The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 7, 1921, Page 1

PEEEESTS 522% | | J yl. Eg 4} ll VOLUME 23 Tonight and erally Maximum, Weather fair wester Tenperature Last 42 Saturday, gen- moderate ly winds. Entered as Second Class Matter Mey 3, 18 On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star . at the Postoffics at Beat th Wash, under the Act of } of Conaress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $5 +$100,000,000 BOOZE SCANDAL! TH EW LATE EDITION SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JANU TARY | 7, 1921. ‘TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE 1921 Ladder Didn't Break. We're Nearly Down. Situation Safe. So Says Backus. os ew ONLY QUESTION," sald} Manson F. Backus, president ef the National Bank Commerce, and veteran Seattle financier, “was whether the ladder of inflation would break under us, or we would come down rung by rung | “We're nearly down.” And that was his answer to the question: What's in prospect for) Seattle tn 19217 “Financially, we are nearty at Mormal,” he said. “There may be little Inflation to be corrected ich means that prices may drop ‘& little lower. Rut the process has Deen so gradual that nearly all Dusl-| Rest men have seen far enough ip @dvance to prepare themselves. “The public ts reported in larger @emana for Liberty Bonds, which ts Just one thing that shows the trend. It is always a good sign when the | Public at large buys up bond issues “The entire country Is In excep @ionally good condition, The situa tion calls for cautious management. Dut I look for no alrming develop thents, because the business element ‘Was, and is, prepared.” America must ‘not bank too high Jy on foreign purchases, Backus/ warns, because of the large war Gebt»—15 dillions—owing to this country. “But woulin’t hurt us much} Mf these Cobtx never were paid,” he eald. “It would merely make taxes} higher for some years. The country &s a whole, wouldn't notice it a great deal I see no cause for alarm in he fear which some people have certain European nations may diate thelr war debta” 4 } lecide Babies ot Guests; No Extra Charges SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7—The line was drawn today by tho Apart ment House Managers’ association, | ween visits from mother-in-law, ind visits from the stork. In a for I announcement the status of each | defined. Mother-in-law, being a_ relative classed as @ guest, and for each fuest, it wns announced, tenants Will be subject to an additional charge of $5 per month. It is to cover wear and tear on knives, forks, Spoons and towels. But the stork—he's different, and there will be no additional charge for the babies he brim “Babies are babies,” ment fairly sighed “They are not gues NIVORCE OVER STEERING AUTO —— | Pair Got Into Quarrel That Led to Court | who charges t his wife's vorce sult, now nding, was brought solely beqause Ihe wants to drive the family auto mobile giv choice Between two propositions for paying alimony in Judge Boyd J. Tallman court Friday. he announce: | in resignation. Arthur McDo alone, wai n his McDonald chore to keep his apartment and pay $20 a week instead of giving the apartment to his wife and paying $10 a w He owns a grocery store at E. Pine st. j According to iim, the quarrel | which led to the efforts for di Vvorce arose over the fact that he has ony one arm and his wife ob- to his sitting at the automo: Ie atecring wh ACCUSE PASTOR UNDER MANN ACT PATERSON, warrant charging the Rev. ¢ €. Densel, former pastor of the First Netherlands church of Passa violation of the Mann sued here today by laney, United States commi WOMAN IS FASTING TO FORCE HER HUSBAND TO JOIN THE CHURCH DANVILLE, Ill, Jan ng her 40th day of fast Mr i A. De Joseph Start toda reiter abstain fron g band joir Dr. G examin her pu mal, bu heart fer hust pastor of the Dorado, Il code with her fast nd has writt | was said to have declared the confer. FIGHTS 10 | SAVE ISOM Author of Capital Punish- | ment Law Attacks Legal- ity of Measure “Jan. T—The law which restored capital punishment in the state of Washington, under which Isom White, 19-year-old weak minded boy, has been sentenced to die for the murder of Lee Linton. taxicab driver, may be unconstitu tional. Attorney Joseph H. Smith, who dfafted the law and led the fight for ita passage, and who is now attorney for White, attacked the legality ef the measure before the supreme court yesterday when he asked for a new hearing tn behalf of the youth. | Smith charged that when the legis | lature passed the bill the acting gov | ernor discovered a flaw, but instead} of using the veto he returned it to} the legistature and the flaw was later corrected. He contended the legislature had no power at that! Ume to change the measure. KERENSKY AGAIN PLANNING FIGHT ‘Hopes to Unite Anti-Bolshe- vik Factions EVERETT, | PARIS, Jan Alexander Keren TEXANS ORDER JAPS TO MOVE ON AFTE AND IS BOUGHT IN RIO GRANDE NIPPONESE ers Halted by American Legion Men HARLINGEN, Texaa, Jan 4 critical point in the Kio valley. | Arrival of two families of Orientals settling on land) with purpones of precipitated the crinis. | The “invaders” American Legion men, but [rival of the agent from Californ jlation In the st etslature, 'California Anti- | \RACRAMENTO, Cal, Jan. 7 ng. 29 to 0, ere Japs Win Round in INVADING NEW FIELD, Vanguard of Oriental Farm- AntiJapanense agitation has vanced ney, Grande they claim they purchased from a Japanese land man in California, haa | 1° were ordered to ove 0} et 7 move on immediately upon arrival iN STREET CAR INQUIRY | by a citizens committee headed by | later | woman” were allowed to remain pending ar the recent grand jury investigation, a Representative Bledsoe sald today he will introduce antiJapanese legis Jap Law Defended résolution, memortallzing the United 204 5. respectively. tialoe senate not to negotiate a freaty with Japan that would invati |@0d for several years, by reason of date the California alien land law, pasned ist the November election, was J eandidacy tor public office, has ac- }pnserd in the state senate this mom REGION | Pussy Willows and Dandelions Herald Spring Dandelions bloomed on Queen Anne hill today Pussy willows bobbed thelr fur- ry heads on the banks of the Du: wamish, Signs of an early spring, ent In Seattle, are also in evidence in most parts of the country, aa the following wire poll showed to- WHITNEY IS ACCUSED BY HUSBAND! Alienation of of Affections Is. | | day: Alleged Against Prom- eee : . || KANE, . Jan, 7—Altho inent Republican || Kane is the coldest place in the « - |] state, owing to its altitude of Dectartre that William M. Whit-|] 2 feet, spring weather is on former president of the Young Men's Republican club, alienated the affections of his wife, J. Allan Sweet- | man today filed a suit In the superior court asking $50,000 damages. |_ ‘The complaint, drawn by Attorney Philip Tworoger, states that Whit and Mrs, Maude Sweetman be- came acquainted as members of one lof the draft boards in King county Pansies are in bloom and worms are being found on the sidewalks, eee MOUNT CARMEL, Pa, Jan. 7. A bouquet of pansies and dan. delions picked from her back yard was displayed by Mrs, Charles Marsden here today. . iy eee Se eee, WORAR WILMINGTON, Del, Jan. 7—- Dandelions are blooming in Bran- dywine park, pussy willows are sprouting and bullfrogs are re- ported along streams as a result of mild weather. Mra. Sweetman was the “myster who had appeared before | when the street car deal was being |probed. She was called, it is be- eee Lieved, to testify concerning the story iM Le WINNIP’ Man, Jan. that Whitney had been in the Ba wileapar Pane rts as an investigator for Mayor Cald- well Sweetman tn his complaint recites that for more than 11 years the fam- ily Ufe of the Sweetmans had been happy. They have two children, 11 mildest winter in 50 years, accord ing to elty hall reports, eee RICHMOND, Va, Jan. % Spring weather dn Eastern Vir ginia has started sap to flowing from trees. Rose bushes are bud ding, fruit trees and grape vines are bearing leaves, eee Whitney is described as “a lawyer, | his sctivity in politics and thru his SPOKANE, Jan. 1—Constabdte |) quired @ certain degree of promi-|| yim Howard, of the superior || nence in the city of Seattle.” At one || court, laid off this morning, pros || |time Whitney was a candidate for || pected around hia back lot and | congress. found two blooming buttercups. | Whitney t further described as a He claims to have found the first phage baal Seandee.: te * * “bachelor, enjoying certain social and || putters ar Spuimsand 0 sevplesonney, sobees Fight for Licenses | jiiiici'jruminence, « person of pre || gnats me Sunway to m here tomorrow in an attempt| Licenses to engage in certain lines possessing appearance, liberal educa-| “I wanted to be first,” he ex- to teatté’ air aatiimelsmarix Sactione of business can not legally be with-ytion, and of an attractive personal-|| piaing, M. Tchernoff, minister of agricul. Mrs. Benjamin King ~ a Prin face repel Bp ity, ppealing particularly to wom pinta > a aaaaeel Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the president, made her\a ruling of Corporation Counsel BLANDinenex iTS AND } { the revolutionary constituent as-| first social appearance in many montha, at the wedding of | Waiter F. Meter Thursday. The ques) PLATTERY ALLEG | sembly, will preside over meet-| Miss Marjorie Brown and Benjamin King, of New York. “om #roee over the efforts of Jap | “shortly after he became acquaint: ing Febernett excuped te m ae ged | The wedding was held at the Brown home in Washington, Dloyment pt a snd pawnatiopa. bo » Saye on gag a ee “od IN EXPLOSION two months ago. :: was believ ne | - ‘ we band's allegation. nitney began, will tell. the delegates what their December ~fehaaeatees mgm 3 by a'series of blandishments and fiat- chances of military success will be if| tional Hunt On |tery, to undermine her affections, the followers of Kerensky and Gen eral Wrangel can be united. Delegates to the confere nice include | members of the social revolutionary | party, the duma majority under the} provisiona | government and the| cadets. | Dispatches today, bearing on the Russian and Polish situation, tended to confirm a rumor heretofore de nied, that President Pilsudski expects to form a military co with | France. ‘The French tnvitation to Pilsudski all ence “may a political and economic lead to the concl ag usion of ment DRUGGIST AND DOCTOR FINED § PASSES AWAY | Pay $1,000 ‘Each for Break- ing Dope Law Fine of $1,000 each was the sen proprietor of I tence given Dr. J. E. Go tle physician, and Charles E. elly's drugstore, odfrey, Seat Kelly \J, 6, SCRIPPS | Newspaper Publisher Dies at His Home SAN DIRGO, Cal, Jan. newspaper ome at 1:20 this morr at Ulness of « veral weeks. , after an CHICAGO, Jan, T—A 1, 38 The New Age” of « cotrespondence school Louis. Villard, who ts 1 appeared here Christm: was last seen being carr hotel by to be either a Swede or a Pole. 4 Magazine, Villard ordinarily hired bellty carry wheel chair. for Crippled Editor national mt was on today for Jacques Vil a cripple, owner and editor and in 8t ais 4 from a a tall blonde man, believed Because of his crippled condition, him to the elevator and to his |and finally succeeded in breaking up the plaintiff's home.” In October, 1920, it Is alleged, Rob- Jert M. Jones, chairman of the King county central committee, “induced Mra. Sweetman to leave Seattle and meet Whitney in Chicago,” and that they spent four days together there. Sweetman claims that as a result of Whitney's attentions to his wife he bad to give up a lucrative posi in a large mercantile house here, finally had to take his two boys and leave Seattle. |Want Witnesses to Accident on Street ro 263 Hillside place. Janitor is look ing for witnesses to the accident in which he figured late in the after noon of December 4 when he was knocked down by an automobile 1 ry and Dayton aves. N is the auto had Buildings Are Shaken by Blast MUNCIE,In4,, , Jan 7.—Two men seriously injured, one prob: ably fatally, when a short circuit in| a high tension room of the Indiana company’s plant here caused a terrific explosion a day. The explosion shook windows fn buildings reveral blocks away. | Surrounding towns were eal |power for more than fo hours. VETERAN SLAIN; "FEAR MOB RULE : GRAND JUNCTION, Colo., Jan.'7. were General Service Neerland, at the Denny school, autoist, he says, charge Feeling ran high at Debeque, near wan intoxicated. Neerland denies | here, today and an attempted lynch- this. He asks that witnesses to the |" Was feared by officers, following accident report to his attorney, Ea-|the murder yesterday of Samuel | rar Hadley, in the Colman building. | | Thompkins, 33, and the arrest of| caer? William Ross and Jack Hi, railroad ONSTABLE Ww AS | laborers, Hill is alleged to have con: | sed. | Cc 7 T hompkins, an overseas veteran, | ALL CUFFED UP | ,,ca')seen beaten to death with a ham GILA ND, Ariz, Jan. 7.—Con-| mer, robbed jf.$200' and his body | table W. A ill is relating today | thrown from a Of where it was how the tables were turned on him found by railway section men. yesterday by three men whom he — sought to arrest in connection with men got the drop on him, O'Neill gays, and left him shackled with his | }own handcuffs when they drove off} | in a car, The constable was wearing | the cuff when he returned ber | One safe was tampered with during - the night, according to reports to po- Clara Smith Hamon jl i‘, | | to Stay at Home Nothing was taken from the of. te Re ja | fice of George F, Meacham, real FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan. 7—/ estate man, at 635 New York block, |Clara Smith Hamon, charged with |}y thieves who ransacked the office {murdering Jake L, Hamon, Okla | ang sate. homa n lionaire, was to leave her Williams & Co. Bell st. are jfor El Paso today to stay with her | minus $20 as th Chiiheve parents until her trial at Ardmore visit. ‘The mbnéy wasfaken from @ cash box in a dedk that was jimmie a. SIX PERSONS DEAD IN FIRE Good News Butter, Eggs and Rhubarb Decline. Western ave. jobbers contributed| BNGLAND, Ark., Jan. Six per to the lowering cost of living by mak-| sons were killed and two others ing the following price reductions | probably fatally injured, while three Friday srs were severely burned as a re | Creamery butter, bricks, from 53 sult of a fire which swept the Royal to 50 cents a pound; cubes, from 62) hotel here, The dead to 49 cents | Mr. and Mrs. Mack Rawles, Mrs. | Ranch eggs, from 54 to 53 cents al|Jennie Anderson and a %-yearold | | dozen daughter, and a man named Hooker, | Local hothouse rhubarb, from 1#@]all of England, and Mrs, A, Hulla-| | between France and Poland.” Second ave. S, when they pleade : : } M 8. ot Wan 3 es Ww The Gazeta Warszawska declared ty before Federal Judge E. EB aan poten pl Ty AP Harding to» Oppose the “visit is a prelude to complete Cushman, Thursday afternoon, to which followed an attack of infuenza| Large Army Plan military and economic agreement be-| violation of the Harrison narcotic ta month ago MARION, 0., Jan, 7 All plans tween the two countries.” Polish of. t . : ; ; ficiais have rep dee d they {400 t arn he han been the man-| for a large standing army or compul : é , os Oe : ary ae tor of the Scripps news| sory vice in pe are expecting a Russian attack in| They were indicted by a federal yi ggs oR oaa A are pan mapyted) Ser the spring |xrand jury last fall. According an allied news organi-| Harding, according to t ~— | the ev Dr. Kelly made a prac cing one of the youngest | who profess to know his intimate Three Small Fires | chs de weetttndpeteacipsienbites aiat pcbee pubtiaades tn tho: United (views on nets ensets todas siaMeseneh San ss . in taking thie position in the fa Reported Overnight ayer erent ety GE wie torn’ tn Woenlelisater,'a leche ercantre.th Gaver of greater Three fi one in a down-town| BY ® working agreement these were urb of Cincinnati, ¢ He came | military preparedness, garage, were put out by the fire de-|*ald to have been taken to Kelly to| to San Di with his parents when ee partment Thursday night and Fri-| be filled. 6 years of age, and has resided here/ . day | “Both men ptended not gufity at /since that time \U. S. Army on Rhine | An ofl stove, turned up too high,|first, but Thursday changed their| Surviving are his parents, Mr. and| to Be Cut in Half caused a small explosion in the South | plea and were sentenced Mrs. E. W. Scripps, and brother, i ap 3 Find garage, 115 Prefontaine piace, at| | Robert P. Scripps, Another brother,| WASHINGTON, Jan, 7—Amert 5:30 a.m. Damage is $65. John ripps, died here several |can forces on the Rhine will be cut Two overheated stoves started two from 15,000 to 7,500 by July 1, 1921 | fires during the night. The home of zy Jonephine the war department announces, Th GOL. Hu rd, 3440 Gilman a was and ‘four children. will cut the annual cost of the army damaged to the ent of $1,500 at} “pe Jr phine of occupation to $60,000,000. 6:18 p. m. Thursda,, while $100 dam. Brows ng Sert Jeo eur —— a.m. Friday rguments on the appeal of Senat here 8 SBC Rea and 16 other vie , Urges Institution the charges of i-| SAN DIEGO, Cal, Jan. 7 AN, 10 to Cure Dope Users 1 of ied today, Miltc fertae, 0 te | The city of Seattle will make its That a federal institution for the me cour toda time late of b father, EB. 1 serrate ya yore , Foye ct gas i aay eo final stand against the “high pri Pacif ait | be taken u advisement “In the history of American news-| a charged y ~- ; Sento by Federal |court late tod t 1» decision is! par no young man of James G ghting rs | ri ishman, when he sen-| ot expected for a month Seripps’ ag r held the mana-|efore the supreme court of the Hone had A SUNG Aes abies co itypresemustiends Petia aig tle's case agninst the gas com SS ecm Ford Makes Gain in i)". vine riod of years! pany wax docketed Friday, ‘The elt : wie tin cities of the (® appealing from a decision of the Newberry Recount ee caiian any other man #at®, public service commisston Ph Potter Is WASHINGTON A net | United Biates than any other man tering the gas company an in of 276 v for Henry Ford| eu, ; : ae eng. crease from $1.26 to $1.50 per 1,000 Charged as Burglar | fir “eiinan tt. ‘Newberry ‘war {ater & genius that few men Pow Ee oe guy Charles Potter, accused of enter t i™ | The raise In rates was granted by ng the storeroom of J. KE. Bre of vote t 1 of the He cased Uttle for wo oy Is? the commission last Mareh, and their Madison st., Janua nt | wena ¢ mmit pegged ey Foe ae eg eit’ | decision was later affirmed by the > atea urged with ng manner were & marked charac’) vo erior court of Thurston count ¢ r n nip rm 4 IZ TT, terint Aasistant Corporation Ov sel P ROHI LAW |#uch an early age is a great loss to) 06 trial in the lower court that the | {INGT! Jan rhe | 4 eanats } publi ¢ commission had’ d He Breaks His Leg jhe + \ the. ‘Voletéad |liberately played into the hands of f endmer « Necklace of Pearls {tie ga» corporation Because of Habit} seranent Id f $15, 000], Kennedy will maintain botore the LOUISVILLE, Jar John Keat it 0 appropriatior So or supreme court that the rates ng went into the Amshoff he te the { justice to be LONDON. Eng. Jan. 7—A pearl|charged by the gas company are buy a soft drink. He put his foot up| used tto: in Inecklace of 110 graduated pearis,|totally out of proportion to the ser t rail, slipped and broke t probibi property of a Indy of title, was | vice 1 aquality | of gas delivered to} hi The had been removed levia for $15,000 at public auction, umers. ¢ cents a pound han, address tnknown, | ARREST OF TWO‘DRY’ AGENTS IS ORDERED! Forgery and Bribery Used in Withdrawing Liquor From Bond 2W YORK, Jan. 7— | Bootlegger rings in New York jhave managed to draw from bond more than $100,000,000 worth of liquor thru forgery and bribery, according to the” internal revenue bureau. Bench warrants have a issued for the arrest Agents Frederick E. Broad- way and D. F. MeManus, both employes of the prohi- bition director’s office, Chief McQuillan announced today. ARREST EIGHT IN KNIFE FIG Portland Raided PORTLAND, eral others were bruised and fin a rough and tumble battle followed, and the party, eight jarrested when the police |alleged “moonshine festival” boarding house here early today. Sam Skojo was siashed . with @ knife. At the city emergency pital, physicians put 18 stitches im his head and face in sewing up his _wounds. None of the cuts was deep’ ‘or serious and the man, after treat- ment, was able to return to his home, ae Minonick, alleged wielder of knife, was arrested and jafled om a ppm of assault with a dangerous weapon. ‘Seven others who partick pated in the brawl were taken to jail on charges of being drunk aad | disordert; \No Headway Made in > Trailing Attacker Police had made no headway Fri- day in investigating the thug who fs alleged to have pursued Mrs. C. P. | Sabin, 4614 W. Dakota st, for more than a year, threatening her with @ revolver on several occasions. After being defeated by Mrs. Sa- bin when he attacked her, the thug so harassed her that she and her hus- band were forced to move to their present home. (GAVE HER $15 — HER $15 IN 3 YEARS Married since the day after Christ- | mas, 1917, Louisa K. Donnellan tes- | tified in Judge John S, Jurey's court Friday that Charles J. Donellan has given her $10 on May 10, 1919, and $5 on August 10, 1919, and nothing else. Donnellan, an overseas veter> an, age that the trouble is due "s jealousy, which haw id to look at a woman on the street, Gen. Crowder Starts Inquiry in Cuba — HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 7.—On com- pletely friendly terms with the Cuban government, Major General Enoch Crowder began an investiga- tion today of the republic's troubled financial and political affairs. The general made his headquan ters on the warship Minnesota, which landed him here yesterday. The length of his stay is problematical, but an initial conference with Presi- dent Menocal indicated it will not be prolonged. PADDY McDONALD WAS AG QUITTED of booze charges by a fed. \eral jury Thursday afternoon, Dorothy’s Diary. I wish mother wouldn't worry so, Now she's fretting because it costs so much more to live here in the city than it did back home. When she mentioned the mat- ter tonight I couldn't help smil- ing. “Want Ads," I said, and laughed, for it seemed that no matter what we wanted since coming to Seattle we had found that an ad in The Star haa helped us out. “What are you talking about?” asked mother. “Just this," T answered. “You are worrying about the cost of living. Why not advertise one of your spare rooms for rent and we can make $250 a year or more extra? That will help."y This time I remembered that Th Star would take ads over tl phone, so I phoned in an ad be placed upder the head “Rooms for Rent.” special intelligence unit of the “Moonshine Festival” in Jo 1—One mat was badly cut in @ knife 1 Bes