The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 21, 1920, Page 1

Temperature Maximum, 80, Today Weather Tonight and Sunday, fair; moderate northwest- erly winds, Last 24 Hours: Minimum, 56. Noon, 68, it the Postott Poattle, Wash, und the Act of Congreay March 3, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Sta Entered as Second Clase Matter May 3, 18: 1879, Year, by Mall, Roses, Ruses and Romance by the Wheeler | the traveler, t and poet—threw his maga- to the floor, Sammy Frown, mi broker's clerk, who sat by the win- dow, jumped. “What is it, Ravvy?” he asked. “The critics been hammering your stock down?” “Romance ts dead,” said Ravenel, Ughtly. When Ravenel spoke light ly he was generally serious. He cked up the magazine and flut-| tered its leaves. “Even a Philistine, Ike you} Sammy,” said Ravenel, seriously (a) tone that insured him to be speak-} ing lightly), “ought to understand. | Now, here is a magazine that once Printed Poe and Lowell and Whit- man and Bret Harte and Du Maur jer and Lanier and—well, that gives you the idea. The current number has this Uterary feast to set before! you: An article on the stokers and coal bunkers of battleships, an expose of the methods employed tn making § liverwurst, a continued) story of a Standard Preferred In- ternational Baking Powder deal In| ‘Wall st, a ‘poem’ on the bear that | the President missed’ another ‘story’ Gourse, the title contains the words ‘Cupid’ and ‘Chauffeur’—an article ilustrated with the new Staten Island ferryboath;| another story of @ political boss who| won the love of a Fifth ave. belle| “by blackening her eye and refusing to vote for an iniquitous ordinance 4 {it doesn't say whether it was in street cleaning department or n ), and 19 pages by the edi- tor bragging about the circulation The whole thing, Sammy, is an obit uary on Romance. Sammy Brown sat comfortably tn the leather armchair by the open! window. His suit was a vehement) brown with visible checks, beau- tifully matched in shade by the ends of four cigars that his vest pocket poorly concealed. Light tan were his shoes, gray his socks, sky-! Dlue his apparent linen, snowy and high and adamantine his collar,| Qgainst which a black butterfly had} alighted and spread his wings. Sammy's face—least important—was round and pleasant and pinkish, and in his eyes you saw no haven for/ fleeing romance. That window of Ravenel's apart ment opened upon an old garden| full of ancient trees and shrubbery The apartment house towered above | one side of ft; a high brick wall) fended it from the street; opposite Ravenel’s window an old, old man sion stood, half-hidden in the shade of the summer foliage. The house was a castle besieged. The city howled and roared and shrieked and beat upon its double doors, and shook white, fluttering checks above the wall, offering terms of sur render. The gray dust settled upon| the trees; the siege was pressed hot ter, but the drawbridge was not lowered. No further will the lan-| guage of chivalry serve. Inside} lived an old gentleman who loved| his home and did not wish to sel)| it. That is all the romance of the besieged castle. Three or four times every week | came Sammy Brown to Ravenel’s |" apartment. He belonged to the poet’s club, for the former Browns hhad been conspicuous, tho mmy had been vulgarized by Business. | He had no tears for departed The song of the ticker the one that reached his heart, | and when it came to matters equine LS 4 “ \ and batting scores he was some thing of a pink edition. He loved | fo sit in the leather armchair by | Ravenel's windc And Ravenel didn’t mind particularly. Sammy seemed to enjoy his talk; and then| the broker's clerk was such a per fect embodiment of modernity and the day's sordid practicality that Ravenel rather liked to use him as| & scapegoat “Yl tell you what's the matter with you,” said Sammy, with the shrewdness that bueiness had taught him. ‘The magazine has turned down some of your poetry stunts. That's why you are sore would be a good guess in| or in a ¢ ampaign for the presidency of a wor club,” waid Ravenel, quietly . there is a poem—if you wil me to 1 call jt that—of in this " number of the m | “Read it to m waid Sammy, | watching a cloud of pipe-smoke he Bad just blown out the window. ad to Page 4, Column 4.) is ‘The Immigration Authorities | Nippon. {ment States. had established residence here. But This was pointed out in word) Kubata never had done that, legal- which was conveyed to Senator Phe-|ty, so back they both must go. lan. At the last min however, an The entire situation as to Japanese enterprising lawyer secured a stay) immigration, it was declared, 18 of procedure for the pair, and now | |based upon the will of the emperor| they are in Seattle awaiting JAP PHOTO BRIDES DUE NEXT WEEK Yields to His LONDON, Aug. 21.—Placing ber Cork, today concurred in his selt- ly dramatic. officials of the Irish department two years’ sentence for sedition, from Edward At, secretary of refused to intervel Learn Shipload Is on the Way; 4th Since July 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. %1.-—-Fed- [eral immigration officials today ad- mitted they had received word that jSnother? group of Japanese “picture | brides” is due to arrive at the port of San Francisco August 26 on the steamship Siberia Maru. This expected contingent of Jap | anese women who are married under | the system of photograph exchange | in vogue between the Japanese men | resident in the as See 8 and | their fellow coun the Pacific adds saniawrenty to to the numbers admitted since the sepeness | and emaciated, remained firm in ment previous to his the steamer on a stretcher, EIGHT JAPANESE sar)” ARE DEPORTED In July two large shinments of the “picture brides” arrived from On August 12, the Korea Maru brought a large list of them. That has been done under the sanction of thk Japanese govern ment, which announced with its de. cision to embargo the “brides” that | there were passports issued at that é ple a few weeks ago were included time which would not be recalled. jin the passenger list of the Arabia and that owing to lack of steamship | wary when she left Seattle Sat- pa neprat mm epar ee companies | urday morning for Japan. But two, could not clear up those booked for | thers are yet guests of the United | er ce are ane ai cnthe | Staten, altho they were scheduled mang a ae alt —aay |for deportation and had gotten ed the line That was the reply by the Japan| ‘Fas the deck of the liner, | lexe government when representa tions were made from federal offi.|Kubata and wife, Kubata is alleced clals to the Tokio government some | PY | mmixral oeeh Se titel errant pore Metovard jentered the United em nurreptl | PHELAN ASKED TO tlously thru the port of New York Tried to Slip Into Into the United States Fight Japs who were picked up as stowaways on the Eastern Tem- MAKE INQUIRIES several years ago. He operated Members of the California Oriental | restaurant in San Francisco until he had accumulated enough cur Exclusion league have requested Senator James D. Phelan to ascer tain directly thru the state depart: | to the final intentions of | the Japanese government in the mat He realized this |ter of the “picture brides.” returned t# America with the in ‘The comment was made that even| tention of reengaging in the res- if the embargo shall be enforced,|taurant business. But immigration there yet remains a loophole open| agents discovered Kubata’s dark by which the Japanese women may| past and held it up as grounds enter the United States as “brides.” | for deportation The method would require the man| ‘The woman had been allowed to here to return to Japan and accom: |ent*: under the gentlemen's agree pany his consort back to the United | ment the wife of a Jap who! in| to rency to make him a plutocrat terms of yen, then went back Japan for a wife | ambition, and as a the} under the “gentlemen's | That may be rescinded government of Japan league officers | | of Japan agreement.” ny time the shall desire to do so, said next stage of the battle Indian’s Cupidity | to Smoke Him Out? | YAKIMA, Wash. Aug. 21.—The| Indian's natural cupidity is greater than his fear of the white man's retribution, officers here think. They are testing their theory by announce: ing that a legacy of $2,500 in waiting Columbus Tulee, accused of killing his father, David Tulee, with an ax Officials here aver that Columbus’ natural covetousness will lead to his | giving himself up, taking a chance “Evidence” Little, but Friends Many SAN FRANCISCO.—The United States attorney doesn't know whether he can prosecute Joe An. dreas, alleged bootlegger. The ar. resting officer admitted he gave the to his friends. | evidence” | | |Jim Mebbe Didn’t lof hanging, for ‘a chance at the 2,600. Like Sam’s Speech * Se OSSINING, N. Y¥.—Arrival of| A. W. PARKER, for 17 years con- muel Gompers at Sing Sing nected with the immigration head. prison caused such ‘excitement no-| quarters at Washington, is in Seattle body noticed the escape of James | Saturday. Parker left the service | McKenna, serving a term for man-| about a year ago, and is now practic slaughte ing law in the capital city. ‘ ) had it also meant much to the kaiser and to von Alvensleben, the kaiser's agent. Von Alvensleben had acquired for the kaiser many iron mining} properties in British Columbia near | RY HAL ARMSTRONG Louis Dulien, secretary-manager of the Alaska Junk company, sat in his home in Laurethurst scanning the erested him. ape Few items in ie ila na ‘about a “mysteri-|the beginning of the war. | ous coincidence” which he read be Serap iron —iron—iron mines —| cause he didn’t believe in “mysteri-|von Alvensieben. Yes, the item in-| ous coincidences,” What appeared | terested Dulien deeply to be mysterious to some, Dulien had| It said the Canadian government} always contended weren't mysterious | had decided that von Alvensleben| at all, could always be explained|Was a perpetual alien enemy, or something to that effect, and that} simply enough, and the mystery part of them was bosh—simply bosh Another item, one that did inter his British Columbia properties, fixcated by the dominion when con-| the est him profoundly, was a telegraph | war started, should remain ax they Aispateh from Vancouver, B. C.,|were—that the German could not about Count Alvé yon Alvensleben, |have them back the German ‘ Dulien wondered what ‘had be one come of the dapper German count Iron meant much to Dulien, So|who had once made Seattle his | office SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1920. HerCountry or Her Husband? Weeping Wife of Irish Mayor Plea for Death sos lal dees steven’ dean ke husband, the young wife of Terrence MacSweeney, Lord Mayor of imposed sentence of death, The meeting of husband and wife in prison, where MacSweeney is fast weakening from the effects of a hunger strike, was intense Mrs. MacSweeney, after a fruitless attempt yesterday to induce to release the lord mayor under today sought his liberty direct f state for home affairs. Shorts The distraught young woman then went to the prison to beseech her husband to give up his hunger strike, The lord mayor, pale his determination net to yield. In a tense scene, during which Mrs. MacSweeney wept brokenly, her husband finally won her consent not to eppese his resolve to go without food’ “until released by death.” MacSweeney, in company with several other Irish brought to Brixton from Ireland this week. hunger as the result of going without food during rial and sentence that he was carried He was aS 11-CENT SUGAR IS PREDICTED Sharp Decfines ines ‘Thribut the | United States CHICAGO, Aug. 21/— Eleven-cent sugar for New Year was the predic tion today of R. L. Poole, secretary of the city counedl’s bigh cost of liv. ing committee, WASHINGTON, Aug, 21.-—(United many parts of the country today, ac- cording to figures gathered by the United Press. The falling market in “spotted” sugar prices range from lfc per pound in Chicago and 16%c in St. Louis to 20¢ in San Antonio, Tex., where no decrease whatever has ten | registered, “The bottom has not dropped out of the sugar market,” said Commis: sioner Ethelbert Stewart of the bu reau of Iabor statistics today. “But | with wugar selling at and 18c in | many cities, I believe the falling market will continue. “The bottom price has not yet! been reached. I do not believe there is a chance that prices will go up If housewives begin to lay in large stocks now, tho, it is possible the drop may stop. “There is, therefore, nothing to be gained by laying in large quantities of sugar now Housewives should buy only to meet immediate needs.” Large quantities of sugar are be ing thrown into the wholesale mar ket by candy dealers eee No Decline Yet in Seattle’s Sugar Washington City reports that Sugar has dropped to 16, 17 and 18 cents a pound, and advices from York bring news of Il-cent sugar, wholesale, but no such decliné has been registered in Seattle, Saturday sugar was being retailed at 22% to 23% cents a pound. Clean Cash From Store’s Register Prowlers stole the last penny from the cash register in the Grinnold ci gar stand, 219 Union at. and then helped themselves to three boxes of elgara, According to report to police Saturday, Cash totaling $7.36 was stolen. headquarters, later was nabbed by the United States government, put in a prison camp and, after the war was over, was turned loose again to disappear. What was he up to now? Iron mines? Scrap iron? The bothered Dulien strangely. He was thinking of it when he that night He dreamed about von Alvensleben, And when he break fasted next morning the German was still in mind He couldn't shake him off. . It is a habit with Dulien that, when he drives in his Buick to his he stops en route to pick up edestrian and give him a lift some to towr went to bed | ! 32 MISSING WHEN SHIP Fog at Sault Ste. Marie Thursday Night | CLEVELAND, Aug. 21—Thirty- |two members of the crew of 37 of |the steamer Superior City which |mank off Sault Ste. Marte last night after @ collision with the steamer Willard King, were mimsing today, Scoording to a statement here at noon by the Pittebure Superior City. Five members of the crew were known to have been saved, the statement said ‘Collision Occurs in Heavy | terued Steamship company, owners of the) REPORTS ON AFTER TRIP McDonald Goes Thru State and Returns With Amazing Data on Illicit Operations Between $,000 and 10,000 stilts, lvarying in size from teaketties to elaborate outfits turning out 100 gal lons of finished product @ day are in active operation in the state of | Washington, according to the esti- }mate of State Prohibition Director Donald A. McDonald. Fully 48,000,000 pounds of sugar, onefourth of which is used in the form of molasses, are consumed yearly in the Illicit manufacture of Krapo and allied drinks, according to the estimate of the director, whore | figures are based upon his personal The collision occurred in @ fO8| oimervation reports of his and the Superior City sank in two peers orn » Cad minutes. The Willard King was “hot, badly damaged. YEGGS SHOULD WORRY IF THEY WORK UP SWEAT ABERD N, Aug. 21.—afe, containing $4,100, stolen from home of King Vanucie. “A fel low can't keep anything if it's not nailed to the floor,” says Vanucie today. | “S| Press.)—Sugar prices are declining in | |\Groom Is Arrested for Stealing Eats A. L. Colson, newlywed baker in Chauncey Wright's restaurant at 1209 Second a’ other eats from the kitchen because he needed all his money to pay debts. he told police when arrested Saturday, Silverware, meat and but ter; alleged to have been stolen from the restaurant, were found in his locker. He was arrested by Patrol man C. B. Peterson, 4 Band Conterts | in Parks Sunday Four band concerts are announced for Sunday in Seattle's parks. Wag ner’s band will play at Woodland park at 2:30 and at Volunteer park at 6:00; Adam's band will play at Alki at 2:30, and Carrabba's band | will give a concert at Leachi at 2:30 “GOTTA EAT,” SAID IRENE; SHE QUITS JOB AS TEACHERR YAKIMA, Aug. 21.—"Gotta said Miss Irene Molander, her, So she jumped to an insurance writing job, paying $500. more yearly. Yakima’s teacher shortage has increased. Stranded Pigeon Is Found on River Driven down by smoke and an elec trie storm, a stranded Seattle car rier pigeon has been found by Cyrus T. Gates of Deming, Wash,, eight miles up the south fork of the Nook sack river from ‘A Gates writes The Sfar that he will jbe glad to furnish the owner further | with ‘The pigeon, he writes, | molasses is used where packing in| on} the information i | | stole meat and | | the state j the | Director county and police officers who are cooperating with us we have ob- tained a pretty fair line on condl- tions thruout the state. | BIGGEST NUMBER IN KING COUNTY “For instance, there is no question but that King county harbors the kreatest number of stills. say 2,500 is a conservative estimate. | Pierce county comes next, with in the neighborhood of 1,500, Grays Harbor and Kittitas counties probably have 700 and 300 stills each. The rest are scattered about in other portions of the state.” By far the larger number of pri vate liquor factories are located in Western Washington, according to Director McDonald. There are two | reasons for this, he says. First, with such a long unguarded border line |between Eastern Washington and | Canada, a great deal of stuff is be | ing: bropght over, doing away with the necessity of home brewing. Then most of the population of is concentrated west of mountains, Another factor is the scarcity of timber in the east- ern part of the state, which makes it less easy to conceal distilling operations. STORE GASOLINE FOR BOOZE PLANT é “Ot lace,” said McDonald, “they have been using gasoline stoves a good deal, which does away with the column of smoke which used to guide me frequently and led to the cownfall of many a mooushiner. Near Tacoma we found 10 five-ai jon cans of pline stored for with a still that was equipped with gas stove As to the amount of sugar used, McDonald bases his esti an average dbtained by use mate on computing actual findings of sugar| | made by his agents. find all the way from one. quarter of a sack to four sacks of sugar with stills," he said ing a conservative average I that 480,000 sacks is we say a yearly estimate. one-fourth of this is used in the form of molasses. | “Grapo. requires sugar, but ram and some other drinks are made the syrup. Often, too, sugar would be too difficult ig tagged “No, 324 Seattle 1920" the right leg, and on the left “No.|and also is bought sometimes to {4101 U, 20 F.” (Turn to Page 2, Column 3) He got hailed a man, him on the gas, He | the thanking took the seat beside him. man, | any subject, nversation Anything, | begin a But Dulien thing that was pestering him. terious coincidences” would “Believe in coincidences?" asked. “Well Iniscently, pen.” “LT don't believe dee) red impatiently. bun Bunk sounds like junk. scrap tron—iren mines vensleben, Hang it, do. | said the man, slowly, “they sometimes rem: hap ‘em,” Dulien “Bunk! in Junk—| gracefully, | suffices to| about question! was determined not to mention the) won't give him back his mines. “Mys-| dia he| bothered me all night ulien’s Pick-Up”; or “Know Your Passenger” into the car and stepped | well try and | his office Dulien thought. was, or his own name, “Read in the newspaper last night the unt, von Al vensleben,” out. “Canada Say have an obsession? von Alvensleben, has Don't know German he blurte you ever That fellow, why, can't explain it.” ‘They rode on a few blocks. They |talked of war and peace Just | the von Al-|the passenger, he might as you.” came back to the “Wonder where Alvensleben is Then Dulien original subject dickens v now?" he asked. “Right at this moment," said “he is sitting beside n ¥ MOONSHINE 1 would} while} da: But apprdectenata iy | to forget his age, or where | Tr EW LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE _ SEATTLE 8,000 BOOZE STILLS OPERATING IN WASHINGTON, SAYS DRY CHIEF Leaves Baby at Neighbors and Then Vanishes When a neighbor of Mrs. George Mansfield, 5280 Seventh ave., left her 13-monthsold baby girl with Mra. Mansfield last Tuesday, she said she would come back for it that night. She hasn't returned, and yesterday Mrs. Mansfield called Mrs. Blanche H. Mason, su perintendent of the women’s pro- tective division of the police de- partment. The child will be put in the detention home to await the mother's return, FILIBUSTER ON IN TENNESSEE |Anti-Suffragists Adopt No- Quorum Tactics NASHVILLE, Aug. 21—In the midst of a parliamentary debate suffrage membern of the lower house of the Tennessee legislature this afternoon voted against reconsider- ation of the resolution ratifying the suffrage amendment. Antisuffrage members contending no quorum was Present and that, therefore, it was legislative There were 50 ayes. After the vote the suffragists rang @ “liberty bell,” contending that they had won and that the fight was over. 2 The vote was taken amid scenes of confusion, antisuffragists con-} |testing that the house was not le- gally in session at all. By a viva voce vote the house ~ moved to adjourn until Mon- LAMPING TAKEN FROM HOSPITAL OLYMPIA, Aug. 21. — Senator | George Lamping, candidate for gov- Jernor, was removed from the hos. pital to a hotel today, and will be taken to Seattle Sunday. He will be wearing head bandages for five weeks, but expects to resume his campaign in six days. He was pinned under a falling tree which wrecked his auto and nearly sev ered his left ear, CHILEAN WAR | FEARS TOLD SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. Ex- |plaining recent military measures {adopted by the Chilean government, War + Minister raguriz told the chamber of deputies that Peru had | concentrated 3,000 troops on the | Chilean frontier. The minister further charged that Peru was negotiating for purchase of submarines from the United tates and Great Britain and al- ready had bought six British de- | stroyers PIERGE COUNTY CENSUS 144,127 | WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.— The} census bureau today announced the 1920 population of Pierce county, | Washington, as 144,127. Other V | ington counties announced were:/ jrays Harbor, 44,5 and Kittitas, |17,580. ‘The population of Caribou county, Idaho, was given as | The increase in popula of Pierce county, where Tacoma ts located, is 23,316, or 19.8 per cent The increase in Grays Harbor, was 8,982, or, 25.2 per cent Kittitas showed a decrease of 981, or 6.3 per cent No comparison was available for Caribou, which | was organized in 1909, WATER SHUT.OFF NOTICE | Water will be shut off. on | West Spokane st. west of Iowa | ave., putting all the low service | system in West Seattle and | Youngstown . out of water, on | Saturday evening from 9 o'clock | until morning, All the cons|um- | ers of water in West Seattle are | U.S. PROBE BEGUN OF RUMORED ALLIANCE Russ Peace Terms Madé: Public; No Bolshes With- — in 30 Miles of Warsaw BY A. L. BRADFORD WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—The United States government ts gathers ing circumstantial evidence of an ak Nance or understanding between Germany and soviet Russia, it was learned today. 3 While Washington hrs no proof of such an alliance, odditional re ports indicating its existence have been received, it was stated offh cially, | However, the strictest secrecy is observed as to the Da ture of these reports. ic The government ts quietly com ducting a searching investigation to determine whether an allianc® exists between the two It is probable that if there is to be a Russo German pact to the prejudice cf Poland or the allies, the fact will be made public, as in the case of the tamous —, man note, - POLISH. ENVOYS: SAY THEY SEEK — Negotiations in Minsk the Poles read @ tion that they do not desire fees are merely occupying territory to |give the people therein the Oppor- tunity for self determination, it was stated in a wireless dispatch Moscow today, Me. The declaration said the Polish peace conditions included i ity of Poland's independence ~~ nonnterference in her internal 3 fairs. M. Danieshevisky, chief of Russian delegates, protested against the Poles dragging out the negotia- tions and declared they would be held “responsible for the bloody come sequences of such a policy. eee a 'RUSSIAN PEACE requested to use no water ‘for | sprinkling on Saturday evening | after 5 o'clock, 1 TERMS MADE PUBLIC BY WEBB MILLER. LONDON, Aug. 21,—Additional de mands have been made upon Poland” by Russia, according to the terms” submitted Thursday at Minsk and. made public here by M. Kamaneff,- Bolsheviki trade commissioner, These, demands, which hitherto had not. been made public, included: ing Creation of a Polish “civic militia” composed of workers, to be armed with the surplus munitions demanded from Poland by Russia. (A hint of this specific demand wap contained in the opening speech of M. Danishevsky, chief of the Soviet armistice commission, who pointed out that such a military body could be depended upoh not to take up arms against the Bolsheviki.) Poland shall not allow troops of any foreign state to enter or remain on Polish terrttory, Poland shall return all rolling stock, cattle and other materials re moved from Russian territory, NO INDEMNITY IS ASKED BY BOLSHES Aside from these demands the terms were precisely the same as those transmitted to Premier Lioyd George several days ago, which he 1dvised the Poles to accept. The more important of these were: Recognition of Poland's full inde pendence by Russia and Ukrat Renunciation of any form of im demnity from Poland. Establishment of the Russo-Poligh frontier practically as outlined by ign Secretary Curzon with addi- tional territorial concessions to the Poles east of Cholm and Bjelstok, Reduction of the Polish army to 60,000 men (to be supplemented by the “civle militia”), Cessation of hostilities’ 72 hours after the terms are aceépted, the” Poles to retire 33 miles west of the then battle line and the intermediate zone to be neutralized, Distribution of land grants to fam (Turn ane)