The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 15, 1920, Page 1

| a i 5 Tonight a rain, str {i easterly gale. Forecast nd Thursday, ‘ong, south- On the 1 lontered as 8 dd Claw Matter May 2, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle ssye of Americanism There Can Be No Compromi: The Seattle Star SEATTL Ww ASIL., Wash, wi | WI E SDNESDAY, der the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 COURT DOOMS BOY TO DEATH Eg ' eather PPP PRA LRP LAA AR AAA TH VENING ‘DECEMBER 15, 1920, Original Sea Wolf. * | Daring Seal Poacher. Raided Traders And Defied U. S. (This is the sixth of » oumber of stories written expecially for The | Star by Capt, John J. Kertonceini, famous Arctic adventurer and skip- per, detailing bis experiences and observations in the sone which Kip, Hing sald “wae tans all laws of Ged or man.” Rertenceim, Capt master of the Hibbard & Swenson trading schooner Kamehatha, out of Reattin, has for 90 years bem trad Arctic seas. Temance on world.) v vs ¢ BY CAPT. JOHN J. BERTONCCINL r LEC McLE original of Jack London's Sea Wolf, was a tall, solemn Scot, long, drooping mustaches. “He was a thorn in the wide of, the forces of law and order all his life, but was really a gentle man at heart. Wherever there was fur, McLean was after {He picked a crew of modern pirates, treated them well and asked only that they follow where he led. SWOOPrED DOWN ON TRADING POSTS He would swoop down on a Rus sian trading post on Kommandasky gather up a fortune in peltry and get away. The Hibbard-Swenson/| post at Anadyr, Siberia, was raided © last year by sea bandits, but they were bungiers compared with Me Lean. They killed a number of na b tives and were badly shot up in turn. » * McLean used to get away with it While nations were trying to get the pelagic sealing question set tied, McLean settled it for himself. ‘There was a time when vessels other nations couldehunt the herd ‘on its Vay to the breeding grounds fm, the Behring sea. Americans care fully protected the smais, but at the game time Americans were barred from taking seals, This didn’t strike Alec as fair. SEALS UNDER with outlaw craft, killing seals under the Yury bows of the U. 8 revewue cut- ters. I have served my term at pelagic pealing, and it is not a nice job. Most of the seal taken are females on their way to the islands where they have their young. They are shot while sleeping on the water. | Many of them sink when they are killed. ‘That ts done away with now. It Belongs, Wke Alec McLean, to an Other day. Alec liked bis nip ashore, and Jack | ‘London probably chummed up with him in barrooms. Prohibition would have prevented the “Sea Wolf” from being written. McLean took all kt of chances. | ‘The cutter, Bear, haf him bottled) more than once, but he would | k away in a fog; hutile a reef | ith his schooner’s keel dragging. or thread paxsageg so dangerous that No one cared to follow He was, however, not a brute, like the “Sea Wolf” in London's story. His men were loyal to him, afloat or) ashore. He wasn't a braggart or a} bully, nor was he much of a philos opher, either. He just took what he wanted. | LATE LIFE WAS | CALM AND PEACEFUL | He abandoned adventure in his own good time and lived quietly in| houseboat in Victoria, B. C. His life was calm and peaceful vo more gales, no more raids and races with | the law. He was done with danger. Aamost done, The danger that hides in a bottle w%% the most dead. ly of all for Alec M 1A ‘They found him dead one morn-| ing, drowned in knee-deep water where he had stumbled from the! gangplank of his houseboat. CHINAMANIS © ,. AUTO VICTIM Dies Hour After He Is Hit and Run Over Chin Qu Tuck, 215% Main st., diea! at the city hospital early Wedn: y morning as the result of being run down by an automobile driven by W Hi. Piclow, Seattle transfer man, at} Fifth ave. and Jackson st | Piclow declared that the dead man| stepped in fron®of his car in attempt- | fing to dodge another machine | The Chinaman was struck by the Fadiator of Pic 4 machine, knocked dowrs and one the wheels ran over his prostrate body. Taken to the city hospital by Plelow, he died with- tm an hour. p | isfled gas consumers to be there, ered likely. temporary Lackaye as secretary. Break Into Candy GAS MYSTERY WHO GOT THE QUESTIONNAIRES? Indignant Citizens, Peeved at Poor Quality, Search for Mythical Queries Who got the questionnaires which the public service commission is sup posed to have mailed out on Seattie's waa? This promises to become as mooted & queation as the late one concern ing the fate of the cat which ate the Mouse that lived in the house that Jack built The questionnaires were, theoretic ally, at any rate, mailed to Seattle bousewives. They propounded a set of ques tions concerning the quality of gaa, the idea being to get 4 representa. tive set of replies to be used at the gan hearing next Monday and Tues day at the Press club, Announcement that practically no questionnaires have been returned thus indicating that housewives are satiafied with the feeble, Mickery and Popping flame that passes for eas in Seattle theae days, today stirred in terested citizens to investigate. WANTED—SOMEBODY WHO GOT A QUESTIONNAIRE He polled friends of his living In practically every residence district in the city, None of them had re ceived a questionnaire. Then he polled emploges at Fraser-Paterson’s.” None of them fiad received a ques tionnaire, eithér, He called the “investigating com mittee” at the gas company’s office and was told.that if he wanted any information he'd have to page the public service commission by long. distance telephone at Otympia. “Seattle's gas is rotten,” Oxborne told The Star today, “and if they'd give me 500 questionnaires, I'd get them filled out by 560 consumers whe would say that {t's rotten ADVISES GAS CONSUMERS TO BE AT HEARING “I intend to attend that hearing and tell the commission the gas is rotten, and I advise all other dinsat, too. look These alleged fishy to me.” The gas company, with the ap proval of the state commission, has been testing out a lower quality of gas for several weeks, with the idea of cutting down consumption of fuel oi, which is mid to be scarce and costly. ‘The hearing next week is to deter mine if the gasburning public will stand for the poorer quality of gas which now dribbles thru the pipes. “I understand that about 40 ques tionnaires have been returned,” said Assistant Corporation Counsel Tom Kennedy today. Kennedy is fighting the lowered quality of gas on behalf on the city. “I am surprised that that number came back. It is imponsible to find |egaeat who recetved one, Maybe ey were sent exclusively poo of the gas company ¥ questionnaires Kennedy figures that the prover. bial needle in the haystack had noth ing on the gas questionnaire, lost in a great city. WHITE CROSS MEETS TODAY — Anti-Dope Society to Con- | vene at 3:30 its country-wide fight Plans for against traffic in narcotic drags will be further outlined by the organiz ers of the American White Cross at public ce Otis W. Brinker's court at 2:30 Wednesday afternoon Keports from the trustees in re rd to the personnel of the officers f the new organization are consid. Discussion of ways and means of campaigning will by couraged. The Rey. W. H chairman and Dick Store; Get Pennies pennies, candy, cigars and cigarets. to em. | meeting in Justice en- | Bliss will act as | {Martha Is Here Today Begin the Story of a Tempted Woman IDAY marks a new episode in Winona Wi Payne's popular American sertal, feastons of a Bric “The Hook of calls it A good woman tries to save a bad man. A saint finds her hus band lx a ruscal ‘That's « bare onttine of background. Regular “Con: mont "Con Martha,” she the s of know anions of « Hride” what to expect from Mra. ‘Those who are not reeular r ors now have the ortunity start on a new episode that will interest them just as much as if they had read the serial for the past 30 months Who's who in the story? THE WOMEN ARE JANE LORIMER, the brite writes the story, has discovered that marriage i Payne the has learned that jealousy ie | consuming torture of & married wom- a wife bride, Gaughter of a movie star, the modern, sophisticated, roured, bobbed ingenee. whose fetohing posw is ex cematve ignorance whose only oceupa- tion fe firtation. CUBYSTOBEL, Nob Lorimoer’s tetn sister, keen on all we latent intelier Jane's friend, and © cheerfully; who f the pretty leirpert the suedevn % dartakes (wo jobs facen the temptations ceptions THE of his « : N. JAMES D, LOHR, millionaire munitions maker, an ex ample of American succes. PAUL VAN FYCK, tured » ub man, cul EWART PALMER, & redcel mar ried to & maint The theme of the Book of Mar tha is the trial of the extraordinarily young wife in the business world of the struggle of a good woman to save and temptations pretty a bad man from himself; of the temptation to abandon him tor a 4 man—but 2AD || THE STOR nd learn the truth || about the life of a woman of busi nene How does Martha resist her admirers? How does she manage her home and train her ch How doe band's injustice All this is which her hus und disloyalty told in the TODAY, on page 11 story, starts | Henry Morgenthau | Wilson’s Mediator WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. Henry | Morgenthau, former American a bassador to Turkey, has been ap pointed as President Wilson's per | sonal representative to mediate in | Armenia, it was learned today, | {PET POODLE IS HEIR TO $8,000; MERE MAN GETS ONLY $5 IN WILL CHICAGO, Deo. 15.—Rex, a pet poodle, is made heir to $8,000 left by his mistress, Mrs. Ross BE. Porter, according to @ will filed in probate court here ‘The will provides that Rex shall be given a daily bath, plenty of Bloated #ybarites broke into a sauerkraut and a Christmas tree candy store maintained by Le #1] pooh year | Well at 2206 Qu Anne ave, early|| Rp. F, Jobling of Caseide Locks i thie morning and escaped with some | Ore., a half brother left $5. | 1,000 MEN BATTLN WH Million-Dollar Loss in. Ili- nois City and Flames Are Still Raging | MADISON, I, Dee, 15—A mit-| jon-dollar fire, which broke out in| the Helmbacher Rollink Milis Co plant here, was burning unchecked at noon, threatening the adjoining plant of the American Car and Four y Co, and kindling « amailer fires with fying sparks in various parts of the city A thousand men are fighting the; | Qamen Private fire equipment of the two | companions are being assisted by ap paratue rushed from nearby towns. The rolling mille were a mass of The fire was fan | d by « high wind. Fire fighting was badiy hampered by the excesuive heat whieh drove the fighters back, | WHOLE BLOCK Is (WIPED OUT . | An official of the company mid that more than @ block of property had been wiped out, and estimated the loms at between $750,000 and $1,- 000,000. The origin of the bluse is unknown, The plant was completety flames at noon. rt by the hich wind were swept to all | parts of the eity south of the plant. A dozen volunteer fire brigades ruab- led from one spot to another as the jembers lit on roofs and porches, caus jing minor fires. Seven hundred and fifty men em ployed in the rolling mill were among the volunteers. ‘The rolling mille are an auxiliary le of the American Car and | Foundry Co. JUDGE FACING MURDER TRIAL With Crime CLEVELAND, Ohio the nts of Dee. ed an absorbing my» tery drama mise to come to! light in the second degree murder trial here of Judge William H. Mo-| Gannon, chief justice of Cleveland's It paomines to be} act in the mys. municipal courts. the second and last tery known to this part of the coun- try as “Who killed Harold Kagy?” John W. Joyee, a well known po- litical figure, who was tried for the Kagy murder and acquitted, holds the spotlight with MeGannon | “Gaky” Kagy, @ garage proprietor, was shot and killed last May after an afternoon spent with jannon and Joyee. At th wan repeated reference to a myster jous third man on the scene of the} shooting when Kagy was shot Me-| (Gannon testified he was not there! when the shooting was done. testified he himself did not do the shooting, contending he was leaning | drunk and helpless against a tree when Kagy fell with his fatal builet | wound. | Other witnesses said the third man | resembled MeGannon and one wit-| ness said he was sure the sought for | man was M nnon Judge MeGannon is sitting at the bar of justice as the accused in a court room where for many years he sat in judgement 4 imposed sen- tenee on hundreds of breakers of the} law. 1 | McGannon is 50 years old, 6 feet 1 | ineh in, height and weighs about 250 \pounsds, He served on the bench for the last 15 years and won his elec gag rather easily. Joyce MAIL CLERK IS SHOT AS THIEF Caught in Act of Stealing 20,000, Is Report | $20, ; P DENVER, Dec. 15.—The tired | H. Rasmuss | | busir puld rather hear |when they entered the house with ® | WICHITA, Kan,, Dee. 15,—Said to dn eng: MORIN via eae | jpass key sometime Wednesday morm: |have been caught in the act of stead | friend wife play Beethov n’s “Moon ing, she reported to the police, a ing a registered mail package valued! spoyoived, That an Anglo@apanese | W&ht Sonata” on the piano or violin Dec, 15.—Samgel Ru-} Included in the loot was a rope | at $20,000, J. J. De Armond, railway Resolved, That an Anglogapanese| than to sis down to a well-cooked || | | ; pe pearls, a lavalliere with a diamond mall clerk, was shot and wounded by | lliance Is @ menace to the future of | dinner, according to William A. | benstein, a jeweler, way bound and) {ing ‘a ‘Titfany ring and a ladys federal officers in the Union passen-| British-American relations,” will be} Whi of music in the ed by bandity here and his store | jeweled wrist wateh, A lurge amo ger sta last night the subject of a debate between Uni-| Deny About $25,000 worth of} sortment of expensive clothing wala 73 Mre mond and a man giving ity of British Columbia sind Unt Knowing how to play the piano| gems were taken, Police believe the | also stolen 5 |the name of Will Hewes, Manhattan, rs ‘ OT violin is more than cooking beans! band which held up Ru stein, is| The loss has not been actually come ay lian, were arrested after the shoot-! Versity of Washington to be staged | or trimming a hat,” White told mem-| the same which robbed another store | puted, but is believed to be even ing. At Meany hali January 21. bers of the mothers’ congress here, of $20,000 yesterday, $1,000, |word of doom is handed |spair. ished,” | THERE IS NO DOUBT as to Isom White’s guilt. legislators, after a prayer for divine guidance, have decreed that he who he who kills shall die. punishment. Merry Christmas! | We'll Kill a Boy!) T IS WRITTEN in the statutes of the state of V God-fearing men were they, no doubt, who |two years ago passed the law in the legislature that restored capital | Before they passed that law they had listened to the ! Vashington that) \plea for divine guidance with which each session of the Washington “Thou shalt not kill.” legislature takes up its daily labor—a plea addressed to the Su- jpreme Being, one of whose commandments is: And this law being on the statute books, the supreme court of Washington has decided that, under this law, a lad of 19, Isom White, | must be hanged by the jneck until he is dea How fitting that this down when all the world is gay with song, when jglad carols are being pre- jpared i in the churches and lthe homes, when children Hook forward with happi- ness to the coming of Santa Claus, when human jbeings lay aside their dif- ferences and hates and wish, one to the other, a “Merry Christmas.” P AT STANWOOD there’s a gray- woman, with. a careworn face and eyes that show her bleak > j eae She is Isom White's ‘ mM y bay should be by shoul , she says. “Phey |shouldn’t turn him loose. He’s too weak for that. He was never bright. I don’t think he knew what he was’ doing. But I would rather die than see him hanged.” Merry Christmas means little to Mrs. White since she received word today Cleveland Jurist Is Charged |that the state supreme court has decreed her boy shall die by the rope. ee! kills shall die. But what of the mother? And what of the Christian spirit? What does society gain by killing this boy? it loses? The Star believes not. The Star doubts if the people of Washington really want to kill this boy—for | it is the people, thru their legislators, who say he must die. + And The Star believes a fitting Christmas ceremonial would be the presenta- He killed a gman. Can it possibly gain as much as tion to Isom White’s mother of a telegram from the governor of Washington £ onment. “hae, toe es ILL YOU do your part to obtain this Christmas gift for the~ mother of Isom White? Joyce trial there announcing that the sentence of her boy has been Soomited to life impris- Won’t you feel happier on Christmas Day if you have done your little toward \stopping this judicial murder? All Hon. Louis F. Hart, Governor of Washington: The Hon, Louis F. Hart, Governor of Washington, Executive Mansion, Olympia. *Believing that the execution of a human being, particularly terest, and believing that the Christmas season will be made passed by the court is not carried out ment the death sentence passed upon Isom White know on Christmas day that her boy Name .... Address OPINION IS WILLIAM’S TO DEBATE ON 1" a v is against the ousands if the sentence a minor child, happier f I most respectfully petition you to commute and to act in time so that Isom White's mother may i# no longer in the shadows of the gallows. he Star asks is that you sign the following petition and mail it to the public ine to life imprison s ROB rae OF ITION TWO Cc ENTS IN SE ATTLE And our | {ijt GOVERNOR NOW ISOM WHITE'S ONLY HOPE Father of New Hanging ! Law Believes Commuta- ~ tion Should Be Issued — EVERETT, Deo. 15.—Laom Wyatt boy murderer, in his cell here Tig t the supreme court ruled against him, deciding he | die. was told th The 1%yearold condemned pre oner received the news with that same blank stare that he wore tha was arrested on Nove bg for the killing of Lee ton, Everett taxi ariver, and that fi has worn since. The supreme court yesterday Olympia affirmed the verdict ed by a Snohomish county jury 4 year ago, convicting White of fi degree murder and recomm the gallows as his punishment. “IT’S SERIOUS, AIN'T IT?” AYS BOY As the import of the ruling into the boy's mind, his brows id and he repeated a statement he hd made many times since his trial: |! “It don’t seem to me like I e@ | killed anybody. I don't b | but they say I did, so I guess it be #6, “It's serious, ain't it?” ~ | There remains but one ch [save the youth—a governors j ency. It is mow required of the ward of the penitentiary at. lia Wi ‘that He Ret a date Tor the This done, Gov, it the right thing cS the death sentence to Ife impris | ment. d Hundreds of people in every jot the state sent money to | aged mother at) Stanwood to pay [costs of his appeal to the jeourt, believing the boy a halfawi These same people, accord White's lawfer, State Senator H. Smith, of Everett, are now to push petitions urging the or to save the lad’s life, BOY'S DEFENDER ALSO FATHER OF HANGING BILL By @ queer twist of fate it wai Senator Smith, later retained to dee fend White, who fathered the new hanging law and was lai strumental in having it pass the day he 1919, ee islatere. Joxeph D. Morton, the 15-y companion of White, who aided jthe killing, life. Mrs. White, the mother, does believe her boy should hang. “1 wouldn't ask them th turn was sent to prison loose,” she said. “He's that that they shouldn't. But he never bright I don't think knew what hqwwas doing. I'd ratl die than have him hanges,” Linton was hired by White and. Morton to drive them from }to a small nearby town. They | pla anning, on reaching this town, te jrob a store. a En route they decided to kif Gait chauffeur, They argued over whi should slay him. It was finally cided that White should do it, f the older boy shot the chauffeur if the back. DRAG BODY FROM CAB; be THROW IT IN PUDDLE : They dragged the body out of th © » and threw it into a pud@ile along 4. The following morn side the r ing they were captured asleep In @ hotel Their original scheme was to go to |Mexico by steamer from Seat! }there to begin a career of banditry jag rivals of Villa, or to join ims they were not certain which, At the trial it was brought out that | White, at an early age, had received an injury to his skull and had seem ed to be half-witted since, His mother and his aged father ve if White were imprisoned and n an opportunity he might Yet em himself and recover his full” mentality. HOME ROBBED OF $1,000 HERE Valuable Jewelry and Cloth= ing Taken | j { | | | thieves secured a large valuable jewelry and home of Mrs. We Sneak amount of ages from the 1918% Phinney avey