The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 23, 1920, Page 1

+ 99, VOLUME NO. 808. [Tas IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH al day ‘Washington did, I have for years been interested in George, and have tried to understand the real Wash Ington, Washington has not been under- stood, and he has had credit for a lot of qualities that he did not pos- sess. History is like that; it damna One man and exalts another with Syequal injustice. "Washington was an aristocrat to the day of his death. And tn 1775 he writes a friend in England that “hardly a man in the colonies de- sires absolute independence.” On the verge of Lexington, after : ‘the Boston “tea party,” still Wash- ington hoped the colonies would mot a ington put all his dogged determ+ nation into the fight, and the he ‘was no brilliant general, tho he | lacked those kindly, humane quall- ties, lacked the fire of personal “Tho as a farmer he was no shin- ing success. But always he placed personal @uty above pleasure; stern, cold, > Feligious, unemotional; removed | > from his fellows, Washington gave -all he had when the call came, » even tho he was never stirred to the heights of emotional patriot- fam that many of the Revolution leaders were. Even in the Revolution, the Most brilliant victories for the colonial armies were not won by and derided leader the nation ever had, by his contemporary critics. But thru it all Washington ‘pounded ahead; he never quit, he Mever faltered; while the breath of life remained he was bound to | fight it out; tho his men were tn Tags, tho the raw troops frequently turned and ran at times of crisis, tho deserters often outnumbered the volunteers, A cold patrician, forced against | his will into revolt, and carrying on as a matter of duty. A strange, detached figure, called by fate to be midwife at the ) birth of a nation, and giving his © best to an unpleasant task. Washington was neither saint @ nor zealot, and the fires of his imagination always burned low, but no man ever gave more will ingly to the public good or sought less of personal profit from the giving. b i eee $ I SAID before, cate a ways were my Jonah In an exultant mood I permitted myself to gloat over the bedrag- : ; gied corpse of a defunct tom, and what the brethren and sisters have y been saying and writing and tele , phoning ever since has been plenty One dear lady telephoned her complimenta of the season thusly: “The city is full of poor starving creatures, and I don't see how The + Star permit a man to gloat ? over the death of one of them ‘That man Sleeth must be mental fy defective.” I admit that the town has a mul- hi titude of homeless, mangy, yowl- ing, miserable critters nad it opine that if they were dead it would be better for the ci nd the public, too : As a matter of fact, nobody real > Iy loves an a ut, because there is nothing lo out an alley cat, or an alley rat, or any other sinking, dirty, pestiferous scaven- ger, and those who utilize their sympathies for something more ‘ useful t walling over back- ‘ stoop parlahs know that the world has enough human sorrow, enough human misery exough human an guixh walting for its wounds to be bound up, to use nicely all the en ergy of those benevolent folks who mourn over a mangy, bird-killing (Turn to Page 2, Column 6) Three Arrested The following automobilixts } booked at the police for speeding: J. A Johnson Dempsey, 27 wiles, Weather Tonight and Tuesday, fair; moderate northea winds, Temperature Last 4 Hours Maximum, 48; minimu ‘Teday noon, As Auto Speeders! were | sections of th station Monday |to revolt against enforce 30 miles; W. Rosenberg, 35 miles, and G. W sterly 3 Hotered as Second Clase Matter May 2, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise opopopopopopolo[o) BOOZE WAR - NEW YORK, Feb, 23—A catastrophe has befallen an ant mal in the Central Park 200. “Topmost,” the moat altitudinous of the giraffe here, has the quinay, “Topmost” got his feet BY COUNTY | Federal Troops May Be) | Sent to Quel Liquor Re- | volt in Michigan CHICAGO, Feb. 23.—Major A. Vv. Dalrymple ang « band of prohibition enforcement workers will leave Chicago tonight for Iron county, Michigan, to “clean up” illicit whisky traffic in that | mining region. | Dalrymple, after announcing that! |he would leave last night for the | “rebellion” region, bobbed up in his Office here today with the announce | [ment his plans had been changed Whether troops wil! be asked to aid the prohibition officers was not de cided. It was certain the party| would include almost all Dairympie's | start. Hurton my probably the expedition would have no diffi-/ culty In atraightening out the situa- tien. Dalrymple indicated he would use all hie powers as prohibition of-| ficer to confiscate stills and set local | | officers right on their duties. | Dalrymple again conferred by long | distance phone with Washington to day, It was said the matter of tak.) ling federal troops along was dix | cussed. The force with which the prohibi tion officers will attempt to clean up) the county will consist of sapren’-| derer. mately 40 federal agents and an! phig equal number of state constabulary. | of Walter Michigan upper peninsula. PROHIBITION AGENTS HAD RAIDED STORE Grove said he and members of the state constabulary had raided a store) inst and Not erated by the Scalcucct brothers—| Steve, Joseph and John—and seized 11 barrels of wine. The brothers were arrested. While en route back to Iron River, Grove declared, he and his assistants were stopped by M. 8. McDonough, | prosecuting attorney of Iron county | Police Chief 8. H. Heniba, Police Cap Charges at A. J Grove said he presented his creden- | tials as a federal agent to McDon- Ten Yards of Red Flannel to Wrap ‘Topmost’s’ Neck wet a week ago. sore throat yesterday sorbent cotton, flannel and an ing portion of “Topme could happen to any animal. don't brambles on Jonen’ examination didn't develop unt It took six rolls of ab- ten yards of re hour time to bandage the aii ‘s” anate “Gosh, that's tough for poor old “Topmost,’ ” said Hurton. “It the worst thing SAYS EALY ‘VERDICT IS. I know just as well the Fulton. jatement negligently were flung by tended the trial of Ealy Naturally the ot Keeper that i a 1 ‘JUST ONE Officers here said it was beiievea || Know He Is Is Innocent,” | Declares Defense At- torney Walter Fulton “Undoubtedly ‘Fat’ Dreiver could clear up = great deal of | the mystery in the Bryan mur- der case. as I know anything in the world that Ealy is innocent; that the verdict was a Just verdict. But uote me as say- ing | think Dreiver is the mur- Monday | counsel for Wil Word of the alleged revolt was/iiam Fay Kaly, who was acquitted |'t# fifth week brought to Chicago by Leo J. Grove,/by a jury of four women and eight | of court today. supervising prohibition agent of the|men Saturday evening of the char; | that he strangled Mre. Mary Eliza-/| |beth Bryan to death October 39) left her dead body in th Point only was Ealy found not} ut five miles from Iron river, op-|#ullty, but the case proved a boom-| oe erang on the prosecution. ing the innocence of the defendant. Fulton's defense was that the sta jottictals had the real murderer to go free inference (‘Fat’) Dreiver during the of defense witnesses j tae indirectly accused him of know! In prov permitted | a of the crime. If the state tain Claude a — Foetal unde any attempt to find him it Sherif? Jesse Alien of Iron er. | was kept secret from those who at 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash under the Act of Congress March 3 1879. Per The Seattle Star Yoar, by Mail, $5 to $9 SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1920. STAGED BY PRISONERS Six of Massacre Defendants in Solitary Confinement After Trouble MONTESANO, Fob, 23—Six of the defendants in the maasa- ere trial here, charged with con- nection with the murder of four World War veterans, at Cen tralia, staged a miniature riot in the county jail this morning. The men refused to eat their breakfast, throwing their food and utensils into the corridor, according (to the jailer, The trouble was quickly suppreaaed, and the six “revolters” were placed in solitary confinement. | Judge John M. Wilson announced today the trial of the 10 1. W. W. | charged with the murders will be re sumed tomorrow, with an alternate juror to take the place of Edward | Parr, the juror who has been ill with | influenza sings Thursday. | Parr’s successor will be chosen by lot from the two alternates, A. R. |Johnwon, of Hoquiam, and James at | Ball, of Montesano, ‘The jury will be moved back to |the courthouse from the city ball.) where it was quartered Saturday. | Parr then will be placed under the care of a nurse, ‘The defense proposes to prove that Loren Roberts, defendant, whose al-| |lemed confension to the state was sub- | mitted, ia Insane and is expected to introduce testimony along that line | tomorrow, ‘The case will be entering | There is no sension | URGE WALLACE FOR CABINET Local Democrats Want Him as Secretary of State Bourbon politicians, gathered in| Seattle ax members of the democrat: | ie state central committee, will urge the appointment of Hugh Wallace, present minister to France, ag suc cessor to Robert Lansing, late sec: | retary of state. | The democratic sement will! tn ofofojolo} Elsie ef Frances Adams, kidnaped at Sunday school, ONTESANO |. W. W. ON HUNGER STRIKE URGE PEACE WITH RUSS BS5008 JTWO CHILDREN KIDNAPED?Em Nabbed on Way to Sunday School Divorce Suit Leads to Abduction by F ather—Detectves ae ‘Gene OF Telegram Is Received by Mother and their mother, Mrs. Joseph DREIVER ANGLE IS telogrs —_ | INSEgTED IN CASE | be slesraphs to Pr ane aeaaen | Adams, 2 33rd ave., who accuses their father of the abduction. Elsie is at the left. “That's not worth the paper it J onday night or Tuesday morning, ; lwritten on!’ stated McDonough, ac-| Briefly the defense showed by its| according to George F. Christensen, j a" ® * * * ot at eee witnesses that Dreiver went to the,of Stevenson, Christensen is chair-| en and dep- Jn ‘her eult for divorce. Mrai| ° caeeny te avers. | house of 8. W. Unsworth on Monday |man of the democratic state central Dodging. desootives 56 PE an Sypgeh Viuaity et || Pedestrians McDonough ordered the driver of| Mutiny the ‘morning thet peslee- | uty sheriffs, deocph A a dams alleges incompatibility 0 rs orn 6 moi © be ee, Ww his two | temperament and non-support. er Mf jthe sleigh carrying the wine barrels | sie4 Bryan was found—and Republican reports that the demo-| ieeed 1. W. nam tne to eat’ | Wauband, at a vos Hit by Autos to turn around, according to Grove j little daughters, whom he and, she says, is a radica 4 | while the federal agent ordered him|W22 Sols to Honolulu, and that hejcratic party in this wttte je sadly) to have kidnaped at Sunday |W. W. who refuses to work and This Year ap sheet |seemed nervous and excited at the | split were betitties oc nrlsteneen | fchoot yenterday, were believed | whose violent fits of temper ha ume. “We will have candidates to spare! 4, fight today from Seattle to | led her to believe he is ment Mrs. M. L, Moe, 4222 Latona | Grove claimed he was overpow-| ‘That evening, before any one knew | for every state office to be contested! Kan francisco. Jirresponsibie, She will have himj; ave. and Miss E, L. Anderson, of ered and his credentials taken away.|that the body was that of Mra. Bry-| for.” Christensen said, “While I do 1 of hia/¢xamined by insanity experts as|| the same address, sustained minor | McDonough, he said, arrested him for|an, Dreiver went to Painters’ hall| not care mention names, I don't] Frantically awaiting boas hy if | ghia “ne he Pigeons A she says. || injuries Sunday when they were ‘transporting liquor,” but later re-land there, according to trial teati-|™ind saying that We have two demo-| arrest, Mrs, Kisie Adams, his wife, | {| Antaris Ranier eee wee teased him. The wine was taken|mony, mado the remark to a group|cratic candidates for governor al.|at her home, 1132 33nd ave, tls by J. H. Lemm, 5128 Garden st., |away, ordered restored to the own-|of other painters who were discuss. |Teady in the field, and I know of| morning received a’ telegram rot Seioeried: 0 oeliean "oeeneie ae lers, and the three men released ling the mystery: ‘I guess they'll (three democratic candidates for | Portland, Fekini ray. geist —_ machine ané@ one aciven by i Attorney General A. Mitchell Pal-|hook Ealy for this; he was running | United States senator,” han nate Ma er macs et UNE || Nelson, 3002 14th ave. S., at East- |mer was in Chicago last night en|around with that woman | An executive me ting of & nate ee eng pc bet 8 Vedi. Ea eave ANOTHER TOWN, lake ave, and Fuhrman st. : } : tral committee was held Monday | ba ; . route to Topeka, Kan, Upon being! On the Wednesday following, an-| '™® penty of money. Why should we i informed of the conditions in Iron, other witness for the defense said he! county he «aid that Mayor Dalrymple | went to Unsworth's home at noon and was in full charge and could take | Mrs whatever steps he thought necessary | said to see that the law was enforced, | Mr yan by.” And Claire Uns eee | worth, the six-year-old daughter, | WASHINGTON, Feb, 22-—Commis.| Who wan not permitted to tentity | sioner Daniel C. Roper, of the in-|®¢ the trial because of her youth, ternal revenue bureau, today an-|started to say something and her) nounced he would make a formal re | father hustled her out of the room, quegt of Attorney General Palmer |declaring she didn’t know anything | that he investigate the Uquor revolt |#nd admonishing her to “keep out "| where Prope: | it” MeDonough | officials Mich., 8. |in Iron county, jeuting Attorney M rrested prohibition | seized home-made wine | - | “This ts | other plainly a case in which | Attorney General Palmer must act, |xaid Roper. Roper spent the morn. | ¥ ling in his office, conferring with Fed-| eral Prohibition Commissoner Kra-| |mer and getting reports on the “re-|TO CONS i volt” from prohibition agents in Iron Another person ulton said, wh county. ,| testiniony he could not, under t Prohibition officials sald they|Tules of court procedure in su would insist that the entire matter | cases Introduce at the trial, had } |be investigated and punishment|formed him that Drelver had dis-| meted out to officials at fault Prohibition officials emphasized that unless the case is handled with | firmness, lawleas elements in other country may attempt nt of the before the “Th | facts,” but 1d prohibition law, The success of th law may depend upon the prevent ue, it Was declared, Gurn Unsworth, his is all I have to remember who|had told a detective, persons, | Dreiver was a bad man because he «| choked Mra. us not permitted to testify at the| | cussed Mra wouldn't make use of t they had his wife and step-son under and later that “Papa aryan to death,” but # Bryan some two mont crime, “1 advined the tin him at to Page 2. Columa ® holding up a glove, | Fulton said Monday the little sir two | said | he ne he eh n-| hs] state 1s in possession of there |of criminal syndicalism, said Fulton. Nemitz to give the facts to the state, | $3,000 they | man, o use Mr.| jiaeins the espionage act, afternoon at the Hotel Frye, to name the city in which the democratic ate convention will be held worry?” Believing the} 6, husband and , and Frances, her Murmansk, in North Russia, | It is reported that Spokane will | little girls, Els be named a the convention city, and | left Seattle on the 11 ‘o'clock train Seized Says Dispatch that the convention will be held el-| last night for the South, Mrs. een, 9 ss ther in the latter part of April or| Adams immediately on receipt of | LONDON, Feb. 23, — Bolshevik early in May, lthe telegram telephoned to the|revolutionists Saturday seized the | aheriff's office and asked that an|town of Murmansk, in the north effort be made to intercept Adams | Russian anti-Bolshevik district, a at San Francisco, where, she be-|dispatch from Vardo, Norway, to lieves, he has prepared a hiding| Lloyd's today said, place, The evolutionists obtained all THEY WENT TO shipping in the harbor except one SUNDAY SCHOOL, vessel which escaped in charge of ‘Adama in said to have been in|t British and four Belgian offi |W | He Held California several months. Some] /*0y. The ship was idaled with wad Emi st Ce erties Auaee Seven, i) Bareral vaunted have arived y state “Returning to Seattle Saturday | Vardo, the dispatch sald. | night, the ‘huaband is belleved to be sles tg the extreme nbrtte Ruby Herman, reputed sccretary|heve inspired a woman. who wave! Western tip of Russia, about 1 of the communist labor party ip the state of Washington, rested at Everett by state officials | at the suggestion of the department of justice, it was learned Monday.|ing, the mother dressed the little The woman is the first member of] gris and they went, as usual, to |the communist labor party to be ar-|the Madrona Presbyterian church, | Police ested in the Northwest on charges Mrs, Herman's bond was fixed at She is the wife of Emil Her. nvieted in the federal courts r ago on charges of vio and now serving @ term at MeNeil island, As anid, them riedly seen since, in left. ore a ye |her name as “Mrs, West" to phone has been arliiy wife and ask if the children were going to Sunday: school. Without suspicion, Sunday morn- D FROM DOOR; IN AUTO they entered Adams called an clear, it was the door, it is them out, put automobile and hur. They have not been This figure i past balls,” Dunn, statement issued by Justus, secretary of the association, miles east of Vardo. Policemen Make $7,136.76 at Ball The policemen's ball Relief association $7,136.76 announced Monday in a netted the Sergt. William is exclusive of a $1,400 expense account, “This mark breaks all records of “explained Capt, Hans Pedestrians Hit by Autos This Year 183 F, W. Beebe, 138 W. 82nd st., reported to the police Monday that he struck a pedestrian, A. W. Smith, whose address he did not obtain, while driving an auto- mobile Sunday at Second ave. and Seneca st. Smith was uninjured. Pedestrians ] 84 Hit by Autos This Year An automobile driven by B. G. Rader, 420 Queen Anne ave. struck the 7-year-old son of BE, R. Deibert, 2027 Fairmont ave. Sun- day as the youngster started to run across the street at W. Waite st. and 47th ave, 8. W. The lad bruised slightly. Burglars Take $16.50 From Boy’s Bank Burglars stole $16.50 from a boy's bank in the home of Mrs, Charles Sill, 622 82nd ave., Saturday night, the police have been notified, | depends oe * 6 f EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE — |Britishers Favor Relations ~ With Soviet; Allies Plan ~ _to Open Up Trade ca BY ED L. KENN LONDON, Feb. council of The two premiers, |the report, feel that o |lations should be resumed at because of the European situation. If the Soviet demonstrates its ability to \it was believed taht diplo |lations must inevitably follow | |resumption of commerce. | It was understood that | Millerand, representing Francs, |accept the proposition of the and Italian premiers. J. O'Grady, British Pp in the recent British-Russian sations in Copenhagen, concrete, tentative peace from the soviet government” returned here last week, ft ported today. O'Grady, according ‘to the received the proposal from Litvinoff, the Bolshevik The proposal, it is said, will be ingrs duced by the British in the of premiers this week for if discussion, NEWSPAPERS ASK PEACE WITH RUSSIA The liberal press today unit @ demand for peace with the ground of expediency. As council of premiers resumed its ferences to discuss the Russian { ation, peace with the soviet ment was brought to the front, only by a petition signed by inent military and civil leaders @ reports of new offers from Lenine, but by an insistent in the press. It was considered signit for the first time The Chi puted organ of the government, ed in the appeal, “None of the allies wants war Russia,” The Chronicle said, 4 ing to know if “anything can be ed by further refusal to Russia's offe “Whether or not we like Lenine immaterial," The Star said. truth is we cannot get past his fm morseless logic. He wants peace, and so do we, and we shall have ae The Westminster Gazette “demand ed consideration of Russia's peace offers,” while practically all the |newspapers said the question must |be settled soon, one way or another, The petition urges that the British — government bring about peace with — the Russian Bolsheviki and nize the soviets. The petition was forwarded we men who have been prominent im — British affairs in Russia, The British government, the pe- tition says, should not take the po- _ sition that early crimes of the soviet government should bar its rece ognition now. Opponents of the Bolsheviki, it says, have not showm H x themselves superior to the soviets. Stability of affairs of the continent — upon peace in Central © Europe, the petition concludes, This week's session was to be one of the most since the council convened, mately 50 statesmen will attend, in: cluding representatives of France, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Huns gary, Turkey, Greece and Jugo- Slavia, by Premier Millerand, accompanied by Vittorio Scialoia, the Italian form eign minister, left Paris for London. yesterday. Scialoia, it was sald, : represent Italy in conferences on economic situation, With these bright, sunny days comes the | desire to get into the country or move to the suburbs and start the garden, On Classified Page you'll see the used car for sale which will take you to the country. And many good bargains in homes and acreage. |,”