The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 20, 1920, Page 1

1} COMPLAINANTS r ON GAS SERVICE Weather Tonight anc ably ra southwe Temperature Last 'f Hours a Today noon, 43, Maximum i Tusday: prob- moderate orly winds. Minimum, 39. Ientered as Second Class Matter May 5, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, sh., under the Act of Congress Mareh h 3, 1879. Por Year, by Malt, $5 fo $9 TURNED AWAY On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star w (x ATE EDITION 8 The Running Filipino. Mesmerism That Took. A Sergeant's Dilemma. Bill Downey's Cable. BY HAL ARMSTRONG AS A MESMERIST there was none more competent in Uncle Sam's forces in all the Philippines than was Sergt. Jean Huckins, now of the Se- ttle fire department. ucking learned the rudiments of uncanny art from a friendly Hipino doctor, It cost him $4.80 to @ the course, but he got pney’s worth of amusem Ptimes over, practicing on the lads of Dhle company in camp and trench fF A® Huockins acquired skill his tm Promptu entertainments became More frequent and pop. i er and more inte was nothing to see [fwhom Huckins had mesmerized limbing an imaginary tree under fire of the enemy, making ardent | Proposals of marriage to the com- Peny cat, or taking a bath in an empty barrel Always, when the performance concluded, Huckins had but to} p his fingers loudly before his | ibJect’s face to bring the subject of it.” lt Fi] y some chap chanced one blistering after. that Huckins and some of his pany mates were enjoying fur. th and beno in a nearby town. It well towards sundown when they the leading cafe, largely because ‘their funds were spent, and saunter. @@ forth into the main thorofare in spirits and in search of fun. A Filipino curb merchant passed by, crying his wares, tobacco, bananas and other com- odities which he carried in a basket from his neck. boy, come heret” called Le the Filipino turned and ap- them, a, the mes- merist chucked him under the chin. & few quick passes before his | ning eyes, and the vendor beeame an . & a Bergt. Huckina. “Bark like a dog™ commanded ckins, and the Filipino barked. “Now laugh—now cry—now sit On that chair,” said the mes and the subject did as he was but there was no chair under and he sprawled on the ground, = his fruit and tobaccos about street. It was rare sport. Huckins and his D were ent. mow many ? For the cigarets? The to- 7 Huckins asked the prostrate ¢ Filipino told him, ne on, boys,” said the sergeant, 's buy all he's got.” i) “But there isn't a cent in the : ple outfit,” someone reminded [)"No difference,” said Huckins. ing up a handful of pebbles. ere, boy, is your money,” he . counting out the pebbles into Filipino’s hand, as the latter nked him. Fruit, cigarets and tobacco were cketed, amid the uproarious laugh- of a throng of spectators who had ithered around P“Ain't hardly right stent EBey’s stuff like this.” Huckins finally. “I'l) wake him up and w five it back.” “Come out of itr But the Filipino did not le st there on his haunches @ounting his pebbles and grimacing olishly. } "Coie out, I said!” yelled Huekins in, cracking his fingers as before. it wtil! the Filipino sat. Huckins turned pale. Mepeatedty he tried in vain to awaken the dor Mant faculties of his subject, but the huckster’s mind was totally blank. ey ORRIFIED AMAZEMENT MCCEEDS THE LAUGHTER . crowd gathered closer, Laugh- er g@eet. Men and boys stood out in open-mouthed, half-terrified Bimazement. At the end of a half hour Huckins gave it up. “He's a goner,” he said, “I can't bring him baék I do with him?” “Tell him he’s him on his wa rade fh to the “come.” solemnly What all right, and start suggested a com “AN right.” said Huckins, sh fils head sadly. “Boy, get up?’ Ths Filipino stood. “5h I right,” said the mesmer. , half heartedly. “Turn sound.” Obediently the subject did so. ‘eo that line of trenches up on that hill?” ‘There were no tre nohenamy Filipino nodded, “Very well,” ing wald Tg boys in those trenches are friends. Run to them ‘quick, before, the enemy gets you!” Raising hie arma high above his head, and shouting as he ran, the iiipino bolted m4 last Christmas,” ney, reputable deputy sheriff who tells the story and vouches fo ite truth, “I got a cablegram from Manila “The cabl m said Filipino had just completed his 575th round ‘of the island of Luzon, and was still Fuuning.” “The your now, said Bill the . many | of | ATTL Ek, WASH., MONDAY, DE {CEMBE, R 2 2¢ 1920, ryREPORT GOV. HART DECIDES T0 SAVE STOLE HER OLD LOVER Couple Married 45 Years,| Then Fairer Face Won | Him; Wife Asks $10,000 | Married to. Theodore H. Osborn | since May 4, 1875, Mra, Ida ©. O» born is charging Adelaide W. Boyer | with stealing her husband's affec tions. In her sult filed Monday in superior court she aks $10,000 dam- ages. According to the bill of comptaint, | the defendant won Osborn’s love by correspondence. es wanes she is alleged to have signed release ing all claims she may have bad {against the defendant. She says her} | husband and another man foreed her} to sign it September 16, 1920, with out allowing her to know the con- tents. ~ JAIL FOR ALL BOOZE VENDORS ar lawful sale of alcoholic beverages will be the rule in the federal court hereafter, it was announced Monday | go convulsed with |}by Federal Judge Jeremiah Neterer. | the Judge Neterer began by sentencing | checks, centimes for the| Laura Cote, proprietress of the Irv-| were on our way to the train when ing hotel. to two days in the King|I county bastile, of $250. Laura pleaded guilty on December 14. }to will move to abate the place public nuisance. District Attorney Saunders nounced some time ago that as a} all cases of oo hace We! law violation BOOZE BOAT AND JAPS CAPTURED : Picked up in the Sound just fore dawn this morning, as they are alleged to have been attempting to} run a load of booze into the city, two Japs are held Monday by coast guard iclala. They, with their boat and | will be turned over to federal prohibition officials. ‘The capture was made by Capt | Ben Lichtenberg, in command of the coast guard cutter Scout | the s@izure and the exact amount of | booze found, are withheld pending | bu tion. The boat is said to be} a 60-foot British purse seiner. 2 YOUTHS TO: BE EXECUTED : LINCOLN, Neb, Dec. 20.—Two| youthful murderers will go to their | death In the electric chair at Nebras- |ka_pen near the hour of | three thi unless 11th-hour court action agi Alson B. Cole and Allen V iw ho liquor in ™m tary sfternoon, Gram. | ™ the latter's mother-in-law, the death cell today hoping aguinst |hope that one more reprieve would | |be added to the long list already _ | saan OF by Governor McKelvie ~ HEAR ECHOES OF | WAR IN COURT Echoes of the late war were heard in Judge A. W. Frater’s court Mon- day when counsel for the state and | the alien preperty custodian were leach arguing their counter petitions that the of the late Rot | Wendlebe German hould easel |to them. The valued ¢ $400. There in this country, | he M mi | ge w w by | hi estate | of wo M property | are no heirs believe “hunches.” | digestion, and | Hike when it is raining like > But there are exceptions to all ruler lang we certainly uncovered the big net one [Fothe night Jal for all persons convicted of un-| the good old Pacific Coast the construction work on the Ore-| in addition to a fine | monitory to} about charges of selling liquor in her hotel} coul id be It im probable that the government | ting a jolt of some sort. son j that an-| raiiroad he | calmly would recommend jail sentences in| front of a new building: rome he ike the day, and then proceeded to shove us | | hours jamount to much, |due time. |going to m them make Detaila of Of one of the ¢ under | when | knows @ cracking good stenographer when | cause delay 12-hour cayehtvthe Saturday night train on | the | the found guilty of the murder of | the | no telegram from. Mr, cause short, | that did happen. ahead of my | began days berth up the leon mountains BOY FROM HANGING ‘SAYS GIRL [Dropped Off Train WONT ACT at Lone Water Tank TIL DEATH in Midst of Desert Disappear in the Distance and Turn to Find—Adventure. (This is the first installment of The Star's new serial—a thrilling story of western rail- roading by that master of adventure serials, whose yarns you read in the popular 2 gor —FRANCIS LYNDE. The title of this st is “THE WRECKERS.” It is copyright 920, by Charles. Scribner's Sons.) * # * * # * * * CHAPTER I By this time, you will understand, At Sand Creek Siding Je Were rocketing along over the As & general proposition, T Gent | Pioneer Short Line, and were sup} much in the things called! posed to be due at Portal City at! ‘They are bad for the half-past seven that evening. From as often aa not are| where he eat dictating to me the! those patent barometers that|boes was facing forward asd now © always pointing to “Set Fair”|and then an absent sort of look mb's food. | ame into hie eyes while he wi talking off letters, and it pus sled me because ft wan't like him. the lot—the bom: and/I may aa well my here as anywhere | © left Portland and|that one of bis strong points is to be always “at himeelf" under all We had finished |*rts of conditions So, ae I smy, | was sort of pur sled; and one of the times after he had given me a full grist of letters and had gone off to emoke while I typed a few thousand lines from |my notes to catch up, I made a die chills you hear #0 much|covery. There were two people in and knew just as well as|section five, just abead of us, « that we were never going | young woman and a girl of maybe pull thru to Chicago without get-|15 or so, and the Pullman was the The rea-| old-fashioned kind, with low seat reason—was | backs I put it up that in those came to the|absenteyed intervals Mr boss walked/ had been studying the back standing in| young woman's neck lw meas and besides | urably sure it wasn’t the little girl's thirteenth day of| Along in the forenoon I made and raining|excuse to go and get a drink water out of the forward cooler, and on the way back I took a yood pene look*at our neighbors in umber iiv At that I didn’t won- ee at the “boss’ temporary lapses | ny more whatever. The young wo. m: was pretty enough to start a stopped clock—only “pretty” isn't just the word, either; there wnen't any word, when you come right | down to it And the little girl w simply @ peach—a nice, downy, rosy peach; chunky, round-faced, sunny |haired, “jolly; with a neat little turned-up nove and big sort of boy ish laughing eyes that fairly dared the world. “ of It was thin way: om Midland; offices, had quit, cleaned up drawn our last pay everybody good-bye, and | had one of those queer little pre if you'll call it just before we station under a the a lndder it was the month, a Friday very mischief. an agp to sort of toll us along, may- the fates didn’t begin on us that | Sane They waited until the next @ freight-train wreck at Idaho, where we lost 12 It looked as if that. didn't) because we weren't anywhere any particular The boss wat on his way sme for a little visit with his folks Lilinots, 1 beyond that he was a bunch of English and maybe let general manager nadian railroad ind idner. en in Montreal, hin I made @ good half-dozen mistakes when I got in behind the old writ (Turn to Page 13, Colamn 3) Inaugural Ball Will Celebrate Harding Entry WASHINGTON, Dec, 20.—For the first time in a dozen years Wash ington is to have its inaugural ball ‘The ball, which was a function of inauguration night, was banned by President Wilson elght years ago The committee recently appointed to arrange for the inauguration of Senator Harding, has decided on the résuffiption of the ball A feature Of the Harding inaug- uration will be a mardi gras on Pennsylvania ave.” The street, cording to plans, to “be divided into sections and ne section as signed to each state, ‘There sons and daughters of the respective states will frolic in mask and fancy dress, So Mr urry Norctoss was in no special and neither was I. I wasn't pay, but T expected to be we reached Canada. I had n confidential clerk nd short 4 man for the bors on the Mid nd construction, and he was tak me along partly because he he one, but mostly be I was dead anxious to go any- he was going. to come, back to the “Widner if it hadn't, been for that lay-out’ we would’ have here But Pioneer ShotteLine, instead of | day train Sunday morning, and would have been no meeting Mrs Sheila and Maisie Ann;| Chadwick, be it wouldn't have found us; no nid-up at Creek siding; in nothing wotld have happened But I mustn't get story It was is to get r, Norcross on Sunday ready that to land had been a an for long that he had for otten how to knock off on Sun and right soon after breakfast, the help of little Pullman table and me and my. type he turned our section into a eas office, ing that now we ja # quiet day, we'd clean mil and ends n letting | for the the Ore the jolt on us. railroad Airplanes Hunting Missing Balloonists ALBANY, N. ¥ 10,-—-Search for the naval balloon and its three passengers that vanished with the north wind, which swept New York state last week, was day by two army airplanes, ith a riter a8 Dec 0 ody he'd by tussling tro » while idland respondence we were right-of-way Norcross | of the} of |A Man and a Woman, a ‘a Boy and a Girl, Watch the Transcontinental Limited Efforts Continue to Induce 'DATEIS SET Him to Give Lad’s Mother a Happy Christmas Governor Hart will commute the death sentence of Isom White to life imprisonment if convinced it it | the wish of the people of the state, | the | | | it wax Inarned here today. ‘The governor hax decided not to be altogether heartless in the mat- ter of clemency for the 1%ymrold sub-pormal son of aged Mr, and Mr. D. A. White, of Stanwood, who was condemned by a Snobon> T Seattle Dancer Recovers Has Miraculous Escape From Accident!) *% Luck to Save Her Beauty % | | | | publi WO CI COMPANY SIDE TOLD FIRST AT HEARINGS |Officials Admit Ground fo Kicks, but Says Experi- ments Are Incomplete Over repeated raps for order by Chairman F. V. Kuykendall, of the service commission, an atdle lence of approximately 500 shouted | protests against the conduct of the | gas hearing ‘begun this morning ip | the Press club auditorium, | Attorney jah county jury te die for the mum der 4 your ago of Lae Linton, an Bverett taxi driver, MRS. LANDES GETS NEWS FROM RELIABLE SOURCE Mra. Henry Landes, president of Federation of Women's Clube told The Star she had learned from & reliable, authoritative source, that the governor base already made up bis mind for commutation, It is definitely understood from other sources, however, that the | governor must have sufficient proof that the people desire him to make woch a move before he will act In any event, it is said, the gov- ernor has no intention of going into the matter until after Warden Henry Drumm, of the penitentiary, has set the date of execution Meanwhile, Mrx. Landes, Senator Joseph Smith, attorney for the con dem lad, and others working in the boy's behalf, urge that letters and petitions requesting clemency be | poured in upon the governor to show how the people stand It is not yet altogether impossible that the boy's life might be saved before Christmas, Should Warden Drumm set the hanging date early this week, and should petitions an letters reach. the governor with dix | powld be | patch, commutation papers delivered to. the lad's aged mother, if the governor promptly responded, by Christmas morning. SAMPLE OF LETTERS SENT TO GOVERNOR Only a few of the many already sent to the governor Senator Smith have passed thru The r office, One, chosen at random m theese few, follows. It is a dressed to the governor and is a fair xample of the sort of missives that are reaching his office ingsuch num bers that he has found it necessary to employ two additional stenogra phers to open and file them. Referring to the court of Isom White,” the latter reads, Appears to be the hope of thousands of people of this state that clem ency be shown In his case, and that the penalty’ of life imprison ment be imposed “What good, may I ask, can come t© ary one thru his execution? “Do the facty in the case indicate that murders are less frequent in a society whose law is blood for blood? “In the letters sentence lesser highest concept ends of justice be better hanging young White? SOCIETY HAS NEVER DONE ITS FULL DUTY , will the served by Society has never fuli duty in the regeneration of its unfortunates and defectives. Mur. der and all other crimes will dimin. ish in about the same ratio that so- ciety inereases to function in a new enlightenment and understanding “It ig indeed plain that in this particular instance you will be called upon to decide the future of a men tal defective—of one who has never at any time been a normal person “Also consider his youth, and the unfavorable character of his past experience and environment. “It seems to be an exceptional case where the forces that destroy and tear down have had full play, and whe the essential native st eth to resist and build up has never at any time been adequate. “In the present situation justice should be tempered with mercy and sympathy for a distressed and ag: mother whose feelings should be spared the remorse and humiliation . yet done its and to} | Tv. witch SW YORK, Dec, ' 20-—Sheer, structions, Iny for many weary | erit, luck (a lot of that) and tour [ours of many weary weeks with- jof the greatest specialists. in}out moving her jaw while ribber America are going to save the} bands, fastened to her teeth drew pretty face and figure of Helene| her fractured jawbone back into |Jesmer, Greenwich Village Follies! place. ‘That was the work of one star, who was Injured in an auto| specialists smash-up several weeks a0. Two ‘ugly cuts on her knees— Mins Je: a Seattie girl wholand outs on the kuees are disas is famous in Gotham not only for) trous things to a girl who, like work in the Follies but for/ai«s Jesmer, earns her living demand for her services a8] dancing—were. treated by another “the perfect model,” was riding I} epecialist and he now assures her an auto, driven by William Morgan! that there will not be even @ scar. | Plagt student at Yale ee of REMOVING PARALYSIS a millionaire. The car swerv FROM HER FACE tree loomed ahead, and the came. , The most painful The mother, Mra. J. A.|of the Follies girl's injuries was a Jeamer, immediately from | blood clot on her eye. Another Seattle at her daughter's | Specialist is absorbing that clot, It bedside. almost gone | JAWBONE A fourth ‘specialist is BUT NO CUT ON the paralysis ‘that resulted on Mixes Jeamer’s jawbone was] left side of Miss Jesmer’s face, | thactured, but, by some miracie,| (And so it is that the prettiest there was not a cut on her face.| girl in the Greenwich Village | Fol- | “We can save all of your beauty| lies has had her beauty saved. and you'll be good as ever if] “It's like conting back from be- you've got litte grit," the} ing. dead,” says Miss Jesmer,| “to specialis to the hospital by} know you aren't going’ to™be ugly young told” her, “You've |‘arfd~ misshapen” the © rest of your tainly enough luck to go|life. A woman's looks get mighty with it, precious to her when she thinks And #0 Miss Jesmer, at she’s going to lose them.” TERI MAYOR CALLS SUBWAY “BUNK” Plans for the establishment of an extensive subway system for Seattle were laughed at by Mayor Caldwell Monday. Caldwell characterized the subway scheme as “bunk.” “To talk of spending $5,000,000 or $6,000,000 on a new rapid transit project when the munfeipal railway is struggling desperately to meet i immediate obligations is ridiculous, the mayor declared ‘The street car system is having dif- ficulty in raising money to pay the employes of the railway, Caldwell pointed out City Engineer A. H. Dimock's re- port covering various phases of the curb on Interlake aye., near h| project is scheduled to be submitted Another accident in which he | to the city council Monday afternoon, figured soon afterwards at Seventh | ave, and Madison st. led to his ar reat and identification. | her the c pats | and ngerous girl's started to be is removing HER FACE the a sent lant, had their in- PEN TERM FOR AUTO DRIVER Charles Johnapn, driver 0 an auto. | mobile which struck and fatally in- jured J. C. Kinghorn October 8, 1920, was sentenced to one to 20 years at| Walla Walla when he pleaded guilty | to a charge of manslaughter before Presidin Sudse J.T. Ronald Monday | morning. | Johnson asked for the imposition | of a fine of $1,000, but the court im- when Deputy Prose Mount’ stated that | been fined $75 six driving an automo intoxicated condi posed sentenc w. Ww. Jobn#on had months ago for bile while in an tion. Johnson struck running, without eutor Kinghorn after light’, over the} st. of the law of a life for a life. “I believe that your decision for the lesser of the two penalties can 7 { be none other than a step toward ‘fu- | ture progress. 4 “If capital punishment must” main as a law of the ¢ mnontpreetie | then by all means let us discriminate | - | in its application, and make due en quiry into each and every circum: | | stance.” j | The letter bears the signature of N. Miller, 722 Queen Anne ‘home address Olympia, Wash, | ave. 4 | September The disturbance came when City Thomas Kennedy asked that the business men and house: vives who had come to complain of the service should be heard first, the gas company’s attorneys and experts to be heard later. This request was denied by Com missioners Kuykendall and Cleland. Commissioner Spinning, the third member of the board, is not in at tendance When the hearing was begun, At torney Charles K. Poe, for the gas) company, outlined a history of experiments conducted by the company, and related conditions changes in other states and cow in the therman heat qualities of He then called Professor George Whipple, of the Uni i the gas companies of Seattle, kane and Tacoma, to testify to ty hen with reference 600 British seperate units to. 450) ry as the new fn re 5 In outlining what ground he tended to cover, Professor W! made it evident that he would be the stand for several hours. It was then that Kennedy proposed that the men and women who snatched a few precious Moments mm their bush ness and the housework should be heard first. “FOLLOWING USUAL PROCEDURE.”—KUYKENDALL are following the usual cedure,” declared Chairman Kuykem dall, in denying the proposal, This announcement was met by @ storm of groans, boos and hisses — from the audience, and shouts of de rision were hurled from every of the room. So persistent was the tumult Kuykendall declared a recess for fi minutes, after announcing that complainants would be heard day morning, at 10 o'clock, When the hearing about half the audience “That there may be no misap — prebension in the matter,” statee Kuykendall, “I want to say this hearing is not primarily of the complaints of the consumers but that it is a hearing initiated by the commission itself in rela: tion to changing of the rules gow erning the gas company. application for the change Pr made by the company, and the burden of proof is upon it, the compen proof must come first.” ¥ GREAT SHOUT OF LAU FHTER IS ANSWER TO OFFER At this point Attorney Poe oth fered to send out gas men to adjust burners between now and the hear ing. in the morning for anybody in the audience who had any com» plaint. The offer was met with 4 great shout of laughter, In his opening statement Poe declared that the gas company is going thru the same thing as the Puget Sound~Traction company aid “You did not believe them,” said, “when they said they couldn't make it on a five-cent fare, Now you know they spoke the truth: And now we tell you that we are not able to furnish gas at the old rates at 600 B. T. UL" He appealed to the audience's knowledge that coal and oi) have gone up in price, and that ex periments have proven elsewhere that 450 B, T. U. is a sufficient standard for gas; the present 600 B, T. U.." he sald, “was simply burning oil and wasting it.” “We admit that there is ground for complaint,” Poe added, “but that is not due to the quality of the gas, but because we haven't had the time to make all the ex: periments necessary, to make all the needed adjustments. We prom- ise you that, given the time make good on these exp we will not only give you gas as you had before but service,” he better K TELLS HOW COMPANIES HIRED HIM Prof, Whipple told of his being employed by the three gas companies in the state last July, August and to conduct laboratory work with reference to reducing the thermal units of gas here, and also to make a complete investigation of (furn to Page MM, Column 3) that rect