that Billingsley had been captured} |in Toledo. in Toledo a 4 will prob: t < Billingsley here. of Ships to India Sir M. Visvervaraya, of Bangalore, India, passed thru Seattle Monday ‘and declared in favor of a direct steamahip line from here to India. | | lution of Representative Tinkham, Masnachunetts orably reported from the interstate commerce com: | mission | The of the Investigation which will be conducted by the fed eral trade commixston, will be to “ there t# no justification for the present prices. CLEVELAND IS PROBING HIGH COST OF LIVING CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 6.—A comprehensive investigation Into the high cost of living was launch- ed here today when 50 men, en gaged in every business from sel! ing exes to dry cleaning, were summoned to testify before spe efal grand jury THROWS ACID AT HIS EYES Man Charges Former Wife Inflicted Burns While police are searching for Mrs. Erika Nordanburg, Peter rdanburg, former husband of the woman, is at his home at 1514 W. 47th st., suffering from acid burns about his face and eyes. He told the police the acid was thrown by Mrs. Nordanburg Monday night. Failure to effect a reconciliation with her divorced hush: he said, was the motive for the attack According to his former and spent t wished t turn to danburg boarded the pleading with him to allow her to return home. Near the Nordanburg home she followed him from the street 1 then walked to his doorsteps, She asked to be allowed to enter with him and was met with a flat refusal. he drew a phial of and dashed it into his face. Nordanburg's cries attracted neigh bors and a doctor was summoned. Mra, Nordanburg disappeared and is now being sought by the police Nordanburg may lose his sight. FREIGHT EMBARGO MAY BE DECLARED IN EAST ATLANTA, Ga,, Aug, 5.—(United a ordanburg a town Monda with her. She him. Mrs. Nor. same street car, car @ n says, she Press.) —With railroad officials ad mitting freight trains were being handled with difficulty as a result of the shopmen's strike, a freight embargo extending thruout the Southe t was some quarters, from her pocket | | There is a wealth of satisfaction in knowing that you can depend on bak- ing results. You’ll enjoy the fine rich Asks Council to Approve Memorial Upon receipt of the writ) ument were brought to the city h uty from that city| Tuesday by C. 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Alvin Moore, member to the brotherhoods triking at eastern points seem to be developing from action inde internationals,” | said. “There bas been no move ouf |here, so far as I am informed, @ strike, or even contemplating a strike vote at this tim WATER SHUT OFF NOTICE Water will be shut off on Lith ave 45th st. to E. 55th August 6, from ’ ; he d ¢ c 7 i « } 1 Od @ a2” tre. oe eeynuw SoH