The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 22, 1920, Page 1

é ANTI-JAP LAND LAW IS PROP EW Weather Tonight, fair; Saturday, probably rain; south- westerly winds, Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 56, Minimum, 44. Today noon, 50. OSED HERE! THE GREAT COX-HARDING (WHEELER-BENJAMIN) PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE IS CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE OF THE STAR TODAY BRITISH GOVERNMENT OES ON WAR BASIS — On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromi: Motered ae Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffios at Meattie VOLUME Wash ~ SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, OCTOBEI The Seattle Star under the Act of Congress March 4, % Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 ™ ED LATE ITION 1920. t 22, TWO CENT! SEATILE l Going | CIRCULATE ) Up! | PETITIONS (The Seattle Star gained | ON DAY OF ~ ELECTION 11,749 in daily circula- tion in the year ending October 1, making its adershi, undisputed, Every other Seattle pa- per, according to its of fi- cial cireulation figures, lost circulation, the loss of the second paper, The Star's closest competitor, being over 14,000.) Some of the Basis of Enactments to Be Initiated The AntiJapanese League of Washington Friday announced that | questionnaires will be sent to all leg |imlative candidates asking whether | they will support laws against Jap anese landowning, similar to those to be voted on in California Novem. | ber 2. | California # Officials at Sacra. | mento have been asked to send com. | plete copies of the proposed Califor | nia laws to the local league. As soon an these copies are re ceived, petitions will’be prepared for cireulation near the voting booths in Washington, November 2, the object being to initiate legisiation in this/ state similar to that in California, | & A. WEEK — | MAGSWINEY NOW ON HIS 71ST DAY LONDON, Oct. 22.—Violentiy im, | Terence today was alter. mately doce ia ble. wok new or violent. in Dering * 12.—NO EYE-STRAIN HILE THE STAR has felt " | the ‘paper shortage as badly as any newspaper, we have refused to reduce the size of our newstype & point where it is not legible to reader with ordinarily gyod eye sight, ‘These were the editor's orders: “Make your news stories more Teach reporters to con- Cut off the extra ‘banks’ on headlines. Reduce the size of pictures. Kill off, features = not 100 per cent. the news in hard to He Rs ( Al 1, H ? iti li i i i § 4 it | i Mn rt feeding to which be “when frat This was the Tlet day. —& A. WEER— © COPS GRAB KEY THEN PULL RAID Pfiteen men were arrested at 511'% ‘Third ave. at 4:45 a. m. Friday by) E. ©. Collier and Motoreycle | Patrolmen G, F. Reynolds and W. W Dench and charged with gambling One of the alleged gamblers went) out to get something to eat. When | he returned the policeman seized) him and entered the card room with key. | ' tit ig Hl! By he i f ; & = 3 David Wortera, 37, “bartender.” was accused of conducting the! game. He was released on $250 bail. The other 14 got out on $25. ——#. A. WEEK —— “RON” MURPHY CHARGES FRAUD LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22.—Seathing Against gamblers who are to have been active in raising an jush fund” to bribe Coast Jeague ball players to “throw” games last year were today injected Into th: Paseball scandal by Edward F fehrié, atterney for the Vernon crown outbreak of terrorism by night rid- ers, seeking to intimidate cotton Deciaring that he has an affidavit until the price goes up, was reported Rod Murphy, Seattle infielder, | today. 01 well known gambler, | Fort Worth, was destroyed by fire, + oe ole barred from Coast causing an estimated loss of $7,000 os . Webrie was today pre-| Threats to burn its plant if it con-| rca ts povsokk the amdavit to the tinues to work were received by the | probe is resumed next Monday ‘Texas. Murphy's aMdavit, according to| —, 4: WEEK — Vmade by “Babe” Borton, Vernon first Daseman, that the alleged fund with to have been bribed last year, was| rained by Vernon players. ion funds) Murphy's I gtaternent said, were paid to him by| PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 22.—De- Raymond. P, Brines, for whom a warrant has Raymond as admitting that he had been issued, charging him with the won $50,000 in baseball gambling mouth student eee | —8. A. WEEK — INDICTMENTS IN CHI CHICAGO, Oct, 22.—-Additional in MYSTERY LET T ER fix” the 1919 world series and other |, Police Chief Searing received « lit Major Jeague baseball gamen will be| UO Me of ee tacoma.” Tt read gyind jury investigati crooked|. “YOu must wear dome protector or Baseball, it was learned gible) bumps the sky tine.” | Players and a former champion prize | cared in to see if he could find a fighter will be named, it was said. | ciynor in the missive | fing ax an agent for a millionaire aay i | Fastern gambler, and one of the for HE SAID HE WAS | Man who gave the alleged bribes to) eight Chicago White Sox players| . Shootin’ frogs as an alibi sounded fishy to Patrolman D. M. Mallory ‘One ball player, whose indictment! charging a gun Friday. Morimoto fa expected today, is said to have of-| is of discharging firearms DALLAS, Texas, Oct. 22.—A new | growers into refusing to sel! cotton | | he had been approached by| The cotton gin at Handley, east of Yeague baseball parks by President | Authorities suspect “night riders.” | | county grand jury when the baseba!) Corsicana company at Corsicana, | fehrie, contradicts the charges CHARGED WITH which Salt Lake players were said) Gistributed by Porton, tectives searched today for Williarn Murphy’s sworn statement quotes murder of Elmer ©. Drewes, Dart Guring"the 1919 season, Wehrle said @ictments charging conspiracy to tle bit of advice Friday in @ letter Voted. today by the Cook county baronial piece as (unintelli } Two former big league baseball!” petective W. EB. Worsham was! The pugilist will be accused of act-| —B. A. WEEK | r ball players was the “pay off” “ oy see ing ian who gave ¢ , SHOOTIN’ FROGS Whose indictments have already been when he caught 8, Morimoto, 41, dix fered pi: rs on other teams bribes | within the city limits. Mallory says voted. to throw games he was shooting quail. accused California Legislation to “ except their uniforms, | low tones | over to their officers, and started for MOTHER AGAIN TEA CHES | _ BOBBY STAGG HIS NAME Van of the Seattle Police |(Read About His Adventures Daily in The Star Officer Sulli ) hin conscious moments he protested | ‘eporter Suilt Writer Gets Appointment to Police Department—Tells His Experiences Star BY LEE SULLIVAN BE WAS A HIG MAN, with a lantern jaw. Hin star was even | late the night before. with my eyes as he nearly strode) Sturdy and strong, the third patrol over me. He would have made a) marched out of central atation in fine sparring partner for Goliath or| double file to guard the elty while Samson or Hackenachmidt. }it slept. Most of them were big “Meet Sergeant Joke Bjornson,”| men, I noticed, as Capt, Joe Mason wald to me. onto Yesler Way, and “well-heeled, “Jake, this Is a new policeman.” | ax the elevator man shiveringly said, When I reseued my mashed right | against patroimdn’s two worst hand from Jake's terrible «rip, I foes, the criminal and the milky smiled weakly and told him I was) mists of chilling fog that curls up “glad to meet him.” |from Elliott Bay on October nighta. Jake passed on Capt. Hedges’ office was crowded. “Whew! I said to Captain Joe,/A coatiess trustee, armed with “SOME man.” | dripping mop, poked his dirty head “Big an they make them,” Joe told|in the door, and was promptly told me. | to “beat it JOE KNEW LER. WHEN Capt. Hedges pushed his way thru LEE WASN'T OLD the crowd in his office to his desk 1 had known “Joe,” and hia win.| the late patrolman atill at his heels ing smile for a long time. Joe had| “Anything, Cap?” several police nown me first, to be correct. Be |men asked. He dismissed them use then, when he first saw me, | “Buck,” “Jack,” “Harry,” “Jawn,’ wasn't quite old énough to know! “Just a minute, Bill," Captain people | Hedges called to a mackinawed ser “So you're going to work on the | «eant, who was dodging thru the force,” Joe said. “Well, watch your door, The sergeant, "Bill", Donlan. step.” I later learned, returned, and Hedges Captain Joe Mason ts In charge of | handed him a $26 check the afternoon patrol. They were| “Sent in for recovering that car,” ketting ready to go off shift, So I Hedges suid tersely left Joe—he was busy—and strolled out in the assembly room, where the | asked new patrol was bustling into unl-| HEDGES LOOKS form | OF STAGE POLICE CAPTAIN Some of the men were already! Capt, Hedges laid the patrol sheets dressed. There was a hum and buzz! on his desk, still musing about the over the whole room | late copper, Capt. Hedges might But altho I chatted with several| have been a John Drew if he had groups there was little about them, » on the stage, I thought, He to identify | looked the part of a modern metro- them with the public's conception of | politon police captain, but minus the a policeman. |black curling mustache so essential They talked of the price of ems, | to a police leader in the old days, taxes, how manx miles their car} The office cleared of m woult, run on a ,allon, baseball) picked up my letter from hin ¢ scandal, fishin’, rain, ations, | There was a twinkle in his ey wives and kids. he «ald slowly, In one corner there was a group nh fon some important # of men, ready for duty, talking in nd whispers. “There,” 1 thou! “was the deep stuff’ I had always heard attributed to cops. J sidled n Martin J. Cleary, “son uv the ould sod,” was telling his latest to a grin ning ring. Ralph Ozura and Sergt Scott White were still discussing the “band’s trip to Frisco,” 1 as sured Ivan Miller, one-time crack boxer was listening in on Cleary's party, as he slipned into his uniform. Lieut. Harry O'Htien, husky war} veteran, wan “explaining to several) "I'l send you out with the dope patrolmen why the police nine,| squad In plain clothes.” which he gnanaged, lost the last| M feeling was slowly wa of the season @ introduced me Capt, BL. Hed commander of | to Pat N. P. Anderson and R. the night patrol, came in the assem-| i, Baerman, of the dope squad, I bly room, and a few minutes later| noticed they were both young, We the patrol was lined up in two ranks, | «tarted from the station for China hearing the night's orders. When he| town finished, Capt, Hedges turned them | (Kead The Star’s next issue for more of Sullivan's story) his offices, with one copper at his heels, explaining why he had been ni k and hurried out ART th v nner made my high spirits drop 37 degrees, 1 thought I was sure I knew what was |coming next, He was going to send me out lonely beat in the timbers night. 1 dreaded pour lonesome st alone all night, possibly to be the prey of a lurking lawbreaker, | thought, But it was too Jate to flinch now none.too: to wor for thi ing the still ots was night,” he added I felt a little easier they filed out! “Keep it for me tonight,” Donian | “You won't need your uniform to fe KIDNAPED ‘CHILD SICK ON RETURN Didn't Know Own Mother, | but Once in Their Home | Recognition Is Complete | ~and People Wept “Constructive Journalism” — As Practiced in the East and Abetted in the West. A “Story” That Thrilled_ a. Continent. But What of a Mother’s Heart? BY HAL ARMSTRONG | young wonpn wis arrested. Power A’ HIS DESK, in a richly-fur|ful, unseen friends got her out of nixhed office in the great metrop-| jail, The baby was still unrecov Olin, nat the great editor of the great: | ered est of yellow journals | Then the great editor, trom his of. Facing him sat his pawns—clever, | fice, announced that his journal Quick-witted young men and wotnen, | would find the child. Even more, he TRIKER INU Government Prepares Mili= tary Measure in Face of Virtual Revolution BY WEBB MILLER LONDON, Oct. 22. — Britain | was being put on a war basis Confronted by as virtual in | Baby Robby Stagg, restored mys familiar with every corner of the| Would nee that the child was re| terlounly to his mother yesterday in a Vancouver hotel, today was getting aequainted all over again with his home, his family and his toys. Bobby awoke in hut own little erib in Tacoma this morning, with his) mother's warm kiss on his lips. | He wat up®and rubbed his sleepy Mrs, Stagg lifted bim up and nat down with him in ber arma “Where's little Bobby Tagg?" she) asked, wondering if he would recol- | lect his name. | “Bobby Tagg?” he repeated, quer uldusly, ag if waking from a long. | long dream. “Bobby Tage? } Blowly be raised his hand and put @ tiny finger against his cheek. “Hobby Taget’ he repeated, with | decided Pend three teak " ‘feck -end” eyes fecognivtion excitedly excluimed Mrs. Stagg, tell- ing of the incident shortly after! 1 "At firwt he didn’t know me at all He was a sick little wanderer yes | terday, but today he's my own little | boy again.” GREATGRANDMOTHER BRINGS FAVORITE DOLL | While Mrs, Stagg was putting on Jone of the baby's suite he had worn |Defore he was kidnaped, more than | & month ago, his great-grandmother, Mrs. Alice Cunningham, brought him | his favorite plaything, a doll with | a weather-beaten face. | Robby welcomed it gleefully and | insisted later on feeding it part of two exes that he had for breakfast. | Thruout the morning the child went | | about the house discovering other playthings here and there thet be | had forgotten, and making friends with neighbors who called in droves and asked to see him | | Many a woman visitor held the! little boy in her arms today, and had | & good cry over him, while he won: dered what it was all about. Yesterday, on the train from Van. couver, B. C., the worn-out child Iny | listless and feverish on hie mother's | lap. He wag fil and fretful, He did Not seem toStinow Mra, Stagg or care what was happening to him. } It was evening when Mrs, Stagg |reached home, Mra. Cunningham | was waiting anxiously at the door. | Her first worda were, as she claaped her fi-monthold grandson in her arms | “Flow thin he ts” | “Tie's sick,” said Mra, Stage. | They carried him Into his bedroom | and tucked him into the crib, beside | which his moth night after night, | while his whereabouts was still un. | known, had sobbed and prayed for | | hig return to her MRS. STAGG DEMANDS PROSECUTION BE PRESSED "And now,” said Mra. Stage, em-| phatically, “I want them to go aheaa| | with prosecutions, I want Bbtty | Brainerd brought back here and tried for the thing she has helped my di vorced husband to do.” | Word from Capt, John 8. Strick: | | land, of the Tacoma potlce detective | | bureau, today signified that he was winning in his fight before Gov. | | Smith, of New York, for Miss Brain erd’s extradition, | Have them going here,” said his last message to Deputy Sheriff Her {bert Beebe. “Feel certain will bring k Fetty." The Betty Brainerd extradition | hearing will be held in New York | Wednesday, it was announced to. day. The delivery of the Stage baby to! its mother took place under singular | |cireumstances at Vancouver yester: | day | ‘Two reporters for a newspaper in| oma that buys Hearst service ad d Mrn, Stagg to accompany them | yous where, they assured ald get her child . , not knowing her desti nation, Arriving in the Canadian lcity, Mrs. Stagg was taken to a| |hotel. ‘The two reporters went to Janother hotel and at the door of a }certain room met two women from | Hearst headquarters in New York | Hy prearrangement tne Taco porters asked for “a bundle, (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) re. and | naper, continent and every phase of human | turned to its mother out West emotion—pawns paid well to do his} And the East dried its tears and bidding. gave thanks that there was an editor The great editor's crashed #0 great. down with emphasia “Wonderful! said he We must spring,” he said, “a ns -gitten great senmat The best stories ESSAGES trickled out over the don't happen-they are made, We wires to news; ra on the Pa must wring the world’s heart and/ co make it ery! Fr" AN HOUR he talked, dix cussing a plan. “In Washington state,” he conetud- ed, “It In perfectly safe. Out there it is done every day or so. No one has ever been punished.” Hits pawns ushered out Two of them went to Washington state. filet fortnight later, a baby wax kidnaped from ite mother, Day after day, the heart-broken sad-faced woman went with the. of ficera, helping in a search. Night after night, ae returned to her home empty-handitd to pass the hours till morning came again, sleep: lessly mourning begide an empty! A ND AGAIN the nation of news- crib, praying until she wondered if|4* Paper readers wept—especially there was no God, sobbing in wild| those readers of the greatest of yel hysteria until the doctor came and |!ow journals in the metropolis whose put her to sleep with powerful, sooth. |*ditor's pawns wrote a wonderful ing drugs. yarn. And the great editor rubbed his Y haere GREAT EDITOR rupbed bis | hands and chuckled: hake an dnealied “Great! Daring, but safer “It is, indeed, a wonderful yarn.” . e The nation wept for the mother | and her vanished child. eee wept beside a wan little child that was thin and sick and could not re- member her. eee ACTING HIM sat his pawns. His fist crashed down, “We must spring.” he said, “a NEW sensation—-a GREATER one— hat will wring the world’s heart and A’ make it ery!” Betty Brainerd, Il Know Her ; BY CYNTHIA GREY VERY STORY has two sides. But how often do we hear only the glamored, prejudiced details of one side—and this side, emblazoned boldly before the world, causes the pub- lic to place its brand everlastingly upon some impulsive per- son who may “have erred, or unintentionally committed wrong, thru loyalty to a friend. . . HE PAWNS WORKED cleverly and in time the kidnaping party reached the metropolis teelf. HAVE TALKED with numbers of Miss Brainerd's friends since her name has been used in connection with the kidnaping and the above conversation is typical of all them. One woman asks: “Do the officials think, by plastering the name of Betty Brainerd so conspic ously, they cover up their own curly negligence in the case? I should think they would be loath to even mention her name inasmuch as they accuse her as one of the kidnapers, and she actually stayed in Seattle for 10 days after the baby was taken, Why don’t they play the father's name up? They haven't even caught him yet. They simply went to sleep om the job or they wouldn't have waited until the principals landed on the other side of the continent.” 8o this is her friend’s side, ing be Brainerd, first in juvenile court work, and later sharing the same litte office at The Star with her, likewise working with the father of Baby Bobby Stagg, it is somewhat my side, too, except’ that T believe j|when one w after day, # URING THESE PAST FEW WEEKS the public eye has been filled largely with the Stagg kid naping case, no different, theoretic ally speaking, from half a dozen oth- er kidnaping cases of the,past year, except that a prominent girl has been named as abetting the kid “Betty Brainerd”—“Betty Brain erd—The officials of two counties, together with the mother and grand. mother of the kidnaped baby, have caused her name to appear many times on the frontpages of the news- papers thruout the country. The public, sympathetic, ever ready to gee justice granted, has “eaten up” the one side of the story. The pub- lic, easily flamed, quickly _ over: wrought, hasn't gleaned the other side, The name of Betty Brainerd is whispered, even hissed by some, as a terrible creature, cold-blooded, cruel, heartless, without a soul, by the public who do not know her. In the meantime, Betty’s host of friends ask: “Why all of this pub. liclty for Betty? The child was taken by his own father. He ts the real kidnaper—give him the public: ity, if they wish; but why brand Betty in the eyes of the world? We know her, warm-hearted, impulsive, generous Betty, and we love her, | Betty Brainerd-—I will endeavor to Light-hearted Betty, always full of| make them acquainted with the Bet- fun, and ever loyal to a friend. We,| ty I know, her friends, love her for that very | loyalty» which perhaps bas caused | all of this trouble; but the public who does not know her, condemns her bit, terly for it.” her in all of her various moods, one is even in a bet ter position than ber friends, to | Judge correctly. So it is to the public T wish to Speak, to those who do not know HIS FIRST TIME I ever laid eyes on Betty was about six years} o ata dinner dance, At that time | (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) of) Hav: | n clorely associated with Miss | rks with someone day | } ted to expire was taken as an indic tion t the more radical el (has obtained control of the tee just as they had in the and transport untons.. GOVERNMENT PLANS COMBATIVE MEASURES The government, in add! the emergency legislation, today with other plans for ting the strike. All the adopted during the last strike were in effect today. Rail schedules were being cut and plies of rations hastened to di tion, centers, cy bill, permitting the to use troops for any taken to mean that if necessary trains and ships would be” | operated by soldiers, They may | be used in the mines. ; | The gravity of the strike was more: ‘apparent than ever today. The speed with which the various labor organk zations hastened to hack up the miners alarmed officials who had discounted the strength back of feo leaders who demanded nation- alization, OVERTHROW PLAN ADMITTED | Leaders of the miners, and some. }leaders among the transport and |railway workers were frank in say- |ing their purpose was the overturn. ing of parliamentary government. That this revolutionary intent exe jisted apparently was taken for granted by authorities in preparing to use the military “for any pure pose.” | It was stated semi-officially today | that members of the cabinet saw no hope of meeting the demands of the |ultimatums for immediate resump | tion of negotiations with the miners, | They were said to confess the situa tion was dark. THOUSANDS IDLE’ IN ENGLAND NOW: L@NDON, Oct. 22.—England was |drifting into an industrial whirlpool today. . Coal miners continued on strike, throwing thousands of more workers |. out of employment. The transport jand’ railway workers stood pat on |their threats that fallure to make @ quick settlement with the miners will | mean war to the finish. between the | working class and the government, Union and government representa. | \tives admitted the gtavity of the, jsituation. ‘The government took the view the threatened strike of railway | men was a bluff to force reopening of the miners’ negotiations, One official pointed out that of | three divisions of railway workers, that at Leeds is noncommital on striking, Liverpool is opposed and South Wales is anxious to strike, The government believed large numbers of railway workers will pe main at their tasks if a strike is” called, : { 4 ition, PING oo ENGLISH |