The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 26, 1920, Page 1

Maximum, {ll Minimum, 44. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Comprom The Seattle Star Entered a# Becond Cr _ VOLUME 28. we Mattor May 3, 1899, at the Postoffics at Seattle, SEATTLI Wash., under the Act of C C WASE., “MONDAY, AP RIL 26, 1920. BLOODHOUNDS FIND _LOST BABE IN WOODS Wo TO ME DANA SL’ SLEETH DON'T know what it is they equeeze out of these rubber hose at the local filing stations, but I know it isn't gasoline Indeed, I doubt if it is as high a grade of “essence” as distHiate was a few years ago. I know that 1 used for some months half distil late, at 9 cents, with gasoline, and T had a better combination than the stuff that is sold today for gaz oline. They say that the few gentiemen Who control tyis, our chief natural Fesource, have been selling distil- late, mixed with a little gasoline, so the 25 cents a gallon charged today really meang that we are Paying for distillate that once was 9 to 11 cents a gallon. But what are we going to do about it? ‘The answer ts that we are going te,do nothing about it. there is an over-eupply Of gasoline vehicles and an under- supply of gasoline.- ‘The Standard On company today ia begging the te medic wed to use a Nt the oer ade ote teak | every energy was ig th oye. to Tegubsting the supply, there would be no gasoline for entire states. It {@ unfortunate that private control this product, but the big trouble is that there is more demand than there is supply. -_ ee LSO, I am convinced that legisla wiht not solve this One bright individdal in town ts go ing to settle things by y forcing the monopoly to sell gaso- Une at a certain high grade. A bright idea, IF we had that sort of gascline—or any sort—in sufficient quantities. But since only by diluting gaso- line with distillate is there enough to meet the demand, and since each month demand exceeds the supply more and more, and the reserve is depleted, why, any addi- tional restriction merely méans trouble. Oregon has a fool law like this. ‘The net requit has been that gaso- line costs 2 cents a gallon more in Oregon than it does in Washing- ton, and from personal experience I know that the Oregon product Is No whit better than Washington's. If Seattle adopts this sort of a law, the wise autoist will proceed to the first station outside the city limit and purchase his gasoline for 2 cents or so less, and he will find Ro difference in the gasoline, either —you never do find any difference. : eee to gobble the oil iands, the coal lands, the tim- ber lands, and when capital had developed these resources and had everything working nicely, then lazy lawmakers woke up and tried, by restrictive, amateur and re pressive jaws, to right a fundamen- tal wrong. And the net result has been to boost the prices of coal, and gas- oline, and lumber; to increase the profits of the monopolies and to open up a few more veins whereat the deer peepul can bleed more freely. When you have a monopoly you pave a monopoly, and you win; and the more the victim kicks and squeals, the greater your overhead charge is, and the more the victim pays for what he must have, That glorious reform crusade some years ago that entirely broke the Standard Of] Co~—maybe you remember how the nation exulted in {ts great victory. From that time on the Standard Oil Co. divi- dends have greatly increased; from that time on gas and o¥ prices have greatly advanced, and doub\ Jess the public has, by this tim paid all the legal costs, fines, extra hire and mental anguish the Standard suffered thru the cru- OR years and years this nation’s lawmakers al- lowed private monopély oe And would you, then, let the trusts entirely alone? I would either enact legislation that gave relief or IT would keep oft. If Uncle Sam takes ‘over the of] lands, all right; but while he leaves these lands in pri- vate hands, mort of his repressive laws merely mean higher gas and | Lehigh | tion of the || SHOTDOWN : BY POSSE Pq Highwayman Hit | 20 Times in Duel With | BANDIT IS. Chicago Police Officers CHICAGO, at an end today. police. * April district police station. | Escaping from the station, he tn. | Jured two officers in a running bat tle before hie ammunition gave out and he waty fatally shot. Investigation by police today dis | | closed more than $100,000 worth of }toot James had hydden warehouse with a secret basement was filled with goods, police my. Greases of severa) hundred wealthy vietima, chamber Chicagoans, Police also found clothing bearing Prospective were found tn James’ posession. —— Harry |the nefarious James’ $200,000 bandit career was | last evening that I fear I may mis James died early | today after belmg shot 20: times by | Ho previously engaged! six policemen in a revolver duel in a A+ private at the mark “Senator Lorimer.” James started the battle in the district station while being searched | atx Policemen he kicked the glass from the front door and plunged thru it/ for weapons. to the street “White battling Mayor Prepares to Fight Hazards Recommendation that city ordi Rances be amended to permit the su Perintendent of buildings to compel the alteration of buildings to remove fire hazards,+was made by Mayor Caldwen, following his announced de elsion to make fires. At the present time a separate or. dinance is required every constructed under is te be altered. building, fire law Seattle IGARS PROVE | SPRING’S HERE The first candi. | date showed up this morning with a Spring is here pocket full of cigars. He is O. M. Spear, 11 years a dep: uty in the county auditor's office. “I'm going to run fot auditor this said Spear. trip,” Ladies’ Auxiliary to Overall Club of the City eld ita first meet Monday morning, when Ladiew auxil Hall Overan club, ing Arnold and ployes of the Cc ment, appeared blouses, for Overall Idea sanction of club idea for postal employes was re ceived at the local postoffice Monday morning. The order stipulates that a majority vote must determine wheth- Official lary, No. harlotte muny r in P snappy Official Sanction er overalls will be worn or not, that all must abide by that decision. | JOB FOR | TAXI DRIVERS) Thieves walked off with the street costumes | chorus frowns and tights they scampered to SOME CHICAGO, of fiva their hotels in April taxis girls, 26, - Cl lothed Hold Railway for “Black Tom” Wreck) 26.—The held WASHD near Jerrey Ci Mike O’Don ure. ported $275. cash. the to $275 ON, ¥ A “Black Tom in 1916, ty, I nell, St. police pril railrond for damages*of nearly $800,000 as the | | result of the supreme court today declining to review r 18 appealed cases, was N the ibe. Atm gat ahi i silts SEA— CASH Louis hotel Second ave. 8. and Main st., lent his | ear to the dulcet tones of a feminine | tongue late Sunday night and his lot with her on the sea of p| A few minutes later Mike re-| theft * Names and ad- safe from time prior Marie} hp ore, |UP and roused a girl friend and we itdy [at Gown at the oulja, A departed niddy the overall a explosion, | by the ac He says the woman got the| Aileen’ sEars | Burn During That Sermon She's Quite Excited Over the Prospect of Convers- ing With a Demon | BY AILEEN CLAIRE Lat mo first say very frankly Unat) |my ears burned so smartly during Dr. Mark A. Matthews’ discourse on |“the men and whmen who advocate idea of spiritualiam” quote him. (Yen, 1 went. The city editor sald T had to) aut, as nearty as T can remember his words, the eminent clergyman, said; “Departed spirits do not speak to men, but demons do. Demona im-| persohate the spirits of our loved) jones.” | SIR OLIVER LODGE | INCIPLENTLY INSANE "Sir Oliver Lode: 1 think he| Said, “ln a deceived old man, incipt- ently insane. “All mediama are vulgar, tured people. “Marconi bas declared there may Srole tard thera, bot be a uneul- jeation thas recelved may be.” | Not a word, mind you, during the | whole sermon, about my oulja board I feared the doctor would berate me for the things I hare written about my experiments with the oulja, and perhaps that was what made my ears burn. But he made no refer ence to me, unless I am dnetuded! among the “vulgar, uncultured peo ple” I concluded after the sermon that, | if I am to get the ‘message from Mars that has been promised me by the spirit of John Partridge, it wiil not come from the Martian scientist, | as I have expected, but from a demon, perhaps old Beelzebub him: seit | TALK WITH DEMONS? | QUITE EXCITING! If the doctor sought to frighten me with his talk of demons, he failed of his purpose. I am much more excit- led today over the thought that I may jactually converse with Old Nick, the high muckymuck of the inferna | regions, than I have been for a week at the prospect of chatting merely with a scientist on Mars, There are a lot of questions should like to ask the devil. No use! to name them now. You shall get} the full report of the seance, whether | it be with Satan or the scientist, after it is held tomorrow night. 1 renew my invitation to Dr. Matthews to attend. Now I must tell you what happen ed after Dr. Matthews’ sermon. | went to bed, but couldn't sleep. I got| a | friend told me he wanted me ta, write a story, and he related a tale to me that, if I could tell it now, would turn Seattle upside down. But I was warned not to drop the slightest hint as to what it i# about, but to write it first, then “pring” it atin Spall WANTS TO TURN JAILINTO HOTEL OTTAWA, Iowa, April 26.—Sheritt | C. 8. Ayers intends to turn the jail here into a hotel. He says the town | hotela can't accommodate the tour ists and there is no need of having a jail, in} | “Comrades of Peril” A Novel of Adven- ture and Love Begins im Today’s Star on Page 7 Randall Parrish is the author. This is a guarantee of worthwhile of | | | widetRise know what the avthors of commun | | ESCAPES: BEATS WIFE Fugitive diana Arrested at Kenny- dale b Accused of robbing his wife of diamonds valucd at $700 and then beating her until she was nearly unconscious, Albert Glass, 27, alleged to be an c escaped state prison, was arrested at Kennydale Monday by Deputy Sheriffs wich, After Glass was Northwest, traced him bad been served his He appeared at Sunday, threatened Glass ba dale and he was met by the depu. i ties when wabmitted altho tradited. SPOKA' ASK CROOKS TO SPOKA who are dance in published erimina! to abstal the feativ: Comminsion of burglaries dur ing dane warded as trust,” na ‘SENSATION IN DEMPSEY CASE |Claim Maxine Never Was Hi SAN FI sensational Dempney 4. closed her: Agent BE. M ment of justice admitted that federal authorities prove While de: ford said that the hi married Ma Police were notified that diamonds, listed as Indiana offickala, Re wil conclusively Dempsey never waa the legal wife of Jack Dempsey. SON AND. | Convict From In- y Deputy Sheriffs prisoner from Indiana Sears, Elliott and Star- believed to be in the Detective R. R. Herbert to Kirkland. His wife living there, while Glass prison term im wits home cording to Herbert, and jy her unless she accor | ] and took id left a trunk at Kenny he arrived to get it. He to arrest Without dispute, “bad man” by be ex NE’S COPS E GOOD TONIGHT NE, April 26.—Cops, to bh their annual a ly, tonight, have a wtatetiient putting the fraternity “on its honor in from crimes” during ities, : ing hours “will be re a despicable violation of ys the statement, Here are “Lightning” and POINDEXTER 1S | SURE OF OKEH Bellingham Gonvention Is is Legal Wife Ready for Action Tuesday tANCISCO, April A development in the raft evasion case was dis © today, when Special {. Blanford of the depart 26 A special train left this afternoon | with the King, Spokane and Pierce }county delegates to the state repub- Mean convention to be held at Bel lngham tomorrow. The convention is certain to indorse Unit®d States | ator Miles Poindexter, of Wash-| ington, for president Poindexter will address the convention in the | afternoon, It is not believed that | have unearthed facts to that Maxine ploring the fact that the|4ny attempt will be made to force information had become public, Blan. | the indorsement of Gen, Wood, altho | that the department of | the Wood following would be able to| justice had known for two months | control the situation. vyweight champion had| The four delegutes-atlarge have | ine 13 days after she se.| practically been agreed upon, They | ured a divorce in Utah are George H. Walker, of Seattle Under the laws of that state a nix | Who will place Poindexter’s name in months’ period must elapse before | nomination at Chic C.D. Bar a second marriage is legal. nett, of Anacortes; Thaddeus § ‘Of course, having never been the of Spokane, and Richard W.| legal wife of Demps Mrs. Demp Jon, of Kitsap county sey will be called to testify againat King county's district delegates to | him in the draft evasion trial,” Blan. | Chicago will be Capt. wing D. Col | ‘ord said vin and William T. Laube | Maxine Dempsey caused the arrest | Others who practically assured | of the champion on a charge of evad. | Places ag district delegates are Mark | ing the draft, and of his manager, 1, of Shelton, and Frank I. Sefrit Jack Kearns, for aiding him in the | am. alleged evasion. is entitled to four dele. Federal court rules prohibit the! “at-large and 10 district dele: testimony of a wife against a hus. | ates band, or a husband against a wife,| The fight for national committee- If the marriage is shown to be tile. | man probably will be brought to the gal, Maxine Dempsey, upon whose|floor of the convention. Guy F. statements the charges are based, | Kelly, of Tacoma, former speaker of could be used by the government to| the house, appears to have the inside tify against Dempney. sth | track ' Dempsey and Kearns have entered Samuel A. Perkins, of Tacoma, the pleas of not |German Troops in Ruhr Zone Reduced PARIS, April 26.—German reichs wehr in the Ruhr district have been reduced to the agreem | Wilhelm Von d'affaires hy eign office, committeeman, is withdrawn. present national reported to have No Decision Yet on Prohibition WASHINGTC April 26.—-The} supreme court today again failed to| hand down tts decision on the valid ity of constitutional prohibition. The court announced a recess from next Monday, May 3, until May 17, t guilty, the: 17,000 men allowed by nent of last August, Dr. Mayer, German charge , today notified the for yngress March 3, “Dynamite,” jl Jand 20 injured 1879, Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 “Confessions of a Spirit Faker” (A series suggested by Dr. Mark A. Matthews’ Sunday sermon, and written by the notorious “Silvertip” Regan, a fake medium for twenty-five years) Will Start IN TUESDAY’ EM Weather Tonight and Tuesday, fair; gentle westerly winds, Temperature Last 24 Hours a“. ‘Teday noon, 59, STAR PARRA PAA AA AAR APPL LPP PPP PPA PPP PPP PPP Jre LATE EDITION ) x ¢ i "IN SEATTLE SECOND BUTTE. VICTIM DIES Thos. Manning Succumbs to Wounds in Fight BUTTE, Mont, April 26.-- Thomas Manfing was the second vic tim today of strike disturbances here t week, in which one was killed Manning died at a hospital here t night following ap operation. He injured fm a battle between strikers and mine guards, Facing Charges of Packer Conspiracy 1 DETROIT, Apfil 26.—Richard C. Frisbie, 40, said to be president of the Associated Packing Co. Des Moines, Ia, was started on his way back to Towa today to face charges | of conspiracy involving $3,800,000 in alleged fraudulent stock sales. \Culprit Breaks Window 3d Time The breaking of the third plate glans window In two Weeks led to a violent protest to the police on the part of D. Waota, of the firm of D & N. BE. Waota & Co,, 2209 Sixth Monda “These windows cost $147 apiece,” explain the indignant Waota, “and I want the police to apprehend the culprit who is breaking them. ‘ Say Wine Flows in Walla Walla Jail | WAL oners A WAL April 26.—@ris in the county jail here “showed signs’ of being intoxica on wine seized by the sheriff's fore in various raids, according to admis. sions of Jail 4 to the. county commissi Wine has flowed freely in the jail for several months, according to affidavits filed by pris: oners, One of the affidavits asserts that two released prisoners tried to “break back into jail” to get @ drink, A the sheriff's bloodhounds, 2-year-old, whom they found fast asleep in the w ods near Jovita, after an al might ane ie ict |“Lightning” and “D Lead Deputies to Spot. Where Boy Sits Crying © After an altnight search im and Alvin -Béwman, (CARRANZA ARMY NOW RETREATING Struggle for | Control of Ma- zatlan Is Near treated to a point 46 miles north of Mazatlan before the rebel troops of Gen, Flores, dispatches to the government said today, A struggle between the federals| and revolutionists for control of Mazatlan, the principal port of en try of Sinaloa, and regarded as the [chief industrial and commercial city | of the west coast of Mexico, is im minent, according to these reports. There are known to be about 45} jAmericans, men, women and chil- |dren, in Mazatlan and its environs. |The presence there of United States jWar vessels was particularly neces- sary, because of the .probability. that |the water supply of the city will be ‘he’ Americans on the war, jout off by the rebels. could then take ips. The federal have burned | railroad bridges behind them in with: drawing toward Mazatlan and fortifi lations are being erected outside the city in preparation for a clash, eee refuge troops NOGALES, Ariz, April 26.— De La Huerta, of Sonora, today ac cepted the position offered him as supreme head of the constitutionalist army outlined in the “plan of Agua according to reports at revolutionary headquarters, CRAPE PAINT OFF THEIR CHEEKS LEWISTON, Idaho, April 26, High school girls here will chep one inch off their heels and half an inch |of cosmetics off their complexions, | according «to resolutions, WASHINGTON, April supreme court today ordered a rear- gument of the case attacking the consututionality, ef the farm Joan act 26.—The On top of the trush pile, ened and crying lustily but wise all right, sat Alvin. The hoarse baying reverberated thru tl wood, calling the searchera At o'clock the tot, none the worse his adventure, was restored to arms of his worried father. The ‘little fellow, dressed in ers and “scuffer” shoes, had dered off from theefarm of J. ley, near Jovita, where he staying since his mother was to a sanitarium, about 4 Sunday afternoon, and dleappeared. Bibley searched the farm and fields adjacent in vain before called for help. When night and a party of 75 men, women Be children had failed to find trace of the little boy, it wag feared might have been kidnaped or 7 oft by some’ wild animal, BUILT BONFIRE TO ATTRACT BOY Sibley phoned the sheriff and while the bloodhounds were ing made ready for the night 4 the search at Jovita was co When Lee and Kearney with the two big dogs, they the searchers gathered about @ bonfire, built for*two purpe r beacon light for the boy and for @ posse to warm themselves, The deputies learned that woods for a mile surrounding Sidley farm had been thoroly over. They waited by the fire the first light of dawn began. to etrate the woods. ‘Then “Lightning” and ice of te were shown several articles of ttle boy's clothing. AVith @ sniff, — “Dynamite,” with Lee at his leash, stgrted off. “Lightning” and Kear. ney followed close behind. The dogs’ circled about the fire, then “Dyna. ) mite” cut into the woods, fairly dragging Lee off his feet, with the other dog and Kearney at his heels, Thru tangles of dense brush, over — logs and across a swamp “Dynamite* led the way. Three quarters of a mile from the place where a neigh: — bor reported having seen little Alvin late Sunday afternoon “Dynamite* stopped short, sniffed the egrth, | then lunged forward again straight — into the woods, emitting the sf bay that signified he had struck the. trail, Lee had to dig his heels into the” earth to hold the dog back. Kearney: was having similar difficulty with — “Lightning.” Both dogs were bays ing now and the woodsmen filled with the shouts of other searchers, _ TRIES TO QUIET TERRORIZED BOY, “Dynamite” and “Lightn made a short circle thru some h brush, then stopped short and, tails thrashing, lifted their and gave a long-drawn, exultant o On the heap of dry brush them was their quarry. The continued their uy ras the) ers gathered. picked the chap up from the tried to quiet him, until his father, J. i taken him that he quit his cries, %