The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 21, 1920, Page 1

CITIZE ii % \ } ¥ 4 LAIM EARING: Temperatur Maximum, 44 Tedlay NS AT RRR RRR nee Wednesday: southeast. Last M Hours Minimum, 40, noon, 43, Watered as Second Class Matte On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromi: The Seattle Sta r May 3 office at Beattie TUF 1899, at the Pe \TTL “7 ASH., Wash, =. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879, Per Year, by Mall, §6 to $9 LATE GAS POOR, COSTS MORE; I (7 , DE ;EMBER 2 a; “1920. ‘GOVERNOR WON'T HEED PLEAS FOR ISOM WHITE Law Reaches Snohomish Rough Justice. Reforming Clergyman. Mercy for a Pirate. BY HAL ARMSTRONG st byes RE WAS he order, Justi In Snoho > pay no law,@no art of No peac ef, NO co’ wild eisure Imblers, stab Btayers Snohom Gays, bere State, was Qs ever club has frequent Downey, dept But law 47 Stohomish with Beance A clergyman drifted in one day. Be: had organ- half a A im rritorial | Washingt a town of 1 rT of the een to the be tter a . non, Seattle Ei by el bman y came to of ven y gheriff and cl drder final & snort ed on the owner The owner ) terested the clergyman’s Sand drew him out. Tt @aid he wae coing to Seatt that a constable and a justice of the Peace be appointed in Snohomish. ‘Three days later; whe Man appeared in See formed “You are a day late, sir. A promi-| ent citizen of your town visited us Yesterday, and we appointed a juatice | $nd constable at his suggestion.” It was with satisfaction that the nm jearned that the promt- Ment citizen who had preceded him) ‘Was none other than his friend the Saloonkeeper. in He went to Snohomish and wrung | « his friend's hand earnestly. SEVERAL CAPITAL CRIMES— AND CLERGYMAN WAITS That night there were two mur- Gora, seven holdups, a stabbing, three Suicides and several minor crimes. clergyman waited three days. constable, whoever he was, had} Bot visibly functioned. The lockup | ; wae oa He hurried to the sa-/ SSomething tas’ be done” agreed] the gentieman behind the bar. And _ pomething was. joxt morning Terrance McGovern | Was arrested. A sack of potatoes ‘and a ham had been stolen from the, of a boat during the night. | ince Was accused of the crime. T Malefaction must be stopped!” } “Quite #0,” said the minister, quiz- | gically, and returned home. ‘That afternoon the court of justice | @f the town of Snohomish, territory Washington, was called to order @ the constable himself, who chanced to be bouncer in one of the dance halla. The courtroom was the spacious bar-room of the leading sa-| Joon man. The judge was Mike F. if Downey's memory serves Fight, Mike being otherwise employed as swamper in the leading saloon. Snohomish boasted no lawyers in} ys, but a prosecute nd » defense were chosen from among the assembled throng Terrance McGovern was duly tried-| @uly convicted of theft, and the; judge, after confulting two almanacs And an old leather-bound law book Whose’ possession had got him his ap Gointment to the bench @uid of tobacco and * claimed “Terrance McGovern MeGovern stood; in fact standing thruout the trial being taken by the dignitaries of the court, the jury, the clergyman and| the saloonkee ROBBERY ON HIGH SEAS IS PIRACY—DEATH “McGovern,” said the have been convicted able court of the dist theft the the high seas i# wh and falls, and the t at Snohomish. And says. that robbery on fs piracy, and pir by death McGovern sank to the floor “McGovern!” shouted the find you guilty of piracy on the gens and sentence you to P'you understand, McGovern be hanged the neck until and the hanging party will pair to the boat where the piracy was committed and string up to the yardarm!” “But if the will hear me broke in the clerg: riging out of | his seat . your honor has ho jurisd uth! ‘This court can not the death sentenc! “How's that rising and shaking his fist “git down, Ryan; you're der!” cut in the the court subsided MeGovern was getti svered consciousness Bf another chew from plug that he drew from his pocket Mo * gaid he, as he spat] again overn, court finds | that “the charges against you groundiess. The case is dismissed You're a tree McGovern you! If this court hang by tantrums. nobody else will!” spat out a| gravely ex nd up!” had been| all seats | court th norak p this honor crime law book says that | ide rises | nd falls | law book s} punishable | court, “T} high leath You'll dead, | now re-| you court court in over de roared the judge, out of or ceper, afd with re-| judge bit | immense | up, The nm man can't j handle thes | ing no good and are only causing dis j up in the proper way | | date by Warden Drumm of the state | | driver b | fo | sentenced to 120 days in jail in fed | EK THESE FO0L : PETITIONS ANGER HIM Asked About Rumored Com- mutation; “Never Heacd of Such a Statement” Hart was asked by The Star over long-distance telephone late yes | teraay whether he could confirm the of a prorfinent club wom-| effect that he would commute the dea of Isom White fe imprisonment if con vinced that the people of the state desire clemency in the matter, His| reply was “I hawe stateme The Gov never heard of such @ vernor did not at first an- call for him at his office, one who sald he was the governor's secretary did. SECRETARY OBJECTS TO eee FOOL LETTERS” tell you what the situation is, he gh pered We have already had to hire extra clerks down here to fool Jetters and petitions = the White boy, We wish They are do neerni they would be stopped. ruption office saran* ‘How then would the governor know what is the wish of the peo ple?” he was asked. “The governor im't paying any at- tention to them. They're a nuisance and are only doing harm,” was the reply. te ‘ou don't mean to aay that if the ped of thin state write letters and gee ns to the governor asking for commutation of sentence for White, or on any other subject, he will ignore them “Well, the matter should be taken | of the governor's yple “We were under the impression | hat this was the proper way; the | usual, customary way, by petition and letter.” “SAY, WHO A MI TALKING Tor “Well, it’s doing harming the boy. only | am 1 good, who no Bay, “Why weren't you fair enough to tell me so in the first place? If I'd known that, of course I shouldn't | have said anything.” “Do you wish to modify change your statement?” j I'l) let you talk to the governor.” The governor, after saying he had heard of no report that he was in-| clined to clemency in the case of | Isom White, not do anything in the matter until the case was out of the hands of the | court altogether | From this it is igferred that he will | await the setting of the execution amend or | penitentiary. White has not yet been taken to Walla Walla, but ia stiil the Snohomish county jail at Everett where he has been confined since he was ted more than a year ago for the murder of Lee Linton, taxi | LIQUOR GHOST HAUNTING HIM Once more the uor stalked up Machem Tuesday Machem was 199 Oth ave he, € ghost of dead liq to meet William morning arrested N. deputies June 14,| and Thomas | to have} ynd 28 quarts of beer and seven bottles of grape, As @ fesult, he was fined $100° in justice court and later fined $200 and | whe % claim court altho the liquid has been de he is being tried In Judge ‘Tajiman's court on a charge | ing liquor unlawfully in his| wseton | ow stroyed, Boyd J of pon ‘SANTA CLAUS RUSHING P, 0. Claus is doing a landoffice Beattle this year, judg amount of parcel post handling fully as many | this year as last," said Williams, supt. of mails was our biggest day so Sar ing fr “We are packages Georg PLANS FOR THE FI of Th Columns, new uni ity pu n, were discussed at ting of the board of editors at ‘Tuesday the campus m noon on | added that he would |" | play The Marooned Travelers— The Bandit Holdup— The Kidnaped Special— The Crippled Engine— All in This Installment of The Wreckers Diniels. (Copyright, 1920, (Continued From Yesterday) ’ Before the had eo to answer her qu: about tele graph office he got nm me and I knew hadn't oticed me before. “You here, toot he ripped out, and I know it did him a lot of good to able to unload on somebody in trousers. Why in blue blazes didn’t you stay on that train and keep it from running away from us?" That's tt: why didn't I? What made the dog stop before he caught the rabbit? I was trying to frame up sha or that bows a oba. jon h that eye © he then ome an excuse WON'T PARDON STAGE QUICKLY Not So Confident Now He Will Dodge Term TACOMA, Dec. zt.—-Rettors, who | © were eager two days ago to wager even money that George T. Stage never would go to prison to serve his ten-year sentence for kidnaping his baby son, but would be pardoned at once by Gey. Hart, were withdrawing their untaken money here today in atlence, County authorities have notified Warden Henry Drumm, of the pent tentiary, to send a traveling guard a8 s00n aa convenient to take Stags to Walla Walla TALK OF IMMEDIATE PARDON SUBSIDES Talk of an immediate pardon which was on everybody's lips the day Stagg returned here and gave himself up that Betty Brainerd might be freed without trial, has almost to- tally subsided. Stagg is apparently is considerably more pale be was last in Tacoma ness caused comment tn the court room where be was sentenced that he “must have been keeping out of 1 resigned. He than wh This da }the sun HE WAS HIDING | haa declined t od ‘ He where remai during ng for affirm Mexico Jinclome from the po-| the months they were! him, and would net deny that he was arch ther nor in of counsel that early to begin clemency Mrs. Stagg, his divorced receded from pressed determination to immediate. ly visit Governor Hart inquest of a pardon for her baby's father on advice it proceedings, wife. is too America Plays Santa Claus to Hungry Kiddies VIENNA, Dec. 21.—America Santa Claus to more than Viennese children this will 350, 000 destitute Christmas The American relief administra tion will distribute three garments each among these children, and will give at ite 2,000 feeding sta tions of eake made from | whi The American Red will give clothing and corm milk to about 40,000 of the who are in orphanages and to each a pound pur. Cron aeneed ohildren ale President Hainische will American Christmas tree Belvidere palace Bad News Ranch Eggs t p. went the attend an ry Ranch ege notches on eaday ents cents up wholes couple of market | in 48 and 6 quotation a dow Bullets are | know. | can't,” fords.” | houne | finally got him started | stin Lynde Charles Seribner’s Sons.) would sound just a few degrees lens when the young me, She'd had writer dinned day even than plumb foolish up for tter of my typ her pretty ears knew who I was, was dark Don't wor took if it ahe out the kind Y nome one. ake it on of poor crisp, and If you feel I'm the boy! ahe yet of ™ liged to bully ne who ts to blame. Indeed, you're not!” the ky little girl one who Jumped fret. And I don't re; | waan't going to lone my per good muff.” nort chipped Ktoe By ning to get bimeelf and he laughed. “We've all earned the lather medal, I guess,” chuckied. “It's done now, and ft can't be helped. We're stuck ‘watil another train comes along, and perhapq.we ought to be thankful that we've"got Jim- mie Dodds along to chaperon us.” “But tent there anything else we } Bri: can ere ig & station or a town with people in it? I mw Mr. Noreroes look down at her skirts and then at the girl's. “You two couldn't walk very far or very fast in thore things you age wearing,” he grunted. “Besides, we are in one of the desert strips, and it in probably miles to a night wire station in either direction.” “And how long shall wait for another train?” This time it was the little girl who wanted to wish I could tell you, but I said the boss. “I'm not fa. with the Short Line sched Then to the young woman we go and sit undeg tank? That seema tie nearest room that millar ules Shall water about waiting to to a af be approach the place w trailed track, two @ ing with the we'd counted a few of ties, the girl said: “Is Jhemie Dodds?’ And mitted it Mine is I'm Sheila's cousin on wide I think this don't you? “I can I said. Maybe | here ali night.” “I shouldn't mind,” irily. “I win 1 off together 1 two, the young we up the walk- After cross name ad Ann ther's lark; boss an. the your when I Maisie her m is & great ell better after it's over, we'll have " she came back haven't been up little down You that was a burned aren't kiddie and our You're just a must excuse I can't see boy you? it's so dark sid her I years out a little I had said that time water tank one of the for a seat had been shaving for and more, and she let gurgling laugh, as something funny, By had reached the big and the boss picked out square footing timbers It seemed as if hi finding {t a good bit harder to get acquainfed with his half of the com bination that I was with mine, but after little the young women thawed out a bit and made him talk to help pass away the time, I took it—and the little girl and I sat and listened. When the young woman the boss told how he'd been we her all about himself, railroading ever since he left and @ lot of things that I'd ven dreamed of It's curtous a pretty woman can make a turn him If inside out way, just for her; amusement. Maisie Ann and I sat on the end of the timber; not too near butt-ins, nor #0 far away that couldn't hear all that was said had the cigar the boss had given m and I sure wanted to smoke mighty bad, only I thought it wouldn't look just right—me being the chaperon. Alo@™ in the middle of things, Mr. N@rcross broke off short and begged the young wom an's pardon for boring her with so much shop talk “Oh, you're not boring me at I like to hear it,” she protested. And then “You haye t nm telling me the story of a men who h done things, (furn to Page 13, Column 3) man to be we 1 all; in} was the! thiw time the bows was begin | & little better grip on we have to} the | that | i \ | | | ”| to stay | 1 night | } wore | | ment iS | Kamchatka under old treaties U. S. Citizens Can Transact Business With Bolsheviki at Own Risk WASHINGTON, Dee. lean business men today to trade with Russia rink.” 21.—Amer- were free ‘at their own ‘This means, according to govern:| ment officials, that while no restric Uons will be pia soviets, neither will any aid be given to much trade, and that any American who suffers losses or confiscation of ed on trade with the his goods will get no help from this| government, ‘This last restriction by the govern- wea re oved when the treas ury department announced that ex- port of gold and currency and deal ings in exchange would be permitted. Laat July the state department re- moved the ban on Russian trade, ex- cepting only arms and munitions of war, ‘This was never completely ef-| however, as there was no for exchange dealings le of thin @ trade with the soviets at the trader's risk was the proper method of deal ing with Romin, Thishaw been Plain on meVeral ochamane; when the British started negotiations with the Russian bolshevik author ities, Officials here have held that the were VANDERLIP FS) 'S CAN’T S DEAL LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21.—Mem, bers of the Vanderlip-Kamchatka yndicate, comprised of prominent and wealthy” Southern Californians, were to meet today with Washington D. Vanderlip to bear from his lips intimate detatis of twe gigantic com: mercial propositions whieh the Los Angeles” mining engineer brought back from Rursia. One of these propositions involves development of 400,000 xquare milex in Siberia on which Vanderlip has procured a 60-year leane. The other |i# the placing of orders for the Rus sian government to 000,000,000 Vanderlip today rights claimed by amounting declared the Japanese in with Russia are, worthless and will not hinder the Garrying out of the lease given Low Angeles fi LENINE SAYS HELI | DRIVE JAPS INTO ‘I am firmly convinced the Rus. | sians can go on fighting at their pres ent strength of 4,000,000 men for sev en years or longer, if necessary, to succeed in their determination to ex pel the Japanese. The bolshevist armies are steadily pushing the Jap. anese eastward in Siberia Lenine told me they would not stop until every Japanese had been driven into the sea.” Britih propaganda, Vanderlip said, prevents Americans from learn ing the true state of affairs in Rus sia England fears the rising tide of a great physical, constructive and in tellectual force which ma day rock the British emp "he de clared. "It was the desire of England and France, foolishly aided by Presi. dent Wilson, to separate the mighty Russian nation into a dozen quarrel ing states over which they could ex ercise domination.” This was the reason, said Vander. lip, for the stories of the “national. zation of women,” famine, riot and revolution “The prociamations ationalization of women’ were nk of college students in the Volga and were understood joke,” said Vanderlip. “When Russian people told an American cor respondent the proclamation was joke, he sald, ‘Maybe it is, the best story I'm going to take of Russia.’ som 0¢ concerning the a pr on a town as o v Woman’s Body Is Buried on Beach LONG BRACH, N. ¥., Dee Erforts were being: made today to de termine whether the unidentified woman whose body was found partly buried on the beach here last night Was murder committed suicide ‘There was a bullet wound over her right eye, but no powder marks, and a search failed to reveal @ weapon in the vicinity, nment have| | long held the belief that unrestricted that | but it is] | | Upon completing her course of study at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Miss Martha Neumark of Cincinnati, will become the only woman rabbi in the United States. € umark is the first girl to take up the rabbinical course. T WO CE NTS IN ‘SEATTLE _ TAKE MORE THAN DAY TO LISTEN | | Miss VOTE TODAY ON STATE SENATOR FAKE OFFICERS LOOT SMUGGLER Pick Successor to Lamping|/Fine Whisky Runners|% in sith District Polls are open today until § p.m in the 37th senatorial district for the, special “lection to pick a #uccesso! to George B. Lamping, who has xigned to become a member of the Port of Seattle commission. But two candidates are in the field, 1%. B Palmer, republican, and Joe Smith, farmerdabor man, Hoth have served before in the state legislature. TANKER ATLAS RUNS ON ROCKS KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Dec. 21 Further word was anxiously awaited | today from the | Atlas, reported on the narrows, rocks in Snow leaking Sullivan by » and the o would be forced to leave the vessel if she slipped into deep w She carries a crew of is a ship of 2,005 tons port is San Francisco. FEDERAL MEN " SEIZE BREWERY WILKESBARRE, Pa,, Dec. 21 |The entire plant and apparatus of the Stegmaier Brewing company, the largest in Luzerne county, were seized today by the United States government for alleged violation of the Volstead prohibition act ACCUSE 77.1N MANILA RIOTS HONOLULU, T. H Formal charges of sedition and mur der against 77 members of the Philip. | pine constabulary were filed yester day by the ¢ according The charg the Manila r 20 men, She Her Home Dee. an outgrowth of nts of a few gays ago, HER CHRISTMAS GIFTS STOLEN All of Mra. ©. presents were stolen from her at 1208 Pine st. Tuesday by thiev who went in with a pass key. Included in the list were one Jaluminum kettle, one small sweater, two linen handkerchiefs, one bath towel and a ly’s wrist watch, mas apartment HIS WHISKERS Santa Claus has lost his whiskers They were turned in Tuesday to the Lost and Found department of the muny railway, | fleers” | day Standard Oi) tanker | Wirtman's. Christ-| $1,000, Victim Says Evidence not only of a gigantic booze running organization, but of the activities of predatory fake “of- who are exacting tribute on & wholesale scale from whisky smug- glers who cross the Canadian line into Washington, was being de- veloped Tuesday by government agents. State Prohibition Director Donald A. MeDonald, Collector of Customs Roseoe Drumheller, Assistant Collec tor Henry C. Blackwood and Capt. Ben Lichtenberg, of the coast guard service, were in conference Tuesday afternoon, following the arrest Mon- of two Japs and the seizure of & British fishing boat with a load of boone. JAPS SAID TO HAVE PARTLY CONFESSED The two Japs, it is said, have partly confessed, and officials are quizzing them further, According to the evidence so far obtained, Director McDonald said Tuesd@, the vessel, with 260 cases of Canadiin whisky aboard, attempted to land at a point near Ballard Sun. day night. They were met, however, by @ party of several “officers,” said to have been in uniform. The “offi- cers” levied a fine of $500 on the boat, 500 on the crew, and took 50 cases of the whisky, it is claimed. The boat was then allowed to pro- ed. She was picked up shortly be- fore dawn by Capt. Lichtenberg, in the coast guard cutter Scout, In addition to the two Japs who were captured, there is said to have been another Jap and a white man aboard the vessel. The white man was the captain. LOOKS LIKE GIGANTIC ROBBING SYSTEM “I cannot say what our investiga tien may develop,” Director McDon: ald said just before going into confer- ence Tuesday, “but from what I have been able to learn so far, it looks as tho we have uncovered one of the big: gest booze-running and booze-robbing affairs that exists in the state.” McDonald said that they were waiting for an important witness, who was expected to throw consider- able light on the matter of the fake officers, Director McDonald and a party of his men were laying for whisky smugglers just a few miles north of where the British boat was captured, Sunday night heard a boat out McDonald = said today, which we suppose now must have t was picked up by Lichtenberg. Aside from that heard or saw nothing.” EEP GLOOM AT UNIVERSITY “Woe unto me,” says any colleger you meet these days. ‘That's the way he expresses his | of. ¥ fatlen sity First. ones were held Monday ‘Pfey'i* continue til ‘Thursday. Then—vacation. Oh, boys s 7 =e in the we ® examinations have be. victims at the unive ir final the TO KICK Gas Co. Sets Up Appliances « to Demonstrate Cooking With Few B. T. U.s Takes twice as long to cook meal, Bills have increased. Takes » long time to Hight barnes Service ireguiay. ° Witness chee wii took the stand Tuesday morning before the — public service commission in the | Press club to testify to the above \condttions with relation to gae sem vice in Seattle. A three commis _sioners were in attendance Tuesday. Complaints of consumers will ably be heard thruout the day, the hearing, intended to be ed with the afternoon sessi have to be continued, in all probe ability, for another day. While the witnesses were testify: ing, gas stoves and cookers were being prepared on the stage of the Press club by the gas company, the evident intention of giving Practical demonstration of eres ese, with the present q § IMPROVED ‘AST FEW DAYS un questioning the witnesses, Ci Attorney Kennedy intimated that the past three-or four days, the gaa standard had been raised over it had been in the past three further complaints after the ments failed because she had treated discourteously by the pany on a former occasion; that takes twice as long to cook and ti her gas bills run from $7 to $8 month now as compared with 92 $3 a year ago. Ella Taplan, 1943 46th 8. W., after testifying that she had, complaint to maxe of the gas erally except that the pressure bit low between four and six in the afternoon, was asked by City Atter y : S it come that, , no particular complaint, you are. here today?” “Well, I was asked to come here by Mr. Simpson of the gas com — pany,” was the reply. The audience, which was quite as lar®e as that which the hall yesterday, laughed heartily. Mrs. C. J. Jorgenson, 2311 Hill ave, testified it took a longer time to bring water to a boil, | that very often the gus, trikes back, that it takes three or four lightings to burn the gas; that an adjustment had been made but that no improvement has resulted; that bills are nearly three times as large as before. 3 George A. Terpin, 4557 Brooklyn ave., who rents several apartments, told of the continued complaint of tenants. He drew a laugh when he solemnly declared that he has to burn six times as many matches now as formerly on account of beiifg unable to start the gas burm ime. 700, TELLS HER PRESSURK HIGH TO FIX BURNERS & sometimes five minute, gas will light,” he de tt “Tt is fore the vlared. Mrs. A. M. Febilcorn, 5216 1 ave, W., told of a gas man had come out to her home to just the burners but who dee! that there wasn't much he could do “owing to the high pressure of the gas now being sent out.” Asked if she complained further, she said she didn't because on previous oo casions when she visited the offices, she was not treated courteously. When asked by Assistant Attorney jeneral Clifford, who is representing the commission, whether she could locate the discourteous one among the row of gas officials, she pointed to Attorney Charles Poe, saying: “I'm not sure, but he looked some thing like him.” The crowd laughed heartily, Joining in, ‘When the witness learned that she had pointed out the attorney for the company, she added to the general mirth by saying? “If he's the attorney, put it past him,” BON MARCHE M AMONG COMPLAINANTS, Mrs. M. Litchman, 408 E. 60th st. testified to the same general defigh (Turn to Page 8, Column Q T wouldn't