The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 3, 1921, Page 1

2 WEALTHY Mie — the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Weather Tonight and Friday, moderate easterly winds, Tomperature Last Mf Hours Maximum, 48, Minimum, 35, Teday noon, 37. fair; FIGHT TO DEATH IN TEXAS STORE The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class 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 Mayor’s Remedy Might Be Effective. Bat He’s Playing a Demagogue’s Part. What About the Present? The Public Should Have an Accounting. $¢7~TVE THE CAR LINES BACK,” cries Mayor Caldwell. This remedy might be, indeed, effective if it could be applied. Star is glad to be with the mayor in any _ endeavor to remedy the railway situation. It is tient with him only when he assumes a than-thou attitude in attempting to place the blame for the original transaction on other officials, and shirks all responsibility himself. The facts do not warrant that attitude. __ The Star repeats that whatever blame there | sis should be shouldered alike by the present mayor and the former mayor, by the city council, ‘by all the newspapers, by most of the public men, _ by the shipyard interests, by the labor unions, by the world war, by the United States emergency fleet corporation, and by the public, which de- ogg relief from unbearable street car con- Mayor Caldwell plays the part of a demagogue when he attempts to pose as an innocent bystand- er. As corporation counsel up to and including the time when the city made its $15,000,000 of- fer, he was very much “in the know” on the * * * * * * purr THAT i is all in the past. i It is the present with which we must deal. * Can we force the Puget Sound Traction Co. to _ take back the lines? The mayor says the company was guilty of ‘constructive, if not actual, fraud, in placing a value on the lines than really existed. other words, he says the company prof- iteered. If he can honorably make the company back with part of the profiteering, fine! In the event it would be the first instance when a has truly been called to account. Still, the effort might be worth while. Let _ there be no delay, then. The mayor can force the _ issue with the utmost speed. He should know how. He handled suits for the city before he became mayor.. The council should not stand in his way. He wants Wilmon Tucker as assistant to the Eoaperetios counsel. Let him have Tuck- the necessary litigation be started—and Saeed —_ another week elapses. * * & * * *& But THE JOB cannot end there. The litiga- tion is bound to drag out for a long time. It may drag out for years. What shall be done with the city railway in the meantime? It should be managed efficiently—and not on agy political basis. Political operation has been ' more ruinous of municipal enterprises than mere- ly municipal ownership. Tho the suit may be pending to return the lines to the company, the city must ever be alert to see that the railway is properly managed and oper- ated in the meantime. The public is entitled toa strict accounting. It is entitled to know exactly what is being done, and how, and why, and by whom. Get some of the money back? Yes; if possi- ble. In the meantime, give the city the best serv- ice and the most economical service and the most }, efficient service possible. __Are we getting that? ASKS MILLIONS |FRANCE RENEWS TO AID WOUNDED GERMAN DEMAND BY JOHN DE GANDT PARIS, Feb. 3 tightened the sc 3 +4 Spear seit WASHINGTON, Veb. 3 Robinson, Arkansas, Qn amendment to the &ppropriation bill to provide Mately $90,000,000 for hor pital is for Bick and disabled soldiers The amendment © provi $15,000,000 become Ately, the rest to be a for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1921 Both sums are to remain available until expended 30 Days, $200 Fine on Liquor Charge Opposed to Tossing Thomas Papamillion was sentenced Funds for Carlines » 20 days in the county § and to Pay a fine of $200 when he pleaded| Funds from other source@ than Bullty to booze charges Thursday be-| street car fares should not be used fore Federal Judge Cushman, for support of the ree Ray was fined $150 in fed-| railwa yatem, it we @ra! court ursday, when he plead-| members of the Mour 4 guilty before Judge Cushman to| Improvement club at their Uquor law violation, imecting Wednesday night Sena al today offered France again sundry elvi rews on Germany to- day w toms Germany aration ith the thre taxes will refuse demands of the Continuin dis person negotiations with Minister Von Simons, of Premier Briand was to go before the French chamber today to re to |Von 8 declaration that th Hed decision will no®be necepted, that special cus igurated if pt the allies, third Foreign Germany, be to a x the long nons’ clared by er Park regular rep: | municipal street | ENDS IN TRAGIC BATTLE s- Two Men at School Board Meeting Start Shooting in Feud Over Land LURBOCK, Feb, 3.—Jim Rr bok wealthy land owner and J Wright, 62, prominent this community ath in a duel at Shallow Lubbock, | 4 school board meeting last] according to word receivet here today | Their legs were intertwined when | they fell, | | The shooting was the result of a \feud of many years, involving a land | boundary, authorities de | Bowles open: the hip with liber revob | ver, when less than @ half dozen | words had been exchanged. The! shot hit Wright in the lee Wright's gun came into action and wies continued firing as both men j*ank to the floor with bullets in| their hearts | Police Captain Struck| in Newsboy Riots| SAN FRANCISCO, Feb, 3.—Police Captain Charles Goff was hit over the head and one arrest was made in 4 series of stall pized ripte—whkelr et. tended an unorganized strike of nowsboys here last night and carly today. The strike was sald to be directed against an increase of 50 centa per hundred in the wholemle price of two morning papers Newsies in several instances took papers from boys who were sciling them and made bon fires QUARREL | | | of a amall « |Demand Packers Sell Stockyards! YASHINGTON, Feb Disposal of the stock yards owned by the Chi ago packers will insisted upon | without further delay w |comes up for hearing February § In district court here, Assistant District Attorney Galloway said ly “The Justice department will fight! any delays sought by the packers,” maid loway. “The cane now has been in the courts one year without settlement.” \Drop Charse pwn inst Bellingham Boy, 12 ges of killing migratory birds of the feder en the case | in viol diamiased {n the Uni urt Wednesday when it was 1 that the defendant, Fran Zweegman, of Bellingham, was ut a lad of 12 years. His prosecu: tion was brought about thru the ror of an official in Washington it was said, cove Gloom Chessre to Cheer Sick Yanks) Patients in Cushn of them disabled serv be entertained (hursda |xingers, instrumentalists performers who have donated their talents and their time. Each Thure-| day evening some of the gloom isa to |be chased from the 1 by the Cushman Hospital club. Anyone may Join. | » hospital men night b and other | are ‘e hos: EmbryS Lawyers | Following the custom set by upper class law students, the Pre-Law a clation at the ersity will hold maker February 10 on the c ampus, Roger Schiedler is president of the ation, unt |Famous Musician | Dies in St. Louis| ST. LOL Mo., Feb. 3.~—Prof.| |Max Zach, director of the St. Louis ymphony orchestra and nationally known musician, died here today, P.€ h midnight, ALCORAFT ! regular as started up clockwork, an auto engine in the alley beside a downtown hotel And each midnight, as the explo sive nocturne smote their ears, the jesta of the hostelry groaned or cussed, each according to his custom, turned over and made @ futile at tempt to «lip back into the arms of Morpheus. | Bangety-bang! Pop-pop—prrrrrrr! From 12 o'clock on, for an hour or ) the motor are 1 thi J without and the slumberless own ¢ | Savage has written 20 song | sider ways and means to ms to Hold Smoker |' HURSDAY, SBRUARY 8, 1921. LATE EDITION “TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE HOUSE COMMITTEE UNANIMOUS FOR ANTI-JAP BILL! Says Dead Girl With Her Helps ‘Her ‘Compose. Songs! Mrs. Marie Savage Mra, Marie Savage, one of Seattle’ jeading song writers, will sing her mpositions at the show to be given at {he Metropolitan theatre Sunday night as a benefit for the families of three slain policemen. During the last few months Mrs. among I Can't Forget,” San Mine Just a .” "Some Time, Day.” “By r, Li'l Yall never com “until after t girl chum, them r Heart “Mimo Twas Sor pose,” sh. today the death of my two yearn ago. $80,000 FOR SKAGIT WORK An appropriation of $80,000 to of tho recom be used in the development Skagit power project, was mended by the public utilities com mittee of the city counsel at its meeting Thursday morning. The committes also sent a noti fication to Ka L. Terry that con City Treasurer the councl! will ke the Interest payment 000 to & Webster, Monday. Col. Mears to Tell of Alaska Railroad | Col. Fred Mears, the Alaska engineering commission, will with motion pictures on the of $ Stone not later than chairman of} deliver an illus: tr 1 lecture, lides, railroad, in the the Chamber of day at & p. m and progress of the assemoly room of Commerce, Satur said to me: larie, if I die before you do, I'm going to help you with your songs.’ It seems now that she is always! near me when I'm writing songs. I| feel her prese: singing in my ear. “Perhaps that's why people are al ways tojling me there's a note of sad. ness in all my songs—because I'm aud when I compose, with her beside | me.” Mra, Savage Is the wife of John E Savage, president of the Hotel Butler company, She is soon, she says, to wtablish @ new music publishing house here. POSTAL SAVINGS | HERE INCREASE | Seattle's postal mavings deposits gained $177,666 during January, ac \cording to the report of Postmaster Charles M. Perkins. $100 Oil Claims” Called Worthless |; Witnesses for the government, tes they had paid sums varying from $25 to $100 for placer and ofl claim locations, only to find iat they alleged, that in many cases the claims “were worthless,” marked Thursday's feature in the | trial of George J. Hibbard in federal | court, |_ Dr. jand Mrs stand ‘Thursday, J, Bloom, identitio da | tifying that Frederick A. Cook, of Boston, Cook were alled to the They w followed ttle grocer, who k as one he had railroad| paid Hibbard as expense money for | | locating him on an oil claim. Due largely | wean sury certificates of | |indeptedness, it is said, | debt has increased $11,010,714 during January, yASHINGT( | Legionnaire and hear her voice | Assistant | ABERDEEN - BOMB PLOT THWARTED Lighted Fuse and Dynamite Found Beneath American Legion Building ABERDEEN, Feb. 3—Two men were being held by the police today, and search waa being made for A Tagnya, a miming Japanese resident jot South Montesano, following an at tempt last evening to blow up the jAmerican Legion building here while it was crowded with exervice men, applying for state t One hundred and fifty men were in | the building. LEGION MAN | FINDS EXPLOSIVE ‘The attempt was frustrated by Henry Lancaster, who [rode up on his bicycle just as a dark-skinned man was applying a} jlighted match to a fuse under a| jcorner of the building. | Lancaster atked t man if he was hiding moonshine, The fellow ified, and Lancaster jerked the burn. | jing fuse out into a vacant lot and} jwtamped out the fire. At the other jend ‘of the fuse were 26 sticks yor dynamite wrapped In a news paper On a corner of th news. paper wax the name of A. Tagara. |TWO SUSPECTS |ARE ARRESTED | Police at once notified adjoining |e and a net was spread for sus. muses pects.” Ben Johnson and John Blake were arrested ax they were crawling jonto the rods of a Seattlebound pas senger train a few hours later. | Blake's pockets was found a bottle of nitroglycerine. Johnson carr neveral fuses, the same as that attached to the dynamite package. He said Blake had given them to him, and | Blake admitted the truth of John- | son's statement Tagaya, it was learned, lived in South Montesano. His home was but the Japanese was not and a party was left for his return. ¢ CHARGE PLOT say they dynamiting in retaliation Armistice day prosecution other are part plan is ated, police clare, by the fact that 60 cases of dynamite were stolen from the Northern Pacific at Mcntesano Sun- day night The sticks in the pack: | | age believed to have been taken | from the 60 | there watch Police | tempted reance fa That the believe the plot’ of for the | of de-} Canadian Launch h Is Seized; Mystery | A mysterious Canadian launch is} held by customs officials at Friday Harbor, Lacking clearance papers, carrying no lights, and with he bin windows covered, the boat was picked up January by the coast guard cutter Guard, Officials are investigating. Quarters Poor; Office to Be ‘Moved! Because of the poor accommoda tions available in Seattle, the eral game Warden will move his office to Portland on, February 15, he has | announced. During the Alaska fur shipping season a branch office will | be maintained here. Aged Traveler to «| Make Tour of World \i::, LONDON, Feb. 3.—Harry Homer, | the public| Who 1s in his 75th year, is about to| here take another of his periodical trips around the world, | running down any to} @ | place, Marriage of ‘War Mother’ Proves Happy BALTIMOR The celebrated experiment is 3 This announcement was made today by Mrs. Guy Spiker, the English girl, who married the brother of her baby’s father to give the child a name “Ww ing gether,” deca United Press today “Our first of married life has been a y and next Sunday we will cele brate our first anniversary with a family dinner here.” Thome present at this dinner will include rley Spiker, father ot Mrs. Guy Splker’s child, and his own wife, Cora Spiker, who welcomed her husband's affinity into her home. M4, Fi Spiker marria A mUCCERS. happily to ured to the BLOODY MASK ON SUSPECT May Be Clue to Crime Here; Two Arrested Two loaded pistols and two black masks, one of them blotched by dried blood, were held as evidence Thurs day against George Kuchor, 27, log ger, and Richard Warran, 30, waiter, who were arrested by Detectives J. F. Majewski and D. M. Blaine on Wednesday. The detectives believe they can connect the two suspects with some recent robbery. The blood on the mask mystifies the officers, but, they . it will be an important clue in crime of which the pair may be guilty Kuchor and Warran refuse to ex- plain the possession of the masks and weapons. They were arrested at Maynard | ave. and Weller st. Wednesday after- noon. When the officers searched their room they found a .38 caliber revolver wrapped in a black mask | under the covers at the foot of the The other pistol, a .26 caliber utomatic, was rolled in the blood- stained mask and was concealed in shoe, Both guns were fully loaded, Difficulty may be experienced in identifying the pair as robbers, be- cause they wore the masks if they committeed any holdups, the detect- ives declare. Warran has no known police rec ord. Kuchor has been in jail here on two previous occasions. Once he was released on a charge of swin- dling a card shark out of $43, but on September 2 9, he was sentenced | to serve 30 age: being a disorder- ly person, MANSLAUGHTER HEARING OPENS Lester Schwald, rural mail car rier charged with, manslaughter, was given @ preliminary hearing in Justice of the Peace C. C. Dalton’s court Thursday morning. A. pwald was traveling in an auto and knocked down and killed Stuart E. Pray, Jr., at Maple Leaf January 9%, 1921 He isy ace cused of having driven more than 20 miles an hour. MAIL AVIATOR DEAD IN FALL ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 3,—The mail airplane en route from the Twin to Chicago fell near Mendot shortly after leaving the fic Fort Snelling, it was repor The pilot instantly killed cording to word sent to postoffice officials, at or, It’s a Wise Cop That Minds His Own Business)! ‘A Gasoline Courtship; or, It’: within. Complaint was made to the manaeer “I'l apeak to the policeman on th peat,” he promised. see “How should I know who it is? His Copps wanted to know. tho, I'l watch a bit and find out.” . A week rani by. Some of the ruests nearly passed on, Haggard and hollow-eyed, they threatened to leave the hotel. The manager headquarters and be; the called up police sed relief from nuisance, ‘or the plored, “hav r Tl have ur’ love of Mike,” he im that racket stopped nobody in the house at see Two nights later there was un “gure, wonted and blessed quiet in the alley, girl and an auto. *| next to the -hotel. | | oe | “Tl tell you what in: | tor told me,” the mana, the police er volun “There was a fellow who had a She works by day | and he at night. The only chance he had to do his courting was during arly morning hours, $0 each midnight she met him where he parked his car, whieh hap- pened to be in the alley by the hotel here, and in the front seat of the | machine they would hold their tryst. | |'The nights were cold, and he started | the motor to keep them warm.” “But who was the man?” one of the guests asked, “Who was i smiled, “Oh, bee the manager the policeman on the POWERFUL INTERESTS TO FIGHT IT Backers Say It Will Carry in | House, However, With- out Much Opposition OL’ Feb..3. Ustening by ou! Tindall of |Peweran, corset |State Veterans? Freeman, Re: of Spokane, and Hapeheatative J. Jones of Kent, the house.comm! on federal relations indicated a unan- imous vote in favor of the anti-alien — land Hill, which is specifically aimed. at the Japanese, Every member of the oo Present declared himself for the sure, and it awaits only a meeting, when the bill is to be ¢ sidered from its legal aspects, bef the measure will be forwarded to tl house with the formal tion of the committee, | to — ing the meeting when Rep n Jones, who tn conjunction with resentative Adam Beeler Is au the measure, declared that tho et will be made by powerful in! to block the measure, they are to fail. “I'll promise,” said - Jones, a this will be one measure that will mot |die in any committee, and I want” to say now that this will be | measure that will carry in the house without much opposition.” Representative Mann acted chairman in the absence of | sentative Hughes, who called the | meeting to order, but was excused jattend another committee m Hughes is also a firm supporter the measure. The committee was presented letter from Gov.’ Hart, in the latter Inclosed a commu from Gov. Stephens of California ask- ing the Washington legislature’ place itself squarely on ree against Japanese immigration, INTRODUCED IN EIGHT OTHER WESTERN STATES In opening the discussion Counell. _ man Tindall declared that the land measure was one of s¢éveral which it is intended to combat Jap |Anese aggression. Similar bills were _ |introduced in eight other Rocky _ mountain and Pacific coast states and Texas, he said. He pointed out _ that the state health statistics show 730 Japanese children born in Seat- tle out of a total of 6,230, or more than one in every nine. “If we could assimilate them,” he |said, “it might be another question, But they are Mongolian and we are | White, and it was never intended that the two races should blend. If we postpone action now, think what it will mean when the Japanese dren, born here, begin to vote, shall have two races in the same | land, and one or the other will have |to go under in the battle for su. premaey, We can settle things peace- fully now. Later it may mean war.” APPLIES TO ALL ALIENS, NOT ONLY TO JAPANESE Edwards pointed out the legal points in the bill, making it clean that the measure applied to all aliens Well as Japanese, The measure ffects the hokling of land or the leasing of same. Freeman pointed out that the *gen- tlemen's agreement” had been com tinually violated, but this had not become generally known until after the war, when the war veterans Te turning to their former occupations found many of their jobs had gone |to Japanese. He pleaded for quick action and declared. the Japanese: were not invited here by the Ameri- can people, but were brought here by railroad interests thru Jap contrace tors, in order to supply cheap labor, “R. M, Boyns, president of the Se- attle Chamber of Commerce,” Free man said, “asserted in a Seattle Sun- day paper that the conference pro- posed by the Oregon legislature, of logislative committees of the assem- @lies of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, to discuss plans to ‘curb the growth of certain alien population in the Northwest’ is simply an at- tempt to stab Seattle In the back, “He appointed a committee of two to confer with the governor ‘to frus- trate the attempt to make a tool of the Washington state legislature." “Undoubtedly Mr, Boyns exceeded (Turn to Page 7, Column @