The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 9, 1920, Page 1

* PBATTLE FOR SEATTLE GIRL! On the Issue of Americaitism There Can Be No Compromise EM: Weather Rain tonight and Friday; ‘ strong to whole south- easterly gales, Temperature Last 24 Hours Maxknum, 44. Minimum, 40, Today noon, 43, Matored as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 wd dds ae — TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE GOB SHOT VOLUME 23 e.. SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, DECEMBE | Called toa ch id Quest for Adventure, The “Black-Birder.” Scent of Sea-Ice. (This ts the first of = samber of ty ‘The fF Prayer Saves Girl Victim. of Thugs [RED T0 Write to Your eg Murdered Officers and Accused Men| HfJ$ [0VE |COnsressman! |=, is" ECRETARY HOUSTON’S PROPOSAL to raise the tax! pyewerton, Dea 9. pil i NORTH called to me when I was a child, my nose In a book, picking out the stories of the Norse- men. I was 12 years old when I first shipped out of Stockholm as deck . fer adventure looking so long as I live. Because I have spent all my life | te feel the lift of a deck, never to pose my ship out of the iceflce diver to beck an Arctic gale—that them in droves, as “contract labor,” from the Fijis and Solomons, to South American planta tions. I served my time as a seaman on & “bilackbirder.” We would touch at @ savage port and our crafty “con tractors” would go ashore to ply the chief with liquor and to spin fine tales of travel and wages in distant lands Inspectors of the British govern- ment sailed in the blackbirding schooners, and‘the natives, jammed between decks most of the time, were plentifully fed and treated as valua- Die property. Only the stubborn ones were shackled. ‘The most cruel part of the trans- Bction was the fact that the dark- @himned natives were on their way to a land of hard work. ‘That may not sound tragic, but ‘when you remember that they never had worked, that they had inherited @ vast laziness, and that singing. ' feasting, dancing, lovemaking a: war-making were their racial pur suits, you will understand that the , drudgery of a plantation killed them in body and in «pirit. BUT HE YEARNED opposition to it. Send them your protest. Fill out the erick, a young seaman from the on incomes of less than $5,000 should be nipped in the| authorities were reticent today 0 COLLEGE? 3: Let your senators and representatives know your|cerning the case of Edward # Prosecutor Learns Details of negro’s “Treatments” as He Seeks “Patients” “Prince” R. C. Pondexter, negro necromancer who conducts an al leged love college and sanitorium for “divine healing” at 215 24th ave, convinced Mr, and Mra, Wil iam Fanson, farmers near Auburn, of his power to cure the sick and wicked, it was learned today, by performing in their home some weeks ago some uncanny tricks of Hindu magic. Many young girts bealdes the two pretty daughters of Mr. and Mra Pansen were lured unsuspectingly inte the negro’s clutches, authorities anid today. An effort te made }to find some of his other ~ while Assistant Prosecutor C, E. Claypool ie preparing the proseeu- grand larceny. MADE CONVENTIONAL Prince of India waa the first time) arrested by the police more than a) | fortnight ago were those of making | | unconventional proporais to young | women who came to him for spirit ual and hygienic advice. | This was prior to his arrest by state of on the charge that he obtained from the Fansons {} legally for “treatment” of their danghters, On his first viet to the Fanson home, where he in mid to have been directed by other “patients” in Av | burn, he told Mra. Hanson he had ‘been “sent by the Lord.” He dis played some of his magic in a most astounding manner, it is alleged by the state. When Mr. and Mra. Fanson seem. ingly were in some doubt of his abil- ity to “see thru the bodies” of their daughters, Pondexter is naid to have offered to prove his powers of sec- ond sight by reading the numerals on several bank notes while blind. | folded. DEAF FATHER ALMOST SPOILS BANK NOTE TRICK Mr. and Mrs. Fanson had no eur. rency, but a school teacher who was present, Mise Myra Ranshaw, pro duced several bills, according | to Claypool. Standing tn the center of the Fan son's sitting room, red-turbaned\and clad in his flowing robes, the| “prince” produced a black bandage | which was tied tithtly about his} eyes, Ho then reached out hia hand and the currency was placed upon | hie palm. Mr. Fanson, whe t hard of hear. ing, leaned forward with his good ear close to thegdivine one” that he en of Pondexter charges “| PROPOSALS TO YOUNG WOMEN | Claypool enid today that the) charges on which the setf-atyied| form letter below and mail it NOW! The senators of this state are Wesley L. Jones and Miles Poindexter. ‘he representatives are: John F. Miller, First district (including the city of Seattle and Kitsap county); Lynn ply ship Orion, who lies in the) yard hospital here suffering fn nasty bullet wound ie the leg result, it is said, of a lovers’ > over the affections of a Seattle If the authorities have from Humerick the identity Hadley, Second district (including King county outside of! rival, they refused to disclose Seattle and the Northwest tier of counties); Albert John- son, Third district; Dr. W. W. Summers, Fourth district; and J. Stanley Webster, Fifth district. Houston's proposal will be acted on first in the house. If it is killed there, it has no chance in the senate. Write to your representative in congress by all means—but to make doubly sure, write also to your senators, Clip this, fill it out, and mail: i i ee | insert name of congressman Washington, D. C. Sir: | init living, and therefore to further handicap those girl's name, it was stated, kept secret, except from the martial if such a court is invelieds ™ DAUGHTER OF GOOD i FAMILY IN SEATTLE She is said to be the 4 & good family of some pro Seattle, and is considerably ed over the affair of last nigi shooting, she learned today, third attempt of the rival young Humerick’s life. i Twice before, in Seattle, & Humerick was the target ‘ Humertck whart at 9 ik inet ight w for @ Seattle boat, when shot was fired from the ing him. §. ‘The would-be assassin fled and, far as can be learned, has not 9 beet captured. Humerttk Jast pig comes is unjustifiable and oppressive. 1 believe I am voicing the senti- | woula not reveal the other ment of a majority of your constituency when I ask that you vote against this unfair proposal. | | | | | FIGHT TO AVERT |MAN STRUCK BY TIE-UP OF CARS) RUNAWAY AUTO Crews May Quit Unless} Car Dashes Thru Crowded They Get Cash Pay Business District ‘With the city railway fund going; Running away down the steep on & warrant basis Friday and street | tameg gt. bill, swerving and dodging car employes threatening to protect! themselves from loss of wages by |°7'% street cars and pedestrians. drastic action, a conference was call-| the auto of Dr. C. L. Templeton, 2533 ed for ‘Thursday afternoon to deter-| 31st ave: S., ended its wild career on | mine means to make the warrants| the rough planks of the waterfront) negotiable, driveway a fow feet from the bay, ‘That street car employes may quit | Tandy perpen ie eta tenthnds work if they are unable to cash war tenn gia : ranta is believed possible by city of.|% 302 W. Sist st. was struck at ficial. More than 2,000 persons are | Third ave. and, James st. by the run- in the employ of the traction system, |*¥8y Suto and perhaps fatally in-/ Mayor Caldwell, members of the |JUured. Both his legs were broken council, railway chiefs and other city |%4 hé received numerous cyts and Ke vile | Bruises. officials will confer with ttle bankers on the financial situation| DF sheng ne ol ga the aple pas confronting the city. peepee eee Save identity, and said the affair ; hushed up as far as he was’ cerned. i MARRIED WHILE DOPED, SAYSI Wants Divorce Decree Fro Drug-Fiend Wife t if Under the Influence of ministered by the woman who sequently became his wife, G Hawkins was forced thru the’ riage ceremony in July, 1919, complains in his petition far di from Helen Hawkins, filed in su perior court Thursday. “I told the magistrate who pe formed the ceremon: his declares, “that I di marry the girl but couldn't help Hawkins says the girl kept under the influence of narcotics fi several days and that on. the 1088 day, while they were walking First ave, she lost her mental ance and screamed ge loudly both were arrested, In police court, he avers, he | allowed to go after it had been | plained to him that his wife wag” notorious drug user and was known by the police. He claims he has not Hyred the girl since that occasion, That the council would pass the | Thomson ordinance increasing fares to 8 14 cents was indicated at the | THOUGHT RECKLESS DRIVER AT WHEEL Witnesses who saw Campbell INDIAN EDITOR FOR THE FAR NORTH ‘fhe sights and smelia of “black é might not mias anything that was | meeting of the utilities committee | Struck by the auto, thought the car é F rt kes % TT | sald \vhursday morning. Certain minor|Was driven by a reckless, wild driv 4 Radesatt -sreré Goh. shoording te: may i *y Miles Jecksorn % Lester mary | The big negro's features betrayed | changes were made in the bill by the |¢r when the anto did not stop, and A ae ‘ . : “ o oo on. Try ey notifie 0 ‘ as ‘ 4 tastes, I suppose. I wanted to get| The pictures show some of the principals in the San Francisco “House of Terrors’ at-\ confusion. Try as he might, he) committees. | they notified police, Campbell was a " P > , i A could not read the numbers of the| Mayor. Caldwell, appearing before! brought to city hospital, Search into the real North; I wanted to! tack on girls and the murder of three officers investigating one phase of the case in Santa) en i voter the utilities committee, urged that|Was started for the auto. For the past 160 years, Englan@® ‘breathe a wind charged with the! Rosa. The five men at the top are accused of a shockingly brutal assault on Jean Stanley) “someone in this room t# looking! {mmodiate action be taken te protect} AS soon as the auto stopped en|has all but throttled education im scent of sea-ice. Whaling—there was | ; . 4 ( ry 1 Dr. adventure, I said to myself, and so and Jessie Montgomery, San Francisco telephone girls. The four girls shown accuse the| at these bills,” he is said to have de-| the trainmen from possibility of joss | Railroad ave., Dr, Templeton hasten- on bese ts eee of < Ne » “ ° * F A i 4 , 4 7 ‘ . r | clared indignant . “Thatl ‘ “ “ * led back to Third ave, and James st.,|S. Hardiker, editor of Young Indiag eas ancisco. t 0 V0 crime Ss rancise ars. ‘op, left to right, Edna) eared indignantly at last That} thru inability to cash warrants that |¢d back to I headed for fan Francisco, of all| quintet of the most revolting crime in San Francisco in yea Top y person's mind is working against my | will be iesued them in ew of cash|and then came direct to police sta-|who addressed an assembly of jours” ports in the world the port of adven-| F'ulimer and Pearl Hanley, who have testified, since the arrest of the men, that they were) rind.” |tion, where he made a report of the | nalism students at the universiig® turers. i bi ne ise ; Tap bate ° wages. Conditions under which the . That shipwreck, starvation anad@ttacked some time past and threatened with death if they complained, The other girl in| Mrs. Fanson ted her husband back | hanks will accept these warrants will accident. Thursday. the most amazing bad luck imagina- | the top row is Jessie Montgomery, who was found hysterical after being maltreated by nine|a few paces and instantly the) be threshed out at the afternoon con-| He was booked, as a. ble awaited me in that pursuit, 1 aia) men, she told police. Below, shown in a hospital bed, Jean Stanley, who, after a three-hour | “Ptince” was able to read the num-| fe . ‘Something gave way under the WORLD LEAGUE - . , » : 2 : : ae ah : yy | Bers. “Accurathly, one at a time, he} Councilman John B. Carroll ad-|car as T was coming down James st. << hggiggpnenlitst 0 ata sx hog battle against the thugs, jumped thru a window and fled for police. The three men shown) ve tom, snatched off his blindfold vocated that a loan be made from | Near Sixth ave.” Dr. Templeton told wa together are the officers slain in Santa Rosa while investigating the girl attacks. George and returned the money to Miss| tne general fund to tide the railway {traffic division officers. “The brakes SUES MAN WHO Boyd and his two companions are charged with the murders. The picture inset at réght| Ransnaw over the emergency, Other members| 4nd everything else went wrong. . * is.that of Boyd, former Seattleite, who is held in San Francisco, awaiting recovery from | “TREATMENT” ADMINISTERED | of the council pointed out that the| COULD DO NOTHING 0 TO SOLES OF GIRL’S cET general fund is already over $100,000, TO HALT IT BY HENRY WOOD “The machine rapidly gained speed.| GENEVA, Dec. 9.—Disagreement : Fansons, it is said, that they con- eee T could do nothing to halt it. At ceded his “second sight” without fur- | in the league of nations was eft. san Asedvreil the base of the steep hill at Fourth i " SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9—Jean, make those four men as weak of their arma and let me em ' CIAL Phasized today when the resignation” nvited to take a ride in Floyd f ; 10 1,HARD FINAN ave. y 0 AV . Ne Ress’ qcthenuation Maguey gina | Stanley, one of the two girls who| @# babies, ‘O, God,’ I said, ‘You cape. Help me! And I knew He. ‘| egonallenge, Mrs. Fanson is anid I ave., I swung just in time to avold | o¢ Honorio Pueyrredon as vice presi | to Have called up their bank, ar aman, At Third ave. I tried my best | go, a b Eaton was hurt in an accident and| were the most recent victimea in “The ranged for a $500 loan that the SLEDDING FACES ha év0it Gataphell, But the sbbt front | pews ale g assembly was laid now she wants $2,810 from Riggs, | House of Terror,” on Howard st., ex You can take the strength out ‘I said this prayer twice, | money necessary for their daugh \SEATTLE fender. sien, according to her complaint in the) plained today that she ed pray-| When | finished the second time, | ters’ treatments might be ad 3 “It's a miracle, T think, that more . % case which is now being tried before|er saved her from the still sere | three of the men let me go and | vanced to the “prince and closed) That Seattle is facing hard finan! Heople were not injured in the acci- é Judge Boyd J. Tallman shocking fate suffered by her chum, without-a word walked out of the | the deal at once, jelal sledding was indicated Thursday | gent, as I had no control over the e She accuses Riggs of being an| Jessie Montgomery | ro | Part of the “treatments,” accord-|by a special report prep red by City |auto, I saved myself by agile steer- inexperienced driver and having in “I felt that Something mu | 10 fourth, MeDonnell, sald. ing to Claypool, was adminiatered to | Comptroller Harry W. Carroll for the | ing ony.” efficient brakes on hia car. The must #ave me from those four | ‘Girlie, that fool prayer of yours the soles of the patient's fe@t. The city utilities committee RAAAAARAARAAARARARAARAS | | With the committee fighting des more than $831,883. ‘The are more powerful than they are. would. car backed down a grade on Beacon| tuman brutes," and that that has w« maway, But I'm | girl, draped in gauze, was required | ave, April 18, 1920, instead of} Something must be God,” she After a preliminary hearing| not that easy. Give in to me, |to stand before the “prin on alperately to straighten out the tan-| book deficit in the light department] MARTON, Ohio, Dec. 9.—Presidente responding to Riggs’ efforts to send waid Thursday before U. 8 Commiasioner| or Tl call them back” square piece of paper which had/gled finances of the light ant rail. | red at $514,000, Approximately | Mlect Warren G. Harding will retaim it forward “IT forgot my danger and my | McClelland, Toy Ping and Wong! “Go abead and call them, 1 | been previously sprinkled with oll,|way departments, and with the $550,000 is required to cover out-|his senate seat for the present, and She says she was thrown out.| helplessness, my exhaustion from | Pong Wing, were scheduled to ap | said Standing thus, it is said, she was/Skagit river project in @ perilous} standing obligations to complete|no immediate action will be ‘takem Riggs says she jumped when there] @ three-hour struggle, the hor- | pear for final he on narcotic When he went out@l stag | given to understand that she must | condition thru failure to sel! bonds, | work on the Cedar Falls construction |on the offer of Governor Cox torape was no need of it. Riggs also} rible pain from the blows they |charges Friday morning gered to the window, pushed my | have all confide and faith in the | Carroll's report indicates that drastic | work, Some $200,000 must be paid| point Senator-Rlect Frank B, Wilts ms the plaintiff asked for a| had steuck me, And I prayed, | They were arrested Wednesday af-| arm thru the pane, and crawled | “healer” and must not question his/steps must be taken to pull the city's | back to the steam plant fund before | should Harding desire to resign his ride and induced him to drive, “With all the strength of my ternoon by federal narcotic agents. thru, I ran for two blocks, methods, which were “for the best,”| utilities out of the slough summer. senatorial office, it was indicated im knowing he was inexperienced body, heart and mind,t prayed, |and smoking opium valued at $2,000] found a policeman, and brought | that her ills and sins might be swept] Including obligations to be met this! ‘The balance in the general fund is|a statement from headquarters here He considers himself blameless.| right out loud. I asked God to | was seized. : him back to save my friend.” away. month, the street car system is “in only $16,793. toda .