The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 11, 1920, Page 1

, i ii Et } happening in Washington. Open opposition to the Jap cam- entirely saving horns. Congress has been brought to realize that the problem is national, Both presidential candi dates have declared themselves on the subject of preventing Asiatic | net local. immigration. ‘The battle is half won! nal vigilance is the price of peace.” You may be sure that The Star | Never will let up until America, be- | {iit (The Seattle Star gained 11,749 in daily circula- tion in the year ending October 1, making its leadershi: undisputed. Every other Seattle pa- per, according to its of fi- cial circulation figures, lost circulation, the loss of the second paper, The Star's closest competitor, being over 14,000.) Some of the Reasons Why 2—THE JAP MENACE ORTHWEST NEWSPA- PERS blinded their eyes and closed their columns for years to the menace of the Jap in our midst. P'up io not the kind of ho- that acknowledges a superior. was tabooed in other But this is true it is universally ize that The Star was right. Busi- ness men who wanted to know “what it Was all about” now under- that it had something to do | this nation for the white race—and incidentally pre- venting their children from paying tribute to Tokyo at some future date. Employers who got rich by im porting cheap Japanese laborers and working them 12 and 14 hours a day used to make all sorts of dire threats against The Star. no more. They have pulled in their | just another fresh to strong south- erly gale. Temperatare Last 24 Hours Maximum, 57. Minimum, 50. Today noon, 51. J is printed today IRISH BATTLES Troops DUBLIN, Oct. 11-—-With Sinn Fein attacks on the military re newed, Ireland today awaited fur ther police reprisals, One officer was killed and four wounded Sunday when Sinn Fein lers ambushed two motor lorries near Newcestown, Eight soldiers were reported miss- ing after the blowing up of a motor lorry near Castle Rea, County Ros- | common. | Attacks on soldiers and police were | reported at Belfast. At Cork a large body of soldiers raided houses searching for arms| and ammunition. There was no op | ponition. MAYOR TO TALK disappeared. our start- situation will be bared by Mayor | Hugh M. Caldwell in a speech be- fore the Men's club, at Plymouth | church, Sixth ave. and University st., Monday eveping. This is the second of 4 series of talks delivered by the mayor relative to the financial condition confront ing the municipal railway, “In carrying out the promises I made in my election campaign, I am merely trying to give the public all concerning our street car caldwell declared, No more; But “eter- yond all question, is safely and for- POP ve casts: sc ever a white man's country! pg Seattle Woman Hurt (Teli_your frends about The in Auto Accident z it Bier a ance ik the state of |. Es. Mary I. Bordeaux, wife of Washington for fifty cente a |Joseph Bordéaux, a Seattle lumber: month. ng man, was injured but not seriously, vote at November 2. Those w MacSwiney Enters 60th Day of Fas LONDON, Swiney began his 60th day of fast- ho since January fied to vote in t tion regardless of whether have voted at any time this y Oct TONIGHT! Your Last Chance to REGISTER!) Last chance to register! Monday night registration books will clont. you haven't the books you at 9 o'clock, got have 1, 1920, are quali e coming elec: 11 your won't be the general election on when a Marmon touring car | which the Bordeaux and others | were riding, went into the ditch on \the Olympia highway near Tacoma, | Sunday afternoon, They turned out to avoid another jear near Camp Murray, and the heavy car toppled down the steep bank, overturning With the Bordeaux were daughter and Mrs. Bordeaux's sister, G* YEROUS THIEF TAKES NOTHING Thieves who robbed C. Stomser's 4 home at 367 W. Nickerson st, Sun day night left more behind than was stolen. In fact, the thief took noth. ing and left a pair of rubbers and a raincoat, Stosser told the police Mon | day. the It name on to ple registered they "a National,’ congressional, state —_— aaencaenema and county officers are to be Bcted November 2. If you || Paes Pot Shot at haven't registered this year, reg haven't registered this year 2** || Man Entering House Register at city-county build Police falied to locate the roughly ing. dressed man at whom M. Jones, 4 Sunnyside ave. took a shot Sunday | night when, upon returning home, he | found the man attempting to force a bedroom window, Jones described |the near-burgiar as a man about 38 years old, He wore an old suit of | dark material. Terence Mac ing in Brixton prison today with his | mind as alert as ever, continue strike until death or unconditional release was still firm, rélatives sald I"s “TOO HIGH FOR HIS CIDER} Victoria hotel, ted ye was drinking Sunday night, but nevertheless is deeply inter: mination to Lew Olson, Hl his deter hunger |Reds Noncommital | LONDON, Oct, 11,—The Russian | government today returned a non commital note to Lord Curzon's warning that the British fleet will attack soviet submarines, said to have been seen in the Baltic sea, Foreign Minister Tehitcherin said admit ed fe in the disappearance of $330 he had|the moviet representative in Landon, early in the evening. all couldn't have gone for cite He figures it|M. Krassin, was to receive instruc (tions regarding the matter. ARE ON AGAIN 'Sinn Fein Renew Attacks on CARS TONIGHT Additional data on the street car | their | in Note to Britain | On the Issue of Americanism There'Can Be No Compromise Bntered as Second Clare Matter May 6, 1999, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1920. on Page Seyen. COUGHLIN KIDNAPING MARKED BY NUMEROUS SENSATIONAL ACTIONS June 2: Blakely kidnaped from Norristown. Yune 6; Father announced re ceipt of seven letters demanding ransom in sums ranging from $4,000 to $15,000. June 10; “The Crank” tele phones Coughlin home; warns $6,000 ransom must be met. or “You will never heaz from your child again.” June 17: Coughlin places $13, 000, “The Crank” doubling de mand in meantime, at Swede ville. The child is not returned. July 17: Coughlin in newspaper advertisement said he in ready to deal again with “The Crank,” in reply to letter from him. August 2 “The Crank,” alias August Puscol, alias Augusto Pasquale, captured in Eee Har bor by decoy. Asserts innocence dixclaims connection with kid naping of Blakely. August 6: After 90 hours’ con- stant grilling by two shifts of police, Pasquale issues “ult! matum. Said he = would “squeal” on accomplices unless Blakely returned the next day at 4 Dp mM. Says “Joe, the Coker,” was the kidnaper, that a woman to satisfy a mother’s love bad the baby, and that she hired him to get the ransom money. August 7: Police say Pasquale “Har.” Confesses nothing; sticks to original story. August 13: Charged with black mail, extortion and using mail« to defraud. Remanded to jail to awaft action of grand jury October 11: Pasquale confesnes baby accidentally smothered dur. ing kidnaping flight COUGHLIN BABE WAS SMOTHERED Prisoner Confesses to Acci- dental Killing HARRISBURG, | Pa. ‘Oct. 11 | Blakely Coughlin, the missing Nor. ristown baby,"was accidentally }wmothered and later buried near Egg | Harbor, N. J., by August Pasquale, |the jail at Norristown yesterday, APAN’S MILITARY REIGN OF TERROR in Siberia is described by Star Correspondent Jack Mason in an exclusive series of news articles, the first of which Mason is and only newspaperman to penetrate the region of Japanese aggression. His articles are an extremely important contribution to contemporary history. } | 10 grains of cocaine on May 19, 1920,| th top of hin speed. 4 | both, | | ality last Friday night. who confeaned to the kidnaping in| | Major Lynn G. Adama, of the state |Court Won't Review | police, announced today ). Pasquale revealed the o tails of the kidnaping, mplete de- Adams stated. He declared Pasquale sent | for him and confessed to killing the| baby. Pasquale told of entering the Coughlin home and placing the child under his cont while he made his get. away, Adams raid, Some distance from the boune he unbuttoned coat and found the child d cording to Adams, ac: | Adams declined to give out the in-| formation obtained from Pasquale l relative to the exact place the baby | is buried Captain Gearhart has been sent to [that vicinity to search for the body jof the missing boy, Adams stated. |Lithuanian Capital Is Seized in Coup LONDON, Oct il Europe had another “Fiume” today in the cap. ture of the Lithuanian capital, Vilna, by hastily organized troops under the | Polish General Zeligowski. Zeligow- ski, officially repudiated by Polish | authorities, was said to have been lelected “commander” by Polish resi dents of Vilna. | The Lithuanian government with- drew to Kovno. The Lithuanian legation here bit terly denounced Poland, claiming Zeligowski's coup was instigated by his government, his} | the first ‘KING LEE FACES TRIAL TUESDAY Notorious Dope Peddler Up on Indictment Under the alias of Lee Can, King Lee, notorious dope peddier, is sched- uled for trial tn the United States district court Tuesday on the first of three “grand jury indictments charging violation of the Harrison act. In this document, King te charged in one count with the purchase of and in the second count with deal-| ing in narcotics, without registering or paying the special tax to the in- ternal revenue department, The maximum penalty # five years at hard labor or $2,000 fine, or for each count. It is prob- lematical what King will receive, if convicted, for the heaviest pen- alty yet meted out for similar of. fenses in federal court here is ap- proximately one year in the peni tentiary. ‘The average sentence has been a fine of $200 to $400. 2 Ribs Are Shattered at Skinner & Eddy’s William Bloodn, 43, living at 4601 ireenwood ave., was received at the Minor hospital Monday with two shattered ribs as the result of # cident at the old Skinner and Eddy shipyards, Blooan is married, H, MOTHERS! HAD YOU SEEN THEM! Half a hundred mothers or more would have worried exceedingly had they seen how their sons were initi- ated into student life at the univer Now that it's all over with, there are 55 new fresh- men occupants in Lander and Terry dormitories on the campus, |Supreme Court Thru With Liquor Cases, WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—The su | preme court of the United States to- _|day denied a petition for rehearing | of the prohibition cases, These suits were decided last June upholding the prohibition act and Volstead act. The court rendered no decision, merely handing down an order say: ing it would not rehear the cases, Nakano Convinction WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—The su preme court refused to review the conviction of 8, Nakano on charge of keeping a disorderly house within five miles of Fort Mason, Cal, in violation of federal statut Find Dead Man in California Canyon LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11.—Dise ery of the nude body of an unidentl- fied man in Rio Hondo ganyon near here, early today, was being investi gated by deputy sheriffs on the theory that the death was the result | of a “bootleggers’ war.” Freshmen to Swear Allegiance to “U” The freshman class of 1924 at the university will swear allegiance to its alma mater on the steps of Meany hall Sunday evening, October 24, at 7:40 o'clock. This ceremony, known as the Ephebic oath, is administered yearly by Professor Meany to incom- ing freshmen. CIRCLE NO, 3 of Holy Trinity Lutheran church will hold a rum- mage sale in the Pine st, public mar. ket, Seventh and Pine, Thursday, ¥riday and Saturday, SIXTH GAME Former Seattle Twirler Hurls Masterly Ball and Cleve- land Wins, 1 to 0 BY HENRY 1.1 L. FARRELL ie Malis, the recent Indian left-hand’ recruft from the Pacific coast, wag at In spite of loos® fielding by the Indians’ inner | defense, the big left-hander set the Robins down with three scattered hite and kept them away from the | plate without a sign of trouble When he retired Kilduff for the final out in the ninth inning, he had pitch- | ed 16 consecutive scoreless innings. NECK AND NECK FOR FIVE INNINGS For five innings, the two south paws battled neck and neck with little advantage on either side. Mails turned back the Robins in the sixth, just as he had been doing all afternoon, Smith started the second half of that inning just as well, and had sent Evang and Wamby back to the dugout, When another score. lens inning seemed certain, the In jdlan attack broke loose, and Speaker blazed a long single to left. George! {Burns rose to the occasion and| | placed himself in Cleveland's hall of | baseball fame along with the heroes jot yesterday's game by smiting a tremendous double against the Jeft field stands on which Speaker tore jacroms the plate with the only run lof the game. Brooklyn threatened only twice— in the second inning, after two were} down, when errors by Sewell and Gardiier, following a hit by -Ko netchy, filled the bags, and in the eighth, when Olson doubled with one |down, but the Robins lost their | | chance in the second, when Smith, Jin the pinch, put up a fly which! |Speaker easily captured. Sheehan | and Griffith both failed miserably in| |the eighth, when they had an op-| | portunity to drive Olson across with the tying run. Little Pete Kluduff, at second for Brooklyn, and Bufns at first for Cleveland carried away the om | (Turn to Page 13, Column 6) | Box Score! | Brooklyn— HPO. A. E. we 4 | 0/6 #81 bie pis day ah A "Krueger .. o 0 0 0 Griffith, rt. re ee | Wheat, it, ©0200 | Myers,” of | oe Ga hs oR |+MeCabe o 0 © @ @| | Konotohy, 1b. o 19 1 0 ft, ab © 6 8 3 0 o 60 3 3 6 o 0 2 0| RS | Tot M9 8 12 0 Batted for tRan for Myers in ninth. lev Evans, Wamby, | Speaker | Burns, ib Gardner, 3b lw | == | Totals Score by innings Brooklyn 00 Cleveland Bul cone-coo base hits Brooklyn 6, in—Simith 1, 4, Smith ‘1 Dineen, Kiem, O'Day, 4:86, | police declare, when official attaches | | the preseribed " | the offices, =| TheSeattle Star Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 IBETTY BRAINERD IS HEL In New York in Stagg Kidnaping Case; FAINTS IN COURTROOM! EE Weather Tonight and Tuesday, rain; LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE ‘Bobby’ Stagg Said to Been Hidden in Seattle 10 or 12 Days Betty Brainerd, brilliant Newspaper woman, formerly of. jtle, is under arrest in New according to dispatches here today, in connection with | sensational kidnaping three |ago of Bobby Stagg, fou |100 per cent son of Mrs. | Stagg, of Tacoma, Miss Brainerd is the Miss Betty Brainerd * *& & x & *& & Long Strain Over, Kidnaped Baby's Mother Breaks! TACOMA, Oct, 11.—For the first | time since her baby boy, Bobby, was snatched from her side, three weeks ago, by her jealous*ex-husband, Mrs. | George Stagg has broken completely down, it was learned at her home here today. The shock of the kidnaping and the stress under which she has borne up so bravely during the long hunt have at last scored upon her, Today the plucky little woman is bundle of tortured, unstrung nerv weeping hysterically in her pillow. In the room beside her bed is Bob- by’s empty crib. Before that crib, | almost nightly since the kidnaping, the hungry-hearted mother has knelt as before @ shrine, to pray her God in oiaee tears to return her boy to SAFE CRACKED; AN INSIDE JOB? $200 Taken From Office in Melhorn Building Detectives are investigating what they believe to have been an insidé safe tampering job in which the safe of Alexander & Baldwin, 500 Melhorn bidg,, was robbed of $200 in cash and valuable papers, sometime between Saturday afternoon and Mouday morning. ‘The safe was locked as usual, the opened the offices Monday morning. | Officials declare the custom has been to just turn the combination knob slightly. ‘This was found locked in office manner, The} inner door had evidently been opened with a key, as it was locked as usual, There were no marks on the out- er Office door or the safe to indi. cate a forced entrange or tampering. Alexander & Baldwin are agents for the Matson Navigation Co, and various Hawatian sugar companies, | About 11 persons are employed in| Fined $400 Each | on Booze Charges C, Lambro and C. Bennett, pick- ed up by the coast cutter Guard off Smith's island with 89 quarts of hooch in their launch, pleaded guilty in the federal court Monday «nd were fined $400 each Many times since she started with the officers on the trail of Stagg and Betty Brainerd, it is said, she has seemed to be on the very verge of a | collapse, but each time she rallied with seeming added vigor. Mrs, Stagg was working in a news: when she met | then a cub police reporter | struggling along on a meager sal- ary. She was pretty and vivacious. George was an impetuous, handsome They pooled their little re- paper office here Stage. wooer, sources on their wedding day, When, later, George tired of his | modest home and left her, Mrs. Stagg put her whole heart and soul the rearing and education of little Bobby, And when, still later, with another woman Stagg returned and stole her baby from her, she into flew to the chase like a tigress, Scarcely a day passed that she did y Captain Strickland Bravely she bore up during all the early patt of seemed the case, when the outjegle blackest, when clues. eluded them not accom; in his search for clues, and the end seemed nowhere. Several times she fainted on the street and in public places, and more Strickland and mem- bers of her family had to carry her bodily away from the child's empty bed, where she has wept for hours, to save, as they thought, her reason. The complete break came when Mrs, Stagg was informed last night that Betty Brainerd had been arrest than once Capt ed by the New York police. Between relapses today her cry has been, constantly, same: “Have they found my boy? me when they do!” BLUSHING COUPLE REQUESTS LICENSE always county fair— They blushed furiously— “We want to get ittee Monday. tee clerk, supplemented. And then they directed the em- barrassed couple to “Cupid” Ken- Tell OF CITY COUNCIL ‘They were all dressed up like a married,” they informed the council license too wet to get married to- Councilman Hesketh an. “We never marty anyone on Monday,” L. O, Shrader, commit: attorneys, Jerome, Rand e decided to ask a judge of sions to set the bail, The aj tion was to come up later in the Miss Brainerd fainted when arraigned in court today. D her hearing she was hysterical ‘was constantly consoled by and her friends that “it will all right.” The girl was arrested at the Central station yesterday when ¢ | applied at the baggage office \trunkk, She had arrived in York Thursday and was stayi the home of Sigmund Saxe, daughter married Miss Braii | cousin in Richmond, Va. RELATIVES MERELY TOLD WOULDN'T BE HOME TO DD Saxe told Magistrate Schwab about noon yesterday a man wit gruff voice called him up on the ¢@l Phone and told him Miss would not be home “in time for ner.” With that the receiver hung up at the other end of the and Saxe later found that Brainerd had been arrested. With Miss Bratnerd’s arrest ther details of the kidnaping kaleidoscopic events that foll the flight of the kidnapers from coma to Seattle and thence east Canada were made public by D Sheriff Matt Starwich here today, According to Starwich, Gi Stagg and the child, in“charge of trained nurse, Edith Nicholson, in flight sdmewhere between York and Richmond, Va. Their rest i expected momentarily. ‘The arrest of other alleged cated persons in Tacoma and tle, Starwich said, would be att to as soon as the principals been gathered in the net and rants issued. - The kidnaping plot revealed Starwich rivals the most lurid “7 tive fiction and includes many per sons of prominence in the Northwest and the East. : MISS BRAINERD WAS IN JUVENILE COURT WORK Miss Brainerd on ‘caving college took up juvenile court work under ~ Judge King Dykeman here, and ft an assistant of Mrs. Josephine B, Stuff, commissioner of mothers’ pen> sions, Later she resigned that po- sition to become society editor of The Star, a place she held several months, George Stage was, the es time, a reporter on The Star having previously married while newspaper work in Tacoma, Stagg leaped suddenly into when ,at the close of the war” made a daring parachute jump fi an airplane, landing in Lake away. He went to New York sh after this hazardous which nearly cost him his life, Miss Brainerd went Eaat afterward, where she soon obta & the nedy, the martiage license clerk in the auditor's office,