The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 15, 1920, Page 1

Weather Tonight and generally fair; Wednesday, moderate westerly winds. Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 6! ‘Today Minimum, 51. noon, 60 . the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise eSeattle Star as Second Class Mat VOLUME 23. AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH I noticed that the ma- jority of the downtown | Dbsiness houses and office build ) ings remembered the day. Also the chief building in town did and that in the apartment » Mat. and residence hotel @istricts there was an entire ab: gence of Mage-—just a forest of Bare poles. Probably most of them should have flown the Nip. so it ESTERDAY day. Did yours? was you Flag unfurl In my neighborhood there must G. A. R. men, because & number of residences the flag every day in the I have noticed that the | who went thru the civil war 1 veneration for the flag think it will be a fine day our flag is never seen on the Dw the dance hall, or used an advertisement, and when Yard has its flag pole and ‘Mee flag, unfurled before breakfast and lowered at sundown ¥ YOU will leave a boy alone, he will always have @ good ume. But it is a rare host, and a rarer hostess, that ean entertain a crowd of boys and ' ie 3 2 Here was a picnic where boys did as they pleased; where some thing was happening every minute, and where everything was free. No “dont’s”; no “keep-offthe no Mind-your-step; no be- ) earetulot-your-clothes,dear, No, a just an afternoon of allday and tumbling aeroplanes, bands, and calliopes, and eats, races, and boxing matches, and spirit of good cheer that can be simulated. . EVER being a “jiner,” I along club, fel- gathering, group and clique, but if I was go img to cast my lot with any cer I think I'd pick the Any organization that can its members so young, #0 ded, so eager to heap ness upon all the boys in 20 gquare miles as the Elks is the ‘sort of insurance against old age that is invaluable When you consider that 45,000 boys were given one perfect day, you feel humble before the ocean of happiness this picnic sets to roil ing. It is an almost superhuman “dad who can give his own boy one 5 day of unalioyed bliss; to gather a cityful of boys to your heart and make the whole lot happy—that’s almost never done. | Of course, the Eiks had a better time than the boys, because, as T |" gaid before, @ boy is always having g00d time, and even an Elk finds ya lot of thistles, and boulders, and bare spots in his daily browsing. And, oy course, it is always more* 4 to give than to receive, 4 if one can achieve the glory of for the single purpose of making somebody else happy, rath- er than uplifting, or instructing, or redeeming wome “poor sinner,” why, always the giver gets the best of the bargain. It was openhandeq hospitality ‘of that rare, old-fashioned sort that blessed us before collections, ‘and tag days, and “bring-your-own- Junch” festivities c' pursed the land. ‘One of those times like father had the town gave a barbecue, everybody was freely welcome =the roast ox, and the roast pigs, the town band blew itself into ip fit of vertigo without money and out price. Next to loyalty, I guess the big “eet virtue ip bie heartedness ter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Be attle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1979 Per Year, by Mall, #5 to #9 LATE SEATTLE, W ASH., TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1920. corridors of the City-County building long before noon Tuesday, waiting for seats at the trial of Madge Anna) Sawyer, who was scheduled to go on trial for murder at 1:30 o'clock. Mrs. Sawyer is charged with sec- ond degree murder for shooting her | husband of a few weeks, Howard I. Sawyer, to death a month ago. The trial is expected to require the great- er part, if not all, of this week. Search for Beasie Knettie, divorced wife of the dead bridegroom, has |been fruitless. The woman is wanted as a witness to testify to the charac ter of Sawyer. No trace of her had been found up to the hour of trial. EXPECT ARREST Ex-Pugilist Ordered to Leave Mexico SAN DIEGO, Cal., June 15. United States immigration au- thorities expect to have Jack Johnson, pugilist, under arrest before night, they said today. Cantu officials at Tia Juana, where Johnson has been in the cafe business for several months, stated today that he had been given 24 hours to leave Lower California. dobnson has been a fugitive from justice for several years, being wanted in Chicago on a white slave charge. “We have been informed Johnson will cross the line soon,” an immigra tion official said today. “‘In cane does, we will hold him for the partment of justice.” Cantu officials ‘at Tia charged that Johnson has been trouble several times in the border town since making his home there and that he has been told to leave They also said that they feared to have a fight, July 4, between John #on and a white contender, ax was planned, because of possible race troubles. de The carious throngs packed the| OF J. JOHNSON he| Juana | in| Ready to Face Trial for Murder |Madge - ‘Anna Sawyer Accused of Slaying Young Husband Here| ‘Has Nerved Herself for Ordeal Madge Anna Sawyer, photographed a few minutes before she was taken to King county Inset shows Attorney E. C. on May 10. —Photo by Ci ress-Dale, Sawyer dgainst second degree murder charges. |yer shot and killed her inventor- husband during a quarrel | near the moorage of their motor yacht Hydra, in Lake Union, tnieves and any time you round She declares she did not intend to kill him.) ge vale there is a decrease in crime, courthouse Tuesday afternoon, to face trial for slaying her bridegroom, Howard I, Sawyer.| Hyde, who is defending Mrs.| Mrs. Saw- ISINDORSED |s Reform Permanent If Ad- | dicts Are Cared for, Say Three Officials | officials that when addicts can be Property taken care of and cured this lessening of crime will be per. manent and of greater proportions. MOPES, EVENTUALLY, TO GET SOMEWHERE “I hope The Gtar will keep ham- mering at this dope proposition,” the much good along this line “Public | sentiment should be aroused to such a pitch that a sani- he} there been a decrease,” he deciared. Inspector Damm estimated there. were 8,000 addicts in town. “They will do anything. from rob- | Dery to murder, to get the narcotic, and when we curb and cure them, we are curbing crime.” he said. “Ninety per cent of the addicts are witness here now,” asserted 5 Captain Tennant Co-operation of all former service men in the Pacific coast states, Can- ‘ada, Australia and New Zealand to demand action “penetration” | veterans thru a resolution adopted jlast night by the Col. Theodore | Roosevelt Post, No. 24, Veterans of | Foreign Wars. The resolution, prepared by Coun. cilman Phillip Tindall, presented by EAward Clifford and unanimously | adopted, declares the Japanese ques tion to be “one of the most serious questions confronting the United States.” | Clifford and Charles A. Brinkley were selected to serve as a commit tee to appeal to all organizations of former service men on the Coast, and with those in other countries, for concerted agitation for the settlement of the Japanese problem. ‘The resolution states: | “Whereas we are fully mindful of the grave international issues in- volved and are moved not by any spirit of fingoism but by a profound |destre to bring about an arrange- |ment which will show our high ge- ORK IS HARD; NOT THE BEER NEW YORK, June 15.—Declaring the only hard thing about their | product is their work, near-beer brewers here threaten to strike un- less their wages are increased. against Seattle Plane in Hopping off for a nonstop flight to Spokane to demonstrate mail-carry jing poxsibilities in new Boeing | planes, F. W, Strang, of Strang & Prosser advertising agency, and Pilot Herbert Munter left Seattle at noon Tuesday. They expected to crots the mountains and reach Spo- kane in three hours, averaging speed of 100 miles an hour, Strang carried special mail and a message |from the Seattle Chamber of Com merce. | CHICAGO, June 15—Forty federal agents are searching for merchante who have dodged paying taxes, to aling $1,000,000, on the sale of lux Miries and wearing apparel, Flight to Spokane} Vets Ask All-Pacific Union Against Japs Jeurd for the Japanese as a race and | whieh will insure continued peace land friendship between the Japanese {and American peoples, but which will Japanese | at the same time bring home to the | is sought by Seattle) people of Japan the fact that the | | continued presence of large numbers of Japanene in this country is every | day bringing near the time when a clash must come between the two races, and no element of our populs tion knows better the terrible conse- quences of international friction or desires more eamestly to avoid it “And, whereas, we realize that the problem faced by the United States is also vital to Canada, Australia and New Zealand “Be it resolved that we hereby ap- peal to our comrades of the late war in the other Pacific coast states arid to our comrade veterans in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, ure them to co-operate with us in aro ing public opinion in our respective countries to the gravity of the pres. ent situation and to the immediate necessity of Canada, Australia, New “land and the United States pre senting a solid front in meeting the menace of Asiatic immigration.” UST BE WARM BACK THERE MOUNT CARMEL, Pa., June 15 With the temperature 8&8 degrees jin the shade workmen excavating at the old Black Diamond colliery here ran into a vein of ice, buried at least 30 years ago. Dublin Captain he Murdered by Five DUBLIN, June 15.-Captain P. A | Wilson, police inspector, was shot in the street here today. Five men at- tacked an automobile in which he was seated and riddied him with bul- lets: ORRECT GUESS WINS HIM § SAN FRANCISCO, June 15.—Wil liam Battenfeld, formerly carrier |boy of Candidate Warren Harding’s Marion (Ohio) Star, is $60 richer to- day. He won the Daily News prize for correctly guessing “Harding and Coolidge.” | RADICAL STEPS |TAKEN BY AUTHORITIES Since The Star first called atten: tion to the alarming increase in the narcotic traffic here, several radical |stepe have been taken by police and the courts to check the evil. Inspector Damm has |. “dope” squad. | Captain Tennant has issued an or der inetructing his men to arrest all |known addi Four detectives now devote their Gane almost exclusively to thin task. Justice John B.. Gordon, presiding [in police court, has adopted a more |nevere policy towards addicts, and |they are now being sentenc to |nerve from two to six months at the lcounty stockade, instead of 63 days, jas formerly, CAR FARE BILL NOT YET SIGNED Passes Council; Held Up by Caldwell Caldwell was undecided |Tuesday, whether he would approve the ordinance passed by the city council, providing for an increase in| street car farea The mayor said he wished to read over the ordinance carefully and to consult with council. men and other city officials before signing the bill The new fare schedule, passed by the council Monday, provides for sell- ing four rides for 25 cents, two rides for 15 cents and single fares at 10 cents. Single fares for children would be 3 cents. School tickets would sell at 10 for 25 cents, This schedule, presented by Councilman Moore, was an amendment to Coun cilman Thomson's 7-cent fare plan. | Only Councilman Erickson opposed the amendments. Caldwell declined to state whether he would make a decision before he leaves for a two-day trip to Portland Tuesday evening. In the absence of the mayor, A. F. Haas, president of the city council, would have the power to appr the ordinance. It is not believed that he would exer cise this power, however. Patrons of the municipal railway will not be forced to pay the in- creased fare for some weeks, even if the bill is approved by the mayor. ‘To obtain the metal fare tokens spect- fied in the ordinance, will require at least three weeks, according to ratl- way officials, Mayor BY TENNANT | tarium will have to be established | “Particularly in petty crime has | created a) | Another of the recent entrants in The Star-Ziegfeld beauty contest is Miss Avella Sadler, of 125 E. ployed as a salesgirl by the Carman store.—Photo by| CRIMES CUT 50 PER CENT BY STAR’S DOPE CRUSADE! | Says Police Chief Searing | i} | | Bushnell, * * * * | Seattle salesgiris entered in the | Ziegfeld national beauty contest will appear on the stage at the Scott |fund benefit performance to be given jat Levy's Orpheum next week. They started phoning their accept- ances to The Star today. The regular Orpheum bill will be) shortened slightly to permit ‘the salesgir! beauties to appear in a| “fashion show" number at the close of the regular performance. | The date ts not definitely set. may Be Monday. ADVANCE SEAT SALE WILL GO TO MRS, SCOTT Tickets will be placed on sale at) 50 cents each, The entire proceeds jof the advance ticket sale will go to the fund being raised to keep to- gether the wife and children of |Deputy Sheriff Robert C. Scott, |killed by bandits while performing jhix duty as an officer of the law. | New names were being added |hourly to the list of contestants as the time for entry draws to a close. Pictures must be submitted to The Star, or applicants must appear in person at the Bushnell or James & Merrihew studios, by FRIDAY of It} * Salesgirls Will Appear Applaud Suggestion of Scott Benefit Show AND DAMM 7° Be Held Next Week 62nd st. * * * * this week in order to qualify in the Seattle competition, Floreriz Ziegfeld has promised the winner of the national contest 12 engagement in the Ziegfeld | Stlacious |beauty show and in the Mayflower | the weeks’ +4 a | | | reer on Stand, Revealing Work Done in War William Harrison (Jack) Demp sey, heavyweight champlon, evasion by a jury in the fed eral court today. rendered — after the jury had deliberated — less than hali an hour. a jagainst the heavyweight onsale jand of conspiracy |draft against both Dempsey Kearns, his manager, was = tn following newspaper articles. jing the former wife of the figi KEARNS CASE | TO BE CALLED | sey's manager, who is charged | having conspired to aid the |in court tomorrow morning, | sistant United States District ing Dempsey’ acqutttal. Thomas deciined to comment pion would interfere with the ernment’s plans to | “That will be determined in morning,” said Thomas, [was Dempesey's statement: verdict was announced ager expect that the jcharge against them will be |wecond charge was contingent - proof of actual evasion. | Dempsey swore falsely when — jasserted in his federal |of herself and his aged father | mother. | witness for the defense. He told convincing story of his career) 4q merous war benefits. He told 4 jhis desire to enlist after he | family. MAXINE WANTED | The so-called “slacker tett | said to have been written by D |allowed as evidence in the ti were the basis of the $40,000 for th ing to the testimony of a TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE | TS FREE Jack Télls Story of His Cae! SAN FRANCISCO, June 15— was found not guilty of draft” The verdict was The charge of draft | to evade ¢ a federal grand jury 1 The case of Jack Kearns, D |to escape the draft, will be |torney Thomas announced whether the freeing of the Kearns. “I'm the happiest kid Neither the fighter or | since their attorneys stated Maxine Dempsey charged Inaire that he was the sole | Dempsey himself was the |ing the war when he boxed at |fulfilled his obligation te |$40,000 FOR LETTERS | sey to his wife and which were charge paper man who was with She is em-|sey when the demand was made. | The ruling of Federal Dooling that the letters were fidential ocmmunications b man and wife” and could not introduced in the trial took tf “teeth” out of the prosecution ¢ attorneys said early in the case, The trial was featured testimony cone life of Se underworld movies, at $100 a week, with all ex- | Dempsey which caused her bee penses paid from the winner's home| band to secure a divorce. |to New York aiid returfi, with chap- ron, CONTESTANTS APPEAR TO HELP SCOTT FUND Local contestants expressed them- selves as highly pleased at the sug-! and | most of them indicated they would gladly appear to boost the Scott Kid jdies’ Fund. Half a dozen more individual sub- scriptions were received by The Star gestion for the Scott benefit, today and added to the fund. H. L. 8., Sixth ave om Warren Rhoades Clyde Matthews ... J. 1, Seward A Logger .. Today's receipts ....... Previously acknowledged. 1.00 5.00| 1.00 1.00 | 1.00) $ 9.00 334.54 wT wever'ty My life did anytl to encourage her in those a Dempsey stated, refuting Max-— ine’s charges that he had her to become a “scarlet” woman, Dempsey, who appeared as the final defense witness yi gave a straightforward and convine=, ing story of his various activities | during the war. Included in his tes timony were numerous details com- cerning the “wanderings” of Maxiner Dempsey, his former wife. ‘ Boxing benefits in which he took’ part, staged during the war, netted |various charities over |Dempsey said. At the same time, he was supporting his parents, bis” wife and his sister, the champion said Considerable interest was shown in Dempsey'’s testimony regarding the questionnaire which is alleged to contain perjured statements and) |Portland Fares Eight Cents Now PORTLAND, June 15.—Car fares commission asking that the raise be jdelayed until after the Shrine con-! vention. . Spokane Pains May Go to 8 Cents) SPOKANE, June 15.~—D, L. Hunt ington, president of the Washington | Water Power Co, has announced that seven, or possibly eight, cent} fares will be asked for street cars here in the near future. | Under the present sixcent fare) the révenue for May of this year was $5,000 less than for the same month last year, he declared, Louisiana Rejects Suffrage Measure “ La., June 15.-— in Portland advanced to eight cents /The Louisiana house of representa today, despite the appeal of the city! tye es today rejected the resolution council to the state public service | ratifying the phe agit a tN pon BATON ROUGE, | ment by a vote of 67 to 44. View Property The ideal homes in Seattle are those having a view of the sound or lake. On the Classified Page today are many such homes advertised for sale at real bargain prices. which resulted in his being given de ferred classification in the draft. “There is absolutely nothing un true in that paper and if I were Ulling it out today I wouldn't change | a thing,” he said, 3 Dempsey said that, besides his traveling expenses, he had received only two wrist watches and a gol pencil for his patriotic boxing ex+ | hibitions. “I wanted to do my country some good," he said. Jack will Begin Training at Once SAN FRANCISCO, June 15.— “Dempsey Will start training atom and will be ready to meet within two weeks,” Jack stated following the verdict ting Dempsey today, Kearns announced that Be issue @ formal statement ‘to $300,000, ;