The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 21, 1919, Page 1

FRIDAY NOV, tt First aoe First Low Tide 20:08 a om, 67 Second High 3:01 pom. 10 ft hue ft 22. VOLUME AS IT SEEMS 10 ME DANA SLEETH NO. 228. ELL to Japanese; 26 rooms; rent $85; can get lease; fine loca tion; netting over $300 a month: only $3,800; terms. FW. Dodge & Co." Now, isn't that a cute little ad be carried by a Seattle ramert * paper these damp days? s E don't know what advertising in this column is worth, but once I break a sacred rule and freely and without price pub- to an ad. And it doesn't seem necessary to @04 any comment: the little ad, “Clipped from a current issue of the Beattic Times—not even a Japan edition, either—does all the ing necessary. ‘The Tenants’ league of suffering hunters, and high rent vic ‘tims, might use this little ad for One of their weekly debates » And, speaking of rentals, did Any one here present, who was at fear really belleve that, un- any circumstances, a majority the calm face of youth. Let us be merry and ty. whether we have any place be merry and gay in or not. Consider the Seattle street, for . If anything can add to gayety, the entertainment and wonder of the race,, these of ours must. Seattle is a wonderful city; it is only city in the world where . Straight line is not the shortest ce between two points. Tt is also the only spot on earth where a straight line runs north "and south, and cast and west, at same time. “Take the city map; look up 45th ‘Street, for example. This street starts out by being W. 45th; it pro- eteds inland for a few parasangs, “and then become N. 45th st; it pro- few chains and links far- ther, always in the same direction, and in the same straight line, and Ht becomes FE. 45th st. and #0 Is fontent to remain until it takes its — long dive into Lake Washing- BA PP wtaide of Seattle, te there an- f ) @ther straight line on earth that, Within a mile, is successively West, North and Fast? = 1 trow not. a pe ake the matter of Ninth ave. > Anywhere else on earth Ninth ave. would be Ninth ave., a contin- 4 | Bation of a more or less straight ¢ “Vine, and it would be Ninth ave. ; "North and South, OR Ninth ave. )Bast and West, from birth to death. But in Seattle, what do we dis- © e0ver about Ninth ave.? We discover that Ninth ave. is Ee Mot only Ninth ave. North and ’ © South; it is also Ninth ave. East | and West. Moreover, after appar ) ently boxing the compass, it Is i not content, but it is also Ninth mak ave. Northeast; it ix Ninth ave mgt, orthwest, and it is Ninth ave. f > Bouthwest And you can leave Ninth ave. No th and head right across it, a @m& 0 away from it for a couple j i Of miles, and you will find another ; Inth ave. only that one will be ‘est. | When at last the fellow who is fore-destined to lay hold on per getual motion arrives, about the first real test that science should Gemand of him is that he Gboard his perpetual motion « trek on the trail of all the Ninth z avenues there in town, And @fter he has followed the George q town Ninth nd the Queen 2 «Anne hill » and the down- e and the Green Ninth @ 4 all the rest, and has, in succession, discovered Any one street number on each of these rse and divergent and diabolica nth aves., then he can fightly claim that perpetual mo. tion hae arrived Doubtiess by that time the mil- Jennium will have “grown old and the sun grown cold, and the leaves Of the judgment book unfold.” eee UT the meanest thing a street can do is to start out with one name, and then, without warning, ke unto Itself another Mame, expecially in cities where ‘only the city engineer's blue prints Nave the streets branded. - You start out after a murder for the “bulldog,” and you On the street and follow it thru Tides in Seattle | SATURDAY | NOV, ot First High Tide oats ibe ft Pirst Tide 10:48 a eo tt Geceed High, Tide | 2:29 p. sevond | 10:47 m | Low am, ork Eatered as Second Class Matter May 3, 189 On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise a "Case No Goes to Court Commissioner McClelland’s | Rulings Not Fully Inter- preted by the Attorneys [WARRANT ~ EXHAUSTED?/ jsioner R. W. McClelland handed down a decision in jthe Union Record case Friday which seemed to pass to the United States district court the respon- sibility for future de- velopments, and appar- ently leaves it to that court to decide whether or jnot the Union Record lant shall remain in the ds of the rnment McClelland said it was not within his province as a United States com- missioners to say whether or not the ae Record plant is being illegally hel “My understanding of the testi mony of Deputy United Staten Mar | shal Tobey.” McClelland says in his decision, properties of the Union Record on November 13, and later the same day gave them up. If that ts true, the | writ of seizure is dead. | “If tt is not true, the writ still | stands and the defendants may brinz jin a motion 'to quash the writ. If | Tovey seized the Union Record on | November 14, he did so without au thority from the commissioner.” ‘The facts in the case, he said, must | | te determined by che United States Lustrict court. | Up to pres time, the effect of tne |decision had not been fully inter- | preted. Deputy United States Attorney | Ben L. Moore, when asked to Inter- | pret the decision of Commissioner | McClelland, said that he was in |doubt at the present time as to the/ | position of the government. He add. ed that {t was probable that the gov- ernment would take the decision of the commissioner to a higher court for review John A. Dore, representing the Union Record corporation, was equally at sea to determine the stat- us of the Record after the morn- ing’s decision. He hinted, as he was |leaving the commissioner's office, | that he would ask for a writ of man. |damus from the district court to |compel affirmative action in order |to open up the plant and recover | papers, books and other | anid to be in the possession of the | United States marshal Commissioner McClelland, how: ever, did not issue an affirmative order compelling the government to| restore the Union Record to its proprietors, because the decision will probably be passed to the district jcourt for further action. " Favors Record It is pointed out that the govern- |ment te now In the position of hold ling the Union Record property under a search warrant that has} |been held to be dead and without jany validity in law | The gist of the commissioner's de cision, however, is Interpreted leclearly favorable: to the Union Rec ord by lawyers present in the court A parallel to the exhaustion lot the @eizure warrant was drawn by Attor Dore in these words | “When a man ts warrant ond “then |same warrant cannot e second time room. y cused on the for re be used slush and and dobe mud, occasionally alighting and scratching a match in front of number to guide you on the trail. And at last you get the number, and raize the neighbor hood, and inquire of a deaf, irate householder where he has con cealed the body, and he reaches for a shotgun, or something, and you finally discover that the street is sporting an alias, that the mur- der number isa mile or two hack in the mud, and that this particu lar person is the revered pastor of your publisher's church. ‘A street that would play that sont.of a ptank has no business be- ing permitted to associate with pa- triotic American plank pavement |a house | United States Commis-| “ts that he took over the] a after Rookie’s Howls Frighten Away House Prowler SAN FRANCISCO, Nov, 21 Refore being stretched out by a blow with a club, “Rookie,” an Airedale dog, once in the movies, made enough noise early today to frighten away a prowler who In vaded the rear yard of the home of his master, G. W, Glover. The animal was presented to Glover four years ago by Theodore Rob. erta, motion pleture star. “Rookie” is under the care of a dog doctor Sgt. Deaver Offers to Aid Wife Away From Unpleasant Memories Here WANTS BOY IN SCHOOL In epite of her efforts at conceal: ton Deaver, for the purpose of offering her funds to take her and theirt12 year-old son, Bart, to Portland, where they might speedily forget the sordid events of the past few wpeks. Following his acquittal by a jury ot a charge that he murdered Henry Clay Holt, Alki grocer, whom’ he blamed for breaking up his home on the West Seattle beach, Deaver’s first effort was to inform himself of the whereabouts of his wife. Mrs. Deaver, shortly after her hus |band was locked up, and when she llearned he was about to apply for lbail, hurriedly took her son from |the West Seattle school and left the |home of her aunt, where she had been living. She moved to another part of the city In the hope, she janid, that Deaver would be unable to find her. Deaver did not post ball, and re mained imprisoned for nearly two months, guilty. He intimated Thursday even. ing that he had succeeded in docating |the new dwelling pleco of Mrs. | Deaver, I'm not going to see her person ally,” he said. “I understand she doesn't want me to, Instead, I shall nd a woman envoy—a sister. I |sbail offer her enough money to take her and the boy to Portland. I want Fred boy to be put in school and kept there. In Portland he won't be con | tinuatty reminded by school mates of the happenings of the last months.” It ia considered unlikely that Mra | Deaver will accept her husband's of |fer, as w legal battle over the prop- erty left her by Grocer Holt is to be staged in superior court early next week Her divorce cane, also, 4 evidence | TWO BOYS HELD IN MURDER CASE Arrested After Killing of Ev- erett Taxicab Driver Nov. 21— (Special. —Twelve hours after Lee Linton, Everett taxi driver, was found murdered In a ditch near Everett, deputy sheriffs walked into a Bellingham rooming house and arrested Ison White, 19, and Joseph D. Morton, 20, of Stan- wood, who, deputies say, have confessed to the crime. vT arresta were made last night, Linton’s taxicab had been traced to Bellingham. According to police here, the youths have admitted planning the murder and robbery of Linton and intended to burglarize a grocery store at Florence. Then we were going to Mexico, one of the youths is alleged to hi said, 3 taxicab, which wag stolen after ad been taken from the dead went “¢ on the $40 driver's pockets, youthful bandits, Sheriff James McCulloch and Dep- uty McRae, of Everett, made the ar- rests ‘Two youths hired Linton to take them to Snohomish from Everett Wednesday night. On a lonely road a mile and a half from teh city, Lin ton's body was found Thursday morn ing by a passerby. His taxicab was found several miles from the scene of the homicide, Would Give Her Money to Go! rntil the Jury found him not | two} is pending. | the Postoffice at Seattle, _5E ATTL E, WASH., FRI es Railway | Must Pay Pavement Vote of Four to Three Sad- dies Costs on the Mu- nicipal Line FINAL ACTION MONDAY | Over the emphatic protests of | Mayor Fitzgerald and Superintend:| ent of Public Utlitties Murphine, the city council, sitting as @ commit tee of the whole, Thursday after: noon, decided that the municipal rail way must repair and maintain pay. Ing between ite tracks, the money to come out of the fares of passengers Final action on the matter will be taken when the city council] mocts next Monday afternoon, The councilmen who were not moved by the protests of Mayor Fits gerald and Superintendent Murphine were Moore, Haas, Lane and Erick- son. Drake, Hesketh and Carroll voted against saddiing paving, repair and maintenance upon the street raflway. Councilmen Thomson and Bolton were absent, “Finances Low” next Of forcing railway and maintain pav. Ing between fte tracks, it will mean & Goent fare, unless means are found to offset the added expense, according to the counciimen who voted against the plan ‘adopted Thursday by the committee of the whole Murphine made no secret of the fet that finances of the municipal railway “are running low.” The if crease of $32,000 monthly tn train. men's wages, dating October 1, and/ he high cont of material, were re onaible for the state of the munie-| ipal railway's finances, Murphine | tola the councilmen. “The department te in the hole risht now, I think,” Councilman Moore interrupted. “Kicking It Further” “Yes, and thin proposal to compel | the street railway system to pay for | paving between its (racks will kick It} deeper into the hole,” Councilman Drake added “An mayor I consider it my duty to give you my idea upon this matter of paying cost of paving and paving maintenance of our city streets out | of the street railway operating fund,” | Mayor Fitzgerald told the councilmen jin letter read before the vote was otrest | taken “If your honorable body should de leide to appropriate and use the! money received from the car riders of the city in fares for the purpone of paving and maintenance of paving, | |the result must necessarily be a eur: | |tailment of service instead of addi tional service, and no extensions of | the present system can be made, and I think that we formerly had agreed |that the two most important reasons for taking o r the street railway system were to give better and more adequate service to the people of the city, and to make the extensions which have been necessary for many years, and which the traction com pany could not or would not make. Pleads for Revenues “While Ir ‘ognize the right of your | honorable bedy to make such use of T'D ON PAGE (CO) SIXTEEN) SERUM FOR FLU NOW APPROVED American Health Congress Unanimous in Decision A recurrence of the Spanish influ. enza epidemic of last year is a re mote possibility, but a decided im probability This is the opinion of City Health Commissioner H, M, Read, who re cent'y returned from a session of the American Health congress in New Phat does not mean that Seattle and the Pacific coast should not take | proper pre tions to prevent an other visitation of the scourge," Dr. Read said, he use of serum was unanimous. ly approved by the congress as one of the best and, in fact, the only ef: fective means of combating the dis: oa \No epidemic was reported from any section of the United States, The only recurrence of the disease was reported in a district in England, But take care of your colds and sleep with your windows open.” Wash, under the Act of Congress March %, ee DAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1919. The Seattle Star L0! THE POOR NICKEL | NLESS the city council takes a dif- } ferent cue and reverses English on its decision of yesterday, the last refuge of the poor, war-battered and profiteer- haunted nickel will be gone. The one place where a five-cent piece could stand’on its own legs, and turn up its nose at offers of assistance from an extra penny or two, was on a street car platform. But alas and alack! thus. If our city dads have their way, car- fare will take its place alongside stogies, ice cream cones, soda pop, and a host of other 6-cent affairs. For, despite the efforts of Mayor Fitz- gerald and Supt. Murphine, the council voted yesterday to slap the cost of paving between tracks upon the municipal rail- way. And they didn’t provide any new It won’t be long revenue to take.care of this additional. expense. Plainly, the city railway department is up against it—unless higher fares are established. At least it ought to be perfectly plain that the poor nickel has had quite a load to bear this year, with extra cost of labor, $32,000 a month more, and higher costs for materials and for everything else. Our city dads ought to know that even an extra straw is likely to break a camel’s back, and the cost of paving is a darn sight more than a mere straw on a poor nickel’s neck. In fact, one of the learned councilmen is so well aware of the situation that he - ups and says the city railway is even now *in the hole.” If that is so, why kick it deeper into the hole? The starvation cure isn’t going to re- store health and vigor to a railway line. The city council, if memory serves us right, was quite willing to relieve the Puget Sound Traction company of the costs of paving, providing that company would keep fares down to five cents. Why deny the same privilege to the mu- nicipal railway? MISSOURI MEN ‘|Probing Source of sat S. Prison Fire VENWORTH, Kans,, Nov. 21 vestigating a fire of “undetermined pata, origin” which early today destroyed nge building x |Court Grants Temporary In-| te and six tem porary, wooden structures within the | junction Against Drys | contines of Fort Leavenworth here, | | ‘The blaze broke out in the ex- ST. LOUIS, Mo., Noy, 21—Judge} John C. Pollock, in the federal court | Change building, Surrounding struc here ert granted a temporary in-| tures were dynamited to prevent the junction restraining District Attor-| fire reaching the older and per: ney W alter Hensley and Bio on Im anent buildings of the disciplinary lector of internal revenue rom in | barracks. Loss was estimated at terfering with brewers in the manu: | facture and sale of beer. $150,000 by prison officials, Judge Pollock declared he was not | ruling on the constitutionality of the war-time prohibition act, but that “a reasonable doubt existed.” ‘The result of the ruling ts that the manufacture and sale of 2.75 beer here is permitted, The court ruling does not affect the sale of whisky or ita release from bond, the decision specified ‘The decision was in the case of the Griesedieck Brewing company, of St. | Louis against Attorney Hensley and | Geo. H. Moore, collector of internal revenue, Four other breweries here joined in the suit, STEALS GOLDEN LOCKS DETROIT, Noy, 21.—Detectives are trying to trap a Jack the Clipper who clips off the tresses of school girls, He operates at public gather. ingy and in movie theatres, RESULTS are what make Star Want Ads popular. Get into the new ad rhyme contest beginning tomor- row. Win a prize. |PEOPLE DECISION FAVORS RECORD! NEWSPAPER PLANT HELD ILLEGALLY, IS GIST OF DECISION )To Keep Up Fight. for the Treaty Expect Peace Pact Will Be Big Campaign Issue During 1920 MAY BY RAMO’ DC CLAPPER (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Nov. 2L— Ratification of the peace treaty appeared today to be shaping it- self into the big issue of the 1920 presidential —_ election. Many Prominent men of both parties here look for a finish fight be- fore the country, with the vot- ers deciding whether the United States shall enter the jeague of nations, and, if so, with what reservations, In this struggle party lines may be broken down. Should the senate fail to ratify there will be a clear-cut issue, with President Wilson possibly again forced to take the stump in support of the treaty, it was predicted. President Wilson threw down the gauntlet when he wrote to Senator Hitcheock on the eve of the vote that the ore nee to republican senators today, the entire majority to rally around Lodge. i This is the explanation of, the un- broken front which Lodge put up during the battle tn the final hours of the extra session, It was known that “mild reservationist on the republican side were ready to sup- port Hitchcock in certain compro: mise proposals, but when the presi- dent attacked Lodge, all the repub leans resolved to stick with their leader, altho in some previous stages of the fight they had opposed him. Expect Bitter Fight Indications today were that a bit ter contest will start when the treaty comes up again next session. By its action in refusing to ratify, the sen. ate wiped the slate clean and will have to begin all over again. The treaty will go to the foreign rela- tions committee first The crucial struggle will come within the committee this time, ac cording to present plans, The treaty will not be reported out until reser: vations have been agreed upon which will meet the approval of two-thirds of the senate. Proceedings on the senate floor will be cut and dried, ft is expected. Within the committee, republicans of the Johnson-Borah. Moses-Knox group will try to shelve the pact. The real issue at the polls, accord: ing to the outlook today, will be (CONT'D ON PAGE SIXTEEN) CENTS Late Edition Per Year, We ather Forecast 5 rai a“ DECIDE) before the 1920 fight gets under way, | * &* by Mail $6.00 > $9.00 night and Saturde moderate soutl OffersFish to City at Low Rate State Commissioner Darwin Promises 9 Tons a Month | From Public Hatcheries | _—_ A COULD SELL AT 5 CENTS © Nine tons of salmon and salmon trout a month will be sold to Seattle consumers at from 4 to 6 cents @ |pound, in contrast with present | prices of from 15 to 20 cents a pound, if the city of Seattle accepts an of fer made Friday by L. H. Darwin, state fish and game commissioner, At a conference Friday morning, Darwin offered to give the city from 500 to 800 pounds of fresh fish dally from the hatchery near Tacoma, if the city pays the cost of freight. Such cost, Darwin pointed. out, would not exceed 3 cents a pound fish could be sold to Seattle com sumers at the public markets at @ trifle higher figure. Mayor Favors It Darwin told the mayor that city of Spokane was importing 6 pounds of aainhon and Lease’ rout vate markets east of the C “I'm heartily in favor of sioner Darwin's scheme to p Seattle with approximately nine tons of fish a month for the bare em — pense of bringing it inte Seattle,” Mayor Fitzgerald said. “I will confer with City Health Commissioner Read, who has super vision over the public fish market im Seattle, and I'm sure he will agree | that Darwin's offer will be mighty welcome to patrons of the markets." |Huge Drug Cache 7 Found in Yakima YAKIMA, Nov. ‘21.—Three men were arrested and huge quantities drugs seized here late yesterday in what revenue officials claim was one if the biggest raids in the North: west. The value of the dope seized runs into thousands of dollars, SPOKANE HAS TEN-DAY SUPPLY OF COAL NOW SPOKANE, Nov. 21.—Spokane has a 10-day fuel supply, according ta dealers. Coal bins are being replen- ished with Canadian coal. Approx mately 8,000 tons of coke are on hand. Mild weather is helping to solve the problem. “ Put Autos in Jail to Exterminate Speeding SIXTY DAYS IN THE Police Judge G himself cordially on Friday and declared little old idea. In theory, the {dea wrong, In the first was unconstitutional, The judge knew it. He approached the carrying out of the idea with the it a fine was all place it trepidation, And in practice, it worked. It came to pass, early last that the motor speed hounds began scorehing the high: ways’ and byw as of yore, despite former warnings, One of them was arrested. Judge Gordon, meaning to make of him a horrible example, read him a sizzling lecture and fined him $260, serving notice that the high cost of speeding was going up. This, the fudge expected, would squelch the offender, But the offender was. not squelched. He left the court room chuckling: “Art, arf!" He appealed from the judge's cruel decision to the more tender mercy of the superior court, The summer case; in time, was forgotten, Other speed hounds saw the wisdom of his example, and fol- lowed it. Speeding became @ more and more frequent pleasure, until one day. . Another culprit stood before the court. “What make {s your machine?” asked the judge. “Henry Ford,” ferider. “It shall be the sentence of this court,” said the judge sternly, springing the new and unconstl- tutional idea, “that your Henry serve 60 days in the cooler.” The judge fled to his c to await developments, a night the owner of Henry, the bus, walked home, To the surprise of hizzoner there were. no developments, Henry remained in the cooler the allotted 60 days, Other Henrys and cars of more elaborate de sign followed it, “And the records show," said Judge Gordon Friday,” “that speeding is fast becoming an exe: — tinct sport.” eh: said the of-