The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 10, 1920, Page 1

CC CCT CCS COTTA TT TD co) SHIPYARD GRAND JU EW On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1 ee The Seattle Star ‘Boy Turns Burglar to Help Sick Mother BH 88H Fe SES Fee BES BEE SES eee oo »14-Year-Old Youth Is Shot by Policeman “We Had to Have Money,” He Says: Check Comes in Mail a Few Hours Too Late to Prevent Tragedy BRUCE SHORTS, AL SCHUBACH, BLAIN, MAGEE OSTRANDER Warrants for the arrest of ten men prominent in No west shipbuilding circles were issued today following thei indictment by the federal grand jury ‘for alleged shipbuild- ing irregularities. ‘ Those indicted are: W. A. Magee, who succeeded Capt. John F. Blain” North Pacific district manager for the emergency fleet © poration. ki H. F. Ostrander, export and import shipper, with office in the Leary building. a Albert Schubach, president of the Grays Harbor ship corporation, financed by the Sloan brothers. C. N. Seaborn, president of the Seaborn Shipyard C jof Tacoma. Phillip Morrison, also of the Seaborn company. Bruce Shorts, affiliated with the law firm of Ballin Battle, Hulbert & Shorts, in the Alaska building, and ¥ the Grays Harbor corporation. under the Act of Congress March 2, 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE VOLUME 22. NO. 297. ‘Tas IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLI SLEETH N THIS column appears what I think about things, events, folks, It make no claim to infalli- bility; indeed, it is rather the passing opinion of a plebeian Person who endeavors to keep hu- man and humble; who has no @xes to grind, no sacred calves to @nolnt, and no propaganda to put So, I am frequently disagreed Mrs. Doris Williamson, the mother of 14 year old Henry with by those who consider any | Williamson who was shot as a burglar by Policeman J. J.) opis statement as the ultimate | Kush in the office of they Western Gear Works at Ninth tru rather than a mere opinion, Ss. { Sitar, 1. am frequently sur jave. S. and Jackson Us Testers ace: oy, wo ny Wa 4 at the unanimity the public |in her crowded apartment ai inth ave ‘uesday he | nr Pane see wick ~ |story of the unfortunate circumstances that led her boy| some of my ertations; for | into crime. Senne ane actamnt to discov | With the bullet imbedded in his thigh, Henry was in great this column does not cater to the | pain at the song hg vaecay | great waiting for sur-| | “righteous cause of labor,” nor | geons to probe for the missile. erwanger, of the Wes' | Disinfecting company, 318 James st., went to police head- |quarters today and identified the revolver the police say was taken from the lad, as a a gun stolen from the company’s | bs oes it pander to the “divine rights ©f property”—one about as right- _ @ous as the other is divine these @egenerate days. we eay, with as little chap is as full ne tomcat, yodeling ‘rat moon and three a, Sane rbe we should have Only we didn’t, and of the 1,800 ‘who heard him in Seattle at each concert, I discovered no one who ‘was moved from the‘ heart out, gather than from the head In. That's juxt my opinion, fortified consid¢rable experience and @ome observation. Doubtless if I ever fail to make a living writing things, I will nev- er be able to prosper by press agenting visiting “stars. I somehow lack the sympathetic spirit, the sacred cow fervor, the ability to swallow whole the pre- tensions and posings of these pass- ing celebrities, who take our mon- ey with scorn; play to us, or sing to us, pityingly, and snicker in their sleeve at our gullibility. eee HE West, especially our far-flung Pacific coast, has been bunkoed for years by passe “artists,” who wobbled out here, and, under the guiding wing of various local managers, gathered in our money and returned to us little or nothing. When an Eastern artist begins to skid; when grand opera ie too @trenuous for her; when the East- ern circuits no longer respond, they hie to the golden West, where the gulls fly thick, and the gullible are eagerly waiting. In New York an artist draws only while he or she is doing good work; in the West an artist travels ’ on reputation, and a “No. 2” show passes for a No. 1, because there is Ro competition, ‘This criticisrn does not apply to Mr. Heifetz, for he is @ genius, tho he is as yet but half a master vio- linist; but it does apply to these local managements which, year after year, gather in their net vart- ous artists and “attractions,” and who as frequently get the money on a dead reputation as on a living performance. . OR this reason I so insist- ently promote such en- terprises as the sym- phony orchestra, that give great music, render it with feeling and artistic virtu- osity, and that, at a nominal price, é@ducate all of us to know musical excellence. ‘Those who heard the last “Pop” concert of the orchestra know that | for a fraction of the cost of grand Q (Turn to Page Two) BRING GUNS TO. MASSACRE TRIAL Small Arsenal to Be Intro- duced as Evidence BY CLEM J. RANDAU GRAYS HARBOR COURT HOUSE, MONTESANO, Wash. Feb. 10—Identification of the gun from which the shot that killed Warren 0. Grimm ts al- leged to have been fired was the principal feature of the morning session of the Centralia murder trial here today. In an effort to establish its claim that Eugene Barnett used the large caliber rifle and split-nose shells when he is said to have shot Grimm | from an upstairs window of the Avalon rooming house, the state! called several witnesses, E. J. Lindley, outdoor advertiser of Centralia, who, found the 28-55 Winchester rifle near a billboard) north of the town two weeks .after | the Armistice day shooting, told of| its discovery and delivery to Special Prosecutor C. D, Cunningham. The gun in question is the only | one of the small arsenal to be in troduced by the state which has not |been admitted as being the property of the defendants. TELLS OF FINDING GUN AND SHELLS Lindley said the gun and shells wrapped in a handkerchief together | with three boxes of shells, were in| the same condition as when he} found them. He was unable to say whether the nose of the bullets had| been cut off or had been worn cff| by friction in the gun, when the! question was put by Attorney Van: derveer. Attempts of the defense attorney to draw from Chief of Police Hughes of Centralia statements regarding the events taking place on the night of November 11, when Wesley Eve lest was taken from the Centralia jail and lynched, were unsuccessful. | Judge Wileon upheld the objections | of the prosecution that such ques-| tions were immaterial in the present case. T. A. Simard, one of the men who captured several of the defendants in the I. W. W. hall, was called to identify a gun admitted to be the} property of James McInerney. Under cros#examination Simard | told of the capture of Mike Sheehan, Ray Becker, James McInerney and| Thomas Morgen in the “ice box” at| the back of the Industrialist head-| quarters. “Were they very much scared?” Vanderveer asked. “Perhaps.” “Weren't they almost scared death?” insisted the attorney. “I didn't think so.” A ripple of laughter spread thru the courtroom at the next question: “You weren't seared, were you?" ‘That the ownership of the gun al leged to have been used by Barnett | is one of the salient features of the| state’s case has now become ap- parent. Once this morning Cunningham| snapped out, “I wouldn't worry about the ownership of that gun, Mr. Vanderveer, we'll clear that all up later.” | Clashes of the attorneys subsided after the court called them to order several times. Witnesses other than members of the families of the accused men of the men slain at Centralia @ been excluded from the court, | to} |}the burglar crawled jing he was a man, | huddled in @ corner of the office of | the room and returned with a regis- | begging a piece of cake from a truck | ney, office Sunday night. The police found many finger. prints about the transom thru which into Berwan- ger’s office. These will be photo- graphed and compared with Henry's fingerprints to see if they are the same. SHOOTS THRU FLOOR: | YOUTH IS WOUNDED Kush shot the boy, he says, think: the lad sat the gear works refusing to come out. The shot was fired thru the office floor from underneath, where the policeman had crawled. “My mother is sick, Wo needed the money,” said Henry, after the shooting. Henry, his wan young mother, his 13-year-old sister, Evelyn, and little brother, Billy, aged 4, occupy the same sleeping quarters in an apart- ment barely large enough to accom- modate them all. On the floor above lives Mrs. Williamson's sister, Miss |Claudia Green, who helps support them, “I have been sick for three ‘months and unable to work,” said Mrs, Wililamson. nry’s father is dead. A month ago I was in the city hospital, Yester- day a city hospital nurse came to see me. She told me I must not even look for work until I got better, and Henry stood by the window and heard it all, ° “After she went away, I told him| one of us would have to go to work. | loves his school and I hated to} ask him to give up his studies. He works ry day during vacations. ; But he told mé not to worr that | » Was going downtown to » pout | selling papers, and wouldn't be home until late, “HECK FOR $50 COMES TOO LATE “I went to bi as usual. Henry wasn't home when I dropped oft to sleep. At 3 o'clock this morning I heard some men come into the hall They went up to sister's room, looked over at Henry's bed wasn’t there, “I was wide awake, stairs talked low, but I could hear them. I sat up in bed and listened. It was about Henry. I heard every word."# Some one was knocking at Mrs. Williamson's door as she finished talking. “The postman wants you,” a voice She seemed very weak as she left FLU STEADILY DECLINES HERE He The men up- tle Today Total cases reported. . a “in city .... County, outside city Deaths reported .. A steady decline in the number of influenza cases, both in the city and county, was reported to the health commissioners ‘Tuesday With the epidemic its second | week, t'e comparative small death rate emphasizes Health Commis sioner Read's prediction that the epidemic would be “mild,” and County Health Officer George | H. 'T. Sparling conitnue to warn all realdents of Seattle and King county to neglect no cold, however slight. No deaths were reported up noon Tuesday, since & o'clock Mon- day afternoon. According to figures reported to the city health officer, only 69 new ses were recorded up to noon Tues- since Monday afternoon at 5, county figures showed the low total of 39 new cases for the half- day. called tered letter and opened it. A check was pinned to a note from a relative, “A check for $50." ‘Tears filled her eyes. ‘Poor Henry,” she said. lore he had only waited. The police are going to let me see him at 4} o'cloc! well i Jailed Five Dacw for Begging Cake! A. Spence, who was arrested for driver on the waterfront, expressed | a desire in police court Tuesday of | turr to his native cot, at ¢ Wash You'll br days in jal |Too Cold Outside, | Ed Goes to Jail 1 Payne, colored, who has been trying to break into jail all winter, finally accomplished his desire ‘Tues- day morning. “What's the matter—like the board?” inquired Acting Police Judge Philip Tworoger. Ed shivered. “Ul gratify your able to return after five said his honor, Shopmen Delegates on Way to Capital DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 10,.—(Unit- ed Brotherhood of Maintenance of ed Brotherhoiod of Maintenance of Way and Railroad Shop Laborers to- day were en route to Washington, to make a last effort to untangle the wage puzzle, Call for a strike, effective Febru- ary 17, was made yesterday by Allen & Barker, grand Mrs. Doris Williamson and her son Henry. in his thigh, as the result of his attempt to raise funds for his sick mother by burglary. No Deaths Reported in Seat- | altho he| to} | —Cress-Dale Photo The boy is in the city hospital with a bullet Omigosh! Willie Thinks He’s Worth WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—(By United Press.)—President Wilson has received a cable from the for- met crown prince of Germany of fering himself to the allies for trial in place of 900 Germans de manded, ‘The, cable was dispatched from Weirihgen, Holland, where Fred- |] erick William ts exiled, It was || immediately transmitted to Wil- son by White House officials, | Following is the text of the |] message the crown prince sent |] to President Wilson: |] "Po the president of the United States of North America: ‘Ir. Wilson, fhe demand for the delivery of' Germans of every walk of life has aguin confronted my coun- try, sorely tried by four years of war and one year of severe infernal struggies with a crisis Kansas Shopmen to Face Prosecution TOPEKA, Kan., Feb, 10.—Main- tenance of way*workers and shop- men of Kansas railroads who strike in accordance with union order will be prosecuted, Gov, Henry J. Allen announced today, The Kansas industrial court law, which provides two years’ imprison- mg@nt and fines up to $5,000 for union officers and men who strike in viola- tion of the statue, will be invoked in case the threatened strike de 900 Germans that is without a precedent in the history of the world’ as af- fecting the life of a peor hat a government H found in Germany which would carry out the demanded surren- der is out of the question; the consequences to Europe of an enforcement of the demand by violence are incalculable; hatred and revenge would be made eternal. “As the former successor to the throne of my German father- land, I am willing at this fate- ful hour to stand up for my compatriots. “If the allied and associated governments want a victim, let them take me in, d of the 900 Germans who have committed no offense other than that of serving their country during the Island, February CRUISERS FIRE UPON ODESSA 10.—one British | LONDON, Feb. and one French cruiser were bom- barding Odessa, a wireless dispatch from Moscow today said, Fierce street fighting preceded the capture of the city by the Bolsheviki, ‘dispatch added, Tonight and Wednesday, fqir; moderate north- easterly winds, the Harbor corporation. * Collection of $54,000 charged as extras put on ships, but alleged to have never been put on, is the count Morrison, Ostrander and Sea- born. Their bail waa fixed at $5,000. The other s even indictees are all affiliated with the Sloan outfit, They are alleged to have accepted a bonus of $10,600 for early delivery of a ship when they were only entitled to $3,000, Bond for the Grays Harbor men was fixed at $2,500 each, A new indictment was also re- turned against Capt. John F. Blain, former North Pacific district man- ager of the emergency fleet corpora- tion, who was indicted several weeks ago for alleged acceptance of com: missions from ‘the! Stuart ‘Davit @ Equipment company, ‘while ‘serving the government. The new indict- ment cites six similar alleged trans. Laundry Thieves Visit Housewives A laundry bag dontaining sheets, pillow slips and “other stuff" was stolen Monday from the back porch of Mrs, E. J. Webb's home, 2110 Seventh ave. Had Gun in Bundle, ; > Police Arrest Him A bundle he was carryifg caused the arrest of James Benson, 37, in Georgetown Monday night. He was held Tuesday for investigation. In the bundle, police say, were a gun, a pass key, stocking cap and over. alls. Doubtless Police Have Right Hunch Jewelry valued at $300 disappeared during the night from the home of John Mungall, 1913 Victoria ave. The police suspect burglars. 161 Pedestrians Hit by Autos This Year Charles Ledonz, address un. known, was knocked down but not seriously injured Monday when an auto driven by Frank Jelench, of Ravensdale, struck him at Sixth ave. and Jackson st. Monday. Jelench eaid he tried to dodge the pedestrian but Ledonz kept jumping back and forth directly in front of the car, Pedestrians Hit by Autos This Year A boy playing in the street with his dog got a bump on the nose when he ran into an auto owned by Dr. W. G. Shannon and driven by William Walker, of the Ethelton hotel, at East- lake ‘ave. and Palmer st., Mon- day afternoon. The boy's name is unknown, Hit by Autos 163 This Year An unidentified Jap jaywalked into the fender of E. 8, Yeaton's autemobile at Eighth ave. Ss. and Jackson st., Tuesday morning, sustaining a cut eyebrow. Yea- Pedestrians A. H. Hoonan, of the Grays Harbor corpo: A. B. Shay, A. B. Hunt and Montey Ward, all of the G ra ton, who lives at 1605 87th ave., could not get the Jap’s name, ration. actions with the same firm, | Mazzone, Thomas P, Butler, 49 sales of Benjamin Ordell, altering War | ings Stamp certificate; C, r wine and R. E. shining; R. E. Baldwin, ha still in his posséssi R. moonshining; W. H. Edwards, porting liquor; A. L. Leonder and J. M. Evans, Cc. D. McConahy, Cohang falda 8 ate a Sophia, c acy, to alter Wes 2,000,000 RAI MEN MAYS Hines’ Answer to Union D mands Is Due Today BY RALPH F. COUCH (United Press Staff Cor WASHINGTON, Feb. ~ leaders of 2,000,000 railroad ers strike toda agreed on methods of further negotiations with Director Hines. The union heads were still work on a communication pen ag ea lay before Hines wi they say, is in the nature of an ultimatum. 3 nothing to do with this matum, and he and several leaders did not attend the ing today. eee WASHINGTON, of 2,000,000 ganized union rail Ree Hines promised to give them answer in writing, leaders said, “If it isn't what we want, "1 strike,” said President W. G. Lee, the Brotherhood of Railway men. “The time for dickering & past Hines will tell the delegation t full increase is impossible at time, it was plainly indicated, altho. the rail director has made no state: ment of his decision, It ig understood, however, that he to admit that the rail workers are titled to some increase, He is pected to propose some form of vestigation and settlement thru independent agency, probably a com mission to be named by President | Wilson, THINKS WILSON CAN AVERT THE WALKOUT The president, Hines feels certain, will be able to put the proposition in such a way that the railroad men will be forced to approve a settle: ment by peaceful means, or be con- demned from the’ start by public— opinion. This is how the railroad adminia- tration is planning té handle the uation presented by the I cliairman of the Union of Mi nance of Way Workers at who fixed February 17 as | for beginning their threatened es