The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 29, 1921, Page 1

“SENATOR JOHNSON DE PAN TRICKS WEST COAST! On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Weather Tonight and Sunday, rain; strong easterly winds, Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 48, Minimum, 39. Today noon, 48. Entered as Second Clase Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 The Seattle Star LARES: LATE EDITION SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1921. “Inevitable.” d to Progress. Growth Ahead. Bon Marche Man. C SOUTH WORTH, treasurer ie Bon Marche, is another “conservative optimists. th says that Seattle will | iy abead in 1921, but that will make no sensational @uring the year, in his he declares he is enthusiastic” over “tre —YET HE TO FACE FACTS y in Seattle is optimis | “ONE “If anybod: Tam” he suid. “But I do not @ Man as a pessimist be he faces unpleasant facta has certain obstacies which overcome, yet, after all. only temporary obstacles for little or nothing in| March of Seattle on the} % te “Seattle cannot help but succeed er nat advantages are too eo her aa Me tes!) Stenographer and Compan-| - Pe remains toms ion Killed in Car Crash; aver Two Others Hurt Ee mverheard in the smoking | of three Seattle men| waa of the ai Z oo, LOS ANGELES. they were, but they were| their home city, with its| Mrs. Lita Westrem, -and its bad points. | Beverly, 30, shadowed J |days by detectrves ‘ATE MAN mysterious abduction of Mra. G wD TO “SELL” C y them, I guthered, was a Be eng from her Hollywood bung Ww, Were killed early today in an fan. He set out to ‘sell’ automobile accident here. 2 to one of the other men, on that the other man Mra, Westrem was employed as a sete trying to select | stenographer by O. 8. Witherell, hus Of Western cities the | band of the victim of the mysterious je in which to settle and in-| kidnaping. third man acted as a sort! ACCIDENT JUST BEFORE DAYBREAK ‘The accident ogcurted Just before | daybreak, but the bodies were not identified until several hours later. | Two other persons were Injured, one of them perhaps fatally. An automobile in which they were | tiding Was struc *« and almost tot: Cal, Jan. 29.- and Charles for several vestigating the ‘to hear he put up fe set forth the natural resour and her territory; he ‘that Seattle has one of the he called attention to je fact that Seattle is at the gate to the Ornent. ‘certainly opened my eyes anew tremendous futare ahead of It made me realize, as I Pealized before. how tnevi IVAN DE VILLIERS— Because he hax agreed to Icap from an airplane 20,000 feet over Elitott bay to boost relief funda for the families Beatties Railway's private right of way four murdered policemen. “I'l | Westrem, an attractive bionde, feap <@ Yoot for every dolar | Beverly, aid to be her nevetheart. | reieed,” he seve 39th st. and the Los Ang of ATH, AN D. "HILL — Because he's the oldest Odd Pete low in the world. Me celebrated his 97th birthday at Port Town- send Tucsday—but he sid i strong and vigoroms as in his youth “I'l try to kéep useful, he saye (JOSEPHINE SPIELBAUER | CHIEF MENINIC. Because, working with the edu- Because, in pleading this week cational department of the State for the rights of his people to Chamber of Commerce, she has fish at Prosser Falls, under the induced housewives to take an terms of @ treaty made in 1855, inventory, showing that they he made one of the most clo- erent buying Northwest prod- quent addresses ever delivered ucts as they should. at the state capital. were killed outright. Harry Giazier, 27, a salesman, suf. fered a fracture of the skull. Phyxt clans said he is not expected to Mise Mary Wartemburg, 21. suffer: a fractured leg and cuts and bruises. The party was returning from the | ron Country club when the mix hap took place. MAN AND WOMAN HAD BEEN WATCHED Beverty. and Mrs, Westrem, it became known after the tragedy, had constantly been watched by a detectives since Mrs. Wetherell's this | disappearance. galanin good pocay=| Reverty, it is said, severed his|G*?- Henry T, Allen, commanding Jatk of adequate accommoda. | business ‘connections with Wither | American forces on the Rhine, for 4 turning the tourist traffic away | ll. who is president of the Finan-|report’on the alleged attempted cap Gesttle, but it is giving repre-|cial Loan and Investment com-| tire of Grover Cleveland Bergdol! in of Eastern financial and| pany, following a quarrel in which| Germany, and the reported imprisor institutions who come to| he ts alleged to have made threats|ment of Americans who are said to ‘an unfavorable impression. | against Witherell have made the attempt, it was an You can't find a good hotel} Detectives who traced Beverty’s | nounced today. | ‘when you're in @ strange city,| movements declared they had learned | re not favorably impressed|that he had returned to his room| |B that city—I don’t care how good|in the Jovita hotel here with a Gimate may be. The reports|bundie of clothing. This bundle Tepresentatives send back to|according to detectives, ix believed | home offices are not apt to be have contained a woman's hat| 4 eavorabie.” similar to the one worn by Mrs.| | Seattle today is as well off av she} Witherel] at the time she vanished. tn 1917, in Southworth's opinion.| When taken to police headquar. Seattle, at the end of 1921, will) and grilled, Beverly gave a She fn far better condition than she | fairly satisfactory account of him | fp today. The sharp upturn will and was liberated, but detec fm March or April, he predict-|tives were kept on his trail and| ‘an have #0 many others. instructed to report his every move “We are tremendously encouraged | ment. By the business we are doing.” he BELIEVE HE TRIED TO - “We have more sales, tho in| ESCAPE FOLLOWERS quantities, than we had dur} poverty and his motor party | were followed to the Country club y and the “shadowers” trailed thelr automo when the celebrants were returning. It is believed Beverly discovered the fact that he was being followed put on speed and succeeded in| eluding the pursuers, The crash took later. Beverly and Mre is irted to have 4 divorce from seen frequ company monthu . Seattle's ultimate progress gat be, and what her possibilities ig why I said a moment ago i @ur temporary obstacles and really count for little in Jong march forward Wu. Ss. Attempted Capture WASHINGTON, Jan 29.—The state department has requested Maj. fm the long run, we will over them. a oe 29.—Six Americans in jail Eberbach, following their spectacular attempt to capture Grover Cleveland Bi Graft mh now ant for Germ ff the American party t. Karl Neaf, Maryland, nd Franz Zimmer, civilian of Den ver, Colo. With them were four other civilians. All six were neteed at Eberbach after they had laid hands on the draft dodger as he waited at a rail road station with his chauffeur, Eugene and his German cousin, Robert Freudensberger. BERLIN, Jas moll, ip n citizen to former jan, pplic ters self Stecher - emall fing the war. | “Om the long view, I think a man wrong if he is anything but optl- hio Steel Company Working Full Force WARREN, ©., Jan. 29.—Resump- m of full force operations by the} mbill Steel Co. here began yes- Merday. Some 2,500 men were or | dered back to work The company as been operating Sen a £0 per cent basis for several | former con was indorsed rship on the { trustees of the mmerce their custom of never indorsing man for political office after the Wash ngton deleg n congress had that was united on Humphrey was wougtht by | ons it needed the a northern Cal, jcommunity in thi | Humphrey. Page| IDENTIFIED BY FINGER PRINTS of a police hunt} today in connection | Identified by hi jout from nworth abduction my» the |ovBrien, arrested here Deo, 12, thelon a charge of forgery, was turn covered r Saturday to Minnesota author ities who sald he waa. wanted Will B, Humphr greseman from for merr ing board t a FS Weatrem, who suing for ustand, had | ( n one an during the past { umber The tru | been few | TWo OTHER SUSPECTS ARE MENTIONED A’ haired man’ deputy sheriffs fornia city and broke wir it support of every tate in urging Fein Plan to Thwart Home Rule BELFAST, Jan. 29.—Sinn Fein in| Wseribed thot ning “governmental sabotage” | "4 {ne bier in gaa north Ireland adopts | Ye the witherell “home rule. S © Your hundred and twelve thousand | eon oll Ginn Feiners live in Ulster. They r icant ci gli ong ad | ee tenes 0, be y of refusing £2) ween leaving her Hollywood home| mew government. They has been th fingerprints se nt) in company with a tall, gray are talkin Of scores of plans to } ctl . the | haired man. Officers declared w tsk cout | ee chant” theo | Unioniats who will be in control. ‘Greek merchan ry es promising clue yet a ND NOW SHE Is eh a PEEVED AT HIM| ‘prvorc wD eM their state as a parole violator. CHICAGO, Jan. 29 Cathe | got MARRIE "EM | RONX BLUSHES gine Murray, dimir school] | SPOKANE, Jan A year Judge King ing to Dykeman. attie, db teacher, isn't speaking to H Va i the principal. Mistaking her for one |vorced Lester W. and Therese Ben-| NEW YORK, Jan, 29.—The Rronx lof the pupilx, the principal catled | Sitting on the Spokane bench |noted home of cocktail, blushed in Here, little girl, 1 want you to run he suspended court long \shame. Dry sleuths there discovered ) en errand” 60,000 bottles of beer, utive ago non. late Friday enough to marry them again, BERGDOLL SAFE |Bootleggers, IN GERMAN CITY Demands Probe of His| BACK HUMPHREY | FOR SHIP BOARD : ‘and «aid | Detroit Bank Is | State day "| in| | | proprietor OVER BEER RAID) justin MAN AND WOMAN SHADOWED IN -KIDNAPING CASE DIE IN AUTO! ---at the End of the Week TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO-- at CENTS IN SEATTLE SEATTLE _ DIPLOMAT: DUPED BY ORIENTAL TREATY! ‘So Says Hiram Johnson, Declaring Agreement De- stroys Anti-Alien Law BY RALPH HL. TURNER WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. — The agreement between Ambassador Mor- ris and Ambassador Shidehara, of Japan, created a situation that is “In tolerable,” and that wih be resisted in every legitimate way by the pew ple of California, Senator Hiram Johnson, of California, declared to day. While Johnson was attacking the | proposal, Secretary of State Colby was | conferring with President Wilson at the White House for the first time since the secretary left for South America, about six weeks ago. It Was expected that the Morris-Shide- hara agreement would be discussed during the conference, SAYS IT DESTROYS ALL AND LAW Johnson dectared that the agree ment abrogates and alien land law of California and Japan just what it wants in the troversy over Japanese rights in state, Ws s ‘The agreement he now in the hands of Secretary State Colby, having been submi to him by Morris, following the clos ing negotiations between him and Shidehara here this week. “From authoritative sources,” said Johnson, “it is stated that the agree ment between Ambassadors Shide hara and Morris embraces: (1) An exchange of diplomatic notes defin- Po E. MARCO— Because, when a bandit fired at him in the Motor Inn the other morning, Marco fired right back at Mr. Bandit, wounding and capturing him. ‘He then put two | others to rout. The more Mar- con, the fewer bandits! REPORT GIRL Burglars Owe | KILLS MOTHER Big IncomeT ax \Colorado Deputies Are In- BY RALPH F. COUCH WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Burg-| vestigating Are amd bootleggers owe the govern: | STE AMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo., ment $44,000,000 In taxes on income during 1920, tt was extimat-| Jan. 29.—Coroner’s deputies are on} thelr way today to the ranch of | ‘®t rest of the nation. ed here today, aa the internal reve nue bureau made ready to receive! wank studra, 15 miles from Oak| Helen Bushmann and Belle Schet Creek, to investigate the story of | horn stole out of sleepy Campaign for Nation-Wide “Blue Laws’’ BY CARL VICTOR LITTLE ZION CITY, ML, Jan soldiers of the city of Zion left here “earned more than $5,000,000, returns for the calendar year just past, Those who indulge in a friendly Ht. tle game should pay Uncie Sam ap- proximately $80,000,000 from the tional “kitty” of $2,009,000,000, if they wish to make correct returns on their incomer. Bootleggers during 1920 a to have made profits te at least $600,000,000, while more than $2,000,000,000 a year tx computed 1 to hands annually in the Unit As a result of bets placed on card games, horse races and other operations where chance decides the ownership of the lucre, li-yearold girl According to information received | day gloom approximately |Mere, Mudra’s daughter killed her | mother when the latter would not al- | Voliva, overseer and owner of the low her to receive attentions from a/city of Zion and head of the Zion hired hand. ‘The girl hid her|church, started the first two mis mother’s body in a dump heap and! sionaries off an follows: | her secret for three weeks, 1 18/" oi the wicked people of New York it is far better to sit in church ARE FRUSTRATED then the rest of the country will be After drilling two holes in the easy.” Blue-bound blue Inw Ifterature will safe of the Valley Fuel Co., Rainier | ave. and Alaska st, early Satur} be distributed in all offices by the militant two. They are under in structions to “sell gloomy Sunday to day, yeges were either frightened wa abandoned the job A proken piece of an electric drill the convivial metropolis.” was left by the cracksmen. Do- ectiven believe that the safecrack Suggest Cops ites a oat tw eons! Convoy Folks wae P sles * rhe safe contained to Foil Thugs | about $100. Convoys DIE IN BLOWUP, }to check the erime Wave here. WHEELING, W. Va., Jan. 29.— The plan would be to have citi zens gather at certain spots, when Five persona wore killed today in the xplosion of a railroad engine at going out at night. Police would Robbed of $14,000) noara tree, about 50 miles trom here. wing Harding Plans Enjoyment of Fishing Trip MIAMI, Fla, Jan, 29.—Arriving at| the southernmost part of his Florida President-elect Harding de serted the houset Victoria for a w days’ fishing on his arrival here. Hoe will get his fiehing tackle today | or Monday and go off to a deserted land, the location of whic a is being secret There he will fish his pipe and think undis-| turbed, suprounded by @ handful of | old friends. cruise, of citizens escorted by a) aad a Jinhment sought iting fro The qacuk make the rounds of the city When they arrived at each of these spots they would gather under their pro tecting wings the pilgrims and es cort them to the next station. DETROIT, Jan. 29—Four band! ES cae In this way robbers and holé-up robbed a branch of the American men would be foiled by sheer num- bank of Detroit of $14,000 to-| AN MURDER pers. nd escaped in an automobile. | At the city hall the plan met | Locking two employes in a rear! |with great commendation, as coun room and knocking wneonscidus a| cilmen pointed out that it rmigne| third, the bandits took the money | also help to solve the transporta from the vault, whigh had just been tion problem. Neither subway nor opened for the day's business, Trial of Mra. Pinkie Wallace,|further fare increase would be nec. negress, ed with murdering | essary should the convoy system be y i erro Paltesan por: | adopted. wth) BY ITSELF | srs indefinitely Saturday upon | Air Postman Makes : that his cider “got that|motion of John I, Dore, her attor ctrt ed ta ont accord, J Ww Day, | ney, who claimed she was not phys Trip in Fast Time eS, eds Mat’ “eva; | Wants, bova aan "EOLMt' Monday,” | cetinoes 0 ren welthect Ohta, at 1424% , First ave,|was to have been heard Monday. |continues to run without a hitch, n junction from Judge Dr. J. W. Ghent, jail physician, | postoffic officials id Saturday iffiths Friday, prohib-|signed an affidavit setting forth | friday Eddie Hubbard, air mail pilot, nief of Police W. H. Searing|that the woman is a mental |made a round trip to Victoria in interfering with his business, | wreck.” He stated she she be|three and one-half hours elapsed caso was takén under adyise-jallowed a period of five or ix /time. He carried seven sacks of mail weeks of quict, joo the liner Alabama Maru, 29.—First | ‘MRS, PEETE IS ing passport regulations, etc, which would ‘tighten up’ the present gem tlemen's agreement relating to exelue sion of Japanese from this country, and (2) a treaty defining the rights jof nationals of each country, and | which will, in effect, abrogate and destroy the alien land laws of the state of California. Stripped of diplomatic camou-— Mage, this means that our represen- RESTING TODAY: Awaits Continuance of today to force Sunday blue laws on | Louise Peete, alleged murderess, rest- jed in the county jail today prepara- | tory Zion today | alleged murder of her mother by a| headed for New York city, where | murdering Jacob C. Denton, wealthy they will preach the gospel of Sun-| broker tative and Japan's have agreed upon the repeal of the land laws passed by the state of California, and prohibit | the passage of those contemplated by. ~ | Many other Western etates, | SAYS AGREEMENT WON'T EXCLUDE “Japan bas never insisted upon the control of her own people, and there fore will not agree to an exclusion treaty, but will enter into a so-called gentlemen's agreement which does not exclude. “The new gentlemen's agreement, notwithstanding its additional phases, can be just as loosely admine istered as the present one, and, just, as in the cases of the present gem tlemen's agreement, it will be hon ored more in the breach than in the With not more than 30 wit-| Observance, The result will be, un- nesses," as Aggeler says, the defense |der the suggested agreement, if will occupy not more than three days | adopted, a continuance of Japanese with its case. The two defense wit-| immigration and increase in the Jape nesses upon whom the most interest | @nese population in the West, centers are Mrs. Peete herself and| CALIFORNIA WILL her husband, R. C. Peete of Denver. | RESIST TREATY Aggeler revealtd that Peete will go| “Upon the meager facts now be on the stand and give evidence which | fore us, the situation appears to be he considers highly important. this: Japan does not like an Amer — can law and Japan protests that law. Resort is had, not to American courts, but to American diplomats, The protest is deemed of sufficient gravity for American diplomats to agree to a treaty exactly as desired by Japan—this by a short cut, with+ |out participation by those most ine terested, “A situation of this sort is Intolem Trial on Monday 108 ANGELES, Jan. 29.—Mrs. to continuing the fight for her life early next week. She is on trial on a charge of There was no session of the case in Judge Willis’ court today and the} defense, headed by Public Defender William Agegeler, took advantage of the respite to lay plans to offset the evidence of almost 40 prosecution witnesses in an attempt to gain lib erty for the pretty defendant. The prosecution will complete its/ Monday or Tuesday. GRAND JURY TO REPORT? short session of the county grand jury Saturday morn- ing, J. Y. Messenger, cashier for| apie, and I think I voice the sent the municipal railway lines, Was| mente of California when I say that calied as a witness. Messenger) in every legitinate and legal fashion remained with the jury approxi:| the consummation of such a plam mately five minutes will be resisted.” . The jury deliberated an hour . eoeae it is rumored. that tx/ JAPAN SENTRY FOUND GUILTY ASSASSINATION report will be ready for submission at the next ac + TOKYO, Jan. 28.-{Delayed.)—The Japanese sentry who shot apd killed WANTS OPINION Lieut. W. H. Langdon, U. 5. N, at ON CAR MONEY Vladivostok three weeks ago, has been adjudged guilty in a report of @ preliminary inquiry filed with the $ court martial in chief, according to ‘Treasurer Ea L.. Terry re-|vadivestok dispatch to the pie request turday to Cor. per Jiji Shimpo. poration Counsel Walter Fr. Meier The report, it was said, declared to render an opinion on whether! that the statement of the sentry did or not the city treasurer is personal not agree with facts in the posses: ly for using revenues | sion of the military authorities. In from the street railway system t©/formation secured by the military, pay operating in: of set-/nowever, cannot be published until ting the money aside to defray prin-|arter the findings of the court man cipal and interest on the purchase price Meier previousty gave an opinion tial are made, Denials of the statement published that the city council has control} of the city’s finances, which seem Ata City peated hi responsible Americans are being plactd under additional surveillance were made of ficially today, ty the newspaper Asahi and con firmed by the Kokusai agency that to imply that ‘the city treasurer was a mere custodian,