The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 27, 1920, Page 1

EW Weather J] Tonight, probably showers westerly winds. Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximam, 60. Minimum, 46 Today noon, 55, Botered as Gecund Class Matter May % 1 at the Pestoffice at Seattle, Wash, v: CALDWELL KNEW OF CITY’S PAY $15,000,000 FOR CAR LINE”- jer the Act of Congress March 8, 1 On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Sta Por Year, by Mall, OFFER TO TH EW LATE EDITION Friday, fair; moderate VOLUME es Be SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1920, What Do Opponents of Jap Penetration *nere Is One Thing They Do Not Want! ant? e eee Dr. Matthews recently in one of his justly J famous Sabbath evening chats defended the on- Tush of the Japanese to this coast and gave his a poser, to the reverend way of thinking, when he demanded, “What do these opponents of the Japanese want? To which it might be countered: What does the Rev. Dr. Matthews want for the Pacific Northwest? Another | Four More,. Battalions in Readiness LONDON, May 27.—A battalion of Cameron Highlanders has left Aldershot under orders to proceed Ireland. Fach man, ft was THOUSAND MEN BATTLE FIRE Coos Bay Lumber Company) ;-. Plant Is’ Wiped Out =| ? eather those opposed to the unrestricted surge of the| 2.1 por Gl. May tthe machine guns supplied with Japs know exactly what the: = pe rounds of ammunition each. want is not so if rtant on a lumber yard and buflding of the) your more battalions at the Al Coos Bay Lumber company Were) gershot barracks have been ordere’ the fact that they cisely wiped out today by fire. The loss of this company is estimated at $200,-| 00. Altho huge piles of lumber) crashed to the ground and high ten- sion wires were burned from their 2 Guppecth, no due Waa injured Are Out on Strike A thousand men attracted from DUBLIN, May Concord, Clyde and Bay Point, helped| were placed on all freight and ex employes of the Pacific Coast Ship | preas shipments today by the Lon ow pre- what they DO NOT in readiness to move to Ireland . Dublin Dock Men AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH eee the mothers of Seatfle will study the photos ac companying this article they will probably be able get the point This ts = common sight along our highways. ‘Take the road to Tacoma, thru the fertile lowlands beyond Georgetown Notice the small, huddled figures of women slowly crawiing thru the mud, and plucking the lowly weed from the truck rows. Notice the babies asteep in the ditch, or left in ® box by the roadside while mother elves. Notice the unpainted, rag: ged shacks huddled in bleak despair fm the center of the cheap barns and euthoures. Visualize the “home” en Fironment of the families, literally aiongside pig pens. Understand that but fire fighting apparatus was lack-|@ result of the strike of dock work ing ry about the Jap Invasion, because there will be plenty of white lady field hands to weed and garner our | crops. But ff this sort of thing that the Japanese mothers do is beneath | white women—and there is not much doubt about that-—then be sure that the sort of thing Japanese men do in beyond the white farmere and busi Rees men, and that they will be put out of business in Washington, just aa they have in vast areas of Call fornia, lumber were destroyed. Twenty-five bandle munitions. lumb rere bi Th - amet Yi Pea ate up t00 fot of tramway. | Two Arrested in Police Dope Raid The fire was discovered by John In an early-morning dope raid on Larson, night watchman. The theory is that eparks from the exhaunt of an automobile had amouldered in a pile of sawdust since late yesterday after on and final! st into flame | Drinks Poison in Policemen N. P. Anderson and R. F- Baerman arrested James Ford, 44 and George Lee, 28, alloged a and relieved Lee of six “bindies” of morphine, Both prinonery are held ken. Look ahead twenty years and see the food production of the entire West in the hands of these aliens. Who send their women to the fields. Who rear their children in a wayside West, and for the babies and the girls and the boys of the West. We can do one thing or the other bar the Jap from competition with they choose this sort of environment A ’ | pose Hilti: that fa the way they wish to} eee | Friend’s Apartment) * % “ty 3! 07 “open” charges Hiye—not because they are poverty TNALLY, this ts @ question’ with the sudden announcement . for the women of the that she was going to end her trou Generals Wait bles, Mra, Ethel Carlaon, 44, of 5618 2nd ave. N. W., Ballard, drank the| cruitment ofa’ siasa'soe'ww'vst| While Mother apartment of a friend she wan visit ing in Arion Court, 1814 Minor ave. Us on our own soll, or be mastered @itch, and nurture them in a shack ras ous about 6 a. m. today. b White mother would not con.|%¥ him, and feed out of his hand.|" yére, F. Carter, the friend, phoned aiRs to ayo that We can never compete with him and | d@emn a sick puppy to. Figure out the police and Mrs. Carlson was remain civilized. And we might humbly suggest to Brother Matthews that while there is no immediate likelihood of there ‘the standard of living that will be fixed for the American farmer and Taborer by such a system, and de @led whether you know what y taken to the city hompital, where, it is believed, her life was saved. Mrs Carter said Mrs, Carlson's husband, Sam, is in Alaska, day turned his back on two generals to converse with @ little gray-haired woman, who wanted to get her son Eur neg when it comes to Japa-| belts Jape ge gen maigank for ‘hie out of jail aes Monopoly of food production eee poet * . ‘The generals were Ma: jonera nese 5 would not ‘greatly redouna to the |Anthracite Miners George Barnett and Brigadier Gen ton the Pacific co prosperity of his congregation, and that the day that sees the banish-| eral Charles L. MeCawley, famous marine officers. They are on a tour Defeat Wage Plan F THE mothers of ment from the land of the whitel WILKESBARRE, Pa, May 27.—lof inspection of all the marine posts are ready to dump their | farmer, and the enslavement of the, The anthracite miners in conven-|of the country. babies into a ditch and) city laborer, and the bankruptcy of/| tion here today unanimously defeat The major was Mayer Hugh M. work sixteen hours a day in the mud at the dictate the small business man, will not be a day of rejoicing for our big city ed the proposition submitted by Sec Caldwell, who welcomed them to the retary of Labor Wilson for settle city—after he had listened to the ap of their lord and master; if the wom-| churches or their pastors, | ment of wage differences with mine | peal of the distracted mother in his @M of Seattle would be personally! Take another look at thome ple- | operators ) outer office @omtent with the home shack of the tures. Notice the pleasant fields of The convention agreed to adopt os average Jap family, with ite hours | the humble Jap gardener the next) the proposal made by President Wil-| Gr fator, its means of education, rec-|time you drive past them, then de.| son for appointment of « commision |CUrbstone Brokers reation. and its ideals of feminine) cide what you going to do with | to adjust the dispute, HY emancipation, then we need not wor-! y nd your influence, | Target of Lawsuit Whether or not a property owner can prevent an auto company from displaying autos for sale by the curbstone in front of his house, will | settled when the suit started by Howard H. Hamlin, 75, of 1412 12th against Haingworth Motor Co. 'Sutherland Leading \K Roo | in West Virginia HUNTINGTON, W. Va., May 27,— Retarns from 1,611 precincts out of a total of 1,860 in the state gives Senator Howard Sutherland a lead ° pi ay oe r a ‘ jor court Thursday, is con Peace Time Army | Thieves Enter by to ce ." Waogpteen| Minilia deks-an infusoton 280,000 Is Favored; Bedroom Window | mary or .n24. “ton “totain were: thot means to: nis driveway and Se jewel: eral hundred dollars’ cloth WASHI! May 27.~A peace time army of 220,000 enlisted men worth ot | spoil his view of the atreet, ig and firearms were Saturday Scheduled Straw Hat Day Saturday is Straw Hat day in Se- attie bureau of the Chamber of Com- trade bureau of the Chamber of Com: Johnson’s Lead in Oregon Is 1,93: PORTLAND, Or. May 27.— tically complete returns today show ‘and 17,800 officers, was agreed to|stolen Wednesday night by burglars | by the house and senate conferees | Who entered a bed room window in on the army reorganization bill | © today. D, Germain's residence at 5710 | Woodlawn ave. Admits Prac- | Giant Negro 4 A ki Ww. merce today, The plan to in-| Hiram Johnsen to have a“lead of Husband Alleges| ttacking Women | susurate straw at Day with brass] 1.992 over Gen. Wood tor the repub- BES) OAKLAND, Cal., May 27 Luther|band and parade has been |}ican presidential indoryement in _ Hurling chinaware at him was) Davis, giant negro, recently arrested) abandoned in favor of the more| Oregon Jena Zawaski's favorite pas|by Piedmont police, contesned to| conservative window display of| Votes cast at the primaries Inst John Zawaski, her husband, al-| scores of robberies and attacks on in a divorce suit Thursday.) women in the east bay district, ac im Chicage. to the police, straw headgear. The haberdashers| Friday, as say the well dressed man will wear | Johnson 45,312, @ straw hat Memorial Day. compiled to date, give y 15,660, Hoover 13,910, HIGHLANDERS ON 'PLACE HERRERO WAY TOIRELAND) UNDER ARREST |Herrero bas surrendered to General | tered the war ned today, was supplied with 60 | charges of murdering former Prest | building company to fight the flames,|don and Northwestern railroad, as flotilla 7 | investigate, Wood 43,380, Lowden | 25, Face Trial on Charge of Slaying Carranza BY RALPH H. TURNER MEXICO CITY, May Rodolfo | “2 Lazaro Cardenas and today was be | ing brought to Mexico City to answer rounds of ball cartridges, and the |dent Venustiano Carranza, according |ts France, release of Christians un- organization equipped with Lewin|to telegraphic advices received by|ger Turkish rule, and Polish out- 600 |< neral Alvaro Obregon from Gen: eral Cardenas, Herrero gave bimself) up at Coyutla, Vera Cruz In a joint mennage to the senate, Generals Obregon and Gonzales today | requested that body to designate a chief magistrate of the lower courts to sit at the imvestigation of Car| ranza’s aganssination. A bullétin issued from the head | ‘7.—Embargoes quarters of General Obregon quotes advices from Vera Cruz to the effect that the commander of the American which hag been anchored there for the protection of American jers and railway men at Northwall. | interests if the need arose, has asked ‘Three miMion feet of shingles and) where the unionists have refused to| Washington to have the ships re turned to their bases, | Developments of the past week tn- dicate that one of the first military moves of the new revolutionist gov. ernment will be against Wilson. | Awcon, the new foreign minister, a room at 108 Olive st, Motorcycle | has written American Charge d’Af faires Summerlin, informing him that he has directed “appropriate” mea- | Jicts, |Surea be taken against Villa, Lawyer Objects to Kids’ Ball Game FE. Knowles Epler building at torney, appeared at central police station all “het up.” “The kids out near my home play ball in front of the house,” spake the exasperated attorney, “and they're ruining my shrubbery.” The police promised to] An ex-major in the U. 8. army to Missing Woman May Be in City! Relatives of Mrs. Mary Damm, 21 of Poulsbo, Wash., have asked Seat- tle police to aid in locating her. She left her home in Poulsbo M , and| is believed to be here, PROFITEERIN AT MARKETS? Charges of Commission Men Are Dropped - After tt bad been reported early today that Western ave. commis. sion merchants were to place com plaints in the hands of United States Attorney Saunders, charging profiteering in the public market, the matter apparently was dropped. At noon none of the complainants was to be found, and no charges, in so far as could be learned, had been filed with Attorney Saunders, the fair price committee or the de- partment of justice. The complaint, according to the first rumor, was to charge that keepers of public market stalls are making 300 to 500 per cet profit on certain vegetables, It said that onions that sold wholesale at and 2% cents a ind are retailed in the market at 15 cents; eabbage bought whole. sale for 3 cents a head is sold for nd onions wholesaled at 6 cents la pound are retailed at 15 cents, NIGHTIE AND GEMS STOLEN ON TRAIN; WOMAN SUES U. S. In an effort to make the rail road administration pay for theft of a grip, containing a $1,026 dia mond necklace, a nightie and et coteras, valued at $79, Laura T. Anderson started suit in superior court Thursday She alleged that some one en tered her Pullman compartment, when she left it for 10 minutes at Mixsoula, M le en route from here to Chic IS VETOED | BY WILSON Says Resolution Passed by Congress Would Mean Sur- render of U. S. Rights WASHINGTON, May 27.—Preni- dent Wilson today vetoed the Knox peace resolution declaring an end to the war between the United States and Germany and Austria-Hungary. The resolution, W In effect a complete surrender of the rights of the United States, so far ax the German government is con cerned.” | By the rejection of the treaty of| Versailles, Wilvon sid, and “by its methods we have in effect declared that we wish to draw apart and pur-| mue objects and interests of our own, unhampered by any connections of invention or purpose with other gov- @rnments and peoples.” Wilson bitterly condemned the renolution, declaring it said nothing | about the purpose for which we en-| He listed among these | freedom of the seas, reduction of| armaments, vindication of the rishta| of Belgium, the righting of wrongs for all. rages. | “Such a peace with Germany—a peace in which none of the easential | interests which we had at heart when | woe entered the war, is safeguarded— Mberties of our citizens and with the very fundamental conditions of civili-| zation. | prise’ DEERY AND ANGER — || scusation ASK FOR DIVORCE; TOO DEEP FOR US Well leave it to the reader. What's in a name? Francis E. Deery sued Anna Loulse Deery for divorce Thurs- day, alleging a “forced marriage.” Palma B. Anger va. Ernest R. Anger appeared next on the list. Nonsupport is alleged. Girl Tricked Into Wedding, She Declares into marrying Warren counsel, Wal is is to price or to resc been “buncoed lions of dollars 000,000 for the sel, September deal was mad want to mer September 6, € Permaded Truitt’ while she was under i beige I lef influence of Haquor imbibed in «the | PP, Silver Grill, Spokane, Helen La Reusch, 23, who says she was unused to the ways of the world) eslsned. when she met Truitt, due to her previous close supervision while being educated in a Los Angeles academy, asked annulment of the marriage in superior court Thurs- day With the Intention of becoming a nurse, In 1915, she went to Medi- cal Lake hospital, where she says she became acquainted with Truitt, engineer at the hospital. “Our relations were casual,” she says. ‘Truitt Invited her to dinner and then prevailed on her to take a drink, she asserts. “Unused to liquor, T soon had no clear conception of what I was doing,” she declared on me to go to the court house with him, and sign an affidavit that merely poration, tack,’ were at hand, knew that.” I was 20, tho I had not reached | *ne' that age. He secured a marriage| | Caldwell declared that he was un- beense and Justice Stacker married | “¢cided as to the next steps to be a taken in his investigation of the ‘The marriage state quickly} ‘Action deal. sobered her, and when she dis: I may call a meeting of the advis. ered what had happened, she|°°Y committee,” he said, “or I may} says she left him. She alleges he | °8#!M request Meier to make an in promised to divorce: her, but has|estization with the facilities not done #0. She asks that ho} "4, or I may ask the ctly council be forced to pay $250 attorney's fee for her prosecution of the annul- ment. Hint New Revolt Against Germany the lines.” “The official former mayor, BERLIN, May 26 (Delayed).—| sale,” Caldwell Rumors current here today were that Col. Bauer and Commander| official tile 6F Eberhardt of the marine brigade were in Budapest attempting to o:- @ new movement swajmet the German govegpanent, per for the lines.” ‘The mayor @rawn up by mayor declared |to authorize additional expenditu for the proper probe of the deal in which the city paid $15,000,000, for MAYOR DENIES =~ HE HAD PART IN —J = — = —] = Corporation Counsel Points Out Cald- well Was City’s Legal Adviser When Purchase Offer Was Made Put It to a Vote! “Why not a vote on street car fares?” The Star asked Tuesday. To date, there appears no good reason against the plan. A school election is to be held June 15. vote can be held at the same time. It is distinctly up to the council to see that this vote is obtained; that this question is put on the ballot. The people are entitled to say whether we shall increase our taxes or increase our fares in order to maintain our street car s: properly. It is a fundamental questio: be decided as a matter of city policy once Let’s vote! Mayor Hugh M. Caldwell |was corporation counsel of Seattle when the city made the offer to purchase the street railway |$15,000,000, according to a in, or ought to be, inconceivable; is in-| statement made public today consistent with the dignity of the/by the present corporation | United States, with the rights and ter Meier. the latest “sur- in the traction deal started by mayor himself a week ago. Caldwell last week requested Meier investigate the purchase of the lines from the Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power company to determine if there were legal grounds for an ac- tion to recover part of the purchase The had out of several mil- ind the contract, that the city in the deal Mayor Caldwell, in reply to Meter, Thursday wanted it understood that he “had no part in the offer of $15, lines.” He said the offer was made on the day he resigned as corporation coun. 6, 1918. “In view of the statement that I was adviser at the time the traction * Caldwell declared, “I jon that I resigned on ffective on the 15th t Seattle on Septem- “The offer for the lines was made jon September 6, the day on which I On the afternoon of that day, the city council elected Meier to be corporation counsel, to take effect ‘on the 15th of September.” SAYS OPINION TO ANSWER QUESTIONS Caldwell declared that he was not present at any meeting on Septem: ber 6, at which time the city offered $15,000,000 for the street cars, Caldwell declared that Meier's opin- jon failed to answer the question of whether there was probable cause of action against the Stone-Webster cor- ILS “I shall have to try some other at- the mayor declared. Meier to investigate all the facts that He replied by telling “He prevailed |™° that the city could recover from | the company if fraudulent misrepre- sentations were proved. Caldwell declared that the records of the sale could not be located. file pf Ole Hanson, con Uttle on the ted out. “I can find no records either in Hanson's in the files of the counci) of the elty, making any offer quoted a statement Hanson, in which the| C . system for the “I asked Everyone at Value of the property; EIER TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE “i The carfare former chief declared that the would bring in a net profit 000 annually. “I was never asked for jon on the purchase of to draw up any papers the city got value received,” well said, “After Murphine was ap Hanson did not seem to need corporation counsel,” he added HANSON TO ISSUE STATEMENT SOON Former Mayor Hanson arrived the city Wednesday, but when viewed on the traction question’ clared that he was not con with the present situation. “I will make a statement later,” announced. Mayor Caldwell declared that had no intention of criticising in his communication requesting ii formation as to the advisability suing the Puget Sound company. “The propriety of the pure f was for the mayor and council te de elde,” he said. Mr. Meier's opinion im full fob lows: “In your favor of May 18, 1926, you refer to the purchase of the street railway system of the Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power com pany in the city of Seattle and asit whether there is any manner im which this sale can be legally voided, or the city can obtain relief there from. You have submitted no evi dence or statement of facts for me to pass upon other than your belief that the city paid a price in excess © of the market value of the property acquired. Your expressions of opine jon, however, suggest two legal ques tions: @) “Can the city maintain am” action against the company and Te cover damages because of the page ment of a price in excess of the actue al value of the property at the date the sale price was agreed upon? (2) “Has the city of Seattle @ cause of action against the company — because of failure to turn over te the city all of the property which the city was supposed to get?” : ALL HINGES ON “FRAUD” ANGLE “TY shall answer these questions i the order stated. “1. ‘The answer to the first ques tion depends wholly upon whether you now have or can obtain evidence of fraud, as defined by law, to sum tain an action, The rule of law gow erning such action, and which must be sustained, requires that the evi idence support the following state of | fact () The company must have |made, before the price was agreed upon, a false representation in re | gard to a material fact touching the 2) the repre [sentation must not have been actu. ally believed by the company, on rea. sonable grounds, to be true; (3) it must have been made with intent that it should be acted upon by the city; and (4) the city must have acted | upon such representation to its dam. ge, in Ignorance of the falsity there. of, and must reasonably believe said representation to be true, if it ed no actual knowledge of the tes thereof, and acted in respect in a reasonably prudent mar \ . ticularly if such false rer . 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