The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 10, 1921, Page 1

Ee Weather Mil Tonight and Friday, rain; reas winds, ‘Temperature Last M4 Hours Maximum, 4. Minimum, 50, Today noon, 5%. BABY SW On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 189: The Seattle Star at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879, Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 ALLOWS POISON; DIES ae = fresh southwesterly VOLUME 23 CTS T0 ESTABLISH INNOCENCE Rena Mooney Says Her Husband and Billings Will Be Freed BY M. D. TRACY SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10—Su premely confident that they will be able to show that Thomas Mooney was innocent of setting the San day bomb Francisco Preparedness which killed 10 pervons on July 22, 1916, Mooney and his wife, Rena, to jday said they saw, another ray of hope in the action of John MacDon. ald, who has made an affidavit re pudiating testimony he gave against Mooney. “That's another one,” was Moon ey’s comment, sent out from his cel! at San Quentin penitentiary, where he is serving a life sentence. “KNOCKING PROPS FROM UNDER THEM" “One by one we are knocking the props out from under our perse eutors, and in the end Tom will be free.” hopefully commented Mra Mooney, ag she sat in her “work shop,” jout across San Francisco bay onto San Quéntin and the penitentiary, where her husband is held. Return the Lines? Well, Let’s Consider. Company Might Agree. But Would the People? S6(VIVE THE LINES back to Stone | & Webster.” suid Mayor Cald. | Well in his report to the council. Suppose Stone & Webster woul! ome forth and say: “All right, we'll take them off! your hands, provided we have the} game privileges the city has en} Joyed.” “What then?” ‘The same privileges the city has enjoyed means that the company Would pay no taxes, would pay no 2 per cent of its gross income as it had to do formerly, would have an in Geterminate franchise, would be al lowed to charge all that it had a mind to charge for carfare, and a few little things like that. WOULD THE PEOPLE ACCEPT SUCH A PLAN What would be the city’s response to a proposition like that? Would the People accept it? Or let us put the proposition in a Somewhat different form. Suppose the traction company would say to the city that since the city, accord ing to the mayor, cannot see its way? clear to meet its obligations, it will! ‘agree to lease the lines from the/ " eity and take care of all of the city’s payments. By leasing it from the city, it would be freed of any taxes. wince the traction property would | “still be owned by the city, and city | Property is not taxable. Suppose. as further terms of the lease, the com- bonds now cover, and that the com- pany would maintain the system at | the same standard that the city now is maintaining them. would the peo- ple consent to such a lease? “We do not hope that Tom will ‘Think over. That's what re-|be out soon,” she added. “We know ‘turning lines to the compuny/it. Time will show the world that, - ‘means. to him and to Warren Billings, thefe has been done an injustice compar GE’ able to the Captain case. ‘It is not at all improbable that the | Poor little Billings, we must remem have the |}ber him, too. , Tines back under these conditions. It| “As for myself, why, I'm not wut. will be rememtered that the sale of /fering. I have done nothing, and I ‘the traction aystem to the city came | know Tom has done notifing. Why ‘about because the city would not con-|*hould Tom or I worry? The worry- gent to the company’s raising its |!ng is for those whose consciences fares. Had the company been allow. /4re not clear.” ‘ed to ralse fares to $1-3 cents it is| Word from San Quentin penitent? not probable that the system ever |@ry, where Mooney is working in the ] gone ty’s |Prison laundry by day, and, accord : owe gs pki 5 ing td his friends, devoting his ‘The company cowid have mafe|nights to thinking and hoping, is money on that fare. The city can, | that Mooney is in the best of health too, if it obtains the right sort of |@nd his spirit unbroken. management. REPORT FICKERT “It will not make money !f It has| NEAR COLLAPSE the wrong management, if it has po-| Pormer District Attorney Charlee Hitical aspirations and buncombe to|Pickert, who prosecuted Mooney deal with. once an athlete af more than local fame, is reported to be broken in Three Are Killed heath, and only able to devote a in Official Plane part of his time to a private practice ot fw. gee ve looney was convicted on the for sll yevosng vt oly erent |mal charge of murdering Mrs. Hetta a + | Knapp, of Alameda, Cal, one of the Eine Weivestigntion of the ‘accident |Pe7000 bomb. The juty returned the verdict convicting him two years three | Which resulted in the death of three |, “Yesterday. it waa Youterday. Tice” Wie, oe Farr |the second anniversary of the con | vietion, that John MacDonald left Plan Immigration New York for San Francisco, prom Ban for 15 Months ising to appear before the grand jury here and show that Mooney WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Emer- gency legisiation restricting immigra- was convicted on yntrue evidence. Mooney's original sentence of death later was commuted after a tion into the United States for along controversy to life imprisom Period of 14 months, beginning April | ment. 1, 1971, was recommended today by STATUS OF CASE the senate immigration committee, AGAINST MOONEY when it reported favorably on the! ape Ganbaas the Mecner Dillingham bill |eane” now stands like this: rw Teas Frank C. Oxman, star witness against Mooney, has been tried and quitted of perjury, but the defense still maintains it can produce letters | which will cast a deep shadow over | his evidence. John MacDonald, who identified Mooney as the man who placed the bomb, has taken an affidavit that his evidence was untcue. Draper Hand, detective high in the counsels of the Mooney prosecution, has made an alleged statement to yor James Rolph, Jr. saying he helped “frame” eviden against Mooney. Attacks have been made on the testimony of at least two other wit nesses. One of these attacks alleges a woman has admitted she testified to things seen by her “astral body” projected to various places, The other has to do with an alleged state ment to a detective by a witness that her evidence was not the truth. \ JUDGE GRIFFIN [ASKS NEW TRIAL Superiow Judge Griffin, who sen tenced Mooney to hang, has asked that the way be opened for a new trial, saying he believes justice was not done. District Attorney Matthew Brady, }an a result of all these things, has now ordered the grand jury to make a complete investigation of the and it is before this invest! U. S. Marines Wreck ' Nicaragua Newspaper WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Secre- tary Daniels today ordered Rear Ad-| /miral Bryan, commander of the Cen- | tral American squadron, to proceed immediately to Nicaragua and take charge of the situation brought about | by marines wrecking a newspaper ee Diant at Mangua. Bill Orders $800,000 for Sand Point Base WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Senator | | Ball, Delaware, today presented | [amendments to the naval appropria- | ‘Yon bill authorizing an appropriation | @f $800,000 for a naval air station Pat Sand Point, Wash. and accept nce of a gift of 400 acres of land as P 8 site. N. Y. TOO TOUGH FOR AL JENNINGS; HELD UP BY THUG NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—The odern bandit is no gentleman,” 1 Jennings, former famous out ¥, declared today. , Jennings based his assertion on is encounter with a holdup man ae, ating: were who relieved him of his || body that MacDonald is to appear. urse containing $84, and the || Brady was elected to office over rearured pardon granted him by || Fickert, Mooney's prosecutor, in a mpaign in which the Mooney case played a large part The only avenue thru which Mooney can get out of the peniten tiary now is a pardon from the gov or. The court having affirmed his conviction, le ities hold the courts cann [the case, resident Roosevelt. An 4 result of his experience, @ told the United Press today « has decided modern New York 4 to wild and wooly for him, and that he will spend the rest of his Visit in his hotel, adding, “I'm not {| *ure 111 be safe, even then.” 4 ‘ supreme : author. reopen ‘ the windows of which look! “SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, F' ‘BRUARY 10, 1921. OONEY AWAITING REL ‘Next Tuesday Mr. Ellis Will Eat NO LUNCH! BY TOM ELLIS ON THE FIFTEENTH of February, which is next Tuesday, I shall eat no lunch. When 12:15 rolls around, and the heads and new leads are all writ- ten for the Fifth edition, and the news editor is making up the first page and there is nothing more for me to do before 1 o'clock, I shall leave the office as usual. 1 may even start toward the restaurant. I know that Bee Williams, my favorite waitress, will be expecting me. But I shall turn at the corner. I shall walk around the block. Maybe I shall walk around a couple of blocks. And I shall carefully take 75 cents and a dime out of my right pocket and place it in my left pocket. That 75 cents, plus 10, will be sent to the Social Welfare league, which is raising a fund of $100,000 for the un- employed of King county. * 8 & s 8 * es B® r IS MANY YEARS since I have been unemployed—since I have felt the need of a meal and had no money in my pocket to buy it with. It was in 1901 that I stowed into Vancouver from the North and landed > half a dollar and my father’s old gold watch—and nothing else but pe. The half-dollar didn’t last long. But it was 24 hours later that I hocked my father’s watch—and it was three weeks later that I got it back. I have it yet. I hope I never shall have to hock it again. I knew what it was to be hungry, back in 1901. 1 walked the streets of Vancouver, and of Fairhaven and of Whatcom, which were then where Bellingham is now, and of Seattle and of Tacoma. I came in on a freight train from Fairhaven. 1 came back from Tacoma, most of the a anted to work o . vMaybe I-was too particular. I w to ona er. But Tate ted dene . I didn’t fit into the life up North. no newspaper er pa, thao need for my services. any other kind of success And when I came back, I didn’t-have the appearance of a sharp and nervy reporter. I got a job—a sort of a job. It paid me $8 a week. Not much, even in those days—but better than mooching, or playing the free lunch, or “cooking up” in the jungle. And with part of my second week’s pay I rescued my father’s watch from the hock-shop in Vancouver. Later I went South. And finally I got back into the newspaper game. : * 8 * * * * a 8 * NEXT TUESDAY, along about 2. o'clock, I shall be gin to feel hungry. Not very hungry—but just a little bit. By 3 o’clock I shall be hungrier. By 4 o’clock I shall be ready for dinner. By 5 o'clock I shall realize again just what it means to be out of a job, and “broke,” and hungry. And instead of sending 85 cents to the So- cial Welfare league, I may send $5. * * * * * * * * | AT 1 AM DRIVING AT is this: I wish several thousand other * people who eat lunch downtown would do as I propose to do next Tuesday. 1 wish all those who eat in restaurants at noon would, on that day, walk around the block, or a couple of blocks, and lay aside the mon- ey that they spend for lunch and send it to the Social Welfare league. And if it is done, I know that the unemployed of Seattle will find from $20,000 to $30,000 more in the fund that is being raised for them—a fund sadly small, shamefully inadequate, in view of the jobless men, hungry women and crying children that need food. | Maybe I am getting sentimental about this. Perhaps some of our pa- | per’s readers will think this article a bit maudlin. That can’t be helped. I know there are others who, remembering their own days of adversity, will get the point. I hope that you are one of these. I hope that YOU will join in this brief endeavor to realize the condition of a jobless man. I hope that YOU will eat no lunch next Tuesday, and that you will send the amount of yoyr lunch check, or more, if you can, to this address: SOCIAL WELFARE LEAGUE 301 CENTRAL BUILDING SEATTLE, WASH. P. S.—I have just talked to Walter Nettleton, director of the drive for the unemployed. He tells be they need $100,000, and so far they have | * C.P.R. SHIP HITS ROCK; REFLOATED Early Morning Accident Near Vancouver; Passen- gers Safely Transferred The Canadian Pacific liner Prin cenn Beatrice, proceeding in a thick off |ixland, 40 miles from Vancouver, in jthe Gulf of Georgia, at 6 a m Thursday. She refloated on a rising tide and anchored in Tucker bay. ‘The steamer Princess Patricia, coming from Nanaimo, was diverted by wireless and rescued all the pass- engers from the Beatrice. First reports of the accident were given out here by the city harbor de partment. |S. 0. 8. to the Alaska Steamship Co |liner Alameda. |ment radio operator overheard the Alameda relaying the news of the laccident to Vancouver, | Seattle Maru Ashore ‘Yokohama Harbor SAN FRANCISCO, Feb, 10.— Steamer Seattle Maru, en route from Galveston, Texas, to Japan, via San Pedro, Cal, is ashore on the breakwater at Yokohama, Japan, according to adviceg received today by the marine department of the Chamber of Commeree. No detaila were recetved. eee The Seattle Maru is an Osaka Shoshen Kaisha freight and passen- ger liner, She is about five years old. Prior to 1917 the Seattle Maru op erated between Seattle and the Orient on a regular run, but after that time was transferred to the Southern run on which she has been plying since, according to the Seattle office of the O. 8. K. line. Burroughs Attends Funeral for Indian 108 ANGELES, Feb. 10.—John Burroughs, noted naturalist, had an engagement to visit Santo Juncio, probably the oldest California Indian, today at the San Gabriel mission, near Tos Angeles. Instead of meeting Juncio, how- ever, Burroughs will hear the mis. sion priests chant a funeral service for the aged red man Juncio, whose age is given in mis fog, struck a rock Lasquetti ‘The Beatrice had sent an “happy hunting grounds.” “I am tired,” he had remarked yes terday, as he lay down. He did not awaken. 4 Gets Court Sanction to Put Out Children Mrs. Mollie J. Vaut, claimed her son, Emory, gave her posses sion of a home in the White River valley and she didn't have to let the son and his wife, Maud, there if she didn't want to. Judge Brinker agreed and gave her a restraining order against the de fendanta. Harding Arrives in St. Augustine ST. AUGUSTIN Fla, Feb. 10. President-elect Harding here today resumed hie conferences with the “best minds” and set about com pleting the selection of his cabinet. Costs Him $300 to Bring Chinese Booze tighteen pints of Chinese whisky cost Frank Quin $300 when he pleaded +guilty in ral court Wednesday to smuggling them over raised $18,380.30. 1 guess this no-lunch day is needed, what? T. E. , will grab the bait, and then WE will grab HIM.” o. BY EP. ALORAFT ACH with his hook attached to] With a “plop” it struck the wa- 1) an end of the same line, father | ter, a couple of hundre: et away. and son were fishing from a dock} As the man hauled in slowly, the! near the Weat Seattle ferry slip. boy watehed the gleaming bait in the | It was the youngster’s first expert-| murky, gray-green depths, 4 the man was initiating him | | | | ing, acrosa the bay, The line out again, And in again and out, while the father puffed his pipe and watched the boy rig up his own hook and sinker, “We'll get one pretty soon, son,” he said. hat is, if the sharks don't wet our bait.” ence into the technique of hand line ang | ling, | “Now, here's the way you rig your bait,” he waid ‘ He cut @ long sliver from the sil very side of w fresh smelt, and im-| paled it by one corner to the hook | “Fishing for sharks,” he went on, “is the grandest sport in the world, | That's #o it will wiggle in the wa-| “a | 1 recollect catching 'em back in Sing ter,” he explained. Now, you] it looks just like @/apore, when they'd jump out of the | wateh.” | tient | water and grab my hook before it | He made sure that the heavy sink: | 4. ” the man noddea,| Struck, And big? Why, # boy like ler a fathom from the hook was pee rar con: a ‘| you would make just one good bit | curely fastened, then whirled the line | “That's the idea. Big fish eat little |" ‘The little fellow shivered and drew out his head and let it fly as far} ones, you know, And pretty soon a| back from the edge of the dock ay he could toward the @mith build-| nice ling cod, or maybe @ sulmon! “They don't have sharks here, do | wag hauled in and cast the Canadian border. they?” he asked. His father smiled wisdom. “Do with superior they have ‘em? Sure. Jone any minute.” | | | As if to interrupt further fabrica tion, the line jerked in the man's hand, and he began to haul in rap idty. A quick yank, and an ugly jlooking fish lay flopping on the Dugh boards of the dock | ‘Confound those dogfish!” the man The harbor depart. | | 1| | wouldn't be surprised if we caught!" | Uplift Fillums Only If State | Gets a Censor |] OLYMPIA, Feb. 10—Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle are in danger of being barred from the state of Washington. A bill introduced in the senate today by Waiter §. Dayis, of Tacoma, would create a board of movie cen sors with power to bar any film that even verges on the vulgar |] The board of censors can also ap: |] prove all clean, sweet and uplift ing films that tend to elevate the human ‘soul. ES MOURNING FOR LOST SON iGrief for Soldier Boy Kills Police Sergeant Police Sergeant Albert William | Ryan, retired, aged 64, died at his home at 1127 32nd ave. from Dl | paralysis at 9 a. m. Thursday. The | body was taken to Bonney-Wat ul service at 2 p. m. he body will be cre He is survived by his wif | Janette, and three sisters A son, Lewis Logan Ryan was reported missing while serving with the American forces in France, Sergeant Ryan had hopes that bis son was still alive. Months passed and no word came from Lewis, and from that time Sergeant Al Ryan began to fail. Sergeant Ryan was on the foree for a year in 1888. He resigned, joined again on March 12, 1900. He was made a sergeant May 25, 1909 and was retired on account of disatiitty, July 29, 1920, He was a member of Home Camp 288, Woodmen of the World. He had lived in Seattle 35 years and was born in Shingle Springs, Col. Colby Won’t Give Out Japan Report WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Secre ‘tary of State Colby today declined to send to the senate foreign relations |committes the report he received from Ambassador Morris on negotiations with Ambassador Shide. hera, of Japan, conoerning the Cali fornia land and immigration ques- tion. Tacoma Lumber Firm |Hit by $150,000 Fire TACOMA, Feb. 10.—Loss estimated at $150,000 was caused late last night {when the main mill of the Marine Taimber company on the east side of | the bay was destroyed by fire of un- | known origin More than 3,000,000 | feet of lumber was saved because the sion records as 106, has gone to the | direction of the wind was favorable. | |Give Final Divorce to Ruether’s Wife SAN ANCISOO, Feb. 90.—Mrs. Ethel Ruether today was granted a final decree of divorce from Wal ter (Duteh) Ruether, baseball pitcher recently traded to Brooklyn. Now Bob’s Gotta Get Brand New Sentence ‘The appeal of Robert C. Farley from conviction in federal court in Seattle for alleged booze sales has been returned by the circuit court of appeals for re-sentence. He was arged under the old internal rev- enue law for sale of Jiquor with- jout a license. Now he's to be re- |sentenced under the national pro- hibition act, Too Much Silence; They Want Divorce Living on speechless terms with her husband has led to the divorce court, Mrs, Alice B, Renfro, wife of Dr. L. W. Renfro, claims in | the petition filed Thursday. The ple was married January 16, There is one son, Harold, 21 years old. said. my be He plaged his foot on the brown back of the white-bellied fish and re- ed the hook from its slit-like mouth. Then he killed it and tossed it back into the water. eee Sitting in the engine room of the |ferry boat a few hours later, I pon. |dered the question of telling the truth to children, Why, I asked myself, should that father feel justi fied in telling his son there were |sharks in Elliott bay, when, as every knows, they are found only in warmer waters? i And I was still pondering the ques | tion when I opened my dictionary that evening, and read the following: Dogfish, n, 1.—Any of the various species of sharks, distinguished by their small size, the | TAB «SW | Shelf; Mother Finds Her | in Convulsions ee Poisoned by tablets which she | eaten, thinking they were candy, 4-year-old daughter of John W, ‘833 Lowman drive, died in o siong an hour later, at 5 nesday. The little girl and her smaller brother found the bottle of tablets ae e shelf. ‘They reached them by means of @ stool, The little girl eagerly ate a whole mouthful © When she became sick, soon the mother rushed her to the of Harry Brandt, 3612 W, Othello and summoned Dr, A. L. Howe, tot was beyond aid, however, died @ few minutes after he Dr, Howe explained today tablets contained aloyne, bell and strychnine, One ig co laxative, 'Wielded Mean Raze It Costs Him $1 For wielding a razor di disagreement * with William | | Marsh, E. Granas was fined joy Judge King Dykeman Tht morning. Granas to assault in the third degree, 20,000-Foot Jump May Be Te Ivan DeVilliers, said. at noon that he might atten " foot, parachute at noon, despite the stiff was blowing. unfavorable. DeVilliers planned first ‘to into the bay to test out bis” saving suit, If Your Hat’s Too Large, Look Out A robber, wearing a hat several |sizes too large for his head, held tS ql | in front of 7031 19th ave, N. Tuesday night. Motor Officer Hits” Truck; Badly Colliding with aKristofferson | truck at E. 52d st. and Brooklyn: | Thursday, Motorcycle Patrolman S. Stanhope was catapulted to | pavement and severely injured. was rushed to the city hospital im, auto by Patrolman B. W. Morris J. H. Karlberg, He is suffering bad bruises and internal injuries, . .. Shipyard Worker in Pes 30-Foot Fall; Ki Nels FE. Brandt, boss rigger, in Seattle General hospital at ja. m. Thursday, from a fall of feet at Duthie shipyard Wednesday — afternoon. His skull was fractured, and fie suffered from concussion of the brain. He slipped from the top of @ crane. He was married, and lived at Fifth ave, N. E. OFF ICIAL CARS NOT FOR JOY OLYMPIA, Feb. 10.—The days of the joy riding state or county of ficial are numbered. Under thé prow visions of a Dill introduced in the house today, every state, county or city automobile will have to be ~ marked with letters two inches high, with the name of the department to which it belongs. So He Deserted E His Experiment — Three short days of married life convinced Everett Storey that the © |best thing to do was to take to his heels and leave the experiment behind, according to Mrs. Wilma Storey’s bill for divorce. The Storeys were married August 16 1919, Bill Would Grant Corporations Power ~ OLYMPIA, Feb. 10.—A bill which a would grant virtual monopolies in their territory to established public service corporations, made its ap pearance in the house today, ‘aj ‘The bill gives the director of pub: lie rks, a.Hart official, the right jto when a public service corpor- jation shall enter a field already pre |occupied by another corporation, Mother’s Day on | Second Sunday May | OLYMPIA, Feb. 10—-Mother’s day | will be observed as a state festival lby the terms of a resolution adopted |by the senute today, The mothers of the country will be honored on the second Sunday of May, National Mother's Day. a