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

JAPS GAIN CONTROL OF FOOD PRICES Information Was in the hands ef City Councilman Philip Tin. @all today, that Japanese not only dominate stalls in the so called farmers’ market, but fix prices and sell produce not grown by themsetves in violation of the city market ordinance, Eg {iil Weather Tonight fair; early moderate a u Maximum, 52 Today Temperature Last M4 Hours He was also informed that a Jap | anene potato king of Yakima valley, | ene which had supposedly been denuded Jof potatoes nearly a fortnight ago had wired a local commission mef. | immediatety have take chant, asking bim if he could handle | decline 20 carloads of Yakima spuds in this! ‘Tindall's informant mid 16 car letty }toqds of potatoes had been held on potatoes on the market here, Tindall was informed, the price would | nd Saturday, morning frost; esterly winds. Minimam, 40. tuan, 19. Ratered as Second Class Matter May 2, 1 violation of the Lever food Ing, a/ produce in the farmer market. Japaneses merchants who own ware hounes and retafl stores in other lo | federal statute Such case of hoarding cannot be a oe maational | handled by city authorities, and come | pasmes, and if acted upon at the duties of federal etvil av | would come in force about the t under thorities, but draft at or Tindall auld he would » an ordinance requir VOLUME 23. Soch would bec ordinans if panend, Oo” local farmers begin to flood the kot with spring veetabten. r lemploy young Japanese to occupy furmerw’ stalli, which they rent from|go each moruing to the Produce | and fix the price of each commodity of all kinds is then taken from the| Word is then pasned down the | the city for 25 cents a day On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The seattle Sta at the Prstotifias at Beattie, Wasb, under the Act of Congress Mareh 3, 1179 Por Year, by Mall, $5 to 69 ne operative 30 days after |cations near the farmers’ market, | grow wold under the pretense that it by the Jap salesman The Japanese merchant is said to firmt stall was line SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, APRIL § 23, 1920. Had the merchant agreed to put} the tracks in thin city Gls work imyping the licensing of persons who sell; According to Tindalt’n information, warehouse to the retall stores andyand the price transferred to the stalls, where it in| stall jof fact same in ence in the Many shoppers are deluded inte thinking they ean buy cheaper at the than elsewhere in a matter market Tindall # it is often che from the corner grocery.” farmers the eity "Tas iv sees TOME | DANA SLEETH NOTICED in the focal papers the advertise ment of a bank urging thrift on the rest of us, Gnd this ad presents to opr epee Sipe one Mr. Duke founder of tobacco trust of un And the bank . Duke saved $49,500 from of $50,000. He lived on & year and saved his money, Mt to slowly secure a mo the tobacco business, to money boas, to get con Of & great businem that could manipulation so dictate tobacco that it could reach into the ef 20,000,000 men and ex nickels and dimes in in ial of us plain folks sav ean, and curbing our Gneurance, and 4 little bank bal- ‘on open account, and a little 4 it i doesn't save to establish of business pirates, but co elee a family and ed t's the man who makes and that is the man a sucker of by the brigands and their looting fa Hy 3 ¥ f Prey DILATE a bit om this because it is fundamen: tal. @ I feel sort of hopeless for our nation’s future when 4 bank, in a decent modern city Whe Seettie, will «tit admit “that it holds a man like Duke in ‘What on earth ta there to wor ship abeut such a man but his dol \are—dollars that he never earned’ No—not when he was getting that * petty ttle $50,000 a year. He has nothing of any value fo the nation / but his dollars, and those he mis uses to the public detriment Until our leading business men understand that the family, and + not the bank balances, is the final standard of value’ in this nation L we can hardly blame labor for gouging the boss or the profiteered citizenry from ‘desiring to get | theirs any way they may. And until al) of us quit wor- abiping, even by implication, heaps of money—until we make it plain “by public sentiment that the men ‘of great wealth are ‘onsidered of * ponsequence in exact proportion as Mthey use their excess wealth for the public good—until that time eames, we will have class hatred, Jabor ware, utitest and an increas ng #brge from the country to the ‘city, and an ever-deepening yearn ing on the part of the young men for easy, white-collar jobs and quick money ing disappointed; when it meant the distress of a 4d who needed it; when holding meant that I was putting the jar above Tight and cheerful liv- " I wouldn't trade my pleas- nt years, and my present cheer. {| disposition, and my small and ificant lares and penates for the Florida extates und $90,000 ” o pase I have always managed to let go of a dollar when holding ft meant my children be ml FIGHT ON \—— MEIER ASKS Did Spirits ‘pr Spoof Aileen == SORT Is Question | Another Party Gets Tip on Telephoning to Fi uture World BY AILEEN CLAIRE Ie It possible that the spirit of John Bartridge has been spoofing | me? | Afjer promintng Inst Monday to place me in communication with a scientist on Mars next Tuesday eve ning, he has avoided my ouija se ances with a persistence that arouses my apprehension. I recall that the eteyelépedia in. formed me that the dead astrologiat was an equivocator during his dayw | Metr’s communication was in an-|on earth. Is he still, I wonder? |#wer to an official report made by) While I am striving nightly to the mayor last week for recom converse again with him, I must re as to some practicable| late the sensational experience of to be taken by the city to|four acquaintances’ who have been stamp out the dope evil aperating the oulja much longer Creation of legal machinery to #e-| than I eure custody of the addict, was od SOUENTIFIC LECTURES vorated by Meier, who declared that| gy OUIJA BOARD | under the present system it is im pomnible proper “ From time to time they have been ba sta «icpcma” °F lable to get messages from the spirit |of a man of science who of late has . . given them a series @f lectures on ARE INADEQUATE scientific subjects. These lectures, Enormous growth of the dope| tho couched in terms and phrases habit thruout the United States, with | that drove them often to the diction & resultant wave of crime and pov-|ary, have been found intensely in erty. has braught the problem of the | teresting and instructive. narcotic addict home to city offi-| Concluding ane of the lectures the tials, who are secking a method to! other night, the spirit inform™d the curtail the growing traffic in habit: astounded investigators that he forming drugs. would tell them of a wonderful in, Existing city ordinances were de-| vention shortly to be introduced clared inadequate by Meier upon the earth “The system of confinement i#| It was, he said. an instrument stm. wrong,” Meter declared. “In many | ilar to the phonograph, but of such cases the term of confinement| nice canstruction and #o attuned cannot be made sufficiently long to | that it would record, magnify in vol. break a well-formed habit Under’ ume and tranemit the apirit voice. | the city ordinance a penal sentence, When asked to describe the instru lby the police court cannot exceed | ment in detail, the spirit did so. and | imprisonment for 30 days and a tine|the description was taken down, fot $100.” | word by word, by the Investigators, | SAYS PRISONERS who for days kept it @ clone secret | GET PLENTY DOPE [lest they be scoffed at | Even a man who desires treatment | ELECTRICAL ENGINEER most first be branded a criminal be | SAYS IT'S POSSIBLE fore he can be treated for the dope| A few days ago, however, an elec | habit, according to Meier. Prison. | trical engineer fram Tacoma, who/| ers in the city and county jails were | chanced to be intimate ftriénd declared by Meler to get all the dope | of one of the investigators, came to they wanted Seattle, He was infotmed of the| Enactment of appropriate ordi-, matter and, tho he consideféd it a| nances to provide for the civil re-| “funny thing.” asked to be shown and treatment of, drug ad-| the description the spirit had given diets by the city, was urged by the | of the device corporation counsel, | As he read the treatise, his face Confinement of addicts with other | lost its mirthful expression. He ob- prisoners who are allowed to re| served each detail clanely, read some ceive visitors and meet strangers,| Of the instructions over twice, made was sharply eriticiaed by Meier. some mathematical caletiations, it is commonly stated by ad. | scratched hia head, looked up and dicts who have been confined in | declared the city jail or county stockade, “By af thag it is easier to get narcotics | electrical when they are fined than * it.” when they get out,” the report “From says. “Furthermore, the confine | was asked ment of other persons with habi- | “Exactly!” he replied with empha tual users of drugs, rapidly pro sis. “The machine could be built duces an additional number of but whether it would record and! addicts.” | transmit spirit v * Could only be Establishment f a city stockade | 4ecertal 1 by experiment with the for dope users was also urged Friday | comp! instrument rwonally, 1 by Comminsioner of Health H. M_| don't believe in spirite. WEDDING TRICK place on Bailey Peniostla, or Seward on the shores of Lake Wash Claiming she was enticed by de: tion into marrying ‘Marcus Lee Municipal Treatment for Narcotic Users Urged in Report to Caldwell Slope to tring abent 0 strict enforcement of the law, as direct: ed against the dope peddier, and Droper segregation amd medical trentment of the narcotic addict were recommended by Corpora tien Counsel Walter F. Meier { EXISTING ORDINANCES { an feasible! could we, it's ngineer Any construct these specifications?” he in nd imposing bank a * alimony de: ers, and flut city palaces, counts, and expensi cisions, and torpid | tering hearts, and languishing spleens, and finicky appetites of any Duke who ever grabbed more money than was good for him, and started a perfectly good family straight for hell, That's how it seems to me, Mr. Banker, ington The elty abolished the stockade at Jefferson park, Head pointed out with the result that all city pris oners are now cared for at the Wil lows by the county. Read believes that the prisoners |last February, and that Lee lived could clear the land and thus retm-|with her only three days, and then burse the city for the treatment re-|abandoned her, 3 Alta Leo and cet ved. her guardian, Mra, Josephine Cleve. | ere mnmnnmmonews | tand, started suit today to have the | | marriag annulled. Mrs. Lee ix 16 year Old and, «| the time of the marriage, waa 15, not | old enough’ t cally consent to marry anyone, it ix alleged. ‘The wedding took place on February 17.| February 20, Lee ig sald to have left | his bride for party unknown, | Restoration of her maiden name, Alta Baker, is oye of the young wife's pleadings. |tace value cry PLANNING LIST Secret District |.’ W. W. Headquarters in “Con- tractor’s Office” Raid ‘Trailing a woman long sought by federal authorities in the Kast to basics care ecret Northwert LW. W., which vaniahed from Spokane recently, raided the) plact and took posseasion of a lint of 12,000 members Alice Rose, declared to be Alice) Roasnbaum, who dieappeared durieg| the early part of the war, when arrest was sought for mailing thou sands of letters, urking draft eve fof, was the woman taken into cus tody, Police Sergeant P. F. Keefe and hin “antired squad” rushed Into the room entered by Mins Hose, followed by government agents, and placed her under arrest. The room was one of @ suite on the third floot. The nage on the door was “Stewart & Jotineon, contractors.” Two men found in the sulte gave thelr names as W. EB. Spear and Kd Burns They were hustled to gotice headquarters with Mina Rone, while the raiders searched the place. Spear in maid to be in charge of IL. W. W. operations here, and Burne hia as sistant. Miss Rose played the role of stenographer. to the “contractork.” Books and recorda of the “firm* revealed the named and whereabouts Of 12,000 I. W. W. members scatteted In cities, towns and logging canipa thfuout the Northwest, and showed that $19,908.19 had been deposited in © local bank, This was taken to be the I. 'W. W. prisoners’ defense fund. The office safe contained $6,000 cash and I. W. W. due stampa of @ of $80,000. More than 1,000 gold I. W. W. pina, said to be worth $5 apiece, were found. All evidence was and turned over to the federal men. Several checks found in the office were signed by Spear, and others by Spear and Frank Smith. Smith could not be found, The name of “George W, Steed” was signed to several blank charters that had been made ready for mailing. Steed is thought to be a Chicago high official of the L W. W. Bride Refuses Parental Home Because he took her to live with jhis parents immediately after their marriage last November, at Everttt, and refused to buy 4 home or rent an apartment, Judge Mitchell Gilliam today granted a divorce to Lillian’ D. Rathbone from Bruce C. Rathbone, manager of the Deaton Tire com- pany, The plaintiff was allowed $50 |monthly alimony, ALLS COP TO FIRE HER COOK PORTLAND, Ore., April 23.—Mrrs T, Russell dispatched an urgent call for a police officer. When the cop arrived the housekeeper canned her cook, whone tremendous biceps and pugnacious Jaw caused Mrs Russell to consider discretion the better part of valor ACREAGE at the right price is al- ways a good investment. Near Seattle, with its +, ceftainty of growth and development, it offers opportunities unexcelled. On Classified Page to- day and every day you'll see many good bargains in Acreage. 't Patricia Maloney}: Altho Tom Gose ia tony «fren if “Campus, Da from Fooms @ Som Memorial Grove, sty |pus ‘custom. came every day in lent who died in war service, the year. : All- unt laboratories Friday, donned old clothes a ery ltl hie tell the town he students took a day off, TO FLEE LONE OF 'U. S. Citizens on Gulf and Pacific Mexico Coast Anxious to Get Out WASHINGTON, April am Requests from Americans on the Pacific and Gulf coasts of Mex- feo for protection of United States warships have been re ceived at the state department, it was learned today. The requests came from wouldn't! The onty American war {now known.to be in Lath waters are the cruisers set to work clearing @) Niagara, which are off the where a: treé will be' planted in honor of évery ex-tmiversity|Guatemaia, where American —Cress-Dale Photo. = TROOPS GUARD BUTTE MINES City . Is, Quiet’ / Atter Arrival | 4amase. hight was watched by curious, silent) crowds tion ‘The soldiers were quartered in & hotel owned by the copper company. Within an hour after their arrival én Bh eastbound Northern Pacific train shortly befors midnight, the troops were quactered, bad their baggage unpacked, guards ponted and military fules established. The Tequest for troops was sent by Gov ernor 8, V, Stewart, of Montana, fol- lowing Wednesday's clash between strikers and sheriff's squad, in which & score of strikers were wounded, feveral being in a dying condition ‘There was no demonstra- y. United Btates department of justice Agents who have been in close touch with strike developments have con- ferred with Col. Hall today. Many of the troops under Nis command are overseas veterans. Included in the regular army force here are detach- ments from Camp Lewis and Fort George Wright Their equipment includes a num- ber of onepounders. The mines were reopened today under protec tion of the soldiers, there been no attempt to operate them yes terday, Such pickets as were on the streets today were in pairs and confined their activities to aceosting only miners who wer? walking up the hill singly Tonopah Miners Are Off the Jab TONOPAH, Nev., April 23.—Sev- enty per cent of the miners in this district failed to appear for work yesterday morning, following rumor that a strike waa to be called. Re ported mine®s want $7 a day for a six-hour day. Doc Matthews to Hop on Spooksters Dr. Mark A. Matthews, pastor of First Presbyterian church will “an- swer men and women who ad- vocate the nefarious idea of spirit. ualiam” in bis Sunday night sermon, His tople te “Spiritiem Below or Above, Which?” having | bpwas’ GOOD’ AT EATING NICKEI CHICAGO, — April » 23.—-Chartes| Tegtmier, contractor, smashed , the | pay telephone to bits when it can Gait taking Nis‘ nickels and giving role parties. He paid for the MEXICO CHIEF SEIZED BY U.S. Gen. Pesqueira Held ' on “White Slave” Charge ‘. | eran : DOUGLAS, Ariz, April 23.—Gen leral Ignacio L. Pesqueira, chief jus thee of the supreme court of Mexico and recently appointed military gov jernor of Sanora by President Car- Tansa, was arrésted on his arrival here today by United States depart. ment of justice agents, who pre ferred a charge of violation of the Mann “white slave act” against the distinguished Mexican, Pesqueira was said to be a Carranza peace dele gate to the Botiora rebels. Maria Rodriguez, age 23, a beaut. ful Meican girl, was held as a ma tertal witness, Pesqueira is report ed to have admitted to the depart ment of justice men an intimacy with Miss Rodriguez, extending over the last five years, She accompan. fed him here and on frequent other trips into the United States, accord. ing to the department of justice agents, He ha® a wife anf nine children residing at Arispe, Sonora, Mexico 2 Policeman Gets His Green Trousers Back Patrolman R. D. Van Horn, who reported the theft Thursday of his green trousers attached to a pair of suspenders, is all smiles again Friday morning. Patrolman T. J. MeGill found them in the police assembly room and returned them to their owner. Athletic Police Take to Diamond Sergt. Harty G. O'Brien, the John McGraw of central police station, called his baseball playing coppers together Friday afternoon for first practice at Liberty park. The cops will play the firemen as sqon as the team can be whipped into shape, Seret. O'Brien announced Says Husband Is Never at Home Jennie M. Erickson, wife of an Auburn stage driver, started sult to divorce John Erickson today, dectar: ing he had not been home a night in nine months, but was spending his time apart from his family enter- taining a ‘young woman acquain- tance in Tacoma | Meet, | Government. .<\JAPS FIRE.ON U.S, BARRACKS From Manchuria The message said the Japanese did the firing, which was believed accidental Major General Inouye, Japanese military attache here, yesterday de- nied a newspaper repert from Har. bin that Americans had’ been fired on at Hallar,Today’s war depart- ment dispatch apparently referred to the same incident. Nothing was said about any Americans being in the barracks during the firing The war department cable added that Japanese attacked a Cxecho-Slo- vak troop tral, killing one officer and wounding an officer and 12 men, American Admiral Shoots, Kills Self WASHINGTON, April 23.—Rear Admiral C. B. Brittain, chief of staff to the commander of the Atlantic shot and killed himself on the afternoon of April 22, Secretary Dan- jels was advised today by Admiral Wilgon, commanderin-chief of the Meet, at Guantanamo ba: OFFERS $10 FOR RETURN OF WIFE HUGO, Okla, April 23.—J E. Millar, railroad man, advertised in the Daily News for his lost wife. Ten dollars ix offered the man who will return her, $30,000 Damage in Early Morning Fire Fire that lasted only 12 minutes did from $30,000 to $50,000 damage to expensive furs in the workshop of the Hudson Bay Co., in the Colman building annex, at Western ave. and Marion st, at 6 a, m, today OKED FUN AT CITY .MUDHOLE TAYLORVILLE, UL, April 23,— Mayor William Motley of Kincaid is mad. He swears vengeance on the person who placed a sign bearing the inscription “bathing and fishing” in the middle of the city's biggest mud hole, Fair and Warm Weather Coming Fair and warmer is due Saturday, according to U. 8. Observer Salis. bury's official report for the next 24 hours, Co-eds prepared the “eats,” according to traditional cam-|'nded to protect the United . Gets Report | F* legation, during the revolution which overthrew President Cabrera, 7 A communication issued by | aivadedo, stated that Col. |Galleges, a former federal o er in Tamaulipas and ‘one “of revoluth ary leaders, y feated Gen. Rosalio Rodrigues, @ Carranzista force at Linares: The federals retreated toward Monterey. — Americans at Mazatlan are maki ready to leave, and are waiting to © passage on the first Teports to the state departmest said. | Another message ‘to’ the 4 fment told of a force of 350 soldiers arriving at Mazatlan fi the south CALLES GAINING IN MEX, REVOLT. Rebel Chief Now Controle Half of Sinaloa AGUA PRIETA, Sonora, April —General P. Elias Calles, er of the Sonora rebel troops, was supposed to arrive here today. He will remain on the border conven- ient to the Carranza peace delegates reparted to be en route to Sonora, General Flores, at ‘the head of the Sinaloa invasion, now has control of nearly half that state, Calles or dered him to mobilize several hut: dred additional troops before driving — on Mazatlan, as Carranzistas are ao pected to put up stiff ae there and a siege of the port pee be necessary, Heavy ‘artillery is en route to Flores. Additional troops arrived tn Agua Prieta, increasing the local — garrison to 2,500 soldiers. eee iY RALPH H. TURNER CO CITY, April 23.—Gen, Juan Barragan, chief of staff of the” Carranza army, today announced” that the federaj forces, under com- mand of Gen. Murguia, in charge of the Tampico district, had decisively _ defeated, on Wednesday, the rebel | commanded by Gen, Gomes, The announcement said that Go mez had attacked Turpam, under oreo ders from Gen. Calles, the object -be-™ ing to spread the Obregon revolts thru the ofl fields. In Gomer's come = mand were Yaqui Indians, as well aa some of the rebel Pelaezistas, There were casualties, but no estimate was made of the number, The fighting lasted al of We@nes = day, and Was described by Barragan’s @ | statement as the first decisive com] bat in the conflict between Carran- ® a's army and the Obregon forces, Gen. Gor recently joined the: rebels, having held a command ui Carranza, U. S. Ambassador at Allied Meetir SAN REMO, April © 28.—Rob Underwood Johnson, ambassador to Ituly, arrived here® today to attend the conferences the council of premiers as an official observer, Johnson attended the, ra ae the American: te s