The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 19, 1920, Page 1

showers Maximum Today VOLUME 23._ EW Weather Unsettled weather, with southwester ‘Temperature Last M4 Hours moderate y winds Minimum, 56, noon, Bntered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1999, at the Postoffice at Beattie, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromi: The Seattle Star Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, COTT SLAYER FOUND? TH EW LATE EDITION PAAR AAA RAL ALE DADA AAR AA AAA ARPA LA 1879. Por Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH BOUT the only sound one hears these days, when the subject of hun or of fishing, is sidered, is a wail) The world over, man has conquered the wilderness and the sportsman must soon raise his hand, rear his p chickens, pursue his deer and bear fn a museum and discover his trout in aquarium Yet all is not quite hopeless. vIn a few weeks the deer & nm ‘opens in Oregon and from all over the state come reports that there jare more ¢ than there ever (have been before. In some dix tricts the deer have become & x bnuiaance and thousands of dollars worth of crops have been destroyed. On my own place @ big buck has been visiting the clover field these moonlight nights and tramp Jing the trails thru the knee-high pasturage. Oregon, too, has goived the salmon problem @ay the Columbia river is ly re-established as a great salmon stream, though & few years ago it deemed as though the salmon ‘would soon become extinct While the Fr Alaskan grounds have each been getting nearer fished ‘the Columbia has each year been improving. By holding the young gailmon in the hatchery ponds un @f they are old enough to take care of themselves, instead of pa@umping them in the river a seoon as they are hatched, Oregon has saved the Columbia for sealmon, and has pointed the way “for the rest of the Northwest, if [political wardens and commercial [Zahermen and others interested will only see the light. eee apparently for to Jefinite- out colony to a new location The Western elk herds are te Greasing in several instances, ‘every once in a while I hear re ports of a big elk herd that is yanging the Modnt St. Helen® country, as wild as it was 50 years ago. Duck shooting will never be again what it once was, but ab zeady the federal shooting regu Jations, and the establishment of tate breed umerous federal and sta “ae dl grounds and preserves terially, and with & law against the use of the automatic shot gun, and the enforcement of the fmatier bag limits, it looks like our «randchildren might shoot mallard and teal and wigeon and sprigs. As for trout fishing, I guess it hopel ads thru leas, The new roads ine wilds and the universal use bout ruined er have @ of the Mivver have ae zable stre in ie cnwest, and soon there will be fe real trout fishing for the av- erage sportsman Croppies and catfish instead of sang oo te detare 5 ogram, and T will much en ble to stir up mu fever be & ture of and carp. and black trout, will thusiasm over the mud- German carp, slovenly, - digging water-defiling, sluset old hog that he is. eee N former days only the slow evolution of the geologic eras wiped ov orders of fauna, but the last hundred ye weapons, his long high power ‘shells, vices of trap and man, with his ge rifles, hi murdtrous 4 and am¥ush and decoy, of galing and deer hound and stecl trap and game drives, fas executed order after order of game, of fish and flesh ard fow) Gnd the slow, cautious, tempered work of the ages 4 eens re ed by the wholesale obliter tn fa food and fur species ot every sort. The end of the wile fur supply is in sight and in a few years our fur will come from fur farms, from new breeds of gheep, from cross-bre ding and - breeding, and will have no mor! ang or romance and adve fas, and it was only day before ’ yesterday that rubber was tamed and that a cargo of crude rubber 4i4 not m death faced A fever endured gnd savas’ m puscade and attack overcome, Tame furs, perhaps from alley cats; artificial silk from the poplar; ducks raised on @ pon wooden shoes and tore outts and nly artificial food. Most o! ged en of 40 years ago necessit the have gone; the old simple order of clothing ourselves in pelts, of eat ~ fng food as it came direct from cf the stream, the forest or the little forest clearing; these processes have gone, and today we live in a complex, and single bill of fare may present a hundred new inary inventions, all of which Took equally pleasing taste equally uninteresting. For ‘ail, real ham and fresh eggs and home-made bread can never be , excelled; they are food net, |ecs: more thoroly | WOMAN IS. CAPTIVE OF ~CAVE-MAN | | | |Tells Police She Was | Choked and Beaten in- | Taxicab ] Mrs. Lillian Miller, of 414 Yale jave. N., complained to the police to day that she was taken captive last night by a “caveman” admirer. Placed in an awomobile and choked and beaten while the machine raced, full speed thru the streets, driven by a terrified chauffeur, | Mra. Miller t# the young daughter lof Mrs. Haberson, 1 Republican jst, who said her daughter was at |tending a party with friends in the Bristol hotel, when the alleged affair took place. | While the merriment was at its/ height, according to Mra. Miller, the admirer, B. Griff, entered the room and chased its other occupants into | the hall, | It was apparent, she maid, that he had been drinking. He seized her! land ordered her to the street, she |said, and into a taxicab by the Georgian hotel. The taxi was driven jby a man named “Swede,” she told | the police. | While her companion shouted | threats at the driver, she sald. Grif-i |fin pummeled her fiercely. Poltee- man Hill foynd her later at Eighth ave. and Pine st. Griffin, according to the girl, had |bought her clothes and felt that she| May Golden, alleged |had treated him ill when she turned | shoplifter and highway band cently | “Swede,” the driver, told the potice [he was unable to stop his car during | 7’ the alleged beating for fear of what * Griffin might do to him. | LIBERALS WILL G MEET TUESDAY police record. Police say she reference to the “easier way. She looks like a waitress, or a sten- time with automatic profanity and underworld slang Burly detectives smiled, and kid- ded Monday’ with May Golden, 22 old, who'says she turned safe Tr, pickpoc burglar, rather YAKIMA, Wash., July 19—A big | get together meeting of delegates here nd the jomnt convention of the} n-Partisan league, the triple alll | rs ance and the railw federation . n |which will open here tomorrow, was|than be a-“woman of the streets.” \neid last night. Her past—where she came from, | A crowd of several hundred men|and where she lives—is shielded by land women listened to short speeches |a curtain of silence, For May Golden | Mulligan, attorney for the | knows the code of the underworld, Partisan 1} Homer T./and she will not tell gue; She fears the | attorney for ailway feder-| police wil find her “pals jation; E. T. Bowen, organizer for the! «yoy can't pump me,” she sald, |Non-Partisan league; David Coates,|qeriantly, “I'll never tell on my \wtate chairman of the triple nC; | daddy. | Frank Pease, state organizer of the| tvate Soldiers’ and Sailors’ legion;|. Meanwhile police searched for | William Buck, president of the| May's “daddy He is believed to | Washington Grange; William Short,|@ve alded May to crack the W. L. president of the State Federation of|Keene Fuel Co, safe last Friday. | Labor, and J. L. Freeman, state man-| They were unable to obtain any in- ager of the Non-Partisan league. {formation from May about where The n assault upon a| they would be likely to find him | nonparti organizer at] Whenever she was asked where he Walla Walla by the American legion | was, she adroitly changed the sub- was greeted by a wave of resentment | ject |from the crowd. ‘Some ring, eh?” She flashed a | Pre rt announced that! platinum banded finger and watched within the next two weeks a big|the admiring “And I got it {triple alliance mass meeting would|on the level, Didn't have to |be held in Walla Walla and that no} steal it.” |group or organization would be per ‘ory of | | cor larg ident Sh neces. too May was restlons as she waited In mitted to interfere with the holding | the outer room of Capt. of Detectives jof the meetin, ¥ C. E. Tennant's office. a “L thought It would be easter A FINISHED JOB money than any other way,” was the way sbe explained her alleged criminal career. "I erave freedom,” she told De- tective Jack Landis, as she affec- \tionately patted his hand. “Don't you take me out for a little fresh jair Landis drew his hand away, “Just because I'm big, you I can't run,” he replied. “But | Good News Sugar to Sell at 25c. With a drop of 3 to & cents over ar will think I NWI! jj T claim to be|the top price this spring, sum Mrs, Hammer-Knox |very fair minded. I always investi-|fetall at 25 cents a pound in Seattle gate a person's character before con-|this week, dealers said Monday inorning Hen, Bi ‘The decline will follow the recent ar. You can then condemn it so|drop of $1 a hyndredweight an- Apounced by refineries, demying it st Friend—Of course you do, [Assemble at Yakima for) renee. frat uementic burdens. | State Convention But she talks flippantly, and at| SEATTLE, WASH., MC )NDAY, JULY 19, 1920. ~ TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE confessed crackswoman, pickpocket, | it, as she looked today in the down his proposal of marriage. re-| city’ jail finger-print room while being photographed for) told them she chose robbery in irl Safe Cracker | Wanted ‘Easy Money’ don’t want to chase ydu this morn- ing.” Finally, after she had waited an hour and a half, Capt. ‘Tennant rang @ buzzer, and Detective John’ Flint told her “It's your turn, May. an old woman whe that office.” | “Don't worry about me,” she flung lover her shoulder, nt in-to | face Cap nnant and his volley of questions. 30 Preachers Ban Divorce Wedding | LONDON, 19.—Clergy men in more than 30 churches in |the Hackney Deanery have pledged themselves not to remarry persons who have been divor or who have Jobtained a divorce. HOWS NATIVES BIT O’ BOHEME Citizens who changed to be in the “You'll be as she we Eng., July district between the post office and Pine st. craned their necks when | Seattle's first “Rose of Washington sed by Monday » no stockings, Her hair in the Greenwich Village stepped into a jitney and Polish Communique Admits Red Success WARSAW, July 19. eadquarters today issued lowing official communique “After bitter fighting, the enemy occupied Lida, between Vilna and Gradno, The enemy attacked a Pol ish mountain division and occupied the village of Dobrowice enemy attacks at Huslatyn Krzomeniee were repulsed.” |Lull in Political Arena Monday a late hour Monday, not a new candidate for a federal, county or city office had filed with County Auditor Norman Wardall Representativa John F. Miller, gressman from the First district, filed for reelection Saturday Others who filed were: John Arthur, for superior judge, and Frank W, Hull, for county as- Jsessor, Polish army the fol and | | at single you get out of Vigorous | (GIRL HELD AS” SAFE CRACKER GIRL HELD AS “YEGGWOMAN” POLICE SAY ‘SHE ADMITS - ROBBERIES May Golden, 22 Years Old, Armed With Revolver, Arrested, Jailed Four hours afer a young woman clad in a onopiere gray pongee drew, biack hat and black veil had held up and robbed a Jap of $140 last night, May Golden, 22, was arrested at Kighth ave. and Virginia st, where she had just had » quar- real with two men. | She was armed with a revolver, | but tp not red-haired and was wear. | ing clothes of different material than | those described by the Jap. If she | was the girl who held him up, she | was wearing a wig at the time and |had changed her dress and hat be- |fore her arrest. | ‘Taken to police headquarters, the detectives said the girl confessed bad safe cracker, holdup woman and shop lifter rather than | BO destitute on the streets, . TRIES TO DRAW N, POL SAY Police Sergeant and Patrolman P prowler” car, picked up the girl jthe Virginia st. corner, following report that was telephoned to head |uuartere at 230 a m., which said that a quarrel was going on there When the policemen reached the scene, she was having a wordy alter cation with two men. The two men were not the ones she ts said to have been quarreling with and were allowed to go their way Knapp placed her under arrest, and led her back to the “prowler” car to take her to jail blad opened the rear of the machine and bade her to get in, she leaped back, it is maid, and made a quick move as if reaching for a gun Gus FE. Knapp, in th however, door STRUGGLES WHEN TAKEN TO JAIL Knapp grabbed her arm. In a pocket in her dress was found a re- | volver, empty but for one discharged shell, | to try th fun out. |into the car. She put up a stiff battle all the way to the police station, ac cording to Knapp. Arriving there a more thoro search of her pocket disclosed a Newspaper clipping telling of a safe robbery in the office of the W. L. Keene Wood |& Coal Co. 1834 Boren ave, last Friday night. Questioned regarting the newepa per clipping, the girl is said to have admitted that she and a mal panion cracked the Keene safe. SAYS IT WAS i FIRST JOB Her first “Job” tn Seattle, necord ing to Knapp’s-report of her confes. com. sion, was shoplifting in the Bon Marche She had picked the pockets of a man in the Pantages theatre, she is said to have told Knapp, realizing $10 on this “haul.” “Who was with you when you robbed the safe?" Knapp asked. “I won't tell. It was his first job and 1 won't get him into trouble,” was the reply, Knapp's report show Jow did you get into the safe The front door was open. We sinashed the lock on the inner door with a long bar. Then 1 reached in with my hand,and unlatched the latch. We didn't get anything but papers.” , “You intended holding up some- body tonight, didn't you?" “I was going to stick somebody |up tonight to get some jack. I'd rather do that than go out on the | streets and sell myself.” The girl was locked up on an |“open" charge, pending further ex jamination by Capt, of Detectives Tennant. e Jap holdup victim said he was stopped on Weller #t., between 12th and 14th aves, about 10:40, by the red haired woman and robbed at the point of 4 gun of his purse, He gave hia name as §. Sugura, and his ad- dress ay 4159 Shelby st, He said the woman was young— possibly and about 5 feet 4 inchés |till, She was highly perfumed, he | said R CITY, lowa, Jobn O'Connor, Dodge, Iowa, 100 years and six months old, celebrated the occasion by dancing a jig. “Feel fit as a tid. WEBS’ Mich uly 19 Fort die” he remarked after the dance, Jpossible fracture of the skull, Hasselblad | When Hassel | which she said she had fired | difficulty the officers got her | He Has the Slayer: These are the links in the chain of circumstantial evi- dence convinging to Deputy Sheriff Matt Starwichk that he has found the murderer of Deputy Sheriff Robert C. Scott and Bandit Elmer Cady: CONFESSION OF VOLNEY BURT that Joseph Scanlon, alias Mc Govern, told him he shot and killed Scott and Cady, robbing Cady's body of gun, stickpin and cigaret case. SCANLAN'S GUN, of « gun identified as having been seen in Scan- Jon's possession after the murders—a .38-caliber Colt, recovered by Burt in an Everett pawn shop, where, he says, he pawned it at Scan Jon's request, Scott and Cady were killed with .38-caliber bullets, CADY’'S GUN, or gun identified as Cady’s and seen in Scanlon’s Possession after the murders, recovered in » Tacoma pawn shop by Burke, who says he pawned it for Scanion. It shoots # Al-caliber ballet. A CAMEO STICKPTIN identified ax Cady's, seen in Scanlon’s pos- session after the murders, according to witnesses, and recovered from a Vancouver, B.C, pawn shop by Burt, who says it was pawnéd at Seanlon’s request. - A CIGARET CASE recovered by Burke in the same Vancouver pawn shop, identified as having belonged to Cady and, witnesses say, seen in Seanlon's possession after the murders. A LETTER believed to have been scrawled by Scanion in a Van- couver prison, calling on his “gang” for money to get him out of trouble and mentioning “two bumps out of 8.," ineaning two murders out of Seattle, it is believed. SCANLON’S PINCHBACK SUIT identified as being the clothes he wore on an occasion when he and Burt had a conversation in a Vancouver hotel. Scanlon denies such a conversation took place and says he doesn't know Burt. FIVE SECRET WITNESSES, whose identity the state is unwilling to disclose and whose statements are said to corroborate those of Burt regarding Scanlon and events after the murders. JAP PROBERS _|EIGHT ENTOMBED COMING HERE IN MINE SHAFT Northwest Situation Will Be Workers Trapped 512 Feet Investigated | Under Ground | SAN FRANCISCO, July 19—Mem-| UNITY, Pa, July 19—Fight men bers of the congressional committee | were entombed 612 feet below the on immigration, were divided into| surface in the mine of the United groups today to* resume in different zones their inquiry into Japanese matters. | Seeking information regarding con-| when, it is thought, the cap light on ditions in Southern California, Con-| one of the men exploded mine gases. gresemen Taylor Jourpeying to Los Angeles, San Di-| ego and other points. Representa tive Klectka will make two or three inquiries and then leave the state. | The remaining committees members | stay here to conduct further hear-| ings today, Tomorrow members| Vaile, Raker and Box leave for Au burn and nearby points to hold hear. ing Splitting up of the members into sub-committees, Representative John son explained, is for the purpose of | expediting the taking of an immense | amount of evidence yet to be sub-| mitted. The entire committee de parts from here Thursday evening for the Northwest to investigate Jap | day, The men were going down on Pittsburg. WOMEN WEEP * Deportation Train Dressed in brand new clothes and singing songs of their native land, “reds,” under orders of 30 Russian anese penetration in and near Ta-| deportation, were put aboard a spe- |coma and Seattle. | cial car and left the King st. station On their trip to the southtand|at midnight Sunday for Portland Congressmen Swope and Taylor will| There they will join a special inquire into smuggling of Japanese | “red” train carrying alien radic across the border from Mexico and|from Oregon and California Japanese control of the San Pedro| will be given right of way to | fishing fleet. | York. The train is under heavy guant | Aw the party left the station for | the train a crowd of weeping women |bade them farewell tives of the deportees, however, |but were Russian women sympathiz. ers who have been interceding for the men ever since their arrest last January. None of the men deported m has a relative in the United States, say immigration offi |INTERMARRIAGE |QUITE PROPER, SAYS THIS MAN SAN FRANCISCO, July 19.—Jap- nese in California were vigorously |defended before the congressiot immigration committee today by Californian from the Imperial vs a y the social equ of the white| Five éther men, two of them in rn e | sane, were sent with the Russians. Dr. H. B. Johnson, on the witness | eee eet | stand, asked by Representative | | Rak Nfornia, if he believed in| ntermarr of the Japanese with the white race. | equality,” said Dr, Johnson. “There | | is no reason, far as I can see, why} intermarriage should not “be per- | i it ‘ . mitted.” But Official Insists It’s Dr. Johnson is superintendent of | and claimed to be familiar | Booze with Japanese affairs, | seca “You favor intermarriage, then? Sol Le ‘ mer saloon ki Representative Raker asked Dr,|,-"0! Levinson, former saloon keep jer, applied for a permit Monday to | purchase 60 gallons of alcohol with | which he plans to manufacture King slomon ters. The permit was Johnson. The witness evaded the question. Dr. Johnson asked Congressman ; wel, New York, why it was that! cranted F, Sullivan, special in they were so seriously considering | vestigator, protested and announced the admission of 2,000 Japanese &/ne would take his protestations into year to this country, when they were allowing 6,000 negroes to enter annu ally on the Eastern coast, There was quite tilt between Raker and Dr, Johnson, because the latter repeatedly introduced other sues whenever Raker tried to draw the superior court That stuff is just plain, ordinary booze,” explained Sullivan, “and Lev inson is making it for a drink, and |not a medicine.” Horse Falls on Man; from him a direct answer as to | whether he favored Japanese coloni ° zation. Johnson would continualy| Fractures His Leg allude to the negro question in the South to prove his point “What we are trying to get at ts Answering a call to the Matchett lem wholesale gro 830 Fourth ave. §. where it was report the question of panese coloniza-|ed a horse had fallen on a man, tion here,” said Raker. “You are| breaking his leg, police found P. L heaping difficulty on difficulty by| Lynch. Lynch was removed to the continually bringing in other ques-| city hospital, where it was found one tions not at issue (MAY 2 CLUDE NEW JERSEY of his legs had been doubly frac- tured. Later he was taken to Provi dence hospital, LINCOL Neb. July 19,—"Pro- Peking Defenders hibition will soon sweep over all the civilized world —and Néw Jersey, Forced to Retreat declared Clinton Howard, talked of) wagHiNGTON, July. 19. The as candidate for the prohibition] (icc. of General Tuan Chai Jul, for presidential nomination. mer Chinese minister and head of the Anfu party, defending Pekin, Boy Falls Down have sustained BiKbOy IGuteax ROH have retired toward Pekin, the state Falling three stories down the| American legation at the Chinese elevator shaft of the Franklin high | capital. school today, Ralph Sims, 18, a] Tuan Chai Jul’s troops were re: summer school student, sustained a broken leg, internal injuries and ported to be outflanked by General Wu Pei Su and driven towards Man- bioukuo with serious losses, Collieries at Renton, near here, to-) the regular morning Inspection trip, and Swope are| Rescue parties were rushed from AS MEN LEAVE 30 Russian “Reds” to Board These were’ not | Dope Fiend in County Jail 3 Gives Deputies Story of Officer’s Murder Joseph Scanlon, alleged to jbe the murderer of é Sheriff Robert C. Scott and of Elmer Cady, his own bane” dit pal, is in jail seven miles 7 out from Vancouver, 7 charged with killing a f i 4 a hit man, a Canadian logger he ii said to have kicked to de recently to get money to buj “dope.” Cady and another hi sald to be Scanlon, were up anto parties in Rainier Vs early on the morning of April Surprised by a party of ai deputies from Seattle, the opened fire, killing Scotte The two gunmen thea into an auto, pressed a against the driver’s back and manded him to speed them into city, profhising him death if |Taltered. On the waf in Cady shot and killed by the other | who looted the body and out of the machine at First and Pike st, and disappeared, DEPUTY MATT STARWICH TAKES CHARGE OF CASE ‘The dragnet was spread over city, but when the search failed following day to uncover a ti the vanished dou! uty Sheriff Matt Starwich charge of the case, deciaring would find Scott's slayer if it to the rest of his lifetime, Today Starwich said he had the last link in a chain of stantial evidence fastening crime upon Scanion, whom he Je cated in the Vancouver prison, ready in custody and accused of other murder by Canadian police, who refuse to give him Search for Scanion was begun Starwich nearly a month ago Volney Burt, a county jail oner, told the deputy that he helped Scanion make his geta from Seattle after the killing Seott and Cady, had hidden him ig 2 the attic of a house in Fairfax, Wash., for 10 days, and then aided him in escaping to Canada, q With the aid of Burt, recovered the gun with whi lon is said to have kill | Scott and Bandit Cad Colts with two noteh handle, EVIDENCE LOCKED IN STARWICH’S OFFICE Burke also aided in the of Cady’s gun, and tis cigaret case | and cameo stickpin, said to have | been taken by Scanlon after he had | shot his pal to death in the murder auto en route to the city, The letter is addressed & Vancouver city jail to “Red ow hed said to have been leader of the “Flys ing Squadron of 52” : Scanlon is alle; i . 7 * | Z ich Scan. led as y—a 38 caliber 7 es filed in the — letter follows: Vhat the idee you me some cale when you know vmet of '@ rap Lam up against. If fall for a few dollars bear want to turn myself over to the bumps out ef 8. I can of you with me. Remember trip. Now Red don't think I to bluff you for you know So get the bunch together money you ean and give it well now what to do and good I will be on the pavement ple of months, is to all.” These bits of evidence—the in ‘the chain—are lock Starwich's gafe at the “sherite’s of fice, together with a letter which Scanion is said to have written ta another friend here after his arrest in Canada, ¢ : The gun said to be Scanion’s was found where Burt told Starwich it would be found—in a pawnshop in Everett. In Vancouver were found the stick. pin and cigaret case thatvare said to have been Cady’s, where they had been pawned. The letter was discovered in @ house in Fairfax, according to Stare wich, where Burt had told him it would be é Convinced that Burt was telling him the truth, Starwich took his im formant to Vancouver last weel identify the alleged slayer himselfy” BURT PICKS OUT MAN IN CANADIAN JAIL They went to the jail where Sean lon was confined, Starwich explained his mission to the mounted and Burt wag taken into the jail 4 two Canadian officers, while remained outside, Two lines of prisoners were marehed past Burt, Without heal tation or doubt he is said to have pointed his finger at Scanton, sin: gling him out from amongst the others, and declared: at's the man! { T if rfl 3 i itt ; y i Th E iltell ‘he Canadian officers, according | (fun to Page 2, Columa S