The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 5, 1919, Page 1

An American Paper That Fights for Americanism eSeattleStar Entered as Be Tides in Seattle THURSDAY | FRIDAY seer. 4 CENTS Late Edition Year, by Mail 5.00 to $9.00 Piest High Tide 148 p aot Second Low Tide ond Clase Matter May 9, 1899, at the Postoffice at Meattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress Mar $$$ Saturday, probably moderate southerly winds VOLUME NO WASH., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1919. fonight and DESTROYED THE CHEAP WHISKY: RETAINED GOOD WHISKW JUDGE TELLS WH ==] 0IL STOC * ALLEN ON STAN ling a bunch of keys as he testified, Superior Judge Clay Allen, ake of holding out five bottles of whisky for his own use after disposing of a case against August Hensgen, a convicted bootlegger, today gave his vere | ORK all day and dance all night, that’s youth; The bo- . vine birds who rodst in court rooms; And the cap pistol trio. steel never OUTH, immortal spring, plastic, tiring youth. Every night in the week youth flows out Mike a river in this town. Youth works all day, stands behind the counter, hols the mad steam ham mef, clambers up and down lad deta, races on errands, works in the thousand ways a city’s ardu ous work ix done And then youth powders its Hide. scrapes its chin, puts on its pumps and dances half the i. without fatigue or worry over the morrow Stand half an bour on any of 4 M-dozen big public ¢ floors WH the city. some evening and watch the energy swinging by. \, These are not the idiers; these ‘Ate not the social buds, who have taken their ease on the downy un- til neon, and have come down here in ‘eaey-ewinging sedans and coupes. These are working boys and girls, and their young feet have been moving for 14 hours since breakfast. Youth is wonderful We remember when we once pitched bundies for 12 hours in the harvest field, slicked up, mounted a bicycle, pedaled eight miles thru the summer's dust to town, and flung our steel and rubber legs half the night; then saw Nel lie home, hung over the gate un til ma called her in, pedaled eight miles back thru the dust, slept three or four hours, and went at the bundles another 12 Nowadays we sit on a cushion for seven hours at a desk, and aft er a light supper we seek repose from the heavy burdens of the day. Youth! der! Youth! You are a won HERE do these birds come m that make their Gaily roost in the court rooms of the town? The »# in any courtroom are wa cluttered with these aimless hangers-on They have no business, appar ently The trial means nothing to them. person: The courtroom tg stuff: terminable ¢ of the hnique would madden any one who had real business in life it would seem. ays these habitues are on t whether Judge Allen, or somebody, really got three fin of Scotch, or on bottle, the hanger-on forée The late comers must stand; so they stan All morning and all ‘they stand, fir then on the Stand th noton intelligent features ed a broken is out In afternoon E foot and her would 1 an and mister w up, tenne hud of the sure he did not and get out to in a h hiw-ha for his nen a would go on for it usually mind triun iKhted and took a jo At a late the trio gertainly speaks thé self-res' autoletes b trout hour in t afternoon unspanked, which lo or two for of the bedeviled was Sept. 6.—~Will turned over to the police what he believed is a bomb, found near his home, Don’t Be a Sucker FOOL and his money are soon parted. Don’t be a fool. The Star feels it a duty at this time to warn those who, for the first time in their lives, have a little surplus cash. For every worker's dollar there is a scheme. : For every penny of surplus there is a clever gentleman with a get-rich- immediately program. And there is about one chance in one hundred that any “investor” in these schemes will ever see his money again. The dollar you save today will probably be worth two dollars three years hence. ‘ The debts you pay off today would be twice as hard to pay if you waited until this reconstruction boom subsides. ¢ Those Liberty bonds that you are selling below par represent your insurance against sickness, and they may represent the edu- cation of your children. ; There is not one chance in fifty that you will find an invest- ment better than your Liberty bonds. The biggest capitalists in the country are not averaging better on their surplus funds than the four and three-quarters per cent Uncle Sam is paying. E all like to take a chance. We always hope for a million to come rolling in without our effort. Just now it is oil. ee ee Because the Standard Oil company happens to be drilling in a Washington field—drilling, so far, without success and with- out much likelihood of success—scores of stock and leasing gamblers have opened up their little three-shell rigs and are scooping in the suckers’ money. And it is sucker money every time. Whether there is oil in Washington or not is unknown: Whether it exists in paying quantities, if it does exist, is another problem. One or two holes are being sunk, that’s all we know today. _ AND THESE HOLES ARE NOT BEING SUNK BY THE LADS WHO ARE SELLING STOCK OR LEASES. If oil is brought in, even if it comes in a gusher, still the sucker in the wild cat companies is no nearer his profit. Oil is a game for wise experts; a game for big money; a game like gold, that has swallowed more dollars than it has brought home, to 90 per cent of the “investors.” F you must gamble with your money; with your family’s fu- ture; with the little hoard you have managed to lay by— If you must take a chance ona poverty-stricken old age, at least get in a game where you can see the cards dealt. / Hunt up a back alley crap game; seek out a good, swift poker party; take a back door tip on the races 3,000 miles away; buy stock on a short margin, or take a flyer in corn and barley. In all these gambles the chances against you are only about twenty to one; in most of them you will see the cards dealt, the dice rolled, the market reports, the stock quotations. You will get a run for your money, and while you will doubt- less lose nearly as surely as you “invest,” you will have a better chance to win, and a closer insight into the deal than you will in. oil. And this applies equally well to the smart schemes they using in Seattle to gyp the sucker. HIS state, thru the criminal negligence of certain legislators, has no blue sky law. Washington today allows the stock grafter to work without check. ‘ The only protection the sucker has is the public press, and such native caution as he may be born with. At least do this before you drop your savings into a rat hole —go ask your banker what he thinks. He will tell you the truth and will not mislead you. are sion of the affair. A crowd that doors listened with “I held those five bottles lof Scotch whisky for use in |a proposed prosecution in the \federal court,” Judge Allen told the jury. When I learned jthat the whisky would not | be needed in the federal court jowing to a plea of guilty having been made by the de- \fendant, I still kept the whis- ky because I had heard ru- mors that a county grand jury was in prospect for the |purpose of investigating re- ‘ports of wholesale thefts of \whisky and the reported sale a sheriffs of quanti- | of whisky. | the grand jury as exhibits, I kept it locked lin my private desk because I | knew that my chambers |could be opened with a mas- \ter key and I did not want the Scotch ‘whisky to be |stolen as five sacks of liquor had been stolen on two dif- | ferent occasions.” John C. Higgins, chief attorney for the defense, examined the wit ness “The idea of holding this Scotch Was to preserve samples of it for [federal authorities if they wished to prosecute Hensgen, was it not?” Higgins asked Allen replied in the affirmat He then told how the thiev stole the three sacks of w from his room on the night 5, left four bottles of Boone's whisky behind t | “I held this until E me Hensgen had ples that evidence was no I then destroyed it,” Kept Scotch 2 not destroy the Higgins inquired. that deputy sheriffs h whisky in y were supposed the whisky from lot, I thought I had teh whisky that was left it would be valuable evi: A grand jury to be called to investigate the sale of this whisky I nee it, and 1 Ker needed ae had hea | were disposi wholesale ic dence of the Boone's K in the Hi bottles w ky was consid ered low «1 while the Scotch was of the hi be the first wit nd jury, H ou were called? ‘The grand jury had been tn ses sion about two weeks when I was called and then only at my own request.” | sked if he knew that many keys to his room, not know there were as many 4a re are 1 did know there w keys, however, and I knew the cuting attorney had one I was afraid some of| those who had keys might steal! that liquor.” “What did the the five bottles your opinion? Heard of Deputy Sales | les were current around n about the sale of whisky by uty sheriffs and I spoke to Sheriff John Stringer, whom I like personally, and told him he should quiet them if possible,.and I told him the grand jury was called to linvestigate that sale.” | Allen was next questioned |how Frank Campbell, his court clerk, told him he had opened one of the bottles of Scotch, after the Judge had intrusted them to his grand jury want s of Scotch for, in about care | LE was staggered when Campbell | |came to me, and, in the presence of | Judge Calvin Call, told me he had | ope) ned one of the bottles. I told him to go and tell the grand jury the | truth about it.” | “Did you ever suggest to Campbell | that he tell the grand jury that he Allen testified. | ¥| himself in my life,” jer k | man, packed Judge Smith’s court room to the deep attention to t he accused jurist as he told his 5 storys Vets in National Meet Ask Jap Restriction SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5.—A reso- lution urging congress to put such re- strictions on Japanese immigration as will save “the threatened integrity of the white race on the Pacific Coast,” was adopted by the national convention of the United Spanish War Veterans here. St. Louis was chosen as the 1920 conven- tion city. William Jones, of New York, was re-elected commander-in-chief; J. K. Witherspoon, Seattle, was chosen vice commander-in-chief. Other new offi- cers included Dr. Leon Hyde, Portland, Ore., surgeon-general. BELGIUM SENDS |REDFIELD QUITS DUTCH THREAT COMMERCE POST | Demands German Ship on! Declares Affairs Require His Penalty of Embargo BRUSSELS, Sept. 5—The Bel- | WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 sian government, according to (tary of Commerce Redf! today Le Solr, has sent a note to Hol- n had resigned | land, threatening to place an em. his post the bargo on German shipping, unless Holland returns a German ship which left Belgium after the ar. mistice was signed. The vessel was discovered in the Rhine and returned to the German owners by the Dutch. Attention Secre- nounced = th and expected latter part of Oct nal affairs require my at- aid Redfield. “August 1, t Wilson ask- Later when was going to be gone ered to re- |I found he |during Sep TO SHUT OFF WATER has been no quar- Water will be shut off pment of any kind. ave., N. EB 3 2. 434;| i said he will enter bust- on E Tenth ave. N. E. 45th st Raruch, chairman of | industries board during mentioned as a possi- » altho it is said he lay, from 8 o'clock in the morning |r other offers of official po- until 6 in the evening siti dropped the that way?” bottle and broke it in| @ might have carried one, Higgins asked Judge Allen said “No; I never told a man to perjure| George Allen, local bondsman, was the witness re-| appointed elisor by the judge, and | plied, “and I wouldn't do it to save | d my job, my future, or anything.” “Was ther an understanding that Campbell was not to teil certain fac er with Hensman and Campbell | “George Allen had heard that the sheriff was short some of the whi ky, and, with Judge Freneh, he came | to my office and inquired about it,” testified the judge. “He is bondsman for the sheriff and prosecuting attor ed with perjury |ney, I thought he would be a suit: able man.” After tracing the history of his life from birth, in Kansas, 44 years ago, to his advent in ttle, 16 years ago, Judge Allen plunged into the story of the Hensgen whisky and his con nection with it Origin of the Whisky “There wer I told Campbell to tell the and if he said anything differ it was ip distress of mind, as he had been thre: by the grand jury Judge Allen emphatically denied that he had ever given a bottle of Scotch whisky to Joseph Hensman. his bailiff, I never gave any to Hensman, his testimony to the contrary, and I nev t any for myself,” was his tes truth, ently timo f whie pording pers which I examined after had been as#igned to me for | Judge Allen told the jury “When the case came up for trial, Thomas B. MacMahon, attorney for Hensge suggested that all of the 3,204 quarts be brought into court as he did not believe that all of the whisky was in the sheriff's posses sion ‘I did not want all that whisky stored in my courtroom, as there were 150 sacks of it, and, remem ing the ‘disappearance of whisky before from the county-city bu I was pprehensive. Howe puties and prisoners from the county jatl packed all the Hen» The above rhyme is con- || &°" Whisky into my Courtroom and ‘ threw it on the floor. tributed by Mrs. Finley | "\Nicurally a good many bottles Peets, 1336 Franklin ave. Ae broken when the sacks were (Continued on page 19> Clear on Number Ju Hen was not very clear about how five bottles of Scotch had got into his courtroom, He said he carried one or two, and Joe Hens: nis bailiff, carried one or two, Osear Springer, also indicted by the Winners’ names will ap- pear in Saturday’s Star. Also announcement of new contest. I want to cut the at OL And sell my flock of ¢ A want ad in The Star I p And they went like the diekens. pected to destroy the liquor, togeth- | WILSON SPEAKS "AT ST. LO Luncheon Talk at Hol Stateler Draws Big | BY HUGH BAILLIE United Press Staff Co | In & speech at the Commerce luncheon here, he b lly denounced those who seek to vent the United States joining league | Discussing men who declare | United States should not go |war “to protect every little in the world,” the president sal “Let them show me how they” jkeep out of war by not protect! Ithem. Let them show me how the will prove that having gone an enterprise they are not contemptible quitters if they |see the game through. “They joined with the rest of in the profession of fine pu }when we went into the war, |went in and they professed to in to see that nobody after G many's defeat should repeat the periment Germany tried.” Outburst after outburst of ¢ ing punctuated Wilson's attack |the treaty foes. He shoke | vigor and stuck out his jaw, po ing on the rail for emphasis, “They're Dreaming” F “Those gentlemen are d |he cried. “They are living: in past age, which has gone, and all but forgotten, when they “We can mind our own busin Wilson was greeted with ping, shouts and ear-piercing yells which lasted several mini | He was dressed in a light gray | ness suit and wore a rose in his The president was escorted to place, a high-backed, red plush resembling a throne, festooned red, white and blue ribbons bunches of red roses. He ended (CONT'D ON PAGE 'D ON PAGE TWO) DANIELS READY FOR NORTH TRIP | SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5 miral Rodman, commanding the cific fleet, was a more in! figure to the ladies today. learned that he kissed Miss Yorke, cafe entertainer, with A gallantry yesterday, after her per formance at a luncheon given in his | honor. Admiral Rodman's flagship, New Mexico, and the battleship gon, leave Monday for Seattle, the remainder of the fleet hs anchor Tuesday to pass in before President Wilson in sound The cruiser Birmingham and five destroyers are en route to and the battleships Vermont | North Carolina left yesterday for toria, Shimmie Now a Hazardous Affair, Yes? 108 ANGELES, Cal, Shimmie dancing is a hasardous cupation, Miss Dorothy CG movie actress, vibrated #0 while “shimmieing” at the Vert Country club early today that collided with another dancer, and broke ber ‘left log Sept. 5. « +