The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 27, 1920, Page 20

JAP POLICE SEIZE U. S. LEGISLATOR Congressman Hersman Re- sists at Korean Meeting and Consul Intervenes SEOUL, Korea, via Shanghal, Aug Korean police Wap stop Songressman ng @ today i. Delayed) anese) who Hersman as he gathering of Koreans he were hustling him out of the ing when the Californian rest fusing to budge a foot further. Heraman demanded that promi nent Koreans who had been arrested because they attended the meeting be released. ARGUMENT RESULTS; U. & CONSUL INTE An argument resulted At this point American Consul Miller intervened. He persuaded the Japanese to cease their interference with Hersman and to release the Koreans. Hersman addressed the meeting. not knowing that the Japanese had withdrawn permission. The Koreans had assembied to greet the party of American congressmen who are trav @ing thru the Orient. ‘The official meeting of welcome had been transferred by the Japan- ese, who gave the excuse that the crowd was so large the police would he unable to protect the Americans from alleged bomb plotters who had threatened their lives. After Miller had charge that the meeting was unli censed was dropped. “BOMB PLOT” CHARGE CALLED JAP PROPAGANDA About Korea, the charge that Ko- reans had plotted to bomb the Americans is generally attributed to Japanese propaganda against Ko- reans. ee An earlier cab“ from Seou! via Tokyo did not gtve cause for inter- ference of the police. It also failed to state that the Japanese police had laid hands on Congressman Hers- man, stating Hersman was “asked to leave.” WILSON TARGET OF HUMPHRE President Wilson and the league of nations were assailed by former Congreseman Will E. Humphrey in a speech before the Young Men's Re publican club Thursday noon. Humphrey charged that the presi dent alone opposes amendment of the league of nations pact so as to protect American rights. “It has been clearly shown that the British empire would have six Votes to our one in the league coun cils,” the former congressman de- claread. “The British do not insist upon this. No one in America favors it. Then who not change it? Only one man in all the world objelts to this being done—Wilson.” John Stringer, candidate for gov at home. you are doing your banking never paid less than 5% on ances, One Dollar will open which enjoys the distinct Largest Strictly Savings Northwest. Resources $12,500,000.00 THRIFTOGRAM: The ape and future seit. RAYMOND R. FRAZIER President WILLIAM THAANUM Vice President ROLLIN SANFORD Vice President intervened the! We will not only give you safety and service when you make our bank your bank, but when you come in we will be glad to give you a cordial welcome and make you feel It will be a pleasure to us to advise with you on any financial matter you may be considering, whether or not For over thirty years, through wars and panics, we have compounded semi-annually and computed on monthly bal WASHINGTON MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK 810 SECOND AVENUE self alone, while the thrifty man is good to both his present OFFICERS: |King Lee Loses Nerve May Go to Penitentiary. Gets Mixed Up in His Story. “Dope” Merchant Looks Shabby. Must Furnish $750 Bond, THE SEATTLE STAR BANDESCORTS BREMERTON HAS: _ VICTIM OF GUN 8,918 PEOPLE Slain Man Is Buried whe NG Trebled Since | Afternoon 1910 Census WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 An ‘ARMY CALLING FOR 739 MEN They'll Be Sent to Serve in Germany Christ G. Crecorin, who died Mon: dane ansonig ge Ac ollie hepa | You would hardly have known) th cern found 01 eee A hardly have known | the offioere ¢ wind on me, Thad not day of @ shot wound received while| nouncement of the census bureau Germany will be reopened Wednes yon hentaaea to klow hau “Serv imcetnine tar tie bere Wes saciage ler froen’ the U. B. matt drink ‘toe | Tatars” Fevealed the tact that oe oe? ake taiaeal Xie wale , he bo © package |dier, from the U. 8. noft drink be i ute 6 build well. |they found hidden in my sleeve Was|at 311 econd ave. Swan buried | MN0e the last census in 1910, Brem-| In Berlin there is said |) ing office in the Mutual Life butia The handsome Chinaman waa not|#eme I had for my own une," oh ,, l orton: fad nearty trebled ita: pepule to be a comimittee of |! ing. There are 729 men needed to his usual dapper, debonair self | Of course, at a hearing on @ ve serious before the Unit charge States commissioner, one ts apt to be a bit shy On complaisance—eapecially when one is defendant King was sloppily dressed, for one | thing » defects of the shirt he wore, ¢ t the throat, were par tially 4 by the folds of an| 1, ancient gray overcoat of unclassical | py, cut. His straw hat was not strict clean need of a shave. | This matter of garb plainty both: | time, an 1 King Lee, Really, they should | ystall an electric tron in the county | the use of inmates who may | upon to appear in public tht Rut there was something else that worried King yesterday afternoon Otherwise he probably would not have told a story so patently crook ed. He would at least have fabri cated & consistent tale and stuck to it After waiting half an hour for Special Investigators Baerman and | Anderson, of the police department, who fa to appear, the hearing |was opened. An internal revenue lagent testified for the government Attorney Dan Landon represented King Lee. King sat between a deputy United States marshal and Wong Dok, who acted as interpreter, Wong Dok's | wife was there, toa, Wong Dok and King are old ronies. Wong has been out only about three weeks from his last trip |behind the bars. | ‘The government agent testified |that a police stoolie had paid King | Lee a marked $5 bill last Saturday jevening, for which King agreed to sell hin a package of morphine. But as the dope was about to be delivered King caught sight of Investigator Anderson tn the offing, and started |to flee. He was caught, and the |marked bill and the package of hop | were found on his person. Put thru crosmexamination by Commissioner McClelland and Attor |ney Landon, King admitted posses jsion of the morphine. But he told |two tales—and got them mixed. | “I had known the boy whd ap |proached me,” said King, thru the medium of Wong Dok, “in time past. |i did not know he was working for jthe police. He asked mo to get a package of morphine for him. Ho | anid he knew I did not have any my: |self, but gave me the $5 bill and begged me to get some from a dealer for him. ° “He was a sick boy, and needed |the medicine, no I got a packngo of |dope from a dealer and was coming | |back to give it to the boy when I | was arrested. The bill the officers jfound on me was my own money. | | Their bill I had paid the dealer for | the dope.” ‘There was one hitch tn this story, however, The marked bill was held jand would be produced aa evidence Evidentily King thought of that. For in reply to a few pointed questions |by the commissioner he told another | story. | ernor, discussed the governors’ fight.| “Yes, that wae thelr marked money | Ye Z > lec ceteeatet ” Yl q | \Y with us Savings an account tn this hank, fon of being the Oldest and Institution in the Pacific Established 31 Years ndthrift is good to his present WILLIS 8, DARROW “you at least admit in both versions that | package of morphine. ction of the And the King stood sadly 19 | is tosing hia nerve, Assistant HARRY SI Assistant Secretary me I he ake View cemetery Friday after- Well," said the commianioner, | noon, v od replace soldiers returning from Ger tion, Because of the buyers to determine prices. With that slogan, Germany might even yet \. ‘The figures show a in M10 A wolemn requiem mass, at which| @nd 8.918 in 1920, Charleston has altwo pr s of the Orthodox Greek | 2.298 population, in comparison to That, in ttaelf 2 in many, it in maid. popularity of service there, it is ex you were in possession of ed by recruiting officers that the , Catholic church officiated, was held | # primae facie proof of intention to|at 2 o'clock in the St, Spiridonus mpared t conquer the world. fer will be open only a few days pela under the amendment to the! ohureh, at 753 Lakeview blvd. h Poulat ee A service will approximate #,000 1 arrinon aot | | c . Atte thy ects o tinier We The population o ap county, « of travel before reaching the After the services the body was es he population of Kitsap county.) o.oo of the Home Undertaking Pen ain aeameae om die I wha point of actior trip is made by way of Ft. 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