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

‘WALL ST, BOMIB PLOT S »* @ eather and Tonight fair; fresh erly Maxhnum, Today {iit Tomperature Last 24 Hours 49. tomorrow, to strong east- winds, Minimum, 38. noon, 49, 1809, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 9, 1879 RRR ALLL LALLA APPA A A LPAAPPLALRPPL On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise TheSeattleStar Por Year, by Mall, #5 to #9 TH LATE EDITION Eg UI) VOLUME 23 SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1920. + Thru the Valley of ‘| Dope: Crystal Fire. Took It for Fun. The Taunt: “Baby!” It Sent Her Down. who con quered the habit) 1 took it for fun, Just a little—for the experience, Playing with crystal fire. It is now three years later, and T have just, fin dehed paying the, price for thel TSexperience.” | In that time T have given up everything a girl should and does prisg us a trib ute to dope I am dictating this from a hospital! bed; I have no money; no real friends; nothing but the sustain. Ls ing hope that I'l ‘Be able to recover some of the thing I surrendered, but if a plausible dis- | “ciple of drugs were to offer me a mil _ Mon dollars to-take just one “shot” it) gfe “34t T WO CENTS IN MYSTERY MAN IN CAPTURE FACTORIES Police and Troops Prepare to Fight Men Who Es- tablish Industrial Soviet | BY CARL D, GROAT ! BERLIN, Nov. 11.—Germap grork ers selged a metal factory here to- | extinguished thé fires Other factories were invaded simul: | taneously. { Police surrounded the métab fag: | tory. planning an attack to dislodge | the strikers, ° / GERMANS Is Boss ‘Collector i * * * * * & & \Directs Red Cross: Membership Roll Call, * * * * * * ** | She'll Dun Seattle’ WAR HEROES DECORATED IN SEATTLE Multitudes Cheer as Brave Marines Are Honored; Armistice Celebrated Bix brave men stood ‘in Ploneer Place’ today titude looked on and cheered, and for their gallantry in war recelv the fourragere—a braided cord of #reen and red, to be woru on their left shoulder a» a mark of esteern and gratitude from Frange.: They are men of the Fifth and Sixth regiments of United States | marines, and of the Sixth machine on the grass while a mul |qun battalion, that served in those | battles of Belieau Wood, the Champagne | Utanic | Chateau ‘Thierry, | and the Argonne. | Their names are Witham M. Canty, of Batonyitie; Ralph BE. New: | ten. of 162% Latona ave, this city: Raymond F,.Carr, of Mercer island; l¥onn R. Dillon, of 1456 Corlia# ay Clyde Brandon, 126 N, 79th sty and laude B. Beith, $05 Yakima~five, Their unite were | more by the French minister of war remarkable t advances And each of them that was hon- ored today took active part in two or more of the engagements for which thelr units were thus cited. Carr, who wore an ok! campaign hat pulled down over hin ears, and blushed vielbly when Capt. Arthur Kingston, in charge of the local ma» rine recrufting station,» placed the cord of honor on his shoulder, went | thru the toughest fighting at Ver cited twhee or] HOSP WHO HE IS Feeble Old Man’s Mind Goes Blank on Past Life; May ' ) | Be From Bremerton Mind blank, physically helpless, a Swedish man, 90 years oid, Is in city hoapital, unidentified. while police jare exhausting every clue in search | of hin lone identity | Olov Jonasson, or Olavus Kall, is {thought to be hix name. Altho ap. parently sane, he is unable to talk | coherently even to those of hin own | Nationality, because of his senile con. dition. Henry Mork, of the police protec tive division, asked The Star Thurs day to aid him in clearing up the pe cullar case. Mork finds that he-can place the man in none of the public pharity institutions. “Because of thone who should be interested in this man—he says he hax & son—we have worked five days trying to find his relatives or identify him,” Mork said, “ang we are just about where we start “Altho bis talk is wandering, 1 have no doubt he | ig someone's father, He must live somewhere. Hp didn’t drop from Mars. Bat we cannot find where be belongs, nor can he tell us, FOUND LYING IN GUTTER, HELPLESS ‘He is certainly in pitiful condi- tion and sadly in need of the ald of those who should care for him.” , Kall, or Karil, which is one of the ames he gives, was picked up on a dGawnptown street Saturday. He wes lyre in the gutter, helpless, and was brought to city hospital. Physically he is not injured. ITAL 15 TOO BUSY WITH COLLEGE WORK TO DO MUCH STUDYING Fifteen at the uni- verwity t by the way wid students ve fallen hat number dincontinue at school by the fice. The action aftermath to the 4 conditions poor work by been asked attendance of. the have to their recorder's came nending out of and warnings of Recorder Stone.* LAMPING TO FILE FOR PORT BOARD \Term of T. S. Lippy Ends) Next Month | George B, Lamping, state senator, probably will file for port commis sioner before the week is over, to suc joeed T. 8. Lippy, whose term ends next month. A petition, signed by 1,000 prom inent citizens, was presented to Sen- ator Lamping Wednesday, urging him to make the race, Lamping was a candidate for gov- |ernor in the republican primaries. He was author of the original bonus bill for veterans. He was formerly 4 member of the park board. In urging his candidacy, his peti tioners declare that few offices are as important to the general public aa that of the port comminsion. Be- attle is the leading port on the Pa- cific, and among the four largest in the country. With its cold storage plants, grain elevators and ware houses, it is a powerful factor in food supplies generally. In the state senate, Larhping has been independent and fearless in his voting. ‘the matter under consider. Lamping declared today. “I | “I have | ation,” nouncement in a day or two.” / GIRL IS KILLED | * BUILDING hoses! be ready to make a definite an-} FIGHT IN. New York World Charges Feud Is Responsible for Explosion Disaster NEW YORK, Noy. 11—The Even ing ‘orld today, under the head- line “Wall Street Explosion Solved,” declared that thru an independent investigation it had discovered that the bomb which killed more than 3@. way intended to blow up a house — wrecking job near the Morgan of fice. It was sent by independent mem bers or sympathizers with H wreckers’ Union Local No. 9, had a grievafice against the building trades coyncil, dock ers and Housewreckers’ Union 1456, members of which were ing on the housewrecking job, Evening World said. “a big. stolid Pole,” who did mot — know what was in it, the newspaper asserted. bd r The bomb was a clockwork jehine set for 1202 p. m. it jand was consigned to the |at work on the housewrecking | Albert Volk and company. There was some delay in ¢ the street intersection and w! | World said, the hour arrived |the bomb exploded, “And now," said the World, is for the police and federal ives and their privately competitors to find out who the ‘ticking clock, in its broken sash weights and 4 persons in Wall street September 16, ‘e EA The bomb wagon was driven by BLAMED! BY AUTOMOBILE TACOMA, Nov. 11.—Katherine When questioned Thursday the old | man looked back blankly, mumbled | unintelligibly, and then appeared to | dun, St. Mibiel, the Champagne and the Argonne, and wae net once which was hauled almost to tl trance of Wall and + | poor dupes who for obscure and I began to accept invite theatres, dances, auto rides Ho = 3 F = i [ ly ii : ‘other giris with whom I came in con- tact at cabarets to take a anit of cocaine or other dope. 1 was sur- prised at the number who were using | it; girls from good homes, from shops | and offices, girls from the upper! 4# well as the nether world. Playing with the dope, Picturing it as thi the drug, were pictured by the paychological reason delight to initiate the novice into the fra i ternity. They called me a “baby” for refug- Ming—the taunt that has wrecked “many girl's life in the realm of One night I joined a party going | to one of those mysterious Chinese | @ens where the habitue masks the! ‘ugly facts of drug enslavement with | exotic rites and trappings. I had) nerved myself by, drinking a little, I was going to smoke opium—| JUST FOR FUD / (Tomorrow Dora M tells what | happened in the opium joint and how she started on her three years’ | dope enslavement.) ALKS WITH — HIS HANDS NEW YORK, Noy. 11.--manuel Defts talks with his hands, in more ways than one. , It took nine patrol men, several detectives and two other men to subdue him when he was arraigned for fighting. reland Armistice Parade Broken Up , BELFAST, Nov. 1).—An Armistice | May parade was broken up here to-| day when alleged Sinn Feiners o ‘e4 fire on the flag bearers. Shots were exchanged, wounding @ number of versons on both wides. ‘tation and in- dustries dependent upon electrical with @ view to crushing the strike The government ultimatum ex- pir®a last night, and the government was to begin operation of the plants today. Apparently seeing defeat of their Original plans, the radical leaders hastened to, precipitate action. The| metal workers were urged into tak- ing possession of some factories. The, men assumed control of the build. | ings, barring the owners and tives. No attempt was made to oper. ate as in Italy, but fires were damp- ened and production ceased, ‘The establishment of a soviet in the north side gas plant was the first reported move of discontented work- ers to promate a change im the gov- ernment. Sympathizer® with the Russian government have been ac-| tive in Germany and have urged adoption of the system here. The strength of this faction was show: at the socialist comvention in Hal! last month when the party was split. The establishment of the soviet was taken to mean the workers there planned to operate the business, al- tho they barred all but thelr own members and had no communication with outsiders. Business Partners Whether the solution problem involves increased capt tal or active, highly efficient co- operative rervice, the selection of Your Business Partner suggests deep thought and carefut analy aie. Anticipated Profit’ Results are realized only with complete merging of confiden harmoni * co-operation, a broad-minded recognition of combined effort n individual credit execution of mu tually agreed plang of operation The Star is read daily by thou sands of men writing for a de sirable interested business nection—the kind of men that recognize the necessary require ments for a Suécessful Business Partnership and can qualify Therefore» the Want Ad col umns of this great newspaper with big circulation offer an un usual opportunity to reliable peo- ple seeking desirable partnership arrangements The Want Ad columns of The Star are the recognized clearing house of demand and supply to your con. |erty Mrs. David J.Grant, city chairman of Red Cross mem- bership‘ roll call. Heretofore Mrs. Devid J. Grant.for the Red Crom in their respec- city chairman of the Red Cross mem: |tive neighborhoods bership, roll call, has been chiefly The business dixtrict of Geattle known in Beattle a» the little lady| will be solicited entirely by mat! who made pomibie the new Day| Ten thourand busifess — houres Nursery. Now-abe ix mixing bust| Thursday were in receipt. of, sub hems with babies and directing the work of collecting Red Crows duen RS 10,000 business houses in Se. athe with a working staff of 300 yomen under hew : Mrs. Grant is quite undaunted, she says, by the fact that the bust neription blanks from the Crome general University st. The ‘romn =haw 000 mhembers. entirely by mail before, for ahy cal ‘With nine years business ex- nce ahd a record for four Lib Loans and two Red Cross drives, she believes she is not merely optimistic when he mys the down renew its thember- ship In the Red Cross 100 per cent. As organizer and condugtor of the Day Nursery drive last September, she was instrumental in raising $21, 000 with an expenditure of $222, She i» now ¢hairman of the house com. mittee of the Day Nursery, which will provide a new home for the 4% day nursery babies, with all of whom vs ao 4s & perronal acquaint wiving day. Failure the great humanitarian which is first with fer, war and peace, GANIZED LABOR BACKS MOVEMENT Organized labor got Red Crom movement, jattle Central Labor council Indorsement of the bership roll made to members of that they all take out memberships. The needs of the Red Cross presented to the Mrs, William H the Red \CK-FENCE” ‘ROLL-CALL ‘ARTS TODAY women's “back -fene: campaign for the annual collection of Red Cross dues went into effect Thursday morring with the dawn- ing of Armistice day. It in enti mated that 4,000 women went out armed with receipt books to collect * Utter, until): Thanksgiving will be devoted to public their -Teintives, nursing clases and the tenance of visiting nurses, kok In the thick of the fighting the Red Cross was there to bind up the wounds and to re- lieve the suffering. : With armies demobilized, the Red Cross remains to rebuild broken bodies and to aid the wives and children of men who made the great sacrifice. In a world of left-over hates and wran- glings, the Red Cross carries on as an agent of love. The work of the Red Cross is never done. It is the greatest lasting mentorial to the veterans of all wars. It is enduring, inde- structible. « Today we celebrate Armistice day. Is there anything more fitting, in commemora- , = = the day, than to enroll in the Red ross assistance behind when the Se. voted [Wednesday night an enthusiastic Red Cross 'mem- Recommendation was council Crome | Red Crons, which they are requested to fill and return, with checks, to Red headquarters at 315 Seattle chapter of the Red ‘The hege district has never been solicited |duex of all of them are payable between Armistice day and Thanks to pay will exciade them from membership institution In were Labor, council by The membership roll call will last Dues collected health work, welfare of war veterans and disaster relief, home main in the wounded, tho he said his prayers in @ whell hole in the Champagne one morning, and gave himself up to his Creator, It was the morning of October 5, 1918. There were 36 men of his out- fit left. The rest were dead or in hospitals behind. They had gone over the top twice that morning. Carr got orders to fall back and join the 234 infantry, and this he did just as the 23d was sent over the top In three wupporting waves. There were 352 men in the 234 when they went over and started thru the Ger- man wire. There were 18 remaining alive when they came out. The | wired area was ripped by German machine cuns, In a shell-hole lay Cart, three Ital. jan lads and a lieutenant “ORDERS IS ORDERS!” HE SAYS—DIES “Up and at ‘em! the lieutenant or. dered "Maybe I no come back,” said ong of the Italian boys, “but orders is or-' ders.” ‘Ten minutes later he was Heutenant severely wounded only Carr remained untouched “Get back to the shell hole. We | can't go on,” the lieutenant said, and Carr fell back German snipers made him a targe Bullets peppered all about him, He raived his hat on a stick, Half a dow en Germans bit It before he could pull it down. ‘Then a shell burst near him His right ear drum split and he lapsed into unconsciousness, That closest call, He awoke later d, the and Canty, of Batonville, was in the Machine gun company of the Fifth regime@t, of Marines. He was wounded at the storming of Blanc Mont ridge, near At, BUenne, on the afternoon of October 4, but went back to the front and had crossed the Meuse with his outfit the day the armistice was signe About 4 o'clock the morning Oct, 4, te unit went into tr the French had tak Ger mans before St. Etienne. Amer: jeans didn't stop, They went over the top, with the crest of Blane Mont their objective. The ridge was two miles away, and on the slope lay St. Etienne, ‘The village, the hill and a dozen woods were bfistling with German guns, . ovrr FIGHTING WIT SHE! FRAGMENT IN LEG The Marines swept into St. Htienne, occup it, and went be yond. Canty fell behind the town fwith a shel fragment buried in his leg. The rest of the outfit carried the slope and at 10 o'clock had reached the top,of the ridge, Canty was out of the fighting wtih his ounduntil November 1, Hleven days before the armistice way sighed, he rejoined bis com: radew along the Meuse, The night of November 10 the First batiglion crossed, the river under decimating fire and, at daybreak, formed on (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) oft hes despair because he could not make himnelf understood.’ His fingers are shrunken with age, his few stumps of front teeth, are yellow and de- cayed, and hid lower jaw trembles with senility. He has blue eyes and iv of medium height. Altho he says he i490 years of age, he has not a «ray bair on his head, His hair is tow-colored. The clothes he wore when picked up were badty worn and contained nof a single identifi- cation mark SAYS HIS HOME IS IN BREMERTON He maintains that his home is in Bremerton, and it is impossible to make him understand that he is now in Seattle. He speaks of his son, who works on a boat Officer Mork communicated with Bremerton police, but they said they could not find anyone by any of the several names the man gives. ‘The son's wife's name is Lena, ac- cording to a rambling statement gleaned from the old man Jonasson, or Kall, is unable to give any address, and his mind appears very feeble. Mention of names in Bremerton failed to recall anything to his mind, He deglared he had once lived at a Mrs) Anderson's boarding house here. — * ONE FEEBLE CLUE GIVEN BY NURSE Mrs. boarding house here to care for the tfiow from the county poor farm. Strength was given to the lead that he might have been cared for by this institution, when Miss May Loomis head nurse at city hospital, told | Mork that a nurse was positive that Kall had been in city hospital sev al weeks ago and later sent to the poor farm. The county poor farm told Mork that asson had recently been went but they assured him that this man was still there, So another lead exploded,” Mork aid The welfare de had no record of cared for by them, and this also dis: couraged the theory that he might have been confined at the poor farm, “We intended now to send the man to the poor farm, when he men tioned that he was from Bremerton, Mork said “Recause of the address from an- other county which he gives, he can not be received at the King county farm NO ROOM FOR HIM AT CITY HOSPITAL “The city hospital has no room to care for the man for any length of time, so, really, I have on. my hands one old man, not in the least attractive or Hable to be wanted by anyone not bis relative, and not a place to put him.” Check of the missing person re. ports at police station failed to show any man missing answering the de- woription of Kall rtment said they the man being Anderson formerly operated | | Baker, 17, was instantly killed on the | | Puyallup highway today, when the \ecar in which she was riding with | | four men was hit and knocked into | the diteh by another machine, The \ driver of the other car did not stop | and his identity is not known, / SAYS AUTO RAN t OVER HER COW Whatsis?’ Whatsis? Mrs. N. Menich, 4506 39th ave. |S, appealed to ‘police Thursday to catch the speeding autoist who ran over her cow on Beacon ave. The number of the auto was 6768, Mrs. | | Menich said. Police investigation showed that | leenge 6708 was issued to Hibbard & Stewart Co., of 1210 Western ave JAPAN TO ASK RACE EQUALITY TOKYO, Nov. 11.—The question of | racial equality is to be reopened by | Japan at the general conference of the League of Nations, it was appar- | ently certain today, following pub-| | Neation of a statement in the Asahi! Shimbun that complete instructions | on the point had bedn cabled by the} government to the Japanese delega- | ; tion at Geneva GIVE SEND-OFF TO U, OF W. TEAM The Oregon-Washington depot looked like the inside of a college auditorium Thursday afternoon when hundreds of men and women stu dents congregated to give a rousing send-off to the football squad now on its way to Eugene, Oregon, for the game Saturday VACCINATION RILES MOTHER: Protest against an alleged attempt | on the, part of city health officials to force vaccination against smallpox on the pupils of the public schools | was registered Friday by Mrs. B | Caroline Strand of the Milton apart ments, “My two girla were sent home from the Central school when they re-| fused to submit to vaccination,” Mrs. Strand said, “and I don’t think that ia right, If parents don’t want their children to be vaceinated the chil-| dren shouldn't be made to lose time | from their studies." ats., the Albert Volk and pany by the broken down horse and shackle wagon—driven by @ who did not know what was in load and who went away when found out and never came back + even sent word.” ss SAYS MOTIVE FOR BOMB WAS REVENGE The motive of the ind members of, or sympathizers with Housewrecker: No. seeking to blow up largely a desire for revenge Robert P ‘Brindell and his allies, the | newspaper suid. Brindell, head of the Building Trades council, is now under inveath — gation by the Lockwood legislative committee here. He is said to have — organized new unions, forcing the — old ones out of business, and ng their members pay him tribute Be fore they could get work’ from con- tractors dominated by him and ‘his new unions. i Members of cne of the unions thus: organized by Brindell, were said to be engaged on the Volk housewreck, ing job, and one of the foremen was _ James Reilly, a protege of Brindell, the World said, further describing him as “a member of thé inspeo tion and entertainment committee charged with responsibility for driv ing all members of the old house wreckers’ union out of the trade.” Five other foremen on the Volk job” were known ag “Brindell men.” The newspaper also said: “Volk became Brindell's confidant and friend. Volk was ace batches of 12 Brindell union men every day and dismissing 10 of them as unfit before the day was over, The Zaranko men (members of the old union) hated Volk for catering to Brindell; they hated Brindell for aiding Volk replace them. They hated him for helping to keep them out of work; * * * finally they hated him ‘for employtne Brindell’s fore man, who first exacted ‘initiation fees’ and ‘dues’ and ‘work permit fees’ from them and then drove them off the work by threatening their lives. “When the wreckers were paid off on Saturday the Zaranko men were taken into no gentle custody at the cashier's window and manhandled until they paid over their weekly fees to Brindell’s walking delegate, who had a desk in the corner of Volk’s office. Always the Zaranko men were cursed at and called filthy names by all the other men on the job. Constantly great chunks sof stone or plaster would fall two,or three stories and strike near them, The last of thé had been driven from Broad and Wall streets Volk job) in fear of their lives” by these aceidents and by combined as saults of foremén and other work: ers.” Following this long continued per | secution, the Evening World pointed out, came the attempt to blow up the Volk job, which resulted in the | Wall street bomb disaster, i