The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 10, 1920, Page 1

WT 1 ia a ) Ding waters ~ lines. | the rival SLUEBEARD IS SENT O SAN QUENTIN FOR ax Weather Tonight and heavy frost ing; gentle t Maximum, 63 Today {it Tuesday, fair; in early morn- westerly winds, Temperature Last Min noon, 48. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise e Seattle Star Entered as fe ond Class Matter Ma: |. 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash, the Act of Congress March 4, 19, Per Your, by Mall, $5 to $9 “VOLUME 23. SATTLE, WASH., AS IT SEEMS | | | SLEETH | NE day in the week shows dest of all the ancient feet that it takes all Sorts of people to make . a world That day is Sunday, when humanity, the civil fred world over, rests from its rou Bine and does what seems best Goes for the day what it desire Mo, instead of what tt has to do, I was reminded of this over and Wer On & recent Sunday when I Was down in San Diego county and drove a few score miles over that country, which is chiefly a dig playground for the nation. Along the fat beach were parked @utos by the doren. Men and wom en and children were tolling tn the Warm sand, were splashing in the furt, were wading {nto the tum and sting their to Many of those machines came from across the continent. Men and their wives and their children were camped by the roadside, gyp sles carrying their own habita tions rotled in a bundle on the run ning boards. * y's: brilliantly gowned pe ple luxuriously loafing. A polo pony here, a slim speed boat Bobbing down below at the tiny whart; great, brutal, - glistentne S up the road awn befor fashionable hote _ SPeedsters snorting along the wind Grives; folks oppressed with too of the fat of things, and ously lazy, with their valete. d their yawns, and their glitter baseball nines were riot ous, A husky south paw. who shimmied every time he wound himself up for a pitch, had battery guessing thru four innings, and retired them with precision and dispatch Then came a break, the bases filled before a single victim struck out, yells rent the Sabbath air. passing autoists stopped by the dozen and added to the excitement the pitcher fairly spun in bis pre liminary gymnastics, and the be #nighted batter at this critical me ment smote the bal! straight into the afternoon heavens, the short stop caught it with one careless hand, and that inning was bistory Then came jads with caps, col | lecting from the crowd their appre | ciative dimes and quarters, for this Dali game was evangelistic so far Pas its finances went, the free will offering being taken right after the moment of highest excitement, be- tore the crowd scattered Apd among the crowd were a few" dozen young girls, their eyes filled with the worship of these heroic fellows who were perform: ing wonders, and primed for the coming evening dance in the town’s seat of minstrelsy VER the dozen hills some miles, and one + came upon ancient mission beside a slug gish stream, with the blue and green mountains sheering behind it, and the purple shad m already creeping out of river canyons over the yellow and choco late fields And here, & slim, grim monk in brown, lifting face and bared head to the #un dressed a motley throng of and of ctwious tourists, and after wards an orchestra of Mexican ¢hildren played ol church muric and Also something with the tang of the Spuanish fandango tn It Thru four f generations the old mission stood in the jaglated mountain valley, and ried ite message to the gathered children of the poor, a message that changes not with the years, tho adobe wall and gnarled vine yard are ng back to the earth t an youthful his white ad cons k in the twi last orange big red sun the tops of of half a dozen ‘bing some miles out on the placid n; for men cast their nets today about as they id when the Sea of Galilee was 4 by the feet of Him who pon the tips of the tows ing waves. ‘And dashing out from the plue veil of the south horizon t . to conclude the story of the afternoon, @ giant bi-plane hum ing ite hoarse song, the under eurface of its planes a red yellow in the reflected glow; a huge man A of mystery flying to some far Liat where It, too nae ite junders and Peat pacysn Gh t, the cape of the ball caught fishing boa would ¢ 'rost Tomorrow, a Says Salisbury Hair weather tonight and Tuesday ‘the prediction of U. 8. Weather Salisbury, who says#a heavy i# probable early in the morn Winds will be of the gentle MONDAY, MAY 10, 1920. LIFEY TH EW f EDITION {i _Two ) CEN TS IN SEATTLE MOONSHINER SLAIN BY “DRY” AID POLICE $7,500, SAYS BOOTLEGGER Pll Protect Clara if She'll Prove She’s HE UNDERWORLD combed today for frightened white «irl In hope that the slave of a negro vice lhe able to throw ex ‘on underworld operations here, Sher iff Stringer has ordered his deputies | to find the gir! and bring her to his office. | “I will give her every protection,” ithe sheriff said. “If my information |# true, she te ready to talk. and can sive some nstounding facts ae should tear the underworld au) APPEARS IN COURT, THEN DROPS FROM SIGHT Since Clara appeared with blanched face and frightened eyes in police court last week, she has dropped \from sight She was given no opportunity tn |court to taix, if she intended to, | Brought in with Allee, a negro «irl. and represented by @ negro attorney, she was hustled speedily out again. jand the affair was to have been | hushed up. LIKE FAIR PLAY EVEN IN UNDERWORLD | But even in the underworld those who like to see fair play and who are roused to anger over the | fate of Clara. They were “in town, jand, being “In town,” they knew the | frightened white girl's story, and tt | leaked out. ts Clara, being the siderable light are JITNEY BILL IS UP FOR PASSAGE Mayor Scheduled to Sign It Late Monday erating on Tuesday under 4 | stringently restrictive ordinance that will mean their eventual elimination. if the council follows plans agréed upon in conference with Mayor Caldwell. The emergency jitney measure scheduled for action late Mon¢ The Jitney busses will be ws y. ordinance will Mayor Caldwell aa passed, Caldwell declared. Carrying un emergency clause, the bill will go into effect immediately Jitney drivers packed the lobby of council chamber Monday after. n, when the ordinan pasa signed by soon as it is be |Says Sugar Action | O. K. With Palmer|, | the committee of tion price margins indorsing fair ving greater to sugar dealers was re the office of District At Saunders from the depart of justice Montlay morning. is empowered by neral Palmer to fix any profit It deems ‘reason on and says Word King county n alle rofit ceived torney ment | Attorney ¢ margin of ble, based not on replacement | Saunders \She Wants $125 wctual cost, values, | a Month Alimony} an order re Lawrence with court for husband, Asking the straining her | Ashton Hay, from interfering her, Mrs, Fern Hay petition for divorce k she says, has frequently struck her and eafled her vile names Mrs. Hay seeks $125 monthly all |mony and the custody of her three Spare SONS. | Says Husband Is “Inharmonious” | Mildred Messner, in a divorce sult filed today, says she finds George L. Messner an “inharmonious hus- band,” She asks the custody of two minor ehildrgn and $50 monthly alimony. T-yearold alleged | magnate may} was up for today filed a| Bhe had been knocked unconscious by Alice, they said, Alice wielding a| kewple doll. By the unwritten law of the underworld, Alice had a right tO attack her rival Alice | waa the negro vice magnate’s girl, | and was jealous, | Since the view magnate had | spurned her and turned his atten | tions to Clara, who was a more prof | table chattel, because of her white skin, Alice, by the rules of the under workd, was within her rights. SHERIFF WANTS | TO GET “IN TOWN” | If she can be found@p'Clara will have A chanee to tell her atory for herself. The sheriff wants to be “in town.” He will ask her the name of |the negro vice magnate, and where he makes hia home “I have heard,” said the sheriff [*€hat somewhere below the notch ts an underworld king who has many | | white girt slaves. ‘They must make him a profit of $12 a night, each of them. At 2 or 3 jo'clock every morning he has them| | locked in thelr rooms, Then, at each | room, he makes hie visit. Those who y haven't $12 he seizes and chokes until they are submissive, or, failing in that, tears their clothing to shreds and leaves them there, with to have his money ready when he calls lL again.” because orders -(GIRL, 17, DRINKS. | DEADLY POISON — | |“I'm Going to Kill Myself,’”’! She Cries | Kathleen Ru: Jing girl working | Fohn's home tempted suicid drinking the content# of a | sci bottle. Despanden: sickness was given as th {the attempt The girl LJ-year-old serv in Mra, N. Le} 830 16th ave, at-| Monday morning by | at reason for | cording to Mra. Le} | Fohn, has been subject to violent | | periods of hysteria. After crying | violently for several minutes Mon. | day, Kathleen appeared with a car bolic acid bottle. She rushed out of | | the house erying H “I'm going to kill myself.” | Motorcycle Patrolmen J. J. Kush jand ©. D, Follrich the girl ‘ound the block where they found her wandering aimlessly with th Jempty bottle in her hand. A city | | hospital physician treated the girl at} Le Fohn hame and declared her | condition profably not serious | The girl had been working for Mrs. | Le Fohn for two weeks was most Louisiana to Vote on Suffrage Law BATON ROUGE, La, May 10. The Lovisiana legislature, meeting | in regular session today, was expect: | ately take up consider. Jation of a resolution ratifying the! woman suffra amendment to the federal constitution. iirty-five states have | amendment President Sends in Reappointments WASHINGTON, May 10.—Presi dent Wilson today sent the follow.) ing nominations to the senate: | to be registers of land offices, Jone Oker, Helena, Mont, (re-| pointed; *and Henry Alexander | Porter of Vancou Wash. (reap pointment). »|After Six Months He Deserts Wife| Married in July and deserted in| December, Hazel Hanvey today filed) suit for divorce from Henry Hanvey. | She secks restoration of ber maiden name, Hazel Hopgood, ed to immed ratified the | eigantic {downtown ' ‘ines |Tells Sheriff “Prowler Car” Held Him Up Before He Was Arrested Verner Lindquist, alleged ringleader of a gang of boot- leggers, paid the police $7,500 ‘to avoid arrest only to fall “In Town’? | ——Says Sheriff Stringer | into the hands of deputy sheriffs half an hour later one night three weeks ago, according to a confession he was said today to have made to Sheriff Stringer. Tindquist, his brother Fred, and others of the alleged gang, are held }in bail aggregating $10,000 on state and federal liquor charges, They are mid to have been involved in whisky smoggling opera tions which led to the captire of a number of police officers at Mea dowdale recently Verner Lindquint’s trial on one of the state casen was under way in Justicn O. W. Brinker's court tn in charged with oupture in an auto laden with which he had taken from « launch, Accorting to advance information the deputies had received, ther were two autos loaded from th launch, but when the deputies bears Lindquist car near the McDonald shipyard the other car had disappeared In Lindquist’s car were 20 sacks containing 240 bottles of whisky, jeh wi onfiaca ted. According to Sheriff Stringer, Lindquist told the deputies when they stopped him that he had “just been held up by the police,” and later made the statement that he had been approached by a squad of officers in a “prowler” car and had paid them $7,500 to turn him loose. ‘The sheriff said he wan inclined to discount Lindquiat’s story, but later information given him caused him to believe Lindquist had given the police the whisky contained in the other car, 20 sacks containing 360 bottles worth $7,600 at $12 a bottle. This and other information, the sheriff said, causes him to believe that police are not only engaged in bootlegging and “highrading” whisky smugelers on & large scale, but have a tipping system by which bootleggers are informed when the| sheriff is planning a raid. On Sunday morning, May 2, | Stringer said, a party of bis depu ties started for the West Side Inn, at 1703 California ave. to make a raid for liquor They previously been to a wrt where they found the dry squad ready to raid Just before reaching the West Side Inn, a police “prowler” car passed them. “And when my deputies reached the Inn; the police car was at the corner flashing its lights across the | windows of the lace the deputies intended to ra said Stringer: ‘The deputies went inside and found a party of men and women lunching on coffee and sandwiches, It was 3a. m City Sneak Spoils Day for Alexis Charles Alexis, Suquatish, Wash., visited Seattle, Sunday and some sneak picked the charm from th end of his watch chain while hy stood in a movie line “It spoiled my whole clared Charles to the day day,” do police Mon Many Homes Can be bought in Seattle foy the prige they would rent for; paid in month- ly payments. Most of these homes require only a small payment down, At the present price of material and labor, it seems that one can buy much cheaper than he can build. On Classified Page to- day you'll see:bungalows, modern hofses, lots and acreage to be sold on monthly payments, OFFICIAL! Bootleggers’ Motor Charges Posse; Knocks Down U. S. Agent ABERDEEN, May 10.—In a moon whine war which has raged here for & week, federal revenue agents emerged battle-scarred but victorious today, five alleged bootlegeers are are in the hands of the government, and Charles Watson, who defied the officers in a lonely canyon near here Sunday afternoon, is in the morgue, shot thru the head. ‘Watson and a companion, George A. Oakland, were driving into town in their automobtie iaden with “mountain dew" yesterday when they were surprised in a narrow defile on the outakirts of Aber deen by Leonard Regan, federal pro- hibition officer, and ©. C. Cooper, a traffic policeman, Regan and Cooper were apprised of the approach of the moonshine car by 8. EB. Runker, in charge of the federal agents’ party, who had taken up & position higher on the hillside CHARGE WITH CAR; <NOCK REGAN DOW When the two oftwers jumped into the road, with drawn pistols, and commanded the driver of the car to halt, the alleged moonshiners charged them with the -nachine, knocking Regan down and discharg ing hin revolver Leaping to his feet Regan opened fire at the back of the auto, which was driving full speed into the city. | Cooper also opened fire. Four bul | lets splintered the wood body of the machine and another well placed missile from Regan’s gun mortally wounded Watson in the head. At the same time Cooper brought the car to a standstill with a bullet thru the kas tank. DIES IN HOSPITAL; BOO IN MOTOR CAR Watson died in a hospital within the hour, Oakland was taken to jail on a liquor law violation charee. Ten gallons of moonshine were found in the machine The shooting was the culmination of & we tivity in this region, in which reven men were aided by local police, According to a report received in Seattle Monday morning by Prohibt tion Director Donald A. MeDonald from EB. A. Philbrick, special prose- cuting attorney for Grays Harbor county, at whore request Agents Bunker and Regan went over there, Oakland has made a complete con: fesion exonerating Regan SAYS WATSON REFUSED TO STOP both knew we were being halted by federal officers,” Oakland is reported to have admitted, “and I told Watson, who was driving, to stop. Instead he speeded up, and knocked Regan down. Then the |shooting began and Watson was killed.” | Oakiand is known as an old boot: logger, maid Director McDonald, and is thought to be the head of exten |wive whisky smuggling operations in |the Grays Harbor country | (An inquest is to be held Monday by the coroner | A number of stills of five to 20- | gallon capacity were taken in raids, Jand Steve Franko, 8, D. Llewellyn, P | Shipman and William H. Davis are |held in bonds ranging from $1,000 to $1,500, fi Two stills were found under Franko's barn, revenue officials sdy. Liewellyn is proprietor of a soft drink stand, where officers found moonshine being dispensed, they charge. Shipman and Davis are charged with “conapirac: STRAW HAT PARADE to march down town behind a band on ‘Straw Hat Day,” Saturday, May 29, is plained by Seattle haberdasher MORE U. S. WARSHIPS | ARE SENT TO MEXICO; REBS HOLD CARRANZA NOGALES, Ariz., May 10. |.—Mazatign was occupied by ithe revolutionary forces under Gen. Angel Flores at 4 | o'clock this morning, according to reports received here. | Governor Iturbe, who was reported in earlier dispatches to have escaped in a private captured and probably wil GENERALS ARE SLAIN, REPORT FROM CAPITAL wag captured while en route to Vera Crus by the forces under Gen, Ben- Jamin Hill, according to advices re- cvived here, No details were given. ‘The Carranza government aband- oned Mexico City for Vera Cruz at 10 «& m. Friday. The program of the flight of the president's party was reported to have been hampered by the rapid spread of the revolutian, The revo- Jutionixts claimed a victory In an en- gagement with Carranza’s fleeing forces. An unconfirmed report said Gen eral Juan Barragan, Carranza’s chief of staff; General Murguia, command. er of the garrison at Mexico City, and General Urquizo, were captured en route to Vera Cruz and executed. ‘The same report said General Can. dido Aguilar, foreign minister, and General Dieguea were killed in battle with the revolutionaries eee Apizaco (Barron-Escaniion) is 85 miles by rail from Mexico City and Puebla, Reports to the state department at Washington from the United States embassy at Mexico City said Carran a was fleeing to Vera Cruz He was apparently overtaken by the rebels Communication with Mexico City was interrupted during the revolu tion, NOGALES, Ariz, May 10.—Presi. dent Carranza escaped to the moun. tains at the time his special train was captured and is now a refugee with armies scouring the hills for him, according to latest reports from Mexico City, Mazatlan is reported to be in the hands of the revolution: ists under General Flores. It is be- Heved here that Governor Iturbe, of Sinaloa, escaped in a private yacht. eee Report Slaughter Mexican Prisoners EL PASO, Texas, May 10—Offi- cers to take charge of the new Mexi- can government began leaving here for Mexico City today. General Antonio I. Villareal, mill- tary chief of Nuevo Leon and Coa- huila; General Francisco 8. Serrano, chief of staff, and General Urbalouo, Yaqui chief, were among those de- parting. The Ojinaga garrison joined the revolutionists late yesterday, -Colo- nel Salinas and Ldeutenant Colonel Torres fled to Presidio, Texas. Before fleeing Mexico City, Gen- eral Murguia committed wholesale slaughter of political prisoners in Santiago military prison, according fo advices here. Socialists Favor Debs as President, NEW YORK, May 10.—The so- clalist national convention resuming ita session here today, was sched. uled ta nominate Eugene V, Debs for president. Rumors persisted that Debs would soon be released from Atlantic fed- | eral penitentiary, Seymour Stedman, Chicago, was) expected to be selected as Debs’ run- ; ning mate, SEATTLE “FACTS ana figures in booklet form will be distributed by Seattle Shriners at the Shrine con- vention in Portland, Jung 20 to 36. acht, is now said to have been be tried for the execution of Car| Obregon sympathizers in Mazatlan. NEW LINEUP OF U. S, TROOPS ON SOUTH BORDER WASHINGTON, May . 10.—The state department today was con- fronted with framing a new Mexican policy, following overthrow and cab- ture of Carranza and seizure of Mex- feo City by revolutionists. Secretary Colby was first to take steps to protect American interests in Mexico. It is considered Mkely that Presi- dent Wilson may call a cabinet meet ing this week to consider what course the United States shall take, THis government, for the present, will not accord recognition to any Mexican faction which may attempt to take charge of the federal gov- ernment, it is understood. REPORT TAMPICO 1S TAKEN BY REBELS While official dispatches reported that the important oil center of Tampico has fallen to the rebels, re- parts here of the Americap Oil com. panies in Mexico declared they had received no disturbing reports from Tampico. Four United States destroyers were expected to arrive today at Tampico to protect American inter- ests. The destroyers were ordered from Key West early yesterday. They are the Isherwood, Putnam, Dale and Case The destroyers Flusher and Reid are being held at Key West ready for action United States marines, ordered to Key West Saturday for possible Mexican duty, were expected to sail late today from Leagye Island, it was learned at the nayy department On the Texas border new align ments of United States regular army forces are being made, eee U. S. S. Sacramento Now Off Tampico HOUSTON, Texas, May 10.—The U. 8. 8. Sacramento has arrived off Tampico, a radiogram to an oil pub lication bere declared today The message jared Tampico had been captured by revolutionists with: out fighting. The situation was re- ported quiet 38 Alleged Reds Will Go on Trial CHICAGO, May 10, — William) Bross Lioyd and $7 ather alleged communist labor party leaders were | to go on trial here today, charged | with conspiracy to overthrow state and federal g woreemnenive by violence, ‘TOM [RACKNER, indicted on Uquor charges, was given one week to enter plea in the United States district court Monday morning. EPHRATA, WASH., SIGNS CONTRACT WITH “RAIN MAN” EPHRATA, Wash., May 10.—- A contract calling for three inches of rainfall for 4 hundred mile radius, has been closed with George Batfield, the Los Angeles “rain man,” by the loca] Commer. cial cluy. The work of construct. ing towers and installing equip- | ment ts to be started this week, Hatfield ts to receive nothing for the first inch of rainy $3,000 for ine seas and $3,000 for the ‘ALENISTS ‘DISAGREE ONMENTAL CONDITION Wife Slayer Appears Un- | emotional in Courtroom | When Sentenced LOS ANGELES, May 10— ‘A | Bluebeard J. P. Watson was | today sentenced to life im- prisonment in San Pre Penitentiary by |Judge Willis for the lites of Nina Lee Deloney, one of the seven women he con- fessed to having murdered. Besides the seven known wives he admitted murdering, several others lof the 26 women he married are Ri wife he attempt his throat. ized women in nearly city on the Pacific coast of their experiences with who married and then deserted itt j i ii H JUDGE CONDEMNS HEINOUS CRIMES: The judge found Watson physie- ally unsound, mentally deficient and morally degenerate. The eeten an hour and a half. ‘atson was brought into court 10:12 a m. He was neatly pi seated himself in a chair, lowered his eyes, and gave no sign of having any interest in the proceedings whatever. His attorney, J. Morgan Marmaduke, having announced that he had no cause why his client should not be sentenced, District At torney Woolwine called Deputy Sher- iff Couts as a witness. Couts detailed the entire case from April 1 down ta the date of Watson's last confession. ALIENISTS DIFFER ON MENTAL CONDITION Allenists who testified at today's hearing differed sharply in their opinions of the prisoner’s mental condition. Several of them said he was insane while same said that he was entirely sane, | __ District Attorney Woolwine read @ statement to the court relating the terms of his Agreement with Wat- son. “prosecution of the defendant for murder would have been impossible,” Woolwine said. “A confession was. therefore, imperative and indispens- able.” “The defendants having made the | confession and disclosures, and hay- ing entered his plea of guilty to the murder of said Nina Lee Deloney, I | therefore wish to recommend that the defendant receive at the hands of the court a sentence of life im- prisonment.”” Watson's attorney applied for a stay of execution until May 15 to wind up some business matters for | his client, but Judge Willis said he would rule upon that at some ather time. Change ‘Name on U. S. Indictment The true name of “George H.” Tre panier, indicted by the grand jury for alleged complicity in the Auburn box: car robberies, is Louis H, Trepanier, it was announced by the United States district attorney's office Mon- jday morning. |Wellesley “Fires’ ires” Girls Who BOSTON, May, 10.—Four women students at Wellesley been suspended. from college