The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 14, 1921, Page 1

ANDITS SLAY POLICE IDNAP ANOTHER OFFICER BUT ARE DAPIURED IN STOLEN BOAT On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise bx dil VOLUME 23 1921 very Not Hasty. efore, Sound. Vhat Gilman Sees. in February. WORLD 1s facing a new set of problems, but it is facing them | th lifted head and expectant mind. || ft» the promise on which 1921 bulla” mys L. C. Gilman, becnherdas, of the Great Northern railway, lator of traffic and helmsman exchange of wares and mer-| that makes for prosperity city and hamiet. has his fi on the sito | He knows when things are and when they are standing Moreover, his experience has) him certain signs by which to when things are going to Tonight Maximum, 50, Sta the mass of data, statistics communications on his desk and_ to the question; “What ae outlook for 19217" offer no logic,” he said owe! have logic without experi) to base it on Precedent at od is lacking. Let us not ¢ baye had a war.” paused impressively. “I was the only war of the kind world has ever had. Consequent- this ts the only reconstruction of the kind the world has ever b: fore I base my outlook on interpretation of present indica- I am sure that the revival of | ‘ty will not be hasty. For reason it will probably be le will notice in February,” he pued, with the air of man Eg bad studied the thing, “a grad-| fmprovement in business condi- EMENT GRADUAL, ‘UING TO GROW improvement, thriout 1921, never be anything else but grad | But it will continue to grow.| Will be no halting of it. | men have mate up their | to conquer the difficulties in Me Way and all men will be careful | a hand in the natural re- of business activity. 4 Present it can move in but one| on It can move only toward | ement.” can't expand that thought body probably shares it with @nd consequently everybody has | ded it for himself.” Then he smiled. “I have said wo could base noth on logic. I have intended to| my remarks on the state-| that I merely expect these om can judge for yourself. I reasonable?” Interviewer looked into Gil frank, open eyes and no an- ice Seek $10,000 tin Missing Suitcase N FRANCISCO, Jan. 14.—Po- Were called upon today to search ¢ B sultcase containing jewelry New 4d to have been worth, 0, belonging to H. Wil ew York between the Oakland Franc in of on) as disappeared some! lage Reduction to Discus ed pee win} trades here. meetin th both union, Weather and rain; fresh to strong southerly gales. Temperature Last 24 Hours Teday noon, 50, world does not stand stiil.| Ernie Harrington OLYMPIA, | bill introduced in the legis day Pletee grant div | seri are separated but a ther pi The gh atisfactor Adu Saturday, Minimum, 4@ SHE FASTS Co > a A Wife. Bill Proposes Novel Divorce Plan in State 4—If a Wash, Jan. ture by Representative Rawson mes law, be authorized as beec will as limited county, this state timited A absol well or divorce is again during the life rty bill was drawn at the rial federation practically the marry requ it v the mink erted, e wh » years It abs of courts to grant div reason which th action, namel willful treatment the ago. of desertion uman ment for 10 rise pen ry anity © SOLONS REST M\ppropriation Bill Palls for $ wast 4 Mir commur Turkish government The report said a was among prisoners wer taken In ise TILL MONDAY 13,000,000 OLYMPIA, Jan, 14 All en by the were Wa by tattooing a three Yudsions were dinporued. | forehead of the offender, ch passed end the HUSBANDN and His to- of courts to ute de as one in which the partice not permitted of me ute for non-su loath rd Tahiti serious crimes are pun mark on the The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 2 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 HIS WIFE ATDAYFAS “GETS” tHe Says His Wife Is Doing the Starving and He Is Losing Weight BY CARL VICTOR LITTLE DANVILLE, Dt, Jan. 14—Mre, | | Badie Warrington, of thé 47th day of | |.her fast to“force her husband to join | the Church of God, wae anxiaus to day to meet the Rev. G. 8. Payne, overseer of the church, who is en Toute here to advise her to eat. | Mrs. Harrington was not sure whether she would break her fast,/ even if advised by the minister. | THEY WILL TALK IT | OVER WITH bone, “T'll have to gee him first, and the | two of us will talk it over with God,” she said today. Sister Myrtle Baker, | who came from Vincennes, Ind. to pray with Mrs. Harrington, sald she was sure “Sadie will not give in un til she has accomplished her purpose of saving Ernie.” Asked if believed Ernie was |weakening, she vehemently an swered in the affirmative. “Have you seen how worrted he | is she asked. “Well, that ta the power of the Lord working with him. and Sadie, in spite of all she has gone thru, in as well ag ever, while | Ernie is losing weight.” All of which was true. today that he had nyse hen “It sort of gets my goat,” said Fr who always articulates tn the vernacular, “that she does the fast ing for the family, and I lose weight I can't see that she has lost much, land here I am falling away to a | shadow. ERNIE LOSES WEIGHT; SAYS HE'S HECKLED nie, He sald ted pinted to 185. 210 when his wife sta The ar he we to fast. “I guess It’s the worrying I am do. ing about Sadie,” he said. there's the inquisitive neighbors and the newspaper editors, who are al ways heckling me Ernie said he was not getting re ligious, and didn’t expect to. Mrs. Harrington was informed by the correspondent that the Rev » said the Church the fast and that she ction 1 yne would have to tell me thru Bible cribes n is working you. and the warns us to beware of the und Pharisees.” are a scribe Rupert nized VICTORIA, PF. Pulp & Paffer ¢ LAd., with $4,000,000 capital Dorothy's Diary Ww" ‘vd 1 boarder for otor and have been won- to man take H f our going me ride ed me we a 60-mile was wond: etty During the told me he wanted that was f musi to a pl But he mld take could and a) if he afraid money could, it than he pare ‘Then I couldn't help about e had got thru and that he ond-hand pki ano that wa hor the waid that ad.” When got first thing he “Now, I'll telephone was, stnien his wite nenrtea ¥a Tat: ue Ernie stepped on the scales in bis | Cross, butcher shop to prove his statement. | “Also, | | Crom of God aia onl SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1921. HE WHITE CROSS has sounded the reveille. Saturday night at 8 o'clock, at the Metropolitan theatre, this high-purposed organization will mobilize all available forces in the community for the begin- ning of its gigantic attack on the traffic in narcotic drugs. All Seattle should awake. The call is insistent, and it ed fone out to te oe woman, young who believes in the de struction of evil and the right of manhood and wo- manhood to survive. This mass meeting should be a demonstration of the bigness of Seattle's people. By the numbers who at- tend it, it should prove that brotherhood is more than a word. It is Seattle's opportun- ity to set in motion the forces for good that will reach the whole country and ultimately conquer the most insidious vice of the generation. The reveille has sounded. Let Seattle awake! DOPE MEETING HERE SATURDAY Pubfic Invited | to White Cross Session Wideepread interest In the White newly organized to destroy tiie trade in narcotic drugs, George T. Hood to donate leaders of the movement the use of to the the Motropolitan theatre to house the | to attend the first | crowd expected mass meeting at 8 p. m. Saturday. “We feel now,” sald the Rev. W. Bliss, president of the “that this movement will com much enthusiasm on th the whole community th building could meet our initial expansion of th as mand part a large ne in thi k According to the committge on ar un entertainin# musical in addi of ad position to rangements, yrogram has been planned tion to an eld progran dresses. t describe The ment that outlined The invitation to WANTS ADDICTS BY THEMSELVES : Arg persons In a the need for national of the and the have alre ‘« of the at the move surances of success Wh meeting. attend is univer to the or will be cause of most of jon the county stock fact that lope addict sted from other prisoners. Ghent, jail physician, recom ng that the are not Dr. J tockade mended that a ind separate Jed for the A and dormitory addict n grounds be pro TH Dr. Ghe heriff Starwich Thursday after mmissioner the recommendation came nt, the county ec and inspected tockade NEST BROCK peddling dope, was 8, when Brock in federal gourt TRIAL ¢ charged with et for March pleaded not gpilty Fridpy. has led | White | 4 war on dope. | PROTEST IS ‘SENT JAPAN BY AMERICA ‘Murder of U. S. Naval Of- ficer by Jap Sentry at Viadivostok Deplored WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 — The killing of Lievtesant W. FH. Langdon by a Japanese sentry at Viadivostok in “aerloun and regrettable,” the ntate department has informed the Japanese government, it developed here today, ‘The department at the same time asked that Japan take “adequate steps” for rectifying the wrong, as far as possible, and for preventing recurrence of such incidenta, A note to the Japanese govern- ment, along’ these lines, was dis- patched by the state department to the American embassy in Tokyo last night. No mention was made of an indemnity, it was learned today, al tho the state department still is con ering anking that compensation be made to Langdon's family. The note to Japan, it wan stated, cites the facta of Langdon’s death a they have been learned by the state department and expresses confidence that the Japanese government will view the incident in the same light as this government. The statement of fact implies that the Japanese sentry was unjustified in attempting to halt an American jofficer. The direct question of whether Japanese occupation of Viadivostok is warranted was not raulsed. BARON SHIDEHARA EXPRESSES REGRETS Baron Shidehara, Japanese ambas sador to Washington, has called at the state department and expressed the regrets of his government over the incident, It was stated, however | his call was notin the nature of an apology. Officials of thls’ government, it Is understood, are confident Japan will do everything possible to adjust the sitaation. Among naval officials, who are taking unusual interest in the inci dent because of Langdon's position as engineer officer of the cruiser Al |bany, it is declared Americans have Jas mach right in Vladivostok as the | Japane and that Japan possesses Ino justification for challenging American officers The decision of Admiral Gleaves not to go to Vladivostok was ex | plained by Secretary the Na | Da who said that Captain L. Richar commander of the Al ban look after the situation so far as the navy was concerned oe informed the naxy de all high officials tok had visited the Amer Albany to express re ret Langdon's death. ‘They explained, according to Gleaves, that the sentry who shot Langdon was ignorant.” An exp n of ulso was received from Vice a! Kawahara, minister of ma on would partment Japanese Jat Viadivos an cruiser over death, by Gen Langdon’s in al “Pollewing structions were issued Oi, commander of the Japane: forces in Viadivostok, that no Amer should be halted by Japanese in the future eee Adm. Gleaves Won’t jeans ventric Go to Vladivostok 1 SHANGHAI, Jan, 18 | Admiral Gleaves, commander of the American Asiatic. squadron, who here from Manila, en route to »k to Investigate the killing W. H. Lange has be back to Manila, it was nounced here today, The cruiser New Orleans, which was to have ltaken Gleaves to Viadivostok, did not leave Shanghai. No reason for Gieaves' recafi was given, (Delayed.) came Viadive of Lieut ordered | Fought Bandits Above—Patrolman V. L. Stevens, killed today in a gun} battle with boy desperadoes.| Below—Police Sergeant Ed-| ward Herald, kidnaped by the| bandits, all of whom were later captured.—Both Photos by Nowell. $80,000 IN MAIL SACKS STOLEN Mine Payroll Cash Taken, | Is Report CHICAGO, Jan, 14—Three mail sacks, containing $80,000 were stol while being carried from the post office to the railway station at Vernon, LL, ding to informa tion received by the postoffice in spectors here The money was be ing sent to @ mine to meet the pay roll er Arizona Considers Anti-Jap Measure) PHOENIX, alien land bill, Ariz,, Jan, 14.—Anti admittedly aimed at the Japanese, was introduced in the | » senate here today by ator Stoddard of Maricopa county bill prohibits aliens ineligible for citizenship from holding or leas- ing land. such aliens like privileges: also would be denied The bill carries “un emergeney clause which would make it effective at once. ORDERS SALOONISTS TO PAY BLINDED MAN $30,000 IN DAMAGES CHICAGO, Jan, 14.—Harry Goh en and Joseph Arkin, saloonkeep: ordered by a jury in circuit court here today to pay Samuel Greenberg $30,000, The sa loonkeepers Greenberg al leged, sold him whisky contain: ing wood alcohol, He became blind after drinking it. ers. were Mt. | Corporations controlled by | LATE EDITION x ¢ Al TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE EAR COLLAPSE p= HEROIC SEATTLE PATROLMAN DIES OF GUN WOUNDS Four Boy Outlaws Confess Many Holdups; Two Are Shot in Des- perate Fight With Police Four bandits who early Friday forenoon fatally wena kidnaped ed Patrolman V. Stevens and Edward Herald in a stolen police auto after ! another stolen car, were ‘captured at 10:35 by J. L. Williston and J. W. Rothaus as they were ai |to make their escape in a rowboat which they ie! jon the beach below Magnolia bluff. Stevens died at Pp. m. Two of the bandits, none of whom 1s over 21 years af ‘age, are wounded. | Blood was transfused from four fellow patrolmen to | Stevens at noon in a desperate effort to save rie life. He was shot thru the chest and in the abdomen. The four men held as ban-| dits are C. A. Brown, 20; Crayton Dodge, 21, ‘shot m| the groin; Russ Madsen, 18, jand Warren Mooney, alias |Ward Daniels, 19, wounded jin the left arm. |. Herald was released by the four bandits after he had plegded with them to allow him to go back and save his dying comrade, Stevens, who was lying in the middle of the mud dy street, writhing in agony from his wounds, | INVESTIGATE REPORT OF MIRED AUTO Stevens and Sergeant Herald, both from Ballard precinct, investigated a report that an auto was mired at 32nd ave. W. and W. McGraw st ‘The police auto was halted near the stalled machine. Sergeant Herald got out and Stev- ens remained in the auto, | As Herald approached the auto he| noticed four men in it. He asked them what they were doing. They replied gruffiy. | He pulled back the curtain and jsaw a grip in the tonneau. Herald, suspecting that the party was waiting for booze, took the grip out and started to open it. As he did so three of the lads drew automatic pistols and started firing. One of them shoved a gun ainst Herald and threatened him with death if he moved, Stevens, still sitting in the police jear, drew his gun and returned the fire. The four bandits leaped out of one of them holding Herald DIT DROPS, SES, FIRING Dodge was the first to be hit in the gun battle. He dropped, but j#rose again, firing. the gang began to get its on Stevens and he was hit Altho badly continued to again hit Dod thru the groin. | pain, 8 wounded he gamely eturn their fire, He who dropped, shot Dodge twisted with vens then wounded Daniele with the last shot in his gun, and then dropped senseless. The four bandits, two of them wounded, then scrambled into the po lice auto, deserting their own use less machine. They left Stevens ly ing in the street, but took Sergeant | Herald with them at the point of | their guns. “DON'T v “For God's sake, boys, don’t leave ‘that man there to dic et me go back and help him, I am helpless, anyway,” Sergeant Herald pleaded The bandits had already searched the sergeant and had galso taken Stevens’ empty gun. ‘Shut up, damn you! one of the | boy bandits growled, and: the police | lauto was turned swiftly toward the | beach. But a closed bridge blocked | their path, They turned their auto about and ere forced to drive back, near the jas Wife Rides in Elevator With Stevens’ Slayer When Mrs. V. L. Stevens, wife of the officer shot by bandits on Magnolia Bluff, came te police headquarters, her eyes were red with tears, She arrived at the same time the police cars containing the four bandits wheeled in. She rode upstairs in the eame elevator that carried Dodge aad Brown, two of the bandits, Dodge is the man believed to have shot Stevens, It required cool counsel of su perior officers to quell the dem- onstration that arose among po licemen at headquarters at the sight of the weeping woman and the bandits. She rushed to her husband's bedside, oblivious of the man who had shot her husband, “There will be seven fatherless kids, if Steve dies,” said Captain Powers. spot where the wounded patrolman was lying unconscious. Sergeant Heraid again pleaded with the gangsters to allow him te get out and aid his comrade, One bandit opened the door of the ma- chine and, while the car was still speeding, Herald was shoved, sprawl ing, into the mud of the street. He rushed to Stevens, saw that he was badly wounded, and then ran to the house of B. T, Pickins, 3104 W. McGraw st Central station was notified. Cap tain BE. L. Hedges, in command of @ dozen patrolman, in autos and on motorcycles, started for the locality. Stevens was brought to the city hospital upon the arrival of the po He FOR STOLI A city-wide search was started for the stolen police car, Chief Searing ind Detective Charles Tennant quem tioned Stevens, as the wounded pa- trolman lay mely bearing his great pain in the hospital, “I got two of them, sir,” he gasped, his undershirt was ripped and cut from his bloody chest. While every available policeman from central And Ballard precincts were scouring Magnolia bluff for the gunmen, a hysterical call was re- ceived that a wounded man was at 1 ave, W. and Commodore way. Additional police were then rushed to this address, Patrolmen Williston and Rothaus were the first to arrive at the Com- modore way address, They found no bandits, but discovered tracks of blood leading to the house ef Mra Anna Hundertruaeck, 2304 Commo dore way, on the beach. Dashing into the pouse, they (Turn to Page 5, Column