The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 21, 1920, Page 1

Weather Tonight and Sunday, fair; moderate ea winds, Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 40; minimum, 33 ‘Today noon, 47, a VOLUME Entered aa Becond © nn Matlor May a, EATTLE, WASH at the Postoffice at Beattie, wi ATURDA ‘aah under the Act BRUA On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star of Congress March 2, 1879, Per Year, by Mail, $5 to 9 RY 21, | MURDER CASE JURY, LATE SATURDAY, WILL, DECIDE EALY’S FAT ras IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH "35,000 DRAFT | | SLACKERS ARE. TAKEN BY U.S. Bombs? No, Just a Bootlegger’s “SkinGame”’ VERY time I hear a new wail from some “strick en” nation abroad, I am reminded of the story of 4 one of our prominent Se- “f | ttle beggare—the lady who sends | her own children to a private | Justice Department Makes! school, and who begs on the cor hers, aided by two ragged tots that Drive on Dodgers of War Duty she rents each day from a hard couch Working and poverty-stricken neighbor IT have been dipping into the trade figures, the business bal @nces, the food supply stores the World over, and I see no reason BY RALPH F. WASHINGTON, Feb, 21—Ap- this | Four doen whisky bottles ame ee { filled with rage, created a small es | panic late Friday night, when Indeed, I prophesy that when we represent the work of months || they were brought Into central ‘wake up, some ten years hence, | We will be a mighty bitter nation | in discovering how we were bled and sneered at by some of the Eu police station “Mebbe they're a new kind of bomb.” offered one cop. A motor by department agents who are rynning down suspects, the names of whom are furnished | by ti department. patrolman was detilled to on ufted eer purse etvepesaad bs adhered are divided into two one off the Dearborn st it ce tae reign talk of re categories, 173,911 men being classed | ridge, while another one took a ation Of debte: most of thie |## “willful deserters," from the|| shot at one on Profanity hill ri jane 161,354 being regarded ax | When the bottler didn't explode, ik of famine and bankruptcy, is “suspects”. who must be questioned | they were returned to the station. pure beggar cant, made to wheedie ae ee 0: and investigated. A dootlegger’s skin game,” a foam, ta ve (Ag al gx Pk Of the 35,000 so far arrested hun-|| opined Desk Sergeant Prank it hensot Gees fips a | dreds have been convicted and sen-|| DuCett. The bottles were found jtenced to jail terms in federal pent ||» Georgetown. Unele Sam today fs the world's iad |tentiaries. Others are awaiting ar Engiand, Germany, Italy, |Pignment. Some have been let off with little punishment because it was it thin, Bee ce. Japae there i methine ‘| tound that while thetr registrations | could be classed as “irregular” there | was no intention of fraud. The pen- alty for violation of the draft law | provided in the act itself is one| year's imprisonment Some of those arrested are being tried by courtemartial, since they | were legally inducted into the army | or certified for service by their draft boards but failed to report for duty. Justice department officiais say | the slacker drive may take several | years to complete, altho most of the | |important arrests will probably be | oye within the next pect monthe. Ines ATTACKED i BY RUSS FORC | MASSACRE TRIAL Lasenleseno Case Is Ad- journed Until Tuesday GRAYS HARBOR coURT- Feb, 21 found to be suffering from influ: eusa, he was dismimed from the Centralia murder trial jury to on the brink--or hes over the brink--ig doing « Tot of business, and its export trade last year was nearer $200, 600,000 than it was $150,000,000. Some of the sanest observers have absorbed so much of the _whining, saffron spirit of the Bol ‘gheviki that they can’t see any- ne but ruin anywhere they au day. Following the report of County Physician J. H. Fritz today, that | Parr was unlikely to recover from | the attack of influenza by next Tues day, Judge Wilson convened court to Fronted a of the alternate jurors to he place of the sick man, Parr borg a removed to a local al howpital. MYSTERY SHOT Fierce Fighting Is Ragin ng| Along Amur River HERE is no excuse for any leading nation repu diating its obligations if a it is honest at heart and LONDON, Feb. 21, — (United i J cares to go to work. | Press.) — Insurgent white troops | >, Twenty years from now, every (along the Amur river have | | Japanese forces, and fierce fightt: |is proceeding, a Moscow wireioen communique today said. The whites ' ation that was at war will be _ More prosperous than it ever was ince history began. ; | Rips Thru Wall and Wounds | ‘This country is today the center [have sent reinforcements to of governmental waste, of official | their troops, according to the com: | Electrician extravagance run riot; this coun. | munique. y needs to devote its every Another communique reiterated Aa minding its own busi- | the statement of the Russian saviet| Mystery shrouded the attempted Mees, and it has presented enough | government that it is ready for| shooting today of J. Daugherty, a Dillions to wnappreciative strang- | peace, and is fighting only thru ne-| youthful electrical worker, who was ers. Any more hospitality is likely | ceswity The soviet ernment |the target of two bullets fired thru to drain our own resources to the |“does not desire to rob ita neigh-|the well of a Chine laundry at point where we will not only be lbors,” and that fact is “understood | 1618 7th ave at 840 Saturday overburdened with debt and stag. (by the Briti#h, French, American| morning. Daugherty was not seri gering under excessive tax bur. [and other imperialistic govern-| ously injure dens, but will limit us to the nar jments,” the communique added M. J. Grady. who was in the room row limits of domestic trade, while nar eset directly above that in which young our wily “allies” go ahead and hog TA | Daugherty was working, was ar the earth and the fullness thereof. KE P rested and held by the pe ‘This ia how it looks to me, after Bullet holes indicate that some Migesting the figures the world leaned out of the window and fired 4 am not an idealist, who clings to frame building 4 his rosy dreams of brotherhood / y wis suffering from a cur. | } y | plus of gfapo whe even tho the tramp be lifting his —_— arrested. It ia i ciate te walang, cnr tam || pO Mon Held at Alcatraz: Sone oo. seohaned at" the" howe ger distress. | Make Try for Freedom or 840 a. m. by the young me echanic and fired the temperamental HIS is on me. | Some Kind friend, who coyly hides his, or her, identity, sends me a clip- ping of a paragraph from my recent column anent the shots that aroused the n elighborhood SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21.—~A dash for liberty by three Alcatraz | military prisoners led to a gun bat JACK JOHNSON . | tle today and culminated in the ar-| A |rest of four men, Max Felix, a cot art exhibit, in which I wonder why | panion of one of the fugitives, 103 was not given honorable men- | wounded. tion a4 4 water color, ‘The myster- Private Ralph W. Siebold, guard nger then remarks: “Yes, |over the prisoners, who were work. | _ you are, indeed, ignorant, |ing at. the transport docks, deserted lor No. 103 is a pastel.” | yesterday, a number of prisoners vr Tag Tm tt. Fleeing with him, He te sti!l at large. | FOrMer Pugilist. Will Be Ar- Possibly more than three escaped ‘Two of the prisoners were arrested They are Andrew It’s a wise art critic these days that knows what's what. For, not content with painting water colors rested If He Does } | | here last night, to look like oils; not content with | Higgins and Robert Penny CHICAGO, ‘Feb, 21.—Jack John using colored chalks, combined omame meer son, former heavyweight champion with water color; not content with | was en route today from Mexico! pressing into service anything | City to Laredo as, to open nego- faom the kid's crayolas to the | tlations with United States officials house painters’ scrapings from the | to return to this country, according q hottom of the can. they are taking to word received by government until you have all the effect of wa Johbneon fled several year ago ; tér color, all the trans and <olaah snaabicdibin Ua ohtseA “i . q fluidity; and instead of the light | DES MOINES, ja, Feb. 21 hi Fa ie'ys pos pane _ ee Pastel tints, they heap on the color |(United Press.—Wour bandits held | Bim Undel Tie Mitte ein aad and pile up the shadows until there up the paymaster of the Saylor mine poy d h i Spain an fa no resemblance to the tradition. |near here, shortly after 11 o'clock : 4 P al etd. Ty ‘ ‘i pastel left. |locked him in a vault and enc uped | y 4 ie, a Buy A eden Ho maybe I was nearer right [With $13,000, tho week's payroll of) oii oe ee aued if Johnson te when I sald this was a water color {t¢ mine, The robbery was reported | HON, be contin th sos siesta than I was wrong. It 16 a water |t Des Moines police, who went in|turns er ete color in every effe and it is not }Purauit of the bandit | ahah pehhe pel 3 2 He Anis steps over the border,” Clyne said pa Milk Is Watered; Arrest Japanese Charged by the city , Guess This Burglar Woodpile’s Missing, \ Doesn’t Eat Eggs health author | 4 | He Tells Police! ities with selling watered n T.| G. ¥. Holt, 2443 F ion ti fhe A burglar who netred » small res-|Kaloyuchi, Jap dairyman of Orilila,| one sore citizen ne got wiKe, faurant down a 01 First ave, 8. | Wash wae arrested Friday by City|to my woodpile last night,” he in during the night, overlooked a dozen |Health Officer C.K. ¥ oh The|formed the cops, and gtole most 44s in his search for money, lJap was, released on $100 ball Jot it.” FELLOW Hearing Before State Commission Accusations that the Seattle Lighting Co. ly secking to make the “littl fellow” pay an te creased gas rate of approximate ly % per cent while the “big fellow” will not be called upon to pay one-half the proposed in- crease were made before the public service commission by First Assistant Corporation Counsel Thomas J. L. Kennedy Saturday morning By the “little fel plained that he me consumer than while the “big fellow” was charac tertaed by Kennedy as the firm which consumes not lees than 10,000 san bo of gas monthly. yin accusation wns de Remar ap examination of EB. D. | O'Brien, aevietant superintendent of [public utilities, who produced a chart, compiled from flugures assem: bled by the engineering force of the the ordinary who does not use more public service commission, purport. | ing to show that the heavy gus con sumer will not pay more than an |increase of 11 per cent under the ‘ear company's tarifl,. ithe average householder will jot 26 per cent |“SEEKS TO MAKE [LITTLE FELLOW PAY" “An umual, the seeke to make the ‘little fellow’ pay mission | “That statement te not true.” re | torted Charlies K. Poe, counsel for |the lighting company * Evidence wan introduced by Ken |nedy Saturday morning that, accord ing to the gas company’s own fig ures, the Seattle Lighting Co. fell 72 per cent below the standard set y the public service commision. According to figures compiled by |the municipal lighting partment, the heating value of the lighting company’s gan fell 7.11 per cent be low the public service commission | pandora | QUALITY or |GAS IS Low | The percentages as introduced in . oe G. Priestly, city chemint hotly disputed by counsel for lighting company Poe sought to show that the in creased cost of coal and the infer for brand of coal available in So Declares City Attorney at} Kennedy ex} 1,000 cubte feet of gas a month, | be! called upon to pay a fiat increase| lehting company | the freight.” Kennedy told the com-| Blames Silks and Suppers | i i | ' | | | | as compared to 1914 combined to produce inferior gas thru no fault of the gaa company Testimony by Assistant Superin-| tendent of Public Utilities O'Brien showed that while oven gas pro- duced from one ton of coal cost only $ the lighting. company ad vanced a cost of $16.13, based on a jeharge for gas of $1.10 per 1.000 jouble feet. As a matter of fac Kennedy pointed out, the lighting lcompany already charges $1.25 per | 1,000 feet of gas and ie seeking to } charge au 50 per 1,000 feet Won't Send ‘Wilson WASHINGTON, Feb, 21 dent ‘Wilson's reply to the |the supreme council on the “settlement will’ not: be iigregeoein today, it artment Presi note of Adriatic for learned in shape was Leaving : State C Costs 18 Years in Prison Charles J, Connor, 25, alias William Davis, arrested early this week w ling a stolen@vit, was returned Sat urday to complete 18 years of a 20 year sentence in the Oregon state |penitentiary at Salem, Connor vi lated his patrol by leaving — the | state Hooray! Sun Will Shine on Sunday If you contemplate |day in. the country fo to it Vv ther ¢ Salisbury opined unday would be weather, with one easterly wind Had Three Quarts, Now He’s in Jail passing Sun out of dc werver George Saturday that ever so fair of the “gentle us accompanist Reply Over Today) | Feet cre weurched and © large|UP BY Congress ay proposed by the number of men arrested, Armored | President cark and tanks were used by the| ‘Tbe letter declares that analysis Settee |of the labor provisions of the bill : ‘ , } can. “Seem sufficient to warrant the PRecsnighigherst adore coh fay definite conclusion that the congress pases rn i at has not proposed a method of pro- Fe ee ee ie chance, however, |cedure deceptable at any time, and Wan & st ; Pima to that the proposal is entirely inade- in their : priced yg = af |quate to meet the present situation.” consider the premicr's menau' he union men further made it Labor will wait and see wha! clear that they believe Wilson should [the proposet law brings forth, Al-|go ahead with plans independent of derman William O'Brien, leader of | congressional action to wet up a the labor purty, asse 1 tribunal to handle wage matters, —. “We fesl sure,” the union men " A wrote to the president, “that you can San Diego Legal agree with us to the extent that of | | George Frandebery, 65, a painter arrested Friday night at Duwamish ave. and Lucille st, with three quarts of Canadian whisky in his possession, is In the eity jail Satur) day in leu of $1,000 cash bail, H wabinadt Sue “GOAT” IN GAS 'HeAsks $50,060 in Damages RATE INCREASE This is Charlotte Victoria Hannum, whose husband,|cver reaches that stage without the Wallace Hannum, asks $50,000 from L. G. Wallace, tugboat man. Following the request of defense/at the same time he inatituted dj] Whether he was the woman's hus-|of dirt of any attorneys that M. B. Hannum make|voree action against Mra. Hannum.|>and or not. his $50,000 alienatio nuit against L. G, Wallace, Tacoma |ary tugboat man, more definite and cer- George Olson, Hannum, said Saturday “split the defense” wide open married tain, would with a detailed a evidence were worked,out by James |lexed clandestine and were| Wallace and Mra. Charlotte the | Hannum | Defense request that Hannum “set | of candy forth in detail each and every 920 | lege and promise” that Wallace is al- expensive cafe suppers and took her to have exercised on Han- for countless rides in his auto. On num's wife, was filed in superior | January 1, 1920, she told me she had court this week lost all Jove for me, and that Wal- STRICT GUARD — RAILROAD BILL «|Residents Ordered to Stay) Indoors After Midnight DUBLIN, Feb. tary auth Attorney mation toda dents of Dublin to stay indoors between midnight and unless specifically Fel raid nig! hi unt ” is ht dquarters of the Sinn Fein vol Men Forming Lawyers’ Union || ry pan meet jes iss orderin the streets, we. % Man . he and early y will hece It followed exte milita houses 21—The nr Friday ‘Other Man!’ in Sen Triangle « of affection |The Hannums were married Janu- 1916. for|1, 1919," he | Wallace says Hannum. interjected himaelf into my life. nt of the al tions on Mra, Hannum, ing between! “With costly gifts he won her Vietoria jaway from me. He gave her a dia- [mond ring, silk clothing and boxes He persuaded her to meet wile him clandestinely, satiated her with that | Unions Announce Stand in Letter to Wilson WASHINGTON, Feb, 21.—La- bor today carried its fight on the Esch-Cummins railroad bill to President Wilson, In @ letter delive at the White House, union leaders attacked the labor clauses of the bjll as well as the provision for a glaranteed re- turn of 5% per cent, and practically refused to submit their wage de mands to arbitration tribunals set A a proc ne all resi- a. My ome effective Thursda on various ry and business there is little likelihood that congress | will be able to reach an agreement that will insure a prompt disposition Tacoma{™@n in the case doing something. “We lived harmoniously until July |‘ ye en They He pressed his atten-|%°me relation. LATE DITION f 4 TWO CENTS IN| SEATTLE — INSTRUCTIONS — ARE GIVEN BY JUDGE RON Patterson Declares, in A in Argument, Defense Theory Is Wrong—Painter . Not a “Mere Foolish Boy” Unexpectedly, without calling further witnesses, J. T. Ronald re-opened the case of William Fay E charged with the murder of Mrs. Elizabeth Bryan, § day morning by reading his instructions to the jury. the final act in the mystery drama was set in motion. Deputy Prosecutor Patterson’s address to the jury, ming up the testimony, was to be followed by ments of counsel for the defense, Crawford ite a Walter Fulton, Saturday afternoon. The case was to concluded and Ealy’s fate| placed in the hands of the} ‘jury before court adjourned| Saturday night. Deliberatety, Patterson reviewed the evidence in so far as it connected Ealy with the crime, recalling discrep- ancies in testimony and explaining each act of the defendant as consist ent with the state's tl that Faly choked Mra. Bryan to death} about midnight October 19 “IT teave it” to the jury,” he de clared, “whether this defendant is mere, boy. He met Mary. Elizabeth Bryan, and within 30 day: both of them had arranged to go to California and live together as man and wife until such time as they | could @eure divorces. SAYG SHE DRANK LIQUOR AT HIS HOME ' “Within 30 days she had come to trust this defendant more than any- body else in the world. She trusted him with her money. perhaps would have given it to him outright I want to say to you that no woman | | | | had done ail that walking © heavy coat on and that “He says the clerk at the Plaza Is that reasonable?/ never went to the Unsworth’s. ‘There isn't a hotel in the city where| went with this defendant @ man cannot go to a Woman's room /and she never put visit her without registering. | ground to wouldn't have asked him tol where she register unless he had said he was “On that day that Mrs, Bryan went cept admit everything he defendant, and of their plans for the | tion, and nobody else. SAYS PROSECUTOR | moat frantic. “There comes a day when Mra, | ined to say the money was ground was fertile, as fate would | 1d then. — any one of you, knowing @ man out to his home, she drank liquor! mitted. He knew we were furnished by this defendant's step- {nim the tadte’ shen wa father. Her tongue was loosened and | him about the crime. He she told of her relations with the|had the money for his own future. His mother and father coun-| “But he made the mistake of s seled him against it, and this ‘mere/ing too much explanation, boy yntinued to meet Mrs. Bryan.! mother, when she went and saw. SHE WAS “NOT BAD," [money in the deposit box, was @ « 5, | KNEW SOMETHING ‘Another month passes. Septem: | ber comes, Letters pasa back and} WRONG WITH HER BOY forth between the defendant and). “She knew there was son Mrs. Bryan. Business letters? No,| "OMS with her boy. She Bryan leaves home. What was|¥#s she who mixed that money the trouble, She wanted a change, | With the papers in the deposit that was all, She was not bad. |‘ Shield her boy. And she She was foolish, weak. When the | Just a8 much of him today as have it, this defendant appears, |, Conductor | Randall | berg “At her final parting with her ee ey, ph “i night husband, she said, ‘I want cash. | Yop pert: = ae And he gave her $4,500—-250 $10 peaden = 3 bills and 100 $20 bills. She leaves Puyallup to see the defendant by seeped oe he crime you arrangement in Seattle and to re-| {1° Could not ave committed, think © your business? Ran- main here with him for a time| qu) waited undl someone's and go to California with him and let him have part of the money. ‘The other part she was to keep in case she might be mistaken in him and asked him if he the incident. He did. And they asked him if he rememb happened on Sunday night just her trust. “she let nobody else know she | fre the a eee bs was in Seattle, She. registered | "Now Twill tell sou why Mr, under an assumed name at the mitz came to my home ‘with @ tective Christmas Eve. They me about another man in the and asked me to give them a rant. I told them to bring r witnesses. They brought one. 1 took his statement and he, signed But they never brought the the witnesses. Why?, It was Chi mas eve. There were guests at house. How easy it would been when they came for me to them I was busy and couldn't But if T had, today the defense be shouting in this courtroom had refused to listen. “That was done to place me in ® bad position in this trial. ‘They have actually accused another man il this murder before this jury. Fil you remember I told Nemitz andj | detective that night they had 4 something there which convineed the whole business about this Plaza hotel, her mind made up to see no one else she knew but the defendant. “She met him October 18—Sun- day—after sbe had paid her bill at the hotel for a week. Would she have paid her bill for a week in advance if sho bad been going to Spokane? Never, “Sunday when he came down— and this comes from the lps of the defendant himself-—she said to him that Mrs. Unsworth had called her up. Mrs, Unsworth had called her up and asked her to come to supper, She didn’t say ‘I called up Mrs, Unsworth.” “Now--how dit Mrs. Unsworth know where to call? She never did. SAYS SHE WENT IN AUTO WITH EALY “Sunday afternoon, the defendant Says, she went with him for a walk, ps4 SAN DIEGO, Cal,, Feb, 21.—A ]}°F,the question.” lawyer's union to “do away with The letter, of which @ copy was ‘Diectionable practices, make feos | transmitted to Railroad Director tniform and save money for the || Hines, was signed by President Bert clients as well.as te insure them ||M. | of the railway department Against sharpers,” ix being formed [{f the American Federation of La- here today, with more than 100 ]/P0t% President Timothy Shea of the Ling son ¢ ive.” members Lrotherhood of Locomotive Firemen ne Daney is president, #, ]|@Md Hnginemen, and KE. J. Manion, y, weretiry, and Harri. ||0f the Order of Ratiway Telegraphers, Sloane, “union represent. [| Who constitute the committee which Thaw been negotiating with the preal- J dent on behalf of all railway unions, to go to Mrs. Unsworth's, that she They walked over the waterfront, along the docks, back to the market and to Pike st, From 2 o'cloék until about 4:30 they walked, They never went back to the Plaza, Don't for wet that “He wants this jury to believe that he put Mrs, Bryan on the car Dreiver was a fake, Patterson concluded his argur Just before recess, at 11 o'clock. was followed by Attorney,” White, for the defense, White explained = tb stories given at the time b M rest by bony Re