The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 26, 1921, Page 1

Weather Tonight and Thursday, rain; strong southerly winds, Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 48 Minimum, 41. Today noon, 45, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Second Clary Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle Wash, under the Act of Cer ngress March 2, 1879 Por Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 NSON BEFORE GRAND JURY SEE NEWS STORY ON THE LAST PAGE NDIT SHOT AT MOTOR INN The Seattle Star ATE DITION Oe iil VOLUME : 1921 it Kicking. Wl Hands On the Job. ity Should Slow Up. So Says Whitcomb. TELEGRAMS PROTESTING HART CODE Hundreds of Messages Are Now Flooding Senators With Complaints BY AS SHANNON OLYMPIA, Jan. Hundreds of from parts President of the Arcade Building & Realty Co, a tall, @pare, boyish individual, tilted his} @hair back against the wall of his Sunny office on the sixth floor of She Arcade building, (It was sun “RY just then, at any rate, literally and figuratively) “I can see nothing to get gloomy @bout in Seattle's future,” said David Whitcomb, who is also presi of the Rainier National Park tion and director of the Eu Fopean Relief drive here. “It makes me as tired to hear/| People kicking about the ills of the! “gommunity as it does to hear them Kicking about the ills of life. ‘SHE MAN WITH A GROUCH IS POOR COMPANY “The member of the family who Des & sore foot or who has had state poured in on the state senate ® dum night's sleep and insists on today protesting against the passage ins about it is poor company forlo¢ the civil administrative code. Feat of the family, and does m0) p04. in the senate were kept busy running to and’ fro ‘with tele grams thruout the morning session TO END WORK ON IT TODAY That the senate committee of the whole will finish its consideration of the bill today t* practically cer- tain. Approximately 113 of the 118 sections of the eode have been cov- ered, It im expected that the Hart bill will then referred to committee. morning centered on telegrams al of the ‘Similarly, the man who kicks the community doesn't help re never wae a 100 per cent community any more than are 100 per cent perfect Indi- viduals. I have traveled around ‘enough to know that every city has Bis troubier. “We have mamsized troubles here fin Seattle, but, thank God, we have Man-sized assets worth fighting for “There's no use kicking because things aren't perfect. I am not} ) trying to cover up the seriousness | of things, but I say that things be all right if every man will this the fixheries provisions of the code, with Senator P, the fight Sinclair L. Sinelair leading declared that the despotic powers granted the fisheries bogrd " ticula: . ch in a do Rian righ A ear. | under the code affected the pros. cheerfully, whe’ perity of the entire state. Or the head of a corporation. KICK ABOUT SHE OTHER FELLOW “We cannot assume,” he declared, “that this board wil! be absolutely fair minded—we must be certain of | “Don't kick about the other fel-/it. We cannot give to three men Fow. Let us each do our own job | the absolute power to de: o; I say; let us each do more|of Washington's greatest indus we think is our share and | tries.” we'll get along all right ‘ CONSTITUTIONALITY “Every man who is living in Seat-lig aTTACk! le ought to know that it's the best) senator Lon Johnson attacked Place in the world. If he doesn't he |ine provision that delegates powers ‘ught to get out. I chose to live In}i, the fisheries board. He sharply © Beattie, for one, and 1 am here fF! Gyestioned the constitutionality of Mfe. . this provision. lL. KR McArdle “Seattle's most serious problem In}. v.esman for Governor Hart, de 2921 is her terrific tax rate. fended the code. He asserted that “We are in too much of a hurry.|the powers granted to the fisheries “We ought to take time to catch our Dreath. Let's finish up the job we Dave before us now before we start) Senator Coman declared that un- gny others. der the code it would be impossible “Personally, I think the siastt | tor any banker to extend credit to power project is a big mistake; and | canner f fishing companies I think we could partially reetify| THREE MEN TO CONTKOL that mistake by quitting it cold, right | rISHIN: DUSTRY orge Kummens, Se |board is the only thing to preserve fish in Washington waters. ttle, appear. mow. “1 think it is time for us to make cling for the independent canneries, our doliars go some distance. Let 8 | dec jared that the code would give be business men. Let's figure our|three men the right to contro! ab Sncome and expenses more closely and get somewhere. | “I think the tremendous Influx of solutely state. the fishing industry of the “Just three men, all of them under hunched forward and the chair came back to “nor malcy” with a thud. David Whit- comb rummaged in a bottom drawer of his desk and presently from 5 depths unearthed the following in- _Seresting information: THEY COME AS TOURISTS; THEY STAY AS SETTLERS “In the did days we had about 200 tourists a season in Rainier National park who came from east of the Mis- sissippl. But we h been spending money on hotel accommodations in the park. This seanon we had 6,105 from the same territory The tall figure Rummens declared. He pointed out that under the pro- | posed code the fisheries board can make laws, effective immediately, “which will affect business running into the millions of dollars.” Fred Norman, speaking in behalf of the Federation of Labor and of | the fishers of Pacific county, cen tered his argument on the speed and secrecy with which the code is being jammed thru the legis! |“HICKTOWN COUNC WOULDN'T ACT THIS WAY" “within of the day approximately two weeks on which the code was “Prank Branch Riley, the lecturer) first submitted to the legislature it who has carried the n e of Our! will become a law if the bill con geenic glories to the East, told me¢|tinues to go thru the legislature at that the Iowa society of Los Angeles | ity ent rate,” Norman said. “No recently took a poll of its members| hicktown council,” he added, “would and found that out of 42,000 now set- | Pass an ordinance for t licensing of dogs in such a short period.” Norman declared that the soldiers’ bonus bill was referred to popular vote by the legislature, altho there fled in Los Angeles, 98 per cent of them came originally as tourists. “We have spent $290,000 to equip new hotels in Rainier National park until we now have finer hotel accom Modations there than can be found possible haste, fp any other part of the state, In-| wren why not submit Hart's We can accommo | cae, which hasn't one-tenth the ur night in the park. | cy, and which en n annus Seattle men, wh fhave gone up there and found thor wonderful accommodations a mile in the air, come hack here, meet me on the street and knock the place be-| cause they got condensed milk. They should have been boosting ‘it 1 didn't believe that we have of dollars, penditure of millior (Turn to Page 7, Column 5) a big future as a tourist center 1) SAN FRANCISCO, Jan wouldn't ask the men of the state|| Armed with a copy of “Hymn to put up money for the Raini ae dhe Saket.” Mis, Chattes A cee See rs oe _ things uP || Wheatley started looking for her mut we have made no grea et ie aieeiiah || husband today er gstite wont 4 | She also wanted to find the “it ttle would do more and talk Jes we'd be @ darned site better off.” the | | been administered by just such a board. When did it» tourists is a good indication. It) the finger of the vernor, are going should be encouraged. This is 4l-| (5 dictate whether or not the fishing ‘ways an opening wedge for settlers.” | industry can do business or not,” | was a vital need in that case for a to 8 TTL Ww ASH., WE IN DAY, JANUARY 26, 1921 KILL THE CODE: L That is asking no more and no less than any }one should have. But labor is not getting a square deal under the pro- |posed Hart-McArdle civil code. Labor representation is wiped out on labor boards. | Mr. McArdle\ pretends to defend this on the ground that it is bad policy to have both a labor man and an employer on the board, even tho the third member is| a of either rank and represents the public. * * * * # * * & sin INCE WHEN has this become bad policy, Mr. Gov- For ten years, the industrial insurance fund has ernor and Mr. McArdle? |develop that the workmen’s compensation law was not being administered to the satisfaction of both em- | ployers and employes, and to the public at large? What criticism has there been, and when, and by! ;whom? | ; It must be remembered that laboring people pay one-half of the fund that goes into the industrial in- | "| surance fund. Employers pay the other half. Why, : | shouldn’t each be entitled to representation on the board that administers the fund? It is right in theory, and it has worked out all right in practice. The same is true of other boards. * * ee ee a 8 * |THE STAR believes in the square deal—whether it relates to labor or to employers. The Star does NOT believe labor can expect a fair deal from any of | the labor boards if the code goes thru in its present | |shape. The Star believes the code was purposely so worded as to eliminate labor representation from | ace boards at the governor’s will—or at McArdle’s * And McArdle is not yet attuned to a viewpoint that can look with tolerance upon fair demands of labor | as well as fair demands of employers. As a member, \of the legislature, McArdle opposed the workmen’s compensation act for which the industrial insurance fund was éstablished; and he opposed other economic measures that have since become recognized as fun- |damentally sound. | “I believe in the eight-hour day,” he told members lof the house the other day. “I believe in eight hours’ work before breakfast and eight hours’ work after breakfast.” The leer and the sneer towards the labor viewpoint are thus apparent. He is too dangerous a man to put in | charge of such vast powers as are being contemplated for him under the governor's code. He is too danger- !ous a man, for the economic peace and safety of this state, to be the power behind the governor’s throne, es- pecially with such sweeping powers as the code con- fers upon Hart. + * * % * * HE STATE NEEDS POISE, not revolution. We! need saneness, not deliberate antagonitms. We, need peace, not war. And the code spells war and) confusion, and bitter antagonisms, and political up-| |heavals, and puppets running round with the powers |° |of Caesars. Amending the code will help some. But the safest | | eaame | is to KILL it! woman whose writing app book on the leaves of the hymnal “How much will you take for Wheatley is a lecturer at t your husband?’ was written on Spiritualist church Sunday a fly morning, according to Mrs “He not for ale,” Mre. When a woman sitting next Wheatley wrote and handed back to her handed her a hymn the book, Wheatley at the mo- | court MURDERER REMOVED FROM CELL Sheriff Taking No Chances on Crowd’s Demonstra- tion Against Prisoner Fearing that by funeraix Tuesday © officers slain by 4 feeling aroused of th John & desperado, Friday might ult in mob action, & Matt Starwich retly Schmitt from the county jail ‘Tues day night. Schmitt the ’ three hmitt, ight the Pierce of Sher coun. today ts in county jail, in, the cystody iff Tom. Morris, of Pierce WILL BE RETURNED FOR TRIAL, THURSDAY He will be returned to Seattle probably early Thursday just be- fore he in scheduled to appear in to face trial on a charge of| murder in the first degree. Two «mall demonstrations made before the local county jall the day following the killing, and on Monday men « in the corridor of the courthouse caused of fictals to delay the time for Schmitt to appear in court on @ preliminary cing crow | to murder in the first degree and has waived all rights to the technicalities that might have delayed matters. Attorney Louis Sily appointed n, Ernest Smith, TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE — photogr == aphed today in city hospital by Pri ce & Ca rter : STATE CLOSES FREMONT BANK \North “Side The North Side State bank, Fremont, was closed today by EH. Bennett, a state bank examiner. were | Institution in Hands of Examiner at Bennett emphasized the fact that there the be | management,” { el is losing of th found he no general irregularities e bank. said, “an in significance in the a took the precaution of closing the insti LEWIS WINNER SCHMITT TAKEN TO TACOMA(===="TWo COMPANION | | \Captive Calmly Refuses to Give N: but Is Identified by Policeman as Beer Party Prisoner ‘ Po Ernest Smith, young Seattle desperado, was in the city hospital Wednesday afternoon with three bullet wounds in his head and a bullet lodged over the brain, following a daring attempt by himself and two companions to hold - up Motor Inn, a roadhouse near Auburn, early Wedni morning. Smith was shot by A. Marco of Tacoma, a guest at ‘the | roadhouse. Bullets fired by Smith in his duel with C clipped thru Marco’s. outer; and under. clothing, but left} Ho I Si t him unscathed. With Smith) wounded, Marco sped out and} fired at the other bandits, | ANOTHER BANDIT / BELIEVED WOUNDED | He riddled with shot a BY A. MARCO stolen auto in which they|| Who Shot a Bandit Today in » yun Battle at the Well Known Motor Inn. WAS BETWEEN 2 and 2:30 when there came a rap on the door of the Motor Inn. Be were fleeing, and forced them; to abandon it. They escaped, | but one of them is believed to be wounded. hearing. He was rushed into court | Smith was identified Wednesday || twéen Seattle and Tacoma. 1 at the noon hour |tution because I considered that) vrcrnoon by Patrolman R. C. Wat-|| heard the proprietors wife all | His trial Thursday morning will/ this mismanagement might place} son, after he had successfully con-|{ out, “Who's there?” 1 didmt be surrounded by all the precau-|i6 funds of the depositors in Jeop-|cealed his identity all forenoon. |] hear the answer, but I assumed tions that authorities of the county | 1%, | While city hospital doctors were|] some one said, “Officers,” for and city can provide, Ciuards will] Hennett said that it would prob-| operating on Smith late Wednes-|] the door was opened Imm: the warridote und spectators will not |@bly be three or four days before|day in an effort to save his life, |} diately. be allowed to crowd Into the room | he could tell how deeply the affairs | pones of deputy sheriffs were| 1 Jooked up. There were two or congest any of the avenues of |°f the bank are involved. He said, |s ing the ley near the inn|{| men. Each had a gun in his: pann in the building Jhowever, he was confident that de-|for the fugitives. hand. eo CASE WILL BE ASSIGNED positors would realize practically! ‘They found the auto used by the | ah wae ee one of them BY JUDGE RONALD 4 100 per cent bandits. The auto, belonging to , e others in the room ~_ . Bennett extimated that there is| Jack Tearney, former Skinner &|| 2!! flung their hands high, but The case will be assigned at 9 a. | $120,000 In deposit Eddy employe, was stolen from the || 1 Kept mine in my pockets. }m. ‘Thursday by Presiding Judge) Jacob Schaefer, president, was re! Hoffman Bros.’ garage, 4110 Rai “Stick ‘em up!’ one of them J. T, Ronald to whatever depart | ported ag seriously ill at his home,|nier ave. during the night by the|| *%@in commanded me. All this ment of the superior court ix not | 3824 Whitman ave. Fremont, Wed-|three bandits after they had jim-|| Um I thought they were off busy with (case, Immediately |nesday, His telephone was reported |mied the door of the garage 1 et 2 ane ee 150 duiers called fie the cand weil: Ceeen eetieae of the bank are War|, THe things benits drove up Sa) pela BULLET be qualified by Judge Ronald Y Lane, vice president, and| ‘ont of the'ign; two of them got out|| pieRcES HIS COLO S The function of the jury in toe | cashing i mebanter, saver” and the other remained in the oar, || irre it te, bi gore case will be largely formal, as| ifforty to reach them by telephone | o they-entéred the door ofthe inn, }1.. 88" onn pools =: Schmitt has already pleaded guilty | were like ite. two bandits drew guns. and] Ot hing “ce eee y 9 ¥ | were likewise futile ordered four people sitting at a table || Clothing near the right hip, passing thru my underwear, but it didn’t scratch the skin, I had a .38 caliber automatic in my pocket, and as soon as in the inn to throw up their hands, FIRES TWIC! by the court to defend Schmitt, de | Marco, one of the guests at the|| he clared Wednesday he would give his| |table,+drew a revolver and fired | pallet bit “hich in te “ae client the advantage of every legal twice The wounded bandit drop. and he dropped. ‘The second privilege to which he is ¢ A. | | Ped to the floor. The-other one ran|| nandit then took a shot at y “I did not seek this job.” he mid.| OLYMPIA, Jan. 26 By a vote of | outside and jumped into the automo- but missed 1 dodged around Gi I am performing the job as a duty | $0 to 18, the house of representatives | pile Marco followed the fleeing || corner and fired at him, but it to the court and to my profession, | today voted to support the minority j bandit, firing several sh went wild 7 Nevertheless, I cannot undertake to| report of the committee of privileges! He riddied the auto with bullets ° defend the man without doing every-| and elections which recommended|and when a bullet pierced the gas age es band thing that counsel for defense can|that the contest brought by Mr#.! tank the bandits were forced to aban.|| ™" to the road and! jum find to do in the interests of his|Frances Haskell, Tacoma, republic-|don {he car. ‘They did so about halt || ito his Cadillac car. The thing case. an, for the seat of David Lewis,|a milefrom the inn. ae ee ee eee farmer-laborite, be dismissed and| it is not known whether they stole |] Uts!de in his machine. CASH FOR SLAIN MEN’S FAMILIES |REACHES $6,000 With cash pouring in rapidty to the newspapers and to police headquar. ters for the famili of the policemen siain last lay night by Schmitt, desperado, th theatres were planning to stage benefit per formances An official of the Strand theatre today said “When you see two policemen out side the Strand theatre Thursday jdon't think the house is pinched They're there to work in the inter sts of the police fund. YOU CAN BUY MOVIE TICKETS FROM POLICEMEN “One of them will in the box office to sell you a ticke the other will at the door to take your tick it You'll pass inside gular performanc he money spent lice fund to buy food, clothin for families of our d urn to Page 7, Column and see the nd know that * going to the po- ment was occupying the pulpit “Why, he is mine, I love him," Mrs, Wheatley 1 when the book was returned to her “So do I he wrote, and handed back the volume And then “negotiations” began John | PASAT A, Cal, Jan. 26, George A. Rawson, of Seattle, 30, former aviator, amateur boxer and all-around athlete, was still uncon scious today, suffering from con-| cussion of the brain as a result of 1 sparring match in the YM. GA t Thurs His condition was reported as grave, Rawson lapsed into a state of coma several hours after a boxing bout with Thomas Payne, 19. year-old assistant physical director at the local Y. M, C. A is declared to be entitled to his | another seat The two reports brought spirited fight on the floor house with Murphine, King, |man of the committee, leadi }argument for the minority James H, Davis, Pierce, out a of the chair ing the and UNCONSCIOU in earr The wrote at length te she was ready te treme to get th cording to Mrs. “LT cannot bel Mr Wheatley's range wo effect any yo to husband, Wheatley leve parting you,” pman that ex ac w nota king | the roads harge of the case for the majority SEATTLE MAN 1 | Husband Is Bartered by Notes Written in Church on Pages of Hymn Book 1 rushed outside and fired sev- eral times at the fleeing car, about half a mile from the inn, Returning to the inn, I tied up the wounded bandit with a rope, loaded him into my ma. chine and took him to Auburn, car or made into the woods. The county jail wae notified ana| Deputy Sheriffs C. 8, Campbell, N. L. | all and Geor, Bundy ‘were de- a They took the wounded ban-| dit to the Kent hospital and scoured r the inn. They efailed however, of the other | thelr escape | where I turned him over to the marshal. to find trace, two bandits. wou? ED HIGHWAYMAN BROUGHT TO SEATTLI ‘They returned to the Kent hospital | and brought the wounded bandit to| SS TO DITCH CAR On the way to Auburn the wounded bandit regained con. sciousness, The first thing Re did was to ask for a cigaret. the Seattle city hospital || A moment afterwards he steps m the only support of my/| joa on thé throttle and grabbed mother, and I'm flat broke,” said|] tho Wheel in a deaperate effoet the bandit as he was being stripped |] {h° hee), in A damperate ettort at the hospital, “I planned to hold * in dad ied sce oat antes Seer A friend, who accompanied me Ay et ia vous name?” he was|{ ‘Auburn, was in the back seat, pa a4 ’ |] with a gun. He cracked him on “I have no name, sir,” he replied. | pera ty ant. fee Ot Se “What morning? “Only a little shooting happened out there this I certainly was lucky. It was only by chance that I happened 7 to have the gun in my pocket. . “Were you trying to hold up the/! 1” ucuany leave wit in my eam bag a but when I stopped at the inn, 7 e decided py i He spoke in a firm, determined] |! dided to put it In my pocket (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) Gas Sells at 25c in Texas Towns HOUSTON, Texas, Jan, 26.—Gase- | | tion | line was selling for 25 cents a gallon Hut yesterday Mrs, Wheatley ]/in Houston today at filling stations: reported to the police she re- |} eee “ ceived a message from her hus | sii ciiilenitaintied: band saying he would not return || PORT ARTHUR, Texas, Jan, 2655 1 thus far, apparently, he has || Following the drop in price of crude »t good his word oll, gasoline was quoted et all filing stations here at 25 cents a gallom,