The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 7, 1920, Page 1

EM Weather and rain; southedl winds, Temperature Last 44 Hours Tonight probably {iil Today noon, 73. Saturday, moderate On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Botered as Second Clase Matter May 4, 1899, at the Postoffice at Geattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 8, 1679 Per Year, by Mati, #5 to 99 bras TH ED LATE EDITION VOLUME 23. —- SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1920. S IN SEATTLE MORE BLU —_—— AS IT SEEMS | | Stowaway TO ME DANA SLEETH WAS moseying past the Arena yesterday after noon, when I was stop ped by the sound of y chotr singing. After I Mopped, I decided it wasn't a choir there was too much of it, and it Dad the sweeter, flute-tlike quality ‘ft youth—so I dodged into an open 4} door to investigate. Once inside the big, shadowy Place, I forgot all about the singing Qnd looked at the strangest picture my eyes ever beheld. Back there, a block away, rose 4 Hving banner right up in the air to the high, vaulted roof. At first I thought it was a huge picture, @waying in the wind; then I saw it Girl Finds Happy Home QUIZZING ASSASSIN TO CLEAR |Weak and Trembling, Mul- ti-Bigamist Is Urged to Reveal History BY HAL ARMSTRONG N THE UNDE town" today, Newspaper headlines, WORLD, if you|in red ink. would have screamed, fre “in town,” you will know | “Girl Slave Bares Secrets.” And the Alice, the pretty negro girl, and | underworld would have been shaken Clara, the frightened white one, | to its roota, If you are not “in town,” all you) ‘But the police court isn't run any will know is what you might have | more us it used to be. neon and heard in police court yerter- | ae a day afternoon, | RE “IN TOWN,” in the under-| They were charged with disorderly world, you must have a speak: | l|eonduct, At the carnival at Ninth | ing acquaintance with the Chinaman |and King, the other night, they had | who “deals the dope” from his vest been fighting | pocket on the street; with the sleepy: | flashed merriment as she ant at the | whose cart stands at the corner; with | judge's table beside her rival, Clara.) the shooting gallery sirens, the “sig: | EBEARD BRIDES MISSING Somebody’s ‘In Town Clara Is, but the Judge Isn’t, and the Threat of Being “Bumped Off” Keeps Clara From Telling What She Knows of Operations “Below the Notch!” I hadn't seen the battle, they said, ar riving too late to witness it, There had been a fight—that was all they knew ) [X THE OLD DAS in police court the judge went at such cases “with |his hobnaily on." The girl's past, Inagmuch as both girls had been | Present and future were bared and in jail overnight, the judge turned |@ired before the world. If there was them loose. ‘Their youth—they are|a man in the ease, the judge found both 17—was considered another rea- | {it out, non for leniency. The man, widely known in the| Then some one discovered that underworld to those who are “in| these morbid court scenes were “bad town,” was not arrested, The judge | for society” and only dragged the girl anked no questions concerning him. | down farther into the miré, and that Alice's impish, big brown eyes eyed but wideawake exprensman’ Ho made no inquiries into the causes | method of legal procedure was aban-|Caldwell Friday morning, of the fight | doned, MAYOR T0 ‘FIRST TRY ECONOMY - PROGRAM |Won’t Recommend Increasé | to Council at Conference Called for Saturday Street car fares in Seattle will not be raised until every lother expedient to make the {municipal railways successful has been exhausted This was the statement jmade by Mayor Hugh M. answer to declarations Clara, who seemed on the point of | Today the judge is not “in town. at of 3 "|members of the city uti A great pink rose was caught In her | geramen” who “lookout” for the gam: | », jet hair and dangled devilishly over | bling fointa, and with a score of oth-| one small ear, ere who are “in the know” and who | LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 7. —“Bluebeard” J. P. Watson,Har- ‘was alive, and that the little white king but did not, left t t f y « ry Saiee ents, wuodreda cn hun- aking bu not, left the court/ He doesn't know the sleepy-eyed ¢: committee advocating an 1 went—where? | presaman, the Chinese “dope-seller, r . r) evnen a white gui gots into the|the “Sepersioen”’and the shooting | Mediate increase in the RE Ge go EE I \ ‘ f 2 F b 4 @reds of them, were the faces of ehildren—chiltren rising up rank nm rank, from floor to ceiling across the width of the big audi terium., I took a front seat and started to @ount those children, but I gave It looked like there were Were 22 rows—1,500 children in one singing square—singing together, singing tunefully, led by a echool orchestra that played with feeling and exactness. and nor fussed seats during the As @ demonstration of mind over “Waster, as a spectacle of man—only they were women who did it~ @etytng the forces of nature, it was ® greater miracle than Ajax with his lightning, or Joshua with his sun. I have endeavored to sft on the throttle of fust two youngsters for an afternoon, and to keep them and the major portion of the furniture intact and inside ‘and I seldom made a hich the wife was proud returned home, but to on 1,500 American chil- tender years and yeasty 1 wouldn’t care for . HESE children, with their singing, seemed a bit unreal; piled up back there in a great block, block of pink ribbons, and red sweaters, and biue and white and orange dresses; heaped up there lke some huge wall of ) flesh, without visible support, they took on the semblance of some giant creature, with 3,000 hands and 3,000 eyes, and 1,490 mouths, giving itself to melody vibrant with life In its tiniest part. Not that every tiny part was singing. As usual, I noticed that the girls were virtuously doing their duty, and that various boys were not. You take a boy of 15 and stick him on @ bench with nothing to do but sit still and sing, and after an hour or so that begins to pall on his sensitive spirit, ana he docs something else besides sing. Several of the boys proved their relationship to Adam yester- day, but the average conduct was nigh. ND of them all, the boys and girls who came nearest being perfect in action, deportment and = wal were the Japanese g@hildren, who stood like statues, who opened their mouths and sang ‘on order, and who neither fidgeted nor relaxed at any time. The sto- feal philosophy of a race that can breathe upon the spirit of its chil- dren and petrify them is certainly ‘a more potent doctrine than any that we Westérn nations know. Tonight and tomorrow you will have occasion to see what your ¢ehildren can do. You will be proud of them, and you can go home aft- erward knowing that you have wit- nessed the welding together in har- mény of the coming generation, and that doubtless among thone frundregs will be dozens who will, ith voice and instrument, in aft years enthrall multitudes. To this hour we have given the werage child with talent slight hance in this country, but we are oing to do better. In Seattle we are already mak- the way easier for talent, and, ‘we arMinstiliing in the thou- of ehildren a knowledge of music, and the love of it, and ability to foal from The girt had undertaken to follow her lover, an American soldier, to California, Her soldier-suit clothes had been stolen and when discovered she was wrapped in a blanket. Fickley had a dress made out of sheets and when she arrived with | Emily J. Rose, of Los Molinos, Cal., | vextment. the beat in San Franciseo ht brought wife adopted her as their daughter Lucy is happy now after her ter rible experiences family in Poland. She is now study ca, her new hom, CARRANZA IS IN FLIGHT, REPORT Is Said He Left Mexico City During Night. WASHINGTON, May 7.— Mexican revolutionary head- quarters here announced today that a djxpatch had been received from Laredo reporting that President Carranza departed from Mexico City during the night. The announcement was not confirmed from official sources, The telegram was received here at 2:30 a. m. It was filed at Laredo an hour earlier and purported «to come from revolutionist sources in Mexico City. Carranza, according to the tele gram, started for Vera Cruz He wan guarded by loyal troops. Some Washington officials, doubting the accuracy of the report, pointed out that revolutionary headquarters yes- terday announced they were in com mand of one section of the Vem Cruz railroad, completely blocking Carranza in Mexico City. Married 49 Years, She Asks Divorce Forty-nine years married to Sand. ford Offutt is too much for Frankie Offutt. She sued for divorce Fri day. They married in Zionville, Ind., June 26, 1871. For the last 10 years he has failed to support her, she charged. TWO ARRESTED AS GAMBLERS E4 Shea and Frank Hall, arrested in Mayor Hugh Caldwell’s gam- bling raid on the Sourdough club, 421 Olive st., April 28, and released on $1,000 bonds, were rearrested Thursday night on state charges. The bonds have again been placed at $1,000, Hall, who is said to have had a gun in his possession at the time of the raid, was also arrested on a charge of carrying concealed weap- ons in a public place. His bond in this Instance was fixed at $100. State gambling charges classify gambling as a felony, and cary a penitentiary sentence, Vey-Hilton-Huirt was taken to district Attorney Woetwine's of- flee today to be questioned re garding the activities of bis en- tire life. Woolwine hopes to secure « further confession covering the disappearance of several women Watson is sald to have married. At the same, time the criminal ts being questioned he will be under observation by Doctors Allen and Williams who will report ta Judge Wilts their opinion of bis mental condition. Watson was exceedingty weak when brought inte Woolwine’s office. He walked with shuffling gait, and tks above Matht col ‘couch. ? ‘guity yeaterday in court when a } with the slaying of Nina Lee D , one of the tmitny | wamen he tricked into matrimony. | MANY OTHER WOMEN | REPORTED MISSING In the possession of the authori ties Is infermation concerning Mrs. | Gertrude Wilson, of Seattle; Mrs Agnes Wilson, of Alberta, and a “Eleanor,” all of whom are missing. Watson will be asked today when | trude Wilson in Seattle in 1917. He name of ye aro. Whether he married Mrs. Rose tn not known. However, she disap peared shortly after Watson in | known to have been in Low Molinos | with the pretense of opening a bank there. Deeda to 20 acren of land and a power of attorney signed by Mra, Rose were found in one of Watson's trunks. The body of Nina Lee Deloney, the “wife” whose body was recov. ered in the desert neveral days ago today Is enroute to Hodgenville, Ky the home of her brother, Arthur Jackson. The body was shipped last night from El Centro, TRAFFIC CHIEF TAKES OFFICE But Division Is Not Com- pletely Organized Definite steps in the establishment of Seattle’s new traffic department were under way today, when Chief Warren set aside room 117 In the public safety building for the han- dling of all traffic violations. For the present those violators of the traffic regulations who must be booked will go thru the regular channels. and their names will en- Harvey in Canada three it is planned to provide shortly for separate booking facilities in Lieut: Carr's office. ‘The new division will handle all classes of traffic violations, With Lieut. C, ©, Carr in charge of the bureau, a metropolitan system of handling traffie problems will be built up in Seattle, At the present time no new men will be added to the traffic deviston, according to Chief Warren, altho it is his «plan to add at least four more men to Lieut. Carr's staff in the near future. Careful records will be kept of all traffic violations, Sergt. J, L. Zim merman will assist Lieut, Carr in the office work, and some one will be on hand night and day to handle cases as they are brought in, Asks $40,412 for Death of Husband Damages of $40,412 for the death of Paul F. Behnke, killed when a Green Lake street car jumped the track at N, 39th st. and Woodland Park ave. January 6, 1920, was asked of the city by Behnke's wid- ow, Nellie Behnke, 718 21st ave. in | superior court Friday, red on the book of arrests; but | Clara's face wae pallid, Her Ups trembled. Her eyes dilated wildly. Several times ehe seemed about to speak, but did not. liad. she told the story she could have told, you would been “in SUGAR PROFITS BOOSTED AGAIN Wholesalers and Retailers Granted Bigger “Cut” te day's action will booet’ the git to consumers to 28 cents a pél wae predicted. Some stored Were cents before the commit- ton. Thursday the wholesalers were granted a 15 cent raise, bringing |their profit to #1 on the 100 pounds [They asked for $1.63, which they claimed was 7 per cent on thelr in- District Attorney Saun- | dors suggested © margin of $1.50. In her to his home here and he and his/ woman known to the police only as|thia the committee agreed and the |representative of the jobbers aequi- lpaced She ts well edu-| he knows of their disappearance, He| ‘The retail sugar merchants asked cated and came from an excellent | is known to have married Mrs. Ger-| their profit vf 2 cents a pound be} |doubled. ‘The committe compro- ing the language and ways of Amer: | married Agnes Wilson under the | mised at a figure of 3 cents. | Merchants are authorized to apply |the new prices to the stock of sugar |now on hand. This means a total increase of 4.5 cents a pound, which jin turn means that the price to the |consumers will jump immediately to 28 cents a pound. | At the conclusion of the confer ence Ernest ¥. Wells, chairman of the “fair price” committes, said, “We |felt that nome concession should be granted both jobbers and retail mer- chants in order to make it worth |their while to handle sugar. Other- wise sugar would be diverted from | Seattle to Chicago or some other market." REFUSE TO BUY ‘SUGAR, IS URGED Government Experts Say Sweets Are Costly Habit WASHINGTON, May 7.—The best way to combat the high prices of |wugar is to quit eating it, according to Dr. Carl Voegtlin, professor of pharmacology, Government Hygienic Laboratory, At the present time the people of |the United States are consuming $2,000,000,000 worth of sugar a year, and if the price goes to 40 cents a ind, which is likely, they will be ing it at the rate of $3,000,000,000 a year To dispense with this sugar would save $20 a year for each person, or |$10 for each family of five. To those who eat it in the form of candy it would save much more, as good candy sells for from $1 to $2 a pound. “a ‘The best authorities In the Unite States, including Dr. Harvey W Wiley, recognized as one of the world’s greatest food experts, say refined sugar used for sweetening, is not only unnecessary, but injurious to the system, “Sugar is a luxury, and not an exsential food,” says Dr, Vooegtlin, “When taken Into the system sugar is burned into carbonic acid and water and in those forms eliminated. ‘The only thing it generates is heat and energy. The indirect harm done by sugar is to destroy the appetite for the forms of foods that should be eaten, such as fruits and vege- tables, These foods contain suffi- cient sugar to furnish necessary heat and energy, and at the same time they supply proteins, fats, mineral salts and vitamins. Starches are broken down into sugar and thereby furnish the body all the heat and energy necessary.” 4 | have been “in town” for many years. You murt “have a line on” fatoiiy history and operations of the Felix Cranes, the Blackie Chandlers, | the Marry Leggees and the Billy You must know who “runs the game” to be “in town.” And when you are “in town,” the 14 expresxman will tell you that to- day & white girl can't keep straight more than A month in ghe district “below the notch.” - He will cite you a doven instances He will relate the tale of the pretty girl of 17 who went to work three weeks ago in one of the hurdy-gurdy picture shows “below the notch.” He knows her parents, fine people, who live out in Rainier val! saw her the day she first red in | nationality and unwholesome | who tried to talk to her. | eee of gay! CAME A.CIIAP, a “nifty | Gresser,” from one of the houses," who #miled at her, and #he |amiled back. She let bim talk and | answered bis prying questions. In a day or two she was convers Jing freely with Japanese and ne- | groes. She attracted many patrons to the movie show. She ran no more to catch her street car, but lingered in the district, exploring, late of evenings, When men approached her she no longer blushed And then she disappeared. The expreseman saw her enter a hotel one night—a hotel run by daps and much frequented by Japs and negroes. And when they go into that ho he said, “nobody can ever find them——not even the police, She's up there now.” | Another white girl, of pretty pink complexion and blue eyes and wavy hair, not more than 16, is in the movie box office now “And you'll see her talking to a Filipino, if you watch,” aaid the old expressman, “She didn't go home last night.” | eee UT EVEN THE OLD EXPRESS | man doesn't know where Clara, | the frightened white girl, came from, She just bobbed up. tel. [| All the expressman knows ts this: Sho is the property of » negro “man.” Alice, the negro girl, is Jealous, They met at the carnt | val, and Alice hit Clara over the | head with a kewpie doll, Clara fell unconscious, Some negroes carried Clara back of a tent and “brought her to” with ® pall of cold water, Then she was hustled away, around Beacon hill, And to a resort whére the police later found her when they arrested both | xirls for fighting | In court the officers testified, They 'SEALS RELEASE "STAR PITCHERS | SAN FRANCISCO, May 7.—Tom |Seaton and “Casey” Smith, leading |pitchers of the San Francisco base | ball team, were today given their unconditional release, following | charges of irregularity in their play. jing and attitude toward the local club. Charles Graham, manager of the |club, in announcing the outright re. lease of the two players today, re fused to discuss the charges against them. He said the action would be a hard blow to the pennant pros | pects of the team, but that “it was for the best interest of baseball.” Breaks a Finger Fighting Husband Divorce was asked by Catherine Arienta from John Arienta Friday on the alleged grounds that he had broken one of her fingers during a fistic encounter, ® OMAHA, — Mrs. Patrick Convey danced a jig and smoked her pipe on her 100th birthday. “Got any: thing on your hip?" she inquired of @ reporter interviewing her, the | clutches down here,” remarked the | gallery sirens, And he doesnt’ know old expressman, “she hasn't got a| Clara, the frightened white girl, who | chanoe. She's a slave, that's all j will stay where she is in the under- She's seared into believing if she| world unless she “squeals” and may- ‘nqueals’ they'll ‘bump her off.’” Ibo gets “pumped off.” PROFIT HOGS LOOT Is Charge of Expert Who Reveals WASHING’ May 7.—Profits of practically all corporations ie rd in food, clothing, fuel and | materials, ni aS are more than 100 per cent greater than before the war, W. Jett Lauck, former secretary of the na- tional war labor board, told the railroad board today. | In support-of his testimony, Lauck submitted United | States treasury reports and published statements of groups lof corporations showing average net profits compared with icapital stock totals for the three year periods, 1912-1914 and 1916-1918, Sugar profits, Lauck showed, increased generally 300 per cent; meat packing profits between 300 and 400 per cent; clothing, 500 per cent; shoes, 100 per cent, and coal, 400 | per cent. e | Profits of from 25 to 100 per cent on capital invested were |/not uncommon for hundreds of corporations during the three |war years, according to Lauck’s evidence. This would indi- cate that many big corporations earned enough during the war period to entirely return their entire investment, he said. | APPEARS IN BEHALF OF RAIL WORKERS ASKING WAGE INCREASE | Lauck appeared in behalf of railroad workers, asking the |board to approve their demands for wage increases totaling japproximately $1,000,000,000 annually. He blamed ad- | vancing living costs almost entirely upon profiteering. | Lauck called the board’s attention to public statements of 205 concerns, which showed a net earning of 8.7 per cent |on capital stock in 1912-14 and 23.9 per cent in 1916-18. These corporations include 57 concerns dealing in the basic raw |materials, steels, copper and manufactured metal products ; |29 dealing in food products, including meat packing; 19 in \clothing, 64 in fuel, light and housing, and 36 dealing in mercantile goods and agricultural suppli “The outstanding fact,” said Lauck, “is that during the years 1916-18, these corporations earned $1,250,000,000 a year, or nearly 24 per cent of their capital stock. This ap- pears to be nearly three times the average for the pre-war years of 1912-14. They were due in large measure to the | fact that those corporations took a large proportion of every |dollar spent by a purchaser.” If all corporations did as well as the 205 cited, corporate |profits were $4,800,000,000 greater during the three war |years, than in the pre-war period, Lauck said. WIDESPREAD PROFITEERING ADDS TO BURDEN OF FAMILY MEN “A total of $4,800,000,000 a year,” he said, “means $240 per family of five thruout the nation. Consider that each family paid as a toll, not to so-called legitimate profits, but to extess Waf profits over pre-war profits, $240 a year, and one gains an’idea’ of the total burden which profiteering |meant to the country. “During the three years, 1916-18, the consumer has been paying the food corporations, whose reports are available, over two and one-half times as large profits as were con- |sidered acceptable before the war.” The profits in a pound of sugar, Lauck showed, was three times as great during the war as before. “The high price of sugar,” he said, “‘was the direct result of speculation. The net profits of 12 petmning and producing |companies, as shown by their reports, totaled $11,000,000 during 1912-14( but rose to $34,000,000 during 1916-18, that is, from 614 to 19 per cent on the capital stock. OCEAN OF MONEY SWEEPS IN ON MEAT PACKING FIRMS “Four big meat packing houses earned, during the years 1915-17, a total of $140,000,000, Such profits were made despite enormous deductions for excessive salaries, advertise- ments and overhead charges, All together, in 10-12-18, these concerns took one-quarter of a billion dollars in profits of nearly double the pre-war value of their stock.” Lauck also submitted treasury data to show that,of 892 bituminous coal companies reporting, 334 showed net\profits of 29 per cent after every possible deduction; 218 over 50 per cent on capital stock, while 118 earned net profits of! over 100, per cent, ‘ of fares charged on the cipal lines. “I will not recommend an fare until we have put into every economy, tried every plan, cated all the leaks, and demonstrated that it is al impossible to run the cars on Present five-cent basis,” Caldwell clared. The mayor also stated that even jif an increase were , the | Present was a bad time to make an increase, t MOORE, THOMSON WANT INCREASE The street railway situation be discussed at a held Saturday Mayor Caldwell and the city The city bcc Brie is approximately sack mir in favor of raising the fares, COUNCILMEN ARE SPLIT ON SUBJECT Members of the city utilities com: jof raising car fares here. ‘The coum climen lined up thig way Friday: R. H, THOMSON—If the want good service they must | willing to pay for it, s W. H. MOORE—Experience has shown that the lines cannot be ste cessfully operated on a 5-cent fare under present conditions, 4 PHILIP TINDALL—1 am noteom: vineed that it is necessary to raise |the fares, There are many to the problem which should be carefully studied before any definite |decision is reached. I am not ip fa way. R. B. HESKETH—Tf it is abso. lutely necessary in the interests | better’ working conditions for st jcar employes and for better for the publig to raise the fare, then I'm in favor of the crease, But it will have to be me that it is absolutely n A. T. DRAKE, the |member of the utilities com: |is in Arizona on an indefinite leave” jof absence from the council, : | mittee were divided on the question bans r of reducing the service in any FATHER HELPS — Goes to Aid of His Daugh- ter in Portland Edgar K. Worthington, lumberman living at 322 ave. N., was reported in Portland Friday helping federal officials com plete a case against William R Sainsbury, arrested on Worthing. ton's complaint for alleged violation of the Mann white slave act. Miss Emma Worthington, Y |jumberman's pretty daughter, is |te have been taken from Wenatchee to Portland by Sainsbury and maim — apartment in the latter city, Worthington is secretary, of the Sioux Timber company and pt dent of the Washington Tug company of Seattle. It was said at his offices Friday that he would not be back until Saturday. HE JUDGE AND JURORS AGREED SPOKANE, May 17.—Justice Sam Hyde is slightly absent minded, He found Jack King guilty of to and selling dope, They had mind him that a jury was But the jury's verdict agreed the judge’ Increased Flour aug Price in Po PORTLAND, Ore, May %— new wholesale price of flour effective today, is $13.75 a barrel, increase of 60 cents. i ‘The aad vailing Foes GET EVIDENCE tained by him three weeks In ap —