The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 9, 1920, Page 1

EW Weather Tonight fair; winds. * {lik VOLUME 22. NO. 296. moderate Forecast and Tuesday, easterly DON’T GAMBLE! ON’T gamble with your health. upon us. chances, Play safe. ’ It is your biggest asset. The epidemic is not critical—and will not be if YOU take care of yourself. One day at home, at the right time, may save you a week or two of illness. GO HOME when These It means more to your happiness than.any amount of riches and rewards, symptoms of the waren are symptoms of the flu: Just now the “flu” is appear. Don’t take any eral pains in head, back of eyes, in limbs and joints; weakness, chilliness and fever; coughing and sneezing and redness of eyes; hoarseness dnd bronchial cough; diarrhea or constipation, usually latter; vomiting in some case’; pulse not inereased in proportion to fever; onset of disease is ‘usually 24 hours after exposure. IF YOU DEVELOP THESE hot water. Sleep Don’t kiss anyone. etc. dissipate. ine well-ventilated room. SYMPTOMS, BE SURE TO OBSERVE THE FOLLOWING Keep away from others. Keep away from work. Don’t worry. Keep nose and mouth masked with handkerchief, cloth or gauze when coughing or sneezing. Travel on street cars and railroad trains as little as possible. Don’t expectorate on sidewalks, or on floors of public buildings or vehicles. Street cars should be adequately ventilated. Eat plain, nourishing foods. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, SEATTLE, WAS 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1 1, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1920, The Seattle Star 879, Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 Go home. Ge to bed. Call a physician. Drink plenty of water, preferably Don’t remain in rooms poorly ventilated or overcrowded. Use individual kniv: , forks, towels, handkerchiefs; Keep feet warm and dry. Keep good hours. Don’t om x & 7“: ATE EDITION Ul | VANDERVEER, ACCUSES MERCHANTS U. S. TROOPS KILL* FIVE! AS IT SEEMS TO ME “DANA . SLEETH HERE are legions of roes right hére in Sea tle, and nobody knows anything about them, nor cares. The wife and I were passing a Diock of four héuses, the other evening. ‘There is a little baby just a few weeks old in that cot- tage,” she said. “And in that house there is a baby 4 months old; and in that bungalow they have four children; the youngest is less than a year and the oldest is 6 or 7; and that family in the yellow house has two children under 5 years of age.” And I thought how pleased the shade of Teddy would be if he could hover over our neighborhood and see how slight a hold the race suicide theory was getting og our | families. . this iq not ignorance—this bearjng; it is not the visita tion of mysterious Providence. No, sir; ft is the deliberate shouldering of the white man’s burden by clerks, and small professional men, and laborers, and mat) clerks, and their wives. ‘The men giving their leisure, thelr pleasure, their love of luxury on the altar of the family, the wives giving their youth, thelr freedom, their’ health too fre- quently. As I see it, the only citizens worth while are those who raise families, who educate families, who devote their lives to giving their children a square deal. I have no respect fom the s0- called successful man, who goes it - alone; who hogs opportunities for personal advantage; who is so self- ish, so cold, so lacking in all sense of responsibility, that he goes the . lgnely path. No more have I re- spect for the business nun, who prefers her beauty, her adornment, her comfort, to what was foreor- dained to be her sole duty to hu- manity, ‘The real heroes are these fathers and mothers, who fight the good fight from youth to old age for their children, for the state, and for the future. Beside them our biggest public man is a mere braz- en image. Anybody can be presi- dent, but it takes a real man to make a living for six children, see JUROR, naturally an enlightened American citizen, was asked, in a recent trial at Cleve- land: “What is capital punishment?” “It's a punishment for capital ists," responded the sapient furor. Funny? ‘Well, yes; it’s funny, and it isn’t. Because the juror wasn’t joking; she was so full of class conscious: negs, he saw a deadly boorzwha at pushed in every bosky dell; he Was so fed up on the conspiracy of Jawn Dee against his home and pay yenvelope that all things on earth were tinged with the crim- . son hue of his imaginings, Loose thinking, hectic harangu- ing—these are the made. An agitated Seattle eitizen—pre- sumably a citizen, for he speaks 60 virtuously of our country and its enemies—writes me that the city employed © lot of women to take the census, while soldier boys go begging, and that something should be done to Mayor Fitager- ald about it. Most children of 6 these days know that Uncle Sam ig taking this census, and not Mayor Fitz- gerald, but a lot of “citizens” jump before they think; they are deter- mined to find fault, so they find it. A national grouch; reflex of a national world sympathy; back tide from the flood of disinterested sacrifice the nation made, Natural—perhaps inevitable; but poor fodder to promote national growth on, none the less, How would it be to fine an agt- tator elght hours’ useful labor ev- ery time he yelps without truth or justice being in his yelp? I believe in a barking dog when there's a burglar in the house, or a tramp sneaking the week's wash off the line; but I make it uncom- fortable for the pup when he wakes me up at midnight because the moon persists in shining into hig kennel. brother, Lieut. Perley Spiker, FALL RIVER, Mass, Feb. 9.— Miss Emily Knowles, girlmother, of 300,000 RAIL MEN TO STRIKE Walkout Is Ordered for Tuesday, February 17 | DETROIT, Feb. 9.—Strike of 300,- | 000 metnbers of the United Brother- hood of Maintenance of Way Em |ployes and Railway Shop Laborers | was called today for Tuesday, Febru ary 17, at a meeting of the general chairmen of the brotherhood here. The strike wae announced by Allen E. Barker, grand president, after nu merous communications from J. B. Malloy, grand vice president, at Washington, conducting negotiations with the railroad administration. Malloy advised the brotherhood that no hope of a favorable settlement ex- isted. Wife, Beaten by ' Husband, Rescued City hospital authorities Monday reported Mrs. Hazel Williams, who was found in a precarious condition learly Sunday morning on the street at First ave. and Bell st., would re. ‘My husband beat me up,” ‘attendants. J. H. Bloedel Hurt in Auto Collision J. H. Bloedel, president of the Bloedel-Donovan Lumber company, sustained a lacerated head Monday morning when an automobile driven by his wife collided with a jitney bus driven by H. J, Ziegel, on Rainier bivd. Mrs, Bloedel escaped without injury. she told Burglars ‘Acquire Six Pairs Socks Prowlers robbed RK, Thompson's home at 3717 Belvidere ave. of a purse containing $7.50 and six pairs of socks Sunday night. Cold cash makes an excellent hot weather comfort. "Girl Mother Now Bride Emily Knowles Now’ Wife of “ Ss. —— Will ‘Keep ‘Her Baby This is Mrs. Emily Knowles Spiker, who became the bride of Guy S. Spiker yesterday at Fall River, Mass. Spiker’s| ts the baby’s father. He met the girl while on duty at an aviation camp in Ragland,’ England, and Guy 8. Spiker, of Baltimore, are bride and groom to-| day following their marriage yester. day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Battersby. ‘The wedding culminates a modern- day love romance which began when the groom's brother, Lieut. Perley Spiker, was stationed at an aviation training camp in England. He met Miss Knowles there. The girl was brought to America on money fur. nished by Mrs. Spiker, after the birth of the child became known ‘The bride and groom left today for Baltimore. They will make their home temporarily with Lieut. and Mrs. Perley Spiker. The five-month. old infant, Alfred Ray, will be adopt ed by Guy Spiker, the husband of the English girl. GAPT, BLAIN TO PLEAD MARCH 1) Court Gives s Time for De- murrer Capt. John F. Blain, former mana- ger of the North Pacific district of the Emergency Fleet corporation, indicted January 23 last by the fed- eral grand jury in session here, will enter a plea on March 1, it was de termined Monday in the U, 8, district court Blain was originally scheduled to enter his plea Monday, but the plead- ing date was postponed to allow for| the preparation of a demurrer which is expected to be entered against the indictment. Blain was indicted for having re- celved secret commissions from the Stewart Davit and Equipment com pany, of New York, while he was head of the government fleet cor- poration. Wife Gens to Jail, Husband There Now| While her husband, Frank Rossi, was fh the south tank of the county jail for selling Mquor, Mrs. Frank Rossi’ was arrested by Deputy Sheriff J. C. Connor on an identical charge, One-half pint of red wine is involved, Armed Mountaineers, Angered by Shooting, Are on Their Way to Take Possession of Negro Who Killed Little ing Geneva Hardeman, 10-year-old school girl, handreds of armed mountaineers are on the way here with the intention of taking possession of the negro, in spite of the national guardsmen, ac- cording to reports receive by the police. Governor Edwin Morrow is en route here to take charge of the situation. On his request 400 regular army troops from Louisville, under the command of Major F. C. Martin, left | Camp Taylor for this city today. The dead were: John Thomas, | | Versailles, Ky.; B, F. Carrier, Lex- ington, Ky.; ny William Eterington, Versailles, ; and an unidentified negro girl. s hile soldiers were driving back | |the mob of 4,000, which demanded | surrender of Lockett, the negro was found guilty of murder and sen: tenced to be electrocuted. ‘The Hardeman girl's body was} found in a field near her home late | Friday. Examination disclosed she |had been attacked and murdered. | | Bloodhounds put on the trail led to| | Lockett. Rumors of the attempt at} |iynching spread rapidly thru Fayette | county and a company of state mil- {tia fram Latonia was rushed to |¥rankfort Sunday to escort Lockett to the courthouse at Lexington. Machine guns were mounted to sweep approaches to the courthouse and overseas soldiers with steel hel- mets were on guard when court opened this morning. More Troops to | rear. | minutes he was sentenced to denth | la M. King, Lexington, |- Girl; Rushing The’ mob gathered slowly, and when about 4,000 were in the square in front qf the courthouse, a voice spon. ied 0 now!" 4 surged up the steps of inet urthouse, A deputy sheriff asviated one of the leaders and led him away, Officera with pistols threatened to shoot if necessary. The rioters came on and tried to wrest guns from the militia, Then the order to fire was given, Three men fell dead on the courthouse steps. Others carried them to the Meanwhile the trial of Lockett was proceeding in the courtroom, In 15) on March 7. Troaps are being held | here to prevent further trouble. Lockett’s -life was saved last week’ When Governor Morrow, hear. Ing of the formation of a mob in Lexington, took charge of the state penitentiary at Frankfort, where the negro was brought for jaate keeping. Ordering deputy | sheriffs to guard all approaches to the penitentiary, Morrow sent Sher- iff Bain, of Franklin county, to- ward Lexington with instructions to prevent the mob entering the state capital The sheriff met the mob fn auto- mobiles on the outskirts of the city and on a hill overlooking the prison Placing his own automo. bile crosswise in the street Bain persuaded the crowd to return to Lexington, 30 miles away. A few over-enthusiastic members of the mob were arrested, but released when they agreed to return, Total cases recorded. . Total in city..... County, outside city. . Deaths reported .... Gradual decline in the number of flu cases since Friday was noted on charts at the county and city health bureaus Monday. With the epidemic more than a week old, the number of deaths |attributed to the disease in both jcounty and city made the surpris ingly low total of 36, not Including that of a wife who shot herself Jafter her husband had succumbed to the malady. At the city hospital the number of flu patients was reduced Mon- day to 120, es reported at thg city ireau since =‘ Saturday 103, at the county health | bureau 45 One death was reported at the city hospital, Mrs, A. Carstens, 711 Third ave. W., died Sunday night. ‘Tragedy followed swiftly the wake of flu Sunday in the home of Edward Phelps, a barber, 318 W. 65th st. Phelps succumbed to the disease just half an hour before his wife, Mrs, Alice H. Phelps, stricken with grief, shot herself thru the head rather than live without him. She left this note to a sister, Mrs. O. W. Dresser, San Bernardino, Cal.: “My darling Sadie: Forgive me FLU REPORTS SHOW A GRADUAL DECLINE |Fitzgerald Back and don’t grieve for me. 1 can't live without Ed, and he is leaving I must not let him go alone. Darling sister, be rave." Phelps was owner of a barber| shop in the New Richmond hotel, the scene of another queer antic | of the flu Sunday evening. George | N. Hoagland, 71, stumbled into the lobby and fell into a chair. Two hours later he was dead. His body lies beside those of a dozen otifer flu victims at the morgue. James F. Clark, an athlete, the ast man his friends expected to| all i, formerly a baseball pitcher, is another victim, Clark died Sun- day at Providence hospital. His body is to be sent to Coupeville, the home of his parents. The malady cut a wide swath In the ran f city employes. First to die of the: many who contracted the disease was Royden S. Powell, a street car employe, 4508 Ninth ave. N, E. A widow and two daughters survive him. me. in Mayor’s Chair A little thinner but ready for work, Mayor C, B. Fitzgerald re- turned to his desk Monday morning after a 10-day absence during which he was confined to his home with an attack of influeng&, ‘The mayor put in a strenuous forenoon plow: She Will _Fly to Alaska * “Sater pinay a Taxi,” Saya Elizabeth Lewis Seattle Girl Eltzabet’ Miss Elizabeth Lewis, only woman pilot in the Northwest, declares that flying is less dangerous than riding in a taxi or plunging into matri- mony. Miss Lewis should know, She is one of the 12 licensed woman air- plane pilots in the United States. She hag been flying for more than three years, and she is an exhibition flyer whose aerial acrobatics put the birds to shame. Way back in 1917, when the Unit Jed States started to put the Ame ongen in kaiser, Miss Lewls took her first flight with Billy Parker, in structor in the Davig. school of avia- tion, in Seattle. She hoped at that time to be of service to the United States forces in the war as an in- structor, Today Miss Lewis is one of the best pilots in the country, During the past year she has been acting |manager of the Dewey Airplane Co., Oklahoma, and when she wanted to forget the business of selling and renovating planes, she would take a little ship up to 6,000 feet altitude and there cavort around the sky like a frolicsome porpoise in the middle | of the Atlantic, RE A PERSO. ared?” said Miss Lewis Satur. “There is nothing in flying to scare a person, So long as you have sufficient altitude, you are as safe as if you were sitting in the old Morris chair in front of a cozy fire.” Miss Lewis declared that flying as long since become an every-day occurrence in the Middle and South- ern states, “In Oklahoma the af quite superseded the tax! she de clared. “Business men, when they want to make a quick jump between towns, call up an airplane company. A great number of oil men own their own planes.” * Seattle's first woman pllot is the daughter of Mra. O. L. Drake, of 108 N. bist st. “My mother is still opposed to fly- ing,” Miss Lewis said. “But if I could only persuade her to take a flight with me, I'm sure she would be ds enthusiastic as I. Take a per- won up in the alr, do a few loops and ine has ing thru a més of accumulated ispins, demonstate what a safe me- correspondence ara Baba Urabe dium the air really is, and after a z in Air. Race h Lewis few hours you have a convert that is wild to take up flying.” SHE'LL FLY IN_ RACE TO ALASKA NEXT YEAR Aviation will be retarded in Seattle until adequate airplane landing factl- ities are provided, according to Miss Lewis. “There are at least six aviation men, who would like to do business |here," she said, “And there are a number of Seattle people who would fly their own planes if there was a municipal landing field here, As is is now, a land plane is very apt to be crack up trying to come down in the few restricted spaces that are possible to land in around Seattle,” Miss Lewis holds pilot's license No. 4635, issued by the Aero club of America, She is a member of the Aero club of the Northwest and a Seattle resident since 1909. Next spring, when the big Seattle- to-Alaska aerial derby is staged, one of the planes that hoy. off at Lake Union for the 1,000-mile non-stop flight to Juneau will be piloted by a brown-eyed, demure-looking girl, and if her ship doesn't get there and back in record time, it will be only because the engine has dropped out or a wing has fallen off. Wow! Country Hounds Facing Extermination “You're goin’ to be shot,” said the jeity dog to the country hound. Then he qualified it with a “maybe.” “How’sat,” replied the bumpkin purp, as he pricked up his ears, all attention, “If you haven't a license by June 1 you will be shot,” explained his city cousin. The country purp shiv: ered, then kiyied down the road to warn all his rural canine friends, Dogs in the county, outside Seat- tle, must be licensed by the assessor with the treasurer by June 1, Sher- iff John Stringer'’s deputies will be reqvired to shoot all unlicensed dogs in the county after that date, Defense at Montesano Legion Men Catspaws | Manufacturers — leged outrages committed by talism against the new laber phy,” in answering the tate will attempt to establish « the guilt of ‘G3 11 admitted of the I. W. W. who are on trial their lives. ‘ ‘The defense: attorney™ many of the by Herman Alles e ney, on Saturday, and categorically. “Come on, boys; let's for cry with which the men from’ the parade and rushed. Vanderveer said. “They the windows and smashed ti of the I. W. W. hall before | even a shot fired.” i Taking up the matter of the at ing, alleged to have come Arnold and Avalon hotels, } veer said witnesses would p no shooting came from but the Industria} headquart said that no more than a dosen were fired from the hall, Vanderveer chirged a meetings arranged by the C cial Club of Centralia, and spo by the national organization of chants and manufacturers, ; ranged to raid the I. W. W. hall, said the proposed raid was @ of common privileged ki vic ; thruout Centralia; that secret ings had been held by a special 60 mittee of the Merchants’ in the Elks hall, and that the # “was carried out under the ¢ patriotism.” ‘ He attempted to ridicule the cution's contention that the had been halted merely to sts out its ranks, leut. Cormier blew the which was the signal for the Cormier spurred his horse a ahead and shouted to the o sion of the parade: “What matter? Aren't yoy in on this! “Mind you, there was a break block in the parade,” Vanderveer clared, eh oy pr vlad aed pete a Coal Shortage A. Johnson, 22 and warm for the first time this pe waters He is in the city jail. Johnson arrested when caught loading from the Wingate Coal Co.'s ers, Occidental ave, and st., into an automobile truck night. QUENTIN QUIDNUNC DAILY HE ASKS A TION OF FIVE PERSONS PICKED AT RANDOM TODAY’S QUESTION This is “good turn" week, good turn have you done? t ANSWERS LYLE R. DALE, 200 Second Did myself a good turn by Pp late, Just got out of bed, Give fella a chance, Oh, hum! HARRY STAHL, 1218 Fourth —I said my prayers this morning, asked that we should all live in peace together for the rest of our lives, and. everybody eat at Stahl's restaurant, DR, 8, H. STARBUCK, 1814 Third ave. N.—-Been too busy with flu pa- tients to think about it. Maybe saved a few lives, I don't know. FRANK W. HOUGHTON, 219 Co- lumbia st.—I got up late and came down late to work. That's all ¢o fi MRS, H. M. HUG, 1108 Ch —Why,. that’s right, Well, one before the day is over.