The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 26, 1920, Page 1

1 11 ACCUSED OF CENTRALIA MASSACRE ON TRIAL ss a On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromi The SeattleStar |2:= $5.00 to $9.00 The Star’s Phone MAIN 600 Get the Habit! Watered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879 esday, rain or snow; col ate ‘northeasterly wit _ VOLUME 22. NO. 28: Es <e SEATTLE, WASH, MONDAY,; JANUARY 26, 1920. Weather Forecast: Tenisht. ana” ] yas 1 SEEMS IT SEEMS TO ME . DANA SL’ SLEETH ‘BOY, HIT BY AUTO, DIES IN HOSPITAL me mn AT ONCE Et EATTLE needs a traffic division. Startling as it may seem, this city of 400,000 population VISITOR has none now. The police department today is not organized to handle traffic violations Had Been in Seattle. Only a Few Mi THINK muck-raking was a highly impo chore for the last fifteen years in this country I think that probably mow constructive work is more | fmportant than destructive, for we have reared up a tribe of handy knockers that will provide €riticism enough, and the world’s Work is still largely undone But just the same, once in a while, I still like to heave a brick, especially when I can heave it at & pretentious, rascally, hypocriti eal institution that loots with one hand and pretends to give largess With the other. | For instance, the Rockefeller In- stitute, which has been lauded as the great world force for hygiene Uh huh; may be so; but listen in a systematic, capable, efficient manner. This indictment is made by no less an authority than Lieutenant C. G. Carr, who is in charge of the traffic squad as it is constituted today. And every motorist in Seattle knows it to be true. ® minute Every autoist knows that in most cases “notices to report” at po- that tends to keep the morale of the autoists toward traffic regula- J idiots ws potne vo pony tt oe lice headquarters for minor infractions of the law are ignored. And tions in a deplorable state. Seattle's traffic code is declared by ex utes When Knocked to Pav ments perts to be good. It is adequate for our conditions. But Seattle’s enforcement of the traffic code is pathetic. We must have a distinct traffic division, which shall have a re- sponsible head, to whom ALL traffic cases must be reported. legislatures some compulsory health laws that will place the @octoring and the doping, and the ‘Vaccinating, and the examining of all of us in the hands of a politt eal machine; presumably Rocke feller controtied And then I note where Percy Rockefeller, backed by Standard Of, whose by-products are medici- Mal or pseudo medicinal, is out g for the control of the drug store 5 Dusiness of this country. If Percy can control the doctors | thru the institute, and public laws, | the retail business thru his | chain of stores, truly one philan- | iy’ thropic hand washes the other | Bicely. | when, occasionally, the offender does report, there is no responsible head to whom he must answer. Any lieutenant or captain who hap- pens to be on duty at headquarters is permitted to dispose of the case. He may or may not know something of the traffic problems con- at 7 by 4 E “ ‘ fronting Seattle. He may or may not know something of the in- This is done in other large cities with fine effect. Seattle is now big aa diced eg ayesha > me enough to step out of the village class. It must no longer be anybody's | uel Short, of Telkwa, B. C., paid the supreme penalty f poops cade y © gone tage nally ena Ayo x Wl A business to handle traffic cases. Anybody’s business is nobody's §j/ crossing a Seattle street “not at the intersection.” a them just the same—and usually he handles them by exchanging a business. Lemuel’s life is the fifth exacted so far this year b 9 few pleasantries with the offender and letting it go at that Since the first of January, 115 injuries and deaths have resulted [| mobiles in this city alone. He was the 116th person injui . i . from auto accidents. Shall we delay longer in meeting this problem j/ since January 1 by automobiles here. It is this haphazard, careless, indifferent enforcement of the laws sanely ? | Mrs. I. G. Short arrived in| 2 é | Seattle early Sunday evening || Pedestrians i There is work for the city council todo. There is work for the mayor and for the chief of police. They }/¢0," With her ‘pes tots cmt rd 5 Autos ; ts Year must organize an adequate traffic division at once. \ging at her, and her hands| 4 Seattle is entitled to it—AND WILL HAVE IT. occupied with grips and other |) sonn rowan, 50, 638 @ust baggage, she hurried uptown. || anne ave. is suffering At Sixth ave. and Jackson st. lit internal injuries in the city hes tle ‘Lemuel and one of the other! weal daily soumancadl ber and/| late Saturday night by ef amt | ; lente! pucaione al whem aartda out tate ee Coon. mobile driven by Earl i = a i} Olive st. = : a retations be i frees doce and pr Pedestrians i Seon ae ant» A | Hit by Autos This Year to save him from his sins over- because the police found the ecci- : ——_ ~ dent was due entirely to the fault ‘The doctor, knowing that 80 per : ere jot the four-year-old victim. cent of his science in sanitary Lemuel, his mother and the other is Summit ave., was kn 4 7 children, were taken to the city hos-| | 4|pital The litte chap’s leg was Mother Sees Him Fatally Injured Less than five minutes after he arrived in the | his mother and her two other little ones, four-year- Lem- E by a fitney driven by C. 1501 13th ave., just as she ¥ in the aet of boarding a car at Broadway and Pike Sunday. | : had no control, and that he broken and he was internally in-|| She was removed to the i seeing with stacked carta jured. They gave him @ hypodermic || ospital, where it was found ‘Our system is all wrong; any and shook their heads. A telegram || Sustained severe leg b She ~ @ystem is that gtves the doctor a was sent his father. At 2 a, m,|] Was removed to her home Profit from sickness and gives him Monday he died. | Rothing for promoting the public eee bealth. Pedestrians 4% Council Committee Hit by Actos] | to Get ‘Life Savers’) This Year More than 1,000 suggestions on how to make Seattle's streets safe for John Rowan, 50, 533 Queen. pedestrians will be turned over to || ®ve. is suffering internal i the council public safety committee || 2 ® result of being hit by an this week. The writer of the best||iriven by Earl Bldridge, suggestion will be given $50 by The || Broadway N., at Fifth ave, Star, "Life Savers” will be publish. || Olive st, Saturday night. ‘Pedestrian Picks Up Gun and Chases Ber week or month, hisfeetostop | | Robber; Victim May Die pant to ctart ngsin when be re ane tiiiibehaabineents etm Broom continued after the man covered. one of three desperate gunmen, {who had dropped the gun, who, he Say you had 50 families paying Luke ‘Sucevich, eee supposed, was the one who had fired @octor the year thru advised shot thru the head probably f% (i.4 ghots in the shoomaker’s shop ‘these families, tested the milk, tally Monday morning when they iini¢ way down the block the man as OWIEdS ed daily in this week's Star. You'll - analyzed the water supply, watch- sate to rob him in his jahead of him fell. Brown was al find them toda 9 i a sed Se ' an y on Page 10. Will ee nag tic geen gases, on ad 704 — a gas leudit’ nie tien en bo sepeinks his Registration vice ethers, examined | gucevid proba Close Tuesday P. “the children, tested the lungs and |ni4 t1¢6 for his efforts to save §$2,|/ ft and rushed into the Fairview heart of dad, and gave him a few | 1110), was all he had in the shop, | hotel at Sixth ave, and Madison at : George R. Broom, a music store; Broom entered at his heels and ‘The doctor would make a living, clerk, who was ing the place at/#rappled with the man, tho the lat @’ pleasant living, a certain living. 830 en route down town, gave’ chase ter was considerably larger than the The families would leas we \music store clerk. After a hard than hay do now for medical at. |% two men who ran from an alley | struggle, Broom won out and held tention, would be healthier, would |after the shooting and captured one ithe other at bay at the point of his have a warning word sounded in at the point of a gun which the flee jown pistol until Motorcycle Police time, and diseases of carelessness, {ing man had dropped. |man F. R. Barman arrived | You'll have to register today ‘ ’ Enforce Law,’ Says|, , tomorrow if you want to vote Father of Boy Who } the municipal primaries and : elections. Registration books wi Was Killed by Auto | |e open at the county city batldia Auto Accident Editor: For 30] until 9 p. m. tonight. Offices ‘of ~~ ars I bave been intimately asso- || ficially close at 5 p, m. Tuesday, Ese ne RED ’ ‘. ciated with Seattle street traffic; 1 || @tTangements have been made 4 { drive an automobile; a few months || keep clerks on the job until” a 4 1 ago I had a darling boy killed in j stragglers are registered. oat ee ee ee an t : ae ree Orn. Ave. c oul checks ve at first ad-| When the policeman appeared, the tae mcgleser ose Jace atone abst s put later captive ahowed fight. Paerman was, ‘The above chart shows: (Upper right) where Shoemaker Sucevich was broad daylight by a recklessly we Refiaes <gheny ccihion sak 8 where he|Unable to get the handcuffs on his|shot in his shop, and trail of gunmen and George I. Broom, music store driven auto, and at that time I | Lodge efuses to is as we pay doctors Jat police headquarters, prisoner until he had struck him a clerk, who outran and captured one of them after they leaped thru the spent days gathering facts to an- || Di tend us only when we are sick, | cave the name of George Cole, denied | p16 in the face which cowed him jow at rear of shop, dropping a gun at the alley mouth, and turned) William Cole, alleged gunman cap-|] swer the question as to why I had || iscuss the T; go long will sickness be of more in- terest te the doctor than health. he knew anything about the affair jy. \, » First Presbyterian church, down Spring st., into|tured by George Broom and held|| to lose my boy and how to make WASHINGTON, Jan, 26. 1 to have told Baerman he Seventh ave. past th and refused to discuss it. | was the one who had shot Sucevich. Sixth ave, where the fugitive fell and scrambled into the Fairview hotel at | for the shooting of Shoemaker Suce-|| our streets safer for some other || Lodge, republican leader, coone ged SEEK TWO BANDITS Meanwhile, the other runner, who | Sixth and Madison | viel, |] man’s loved one. fused to resume bi-partisan UT what about the thou sso SCAPE had fled up Sixth ave., outdistanced Ss = * * I know the answer. Our laws |/conferences except upon the sands of families that do | WHO MAKE ESCAPE |another civilian pursuer, and disap. are sufficient, if obeyed. Most peo- || understanding that no change ple want to obey them. Publicity is the only way to teach them, coupled, of course, with rigid en- jever be made in the Lodge tions on Article X. and the doctrine, not believe tn medicine? ‘The two other bandits disappeared | peared in the businesn district He | The above system |and are being hunted by police and| wore a soldier's overcoat. ROBBER 3 0 | se has been turned | 2 7 : would be most welcome | detectives. Th N KB | to them, for the family would be | over to Detectives G. M. Blaine and Box hon = — Two «ystematic burglars held ‘Open that safe,” the robber com- get back to work. for pent of our 8. He delivered this virtual u the employing agent instead of the [yyy McNamee. Lace incase egrigt up five employes of the Central | manded He lowered his gun, but swumy|| , Autolsta drive too tast and pe- |] to the denncratic meanbenaiiiay " ss r, 6 third mer ne trio, whom mi " t | | destris ik less!; meeting today, any ox the sttte. Broom, who lives at the Westmin:| eee er ee | fe, 207 First ave. 8, at 2:10 Kemp hesitated Jit menacingly by his side. Bure “adie Pootoerge’ pelrownrd te Mk ‘As it is now, the constant temp- so eeente Ninth, ave. and|Broom had first deen guarding the| cafe, ’ : 4 cow “willeeer told Cen le ta Eien | Win senagh: bone Gait” thle x" tation for medical saasociations is valent nnd who i employed at |ffont door of the shoemaker’s shop,| a, m, Monday and robbed nes ay kage a ie proliant el i wri ath v0 || sussestion may help. Did Census Man promote business by political | ae ‘e 219|Was chased by a small boy on a bi-| Kp manager, of about | morrow and the pe siow music| the ki . uP | ours faithfully, Big the Meyer-Toner agg Copan naan icyele from the scene of the shoot-| wi m1, the ; a $5.000 in |behind the old one if you don't,"|Aeainst the wall with the other BE, L. GRAVES. Count Your Ose |union st. says bi yp ah and Stewart ot.| 98280 to cish am ; |was the laconic response of th Only once'tn ten. yours. aaa t these last few years ° e a he ef tha A. Me, A. on the legislatures cape aft yrotagt as eae f the | where the b¢ for compulsory medical attend. | S000 te son st. s The lad rep. lost him in the crowd.| cheeks | robber |FIRES AT ROBBERS 4 to the police and| oth robbers were masked and| jcomp, opened the doors of the | / ° Sam count noses. If census PEAR Tacoma Will Form _ [erators missed you, or any of nearch was ance, compulsory medical examina- be ‘ ee nin that neighbor-| ied automatic revolvers. The| heavy ping to watch this acquaintances telephone Main tion, inoculation, etc., indicates | When 98 ary esr vealy ii nest | pease bakers the robbery was well| ‘phe contents included $5,000 In| place for 10 minutes,” one of the Herb Hoover Club The census bureau will do the m the serious plight the profession cas he sot two quick shots, He| TB pollee found Sucevich lyin] Fianned and that the burglars had/«hipyard checks. Of this amount,|men said, “and if a single man TACT Hen B tr cone | eure finds itself In when it haa to rely |says, he heard two quick shot O1%) oy, the floor of his hop, lapsing inta| Waruned the cafe for several morn:| $4,909 In checks had been cashed | makes an outcry, it's good night." | fF President” club will be formed on the old hit and miss method [suspected = semutlung Sit ave. he|Unconaciousness. The bullet had |i" ger to acquaint themselves | Saturday and were indorsed. There|‘They then left the cafe and ran|here Wednesday at a meeting in the of waiting until a man {9 sick | Turning Dern’ Gy far as the alley,| Pierced his forehead and burrowed! with the habits of employes was also a sack of money taken |/down Main st. ‘They were last |Tacoma hotel. ee abed before the doctor gets & pa yi saw two men leap from a ee care oni ad, making its exit |" iene cafe closed at 2 a. m, Roth|from the bank to cash the checks. | seen waiking hurriedly in a east amen pages asap ONS ne hance at him. jon he ‘a shop and| behind the left ear. The walls all As : fy J the meantime, the burglar |ernly direction, al x Laren when you make medical | reason in \ elgg pnt . ow about the room were smeared with |Tobbers waited in the aba led 4 the employes in the rear| Kemp dashed Into the office ana|°f any party,” says the call for the gervice governmental you put @ |fun towards h blood |McMillan, @ porter, cam zed the scene, which could be! obtained a gun, which he fred |™ecting issued by R. BE. Chase, aj] DAILY HE ASKS A ca a u in his hand. | kit doo vith a load of trash. | rea al » a . > ~~ tax burden on the efficient, the |carried a gun In | Sucevich was able to tell but ut-|Mitehen does wie oa him to|seen from the street, was not /several times from the opened chemical engineer. “They hope in TION OF FIVE PE ; } mperate, the thy, for the ben- IN AREAWAY 6 of the affair before he lost con. | THY vor told the men to! kitchen door, eed that Hoover will finally run as PICKED AT RANDOM eit ot tho carblens, the interaper- BE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH siousess He was taken to tho {step inside the kitchen ‘ iigsbbeecs acs ai tots as the standard bearer of one or the 7 ne aller 1} oy hospita here his *y | David Jones, a cook, was cleaning * other of the two great parties.” nn ey Pragati gaol is Sealant ole Bones Garten gecoee Imading to aenpalred Mes io crcloce, "lene stove, while John gameh and 3-| you have not been counted in || Hoover's candidacy is urged, the THE QUESTION ef (accatAs OF eed ecrhe vaeaae | nem abelian 1D OS Sen church, tear leitkine afiataee 0 Cowis were cleaning the Kitchen, J.| the 1920 Census, or know of || til v8 because of his well known Do you <secens Se nnenial send a ie | vaite Us . “distaste for tric! and subtet thing that they have no bellef in, a, be ys, that the bandit might ” Higgins, another waiter, was eating. | . ; ‘4 < Paes tages RS and, strange to say, also have little pi tim ‘The two ran out of the | PROTECT $2 CA James Kemp, the manager, was in|! someone who has been missed, fill out this coupon and | MRS. A. L. FYHN, 4212 actual need of. \ooley and started across Seventh ave.| He sald he had been surprised an inner office counting the re-|) Wai) it to the Chamber of Commerce, 900 Arctic bldg. | wood Ave.—I’ve seen very little of ‘The support of no profession |) acing for Sprmg st. The larger! shortly after opening up his place|ceipts. He was unaware at this! | Household Aseas itaolatnot. very proper: should be foisted on the public by |, dropped the gun in the middle| for business by & man who entered |time of the robbers presence, The |} Consus Committe, 5 saalia’ > JOHN P. GALLAGHER, 1357 33 edict ., [of the street. | the front door and told him to throw |robbers, who both wire nebeanee Chamber of Commerce, 900 Arctlo Building. | Burglars Pay Visit Ave. N. E.—How do you get No honest, competent doctor will |°" 1) Oe on arop, Broom st (Turn to Page 2, Column 4) [tne tive A ak Re, eeu I have not been listed for the 1920 government census | ‘paking advantage of the absence|way? It all depends on who's da dent it. | 38. ie . | 7 ae “i Tt at Nl gal | Ry aly fo One man guarded the employes lof C. W. Chamberlain and his fam-|it, of course, ily, who are due back from Califor-| EK, #. HARTNEY, 1616 5. nia this coming Thursday, robbers|St.—How do you mean burglarized the home at 928 13th ave.| If I'm doing it—fine! | during the night. A neighbor report-| MRS. EBER G,. KNAPP, ed the robbery. Entrance was made | Eastern Ave.—I've never thru a window, The police were un-| don’t know anything abo able td determine the amount of the| MRS, FRANK P, loot taken, 18th Ave,—No. I do Name «+ Retain your doctor by the year, liber automatic pistol. Gun mI as you do your lawyer, and pay | Ta room sprinted after the two | |while the second entered the office him only for health. In time of | ien. ‘They turned into Spring at. | MANAGER FORCED snes te attamee 708 Ae mup) | running downhill towards Sixth ave., TO OPEN UP SAFE pliew his own medicines, free of running dewalt Come ialy. | . charge. it J ‘ ra parted, the Kemp had just counted $350 of " Oo At Sixth ave. hey e 4 pbber covered Which, I take it, would greatly | tne turning towards Madincn the money. The robber covered restrict the outpouring of prescrip- | larg Kemp and swept the money in tons on the people, doubtless to | st. the othe penceetiog fet Sixch (PAGE 10) thelr material benefit, ee wr Address .. Must the ator f ail 3a the |} thin address .. evening? Number of people at