The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 20, 1920, Page 1

{iit Eq Tonight anc ably Temperature Last 2 Maximum, 60. Today noon, ather i Friday rain: easterly winds, mode rate Hours Minimum, 44. » prob- Entered as Second Matter May 3, 1 At the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. und Mal VOLUME On the Issue of ‘Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star b 3, 187% Per Year, by Mall, $5 t LATE RSDAY, MAY 20, 1920. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE TO ME DANA SLEETH R, SLEETH Some day are in the moc tell your many re something of the Little Landers, near Also the Lewis Foundation Corporation of Atascadero, £2 Reapect Calif fully, J. ROGERS, when you e tragic failure 7 , of Something of Of the Little Lan their high hopes, Appointment, I ha Some years ago ens opened and thing like forty when ned tor ays and nights, and nearly washed San Diego into the bay, I waded u debris and Jetsam, and picked my way along & washed-out road bed where a railroad had shortly before resided. And at the end of the trail I Ame upon the Little Landers, with their little houses, and gardens, and fields, in the sand and the sun, on the banks of what was then roaring flood, but was usually @ baked gravel wash. Most of the Li Landers had nm up in despair even then, bably only a few remain to this ¥, but once hundreds of hopeful d ignorant folks trooped to this alleged oasis in the desert and @Epected to grow rich in a year, Yaising tropical fruits, chickens, goats, rabbits, squabs, all the glit- tering junk of the fake rancho, There were to be co-operation, community entertainment, mutual helpfulness, a sharing of good for- tune. Many lost their savings in the venture, and perhaps one or two succeeded in making a little money, but they would have suc ceeded anywhere. Litde Landers, pathetic tn their ignorance, blind in their faith, fool- fish with their meager capital, final. ly disillusioned and sent back to @ Job in town, broken in spirits, with ' gtp in their lives never to be spanned! It is a crime to take money from such people on fake agricult projects, eee DONT know what Lewis is doing with his modern garden of Eden I know his program sounded like the pros peetus of a Tor Lawson copper mine, and I know that when I Passed thru his site, a few weeks ago, it looked mighty deserted, and there seemed to be more neglected Half-starved enterprises than there were « institutions, And if I was sing an inves would pick one for myself than follow the leade Mr. Lewis, whe eve Louis and various magi ater prises without really being quite Feady to depart. Lewis can certainly write a retiy, pepful prospectus, and as a ollector of cash from maiden aunts and weary widows, he is a wonder; but just what return he ts making today on the mo: iven him is somet else “again. 1 Hope he makes all his partners rich =I will gamble that he will do weil for Lewis. . eee AKE echemes! How the West has seen them sprout, thrive and wither! A fow years ago it was apple orchards, and tens of thou sands of schoo! teachers, and Kast @fn wage earners, and Southern Professional folk paid $350 an acre for desert land, miles from a ditch, and trusted to the glib-talking pro motion outfit to plant it, bring it into bearing m: them all rich. I @o not know of 4 promotion or and chard that ever mae an investor a cent I do know that thousands of hon. est folks were nned these achemes, and the « West was given an outrs HAVE bought, and buy today 04 ple and pear and walnut land out in the rain for $75 an acre, And I have seen promotion com panies sell poorer land, farther from town, land that did not t water, land that would cost more ar than the jand I bought sold their land for from $300 an acre up If you are going to farm, get on a farm. This thing of trying to farm and work in town usually lends to failure If sou want an acre or #0 to play you earn a living in ht. Go and get but don't regard it as aa investinent, If you want to farm, buy or rent d farm. The honest set- Pree 2, Column 6) what IS OUT OF HIS 27072?” as mt seems|| BANNICK IS | PEEVED AND | Unrest prevailed im the under Id and in police circles last! ght and today, following Mayor Caldwell ppointm of Captain | William H. Searing as chief to suc | ceed Joe Warren. While habitues| Jof the district “below the notch”! |were figuratively holding thelr| within | to be “in town” vertently, by the appointment precinct. “I'm too busy da aring, before being made chief, | was in command of the pr t in | which the underworld has { ng. and had not cleaner - QUITS POST | Packs Up Belongings and| Leaves When Searing Takes Chief’s Office breath to see which way the wind is going to blow, the department were centered upon @ new upheaval at headquarters. | The upheaval was started, Inspector himself a former chief. months ago Bannick and seemed to be the warmest |'Then a split occurred, The breach | widened, and when yesterday Bannick made application to be removed from headquarters | station and placed in an outlying | Searing gave the inepector no tm: | mediate answer. Without delay Ban-| | nick stripped his desk of personal be- longings, packed them up and com-| placently moved out Chief Searing refused Thursday to discuss the appointment of a new in spector of police to succeed Bannick Searing said, thought much about the matter.” | Besides cleaning up his office and an occasional caller, |auarters were most quiet. | Inspector Bannick failed to appear ice station during the morning predicted that things would be allowed to run along basing their forecast on the fact HOORAY! FOOD PRICES DRO the eyes of those who claim tnad. | Rannick, | Up to two Searing friends. he of the new learned of chief | | getting located to- “and I haven't the new chief's Former Wy / if Hf Wy “as usual,” nt Others took the hat, inas much as Mayor Caldwell was report Ml tt Hl) | A to have turned o to Searing ae the reports of se al inves: tigators concerning vice co * * * * there is nothing for Food today joined clothing and other commodities in the downward ef to do but im 2p ce STAND HIGH FOR INSPECTOR: headquarters were Three men at | I placed in a position of un able | | se. They are Captains Hans Contraction of credit will force on the market goods which are being | —_— | Dazr Joe T. Mason and Payton R.| held by ae ears, causing a flood of sales sone: 24 nation. | Department Stores An-| tuart, a close friends of Searin, nd considered in line, onetwo-three nounced 20 Per Cent Cut | shoes. LOWER eigen NE, May 20.—The nation a per cent cut in prices has y. Those who claim Led the Crescent, Spokane's| jto be wn” any the department | tw urgest department store and one of has bh captain too many at | the three recently indicted for prafit er an tne vane Lee, nd we New ‘York Stores Look Like. Buyers’ Strike Expected to eering, one other department store clerk, ign. f cluding food, in the opini resolution est general jobbing houses in the Strike Is Broken Bernard M. Baruch, noted fin “Whereas, the cost of living has) West, p nday thru their city SPOKANE, May 20.—The ailent| former chairman of the war indus-| steadily advanced during the past | credit department a steady fall in trike of local switchmen in s«ym-| tries board ly it | prices for the next two years, pathy with the striking Chicago| “A nationwide buyers’ atrike| “Resolved, that we are in hearty| “By that time prices will be back witchmen is broken © men are|against high prices has begun,’ aocordeauth all sensible efforts to re-|at thelr pre-war level,” said an of urning to work wherever their| Baruch raid. “There is no doubt dt) duce f st commodities, and, to) ficial af the credit department are still open to them, and the| will extend itself to food prices in #0 that My “aur members to| Wholesale buyers say that fur and} silent demonstration has lost what|fer as people are able te yen Horna “~alforts to] silk pri already are well on the force it had in the begining. their consumption ¢* bring dowmerrnde © appointment of a chief trom and only man on the| list for captair when he said he was going to Spokane Switchmen sweep of prices. Altho the slump in food prices was not general, reported mainly from southern points, leading wholesale grocers in northern cities and government officials at Washington predicted food quotations would soon be lowered thruout the nation. They based their forecasts on the tightness of the money-market and economic conditions, ca — thruout t the department hit Spokane. RUSHES TRADE TO COME NEXT; Force Reductions | nounced they will offer goods at 20 per cent off Others say they probably will have Bargain Counters may not be | promoted yet. It is whispered that | r NEW YORK, May 20—Broadway| WASHINGTON, May 20.—Food he is not on acehigh terms with ay ge po aseapearniak irene | to fall in line. Searing. and Fifth ave. stores today have the | prices soon will feel the effects of the | wentworth'’s men's store, in join. Alone, Ex-Chief Warren wandered | appearance of a huge bargnin coun-| great “buyers’ strike,” It was pre|ing the 20 per cent movement | the streets last night, stopping ocea-\ter, scares of merchants joined in | dicted tod: Reductions were fore-| brands the national movement as an | y td chat good-naturedly with| 11.6 price cutting movement. Appar-|cast in m dairy products and| “hysterical movement by retailers to | friends. | ‘ ade to restrict | POUltry nsumers hold’ back on | bear the bur “It's all right,” he said, “my being | ° no effort was made to restrict | chases as they are now doing| James L ne, vice president of removed. Things like that happen in| the bargains in these places, a reduc: | with clothes and merehandiae. | the Crescent, says: ies. The only thing I'm sore | tion of from 25 to 70 per cent being| Senator Kenyon today in an inter-| “The movement ts fntended to about is that Caldwell lied to me and) snounced on all goods. view called for organization of anti-|bring business back to its more o my fri During his cam | profiteering socleties to carry on the|normal level and as factories are | Newspapers continued to carry of advertising announcing ratching up in production it natural | strike against unreasonable prices, TO URGE PROB jends came | columns of goods, prices are becoming lower.” |thru with contributions to his cam-| reductions. , ED WE. paign fund and. helped him win,| Restriction of credit was given an} OF HOARDED W ALTH That's the only thing that hurts, |the main reason for the reduction.| Senator Walsh, Massachusetts, an caring, I expect, will put Lieut.| Merchants were forced to turn over | nounced he would seek action today | Mier ba in charge of. the dry|their goods in a hurry to raise cash | 0M bis resolution for appointment of | | squa Th one thing he'll do—|to meet |a senate committee to ascertain the | nothing to me. I'm out| “If the restriction of credit, as out-|Telations between high prices and lined by the federal resetve board in| the concentration of wealth in the 1: “After two months | Washington causes a reduction in| hands of a few in office 1 found out that either| production the law supply and| The railroad Ser aire ony an Warren didn't know what was going nand will keep prices up in the|fetarding movement in sight, in the . ; on, or didn’t want to know." liong run,” Francis H. Sixson, vice | Opinion Of most ‘officials. Conges- Rates Will Continue to Fall, president of the Guaranty ‘Trust rp haga is pe wee -" Expert Says campany, stated today. |ficlaa shortage of commodities ! : Say iors Will r . some districts, it is feared. | CHICAGO, May ~Big whole. eee sale houses bere today began pre Run for Sheriff Public on ‘Strike, Manufactu paring for a general drop in the cont Ex-Chiet Joel ¥. Warren will be a| B h Decl anufacturers f living, candidate for sheriff next fall, accord aruc! eclares Okeh Pri Cut}, Marnall Field & Co., reputed the ing to political dopesters Thursday. | WASHINGTON, May 20--Price e! FICE CUE) piggest wholesalers of drygoods in cuts in clothing and merchandise are| NEW YORK, May 20.~—The Na-|the country, have urged retailers to the beginning of a horizontal redue-| tional Aasociation of Manufacturers! cut ‘their stocks to the bone. tion in costs of all commodit late yesterday added the following} Butler Brothers, one of the larg. ED CELL | BEING LOWERED : ly follows that, with a great supply | Dope Fiend Is ‘Coming Back’ Tells the Graphic Story of His Rehabil- itation and Promises to Bare Dope Ring Secrets “In Town” Remember “—— ?? 11,” the dope fiend who wrote three articles for ‘The Star in April on the evils of the dope traffic? j When we started his stories we described his appearance as follows: | “His lips trembled. His face twitched. His hands shook. A wild | Mahe glittered in his eye”— | 7277" dropped in again two days ago. | His fis lips were firm, His face was drawn but solid. His hands were | steady, There was a gleam of determination in his eye. “Where have you been?” we asked him—altho we knew full well that shortly after bis articles appeared in The Star he had been taken | raving to a padded cell. “Where have I been?” he echoed. “Where have I been?”—— i Well, here's his story: | By THE DOPE FIEND WHO IS COMIN HERE HAVE I BEEN? I can answer that question in part from personal 722? G BACK the mouths of many witnesses. | between the day when The Star printed the dope fiend’s story |——my story——and the day when I awoke. thru normal eyes, and tho over and thru me a sense of freedom indescribably 1 wanted to stand up and shout for joy. I trie |way, there wasn’t a chance, for a white-robed angel jbut firmly commanded me to “Tie still and drink this.” “Where am “Right here,” said the angel, tand you’ll-be all right.” + ueried. ‘ “But why am I here? the ° ere because I’m here.” } | “Because you're here,” | “I thank you,” I murmured. Having thus enlightened me as “a what, where and why,| the angel declined to discuss | Chinese Peddler the matter further, and left of Dope Arrested the room. Lee Can, 40, a Chinaman, is in the city jail Thursday morning charged with peddling dope and & quantity of opium, found in his possession, is being held as evidence, Can was arrested at Sixth ave. and Columbia st. this morning by Patrolman R. B. Colby. “—— tt Can ilate to determine whether he is the same as “King Lee,” mentioned in the ex-dope- fiend’s article on the left. 2 eee | SHATTE MEMORY began 4 to assert itself, and certain events of recent occurrence gradually arranged themselves in more or less | accurate sequence } Dimly, but none the less surely, T led the day whén, with two silver oe rs in my possession, as rapidly as shaking limbs could carry me, I |hastened to the district “below the bh,” where I knew I should find “hinaman who would be quite, will: | ing to exchange a “bundle” of mor phine and another of cocaine for the jm sald two dollara I r in was fined $50 in the ecuting the “hop head rattle ates district court door. H wy ei an A ot ; Wednesday upan pleading guilty Clarendon hotel, a corner of |) to violation of the narcotic sta Fourth und Washington st. His . ane A ce utes, name w 1 still is, King Lee. He is no longer there, I am told, but] somewhere in Seattle King is un doubtedly peddling dope. King Lee IN «a wi mah. He was caught Jonce, and served a short term, but a} | little King In response to my signal, King opened the door, and I placed my two dollars in his outstretched hand. thing like that doesn’t bother Mayor and Seven Detec- Oh yes! foney first, always, . . Wise chinks lke King take no| tives Included in Dead chances, You can get your dope all — right—if you have the money. HUNTINGTON, W. Va., May “I no got—here,” said King. “You! 99 Nine men were killed in a go bath room, I To the bath re I went, and| um battle between Matewan town officials and citizens and private detectives at Matewan late yesterday, Mayor Cabell Testerman was the first to fall. His killing set off a fusillade of shots which subsided after nine men lay dead in the streets of the little mining town. The mayor was killed instantly by Albert Felts, chief of Baldwin-Felts detectives. Felts, it was said, was instantly killed by Sid Hatfield, chief of police of Matewan. A gen leral revolver battle followed. firing lasted until the detectives, who survived, had fled. The gun battle the sequel to the visit of the detectives to Mate- wan to evict from the houses of the |P. P. C. and Stone Mountain © any the familie’ of miners who ently went out on strike. 1 when the door | puple of inche: scarcely had I ente was pushed ajar a the same hand that had taken the} money was, thrust thru the crack, | and I was in possession of the precious bundles. APPY AGAIN! Those two bundles would last me at least a couple lot hours. Where the money was to come from for more dope when that should be gone, I knew not, neither did I give it a thought. For the} moment I satisfied; the future would tak e of itself, I had my dope! Somehow I would get more. ‘our dope fiend never troubles him self with what is to come as long as he has “one more shot” in his pos: session, As rapidly as trembling fingers would permit, I prepa a shot (half morphine, half cocaine) before leay = ing the ah Priel ge ata State constabulary arrived in the bap lr gon fo ] town early today and took charge of ice spre. torso the situation, No further violence I started home, on foot, havin, nickel for carfare. I had ¢ about half the distance, when it came over me that all was not as it should be, The exhilarating effect that should have manifested itself was lacking. Believing I had underesti mated the strength of the shot I had | prepared in the bath room, J stopped janti took another. see no was expected, Two ‘Are Held as Sugar Thieves Identified by George Vasilon, chet of the Eagle cafe, 1224 Third ave,, jas the two youths seen leaving the| restaurant early Thursday morning with a sack of sugar and other gro | that} |] GOT HOME—somehow, By ceries, Arthur Anderson, 23, and |i time 1 K something was|Roger Hillman, 21, are being held wrong. Notwithstanding the twolin the eity jail on open shot, my “habit” still persisted. Sev. pending the filing of a state com- by. thi (Turn to Page 10, Detnmn #) plaint. : . MINE VILLAGE HE PLANS TO BRING a SUT FOR MILLIONS Asks Meier to Find Out if Traction Interests Estimat- ed Value Fraudulently ! Legal action to recover several. million dollars from the Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power company for fraudulent misrepre sentations in the sale of the mu- nicipal railway system to the city, was threatened Thursday by Mayor Caldwell. | | | | Counsel Walter F, Meier to probe the |aale of the street car properties to the city, with a view to ascertaining whether an action for deceit and fraud will Me against the Puget Sound corporation. “J am one of those who share in the belief that the city was buncoed lin the purchase of the railway sys | tem, | ed that the people had been buncoed | knowledge. For the rest, I am forced to get the facts from|ORDINANCE TO Rather hazy is my memory of the interval that clapsed| BE INTRODUCED That day, for the first time in 16 years, I saw the world| street cars, with a 1cent charge f hysically a wreck, there swept transfers, is the Jatest ann rious. it, but found I hadn't the strength to stand, much less shout. Any- | jof this year.” ils Planned | Oriental the mayor declared. Fifteen million dollars was paid by \the city for the street cars. In his” | campaign speeches the mayor assert: out of several millions. eee 7-CENT FARE That he will introduce in the city” council next Monday an ordi | providing for a 7-cent fare on by Councilman R. H. Thomson. Street car finances were dise and ities of a raise in debated at a conference foo gently | members of the city council and the city advisory board called by Mayor Caldwell late Wedgesday. ‘in good hands. Be quiect| CALDWELL PROPOSES A 6CENT FARE Whether Thomson’ nance will have the ‘support of bis majority of the council have maine | tained, to date. a discreet silence, “A raise in street car fares is Im BEE * Mayor Caldwell announced Thursday. “The railway system lost $340,000 during the first four months ‘The mayor declared that the em tire burden of paying for the lines should not fall upon the patrons of the street cars ‘Everyone in the community benefits by the street car sery- ice,” he said. “The man who runs a business on Second ave, or the man who owns the build ing is benefited by the railway, even if he doesn’t ride upon it.” That it is unfair to place the entire burden upon those who ride on the cars, was asserted by the mayor, Hence he declared that he was in favor of a 6-cent fare only, the re- mainder to be made up from the general fund According to tables presented at the conference by D, W. Henderson, superintendent of the railways, the ent fare and 1-cent transfer would provide an increase of approximately $1,968,200, or a 43.14 per cent raise in revenues, The present income from 5-cent fares Is estimated at $4,923,353; the income from 7-cent fares would ag- gregate $6,891,560, The difference is ared to be sufficient to take care of the deficit in the railway fund and build up funds to mect payments, JAP EXCLUSION IN CALIFORNIA “in Bill to Be Placed Before Voters SACRAMENTO, May 20.—Detaila of the antiJapanese legislation which will be submitted to the voters in the fall were revealed here today by State Senator J. M. Inman, of the xelusion league. Inman issued a statement which ‘The | summarizes the bill as f ‘oll “Phohibits leasing of as icaltanil lands, “Prohibits leasing of agricultural lands. “Prohibits ownership of stock in corporations owning or leasing agri © cultural lands.” Warn Jitney Men to Take Permits Jitney bus drivers were given until 5 o'clock Thursday to take out pers mits to ply Seattle streets under the new jitney ordinance passed by the council last week. Beginning Friday arrests will be made of all jitney operators who have not complied with the city ordinance, Maj. Carl Reeves, superintendent of public utilities, announced "Thu: Jitney men threaten legal b over the new ordinance. Test charges, ' will be. mada. of the tirat arrests nad city, The mayor requested Corporation « fellow councitmen is uncertain. The ~ 4 AS