The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 14, 1919, Page 1

ECORD CLOSED AGAIN U. S. District Attorney Saunders, the Union Record offices were closed by U.S. Deputy Marshal Edwin Tobey at 1:03 p. m. _ Acting on orders from emain closed indefinitely,” announced Tobey, “on authority of the warrants served yesterday. Friday. “This place will r ” The Record had been permit- ‘ad to continue publication after seven hours suppression yesterday. When Tobey entered he told Editor Ault to “clear the place in 30 minutes.” Doors locked,, and all the equipemnt placed under guard. Tides in Seattle FRIDAY Nov, 14 Pirst Low Tide », Le ft Bos m, 55 tt Second High Tide O68 Dom, BA fe 22. NO. 222. a IT SEEMS TO ME ‘A SLEETH a VELY weather were ED having tately. e Expecially for time of the year, Yesterday all we had was a couple of earth- half a dozen judicial thun- and nineteen editorial this ’ it seems as tho any anything new In going to in this country, it starts happen in Seattle. ovel form of government, designs in journalistic fire- ‘of modish patterns in edi ity are first displayed later are exhibited the ty over. while it is nice to be in the er of things, and to know that you the boys are making stil it is somewhat con- me not to know from one min- fia another whether you are 4 Wik or a smug patrician, . lawyer anticipate the joy the Bar association anent his shysterism? 5 only in the newspaper does & peeved editor call out of his name. iy in “journaliem” do digni gentiemen throw bricks Y professional secrets. eee F COURSE, it is some- What childish, but it amuses the town; keeps & fellow interested in re life, and not for the bet ; of more profitable pur- Would we swap the occasion- the game gives our tired Te must be a honesty and i and integrity tn the news- business generally. is the only business that is by those who follow it; the business that has no trade tsand that ix crucified by {t- er some publisher gets fore at his circulation fis- me ANA seeks to get balm for his by cussing his succeastul te despite all earthquake, and hellish barrage of fury, newspapers keep flong retaining public confi- ‘ing circulation, hold- their fundamental grasp upon While life of the nation. Y, We £uess that most of crossfire is a fire of v PMher business could stand : Of the cold truth, and Of heated lies besides, lontng every triend it ever , mong the public. F Newspapers hardiy miss # wen tho they walk out the window — 0 GOVERNOR SAYS 501. W. W.s IN JAIL NE, Nov. 14.—Defending and hin state againet the it he was taking no ac- curb industrialists, Gov. , today declared that had the only criminal sya- Taw with teeth in it and & rewult, more than 60 I. Wete serving penitentiary | SATeRDaY NOV. In First Low Tide 20am, 24 ft First High Tide Per ar On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise = Courtroom Is Stirred by Heifner Charges P.-I. With “Assas- sination of Character in Trial of Judge Allen DEFENSE WITNESS IS ON Policemen present in Judge Clay Allen's courtroom, when August! | Hensgen'’s liquor was being poured | |down the drains, were there to aid in transferring a portion of the Nquor to hospitals, Dr. Sherman Rogers, of the county hospital, testi fied Friday, when called to the stand by the state in the trial of Judge Allen, charged with keeping Nquor with Intent to dispose of it. “I was there to transfer 96 bottles of whisky to the county hospital,” Rogers declared. “As I could not carry them all down to my auto, po- eemen were summoned to aid me, and the other doctors, getting whfe ky for hospitals. “When I asked Judge Allen if I might have a bottle for personal use, he refused, saying none of the liquor was for individuals.” Frank W. Campbell, Judge Allen's clerk, said on the stand Thursday that policemen, clerks, bailiffs and a host of others came to the court room that night and many became “Hekered up." Refore Dr* Rogers was called to the stand, Friday, Charles G. Heif- ner, democratic leader, who was on the stand Thursday, asked permis: stor to Addteas thé court. “The jury was not in the room. Helfner asked the protection of the court from what he branded a “ma- Hetous assasnination of character ap- pearing in the morning P-L" “This article wag headed ‘Heifner Turns State's Evidence,” he said, “and is nothing more than an attempt by the PI. to influence this trial. It is a dastardly, damnable outrage. And I call upon the court to protect me from such attacks.” Judge Ralston twice admonished Helfer that he did not want to hear from him on the subject. Helfner continued. “The P.-I. must be stopped from such attacks. I demand the protec tion of this court,” Helfner reiter. ated. “You shall have this court's fullest protection.” Judge Ralston replied, “but we cannot try the P.I. here, and have not control over any news- Helfner continued hia demands. “Mr, Helfner, I will hear no more from you.” the court said finally Helfner subsided, the jury was called in, and the trial proceeded. That Judge Clay Allen had told him he had taken a “drink of that} whisky” was the testimony of Frank | W. Campbell, Judge Allen's court} clerk, on the stand in the trial of | Judge Allen ‘Thursday after) noon. The liquor ‘referred to was) the seized whisky being poured down the drains in Judge Allen's court, the night of June 4, after Au gust Hensgen, otiginal owner, had been convicted for having it in his| possession. { Campbell's testimony regarding the | drunken orgy in Judge Allen's court that night was substantiated by | Charles G. Heifner, democratic tead- | er, who pleaded guilty to a grand jury indictment sim¥ar to the one returned against Judge Allen “The smell of the whisky was enough to intoxicate a person,” Heit. ner said. Judge Allen was in his courtroom when the whisky was be- ing appropriated by policemen, phy siclans and many others, Heifner tes tified. | “Policemen aided me in taking one | sack of whisky,” he continued. | “When Judge Allen saw the way the whisky was being taken at random, he complained to one of the eliaors, | saying he feared he would be dis graced.’ ” Oscar Springer, court clerk, and George Gau, court bailiff, both in dicted, were present during the liq uor destruction. Springer drank freely, and Gau carried away two sacks, Campbell said. Judge Allen ordered the whisky distributed to hospitals, and Heifner said he took the sack of whisky for medicinal purposes. Judge Allen did not know Heifner had taken any Uquor, Heifner declared INVESTIGATE MILK MEN| LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 14 Whether there is a statewide or coastwide agreement, verbal or other. wise, on the part of milk dealers to increase milk prices, is to be one of the first matters investigated by the committee named by Mayor M. P.| Snyder of Los Angeles to investigate | milk prices. SYMPATHY !S SENT ‘The Sacramento City commission despatched a message of sympathy, to the people of Centralia Thursday. It calls for the “routing of I, W. W.'s from their hiding places,” | | tity of other clothing he Showdown! SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1919. (EDITORIAL) “Cancellation of the ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ betweén the United States and Japan to restrict immigration and which is being ruthlessly violated in principle.” “Exclusion of picture brides and Japanese immigrants.” “Amendment of the United States constitution providing that no child born in the United States of foreign parents shall be considered an American citizen unless both parents are of a race eligible to citizenship.” * * * Thus emphatically speaks the American Legion, in its first national assem- bly at Minneapolis. No equivocation, no dodging the issue there. REAL Americans cannot do that. The men who offered their lives to their country refuse to com- promise their Americanism. Having no Japanese finances to protect, they can see their duty clearly. They realize, despite the studied and subsidized efforts of certain —— mouthpieces who call themselves Americans to hide the facts, that is is a fight to the finish. Either the Pacific coast, and eventually the rest of the country, is to be wholly American or it is to be Ja § NOW is the time to decide. And the young Americans who compose the Legion are, naturally, on the side of the nited States of America. Veter- ans of the world’s greatest war, they seek no new war. ~-would domination of want with J guaranteed the Sranees oar CaN te life. of those who ever-increasing They are offering to America the means of = and neither the coward- ice of any newspaper or any set of men, nor to stand in the way of this program. ‘ The thorogoing Americanism of the Legion MUST triumph. And it WILL. *_ * * eir greed, must be permitted No organization, no newspaper in this city or on this coast anywhere can prove its Americanism in this day simply by waving the flag and declaring against I. W. W.’s. That has be- come too easy. It isn’t the real test at all. real test, if not today, tomorrow, is Japanism. For months The Star has been urging this point upon Se- attle. Here in Seattle the The Star has shown that the Japs have grabbed a big percentage of the producing land about Seattle. The Star has shown that they control half of Seattle’s milk supply. The Star has shown that they control nearly half of Seattle’s hotels and rooming houses. The Star has shown how the immoral, un-Am- erican picture bride evil has flourished; how these Jap girls are brought here, picked out by a Jap man, and how, after a few years, the result is a flock of Japanese children who, under our present laws, are American citizens, who, ten or twenty years hence, will stand in line with your children at the votine booths. * * * The American Legion of this city and state has taken its stand on this issue. They stand squarely for America. Most California newspapers have taken the same stand. Labor or- ganizations of Oregon, California and most other western cities have spoken emphatically ag * * * ainst the Jap invasion. Why doesn’t the Central Labor council of Seattle take its stand on this issue? Why doesn’t it couple with its denuncia- tion of I. W. W.’s a word on Japanism? Where, we wonder, does that sterling American paper, the P.-L, stand? en us. Perhaps its forthcoming Jap’ edition will enlight- And a certain other Seattle paper that has missed ad- vertising ITS patriotism only four days this year, where does it stand on this real acid test issue? And the Chamber of Commerce, too—may we not expect a word from it? eee dee. J For a real show-down on Americanism let’s call the roll. Where do you stand on the Jap? ROOM PROWLERS ARE | ACTIVE OVER NIGHT, A number of room prowlers were reported in Seattle hotels during the night. 7, H. Benton, Empire hotel, lost a suit case, two raincoata and a quan: M. M. Rouse, Georgian hotel, 1420 Fourth ave., re- ported the theft of g black handbag, | containing jewelry, while Peter | Salaun, rooming at 417 Fifth, ave.,| lost his hat, shoes and a sult. A Mr. Hegman, of the Butler ho tel, had a mulberry colored sult, with lavender lining, stolen. Arrest Three Men ' ‘ in Iowa Plotting DES MOINES, Ia, Nov. 14.— Three alleged TI. W. W. were taken into custody today by Des Moines police in a roundup of radicals or dered following the uncovering of a plot to kill Mayor Tom Fairweather. The accused are Walter Kegleston, of Texas; Oral Jotinson, of Chicago, and Leo Warner, of pes Moines Johnson made an unsuccessful at tempt to escape as he was being booked at the police station. More arrests may be expected, the police announced, | |was reported here today. 38 U. S. SAILORS ARE RESCUED AT SEA THE HAGUE, Nov, 14—A mine sweeper has picked up life boats containing 38 of the crew of the American steamer Counell Bluffs, it The lite boats were discovered in the North sea, off the north coast of Holland. The Council Bluffs was a United States shipping board steamer of 1,376 tons. She was last reported to have reached Rotterdam from Philadelphia Nov. 4 The Seattle Star Watered as Becond Clase Matter May 8, Ot the Postoffics at Beattic, Wash.. under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879 That six prominent lation, and at least six of Police Warren. Chief Warren said that he} had been named as one of the men to be killed by the “reds,” but he refused to dis-| close the names of the othe five. He also said that he did) not see fit at this time to name the buildings slated for destruction, as the knowledge | {would create needless fear. | | However, he indicated that he| would possibly disclose the names of both the citizens} and the buildings at an early | date. | | Twenty-five extra police- men were added to the force today. And Chief Warren ‘said he would consult with Mayor Fitzgerald about more patrolmen. | “IT am going to protect the! city at all costs,” emphatical- ly declared Chief Warren to- day, “and in order to do it properly I need men, | | “I have authentic information that | the lL. W. W. are planging on a campaign of dos! Hon in Seattle. ‘They have to thelr "pro: poned victims, “I don't care now to disclose their names, But I will say that my name is included in the list. I have had | knowledge of the red plan for rome) lee It was verified again Thurs- day Practice in Woods? “I also have information that the |wobblies have been holding target/| and bomb practice for some time in the woods near the city, They have [been throwing bombs of different construction and shooting with re- volvers and rifles “The 1, W. W., according to the reports made to me, have been said |to be jubilant over the result of the | Centralia affair, They are said to} have remarked "We only lost one man at Centralia and look at what} | we did, One man was easy.’ Expected Outbreak ow if they think they ean come | inte attle and get away with that! |kind of stuff they are crazy. 1 will instruct all of my men to shoot to} | kill If they see anything which savors |of a crooked move on the part of a| red. I'm talking seriously, too, when I way this,” Chief Warren declared that he had | pecting an outbreak for some Police activities were quiet Friday. | jal detail is continuing with | mbing of alleged red haunts, | reds are making thémselves TWO ARRESTED | Dry squad officers swooped down upon the farm of Carl Sylvester, near Black Diamond, and confiscated a still and a quantity of the aloo holic re@ults. Silvester told the po lice that the liquor was old stuff} he had had in his place for six| months, H. A. Bellack, an Austrian mer. chant at Auburn, was also arrested by the officers, Both men were booked for federal invest Bellack’s truck was held by thorities, ‘ERS IDLE Nov. 14.— n to work in whistles blown ter district. answer to the mi | today in the Me A True Story | People read the Want Ads. |! ‘They are newsy, and each ad tells a little story of its own STAR WANT ADS, of the wide cir paper, are the best medium for advertising in the West. || If you want a home you turn to the classified section. If || you want a second-hand car, a farm, or any one of a thou- sand things, you look in the classified ads, So do your neighbors, or the stranger who wants to buy. Did you ever think of that? Star ads DO pay! « | Phone your ads in to |} Main 600 or leave them || |} at The Star Sub-Station, {| in the rear of Bartell’s, | 610 Second Ave, Tacoma, we ‘Late Edition Per Year, by Mail $5.00 to $9.00 ght and Satur probably asterly wind __ Weather Forecast: } 1SAYS REDS PRACTICE BOMB THROWING HERE Seattle citizens have been slated for assassin- buildings named for dynamiting by members of the I. W. W., was the statement made Friday morning by Chief IN LW. W. FACE MURDER CHARGE BY RALPH BENJAMIN Staff Correspondent. CENTRALIA, Nov. 14.—Reports that I. W. W. are mobil- izing in timber camps tended to intensify the grim suspense here today, as Centralia prepared to bury the American war veterans who were siain on Armistice day. Every business house planned to close from 1 to 5 p. m. in respect to the four victims of Tuesday's tragedy. Rumors are heard from time to time of alleged plans of armed radicals to attempt to rescue I. W. W. suspects here in Chehalis and Centralia jails. S. A. Godfrey, a millhand, who refused to obey an order to halt, as he approached the county jail at Chehalis early this morning, was shot and wounded by one of the American Legion volunteers on guard at the jail. pdonagntie reports that a gang of I. W. W.’s had planned to go to Chel and, attempt a jail delivery, the ty jail had been under heavy guard since Wednesday Godfrey said he did not understand the command to halt. He said he was not an I. W. W. » Informations charging 10 members of the I. W. W. now held in county | rounded up during the night under jails at Centralia, Chehalis and| instructions from Deputy U. 8. Mar- Olympia with murder in the first) shal Knizek. degree, were filed in the superior : court of Lewis county Friday after: | sees 14 noon by Prosecuting Attorney Alien.| Conflicting testimony of sensation- ‘The I. W. W. prisoners held in the |! character brought out at the coro- Centralia jail against whom first de-| "F's inquest over the bodies of the gree murder charges are aimed are |f0Ur American Legion men killed by TC. Morgan, Fred Smith, Roy Beck-| 1. W. W.'s during the Armistice day er and James H. Mol y. The|Parade here Tuesday created a@ Chehalis jail holds Eugene Barnett, | furore here Friday. ©. C. Bland and A. E. Faulkner, all! At the inquest late Friday Dr. F. of whom are accused of complicity | J. Bickford, who marched in the Le- in the Centralia Armistice day mur-/ gion parade, testified: ders. In the Thurston county Jail! “As the parade passed In front of at Olympia J. H, Lamb is held as | the 7, W. W. headquarters some one suspect. Two other members of the/ suggested raiding the hall. I spoke I. W. W. who are accused of murlyp and sald, ‘Till take the lead if der in the first degree are Bert! somebody will follow.’ Others took Bland and Loren Roberts. Roberts/the lead ahead qf me. There were is held in @ jail the location of which | «ix or eight other fellows. Arthur Prosecutor Allen declines to name. | yicmifresh was at my right. ‘The door Bert Bland is still at large. wen ehut.. Bote’ one trols the Wek Haye Confession and the door opened six or eight According to Capt. Lloyd Dysart, | Inches. § a member of the American Legion| “Then a shower of bullets came at Centralia, a signed and complete | thru the door. The frosted glass in confession is in his hands to the ef-| the door fied in all directions. I rec- fect that those accused of murder | ognized the sound of the guns inside in the first degree by Prosecutor Al-} to be automatics, As the crowd scat- len laid careful plans for the murder! tered I saw McElfresh fall and no- of American Legion men who|ticed the seriousness of his wound. marched in the Armistice day parade | We started for the hospital with him at Centralia, |in an automobile commandeered at An unidentified man, believed to|the curb. I heard rifle shots from be one of the I. W. W. who fired on | across the street.” the parade in Cen tralia lay, shot a hole Contradiet Bickford then an flag that flies |. This was the first intimation, aside over Chehalis, The rifle shot was | 0m charges made by I. W. W.'s ar- fired at short range from the brush | ested in the roundup, that any mem- around the city yesterday. Chief of | bers of the parade so much as lifted Police Joe Kn id a number of | hand at the red headquarters be- American Ls lunteer officers | fore the shooting started from the searched for the gunman, but could | YPPer windows. Dr. Bickford has not not find him. This was the first |™de a statement before. sign of an I. W. W. outrage in| Other witnesses to the shooting, Chehalis. The attack on the Amer. | S¢veral of whom were marching side ican Legion parade in Centralia|>Y side with the men shot down, Tuesday was not accompanied by | Matly contradicted Dr. Bickford’s tes- any disturbance at Chehalis, altho|timony, declaring he was so excited the cities are only about four miles | *t the time he did not know what he was doing. ' Dr. Herbert Y. Bell testified he Bring in Suspects | heard the shooting and yelling at tho Posses of American Legion men! game time, and the rush on the and other volunteers » coming | 1, W. W. headquarters came the in- into Centralia e riday with more | stant the fusfilade commenced. reds caught in thg@mamps and towns| pre gaid the marchers did not rush of Lewis county, Rumors of gun-|the puilding before the firing men at large and reports of firing| started. Dr, Bell was the first to on automobiles were received. Guards | reach the side of Lieut, Warren 0. are watching all the roads and/Grimm, who fell mortally wounded ~goe pae san ege aid F. Jin the first minute of the shooting. still on duty Late Thursday Clyde A. Paton of Saw Rifle Flash Rochester reported to the American| The testimony of Lieut. Adrien F. Legion officers here that while he|Comiere, assistant marshal of the was crossing Scatter creek in his|Ppardde, conflicted with that of Dr. auto three shots fired at his car| Bickford. Comiere was mounted from ambush. id he speeded|and his position was directly in up to get out of |front of Lieut., Warren Grimm, who There were three bullet holes in|commanded the last platoon of Cen- the tonneau of Paton’s auto to sub-| tralia men. stantiate his statement, He did not| Comiere said Lieut. Grimm had see the gunman. |just asked him when the parade Tota (ivaiieanin [reste halt when a shot one reir “The nex' nstant a yell went wu An American Legion guard at one| trom Veter tenia he. ae of the roads reported he was forced | saw the flash of @ rifle three times to fire on a machine that attempted /and saw the barrel resting over a to speed past. A posse had just gone |jedge of the window in the Avalon to a mill camp for I, W. W. suspects | hotel, across the street from the and the guards believed they were|y, w. W, hall. attempting to get away in the auto. | “Lieutenants. Grimm and Van The car was stopped and the occu-| Gider were directly in ne with me. pants a. The guards’ rifle|‘tho shots missed me. and struck bullets, he said, all struck the auto.| gown Grimm. No. one wae hyst “About 150 shots were fired and In Chehalis all (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) apart. LW. W. were