The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 13, 1920, Page 1

‘] VA ~—n Weather Tonight an ably rain; southea. Tomperature Last VOLUME 23 3.—Thru the Valley of Dope: ‘Drug Demands Price. Shunned by Friends. Miss Jekyll-Hyde. ‘Cures Fail. BY DORA M. (One time ‘Dope Slave” who con-| quered the hadit) In succumbing to the drug habit, I had now dragged every anchor of my former life of —setf-rempect, industry and ideals. Giving up ma | job had been part of the price,| I had no money Old friends I shunned. I lived with this loathy, secret thing that wrapped me body and soul. It was no longer a matter ot secking for ehimerical de lights. . Merely a matter of getting dope to fend off the tortures the habit brings if unappeased. I was still lamely fighting it, and one time quit for « solid week of torment. would not hold food. seratched my body until ft | my nervousness, Altho 1 constantly, I could not get “gurrender aa it comes sooner or later to every girt who uses dope and for whom money is a problem. UNCLEAN IN SOUL AND BODY episodes of that life—indeed, I never ‘think of them without a shudder— but practically everything I did was but a means to the one end; to get! the horrid thing I craved. ‘The best that one can say of dope That it gives back things he surrendered for it in the first place. AND NOT ONE THING | MORE AT ANY TIME! I took heroin to give me the cour- age to get more heroin. And then I had to take cocaine to get sieep for strength to get the heroin. There ft was, THE VICIOUS CIRCLE OF DOPE SLAVERY in one of its sev- eral forms. My clothes became shabby. I lost one after another, with longer intervals between. The ¢irl friend with whom I had gone to San Fran- cisco sorrowfully left me because she, having steadfastly refused to} use drugs, became ashamed of me. My associates were friends of an attracted by my careless con-| gent to any whim or episode. TWO CHARACTERS FIGHT WITHIN HER I became sort of Miss Jekyt- Hyde; the “Jeky!" a thin phanto of decent desires, the “Hyde” cynical, driven woman who was ready to lie, cheat, steal and bargain sordidly to get the dope. Only @ semblance of the good Idoks with which I had been blessed or cursed, kept mo from reaching bottom sooner. They still got me a “measure of underworld admiratipn That I would reach the utter bot- tom. even my “Jekyl” side had little | doubt. I had tried several advertised cures, but I lacked the fiber to en- dure them. Increasing my doves, I “cut loose for good and all,” as we called it then. (in her next chapter Dora M. tela how the drug peddlers, slipping shadows of the underworld, work to fnertase their miserable clientele.) Sent to Jail for Selling Cocaine Selling cocaine conviction against wg Can in Judge John B. Gordon's police court Friday, resulted in the gudge sending Can to jail for 20 days end ordering him to pay a $100 fine. ‘Ah Bing was ordered jailed for 16 , days and fined $50. *| had been searched, .| filled with morphine and cocaine. ibe Hunger Strikers d Sunday, prob- moderate sterly winds, uur Minimum, 40, MAYOR DERIE . Wash., under WHITNEY WENT EAST: TO PROBE CAR DEAL On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise o Act of Congrege March 8, 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 TheSeattleStar 7 Bntered as Becond Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Bea SEA TTL WASH., SATUR DAY, NOVEMBE! R 18, 1920. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE ‘HIRAM JOHNSON URGES | SEEK HUGE ‘DOPE CACHE IN SEATTLE $8,000 Worth of Narcotics Seized; Exporter Held | as Smuggler Chief With the arrest, Friday night, of} George W. Palmer, an employe of} Anderyon, Meyer & Co., Ltd., Shang: | | hai exporting firm, and seleure of ap-| proximately $4,000 worth of narcotics | | that Palmer is alleged to have smum sled inte the country, customs offi- cers Saturday were searching for an | additional cache, which, it is thought, | wit Dring the total contraband dope to $20,000 or $30,000. The narcotica seized were discor ered concealed in the legs of a large bamboo steamer chair that Palmer brought in with him Monday on the liner Empress of Russia, and in tal- cum powder cans in his personal bag- aage CHANGED STEAMERS AT VICTORIA de said to. have t Victoria, baggage, and to have caught an even ing beat for Seattle. Customs offi- clals, thru aecret channels, received word that one of the heads of an al- leged amugsling ring wae in town. Palmer dropped out of sight, how. ever, and did not show up until yes terday, when he was arrested at "he Seward hotel. In the meantime, Palmer's luggage Tn it two talcum powder cans, each with two compart | ments, containing morphine and co- | | caine, were found. The steamer chair, which is sald to be an unusually fine one, wag next Investigated. In the hollow legs of the chair) were found numerous rubber tubes ‘ | The ends of the tubes were plugged | with bamboo corks, Rattan was | wrapped around the legn of the chair. | MAY BE HEAD OF HUGE DOPE SYNDICATE Palmer has been connected with | the exporting firm for about nine | months, in the sales information de- partment, in Shanghal. He has a wife in that city. Formal charges against Palmer | | were prepared in the district court today, and he waa scheduled for hear- ing before the United States commis | sioner, He will be tried under the} section of the opium act which pro- | hibits the importation of opium or | any derivative thereof. | Two years’ imprisonment or $5,000 fine, or both, ts the maximum pen | alty for violation of this law. Relying upon an alleged confession | said to have been made by Palmer, customs officials are looking for ad-! | ditional caches of dope thought to | have been brought in by a «mugging | syndicate of which the man arrested | Friday is supposed to be a leader, ‘Here’s Simple Way to Save on Street Car Fare Here's the latest wrinkle in beat ing the high cost of carfare. It waa used successfully by a comely cutie for several days—until the |conductor caught her. | Take an elastic band, slip it |around the wrist, attach a street car jtoken to the elastic. Now you're | ready, “Pares, please,” sings out the con- ductor. Hold the token between the thumb and forefinger and tinkle it against the side of the fare box. m let it snap back up the sleeve of your coat. Try it It's jyou' re caught lots of fun—until | Now Getting Food | CORK, Nov. 13.—The nine Irish- |men in the Cork jail, who aban- doned their hunger strike yesterday in compliance with! orders from the Sinn Fein, were reported today to have jeveloped no unfavorable |aymptoms” as a result of the first nourishment administered to them |last night, The jail physicians, alded by spe clalists, have prepared every device known to modern “selence to save the lives of the prisoners, wh: condition was described as “ tremely grave.” i Seattle's “Flying Cowboy,” 1. De Yelliers, wants to Jump off the 42 Smith building in a But they—the L. C. @mith folks Awon't lot him. They agmit it would be easy to jump off, and that there would be no difficulty in getting down to the street. But they think the trip would be too sudden and he arrival at his dew tination too—er—abrupt. ‘Bomedody offered to bet De Vel Hers $600 that hia parachute wouldn't open tn that distance. The aerial cowboy promptly «nap- ped it up. “Maybe they're right and I'm wrong,” he said. “But I'm willing to try anything once.” De Velliers’ latent feat was leap- fng from an airplane 5,000 feet over Elliott bay, two weeks ago. He landed safely on a pier. MAN KILLED BY ROLLING LOG, Cherry Valley Co. Logger Is Crushed Victor Verschaere, 38, his] bucker, of Duvall, working for the Cherry Valley Timber Co, at Stil- water, in this county, was crushed to death Friday nignt when @ log rolled on him. The body was taken In charge by oo A. Fisher, undertaker, at Inea- CLEAR MISSIN FLAG MYSTER Friday, Mra. H. Kubey, 2415 Sec ond ave. N. told police that an | American flag had been stolen from a flagpole im he® yard. Saturday, the mystery of the theft was solved, when Capt. Alien, of the} quartermaster corps, who lives at 2416 Warren ave., reported that he had taken the flag when he found it flying after sunset. LAMPING FILES FOR PORT JOB George B. Lamping, state senator, Saturday filed for the port commis | sion, The election Is to be held tn De cember. The term of T. 8. Lippy is | expiring. It ia not known whether Lippy will file for another term, PROTESTS SALE OF HOTEL GOODS J. Higuchi and his wife, who claim they own all the furniture, fixtures, bedding and equipment in the 0. K. hotel, applied to the superior court Saturday for an order against Sheriff John Stringer to show cause Novem: ber 15, why he should be allowed to sell the property for an alleged debt at the request of the Butternich Job- bing and Investment Co. 567 CASES OF CATSUP SEIZED At the Instance of the department of agriculture at Washington, 667 canes of Snider's catsup at the Schwabacher warehouse were seized Friday afternoon by Deputy United States Marshal Thomas Waters. Examination ®f the catsup by the government laboratory here is said to have revealed that it violated the pure food law. MAYOR ORDERS FLAGS LOWERED Flags at half mast Sunday honor of the soldier dead! ‘This was the proclamation issued Saturday by Mayor Hugh M, Cald well, Citizens are requested to hold memorial services for the men who died in the Great War. The day wil be observed nation ally. Flags will be flown at halt. mast on all public buildings, in PORTED TO CANADA \aleged Auto Thief Is Freed | by Mistake; Other Man Still in Jail Here Frank Hanson. undesirable alien, ported to Canada last Monday, still enjoying his “three squares a | day” in the King county jail today on Profanity Hut And Frank Hanson, alleged auto-| mobile thief, who was thought still | trial, is tripping the “moist” green fields of Canada to his heart's con | tent. On Monday afternoon Federal Im- migration Inspector Ingles went to the county fail and asked that Frank Hanson be delivered into his custody forthwith for deportation. hoy teas op he COMES Je wom open the jail) door and sang out: “Frank Hanson, come forth” And Frank Hanson did come forth, took his suitcase and other be- jongings, climbed into « waiting automobile and that night was duly bounced acrons the border. It was with considerable amaze ment today that county and federal) Authorities awoke to the fact that) it was the wrong Frank Hanson who | ’,|DUE TO LIMIT IMMIGRATION had been deported. “I told that fellow, Ingles,” mm Warden Doyle, “that he always wanted to be sure when he took a prisoner out that he was getting the right party, HAS PERMANENT BOARDER ON HIS HAND “You can't blame me. This Frank | Hanson, the alien, that we're atill boarding here, may be known to the federal authorities by that name, ht | I know him by the name of Axplin.” Ingles could not be reached to learn his version of the affair today. It wns said at immigration head- quarters that he was out of the| city. “Will the immigration authorities get our prisoner back for us? They wih not.” sald Doyle. “Whenever there's any money to be «pent tram | porting prinoners, believe me, Unele fam's immigration department doesn’t spend it. This i Profanity Hill, all right, you maid it.” Air Postman In Wi Mail From Australia| Eddie Hubbard, air mati pilot, ar- rived in Seattle at 995 a. m. Satur day with 220 pounds of mafi from the liner Niagara, which he met in Vic toria, The mail comes from Austra Na and ew Zealand, HY NOT ALL THE OTHERS? WALLA WALLA, Wash., Noy. 13.) —First year women at Whitman col- lege must discard decrees, Uncle Sam “Adopts” 100 New Citizens Naturalization In federal court Sat- urday drew a record attendance. More than 100 applicants, each with two witnesses and many with family or, friends, were on hand. 4¢TLTOW can we sell our house quickly?” is a question often asked in thoughtful ailence or audibly with serious ex- pression. “We want to buy a house, but how can we quickly find the house we want?” is a question just as often asked, These “Want to Sell” and “Want to Buy” desires may be miles apart, yet easily, quickly and profitably connected in sell ing and buying satisfaction, thru the Want Ad columns of the great newspaper with the big cir- culation. When you want to buy or sell in the quick, economical, sure way, phone, call or write The Want Ad Dept. of The Star Get the big service thought for Want Ad results. Use The Star. Main 600, who was thought to have been de-| was, Ito be in the county jail awaiting | |LAST DITCH “cootie cages” and | bare their ears to an interested male | gaze, an edict issued today by seniors | SAYS WEST IS ADVISABLE Declares in Favor of Or- ganization to Thwart Ef- forts of Nipponese | SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 13 United action by the Western and Southwestern States on thé Japan lene question was predicted today as a development of a conference of |antiJapaness organizations and Call | |fornia congreseamen and senators held here. Senator Hiran W. Johnson, of Cali: | | fornia, discussing the question be | fore the conference, advocated that | Oregon, Washington, Montana, Ide ho, Nevada, Utan, Arizona. Colorado and Texas be brougnt into an anso- ciation with California to fight for the passage of anti Japanese legisia- right of American citizenship, even tho born In this country, were advo- cated at the conference, Plans also were discumed for com- batting arly attempt by Japan to! nullify, either thru the courts or by diplomatic negotiations, the present antialien land laws of California. eee NEW MEASURE WASHINGTON, Nov, 13.— Work of framing @ new and more restric: | tive immigration bill will be started | by the house immigration committee Monday, Chairman Johnson, Wash- ington, said today. The problem of Japanese tmmigra tion along the Pacific coast will be considered first, he said, eee JAPS TO FIGHT ALIEN LAW TO SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 13.—The | people of California, having by overwhelming majority directed the legislature to pass a more rigid antialien land Inw to prevent en-| croachments of Japanese, are now! preparing to withstand a determined | attempt at nullification thru the su-| Preme courts of the state and na- | ton. | Scarcely had the returns been | counted before various Japanese or-| | kanizations announced their inten- tion of starting court action to test | | the legality of the new law. | CARRY FIGHT TO WASHINGTON Meetings ar. scheduled by the Japanese Exclusion league with | members of California's congressional | delegation. Immediately following this gathering the executive commit. |tee of the Japanese Association of| America will meet here, represent ing 100,000 Japanese in the West. At this latter meeting a definite program of action will de laid. The Japanese will not only attempt to “out thru” the effectiveness of the new law limiting Japanese land oc- cupancy in California to those now on the land, but from now on will wage a determined campaign at Washington for the passage of favor- able national legislation, Fighting the Japanese at every turn, the Exclusion league, thru! their leader, Senator James D.| jan, .will introduce legislation at | hington placing Japanese defin-| within the “barred zone" now| excluding all other Asiaties, John P. Irish of Oakland, fore. | most white champion of the Japan-| exe cause, has announced that as| soon as the law has been proclaimed |by the secretary of. state, he will lease some of his property near Stockton to a Japanese and have the | lease recorded. ‘This will be the be- ginning of an action to test the! | legality of the Jaw, | PROVISIONS OF | TREATY INVOLVED cases will be thrown into ately by other Japanese \organizations, working thru the | Japanese Axsoctation of America. It is reported that a huge sum of | money has been raised by the Japan: Jese and that the highest legal talent jin the nation will be employed, The 'T. Ozawa case, pending in the (Turn to Page 4, Column 1) M ystery Wom an in Car Quiz Appears Before Grand Jury “Mrs, Maude Sweetman; clerk in the of County ! JURY QUIZ INTO SALE. OF SYSTEM. NEARS END Brown Won’t Turn Job Over to Assistant; Contempt Action Dropped That W. M. Whitney, former presi- dent of the Young Men's Republican club here, was not engaged as & “detective” in the $10,000 street car probe, was the fiat denial of Magee, Caldwell Saturday. “Whitney was not engaged by me |to Investigate the traction ad Caldwell declared emphatically. : |has not received any of the meney = |appropriated for my investigation of the street raliway purchas, He was not sent East by me.” Rumors have been current Whitney was employed by the to investigate the $15,000,000 railway purchase. They that a part of the $10,000 ated by the city council for offite Percy Thomas, who was called to testify before the grand jury yesterday in the street car deal probe. This photo was taken. when partment two years ago, as a Mra. Mande Sweetman, deputy in| the county clerk's office, was @ wit: | investigation as conducted by Mayor | in yain to draw news before the grand jury for three. | quarters of an hour Friday, presum- ably in relation to the probe of the | street car purchase by the city, Her Appearance before the inquisitore is one of the mysteries of the investiga- tion. What does Mra. Sweetman know? | Does she know anything about the | | Original car line transaction? SLUGGED BY YEGGS; DIES Fremont Man. Succumbs to Beating From Robbers Police were without a clue Satur. day as to the idently gf two thugs! who fatally slyrged Gus Duvey, 45, of 632 Fremont ave, Wednesday Meningitis, caused by the blows of the thug, resulted in Duvey's death | in city hospital at $:45 @ m. Satur- day. Chief Deputy Coroner W. H. | Corson immediately started an inves: | tigation In conjunction with the po- | lice, in an attempt to solve the mur- der. Duvey waa picked up at the foot | of Washington st. late Wednesday} night by Patrolman Jack Veith, who} found him wandering about in a daz- @d condition, Duvey's conditions was deemed so serious when he was brought to central station that he was immediately removed to city hos- pital, Kxamination by physicians showed that Duvey had been drinking, He was though to have fallen and frac- tured his skull. Both his eyes were discolored from an internal hemor rhage. Later examination showed that he was afflicted with meningitis. Only once did he rally, Then he told about being followed and attack- who stole a small amount of cash from his pockets. He remembered being slugged, but after that, nothing. Because of the lack of description of the two thugs, the absence of witnesses, and the total lack of any | clue that might lead to the identity | of the murderers, police admitted they were baffled Saturday, Duvey was an unnaturalized Pole, He lived with a companion in a small house at 632 Fremont ave, This companion could not be located Saturday, Duvey was employed by | | the Blossom-Provine Lumber Co., N. 86th st. and Phinney av No Limit on Malt Sales in Spokane SPOKANE, Wash, Nov, 18-- While malt syrup is coming into town in carload lota, no instructions limiting its sale have been received here, federal officials said today, Before the Volstead act became ef- fective one barrel a week, for.use in bakeries, was the average shipment. 7. [had been blown. member of draft board No. 2. hoto by James and Merrihew. Or did her testimony bear on the Caldwell? Rumor has it that W. M. Whitney, republican politician, had gone East for the mayor to probe the deal, and that Mra. Sweetman helped. Th: the mayor emphatically denied today, When Whitney was chairman of @ local draft board, Mrs. Sweetman was a stenographer in the same of- | flee, TWO SAFES ARE BLOWN--ALMOST Two False Alarms” Keep Police on the Jump Two eafecrackingy scares were sounded at police station early, Sat- urday. T. E. Parker, ‘ merchant patrolman, who lives at 415 Melrose | ave. N. reported by phone, at 3:35 | night, | a, m., that the safe of the Seattle Cornice Works, 1730 First ave. 8. § Detectives and «a special squad | were rushed to that address and found the shop intact and ‘the safe untouched. , Patrolman Ed Wilson found.a gro- | cery at 3938 Wallingford ave. broken into at 445 a, m. When he dis covered two safes open, he imagined cracksmen had been onthe job. The owner arrived later and said, he left the safes open all night. The thieves stole only one cake. VANCOUVER IS HIT BY FLAMES VANCOUVER, B. C, Nov. 13.— Fire which threatened Vancouver's entire waterfront broke out at 4 o'clock this morning aboard the steamer Ballena, owned by the Ter- minal Steam Navigation Co, The Ballena was burned to the wa. ter’s edge and sank, and considerable damage was done to the steamer Bo- wana, The loss will total $200,000, ‘welve of the crew of the Ballena were asleep on board when the fire broke out, but all were rescued ex- cept Lawrance Smith, night fireman, who was suffocated. Four of the stewards were huddied for some time at the stern of the ship and were res- cued by a passing launch, Two hun- dred barrels of ofl in the Ballena’'s fuel tanks took fire and blew out, the fire spreading among small shipping and near-by wharves. PICKPOCKETS TOOK RIS WATCH, §. R, Taylor, 4019 Willams ave, reported to police Saturday, The theft is alleged to have oc- curred in the Yukon bar, First ave, and Seneca, st. H, E. MINIES, 1727 N. 60th st,, re- turned to his home Friday night to find that it had been ransacked and an overcoat and a purse containing $25 stolen, rs. Sweetman was working for the war de- being dismiss. Twice yesterday the Brown out | Prosecut i | CRITICIZES BROWN FOR CAR PROBE INTERFERENCE 5 ‘The mayor said he did not believe the jury would get anywhere its investigation so long as B was conducting the examination Brown replied that the mayor getting unduly excited, using tongue instead of his head.” The mayor's final attempt to Brown away from the p was made at 3:30 o'clock. wont tape. Sedoe,Sanateie and asked the judge what “happened.” The inference is that the told the grand jury the name « the reporter. This led to the ing of several newspaper before the jury. Following the testimony of Maude Sweetman, “the woman mystery” in the case, and other witnesses yesterday Whitney appeared in the leading to the grand jury reom, rying a portmanteau, : Whitney paced the corridor fom) nearly half an hour, and finally diss appeared down th» stairs. A few minutes later, at 5 \ ‘lock, the grand jury filed out, and Pi secutor Brown, announced they had adjourned be sce * 9:30 a. m. Monday. Other witnesses were to be Brown said, One of these is to be Mrs. T, H, Botton, Councilman Bolton, who, before marriage, was Daisy Dennis, by: vate detective, ™ ‘ YALE BEATEN BY PRINCETON PRINCETON, N. J, Nov. 18.— Yale was decisively outplayed by Princeton today. The score was a8 follows: First quarter; Princeton 0, Yale @ — Second quarter: Princeton 10, Yale 0. + ‘Third quarter; Princeton 1, Yale 0. In the fourth quarter, Princeton gained three more points. The prea was not over at the time bai: ' on went to press,